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What You Are Looking for is in the Library
Aoyama Michiko • 2024
Awaiting your visit is a special library where every patron encounters the perfect book… Called one of 2023’s 10 best feel-good books by the Washington Post, this international sensation and “undeniable page-turner” (The New York Times Book Review) is “a celebration of community, connection, and the transformative power of libraries” (Booklist).
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More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Satoshi Yagisawa • 2024
In this charming and emotionally resonant follow up to the internationally bestselling Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, Satoshi Yagisawa paints a poignant and thoughtful portrait of life, love, and how much books and bookstores mean to the people who love them. Set again in the beloved Japanese bookshop and nearby coffee shop in the Jimbochi neighborhood of Toyko, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop deepens the relationship between Takako, her uncle Satoru , and the people in their lives. A new cast of heartwarming regulars have appeared in the shop, including an old man who wears the same ragged mouse-colored sweater and another who collects books solely for the official stamps with the author’s personal seal. Satoshi Yagisawa illuminates the everyday relationships between people that are forged and grown through a shared love of books. Characters leave and return, fall in and out of love, and some eventually die. As time passes, Satoru, with Takako’s help, must choose whether to keep the bookshop open or shutter its doors forever. Making the decision will take uncle and niece on an emotional journey back to their family’s roots and remind them again what a bookstore can mean to an individual, a neighborhood, and a whole culture.
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Yagisawa • 2023
Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo, is a book-lover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books,<br/><br/>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 joy of her uncle Satoru, who has devoted his life to the bookshop since his wife Momoko left him five years earlier.<br/><br/>When Takako's boyfriend reveals he's marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle's offer to live rent-free in the tiny room above the shop. Hoping to nurse her broken heart in peace, Takako is surprised to encounter new worlds within the stacks of books lining the Morisaki bookshop.<br/><br/>As summer fades to autumn, Satoru and Takako discover they have more in common than they first thought. The Morisaki bookshop has something to teach them both about life, love, and the healing power of books.
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If Cats Disappeared From The World
Yeonnam-Dong's Smiley Laundromat
Kim Ji Yoon • 2024
Marigold Mind Laundry: A Novel
Jungeun Yun • 2024
Welcome to the Marigold Mind Laundry, where we wash away the stains from your heart. In this enchanting tale—a blockbuster bestseller in Korea—the enigmatic owner of a magical laundromat that erases people’s painful memories must learn to find her own peace before she can truly help others. Born with mysterious powers she does not know how to control, young Jieun accidentally causes her family to vanish. She vows to live a million lives in search of them. Finally, one night, she brings the Marigold Mind Laundry into existence. Its service: to remove the deepest pain from our hearts. Jieun listens while customers share their unhappy memories. As they speak, she transfers their sadness onto T-shirts as stains. After a spin in the washing machine, the stains become flower petals that soar into the air, and Jieun’s customers find solace. Five wounded souls come to Jieun for help: a frustrated young filmmaker, a spiraling social media influencer, a mother betrayed by her husband, a woman jilted by her lover, and a talented photographer who hides in the safety of a mundane job. As Jieun listens to each of their stories, she learns that the will to heal is not a rare gift, but a power we all possess—if only we are open to it. Joyous and inspiring, The Marigold Mind Laundry offers wonderment and comfort as it teaches us to tap into the magic that lives within us all.
The Convenience Store by the Sea
Sonoko Machida • 2025
Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
Hwang Bo-reum • 2023
The Full Moon Coffee Shop
Mai Mochizuki • 2024
The Lantern of Lost Memories
Sanaka Hiiragi • 2024
The Bookshop Woman
Nanako Hanada • 2024
Sweet Bean Paste: The International Bestseller
Durian Sukegawa • 2017
'I'm in story heaven with this book.' Cecelia Ahern, author of P.S. I Love You<br/><br/>A charming tale of friendship, love and loneliness in contemporary Japan<br/><br/>Sentaro has failed. He has a criminal record, drinks too much, and his dream of becoming a writer is just a distant memory. With only the blossoming of the cherry trees to mark the passing of time, he spends his days in a tiny confectionery shop selling dorayaki, a type of pancake filled with sweet bean paste.<br/><br/>But everything is about to change.<br/><br/>Into his life comes Tokue, an elderly woman with disfigured hands and a troubled past. Tokue makes the best sweet bean paste Sentaro has ever tasted. She begins to teach him her craft, but as their friendship flourishes, social pressures become impossible to escape and Tokue’s dark secret is revealed,<br/>with devastating consequences.<br/><br/>Sweet Bean Paste is a moving novel about the burden of the past and the redemptive power of friendship. Translated into English for the first time, Durian Sukegawa’s beautiful prose is capturing hearts all over the world.
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Novel (Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series, 1)
Toshikazu Kawaguchi • 2020
*NOW AN LA TIMES BESTSELLER*<br/><br/>*OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD*<br/><br/>*AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*<br/><br/>If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet?<br/><br/>In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time.<br/><br/>Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café in the hopes of making that journey. But time travel isn’t so simple, and there are rules that must be followed. Most important, the trip can last only as long as it takes for the coffee to get cold.<br/><br/>Heartwarming, wistful, mysterious and delightfully quirky, Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s internationally bestselling novel explores the age-old question: What would you change if you could travel back in time?<br/><br/>Meet more wonderful characters in the next captivating novel in the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, Before We Say Goodbye!<br/><br/>Read the rest of the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series:<br/>Tales from the Cafe Before Your Memory Fades
The Kamogawa Food Detectives
Kashiwai Hisashi • 2023
The Kamogawa Food Detectives, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.<br/><br/>What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just one more time?<br/><br/>Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner treats its customers to wonderfully extravagant meals. But that's not the main reason to stop by . . .<br/><br/>The father-daughter duo have started advertising their services as 'food detectives'. Through ingenious investigations, they are capable of recreating a dish from their customers' pasts – dishes that may well hold the keys to forgotten memories and future happiness.<br/><br/>From the widower looking for a specific noodle dish that his wife used to cook, to a first love's beef stew, the restaurant of lost recipes provides a link to the past – and a way to a more contented future.<br/><br/>A bestseller in Japan, The Kamogawa Food Detectives is a celebration of good company and the power of a delicious meal.
