When three delinquents
hole up in an abandoned general store after their most recent robbery,
to their great surprise, a letter drops through the mail slot in the
store's shutter. This seemingly simple request for advice sets the trio
on a journey of discovery as, over the course of a single night, they
step into the role of the kindhearted former shopkeeper who devoted his
waning years to offering thoughtful counsel to his correspondents.
Through the lens of time, they share insight with those seeking
guidance, and by morning, none of their lives will ever be the same.
By acclaimed author Keigo Higashino, The Miracles of the Namiya General Store is a work that has touched the hearts of readers around the world.
Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird.
Leigh,
who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her
maternal grandparents for the first time. There, she is determined to
find her mother, the bird. In her search, she winds up chasing after
ghosts, uncovering family secrets, and forging a new relationship with
her grandparents. And as she grieves, she must try to reconcile the fact
that on the same day she kissed her best friend and longtime secret
crush, Axel, her mother was taking her own life.
Alternating between real and magic, past and present, friendship and romance, hope and despair, The Astonishing Color of After is a novel about finding oneself through family history, art, grief, and love.
Chloe's older sister,
Ruby, is the girl everyone looks to and longs for, who can't be captured
or caged. When a night with Ruby's friends goes horribly wrong and
Chloe discovers the dead body of her classmate London Hayes left
floating in the reservoir, Chloe is sent away from town and away from
Ruby.
But Ruby will do anything to get her sister back, and when
Chloe returns to town two years later, deadly surprises await. As Chloe
flirts with the truth that Ruby has hidden deeply away, the fragile
line between life and death is redrawn by the complex bonds of
sisterhood.
With palpable drama and delicious craft, Nova Ren
Suma bursts onto the YA scene with the story that everyone will be
talking about.
For nearly a century, the
Nomeolvides women have tended the grounds of La Pradera, the lush
estate gardens that enchant guests from around the world. They’ve also
hidden a tragic legacy: if they fall in love too deeply, their lovers
vanish. But then, after generations of vanishings, a strange boy appears
in the gardens.
The boy is a mystery to Estrella, the
Nomeolvides girl who finds him, and to her family, but he’s even more a
mystery to himself; he knows nothing more about who he is or where he
came from than his first name. As Estrella tries to help Fel piece
together his unknown past, La Pradera leads them to secrets as dangerous
as they are magical in this stunning exploration of love, loss, and
family.
