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Quando è poco più che una ragazzina con la chitarra in spalla, sulla rampa di lancio della carriera che ha sempre desiderato, Erica viene costretta a una conversazione in cucina con la madre. “Devo dirti una cosa per la quale mi odierai”: questa frase fa temere a Erica che Lucia, sua madre, non sia d’accordo con il progetto di andare a vivere con l’uomo che ama, lì nel suo paese di origine dell’hinterland pugliese, ma la realtà sarà molto più sconcertante. Lucia, cinquantaquattrenne professoressa di matematica, le confessa di avere un cancro al colon.

Bestselling author Torey Hayden's novel is a fascinating study of a fractured family, a troubled child, and a psychiatrist's attempts to rescue them. Conor, aged nine, arrives in the play therapy room of child psychiatrist James Innes with the diagnosis "autistic". His mother Laura, an aloof, enigmatic novelist, can't handle him. His rancher father, embroiled in divorcing Laura, does not feel there is anything wrong with Conor. His six-year-old sister Morgana insists he really does see ghosts.

いま、村上春樹が語り始める――小説家は寛容な人種なのか……。村上さんは小説家になった頃を振り返り、文学賞について、オリジナリティーについて深く考えます。さて、何を書けばいいのか?

In Scarborough, a low-income urban neighborhood, three kids struggle to rise above poverty, abuse, and a system that consistently fails them. The adults in their lives either rise to the occasion or fall by the wayside; together, they make up a troubled yet inspired community that refuses to be undone.

Lifelong friends, now in their sixties, James, a teacher, and Hugh, a TV personality, both live with attractive women 25 years their junior. But the age difference is a time bomb, ticking away at the heart of both relationships. Kate's hunger for a life more in keeping with her own age threatens to bring her eight years with James to an end. And how is Julia to cope when her own career begins to blossom while Hugh's is withering before their eyes? The arrival of Miss Beatrice Bachelor, a razor-sharp Oxford spinster, fuels the discontent in both girls.

After hitting her head, Lucy Sparks awakens in the hospital to a shocking revelation: the man she’s known and loved for years - the man she recently married - is not actually her husband. In fact, they haven’t even spoken since their breakup four years earlier. The happily-ever-after she remembers in vivid detail - right down to the dress she wore to their wedding - is only one example of what her doctors call a false memory: recollections Lucy’s mind made up to fill in the blanks from the coma.

When Lord Petrefact hires Walden Yapp, Professor of Demotic Historiography at Kloone University, to write a scurrilous family history Yapp finds plenty of material in Buscott village, where Frederick Petrefact is running the Mill and adding new vices to the family collection. If Yapp can lay his hands on the Petrefact Papers in the Buscott Museum he may be able to expose the multi-national capitalism of the Petrefacts to the whole world.

世界的ベストセラー。在日コリアン四世代を描く大作
日本の統治下となった朝鮮から大阪へ、横浜へ。在日コリアン一家四世代の変転を描き、全米図書賞最終候補となった大作、邦訳成る！

For Meridian Wallace - and many other smart, driven women of the 1940s - being ambitious meant being an outlier. Ever since she was a young girl, Meridian had been obsessed with birds, and she was determined to get her PhD, become an ornithologist, and make her mother's sacrifices to send her to college pay off. But she didn't expect to fall in love with her brilliant physics professor, Alden Whetstone. When he's recruited to Los Alamos, New Mexico, to take part in a mysterious wartime project, she reluctantly defers her own plans and joins him.

休職中の刑事、本間俊介は遠縁の男性に頼まれて彼の婚約者、関根彰子の行方を捜すことになった。

2020年春、惣菜店に勤める花は、ニュース記事に黄美子の名前を見つける。60歳になった彼女は、若い女性の監禁・傷害の罪に問われていた。

Born to elegant but frivolous parents, Harriet grows up ignored and unguided, and retains a curious innocence that neither her marriage to Freddie Lytton, nor her friendship with the beautiful Tessa can dispel. Freddie is far older than she is - a companion rather than a lover - and slightly disapproving of Tessa and her irresponsible, attractive husband, Jack. Yet all four are bound together: by their backgrounds, their children, by Harriet’s unspoken feelings for Jack and by the tragedy that lies in wait for all of them.

「真夜中は、なぜこんなにもきれいなんだろうと思う」。わたしは、人と言葉を交わしたりすることにさえ自信がもてない。誰もいない部屋で校正の仕事をする、そんな日々のなかで三束さんにであった――。

The instinct of the true Porterhouse man faced with a crisis is to reach for the bottle and then to fall back on the subtle tactical skills honed at Cambridge down the centuries: blackmail and kidnap. But will these be enough? Menaced on all sides - by the collapse of the Chapel, by the tentacles of organised crime, and by the hovering threat of the abominable Dog’s Nose Man - will Porterhouse be forced to unleash the most fearsome weapon in its armoury - the college food?

その誰かは、そこにあるものが本当(傍点傍点)に(傍点)ある(傍点)ことを確認するために、彼の幅広い手をいっそう強く握りしめた。長く滑らかな指、そして強い芯を持っている。

四国の図書館に着いたカフカ少年が出会ったのは、30年前のヒットソング、夏の海辺の少年の絵、15歳の美しい少女――。一方、猫と交流ができる老人ナカタさんも、ホシノ青年に助けられながら旅を続ける。

Captain Jack Aubrey sails away from the hated Australian prison colonies in his favourite vessel the Surprise, pondering on middle age and sexual frustration. He soon becomes aware that he is out of touch with the mood of his ship: to his astonishment he finds that in spite of a lifetime's experience he does not know what the foremost hands or even his own officers are thinking.

The first time Martha sees the house, she knows it's evil. So she's not surprised when she finds out that someone was murdered in it. She also thinks that someone is watching her. Martha's pretty certain that this Halloween is going to be the scariest of her life, and possibly her last.

「人が死ぬのって、素敵よね」彼女は僕のすぐ耳もとでしゃべっていたので、その言葉はあたたかい湿った息と一緒に僕の体内にそっともぐりこんできた。

A soli ventidue anni, Grace Allen si è posta un obiettivo ambizioso: affrontare il suo passato traumatico e superare ogni timore, decidendo così di prendere in mano le redini della sua vita. In questo percorso di rinascita, il destino le presenta Samuel Callaghan. Con una corporatura intimidatoria, un corpo ricoperto di tatuaggi, otto anni in più di lei e la responsabilità di una sorellina affidata alle sue cure, Cal è decisamente una sorpresa inaspettata. Nonostante le differenze evidenti, Grace si trova ad affezionarsi a Cal con sorprendente facilità.