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(0)Yōko Ogawa
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180 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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"He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem -- ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, who is hired to care for him. And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. Though he cannot hold memories for long (his brain is...
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274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, things are disappearing. First, animals and flowers. Then objects -- ribbons, bells, photographs. Then, body parts. Most of the island's inhabitants fail to notice these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the mysterious 'memory police,' who are committed to ensuring that the disappeared remain forgotten. When a young novelist realizes that more than...
3) Botoncito
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
Español
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El mejor amigo de Botoncito era, sin duda, Ojalito. Eran inseparables. Pero un día, el hilo que mantenía a Botoncito sujeto a la blusa de Ana, de repente, se rompió... Es así como Botoncito va a parar a los rincones más inhóspitos de la habitación de Ana, donde conocerá a Sonajero, a Babero y a Osito, que yacen olvidados bajo los muebles del cuarto porque Ana ya no los necesita... Entonces Botoncito les explicará que Ana ya puede dejar de...
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280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt's family. Tomoko's aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home-and handsome, foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company-are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms are filled with German-made furnishings; there are sprawling gardens...