"Bye — see you tomorrow!"A goodbye passed from someone to someone else.I knew it wasn't meant for me.At school, I am invisible. No one speaks to me.Then, one night, I begin to dream — and three boys are waiting for me on the abandoned mountain behind my house. They know my name. They have always known my name.* * *Line 2 of the Seoul Metro, running from Sinlim to Gangnam, is a great conveyor belt. I push myself on like an unde...

For four years, I was his trophy.After her world implodes in a single night, Élise de Berthier — a French woman a long way from the gilded life she just lost — pushes open the door of a small Brooklyn trattoria in the rain. A quiet Italian chef. A piece of warm focaccia. A second chance to remember her own name."Eat. You'll feel a little better once you do."In the steam and clatter of a New York restaurant kitchen, Élise begins the slow work of coming back to hersel...

He was the friend who loved me first.His name was Gureumi — a small white Maltese, a little puff of cotton with black eyes that always found mine. He came to me when I was young and had almost nothing to give, and he stayed by my side through my twenties and thirties, through every heartbreak and every long, hard day. I wasn't always the person he deserved. He loved me anyway.This is the story of that love, and of the quiet space he left behind when he was gone — told in so...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.He can't swing a sword. But a bowl of barley rice good enough to bring the proudest men in town to their knees? That, he can do.Jang Chun-sam is a half-starved peasant boy in a world of thatched roofs and dirt roads — until the day he collapses in the road, one starving step from death, and a whole other life comes flooding back. In it, he was a modern snack-shop cook who'd been through hell and high water. Two lives, one name. ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A town knelt to his barley rice. A province followed. Now the barefoot cook walks through the gates of the capital — where the finest palates in the kingdom are lined up to laugh him straight back out.And past every one of them sits the one table no cook has ever satisfied: the king's.Jang Chun-sam carries two lives in one body — a modern snack-shop cook who spent ten years over a griddle, and a once-starving boy in a wo...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.He brought a whole town to its knees with a single bowl of barley rice. Now he's aiming at the one palate in the kingdom no cook has ever cracked.Feed the ones who've forgotten how to taste.Jang Chun-sam carries two lives in one body — a modern snack-shop cook who spent ten years over a scorching griddle, and a once-starving boy in a world of thatched roofs. That flavor lives in his hands now, sharpened dish by dish by a...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In her first life, she waited to be chosen. In this one, she chooses — and a whole world learns to choose with her.A discarded orphan draws her last breath in the freezing rain — and wakes as Aria Armia, daughter and heir of a duke. In this life she will not wait to be picked. She will choose. Her story is where the Reborn Duchess Universe begins — but every life at the edges of hers holds a story of its own, and one by one, the...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In her first life, she waited to be chosen. In this one, she chooses — and a whole world learns to choose with her.A discarded orphan draws her last breath in the freezing rain — and wakes as Aria Armia, daughter and heir of a duke. In this life she will not wait to be picked. She will choose. Her story is where the Reborn Duchess Universe begins — but every life at the edges of hers holds a story of its own, and one by one, the...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A town knelt to his barley rice. A province followed. Now the barefoot cook walks through the gates of the capital — where the finest palates in the kingdom are lined up to laugh him straight back out.And past every one of them sits the one table no cook has ever satisfied: the king's.Jang Chun-sam carries two lives in one body — a modern snack-shop cook who spent ten years over a griddle, and a once-starving boy in a wo...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A town knelt to his barley rice. A province followed. Now the barefoot cook walks through the gates of the capital — where the finest palates in the kingdom are lined up to laugh him straight back out.And past every one of them sits the one table no cook has ever satisfied: the king's.Jang Chun-sam carries two lives in one body — a modern snack-shop cook who spent ten years over a griddle, and a once-starving boy in a wo...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.He brought a whole town to its knees with a single bowl of barley rice. Now he's aiming at the one palate in the kingdom no cook has ever cracked.Feed the ones who've forgotten how to taste.Jang Chun-sam carries two lives in one body — a modern snack-shop cook who spent ten years over a scorching griddle, and a once-starving boy in a world of thatched roofs. That flavor lives in his hands now, sharpened dish by dish by a...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.He brought a whole town to its knees with a single bowl of barley rice. Now he's aiming at the one palate in the kingdom no cook has ever cracked.Feed the ones who've forgotten how to taste.Jang Chun-sam carries two lives in one body — a modern snack-shop cook who spent ten years over a scorching griddle, and a once-starving boy in a world of thatched roofs. That flavor lives in his hands now, sharpened dish by dish by a...