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Digital Book Club: November 2024

This month’s Digital Book Club title is The Library of Heartbeats by Laura Imai Messina.

On the peaceful Japanese island of Teshima there is a library of heartbeats, a place where the heartbeats of visitors from all around the world are collected. In this small, isolated building, the heartbeats of people who are still alive or have already passed away continue to echo.

Several miles away, in the ancient city of Kamakura, two lonely souls meet: Shuichi, a forty-year-old illustrator, who returns to his home-town to fix up the house of his recently deceased mother, and eight-year-old Kenta, a child who wanders like a shadow around Shuichi's house.

Day by day, the trust between Shuichi and Kenta grows until they discover they share a bond that will tie them together for life. Their journey will lead them to Teshima and to the library of heartbeats . . .

The Library of Heartbeats is available on BorrowBox as an eBook and eAudiobook with no waiting.

Previous titles

October 2024 - A House of Ghosts by W.C. Ryan
September 2024 - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
August 2024 - Bad Men by Julie Mae Cohen
July 2024 - Another Life by Kristin Hannah
June 2024 - Big Swiss by Jean Beagin
May 2024 – The Colony by Audrey Magee
April 2024 - Happy Head by Josh Silver
March 2024 - Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry
February 2024 – The Witches of Vardo by Anya Bergman
January 2024 - The Vanishing of Margaret Small by Neil Alexander
December 2023 – The Christmas Murder Game by Alexandra Benedict
November 2023 - The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

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Last updated 01 November 2024