When college student Fumiya visits The Friday Bookshop as a last-ditch effort to find a book for his ill father, he is disappointed in its ordinary appearance despite whispers of its peculiar charm. But he soon discovers that it not only includes a café where the food menu changes daily on the chef’s whim but also a vast underground vault lined with bookshelves, lovingly converted from an ol…
The electrifying new novel from literary phenomenon, Rebecca F. Kuang, Yale student Lily Chen arrives in Taipei hungry: for family, for culture, for connection.
In the vast underground world of ants, every life serves the colony. Queens give birth to the future. Workers labour without rest. Soldiers defend the nest. And generation after generation, the cycle endures. When a catastrophe destroys her home, the young queen Darojak finds refuge in a foreign colony ruled by the formidable Queen Gegana. What begins as survival soon draws her into a strugg…
Seragam lama Na Willa sudah dilipat dan masuk kotak. Buku pelajaran lama juga, sudah lewat, sudah masuk kotak. Hari-hari barunya ia jalani dengan bersemangat—dengan rok berwarna biru dan buku harian hadiah dari Mak. Na Willa bergembira bertemu teman baru yang mengajarinya main gitar, atau penyanyi dengan lagu seperti huru-hara, atau anak pindahan yang meminjamkan cerita silat yang membuatn…
No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there.The chance to re-live the moments that meant most.To see what kind of person you really were.For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie, the love of his life. On his honeymoon in Venice.Before he gave it all away.He wishes he could go back and live differently. But to do so risks everything . . .A magical, time-travelling love…
There used to be a café called Mon Cheri at Nishi Waseda, where members of the Waseda Mystery Club spent day after day frothing in excitement over the latest mystery novels. Now, one former member is enlisted by his granddaughter to solve real-life mysteries . . . As a lover of classic crime stories, it’s perhaps no surprise that twenty-seven-year-old schoolteacher Kaede encounters everyd…
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would…