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The Snail is Slow but Never Late

Meditations on Finding Joy in the Present Moment

by Jung-mok ...

THE KOREAN BESTSELLER'On a human scale, the snail's speed is ridiculously slow, but on a world scale, it's just perfect.'In this comforting and calming book, Korean Buddhist nun Jung-mok teaches us how to slow down and free ourselves from the stress of our busy modern lives.Through stories rooted in the natural world and Buddhist philosophy, Jung-mok shares her kind wisdom and simple practices to ... Read more

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THE KOREAN BESTSELLER'On a human scale, the snail's speed is ridiculously slow, but on a world scale, it's just perfect.'In this comforting and calming book, Korean Buddhist nun Jung-mok teaches us how to slow down and free ourselves from the stress of our busy modern lives.Through stories rooted in the natural world and Buddhist philosophy, Jung-mok shares her kind wisdom and simple practices to
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The Reinvention of Liberal Learning Around the Globe

Edited by Insung Jung, Ka Ho Mok ...

Series series Education (R0)
Despite - or because - we live in calculative and instrumental times in higher education, liberal arts colleges and programmes are flourishing. They draw students fascinated by society and culture who want to make a creative contribution. The Reinvention of Liberal Learning around the Globe is an indispensable introduction to this diverse and brilliant educational world. (Simon Marginson, ... Read more

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Despite - or because - we live in calculative and instrumental times in higher education, liberal arts colleges and programmes are flourishing. They draw students fascinated by society and culture who want to make a creative contribution. The Reinvention of Liberal Learning around the Globe is an indispensable introduction to this diverse and brilliant educational world. (Simon Marginson,
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The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park

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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
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The Memory Bookshop

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by Song Yu-jeong ...

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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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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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Dinner at the Night Library

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by Hika Harada ...

Translated by Philip Gabriel ...

**The Night Library is no ordinary library.Within it are found the rarest and most unusual collections – the books of deceased famous writers:the books they wrote;the books that inspired them;the books they loved.**All Otaha Higuchi wants to do is work with books. However, the exhausting nature of her work at a chain bookstore, combined with her paltry salary and irritating manager quickly bring ... Read more

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**The Night Library is no ordinary library.Within it are found the rarest and most unusual collections – the books of deceased famous writers:the books they wrote;the books that inspired them;the books they loved.**All Otaha Higuchi wants to do is work with books. However, the exhausting nature of her work at a chain bookstore, combined with her paltry salary and irritating manager quickly bring
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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

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**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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We'll Prescribe You Another Cat

by Syou Ishida ...

Translated by E. Madison Shimoda ...

Series Book 2 - We'll Prescribe You a Cat
The Kokoro Clinic for the Soul reopens in this delightful follow-up to the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel We'll Prescribe You a Cat.It’s time to revisit the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul.Though it’s a mysteriously located clinic with an uncertain address, it can always be found by those who need it. And the clinic has proven time after time that a prescribed cat has the power to heal the ... Read more

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The Kokoro Clinic for the Soul reopens in this delightful follow-up to the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel We'll Prescribe You a Cat.It’s time to revisit the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul.Though it’s a mysteriously located clinic with an uncertain address, it can always be found by those who need it. And the clinic has proven time after time that a prescribed cat has the power to heal the
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How to Hold Someone In Your Heart

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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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Tsubaki Stationery Store

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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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Days at the Torunka Café

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by Satoshi Yagisawa ...

Translated by Eric Ozawa ...

From the internationally bestselling author of the Morisaki Bookshop novels comes a charming and poignant story set at a quiet Tokyo café where customers find unexpected connection and experience everyday miracles.Tucked away on a narrow side street in Tokyo is the Torunka Café, a neighborhood nook where the passersby are as likely to be local cats as tourists. Its regulars include Chinatsu ... Read more

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From the internationally bestselling author of the Morisaki Bookshop novels comes a charming and poignant story set at a quiet Tokyo café where customers find unexpected connection and experience everyday miracles.Tucked away on a narrow side street in Tokyo is the Torunka Café, a neighborhood nook where the passersby are as likely to be local cats as tourists. Its regulars include Chinatsu
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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

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**"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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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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