Francesca's TBR
Under the Whispering Door
by TJ Klune

Fiction - A Man Called Ove meets The Good Place in Under the Whispering Door, a delightful queer love story from TJ Klune, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he's definitely dead. But even in death he's not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days. Hilarious, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is an uplifting story about a life spent at the office and a death spent building a home.
Legends & lattes : a novel of high fantasy and low stakes
by Travis Baldree

"Worn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv, the orc barbarian, cashes out of the warrior's life with one final score. A forgotten legend, a fabled artifact, and an unreasonable amount of hope lead her to the streets of Thune, where she plans to open the first coffee shop the city has ever seen. However, her dreams of a fresh start filling mugs instead of swinging swords are hardly a sure bet. Old frenemies and Thune's shady underbelly may just upset her plans. To finally build something that will last, Viv will need some new partners, and a different kind of resolve"
All creatures great and small
by James Herriot

A country veterinary surgeon in Yorkshire describes the joys and trials of his profession and recalls his early career and experiences with his unique animal clientele and their colorful owners, in a new trade paperback edition of the classic memoir. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
When lightning strikes
by Jenny Carroll

While walking home from school, Jessica Mastriani and her best friend get caught in an Indiana thunderstorm and Jessica gets hit by lightning, which causes her to develop an amazing talent for locating missing children
Babel : or the necessity of violence : an arcane history of the oxford translators' revolution
by R. F. Kuang

A Chinese boy orphaned by cholera and raised in Britain is trained to work at Oxford's prestigious Royal Institute of Translation, the world's center for translation and magic through silver-working, where he must choose between competing loyalties. 125,000 first printing.
Spare
by Harry

With its raw, unflinching honesty, Prince Harry's memoir—in which he discusses the effect of his mother Princess Diana's death on his life—is full of insight, revelation, self-examination and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief.