We'll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida, E. Madison Shimoda (trans.)
Category: Fiction
For fans of THE TRAVELLING CAT CHRONICLES, THE CAT WHO SAVED BOOKS and SHE AND HER CAT, discover the award-winning bestselling Japanese novel that has become an international sensation in this utterly charming celebration of the healing power of cats. A cat a day keeps the doctor away ...On the top flo ...Show more
More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
Category: Fiction
In Tokyo, there is a neighbourhood with the highest number of bookstores in the world. It is called Jinbocho where book lovers can browse to their heart's delight and where hunters of first editions or autographed copies prowl the bookcases. The Morisaki bookshop, a small family-run shop, is so packed ...Show more
The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Full Moon Coffee Shop Ser.
Based on the Japanese myth of cats returning favours to humans who are kind to them, "The Full Moon Coffee Shop" is the name of a peculiar cake cafe that is run by talking cats, which has no fixed location and instead materialises unpredictably on the night of a full moon. The protagonists of this stor ...Show more
The Lantern of Lost Memories by Sanaka Hiiragi
Category: Fiction
One photograph, one treasured memory, one chance to go back... In Mr Hirasaka's cosy photography studio in the mountains between this world and the next, someone is waking up as if from a dream. There is a stack of photos on their lap, one for every day of their life, and now they must choose the pictu ...Show more
Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise: A Novel by Lin Yi-Han
Category: Fiction
The most influential book of Taiwan's #MeToo movement--a heartbreaking account of sexual violence and a remarkable reinvention of the trauma plot, turning the traditional Lolita narrative upside down as it explores women's vulnerability, victimization, and the lengths they will go to survive. Thirteen-y ...Show more
Mina's Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa
Category: Fiction
After the death of her father, twelve-year-old Tomoko is sent to live for a year with her uncle in the coastal town of Ashiya. It is a year which will change her life. The 1970s are bringing changes to Japan and her uncle's magnificent colonial mansion opens up a new and unfamiliar world for Tomoko; it ...Show more
Dead End Memories by Banana Yoshimoto
Category: Fiction
From the beloved, bestselling author of Kitchen - five effortlessly beautiful, strange and melancholy stories of heartbreak, hope and trying to see beauty in the everyday. There was no past, no future, no words, nothing - just the light and the yellow and the scent of dry leaves in the sun. Japan's in ...Show more
Vladivostok Circus by Elisa Shua Dusapin
Category: Fiction
Tonight is the opening night. There are birds perched everywhere, on the power lines, the guy ropes, the strings of light that festoon the tent ... when I think of all those little bodies suspended between earth and sky, it makes me smile to remind myself that for some of them, their first flight begin ...Show more
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
Category: Fiction
Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books. Twenty-five-year-old Takako has never liked reading, although the Morisaki bookshop has been in her family for three generations. It is the pride and jo ...Show more
Anna Karenina (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Omnibus Edition) by Leo Tolstoy
Category: Classics | Series: Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
Lev Nikolaevic Tolstoj: Anna Karenina Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2013 Vollst ndiger, durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger Erstdruck in: Russkij vestnik, Petersburg 1875-1877. Erste Buchausgabe: Moskau 1878. Hier in bers. v. H ermann] ...Show more
Until August by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
Category: Fiction
The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude - a moving tale of female desire and abandon. Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happi ...Show more
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving. As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to ...Show more