Mitchell, David

A how-to manual for children who want to learn the martial arts.

A collection of disparate characters from different countries and centuries find their stories linked through a bizarre series of events.

Recounts the connected stories of people from the past and the distant future, from a nineteenth-century notary and an investigative journalist in the 1970s to a young man who searches for meaning in a post-apocalayptic world.

Contains illustrated, step-by-step instructions for twenty-five origami projects, and includes information on materials and paper-folding techniques.

Jacob de Zoet travels from Holland to Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor where he will have five years to earn a sufficient fortune to win the hand of his wealthy fianc?e. When he meets the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor, Jacob's intentions become different.

Jacob de Zoet, having arrived in Nagasaki Harbor's Dejima in 1799, has intentions to make a fortune in five years and return home to Holland to win the hand of his finac?e, but he meets the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and finds his plans changing and his life in danger.

A collection of disparate characters from different countries and centuries find their stories linked through a bizarre series of events.

Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor comes of age in 1982 in what is for him the sleepiest village in Worcestershire, experiencing first cigarettes, first kisses, and first deaths.