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  • To the Monster I Love, Vol. 1 (novel)

    by ryunosuke, Gesoking ...
    Translated by Laura Sitzer ...
    Series Book 1 - To the Monster I Love
    Bardium is a tightly guarded city where magic, miracles, and illusions aren’t allowed. Here, in a dimly lit room, a young boy named Norman is being interrogated. He’s asked about Unlaw—supernatural monsters who gain abilities from unstable emotion. Four of these beings, all beautiful women, are now hunting each other down, and Norman must sate their desires while dealing with other oddities ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Practice of Not Thinking

    A Guide to Mindful Living

    by Ryunosuke Koike ...
    **THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Offers a variety of Buddhist techniques to help us feel calmer every day . . . Nothing has changed . . . and everything has changed . . . I feel calmer and more centred' Sunday Times**What if we could learn to look instead of see, listen instead of hear, feel instead of touch? Former monk Ryunosuke Koike shows how, by incorporating simple Zen practices into our daily ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • To the Monster I Love, Vol. 3 (novel)

    by ryunosuke, Gesoking ...
    Translated by Laura Sitzer ...
    Series series To the Monster I Love
    Two infamous Unlaw have escaped the capital, and the Elementary Detective Agency are dispatched to recapture them. Norman leads the group to a seedy casino for what should be an easy mission…only to be confronted by enemies from the not-so-distant past. To make matters worse, these villains appear to be a lot stronger than they once were. And as the battle heats up, the line between ‘human’ and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Essential Akutagawa

    Twenty-Two Short Stories by Japan's Master Storyteller

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...
    Translated by Richard Medhurst ...
    "Akutagawa displays an insightful and keenly creative intelligence in prose so lucid its sophistication is hardly visible." —Chris Power, The GuardianRyunosuke Akutagawa (1892—1927), often called "the Father of the Japanese short story," wrote more than 150 works during his brief but prolific career. Widely regarded as Japan's master storyteller, he blended modern sensibilities with timeless ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Top 10 Short Stories - The Murder Mystery

    by J M Barrie, Susan Glaspell, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa ...
    Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will ... Read more

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  • Mystery & Investigation Anthology

    by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Hollis Godfrey, Thomas Hardy, William Le Queux, Maurice Leblanc, Gaston Leroux, Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Edgar Allan Poe, Frank R. Stockton, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Carolyn Wells, Fred Merrick White ...
    This book contains several tables of HTML content that will make reading easier. The first table of contents lists all the titles included in this volume. This book contains the following works, classified by author: In a Grove by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa The Innocence of Father Brown by Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Man Who Knew Too Much by Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Wisdom of Father Brown by Gilbert ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mystery & Investigation Anthology

    by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Hollis Godfrey, Thomas Hardy, William Le Queux, Maurice Leblanc, Gaston Leroux, Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Edgar Allan Poe, Frank R. Stockton, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Carolyn Wells, Fred Merrick White ...
    This book contains several tables of HTML content that will make reading easier. The first table of contents lists all the titles included in this volume. This book contains the following works, classified by author: In a Grove by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa The Innocence of Father Brown by Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Man Who Knew Too Much by Gilbert Keith Chesterton The Wisdom of Father Brown by Gilbert ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hell Screen and Other Stories

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...
    The Hell Screen and Other Stories is a compelling collection that delves into the darker recesses of human nature, moral ambiguity, and the fragile boundary between art and cruelty. Ryunosuke Akutagawa masterfully blends historical settings, psychological insight, and symbolic imagery to explore the destructive potential of obsession, the corrosive effects of vanity, and the inescapable presence ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Kappa

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...
    Translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda, Allison Markin Powell ...
    Akutagawa’s magical final work is a short novel with a magic spell all its own—poignant, fantastical, wry, melancholic, and wittyThe Kappa is a creature from Japanese folklore known for dragging unwary toddlers to their deaths in rivers: a scaly, child-sized creature, looking something like a frog, but with a sharp, pointed beak and an oval-shaped saucer on top of its head, which hardens with age ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • To the Monster I Love, Vol. 2 (novel)

    by ryunosuke, Gesoking ...
    Translated by Laura Sitzer ...
    Series Book 2 - To the Monster I Love
    EVERYBODY, PARTNER UP!A month after the Jim Adamworth incident, Norman and his four Unlaw settle into their new lives at the Elementary Detective Agency. However, just because life at home is peaceful doesn’t mean the city of Bardium has gotten any less chaotic. Lonsday and Eltiel team up to take down the Mad Bomber, and along the way, discover the existence of anti-Unlaw weapons. Meanwhile, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Hell Screen

    by Ryunosuke Akutagawa ...
    Translated by Jay Rubin ...
    Series series Little Clothbound Classics
    Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • 30 Mystery & Investigation masterpieces

    by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Hollis Godfrey, Thomas Hardy, William Le Queux, Maurice Leblanc, Gaston Leroux, Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Edgar Allan Poe, Frank R. Stockton, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Carolyn Wells, Fred Merrick White ...
    Translated by Takashi Kojima ...
    Can You Solve the Case Before the Final Page? Step into the shadows of the world's most baffling crimes with 30 Mystery & Investigation Masterpieces. This massive collection brings together thirty of the most ingenious, pulse-pounding, and intellectually stimulating stories ever written in the genre. From the fog-filled streets of Victorian London to the gritty alleys of hardboiled noir, this ... Read more

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