For fans of Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs and Murata Sayaka’s Earthlings**, this Japanese bestseller from renowned anime director Makoto Shinkai features four inspirational and heartwarming vignettes following women and their cats in their quests for love and connection.**Lying alone on the edge of the sidewalk in an abandoned cardboard box, a nameless narrator contemplates the indifferent world around him. With his mother long gone, his only ...

“[A] rich and lyrical tale of desperation and redemption . . . Throughout, Sainz Borgo applies stark poetry to the terrifying setting, where 'moans and cries attributed to ghosts sometimes masked executions and beatings.' It’s a stunner.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)“[A] deeply felt meditation on migration, mourning and the simultaneous entanglement and estrangement of the living and the dead” —Los Angeles Times

Ren Scarborough is no longer the girl who was chased out of England—she is the Goddess of Death ruling Japan’s underworld. But Reapers have recently been spotted in Japan, and it’s only a matter of time before Ivy, now Britain’s Death Goddess, comes to claim her revenge. Ren’s last hope is to appeal to the god of storms and seas, who can turn the tides to send Ivy’s ship away from Japan’s shores. But he’ll only help Ren if she finds a sword lost thousands of years ago—an impossible demand....

“Sensual and thought-provoking, a romantic fantasy unlike any other.” — Shannon Chakraborty“Utterly intoxicating . . . whisking you off to a dreamlike world where every corner glitters with magic, and the sensual and the sacred collide.” — Thea GuanzonSeduction is her weapon. Love is her destiny.Kritika H. Rao weaves a luscious, exhilarating fantasy inspired by one of the most famous romances in Hin...

**“In the phenomenal Organ Meats, two friends are bound by a red string, dog bloodlines, and the violence that is being a girl” (Ms. magazine)—from the National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and author of Gods of Want.“Organ Meats possesses something of the febrile intensity of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, their laser focus on female friendship, but instead of Naples, K-Ming Chang’s wild girls inhabit a magical universe of talking dog...

In the boiling heat of summer, a broken remote control for an air conditioner threatens life as we know it in this reality-bending, time-slipping sequel to The Tatami Galaxy.During a scorching August in Kyoto, our protagonist and his worst friend, Ozu, are locked in a glaring contest in a four-and-a-half-tatami-mat room. Ozu has spilled Coke on the air conditioner’s remote control—the only AC in Shimogamo Yusuisuiso, their famously shabby sweatbox of an ap...

Thesweeping, dramatic finale of Swati Teerdhala’s South India-inspired fantasytrilogy rounds out the epic, romantic tale of an assassin and a soldierfighting to save their country and their people. Perfect for fans ofSabaa Tahir and Victoria Aveyard.A queen at last. An empty palace. Akingdom to save.Esha is reeling from Kunal’s betrayal, butshe has a kingdom to rule from behind a th...

A journalist bearing terrible news leaps from a still-moving train into a small town of wonderful, impossible secrets . . .The doomed crew of a starship follows their blind, mad captain on a quest into deepest space to joust with destiny, eternity, and God Himself . . .Now and Forever is a bold new work from an incomparable artist whose stories have reshaped America's literary landscape. Two bewitching novellas—each distinctly different, yet uniquely Bradbury—demon...

The spellbinding conclusion to the international bestseller Forged by Blood delves deeper into Nigerian mythology as the Oluso uprising comes to a head…and the young woman caught in between comes to her breaking point. Return to this highly atmospheric, complex world full of magic and romance and war, in which unity is the goal, blood is the sacrifice, and love is at stake.The King is dead. The Oluso rebel. War is here.With the end of Alis...

THE #1 KOREAN BESTSELLER WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLDFor fans of magical realism and the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi comes this cozy fantasy debut.What if there was a store that sold dreams? Which would you buy? And who might you become when you wake up?In a mysterious town hidden in our collective subconscious there's a department store that sells dreams. Day and night, vis...

A strikingly original and absorbing mystery about a white-passing bookbinder in Victorian England and the secrets lurking on the estate where we she works, for fans of FingersmithandThe Confessions of Frannie LangtonThe library is under lock and key. But its secrets can't be contained.After he brought her home from Jamaica as a baby, Florence's ...

“Alejandro Antonio Ruiz embodies all of the roiling emotions in this compelling queer teen love story.”—The Children’s Book Review"Ruiz’s masterful narration captures all the anger, tension, and banter...Ruiz yells, cries, whispers, laughs, and sings, revealing all the many layers to Rafie and Rey’s story."—AudioFileWhen a Mariachi star transfers schools, he expects to be handed his new group's lead vocalist spot—w...