The Good Angel of Death by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Andrew Bromfield 376pp, Harvill Secker, £12.99 Kolya Sotnikov is a Russian night-watchman at a Kiev storehouse that contains cans of hallucinogenic drugs labelled as baby food.
One good bet is Taku Taku (Tominokoji-dori, Bukkoji-sagaru, Shimogyo-ku; 81-75-351-1321), a former storehousehouse that hosts big blues and rock acts like Taj Mahal and Los Lobos, and up-and-coming Japanese rock and pop bands.
An e-mail archiving system isn't just backup; rather, it's an always-accessible message storehouse that can be searched and retrieved from on an individual basis, as needed, almost as easily as live e-mail.
To give just two examples, more than 200,000 golden coins and thousands of other pieces were created to convincingly fill a vault at Gringotts bank, and so much furniture and objects were bought to make Hogwarts' enormous Room of Requirement look more crowded than Charles Foster Kane's storehouse that the set dressing department was busy for months buying up bric-a-brac.
But he says his memory is no longer the vast storehouse that it once was.
But even as some private forests are already being marketed as "carbon sinks," or storehouses, that could play a role in a future carbon cap-and-trade program, government agencies and academics are struggling to understand and measure how carbon is stored and released.
One day scientists may learn that apples are a storehouse of micronutrients that make them a worthy competitor of the cantaloupe.
On the western side, the cellarer's lodgings were generally located, near storehouses that held the community's provisions.
They were rural inhabitants, living near rice and soybean storehouses that allow rodents entrance.
Mr. Tierney's vision is not just to help individual nonprofits, but to build a storehouse of knowledge that can be applied to common problems among nonprofits in the same way that Bain can help a ketchup maker improve profits by reviewing work it did for mustard and pickle makers.
