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A Reese's Book Club Pick -- Winner of the 2022 BookTube Silver Medal in Fiction -- Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. "A wise novel of love and grief, roots and branches, displacement and home, faith and belief. Balm for our bruised times." -- David Mitchell, author of Utopia Avenue. A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home.

The Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick – Instant New York Times Bestseller. "A sumptuous garden maze of a novel that immerses readers in a complex, vanished world." —Kirkus (starred review). An utterly transporting novel set in 1930s colonial Malaysia, perfect for fans of Isabel Allende and Min Jin Lee. Quick-witted, ambitious Ji Lin is stuck as an apprentice dressmaker, moonlighting as a dancehall girl to help pay off her mother's Mahjong debts.

A New York Times Bestseller — A Good Morning America, FabFitFun, and Marie Claire Book Club Pick — "In Five Years is as clever as it is moving, the rare read-in-one-sitting novel you won't forget." — Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists — Perfect for fans of Me Before You and One Day — a striking, powerful, and moving love story following an ambitious lawyer who experiences an astonishing vision that could change her life forever. Where do you see yourself in five years? Dannie Kohan lives her life by the numbers.

The international phenomenon that has sold more than two million copies – If Cats Disappeared from the World—now a Japanese film—is a heartwarming, funny, and profound meditation on the meaning of life. This timeless tale from Genki Kawamura (producer of the Japanese blockbuster animated movie Your Name) is a moving story of loss and reconciliation, and of one man's journey to discover what really matters most in life. The young postman's days are numbered.

Dolores Reyes' Eartheater is an "outstanding" (New York Times) synthesis of mystery and magical realism that explores the dark tragedies of ordinary lives. Named a Must-Read and One of the Best Books by TIME, Vulture, Boston Globe, Cosmopolitan, Wired, and more. Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, this is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth -- a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death.

In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep. Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart—he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone—but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees.

An emotionally powerful debut with a magical twist, set between WWII France and present-day Appalachia, about generations of women in a family, their secret healing abilities, and the mysterious consequences they must contend with when they use their skills on someone they love "A profound tale of love, family legacy, secrets, and the extraordinary power within us all....

A mythic love story set in Trinidad, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo's radiant debut is a masterwork of lush imagination and exuberant storytelling—a spellbinding and hopeful novel about inheritance, loss, and love's seismic power to heal. "Roots the reader in [Trinidad’s] traditions and rituals [and] ... in the glorious matriarchy by which lineage is upheld. The result is a depiction of ordinary life that’s full and breathtaking." —The New York Times Book Review. In the old house on a hill, where the city meets the rainforest, Yejide’s mother is dying.

An instant New York Times bestseller - "Jandy Nelson is a true virtuoso...I am fervently in love with this brave, funny, tender, exuberant beating heart of a book."—Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and Imogen, Obviously. The explosive new novel that brims with love, secrets, and enchantment by Jandy Nelson, Printz Award–winning and New York Times bestselling author of I’ll Give You the Sun.

A *USA Today* Bestseller. A cat a day keeps the doctor away… Discover the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel that has become an international sensation in this utterly charming, vibrant celebration of the healing power of cats. Tucked away in an old building at the end of a narrow alley in Kyoto, the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul can only be found by people who are struggling in their lives and genuinely need help. The mysterious clinic offers a unique treatment to those who find their way there: it prescribes cats as medication.