Gentle Fiction

It's easy to feel at home in Mitford. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are generally lovable. Yet Father Tim, the bachelor rector, has more than he can handle—with church secretary Emma Garrett managing his every move, a lovable but unloved boy named Dooley thrust into his care, and the charm of a new neighbor who effects surprising change in his stick-in-the-mud habits.

A curmudgeon and his eccentric new roommate join together to plan an epic escape in this charming, poignant tale. Joel lives in a nursing home, and he’s not one bit happy about it. He hates being told when to eat, when to sleep, when to take his pills. He’s fed up with life and begins to plan a way out when his new roommate, a retired soap opera actor named Frank, moves in and turns the nursing-home community upside down. 

Miranda Abbott, once known for the crime-solving, karate-chopping church pastor she played on network television, has hit hard times. She's facing ruin when a mysterious postcard arrives, summoning her to Happy Rock, a small town in the Pacific Northwest. But when she gets there, nothing is what she expected. 

At 33 years old, successful lawyer Andrea Tang is living the dream. However, her family doesn’t hide their disappointment with her being the lone unmarried member of her generation in the Tang clan. Yet, when a chance encounter with charming entrepreneur Eric Deng offers her a glimpse of an exciting future, Andrea decides to give Mr. Right-For-Her-Family a chance.

Librarian Martha Storm has always found it easier to connect with books than people. When a book of fairy tales arrives on her doorstep, Martha discovers a clue that her grandmother may still be alive. As she delves deeper into Zelda's past, she unwittingly reveals a family secret that will change her life forever.

Los Angeles-based artist Roman Velasco appears to have everything he could want. Only Grace Moore, his personal assistant, knows how little he truly has. But what she doesn’t know is that Roman is secretly The Bird, a notorious and unidentified graffiti artist—an alter ego that could destroy his career and land him in prison.

A small-time classical musician, Bridget has been dreaming of spending the summer at her well-worn Connecticut country home with her boyfriend. But plans are upended when he breaks up with her over email and her elderly father announces he’s getting married. Bridget concocts a plan to host her dad’s wedding while putting her old Juilliard chamber group, the Forsyth Trio, back into the spotlight.

It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. 

For the past six months, Arthur Moses's days have looked the same: he tends to his rose garden and to Gordon, his cat, then rides the bus to the cemetery to visit his beloved late wife for lunch. The last thing Arthur would imagine is for one unlikely encounter to utterly transform his life. 

After discovering a lost Tea Dragon in the marketplace, apprentice blacksmith Greta learns about the dying art form of Tea Dragon caretaking from the kind tea shop owners.

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.