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Baba Yaga by An Leysen
Category: Picture Books
Once upon a time, in a land far away from here, lived a girl named Olga. Olga lived with her father in a beautiful house, and they were very happy together. Until Olga's father one day fell in love again ... His new wife was cruel and mean. And her sister Baba Yaga, who lived in a dark forest, was even ...Show more
Beauty and the Beast by An Leysen
Category: Children's Classics
Ages 5 and upOnce upon a time, in a land far, far away, there lived a merchant with his two daughters. The eldest daughter was spoiled and vain, and the youngest preferred to read all day. She was so pretty everyone called her "Belle." One day, the merchant got lost in the forest and stumbled upon a cas ...Show more
Braised Pork by An Yu
Category: Fiction
One morning in autumn, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her Beijing apartment to find her husband - with whom she had been breakfasting barely an hour before - dead in the bathtub. Next to him a piece of paper unfolds like the wings of a butterfly, and on it is an image that Jia Jia can't forget. Prof ...Show more
Braised Pork by An Yu
Category: Fiction
One autumn morning in Beijing, just after breakfast, Jia Jia's life changes for ever. After the sudden loss of her husband, the young artist sets out on a journey from a hidden jazz and whiskey bar, via a strange and dreamlike world of water, to the high plains of Tibet. Along the way, she crosses paths ...Show more
Cherry Red Kisses by Swerts, An, Bakker, Jenny
Category: Accessories
When Queen Soraya dies, her husband and son are heartbroken. Prince Floris misses his mother...and his father. It's like I don't exist, Floris thinks. King Leon doesn't know how to handle his grief. Every kiss reminds him of his wife's cherry red lips. He has a magician put a curse on the kingdom's inha ...Show more
Garden and Metaphor - Essays on the Essence of the Garden by Ana Kučan (Editor); Mateja Kurir (Editor)
Category: Gardening
Never before had the garden to fulfil so many demands as it does today. It is a refuge from digitalised life and acts as a bridge to nature. As a man-made place where plants grow, it is cultivated and untamable at the same time. While for centuries the gardener's ambition was to control and subjugate na ...Show more
Georgina the Giraffe (64 Zoo Lane) by An Vrombaut
Category: Picture Books | Series: 64 Zoo Lane
Lucy has some very strange neighbours with horns and humps, tails and trunks - that's because Lucy lives next door to the zoo! Every night, she climbs down the long long neck of Georgina the Giraffe and listens to one of them tell her a story...Tonight it's the story of Georgina the Giraffe. She is very ...Show more
Ghost Music by An Yu
Category: Fiction
For readers of early Murakami, a beautiful and uncanny novel of music, dreams and memory For three years Song Yan has filled her Beijing apartment with the tentative notes of her young piano students. She finds herself adrift, but her husband seems reluctant for a child of their own. It takes the arriva ...Show more
Ghost Music: From the author of the stylish cult hit Braised Pork by An Yu
Category: Fiction
A pianist in Beijing must find a way to the life she really wants, in this atmospheric new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Braised Pork When Song Yan's mother-in-law moves into the apartment she shares with her new husband Bowen, their carefully calibrated life is overturned. Family secret ...Show more
Henrietta the Hairy Hippo (64 Zoo Lane) by An Vrombaut
Category: Picture Books | Series: 64 Zoo Lane
Lucy has some very strange neighbours with horns and humps, tails and trunks - that's because Lucy lives next door to the zoo! Every night, she climbs down the long long neck of Georgina the Giraffe and listens to one of them tell her a story...Tonight it's the story of Henrietta. Henrietta is hairy and ...Show more