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  after the quake

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  by Haruki Murakami

  The six stories in Haruki Murakami’s mesmerizing collection "after the quake" (yes, all lower-case) are set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, when Japan became brutally aware of the fragility of its daily existence. But the upheavals that afflict Murakami’s characters are even deeper and more mysterious, emanating from a place where the human meets the inhuman. An electronics salesman who has... (more)
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  Alphonse Mucha

  by Sarah Mucha

  This book is the first comprehensive overview of Mucha's life and work and is published in association with the Mucha Museum in Prague.
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  Princess Mia and the Magical Koala (Tiara Club)

  by Vivian French

  It's a new term and the princesses are at Diamond Turrets. There they will learn how to look after animals, and Princess Mia can't wait!
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  Wasp-waisted

  by David Barrie

  A young model is found dead in a luxury hotel in Paris. A stunning photo of the scene features on the cover of the country's top-selling scandal sheet. It was delivered before the police found the body. In a city obsessed with images of perfection, the murderer's artistic talents are the object of much admiration. It's Franck Guerin's first criminal case. Used to the murky world of national security, he has to... (more)
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  Pull: The Power of the Semantic Web to Transform Your Business

  by David Siegel

  The first clear guide to the Semantic Web and its upcoming impact on the business world Imagine that, in 1992, someone handed you a book about the future of something called the World Wide Web. This book claimed that through a piece of software called a "browser", which accesses "web sites", the world economy and our daily lives would change forever. Would you have believed even 10 percent of that book? Did... (more)
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  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

  by Haruki Murakami

  Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat.  Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in... (more)
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  Visions of Gerard

  by Jack Kerouac

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  Fairest

  by Gail Carson Levine

  Aza's singing is the fairest in the land, and the most unusual. She can "throw" her voice so it seems to come from anywhere. But singing is only one of the two qualities prized in the kingdom of Ayortha. Aza doesn't possess the other: beauty. Not even close. She's hidden in the shadows in her parent's inn, but when she becomes a lady-in-waiting to the new queen, she has to step into the light---especially when the... (more)
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  Dynasty

  by Robert S. Elegant

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  The Everlasting Sorrow

  by Robert S. Elegant

  An ex-special forces agent and international art-dealer is on the trail of a priceless painting long thought lost. But it is more than just a painting: the Chinese communists are using it as the ingenious means to provoke bloody revolution. By the author of "Dynasty", "Manchu" and "Bianca".