Takahashi, Rumiko

Summary: "Years ago, Genma promised his old friend Soun Tendo that Ranma would marry one of Soun's three daughters and carry on the family's martial arts school. Except that the girl picked to be Ranma's bride doesn't seem to like him, Ranma keeps getting into fights ... and did we mention that whole changing into a girl thing?"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2014

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Jalal al-Din Rumi

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Publisher / Publication Date: Castle Books 1997

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Summary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010

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Bandi

Summary: "Set during the period of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il's leadership, the seven stories that make up The Accusation give voice to people living under this most bizarre and horrifying of dictatorships. The characters of these compelling stories come from a wide variety of backgrounds, from a young mother living among the elite in Pyongyang whose son misbehaves during a political rally, to a former...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Grass, Günter

Summary: A bilingual poetry collection. In Nursery Rhyme, he writes: "Who laughs here, who has laughed? / Here we have ceased to laugh. / To laugh here is now treason / The laugher has a reason."

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace 1996

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Borchert, Wolfgang

Summary: Collection of short stories and a one-act play.

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Publisher / Publication Date: [New Directions] 1971

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Mitsuki, Miko

Summary: "Fifteen-year-old Hinata Sorazono has a new neighbor--Junya Takinaga, the author of an incredibly popular vampire romance series! Hinata quickly falls for Junya, and he's definitely attracted to her... but what will Hinata do once she realizes Junya is actually a vampire and that a seemingly simple kiss on the lips means his life will be in her hands? Honey Blood Tale 0 is where Hinata and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2015

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Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2001

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Bolaño, Roberto

Summary: Collects some of the Chilean poet's earliest verse, including love poems, political pieces, and works that highlight such themes as the search for poetry, detectives, and the interrelationship of life, death, and the weather.

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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Pub. 2008

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Summary: A teenage girl travels back in time to medieval Japan to help the half demon dog, half man Inu Yasha find an orb of great power.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Video 2003

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Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

Contents: Working with our humanness -- The ego animal -- Awe, naked wonder -- The inner work -- The step into placelessness -- The gift and the giver -- The passion for God -- Signs that speak -- The pearl of the heart -- The yearning -- Praise, glory -- The only one -- Boiling the chickpeas -- The complete human -- Surrender -- Love is the cause -- Mercy -- Purity.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2000

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Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

Summary: "This is a collection of inspirational wisdom for living a meaningful and productive life. This selection of quotations has been chosen to reflect Rumi's inspiring and uplifting approach to life and the inevitable issues that we encounter during our lifetimes. The wisdom includes no-nonsense statements, observations, and facts-ranging from matters of the heart, to understanding human nature, to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hampton Roads 2021

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Ha, Sng-nan

Summary: Ha Sng-nan's stories seem pleasant enough, yet there's something disturbing just below the surface, ready to permanently disrupt the characters' lives. Among the stories: a woman lends her neighbor a spatula, then starts having gaps in her memory; in a team-building retreat, tenants plan to kill their landlord after he raises the rent. They are ordinary individuals-- in an increasingly...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Open Letter 2019

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Char, René

Summary: "The Selected Poems of René Char is a comprehensive, bilingual overview reflecting the poet's wide stylistic and philosophical range, from aphorism to dramatic lyricism. In making their selections, the editors have chosen the voices of seventeen poets and translators (Paul Auster, Samuel Beckett, Cid Corman, Eugene Jolas, W.S. Merwin, William Carlos Williams, and James Wright, to name a few),...

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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 1992

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Motoya, Yukiko

Summary: In these eleven stories, the individuals who lift the curtains of their orderly homes and workplaces are confronted with the bizarre, the grotesque, the fantastic, the alien--and, through it, find a way to liberation.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2018

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Kawakami, Hiromi

Summary: "A bossy child who lives under a white cloth near a tree; a schoolgirl who keeps doll's brains in a desk drawer; an old man with two shadows, one docile and one rebellious; a diplomat no one has ever seen who goes fishing at an artificial lake no one has ever heard of. These are some of the inhabitants of People From My Neighborhood. In their lives, details of the local and everyday-the lunch...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Soft Skull Press 2021

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Summary: A collection of writings by Swiss author Robert Walser, including journal entries, stories, notes on literature, biographical sketches, fables, and anecdotes.

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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2001

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Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī

Summary: "Rumi's "Divani Shamsi Tabriz" ("The Works of Shams of Tabriz"--Named in honor of Rumi's spiritual teacher and friend) is a collection of lyric poems that contain more than 40,000 verses by America's bestselling poet, and is a classic of Persian literature. Its most familiar form is as a big red book, hence the name. Coleman Barks is famous for his renderings of Rumi's poetry and his work on...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2010

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Simon, Eddy

Summary: "This comics biography of one of the greatest sculptors who ever lived is done with the collaboration of the Rodin Museum and includes a preface by its director. It views his life through the eyes of the three women who shared his life for good or for bad. One was his lifelong on and off companion, the other two his muses, one of which was Camille Claudel, a well-recognized sculptor herself....

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Publisher / Publication Date: NBM Graphic Novels 2020

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García Márquez, Gabriel

Summary: "From one of the titans of twentieth-century literature, collected here for the first time: a selection of his journalism from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s--work that he considered even more important to his legacy than his universally acclaimed worksof fiction"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019

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