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The travelling cat chronicles
by Hiro Arikawa
An internationally best-selling ode to kindness, sacrifice and the power of small things traces the experiences of adventurous Nana the cat and his owner, Satoru, as they embark on a road trip across Japan to visit three old friends.
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The readers of Broken Wheel recommend
by Katarina Bivald
A Swedish tourist opens a bookstore in Broken Wheel, Iowa, to honor her deceased pen pal and makes some unconventional choices that threaten to bring long-hidden secrets to light as she attempts to share her love of reading with the locals. Original.
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The Late Bloomers' Club : a novel
by Louise Miller
Unexpectedly inheriting property from a beloved community baker, two headstrong sisters navigate growing hostilities about whether or not to sell, before the disappearance of the baker's dog forces everyone to work together. By the author of The City Baker's Guide to Country Living
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The red address book
by Sofia Lundberg
Living alone in her Stockholm apartment, a 96-year-old woman reminisces through the pages of a long-kept address book before starting to write down stories from her past, unlocking family secrets in unexpectedly beneficial ways. A first novel. 75,000 first printing.
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Hummingbird Lane
by Carolyn Brown
Two childhood friends reconnect after 10 years at a small artist’s colony in south Texas where they rediscover their true selves, enjoy the company of nurturing and creative strangers and make good on an old promise. Original.
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The Rosie project
by Graeme C Simsion
A socially awkward genetics professor who has never been on a second date sets out to find the perfect wife, but instead finds Rosie Jarman, a fiercely independent barmaid who is on a quest to find her biological father. Reprint.
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The second-worst restaurant in France
by Alexander McCall Smith
To escape complicated domestic circumstances and concentrate on writing his new cookbook, Paul Stuart joins his cousin Chloe in the French countryside, where he finds his fortunes tangled up with those of an infamous local restaurant
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Summer hours at robbers' library : a novel
by Sue Halpern
"A debut novel about the unlikely friendship between a middle-aged woman trying to start over and an intelligent, unusual teenage girl that blossoms when she's assigned community service in her local library"
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The bookshop on the corner : a novel
by Jenny Colgan
A "literary matchmaker" who takes joy in pairing readers with perfect books moves from the city to a sleepy village where she becomes a bookmobile driver and rediscovers her senses of adventure and home while searching for a happy ending of her own. By the best-selling author of Little Beach Street Baker. 25,000 first printing.
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The house in the cerulean sea
by TJ Klune
Given a curious classified assignment to evaluate the potential risks posed by six supernatural orphans, a case worker at the Department in Charge of Magical Youth bonds with an enigmatic caregiver who hides dangerous secrets
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