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Tsubaki Stationery Store

A Novel

by Ito Ogawa ...

Translated by Cat Anderson ...

A spellbinding and heartwarming Japanese bestseller about a young woman who inherits a stationery store from her late grandmother and becomes the trusted scribe of the townYou always told me that writing is life itself.After many years abroad, Hatoko reluctantly returns to Kamakura to take over the stationery store left to her by her late grandmother. As the custodian of the store, she also ... Read more

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A spellbinding and heartwarming Japanese bestseller about a young woman who inherits a stationery store from her late grandmother and becomes the trusted scribe of the townYou always told me that writing is life itself.After many years abroad, Hatoko reluctantly returns to Kamakura to take over the stationery store left to her by her late grandmother. As the custodian of the store, she also
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Tsubaki Stationery Store

A Novel

by Ito Ogawa ...

Narrated by Hanako Footman ...

Unabridged

7 hours 11 min

A spellbinding and heartwarming Japanese bestseller about a young woman who inherits a stationery store from her late grandmother and becomes the trusted scribe of the townYou always told me that writing is life itself.After many years abroad, Hatoko reluctantly returns to Kamakura to take over the stationery store left to her by her late grandmother. As the custodian of the store, she also ... Read more

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A spellbinding and heartwarming Japanese bestseller about a young woman who inherits a stationery store from her late grandmother and becomes the trusted scribe of the townYou always told me that writing is life itself.After many years abroad, Hatoko reluctantly returns to Kamakura to take over the stationery store left to her by her late grandmother. As the custodian of the store, she also
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The Restaurant of Lost Recipes

by Hisashi Kashiwai ...

Narrated by Hanako Footman ...

Series Audiobook 2 - A Kamogawa Food Detectives Novel
Unabridged

5 hours 8 min

We all hold lost recipes in our hearts. A very special restaurant in Kyoto helps find them . . .Tucked away down a Kyoto backstreet lies the extraordinary Kamogawa Diner, run by Chef Nagare and his daughter, Koishi. The father-daughter duo have reinvented themselves as “food detectives,” offering a service that goes beyond cooking mouth-watering meals. Through their culinary sleuthing, they revive ... Read more

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We all hold lost recipes in our hearts. A very special restaurant in Kyoto helps find them . . .Tucked away down a Kyoto backstreet lies the extraordinary Kamogawa Diner, run by Chef Nagare and his daughter, Koishi. The father-daughter duo have reinvented themselves as “food detectives,” offering a service that goes beyond cooking mouth-watering meals. Through their culinary sleuthing, they revive
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Temple Alley Summer

by Sachiko Kashiwaba ...

Narrated by Traci Kato-Kiriyama ...

Unabridged

5 hours 50 min

From renowned Japanese children’s author Sachiko Kashiwaba, Temple Alley Summer is a fantastical and mysterious adventure filled with the living dead, a magical pearl, and a suspiciously nosy black cat named Kiriko featuring beautiful illustrations from Miho Satake.Kazu knows something odd is going on when he sees a girl in a white kimono sneak out of his house in the middle of the night—was he ... Read more

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From renowned Japanese children’s author Sachiko Kashiwaba, Temple Alley Summer is a fantastical and mysterious adventure filled with the living dead, a magical pearl, and a suspiciously nosy black cat named Kiriko featuring beautiful illustrations from Miho Satake.Kazu knows something odd is going on when he sees a girl in a white kimono sneak out of his house in the middle of the night—was he
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The Memory Bookshop

A Novel

by Song Yu-jeong ...

Narrated by Jennifer J. Kim ...

Unabridged

3 hours 55 min

THE KOREAN SENSATIONFor lovers of The Midnight Library and Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, discover a spellbinding novel about a mysterious bookshop that exists outside of time and space, where the past is only a page away…If you're lost or grieving, you'll find The Memory Bookshop, where the shelves are endless; the books, strangely familiar; and where memories are bound in pages.Jiwon’s life has ... Read more

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THE KOREAN SENSATIONFor lovers of The Midnight Library and Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, discover a spellbinding novel about a mysterious bookshop that exists outside of time and space, where the past is only a page away…If you're lost or grieving, you'll find The Memory Bookshop, where the shelves are endless; the books, strangely familiar; and where memories are bound in pages.Jiwon’s life has
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Matcha on Monday

A Novel

by Michiko Aoyama ...

Across a bridge in a quiet neighborhood in Tokyo, a charming little matcha café – open only on Mondays – offers a beacon of light and healing to all who pass through its doors.All throughout the week, customers flock to the Marble Café that’s tucked away behind the trees – except when it’s closed on Mondays, when the Matcha Café opens in its place, offering its clientele a warm cup of matcha and ... Read more

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Across a bridge in a quiet neighborhood in Tokyo, a charming little matcha café – open only on Mondays – offers a beacon of light and healing to all who pass through its doors.All throughout the week, customers flock to the Marble Café that’s tucked away behind the trees – except when it’s closed on Mondays, when the Matcha Café opens in its place, offering its clientele a warm cup of matcha and
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The Memory Bookshop

A Novel

by Song Yu-jeong ...

Translated by Shanna Tan ...

THE KOREAN SENSATIONFor lovers of The Midnight Library and Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, discover a spellbinding novel about a mysterious bookshop that exists outside of time and space, where the past is only a page away…If you're lost or grieving, you'll find The Memory Bookshop, where the shelves are endless; the books, strangely familiar; and where memories are bound in pages.Jiwon’s life has ... Read more

$12.99 CAD

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THE KOREAN SENSATIONFor lovers of The Midnight Library and Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, discover a spellbinding novel about a mysterious bookshop that exists outside of time and space, where the past is only a page away…If you're lost or grieving, you'll find The Memory Bookshop, where the shelves are endless; the books, strangely familiar; and where memories are bound in pages.Jiwon’s life has
... Read more

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How to Hold Someone In Your Heart

A Novel

by Mizuki Tsujimura ...

Translated by Yuki Tejima ...

Series series A Lost Souls Novel
Book Two of the Lost Souls SeriesThe much-anticipated follow-up novel to the instant national bestseller Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon picks up seven years later with go-between Ayumi, a young man caught between the demands of everyday life and his extraordinary gift: reuniting the living with the dead.Ayumi has a rare and mysterious ability, inherited from his grandmother. During a full moon ... Read more

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Book Two of the Lost Souls SeriesThe much-anticipated follow-up novel to the instant national bestseller Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon picks up seven years later with go-between Ayumi, a young man caught between the demands of everyday life and his extraordinary gift: reuniting the living with the dead.Ayumi has a rare and mysterious ability, inherited from his grandmother. During a full moon
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Before I Knew I Loved You

A Cozy Magical Realism Novel of Time Travel, Love, and Memory, Set in a Fabled Tokyo Café

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi ...

Series Book 6 - Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series
**The sixth book in the multi-million-copy bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series about a cozy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.In a special seat in a fabled Tokyo cafe, you're offered something irresistible – not just a warm, comforting coffee, but the chance to time travel, and revisit the ones you love...**In Before I Knew I Loved You, Toshikazu ... Read more

$19.99 CAD

**The sixth book in the multi-million-copy bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series about a cozy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time.In a special seat in a fabled Tokyo cafe, you're offered something irresistible – not just a warm, comforting coffee, but the chance to time travel, and revisit the ones you love...**In Before I Knew I Loved You, Toshikazu
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The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park

A Novel

by Michiko Aoyama ...

The enchanting new novel by the multimillion-copy bestselling author of What You Are Looking For Is in the Library, about five strangers who each seek comfort from a healing hippo ride.Nestled at the bottom of a five-story apartment block in the community of Advance Hill is the children's playground in Hinode Park. If you look to the side, standing on stubby legs, is a hippo. Its upturned eyes ... Read more

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The enchanting new novel by the multimillion-copy bestselling author of What You Are Looking For Is in the Library, about five strangers who each seek comfort from a healing hippo ride.Nestled at the bottom of a five-story apartment block in the community of Advance Hill is the children's playground in Hinode Park. If you look to the side, standing on stubby legs, is a hippo. Its upturned eyes
... Read more

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My Grandfather, the Master Detective

by Masateru Konishi ...

A Japanese The Thursday Murder Club, taking healing fiction for a mystery-filled spin with this bestseller that has sold more than 200,000 copies in Japan.He’s not your average Grandpa.As a lover of classic crime stories, it’s no surprise that schoolteacher Kaede encounters everyday mysteries more often than your typical twenty-seven-year-old.Solving them is another matter, though. For that, she ... Read more

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A Japanese The Thursday Murder Club, taking healing fiction for a mystery-filled spin with this bestseller that has sold more than 200,000 copies in Japan.He’s not your average Grandpa.As a lover of classic crime stories, it’s no surprise that schoolteacher Kaede encounters everyday mysteries more often than your typical twenty-seven-year-old.Solving them is another matter, though. For that, she
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The Amberglow Candy Store

by Hiyoko Kurisu ...

Translated by Matt Treyvaud ...

**"Sweet and delicious!" —Sarah Beth Durst, New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop"Delightful." —Samantha Sotto Yambao, New York Times bestselling author of Water MoonIn this charming, fable-like book from Japan, a fox spirit sells magical confections to troubled humans, only for them to get a little more than they bargained for.**Welcome. We don't get many humans here.In a cozy night ... Read more

$16.99 CAD

**"Sweet and delicious!" —Sarah Beth Durst, New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop"Delightful." —Samantha Sotto Yambao, New York Times bestselling author of Water MoonIn this charming, fable-like book from Japan, a fox spirit sells magical confections to troubled humans, only for them to get a little more than they bargained for.**Welcome. We don't get many humans here.In a cozy night
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