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“Race through a lush world of pure wonder and romance—kites made of wishes that become stars, origami that holds time in its folds, and a night market in the clouds—in this lovely, cozy fantasy reminiscent of Erin Morgenstern's The Starless Sea.”—Booklist (starred review)
On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it. Most will see a cozy ramen restaurant. And only the chosen ones—those who are lost—will find a place to pawn their life choices and deepest regrets.
Hana Ishikawa wakes on her first morning as the pawnshop’s new owner to find it ransacked, the shop’s most precious acquisition stolen, and her father missing. And then into the shop stumbles a charming stranger, quite unlike its other customers, for he offers help instead of seeking it.
Together, they must journey through a mystical world to find Hana’s father and the stolen choice—by way of rain puddles, rides on paper cranes, the bridge between midnight and morning, and a night market in the clouds.
But as they get closer to the truth, Hana must reveal a secret of her own—and risk making a choice that she will never be able to take back.
“Highly recommended . . . Readers who have been swept up in the cozy charm of Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi and The Dallergut Dream Department Store by Miye Lee will fall hard for the mix of magical realism, fantasy mystery, and star-crossed romance.”—Library Journal (starred review)","isbn":"0593724992","amazonurl":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593724992?linkCode=ll1&tag=codexmap-20&linkId=8d37aaf25f3947e1637a2ada957a9c8f&ref_=as_li_ss_tl","HawaiiProject":"https://www.thehawaiiproject.com/book/Water-Moon--by--Samantha-Sotto-Yambao--679623","tbr":"https://tbrapp.co/book/679623","AppleBooks":"https://books.apple.com/us/book/water-moon/id6497568065?itscg=30200&at=1000l3dBv&ct=679623","BarnesNoble":"https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/0593724992","Bookshop":"https://bookshop.org/a/19558/9780857505330","coverarturl":"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41kIQAWv1tL.jpg","bookid":"679623","publicationdate":"2025-01-14 00:00:00"},{"title":"The Tempest","shorttitle":"The Tempest","authorstring":"William Shakespeare","description":"The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–1611, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where the sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skillful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to cause his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit King Alonso of Naples to believe they are shipwrecked and marooned on the island. There, his machinations bring about the revelation of Antonio's lowly nature, the redemption of the King, and the marriage of Miranda to Alonso's son, Ferdinand. Source: Wikipedia.","descriptionHtml":"The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–1611, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where the sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skillful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to cause his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit King Alonso of Naples to believe they are shipwrecked and marooned on the island. There, his machinations bring about the revelation of Antonio's lowly nature, the redemption of the King, and the marriage of Miranda to Alonso's son, Ferdinand. Source: Wikipedia.","isbn":"9781495384967","amazonurl":"http://www.amazon.com/The-Tempest-William-Shakespeare/dp/1495384969?linkCode=ll1&tag=codexmap-20&linkId=8d37aaf25f3947e1637a2ada957a9c8f&ref_=as_li_ss_tl","HawaiiProject":"https://www.thehawaiiproject.com/book/The-Tempest--by--William-Shakespeare--63515","tbr":"https://tbrapp.co/book/63515","AppleBooks":"https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-tempest/id916361222?itscg=30200&at=1000l3dBv&ct=63515","BarnesNoble":"https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/9781495384967","Bookshop":"https://bookshop.org/a/19558/9781495384967","coverarturl":"https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/william-shakespeare/the-tempest/downloads/cover-thumbnail.jpg","bookid":"63515","publicationdate":"1623-01-01 01:01:01"},{"title":"Between Two Fires","shorttitle":"Between Two Fires","authorstring":"Christopher Buehlman","description":"Enter a darker age with USA Today bestselling author Christopher Buehlman's Between Two Fires, a medieval horror adventure unlike anything on the shelf. The beloved BookTok sensation is now coming to Nightfire.\n\nAnd Lucifer said: “Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the walls of heaven down…”\n\nThe year is 1348.\n\nThomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm—that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict. Is it delirium or is it faith?\n\nShe believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon.\n\nThere, she tells Thomas, she will fulfill her mission: to confront the evil that has devastated the earth, and to restore to this betrayed, murderous knight the nobility and hope of salvation he long abandoned.\n\nAs hell unleashes its wrath, and as the true nature of the girl is revealed, Thomas will find himself on a macabre battleground of angels and demons, saints, and the risen dead, and in the midst of a desperate struggle for nothing less than the soul of man.\n\nAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.","descriptionHtml":"
Enter a darker age with USA Today bestselling author Christopher Buehlman's Between Two Fires, a medieval horror adventure unlike anything on the shelf. The beloved BookTok sensation is now coming to Nightfire.
And Lucifer said: “Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the walls of heaven down…”
The year is 1348.
Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm—that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict. Is it delirium or is it faith?
She believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon.
There, she tells Thomas, she will fulfill her mission: to confront the evil that has devastated the earth, and to restore to this betrayed, murderous knight the nobility and hope of salvation he long abandoned.
As hell unleashes its wrath, and as the true nature of the girl is revealed, Thomas will find himself on a macabre battleground of angels and demons, saints, and the risen dead, and in the midst of a desperate struggle for nothing less than the soul of man.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.