What You Are Looking for is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
Category: Contemporary Fiction
For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this soul-stirring Japanese novel shows how the perfect book recommendation can help us fulfil our dreams. Sayuri Komachi is no ordinary librarian. Sensing exactly what someone is searching for in life, she provides just the book recom ...Show more
As Young As This by Roxy Dunn
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Tender, devastating and sharply funny, As Young as This is a beautiful depiction of the ways people shape us, the plans we make for our lives, and what it means to let go of them, from an incredible new talent. Elliot. Joe. Tommy. Nathanael. Wren. Oliver. Malik. Zach. Frank. Patrick. Noah. These are th ...Show more
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Category: Contemporary Fiction
From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity. Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged s ...Show more
Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold Ser.
The third novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, following four new customers in a cafe where customers can travel back in time. In northern Japan, overlooking the spectacular view Hakodate Port has to offer, Cafe Donna Donna has been serving carefully brewed coffee ...Show more
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Greece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwanted boy living in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. Achilles, “best of all the Greeks,” is everything Patroclus is not -- strong, beautifu ...Show more
Tales from the Cafe by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold | Reading Level: near fine
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time... From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes a story of four new cus ...Show more
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Tales from the Café #1 | Reading Level: good-very good
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping ...Show more
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: good
'The best Australian novel I have read in more than a decade' Sydney Morning Herald 'Astonishing, captivating ... a wild, beautiful, heart-exploding ride' Elizabeth Gilbert The bestselling novel that has taken Australia, and the world, by storm. Winner of Book of the Year at the 2019 Indie Book Awards, ...Show more