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• We'll Prescribe You a Cat

  Syou, Ishida, 1975-

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  Tucked away in an old building at the end of a narrow alley in Kyoto, the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul offers a unique treatment to those who find their way there: it prescribes cats as medication

• Before the Coffee Gets Cold

  a Novel

  Kawaguchi, Toshikazu, 1971-

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  In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee—the chance to travel back in time.

• She and Her Cat

  Shinkai, Makoto,

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  In four interrelated, stream-of-conscious vignettes narrated by women and their feline companions, the reader explores the frailty of life, the pain of isolation, and the limits of communication.

• The Nakano Thrift Shop

  Kawakami, Hiromi, 1958-

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  Hitomi, the inexperienced young woman who works the register at the Nakano Thrift Shop, falls for her oddly reserved co-worker and soon comes to realize what it truly means to love someone.

• What You Are Looking for Is in the Library

  a Novel

  Aoyama, Michiko, 1970-

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  Sayuri Komachi, Tokyo’s most mysterious librarian, gives her visitors one unexpected book, which has life-altering consequences, giving the borrower the motivation they didn’t realize they need to change their life.

• The Great Passage

  a Novel

  Miura, Shion, 1976-

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  After creating dictionaries for thirty-seven years, Kohei Araki finally finds a kindred spirit in Mitsuya Majime, a young man working in the company's sales department.

• The Full Moon Coffee Shop

  a Novel

  Mochizuki, Mai,

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  If you are kind to the right cat, you might just find yourself invited to a mysterious coffee shop like no other. It has no fixed location, no fixed hours, and it seemingly appears at random. It’s also run by talking cats.

• The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

  Higashino, Keigo, 1958-

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  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 asking for advice.

• Sweet Bean Paste

  Dorian Sukegawa, 1962-

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  Sentaro, a down-on-his-luck aspiring writer with a criminal record who now works in a pastry shop, finds his life forever changed when he meets Tokue, an elderly woman who makes the best sweet bean paste he's ever tasted.

• The Guest Cat

  Hiraide, Takashi, 1950-

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  A couple in their 30s, living in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo, no longer have much to say to each other until a cat invites itself into their home.