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Sympathy Tower Tokyo

A Novel

by Rie Qudan ...

Translated by Jesse Kirkwood ...

“Provocative…Masterfully subtle.” —The New York Times“An architectural feat in itself.” —Financial TimesThe award-winning, bestselling Japanese phenomenon: a speculative, prophetic novel following a young and brilliant celebrity architect in Tokyo who takes on her most controversial project yet—perfect for readers of Klara and the Sun and Chain-Gang All-Stars.Welcome to the Japan ... ... Read more

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“Provocative…Masterfully subtle.” —The New York Times“An architectural feat in itself.” —Financial TimesThe award-winning, bestselling Japanese phenomenon: a speculative, prophetic novel following a young and brilliant celebrity architect in Tokyo who takes on her most controversial project yet—perfect for readers of Klara and the Sun and Chain-Gang All-Stars.Welcome to the Japan ...
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Schoolgirl

by Rie Qudan ...

Translated by Haydn Trowell ...

In Schoolgirl, a wealthy housewife, dogged by ennui, struggles to connect with her teenage daughter, who turns to YouTube to vent her frustration with the climate crisis and muse about her day-to-day life in Tky. Through the fog of generational tension and unresolved ethics, mother and daughter find a shared connection in Osamu Dazai's 1939 novella Schoolgirl.In Bad Music, a music teacher named ... Read more

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In Schoolgirl, a wealthy housewife, dogged by ennui, struggles to connect with her teenage daughter, who turns to YouTube to vent her frustration with the climate crisis and muse about her day-to-day life in Tky. Through the fog of generational tension and unresolved ethics, mother and daughter find a shared connection in Osamu Dazai's 1939 novella Schoolgirl.In Bad Music, a music teacher named
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Sympathy Tower Tokyo

A Novel

by Rie Qudan ...

Narrated by Hanako Footman ...

Unabridged

4 hours 4 min

“Provocative…Masterfully subtle.” —The New York Times“An architectural feat in itself.” —Financial TimesThe award-winning, bestselling Japanese phenomenon: a speculative, prophetic novel following a young and brilliant celebrity architect in Tokyo who takes on her most controversial project yet—perfect for readers of Klara and the Sun and Chain-Gang All-Stars.Welcome to the Japan ... ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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“Provocative…Masterfully subtle.” —The New York Times“An architectural feat in itself.” —Financial TimesThe award-winning, bestselling Japanese phenomenon: a speculative, prophetic novel following a young and brilliant celebrity architect in Tokyo who takes on her most controversial project yet—perfect for readers of Klara and the Sun and Chain-Gang All-Stars.Welcome to the Japan ...
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Drayton and Mackenzie

by Alexander Starritt ...

Narrated by Ciaran Saward ...

Unabridged

18 hours 30 min

Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year—the first work of fiction to grace the list in fifteen years—a sweeping social novel about an unlikely friendship between two men and a plan that could change the world, unfolding over the first two decades of the 21st centuryJames and Roland’s paths through life—one drawn in straight lines, the other looping and uncertain ... Read more

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Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year—the first work of fiction to grace the list in fifteen years—a sweeping social novel about an unlikely friendship between two men and a plan that could change the world, unfolding over the first two decades of the 21st centuryJames and Roland’s paths through life—one drawn in straight lines, the other looping and uncertain
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Authority

Essays

by Andrea Long Chu ...

Narrated by Andrea Long Chu ...

Unabridged

10 hours 55 min

Read by the author, this bold, provocative collection of essays asks one of the most urgent questions of our time: What is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything?Since her canonical 2017 essay “On Liking Women,” the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Andrea Long Chu has established herself as a public intellectual straight out of the 1960s. With devastating wit and polemical clarity, she ... Read more

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Read by the author, this bold, provocative collection of essays asks one of the most urgent questions of our time: What is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything?Since her canonical 2017 essay “On Liking Women,” the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Andrea Long Chu has established herself as a public intellectual straight out of the 1960s. With devastating wit and polemical clarity, she
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Murder at the Black Cat Café

by Seishi Yokomizo ...

Translated by Bryan Karetnyk ...

Series series Detective Kindaichi Mysteries
**FROM ONE OF JAPAN'S GREATEST CRIME WRITERS—THE AUTHOR OF THE HONJIN MURDERS: Nothing at The Black Cat Café is as it seems. . .In order to solve this sensational stand-alone murder mystery, scruffy detective Kosuke Kindaichi will have to untangle a complex web of love, jealousy, and betrayal**In post-war Tokyo, still recovering from the devastating wartime bombing raids, a patrolling policeman ... Read more

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**FROM ONE OF JAPAN'S GREATEST CRIME WRITERS—THE AUTHOR OF THE HONJIN MURDERS: Nothing at The Black Cat Café is as it seems. . .In order to solve this sensational stand-alone murder mystery, scruffy detective Kosuke Kindaichi will have to untangle a complex web of love, jealousy, and betrayal**In post-war Tokyo, still recovering from the devastating wartime bombing raids, a patrolling policeman
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Midnight Timetable

A Novel in Ghost Stories

by Bora Chung ...

Translated by Anton Hur ...

***A FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST TRANSLATED NOVEL*“Like the objects collected in this deliciously haunting book, Midnight Timetable will absorb you in the shadows of its imagination, marvelous oddness, humor, and heart."** *—***Gerardo Sámano CórdovaFrom the author and translator of the National Book Award finalist and Booker Prize shortlisted Cursed Bunny, comes a novel-in-ghost-stories ... Read more

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***A FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST TRANSLATED NOVEL*“Like the objects collected in this deliciously haunting book, Midnight Timetable will absorb you in the shadows of its imagination, marvelous oddness, humor, and heart."** *—***Gerardo Sámano CórdovaFrom the author and translator of the National Book Award finalist and Booker Prize shortlisted Cursed Bunny, comes a novel-in-ghost-stories
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Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave

My Cemetery Journeys

by Mariana Enriquez ...

Translated by Megan McDowell ...

An enchanting, highly personal tour of some of the most iconic cemeteries of the world—part travelogue, part memoir, part “excursions through death,” by the author of Our Share of Night and “queen of horror” (Los Angeles Times)**“Not a travelogue so much as a grave-a-logue, Somebody is Walking on Your Grave is an exuberant, witty wander among the dead. You could not have a better friend to take ... Read more

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An enchanting, highly personal tour of some of the most iconic cemeteries of the world—part travelogue, part memoir, part “excursions through death,” by the author of Our Share of Night and “queen of horror” (Los Angeles Times)**“Not a travelogue so much as a grave-a-logue, Somebody is Walking on Your Grave is an exuberant, witty wander among the dead. You could not have a better friend to take
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I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness

A Novel

by Irene Solà ...

Dawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, brigands, deserters, race-car drivers, ghosts, and demons. In a remote farmhouse called Mas Clavell, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed. Family and caretakers drift in and out. Meanwhile, all the women who have lived and died in that house are waiting for her to join them. They are ... Read more

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Dawn is breaking over the Guilleries, a rugged mountain range in Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, brigands, deserters, race-car drivers, ghosts, and demons. In a remote farmhouse called Mas Clavell, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed. Family and caretakers drift in and out. Meanwhile, all the women who have lived and died in that house are waiting for her to join them. They are
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The Book of Guilt

by Catherine Chidgey ...

**Amazon Editors' Best Books of 2025 | Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Books of 2025From the acclaimed author of Pet, in an alternate world where nobody won WWII, three brothers are the only boys left in an orphanage whose dark secret is the reason for their existence—and the key to their survival."Grand and devastating ... brims with vitality—and soul." —The New York Times**After a very different ... Read more

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**Amazon Editors' Best Books of 2025 | Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Books of 2025From the acclaimed author of Pet, in an alternate world where nobody won WWII, three brothers are the only boys left in an orphanage whose dark secret is the reason for their existence—and the key to their survival."Grand and devastating ... brims with vitality—and soul." —The New York Times**After a very different
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After Midnight

Thirteen Tales for the Dark Hours

by Daphne du Maurier ...

From Daphne du Maurier, “a writer of fearless originality” (The Guardian), comes a collection of her thirteen most mesmerizing tales—including iconic stories such as “The Birds” and “Don’t Look Now”—with an introduction by Stephen King.Daphne du Maurier is best known for Rebecca, “one of the most influential novels of the 20th century” (Sarah Waters) and basis for Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic film ... Read more

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From Daphne du Maurier, “a writer of fearless originality” (The Guardian), comes a collection of her thirteen most mesmerizing tales—including iconic stories such as “The Birds” and “Don’t Look Now”—with an introduction by Stephen King.Daphne du Maurier is best known for Rebecca, “one of the most influential novels of the 20th century” (Sarah Waters) and basis for Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic film
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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
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