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この一冊で世界が変わる、かもしれない。仙台市の大学に進学した春、なにごとにもさめた青年の北村は四人の学生と知り合った。少し軽薄な鳥井、不思議な力が使える南、とびきり美人の東堂、極端に熱くまっすぐな西嶋

Young Leon Hubbard was arrogant and near psychotic. So when he was killed on a South Philadelphia construction site, everyone who knew him wanted to bury the bad news with the body. All, that is, except two - Leon's mother and the local columnist for the common man. Now back in print, God's Pocket is the powerful first novel from the National Book Award-winning author of Paris Trout.

Napoli, anni Cinquanta. Una città tanto piena di luce da sembrare quasi fatata. Ma anche devastata dalla guerra e dimenticata dalla storia. Da lì, all'improvviso, una ragazzina viene portata via, lasciando per sempre il padre nell'ombra di una casa elegante e fatiscente. Lei crede di dimenticarlo ma, molti decenni dopo, la morte di un amico e maestro amato, lo scrittore napoletano Raffaele La Capria, fa riemergere dal fondo della memoria l'immagine di lui. Della stessa generazione, i due uomini hanno avuto un diverso destino: l'uno realizzato nei suoi libri, l'altro murato nella sua solitudine.

鎌倉で小さな文具店を営むかたわら、手紙の代書を請け負う鳩子。今日も風変わりな依頼が舞い込みます。友人への絶縁状、借金のお断り、天国からの手紙……。身近だからこそ伝えられない依頼者の心に寄り添ううち、仲違いしたまま逝ってしまった祖母への想いに気づいていく。

A murder has taken place in a tony Mumbai neighbourhood. A prime suspect, Prashanth, keeps his silence in the interrogation room as Inspector Khan plays the tapes of his therapy sessions. The explosive tapes, surreptitiously recorded by therapist Shaily Gupta, slowly reveal shocking information about Prashanth, about his relationship with his girlfriend Sonya, about the therapist and about the gruesome murder in question.

Following the death of her bullying husband, Etta Bancroft's selfish children move her to a village in the Cotswolds. One night, she discovers a filly, left to die in the snow. With help, Etta rescues the horse, and she and her friends form a syndicate to pay for her upkeep. As the horse recovers, she begins to show racing pedigree, so the syndicate enters her into a maiden hurdle - and are shocked at the result.

Un valioso Greco del que no se tenía noticia sale a subasta en Nueva York. Carolina Valdés, sofisticada marchante de arte, recibe en su hotel la visita de Philip, un rudo taxista de Brooklyn, quien la embarca en una peligrosa aventura destinada a demostrar que el cuadro, robado por los nazis a su familia, le pertenece.

Lexie Gallagher is starting to think she’s better off alone. Her family fell apart years ago. Her relationships all end in disaster. Is she the common denominator who causes everyone to leave - everyone but her best friend, Gabe, who whisks her away from the scene of the latest breakup? As a human resources VP, Gabe North understands people, and how to meet their needs. What Lexie’s always needed is a true-blue friend, doubly so when she’s left at the altar. Of course, he’ll be her shoulder to cry on - even though he’s wanted to be more than friends for years.

脳波を調べ、食べたい料理を作る自動調理機、眠っている間に会社に着く人間用コンテナなど、未来社会をのぞくショートショート集。

For Johnson and his colleague, brilliant and beautiful assistant professor Abbey Summers, it becomes the adventure of a lifetime in Mongolia and The Golden Eagle, a new mystery thriller from author Bradford G. Wheler. Cyber security threats, high-tech spying, and Chinese agents mix in this ingenious and thrilling plot of full of twists and turns. Somewhere in spectacular snowcapped Altai Mountains of western Mongolia there is a mysterious object that people are willing to kill for. Listeners will meet fascinating characters they'll never forget.

「はじめて」は、いつも痛くて、少し優しい。日本エンターテインメントの最前線&最高峰!

大好きなおばあちゃんは本物の魔女。生きる力も本物だった――。中学に進んでまもなく、どうしても学校へ足が向かなくなった少女まいは、季節が初夏へと移り変るひと月あまりを、西の魔女のもとで過した。

Chloé, 28 ans et parisienne jusqu'au bout des ongles, enchaîne les histoires d'amour catastrophiques. Un jour, elle conclut un pacte avec son amie Constance. Chloé devra s'exiler en pleine campagne avec l'interdiction d’approcher un homme pendant six mois et réaliser son rêve de toujours : écrire un roman. Constance, incorrigible romantique, s'engagera à coucher le premier soir avec un parfait inconnu.

From the author of the worldwide best seller The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a new novel about learning how to listen and how to feel and about second chances and choosing to be brave despite the odds. Because in the end, music can save us all.... It's 1988. Frank owns a music shop. It is jam-packed with records of every speed, size and genre. Classical, jazz, punk - as long as it's vinyl, he sells it. Day after day Frank finds his customers the music they need. Then into his life walks Ilse Brauchmann.

Adverbs is a novel about love, a bunch of different people, in and out of different kinds of love. At the start of the novel, Andrea is in love with David, or maybe it's Joe, who instead falls in love with Peter in a taxi. At the end of the novel, it's Joe who's in the taxi, falling in love with Andrea, although it might not be Andrea, or in any case it might not be the same Andrea, as Andrea is a very common name.

As a young girl, Beryl Markham was brought to Kenya from Britain by parents dreaming of a new life. For her mother the dream quickly turned sour, and she returned home; Beryl was brought up by her father, who switched between indulgence and heavy-handed authority, allowing her first to run wild on their farm, then incarcerating her in the classroom. The scourge of governesses and a serial absconder from boarding school, by the age of 16 Beryl had been catapulted into a disastrous marriage.

¿Cuál es el logo de la felicidad? De repente, un viaje inesperado. Edda Leveroni recibe un regalo singular el día que cumple los veintiuno: una estancia de un año en la agencia de publicidad de Bianca B. Miller en Nueva York. En 1989, Edda deberá abrirse camino en Manhattan, en un despacho donde solo trabajan mujeres y en un universo de creatividad y de anuncios que prometen una vida mejor. Sin embargo, no sospecha en qué mundo está a punto de adentrarse.

It was all too frighteningly familiar. For the second time in his life, Alex Penn wakes up in an alcoholic daze in a cheap hotel room off Times Square and finds himself lying next to the savagely mutilated body of a young woman. After the first death, he was convicted of murder and imprisoned, then released on a technicality. But this time he has to find out what happened during the blackout and why, before the police do.

A worldwide best seller since its publication, Irving's classic is filled with stories inside stories about the life and times of T. S. Garp, struggling writer and illegitimate son of Jenny Fields - an unlikely feminist heroine ahead of her time. Beautifully written, The World According to Garp is a powerfully compelling and compassionate coming-of-age novel that established John Irving as one of the most imaginative writers of his generation.

Esta versión moderna de los hechos de la reconstrucción del drama de Adán y Eva en el paraíso terrenal juega con la parábola de la historia de la humanidad. La narración nos induce al interior de Adán, viviendo en unmundomágico, sin conflictos, bello por esencia, y la aparición de Eva, que desde el principio es seducida por la serpiente que le informa de la existencia del árbol del conocimiento y esto es lo que más le atrae a Eva.