Erika Cass has a perfect family and a perfect life. Until the evening when two detectives show up at her front door. A high school girl has vanished from Erika's quiet suburban neighborhood. The police suspect the worst - murder. And Erika's teenage son, Liam, was the last person to see the girl alive. Erika has always sensed something dark and disturbed in her seemingly perfect older child. She wants to believe he's innocent, but as the evidence mounts, she can't deny the truth - Liam may have done the unthinkable.

Victoria Barnett has it all: a great career as a nurse practitioner, a handsome and loving husband, a beautiful home in the suburbs, and a plan to fill it with children. Life is perfect—or so it seems. Then she’s in a terrible accident...and everything falls apart. Now Victoria is unable to walk. She can’t feed or dress herself. She can’t even speak. She is confined to the top floor of her house with 24-hour care.

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あなたは、日本のことをどのくらい知っていますか？
この国の文化や歴史、習慣について世界の人々に説明することができますか？

日本がもつ独特の文化や景観は、いまや世界中から愛され、年間3000万人もの外国人が日本を訪れる時代になりました。彼らの目に映る日本はどこまでも新鮮で、美の宝庫。

After the untimely deaths of her aunt and mother, young Riley Mays moved from Chicago to her cousins’ Wisconsin farm. Here she found solace in caring for her extraordinary adoptive brother, exploring the surrounding wild nature, and gazing at the mystical moon - a private refuge in which she hides from her most painful memories. But ten years later, now twenty-one, Riley feels too confined by the protective walls she’s erected around herself. When a stranger enters her family’s remote world, Riley senses something he’s hiding, a desire to escape that she understands well.

世界の神話を収めた「世界の神話」シリーズ。 「日本神話」には、とにかくたくさんの神さまが出てきます。笑ったり、怒ったり、いじけたり・・・感情豊かな日本神話の世界を朗読でお楽しみください。 ●ワクワクと成長がいっぱいの神話の世界 プロによる感情豊かな読み聞かせで・・・お話に出てくる神さまや動物たちの楽しい気持ち、悲しい気持ち、驚いた気持ち、うれしい気持ちが伝わる。 日本の神話について 1 世界の始まり 2 イザナギとイザナミ 3 神さまの夫婦げんか 4 天の岩戸 5 ヤマタノオロチたいじ 6 オオクニヌシといじわるな兄たち 7 スサノオとオオクニヌシ 8 国ゆずり 9 天孫降臨 10 海幸彦と山幸彦 11 山幸彦とトヨタマビメ