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Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened.

When an executed murderer’s fingerprints turn up at a new crime scene, Kay Scarpetta investigates. Prepare for the kind of riveting suspense this best-selling author delivers so well.

Tracy Whitney is on top of the world. She is young, beautiful, intelligent, and about to marry into wealth and glamour until, betrayed by her own innocence, she finds herself in prison, framed by a ruthless mafia gang and abandoned by the man she loves. Beaten and broken, but surviving with stunning ingenuity, Tracy emerges from her savage ordeal determined to avenge herself from those who have destroyed her life. From New Orleans to London to Paris to Madrid to Amsterdam, Tracy plays for the highest stakes in a deadly game.

大沢在昌、宮部みゆき、京極夏彦、人気作家3人が自作を朗読するチャリティーイベント「リーディングカンパニー」。3人が所属する「大沢オフィス」の設立10年と、公式ホームページ「大極宮」開設1年を記念して2002年に始まった催しです。以降、読者への感謝を込めた恒例イベントとして年に1度のペースで開催され続けています。単独の朗読あり、3人が共演した朗読あり。遊び心満載の貴重な朗読会をお楽しみください。このオーディオブックは、2003年11月15日、東京光が丘・IMAホールで開かれた第2回公演を収録したものです。【vol.2前編 収録内容】・京極夏彦「嗤う伊右衛門」(部分/『嗤う伊右衛門』収録)・大沢在昌「自画像」(『一年分、冷えている』収録)・宮部みゆき「チヨ子」(書下ろし/後に『チヨ子』収録)音楽:森脇一雅、森脇美佐/演出:河野治彦

大沢在昌、宮部みゆき、京極夏彦、人気作家3人が自作を朗読するチャリティーイベント「リーディングカンパニー」。3人が所属する「大沢オフィス」の設立10年と、公式ホームページ「大極宮」開設1年を記念して2002年に始まった催しです。以降、読者への感謝を込めた恒例イベントとして年に1度のペースで開催され続けています。単独の朗読あり、3人が共演した朗読あり。遊び心満載の貴重な朗読会をお楽しみください。このオーディオブックは、2007年11月17日、東京光が丘・IMAホールで開かれた第6回公演を収録したものです。【vol.6後編 収録内容】・共演「ぶんぶんぶん」(大沢在昌 書下ろし/現在『短編ベストコレクション 現代の小説2008』収録)ウラ/百沢……大沢在昌、イケ/西極寺/リルの兄……京極夏彦、綾部/リル/中国人マダム……宮部みゆき/音楽:森脇一雅、森脇美佐/演出:河野治彦

Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2015. The Lie Tree is a wonderfully evocative and atmospheric story by Frances Hardinge, award-winning author of Cuckoo Song and Fly by Night. Faith's father has been found dead under mysterious circumstances, and as she is searching through his belongings for clues she discovers a strange tree. The tree grows healthy and bears fruit only if you whisper a lie to it.

Florentyna Kane has finally become the first woman president in America. But on the very day that she is sworn into office, powerful forces are already in motion to take her life. The FBI investigates 1000s of false threats every year. This time, a reliable source has tipped them off about an assassination attempt. One hour later, the informant and all but one of the investigating agents are dead. The lone survivor: FBI Special Agent Mark Andrews. Now, only he knows when the killers will strike. But how can he alone unravel a ruthless conspiracy - in less than one week?

この『雪女』は小泉八雲が民話をもとに書いたものですが、今あらためて内容にふれてみると、情景・心情描写がとても精緻で、非常に優れた名作であることが分かります。美しくも儚く、そして冷酷。決して口にしてはならない雪女とのタブー。二人の愛の結末は…? その後の「雪女」像の印象を決定づけた小泉八雲の有名な怪談物語を本オーディオブックでお楽しみください。何か素敵な再発見を期待して。

Japanese-American Rei Shimura is a 27-year-old English teacher living in one of Tokyo's seediest neighborhoods. She doesn't make much money, but she wouldn't go back home to California even if she had a free ticket (which, thanks to her parents, she does). Her independence is threatened, when a getaway to an ancient castle town is marred by murder. Rei is the first to find the beautiful wife of a high-powered businessman, dead in the snow. Taking charge, as usual, Rei looks for clues by crashing a funeral, posing as a bar-girl, and somehow ends up pursued by police and paparazzi alike.

At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, the convicted killers on E Block await their turn to walk the Green Mile and keep a date with the electric chair. Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working as a guard on the Mile, but he's never met anyone like John Coffey.

Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon - Private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era. In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre that is at once exciting and accessible, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can remember the '60s, you weren't there. It's been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex- girlfriend. Suddenly she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with.

Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilisation. This is the twelfth expedition. Their group is made up of four women: An anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.

Someone is watching. Someone is waiting. Despite having attracted the attention of a dangerous stalker, Special Agent Jason West is doing his best to keep his mind on his job and off his own troubles. But his latest case implicates one of the original Monuments Men in the theft and perhaps destruction of part of the world's cultural heritage - a lost painting by Vermeer...Jason is determined to clear his grandfather's name, even if that means breaking a few rules and regulations himself - putting him on a collision course with romantic partner BAU Chief Sam Kennedy.

In noir master Raymond Chandler's Playback, Philip Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never heard of to tail a gorgeous redhead but then decides he'd rather help out the redhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's word for it. 

In 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an opera. His hosts asked him, 'Whom would you like to meet?' He replied instantly: Hiroo Onoda. Onoda was a former solider famous for having quixotically defended an island in the Philippines for decades after World War II, unaware the fighting was over. Herzog and Onoda developed an instant rapport and would meet many times, talking for hours and together unravelling the story of Onoda's long war.

【原作　吉川英治】歴史をテーマにした大衆小説を多数執筆。史実にもとづいた話の中で、魅力的なキャラクターが活躍する。幅広い読者層に親しまれ「国民文学作家」と呼ばれている。【朗読　酒井玲】

A mysterious and sensual woman, shrouded in a heavy black veil, begs Gabriel Cynster to help protect her family's home from the unscrupulous man trying to steal it. Unable to resist a challenge, he agrees - but protection comes with a price. From one searing kiss to the next, the truth of her identity could be revealed, which could cost both of them everything -including their passion.

　おごそかに明るくなって行く鉄工場の霜朝。徐々に……徐々に……工場内に重なり合った一切の機械がめざめはじめる。人間……狂人……超人……野獣……猛獣……怪獣……巨獣……それらの一切の力を物ともせぬ鉄の怒号……如何なる偉大なる精神をも一瞬のうちに恐怖と死の錯覚の中に誘い込まねばおかぬ真黒な、残忍冷酷な呻吟が、到る処に転がりまわる。
　今までに幾人となく引き裂かれ、切りちぎられ、タタき付けられた女工や、幼年工の亡霊を嘲る響き……
　このあいだ打ち砕かれた老職工の頭蓋骨を罵倒する声……
　ずっと前にヘシ折られた大男の両足を愚弄する音……
　すべての生命を冷眼視し、度外視して、鉄と火との激闘に熱中させる地獄の騒音……

　私は、私の父親が頓死をしたために、無経験のまま、この工場を受け継がせられた……そうしてタッタ今、生れて初めての実地作業を指揮すべく引っぱり出された。
「ナアニ。やって見せる。児戯に類する仕事だ……」と、私は腕を組んだまま悠々と歩き出した。

「ウワッ。タタ大将オッ」という悲鳴に近い絶叫が私の背後に起った……又誰かやられたか……


夢野久作

日本の小説家、SF作家、探偵小説家、幻想文学作家。1889年（明治22年）1月4日-1936年

Kim Edwards' stunning novel begins on a winter night in 1964 in Lexington, Kentucky, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognizes that his daughter has Down syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split-second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse, Caroline, to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. Instead she disappears into another city to raise the child herself.

暗黒の牢獄のなかで手探りの探索を始めた私…。19世紀初めのスペインで、宗教裁判官により「もっともいまわしい精神的の恐怖を伴う死」を宣告された男の恐怖の体験を描くポーの恐怖ものの一編。原作は、1842年「贈りもの」(The Gift)に発表。(C)2008青空文庫