Others (GR - Fiction)

“One child a week is fifty-two a year. Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear.” This is a story about REAL WITCHES. Real witches dress in ordinary clothes, have ordinary jobs and look very much like ordinary people. But they are far from ORDINARY . . . The Grand...

  Fifty-five folktales offer a fascinating window into the Korean world.   Told with wit and pathos, this lively collection of Korean fables features the ever-iconic tiger, the humble woodcutter, clueless brides, clever talking rabbits, mischievous mice and other engaging characters in situations where folly, wisdom, greed, love, reward and...

  "I've led a life full of shame. Human beings are a complete mystery to me."   This manga version of novelist Osamu Dazai's masterpiece NO LONGER HUMAN—the #2 bestselling novel of all time in Japan—tells the story of Yozo Oba, a young man growing up in Japan in the...

  This collection of mystery and horror stories is regarded as Japan's answer to Edgar Allan Poe.   Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination, the first volume of its kind translated into English, is written with the quick tempo of the West but rich with the fantasy of the East....

  An extraordinary collection of Japanese ghost stories, many in English for the first time!   This spine-chilling anthology of 77 spooky stories from the Japanese collection Tales from Shinshu is compiled and edited by award-winning author Noboru Wada. It features traditional tales of yokai, ghosts, mountain witches, demons and...

  Haruki Murakami's best-loved stories finally in graphic novel form!   Haruki Murakami's novels, essays and short stories have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into scores of languages. Now for the first time, in this three-volume series, Murakami's best-loved stories are available in manga form in English....

  "Clear-eyed glimpses of human behavior in the extremities of poverty, stupidity, greed, vanity… Story-telling of an unconventional sort, with most of the substance beneath the shining, enameled surface." —The New York Times Book Review  Widely acknowledged as "the father of the Japanese short story," Ryunosuke Akutagawa remains one of...

From New York Times bestselling, Carnegie-award-winning author Jennifer Donnelly comes a revolutionary, gender-swapped retelling of Beauty and the Beast that will forever change how you think about beauty, power, and what it really means to follow your heart.“Absolutely enthralling storytelling...the romantic chemistry and witty banter of the lead characters is...

The kingdom of Ilya is in turmoil… After surviving the Purging Trials, Ordinary-born Paedyn Gray has killed the King, and kickstarted a Resistance throughout the land. Now she’s running from the one person she had wanted to run to. Kai Azer is now Ilya’s Enforcer, loyal to his brother Kitt,...

MUTAN, MEMBENCIKAN.ALIEN, MENYESAKKAN.PISAREV, NIHILIS YANG TIDAK PEDULIDAN TIDAK MAHU AMBIL TAHU. ZEKKANARKIS RUANG KETIGA YANG ANTIGENDARME. DJAMILA BOUHIREDMAHU MENYATUKAN SEMUAKUMPULAN RESISTEN. MOHD. EFFENDY,MAHU MENGUSIR ALIEN-ALIEN KELUARDARI BUMI, KEMBALI KE STESEN ANGKASAMEREKA. SEMUANYA BERGELUT DANBERGUMPAL DALAM BUMI, DENGAN,IDEOLOGI YANG MEREKA YAKINI!"O YANG MUFRAD, BANTU LAH KAMI DANMENANGKANLAH KAMI, MEREKA YANGTERTINDAS DI...

Eighteen-year-old Aihui Ying dreams of becoming a brilliant engineer just like her beloved father - but her life is torn apart when she arrives a moment too late to stop his murder, and worse, lets the killer slip out of reach. Left with only a journal containing his greatest engineering...

For fans of The Travelling Cat Chronicles, The Cat Who Saved Books and She and Her Cat, discover the Japanese bestseller that celebrates the healing power of cats. A cat a day keeps the doctor away ... On the top floor of an old building at the end of a...

As technology rapidly replaces rote learning in education, Gumption becomes a critical skill in everyone’s survival in the future. This book demonstrates how you can use Gumption to leverage other people’s assets and resources, and mobilise them into achieving common goals at exponential scale. This story tell of how Jack...

Everyone in fifteen-year-old Bella’s life needs something from her. Her mom needs her to help around the house; her dad needs her to not make waves; her ex needs her to not be so much. The only person who never needed anything from her was her grandmother—and now she’s dead....

“A must-read for booklovers.” —Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of Next Year in Havana A heartwarming story about a mother and daughter in wartime England and the power of books that bring them together, by the bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London. In Nottingham, England, widow...

All three parts of the epic masterpiece 'The Lord of the Rings' in one paperback. Features brand new packaging, the definitive edition of the text, fold-out flaps with the original two-colour maps, and a revised and expanded index. Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of...

This cozy Korean bestseller invites readers into a warm, sunlit pottery studio where a burned-out young TV broadcast writer begins to heal, working the clay, piece by piece, season by season. After breaking down at the office and abruptly quitting her job, thirty-year-old Jungmin holes up in her apartment, speaking...

The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas. In September 1913, Mieczysław, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in what is now western Poland....

"Utterly charming, particularly so for cat-lovers, who might argue that every bit of magic here is absolutely true." —Booklist (starred review) "A world that will feel both familiar and engagingly fantastical to cat people everywhere." —Washington Post In this whimsical and inventive debut—perfect for fans of The Guest Cat and...

'A veritable treat' Daily MailThe fifth novel in Julia Quinn's globally beloved and bestselling Bridgerton Family series, set in Regency times and now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. This is Eloise's story . . .________________________________________My dear Miss Bridgerton,We have been corresponding now for quite some time, and although we...