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"Utterly charming . . . I would read a hundred of these stories."—Shelby Van Pelt, New York Times bestselling author of Remarkably Bright Creatures
Seven struggling customers are given the unique opportunity to take home a "blanket cat" . . . but only for three days, the time it’ll take to change their lives.
A peculiar pet shop in Tokyo has been known to offer customers the unique opportunity to take home one of seven special cats, whose "magic" is never promised, but always received. But there are rules: these cats must be returned after three days. They must eat only the food supplied by the owner, and they must travel to their new homes with a distinctive blanket.
In The Blanket Cats, we meet seven customers, each of whom is hoping a temporary feline companion will help them escape a certain reality, including a couple struggling with infertility, a middle-aged woman on the run from the police, and two families in very different circumstances simply seeking joy.
But like all their kind, the "blanket cats" are mysterious creatures with unknowable agendas, who delight in confounding expectations. And perhaps what their hosts are looking for isn't really what they need. Three days may not be enough to change a life. But it might just change how you see it.
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Not my favorite
- De gise en 08-17-24
De: Hiro Arikawa, y otros
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Red Dog Farm
- A Novel
- De: Nathaniel Ian Miller
- Narrado por: Olafur Darri Olafsson
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 6
Growing up on his family’s cattle farm in western Iceland, young Orri has gained an appreciation for the beauty found in everyday things: the cavorting of a newborn calf, the return of birdsong after a long winter, the steadfast love of a good (or tolerably good) farm dog. But the outer world still beckons, so Orri leaves his no-nonsense Lithuanian Jewish mother and his taciturn father, Pabbi, to attend university in Reykjavík.
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4 out of 5 stars
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So much animal death.
- De S. Nolte en 03-05-25
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The Strange Case of Jane O.
- A Novel
- De: Karen Thompson Walker
- Narrado por: Jay Myers, Alex Sarrigeorgiou
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
A year after her child is born, Jane suffers a series of strange episodes: amnesia, premonitions, hallucinations, and an inexplicable sense of dread. Three days after her first visit to a psychiatrist, Jane suddenly goes missing. A day later she is found unconscious in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, in the midst of what seems to be an episode of dissociative fugue; when she comes to, she has no memory of what has happened to her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The performances were soul-reaching
- De Laurie E. Barshay en 03-29-25
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A House for Miss Pauline
- A Novel
- De: Diana McCaulay
- Narrado por: Sasha Frost
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 4
When the stones of her house begin to rattle and shift and call out mysterious messages to her in the middle of the night, Pauline Sinclair, age ninety-nine, knows she will not make it to her one-hundredth birthday. She has lived a modest life in Mason Hall, a rural Jamaican village, educating herself with stolen books, raising her two children, surviving by becoming a successful ganja farmers in the area, and experiencing both deep passion and true loss with her beloved baby father, Clive. Behind this seemingly benign façade, however, Miss Pauline has buried many secrets.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing Book!
- De Nastasia Reid en 04-08-25
De: Diana McCaulay
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We'll Prescribe You a Cat
- De: Syou Ishida, E. Madison Shimoda - translator
- Narrado por: Naruto Komatsu, Natsumi Kuroda
- Duración: 7 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 111
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 100
Tucked away in an old building at the end of a narrow alley in Kyoto, the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul can only be found by people who are struggling in their lives and genuinely need help. The mysterious clinic offers a unique treatment to those who find their way there: it prescribes cats as medication. Patients are often puzzled by this unconventional prescription, but when they “take” their cat for the recommended duration, they witness profound transformations in their lives, guided by the playful, empathetic, occasionally challenging yet endearing cats.
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5 out of 5 stars
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perfection
- De Theasophia en 09-05-24
De: Syou Ishida, y otros
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Tilda Is Visible
- A Novel
- De: Jane Tara
- Narrado por: Caroline Lee
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 10
Tilda Finch is a successful businesswoman, a mother to two wonderful adult daughters, and besides an unexpected divorce, she’s living a relatively happy life. Until she wakes up one morning and her finger seems to have disappeared. She thinks back to the kombucha she drank the night before—perhaps it was spiked? Studying herself in the mirror, she discovers one of her ears has also disappeared! She rushes to the doctor, who after a multitude of tests says she’s sorry to inform her that she has invisibility, a disorder that affects millions of women worldwide, mostly after the age of forty.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding!
- De Andrea en 03-14-25
De: Jane Tara
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The Goodbye Cat
- De: Hiro Arikawa, Philip Gabriel - translator
- Narrado por: George Blagden
- Duración: 6 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 15
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 15
Seven cats weave their way through their owners’ lives, climbing, comforting, nestling, and sometimes just tripping everyone up in this uplifting collection of tales by international bestselling author Hiro Arikawa. Bursting with love and warmth, The Goodbye Cat exquisitely explores the cycle of life, from birth to death—as each of the seven stories explores how, in different ways, the steadiness and devotion of a well-loved cat never lets us down.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not my favorite
- De gise en 08-17-24
De: Hiro Arikawa, y otros
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Red Dog Farm
- A Novel
- De: Nathaniel Ian Miller
- Narrado por: Olafur Darri Olafsson
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 6
Growing up on his family’s cattle farm in western Iceland, young Orri has gained an appreciation for the beauty found in everyday things: the cavorting of a newborn calf, the return of birdsong after a long winter, the steadfast love of a good (or tolerably good) farm dog. But the outer world still beckons, so Orri leaves his no-nonsense Lithuanian Jewish mother and his taciturn father, Pabbi, to attend university in Reykjavík.
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4 out of 5 stars
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So much animal death.
- De S. Nolte en 03-05-25
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The Kamogawa Food Detectives
- A Kamogawa Food Detectives Novel, Book 1
- De: Hisashi Kashiwai, Jesse Kirkwood - translator
- Narrado por: Hanako Footman
- Duración: 4 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 72
Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that's not the main reason customers stop by. The father-daughter duo are 'food detectives'. Through ingenious investigations, they are able to recreate dishes from a person’s treasured memories—dishes that may well hold the keys to their forgotten past and future happiness. The restaurant of lost recipes provides a link to vanished moments, creating a present full of possibility.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Combines two of my favorite things
- De Anonymous en 03-25-24
De: Hisashi Kashiwai, y otros
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Back After This
- A Novel
- De: Linda Holmes
- Narrado por: Linda Holmes
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Cecily Foster loves to make podcasts. She fiercely protects her colleagues, dearly adores her friends, and never misses dinner with her sister. But after a disastrous relationship with a colleague who stole her heart and her ideas, she’s put romantic love on hold. When the boss who’s disappointed her again and again finally offers her the chance to host her own show, she wants to be thrilled. But there’s a catch—actually, two catches. First, the show will be about Cecily’s dating life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Had to DNF - Terrible Narration
- De Nicole en 02-25-25
De: Linda Holmes
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Live Fast
- A Novel
- De: Brigitte Giraud
- Narrado por: Mozhan Navabi
- Duración: 3 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 2
Paced and structured with the inevitable suspense of a countdown, Brigitte Giraud’s tense and haunting novel follows one woman’s quest to comprehend the motorcycle accident that took the life of her partner Claude at age 41. The narrator of Live Fast recounts the chain of events that led up to the fateful accident, tracing the tiny, madden twists of fate that might have prevented its tragic outcome. Each chapter asks the rhetorical question, “what if.”
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2 out of 5 stars
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I expected more
- De Heather Dougherty en 03-12-25
De: Brigitte Giraud
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I Leave It Up to You
- A Novel
- De: Jinwoo Chong
- Narrado por: Daniel K. Isaac
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 7
A coma can change a man, but the world Jack Jr. awakens to is one he barely recognizes. His advertising job is history, his Manhattan apartment is gone, and the love of his life has left him behind. He’s been asleep for two years; with no one to turn to, he realizes it’s been ten years since he last saw his family.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great listen
- De Bri en 03-29-25
De: Jinwoo Chong
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The Healing Season of Pottery
- De: Yeon Somin, Clare Richards
- Narrado por: Jennifer Kim
- Duración: 7 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 4
Burned out by her TV news writing job, Jungmin leaves in an attempt to salvage her life. When she stumbles upon a mysterious pottery studio, she feels immediately at home. The warmth, the smell of clay, and the incredible coffee awaken her senses and make her feel alive for the first time in months. Over the coming year, season by season, pot by pot, Jungmin returns to herself and builds unexpected friendships with the other members of the studio, who are all working through their own trials at the pottery wheel.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A lovely surprise
- De Sharon en 02-24-25
De: Yeon Somin, y otros
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The Californians
- A Novel
- De: Brian Castleberry
- Narrado por: Micky Shiloah, Rob Shapiro, Nancy Peterson, y otros
- Duración: 13 h y 59 m
- Versión completa
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General2 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia2 out of 5 stars 1
It’s 2024, and Tobey Harlan—college dropout, temporary waiter, recently dumped—steals from the wall of his father’s house three paintings by the venerated and controversial artist Di Stiegl. Tobey’s just lost everything he owns to a Northern California wildfire, and if he can sell the paintings (albeit in a shady way to a notorious tech bro) he can start life anew in a place no one will ever find him, perhaps even Oregon. A hundred years before, Klaus Aaronsohn—German-Jewish immigrant, resident of the Lower East Side—inveigles his way into a film studio in Astoria, Queens.
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Hot Air
- A Novel
- De: Marcy Dermansky
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 5 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General3 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Historia3 out of 5 stars 10
Joannie hadn’t been on a date in seven years when Johnny invites Joannie and her daughter to dinner. His house is beautiful, his son is sweet, and their first kiss is, well, it’s not the best, but Joannie could convince herself it was nice enough. But when Joannie’s childhood crush, a summer-camp fling turned famous billionaire, crash-lands his hot-air balloon in Johnny’s swimming pool, Joannie dives in.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Tedious
- De Michael en 04-07-25
De: Marcy Dermansky
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Marigold Mind Laundry
- A Novel
- De: Jungeun Yun, Shanna Tan - translator
- Narrado por: Sofia Jin
- Duración: 6 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
Born with mysterious powers she does not know how to control, young Jieun accidentally causes her family to vanish. She vows to live a million lives in search of them. Finally, one night, she brings the Marigold Mind Laundry into existence. Its service: to remove the deepest pain from our hearts. Jieun listens while customers share their unhappy memories. As they speak, she transfers their sadness onto T-shirts as stains. After a spin in the washing machine, the stains become flower petals that soar into the air, and Jieun’s customers find solace.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sometimes finding what we want, means letting go of everything.
- De Rebecca A. Frager en 01-29-25
De: Jungeun Yun, y otros
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The Rainfall Market
- De: You Yeong-Gwang, Slin Jung - translator
- Narrado por: Rosa Escoda
- Duración: 6 h y 1 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
On the outskirts of Rainbow Town, there is an old, abandoned house. They say that if you send a letter detailing your misfortunes there, you could receive a ticket. If you bring this ticket to the house on the first day of the rainy season, you'll be granted entrance into the mysterious Rainfall Market—where you can choose to completely change your life. No one is more surprised than Serin when she receives a ticket. Lonely and with no real prospects for a future, Serin ventures to the market, determined to create a better life for herself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Reminders
- De Marlene Orozco en 04-24-25
De: You Yeong-Gwang, y otros
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What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
- A Novel
- De: Michiko Aoyama
- Narrado por: Hanako Footman, Susan Momoko Hingley, Kenichiro Thomson, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 400
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 351
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 350
What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just the book recommendation to help them find it. A restless retail assistant looks to gain new skills, a mother tries to overcome demotion at work after maternity leave, a conscientious accountant yearns to open an antique store, a recently retired salaryman searches for newfound purpose. In Komachi’s unique book recommendations they will find just what they need to achieve their dreams.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The power of honesty and an open mind
- De ili pika en 09-10-23
De: Michiko Aoyama
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The Cat Who Saved Books
- A Novel
- De: Sosuke Natsukawa
- Narrado por: Kevin Shen
- Duración: 5 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 390
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 333
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 331
Bookish high school student Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the secondhand bookstore he inherited from his beloved bookworm grandfather. Then, a talking cat appears with an unusual request. The feline asks for — or rather, demands — the teenager’s help in saving books with him. The world is full of lonely books left unread and unloved, and the cat and Rintaro must liberate them from their neglectful owners.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Transports you to fantastical realities…
- De Uriel Dana en 01-16-22
De: Sosuke Natsukawa
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The Lantern of Lost Memories
- De: Sanaka Hiiragi
- Narrado por: Hanako Footman
- Duración: 4 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
This is the story of the peculiar and magical photo studio owned by Mr. Hirasaka, a collector of antique cameras. In the dimly lit interior, a paper background is pulled down in front of a wall, and in front of it stands a single, luxurious chair with an armrest on one side. On a stand is a large bellows camera. On the left is the main studio; photos can also be taken in the courtyard. Beyond its straightforward interior, however, is a secret. The studio is, in fact, the door to the afterlife, the place between life and death where those who have departed have a chance—one last time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Quiet, magical feels...a bit like Harry
- De SHES4AMWF en 03-18-25
De: Sanaka Hiiragi