It’s Christmas Eve and Stella Hansen is broke. She is so broke that despite working two jobs, she can’t even afford a present for her husband on their first Christmas as man and wife. But then a mysterious storekeeper at a pawn shop offers Stella an intriguing trade. Stella wants more than anything to buy her husband the Christmas gift of his dreams. But will it come at a terrible price?

My husband is dead. I attended his funeral. I watched his casket be lowered six feet into the ground. (Actually, it may have been only five feet, but that still seems like more than enough.) And then we ate an array of finger sandwiches and deviled eggs and miniature beef wellingtons that cost more than my first car. My point is, Grant is gone. And so are all his many, many deep, dark secrets which I never really ever bothered to ask him about. He is never coming back.

Your hard work to live with English will pay off, and enrich your life.エイゴと共に生きるための辛い努力は報われる。そして、貴方の人生を豊かにする。

Caroline’s mattress had nothing to do with her untimely death at the age of 28—this, she wants Tempur-Pedic’s market research representative to know. But as she reflects on her first ever mattress purchase and their interview progresses, Caroline dives into the circumstances and decisions that led her and Nicholas—her boyfriend, 10 years her senior and prone to sleeping on the floor—to that particular bed in that particular shopping plaza.

Most of us believe that our happiness depends on the outside world - and that by solving our problems, improving our relationships, or achieving success, we will find contentment. In You Can Be Happy No Matter What, Dr. Richard Carlson shows that happiness has nothing to do with forces beyond our control. His simple and practical guide teaches 5 principles for discovering a new mode of living that doesn't repress natural emotions, yet where feelings and thoughts don't overwhelm us.

“距離感”を描き続けてきた著者の最高傑作　光浦靖子さん推薦！「針は心のあるべき場所に導いてくれる。大袈裟に言えば救い、手芸らしく地味に言えば楽しいからねえ」

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.

Welcome to Zootopia, an amazing animal city where anyone can be anything! But when optimistic Judy Hopps—the first-ever bunny cop—arrives for her first day on the job, she discovers that being a small bunny on a police force of big, tough animals isn’t so easy.

Finally, we are learning that simplicity equals sanity. We’re rebelling against technology that’s too complicated, DVD players with too many menus, and software accompanied by 75-megabyte “read me” manuals. The iPod’s clean gadgetry has made simplicity hip. But sometimes we find ourselves caught up in the simplicity paradox: we want something that’s simple and easy to use, but also does all the complex things we might ever want it to do.

松川律は三十一歳の刑事で、シングルマザーの竹本澄音とつきあっている。澄音の五歳の娘・海音との距離も縮まり結婚を真剣に考えたところで、澄音から自分の父親には前科があると告げられて――。ラーメン店を経営する姉一家との交流や同期刑事とのやりとりなどを小気味よく織り交ぜながら、若き刑事の二年の月日を描く。スカイツリーの見える東京・下町で繰り広げられる心温まる人生の物語。