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Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made "people of the setting sun" a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his heroine, Kazuko, a young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, a symbol of the anomie which pervades so much of the modern world.

Meredith’s life has been measured in men. Some were a dash, a few were marathons, others she gave inches, and they took miles. But Sam was different. Neither of them could have known when they met all those years ago what loving each other would mean—like when you are so close to something so big, you can’t really see it at all. The tie that binds them is tested when Sam calls to cash in on a promise—for Meredith to take care of him while he’s dying.

#1 New York Times Bestseller More than 10 million Copies Sold In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people. For decades, we’ve been told...

Amazon #1 Bestseller in Frontier & Pioneer Western Fiction Praise for Kari August: “Entertaining, original, exceptionally well written . . . impressive storytelling talents.” Midwest Book Review The harsh and rugged Colorado frontier of 1875 is not the type of place most would consider suitable for a recent widow to establish a home of her own. Yet that is exactly what Henrietta Schodde determines she will do as she impetuously buys a cabin in the newly forming settlement of Estes Park. Despite assurances from Henrietta that the locals appear amiable, her relatives are concerned and ...

A 2026 Audie Award Winner for Nonfiction and Finalist for Narration by the Author NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In the spirit of George Carlin and Christopher Hitchens, the son of a former Catholic nun and a Franciscan brother delivers a deeply irreverent and biblically correct takedown of...

A RAW LAND DRENCHED IN BLOOD, PASSION, AND DREAMS... The third book in the dramatic and intriguing story about the colonisation of Australia: a country built on blood, passion, and dreams. England sends convicts to Australia, but among them, there are hard-working men and women who wish to create a new life for themselves. The same desire is shared by those who are free — but it will be a gruelling fight for survival.

The Setter, by Edward Laverack, is a must-listen for anyone interested in English Setters and the development of modern Setters. Laverack was one of the seminal creators of today's Setter in Britain and North America. His discussion of the fine points of the breed and of Setter strains which existed during and prior to the 19th century.

500 years ago, the Evolution System descended on Earth, and the world ended. Facing a transforming world, terrifying monsters and a new race of hostile elves, humans had no choice but to fight back with Awakened magic powers. For Imani, a young and ambitious Awakened, the world of magic and skills is all he’s ever known. Trapped in the walls of an isolated, overpopulated town with dwindling resources, he’s taught that survival means following rules. However, by putting his life on the line and defying one of those rules, Imani is granted a rare reward: a Settlement Stone.

Essentially the start of Dazai's career, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of a lost time, as well as the struggle of the individual against them—a theme that occupied Dazai's life both personally and professionally. This new translation preserves the playful language of the original and offers the listener a new window into the mind of one of the greatest Japanese authors of the 20th century.

Americans seldom deify their Founding Fathers any longer, but they do still tend to venerate the Constitution and the republican government that the founders created. Strikingly, the founders themselves were far less confident in what they had wrought, particularly by the end of their lives. In fact, most of them - including George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson - came to deem America's constitutional experiment an utter failure that was unlikely to last beyond their own generation.

By the summer of 1945, Adm. Bull Halsey's US Third Fleet had fought its way far enough in the Pacific that its carrier-based fighters could launch attacks on Japan itself in preparation for the invasion of the home islands, planned for the fall of 1945. This mission US Navy fighters, fighter-bombers, dive-bombers, and torpedo-bombers - Hellcats, Avengers, Helldivers, and more - carried out with a vengeance, striking airfields, industrial targets, and coastal facilities while flying into the teeth of Japanese air defenses.

The Setting Trick features conversations with world class bridge players, and lovers of the card game bridge from all over the world.

In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States series, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America, from the native inhabitants from millennia past through the decades of Western colonization and conquest and across the entire continent, all the way to the Pacific coast.

Step into Ernest Hemingway’s unforgettable world with a version designed for today’s reader. This refreshed edition of The Sun Also Rises: Adapted for Modern Readers keeps Hemingway’s spare, powerful voice while offering lightly clarified language, clean, contemporary formatting, and readable typography. Obsolete usages are gently updated, dense passages subtly smoothed, and dialogue punctuation modernized, helping you move effortlessly through the story without footnotes—so the emotions, not the mechanics of the page, command your attention. Set among the cafés of 1920s Paris and ...

Doppo Kunikida is an idealist and a straitlaced detective at the Armed Detective Agency, an organization that takes on dangerous jobs even the police won’t handle. Everything in his life is going just as he’s planned…until one day, he’s paired up with the agency’s newest hire: a...

By the end of February 1944, thanks to hard-fought and costly American victories in the first and second naval battles of Guadalcanal, the battle of Empress Augusta Bay and the battle of Cape St George, the Japanese would no longer hold the materiel or skilled manpower advantage. From this point on, although the war was still a long way from being won, the American star was unquestionably on the ascendant, slowly, but surely, edging Japanese imperialism towards its sunset.

In these short stories, collected and translated by Ralph McCarthy, we can see just how closely Dazai’s life mirrored his art, and vice versa, as the writer/narrator falls from grace, rises to fame, and falls again. Addiction, debt, shame, and despair dogged Dazai until his self-inflicted death, and yet despite all the lies and deception he resorted to in life, there is an almost fanatical honesty to his writing.

2007 Audie Award Finalist for Classics “The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continental escape and serious grappling with the question of what it means to be, and feel, lost.” —The Wall Street Journal Originally published in 1926, The Sun Also Riseshelped cement Ernest...

1866, Japan. A time of sweeping change and open rebellion. Under threat of subjugation from the modern nations of the industrialized West, the non-hereditary Samurai clans demand action from the ruling Tokugawa Shogunate. Enter William Merrick of the American Consulate in Hakodate, who is tasked to rescue a group of shipwrecked Americans en route to Edo. As a whirlwind of events unfolds, he unwittingly becomes swept up in a deadly plot by a secretive faction’s scheme, who with their American co-conspirators, seek to seize power....

John Thorpe left the Royal Marines to enjoy a quiet life in London. Boredom of every-day life takes him back out to Afghanistan as part of an MI6 Intelligence cell. He finds the country as violent as ever, and is thrust deep into its complicated heart and soul, getting more than he bargained for... This is a crime/military thriller like no other; it has been written by someone who has fired a rifle, smelt helicopter aviation fumes and been trained in surveillance. Too many books in these genres are make believe. This book is real and will take you on an emotional ride - one that you might ...