Japandemonium Illustrated: The Yokai Encyclopedias of Toriyama Sekien
By: Toriyama Sekien
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Japanese folklore abounds with bizarre creatures collectively referred to as the yokai ― the ancest…
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1. Yurei Attack!: The Japanese Ghost Survival Guide (Yokai ATTACK! Series)
By: Hiroko Yoda , Matt Alt , Shinkichi
4.09
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Yurei Attack! is a nightmare-inducing one-stop guide to Japan's traditional ghosts and spirits. Su… read more
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2. The Canterville Ghost
By: Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore
3.88
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, … read more
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"Love is stronger than death is"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]"-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
"To his alert mind and ears, every experience was education."-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
3. A Rose for Emily
By: William Faulkner
3.83
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Emily is a member of a family in the antebellum Southern aristocracy; after the Civil War, the fami… read more
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"So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight."-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the s…"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
"We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that whic…"-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily
4. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
By: Howard Pyle
4.07
Format: 398 pages, Paperback
Dünya tarihinin en ünlü halk kahramanlarından biri olan Robin Hood, zorlu bir dönemde ortaya çıkmış… read more
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"Now there was no sign of any foul weather, but when one wishes to do a thing . . . one finds no lack of reasons for the doing."-Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
"So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten."-Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
"I had to pay a ransom of six hundred pounds in gold. All might have gone well even yet, only that, by ins and outs and crookedness of laws, I was shorn like a sheep that is clipped to the quick."-Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
"Let us e'er be merry while we may, for man is but dust, and he hath but a span to live here till the worm getteth him, as our good gossip Swanthold sayeth; so let life be merry while it lasts, say I."-Howard Pyle, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
5. Showa, 1926-1939: A History of Japan
By: Shigeru Mizuki
4.57
Format: None pages, Paperback
A fascinating period in Japanese history explored by a master of manga "Showa 1926"-"1939: A Histor… read more
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6. Éste es el mar
By: Mariana Enríquez
2.90
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
Ritos de pasaje, adolescentes fanatizadas con estrellas de rock, inframundos donde conviven seres q… read more
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7. Outlaws of the Marsh (Vol. 1-4)
By: Luo Guanzhong , Shi Nai'an , Sidney Shapiro
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The Water Marginis one of the "Four Great Classical Novels" of Chinese literature. Based upon the s… read more
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8. The Tale of Halcyon Crane
By: Wendy Webb
4.13
Format: None pages,
A young woman travels to uncover a past she never knew was hers in this thrilling, modern, ghost st… read more
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9. The Japanese Tattoo
By: D.M. Thomas , Sandi Fellman
3.95
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A crimson fish wrestles a man. A horned demon stares menacingly. These vivid scenes are tattoos, cr… read more
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10. El fantasma de Canterville
By: Oscar Wilde
4.09
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
Los lectores tomaran un gran placer en descubrir los clasicos con estas bellas y economicas edicion… read more
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11. Yokai Attack!: The Japanese Monster Survival Guide
By: Hiroko Yoda , Matt Alt , Tatsuya Morino
4.09
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
Yokai Attack!is a nightmare-inducing one-stop guide to Japan's traditional monsters and creepy-craw… read more
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12. Ninja Attack!: True Tales of Assassins, Samurai, and Outlaws
By: Hiroko Yoda , Matt Alt , Yutaka Kondo
4.09
Format: 372 pages, Paperback
Ninja Attack!introduces dozens of unforgettable real-life ninja straight out of the annals of Japan… read more
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13. The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
By: Michael Dylan Foster , None
4.39
Format: None pages, Paperback
Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and … read more
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14. The Black Arrow
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
3.80
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
From the beloved author of Treasure Island Originally serialized in a periodical of boys' adventure… read more
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"Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all."-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow
"He is one that goes to bed Lancaster and gets up York."-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow
"[H]e began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!"-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow
"Sir knight,’ observed the messenger, with bitterness, ‘while that ye are here, roaring for five hundred pounds, the realm of England is elsewhere being lost and won."-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow
15. War's Unwomanly Face
By: None , Svetlana Alexievich
4.51
Format: 247 pages, Hardcover
This book is a confession, a document and a record of people's memory. More than 200 women speak in… read more
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"War kills time, precious human time."-None, War's Unwomanly Face
"My fearlessness came from an ignorance of life."-None, War's Unwomanly Face
"HOW DO THEY RECEIVE ME? They call me “little girl,"-None, War's Unwomanly Face
"What keeps us from remembering ? The unbearableness of the memories ..."-None, War's Unwomanly Face
16. Carcoma
By: Layla Martínez
4.17
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Todas las casas guardan la historia de quienes las han habitado. Las paredes de esta casa perdida e… read more
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"Solo había tenido un hombre, pero ya había sido suficiente. Cuando una está sola y es pobre no puede permitirse aprender la misma lección dos veces, esto también lo sabemos bien en esta casa."-Layla Martínez, Carcoma
17. A Hero Born (Legends of the Condor Heroes, #1)
By: Jin Yong
3.98
Format: 395 pages, Paperback
China: 1200 A.D. The Song Empire has been invaded by its warlike Jurchen neighbours from the north.… read more
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"Nada é impossível a um homem de coração puro e boa vontade."-Jin Yong, A Hero Born (Legends of the Condor Heroes, #1)
"O Além ganha um fantasma, e o mundo mortal perde mais uma alma."-Jin Yong, A Hero Born (Legends of the Condor Heroes, #1)
"Mais vale ser cão em tempo de paz do que homem em tempos conturbados."-Jin Yong, A Hero Born (Legends of the Condor Heroes, #1)
"Uma beldade feita de flores e luar. E assim partiu nessa noite a alma mais doce."-Jin Yong, A Hero Born (Legends of the Condor Heroes, #1)
18. Japandemonium Illustrated: The Yokai Encyclopedias of Toriyama Sekien
By: Toriyama Sekien
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Japanese folklore abounds with bizarre creatures collectively referred to as the yokai ― the ancest… read more
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- japan
- horror
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19. Japanese Tattoos: Meanings, Shapes and Motifs
By: Yori Moriarty
4.21
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The intimate relationship of Japanese tattooing with the dark world of the yakuza has helped cover … read more
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20. Something Wicked from Japan: Ghosts, Demons & Yokai in Ukiyo-e Masterpieces (PIE Ukiyo-e Series) (Japanese Edition)
By: Ei Nakau
4.42
Format: 240 pages, Tankobon Softcover
Japanese folklore is a goldmine of terrifying supernatural Yokai monsters, demons, phantoms. A larg… read more
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"Master sailor Tokuzō has set sail on New Year's Eve even though it is forbidden to do so, whereupon a violent storm breaks out, and the close-cropped head of a massive monster rises out of the waves …"-Ei Nakau, Something Wicked from Japan: Ghosts, Demons & Yokai in Ukiyo-e Masterpieces (PIE Ukiyo-e Series) (Japanese Edition)
21. Mitología japonesa
By: Masaharu Anesaki
3.48
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Muchos libros se han escrito sobre la mitología y el folclore japonés, pero estos por lo general ca… read more
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