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Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder (trans.)
A story of friendship and family secrets in 1970s Japan, from the prizewinning author of The Memory Police.
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Yoko Ogawa
A woman goes into a bakery to buy a strawberry cream tart. The place is immaculate but there is no one serving so she waits. Another customer comes in. The…
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Ryu Murakami
A cult cyberpunk masterpiece, and Ryu Murakami's most famous novel.
Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever…
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Stephen Snyder
A practical guide for a more relaxed and enjoyable legal career-authored by a retired lawyer and senior meditation teacher
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"A rich and beautiful resource for those called to deepen their exploration of Awakening and freedom."
-Tara Brach, best-selling author of Trusting the Gold and Radical Compassion
See the potential…
An inspiring and healing guide to immersive meditation in the ancient Buddhist heart practices-the brahmaviharas
A profound integration of clarity, heart, and grounded practice.
-Rick Hanson, PhD, psychologist and NYT…
Kanae Minato
When Yuko Moriguchi’s four-year-old daughter died in the middle school where she teaches, everyone thought it was a tragic accident. It’s the last day of term, and Yuko’s last day…
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Who knows what will vanish next? The Memory Police is a beautiful, haunting and provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss, from one of Japan’s…
Elegant novellas-in-translation, VINTAGE EDITIONS celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found.
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE…
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Jesus said, "I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to little children." Yeshua…
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He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.
Beautiful, twisted and brilliant - discover Yoko Ogawa. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a…
In a crumbling, seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet, seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother fusses over the off-season customers. When, one night, they are…
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On sleepless nights, I open the matchbox and reread the story of…
An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Years later, the writer’s stepson reflects upon his stepmother and the strange stories…
Natsuo Kirino, Stephen Snyder (trans.)
Vintage Japanese Classics - following on from the success of Vintage Russian Classics and European Classics, these are covetable new editions of the best Japanese writers on the Vintage list
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE * From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried…
Scott Snyder, Stephen King
Graphic novels to read anywhere: DC Compact Comics collect DC s bestselling, most iconic stories in a new size!
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Chronicling the history of a new breed of vampire, American Vampire by the legendary Scott Snyder and Stephen King is a fresh look at an old monster a generational epic…
This book examines the little understood end-of-art theses of Hegel, Nietzsche, and Danto. Hegel sees the overcoming of the material in the ideal, Nietzsche levels the two worlds into one…
Stephen Snyder examines Kaf?‘s fiction in terms of narrative strategy, placing him squarely within some of the most important currents of literary modernism–at the nexus of Naturalism and the largely…
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This study analyzes the representations of human subjectivity in a number of European films, from Pandora’s Box to The American Friend. The various analyses incorporate the issues prominent in current…
Exercises for decluttering your mind, tips, trick and motivational talks to feel empowered and not helpless. Let your personal journey begin and start improving and feeling better right now.
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A rich and beautiful resource for those called to deepen their exploration of Awakening and freedom.
This guide to brewing beer at home features: updated data on liquid yeasts, which have become a hot topic for brewers; 30 recipes in each of the classic beer styles…
Stephen Snyder (Middlebury College)
Winner, Nautilus Gold Book Award for Relationships and Communication.
Can sex survive monogamy? Yes, once you understand how sexual emotions really work.
This award-winning, paradigm-shifting guide turns traditional sex therapy…
Stephen Snyder,Philip Gabriel
Are the works of contemporary Japanese novelists, mere reflections of the vast consumer culture of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large ? Or do they contain critical…
Recognized as a master of Italian cinema, Vittorio De Sica is perhaps best known and most respected for his critically acclaimed neorealist films of the period 1946-55. This anthology reveals…
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A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.
The award-winning author of The Housekeeper and the Professor returns with the twisted tale of an affair between a young woman and a mysterious translator.
He is a brilliant math professor, with a peculiar problem–since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young housekeeper…
The Japanese phenomenon - the story of a grief-stricken schoolteacher who comes face to face with absolute evil.
Stephen Snyder (Berks College of the Pennsylvania State University USA)
Two musican/kayakers paddle around Sun and Moon islands of Lake Titicaca in search of caves that, according to local folklore, are visited at night by water spirits (sirenas) who come…
Gary Snyder is one of the most distinguished American poets, remarkable both for his long and productive career and for his equal contributions to literature and environmental thought. This volume…
Collects interviews from 1961 to 2015 and charts Gary Snyder’s developing environmental philosophy and his wide-ranging interests in ecology, Buddhism, Native American studies, history, and mythology. Containing interviews spanning more…
Handbook of the Aging Brain brings together diverse scientific disciplines to cover the most recent research findings in an easy-to-read summary.
A unique and fulfilling map to realization and Awakening offered by one of today's finest spiritual teachers.
With Trust in Awakening, Zen and Theravada Buddhist teacher Stephen Doetsu Snyder presents…
Stephen Snyder-Hill
When the US military repealed Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell , its official policy on homosexuality in the services, Capt. Stephen Snyder-Hill was serving in Iraq. Soldier of Change captures the…
Distributive justice is one of the most discussed topics in political philosophy. Focusing on the plurality of irreconcilable conceptions of social and political justice, this book presents an array of…
Jennifer Hillman,Stephen Snyder,James Neubrander
This text provides clinicians with a comprehensive guide for working with autistic children and their families. It offers practical assistance with early diagnosis, cutting edge treatment options, interdisciplinary insights, and…
Dave Bonta,Stephen Snyder
Most of the energy-derived pollution we produce comes as a direct result of our homes - how we heat them, how we cool them, how we keep them well lit…
