Diversions at UMFK: Audiobooks: Languages and Literatures (PF-PM)

A lively, practical way to develop and improve basic foreign language skills This new, audio-based language series from Teach Yourself is an entertaining, nonintimidating way for beginners to build conversational proficiency. Each course covers 10 key situations--from greetings and buying food and drink to shopping, asking for directions, and visiting locals--and includes two conversations per topic. The explanations and instructions are simple and bite-size, making this a very accessible program. Each audiopackage: Builds confidence through a variety of listening exercises, from repetition of foreign language prompts to replying to English prompts Covers structures, useful phrases, and strategies for holding two-way conversations Lets learners assess their progress with specific objectives and review sections Includes a 48-page guide with key words and conversations in written form for reference.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novels Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 that launched the career of one of the most acclaimed authors of our time. These powerful, at times surreal, works about two young men coming of age the unnamed narrator and his friend the Rat are stories of loneliness, obsession, and eroticism. They bear all the hallmarks of Murakami's later books, and form the first two-thirds, with A Wild Sheep Chase, of the trilogy of the Rat. Widely available in English for the first time ever, newly translated, and featuring a new introduction by Murakami himself, Wind/Pinball gives us a fascinating insight into a great writer s beginnings. From the Hardcover edition."