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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

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    $12.79 USD

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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

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    by Aysegül Savas ...
    Narrated by Aysegül Savas ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 29 min

    Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, FictionFinalist for The Story PrizeNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER, VULTURE, AND ELECTRIC LITERATUREFrom the acclaimed author of one of Barack Obama's favorite books of 2024 The Anthropologists, comes a masterful collection of stories about distance and closeness in the age of connectivity.<... ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

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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

    $34.99 USD

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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

    $26.99 USD

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    Voices of the Fallen Heroes

    And Other Stories

    by Yukio Mishima ...
    Narrated by Brian Nishii ...
    Series series Vintage International

    Unabridged

    9 hours 8 min

    A new selection of Yukio Mishima (author of Spring Snow and The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea) short stories from the 1960s—his final decade—Voices of the Fallen Heroes offers a unique glimpse into the mind of one of Japan’s greatest writers.In the title story, "Voices of the Fallen Heroes," a séance brings forth the spirits of young officers in the Imperial Army and the kamikaze pilots ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Craftland

    In Search of Lost Arts and Disappearing Trades

    by James Fox ...
    Narrated by James Fox ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 34 min

    An “impassioned and inspiring account of the extraordinary men and women still doing traditional artisanal work” (The Sunday Times) in the face of massive technological industrialization—by renowned Cambridge art historian Dr. James Fox.“Beautifully written and (charmingly illustrated) . . . His chronicle of the decline of the traditional trades is staggering.”—The Wall Street JournalDuring an age ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    The Pinhoe Egg

    by Diana Wynne Jones ...
    Narrated by Gerard Doyle ...
    Series Audiobook 6 - Chrestomanci

    Unabridged

    9 hours 59 min

    Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice AwardCat Chant and Marianne Pinhoe have discovered something incredibly exciting, truly precious, and very strange—an egg.This egg was not meant to be found. Chrestomanci himself, Cat's guardian and the strongest enchanter in the world, is sure to find it particularly interesting. And that's the last thing Marianne's family of secret ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • Every Day I Read

    53 Ways to Get Closer to Books

    by Hwang Bo-reum ...
    Translated by Shanna Tan ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the author of the international bestseller Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, a heartfelt invitation to reflect on your relationship with reading and celebrate the joys of books.Why do we read? What is it that we hope to take away from the intimate, personal experience of reading for pleasure?How often do we ask these profound, expansive questions of ourselves and of our ... Read more

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    Moral AI

    And How We Get There

    by Jana Schaich Borg, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Vincent Conitzer ...
    Narrated by Rory Alexander ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 42 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.A reassuring and thought-provoking guide to all the big questions about AI and ethics**Should robots ever be considered free? Will computers transcend human intelligence? And what can we do to make sure AI is safe?The artificial intelligence revolution has begun. Today, there are self-driving cars on our streets, autonomous weapons in our armies, robot surgeons in our ... Read more

    $19.11 USD

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    The Lie of the Land

    Who Really Cares for the Countryside?

    by Guy Shrubsole ...
    Narrated by Guy Shrubsole ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 58 min

    WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION 2025A WATERSTONES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2024'Both dynamite and medicine' AMY-JANE BEER'Timely and rousing' THE TIMES________________________________The lie of the land: that Britain’s landowners care for the countryside.Our landowning elite are paid billions of taxpayer pounds to be good s... ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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