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Three original short stories from The New York Times best-selling author Jeffery Deaver. "Fast" (A Kathryn Dance story): Kathryn Dance is in a race against the clock to track down the members of a domestic terrorist cell - and the lives of 200 people hang in the balance. "Game": After Sarah Lieberman's new tenants murder her in an attempt to steal her money, Sarah's housekeeper, Carmel, is determined to find Sarah's body so she can lay her soul to rest. But Carmel may discover that the truth is uncomfortably close to home.... Also includes "Paradice" (A John Pellam story).

Welcome to Starry Hollow, where spells were made to be broken. Ember, Marley, and their Yorkie are transported to Starry Hollow, a paranormal town where witches rule and magic is as normal as pizza. This collection contains the first three books in the series: Magic & Murder, Magic & Mystery, and Magic & Mischief.

Listeners will find themselves immersed in the strange world of best-selling Haruki Murakami's wild imagination. The story of a lonely boy, a mysterious girl, and a tormented sheep man plotting their escape from a nightmarish library, the book is like nothing else Murakami has written.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】日本アルプスについて、その名称の由来、地形的・地質的特性、気候の違い、生態系などをまとめた記録。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】昔、京都に利助という陶器を造る名人がいた。彼は薄手の純白の陶器に藍と金粉で花鳥や動物を繊細に描いた。

Personaggio buffo e melanconico, Marcovaldo è il protagonista d'una serie di favole moderne, dove Italo Calvino va segnando avvenimenti impercettibili nella vita di una grande città industriale. Partite come divagazioni comico-poetiche sul tema della più elementare lotta per la vita, le venti favole di Marcovaldo arrivano alla rappresentazione della più complicata realtà d’oggi, alla satira del "miracolo economico" e della "civiltà del consumo"; ma sempre restano fedeli a una classica struttura narrativa: quella delle storielle a vignette dei giornalini per l'infanzia.

Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer.

Isabel Gibson has all but perfected the art of forgetting. She’s a New Yorker now, with nothing left to tie her to Brinkley’s Island, Maine. Her parents are gone, the family bookstore is all but bankrupt, and her sister, Sophie, will probably never speak to her again. But when a mysterious letter arrives in her mailbox, Isabel feels herself drawn to the past. After years of fighting for her independence, she dreads the thought of going back to the island.

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黄色い菜の花が大和国中を彩る晩春四月、「私」は壺坂寺に詣でた後、菜の花の咲く道を夢見心地で歩いていた。強い日差しの中、刺激されて酔ったような感覚になり、しばらく立ち止まる。ふと振り返ると、家の中で若い女性が機を織っているのが見え、壺坂寺の盲目の女性「お里」を思い出すのであった──。

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食と味覚についてのエッセイ。美味しく食べる方法への問いから始まり、味覚の感受性と経験の関係性について論じている。魯山人は味覚の鈍い人、自称通人、真の味覚を持つ人の三種類を挙げ、それぞれへの対応法を示す。また、味覚は美術鑑賞力と同様に深い経験と努力によって向上し、他者に美味しく食べさせるには自分がより高い味覚を持つ必要があると説いている。

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辰吉は幼い頃に両親を亡くし、おばあさんに育てられた。辰吉は他の子供たちが親や兄弟と過ごす様子を見て、「自分ばかりは、どうして、独ぼっちなのであろう」と寂しさを感じていた。おばあさんは辰吉に、母親が星になって空から見守っていると教える。それから辰吉は毎晩空を見上げ、優しそうな赤い星を母親だと信じるようになる。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】作家としての考えや文学観について述べたエッセイ。作家にとっての「大人になること」の是非と、太宰治や坂口安吾など当時の作家への評価。

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「ぼく」は肺病療養のため温泉地に滞在していたある夜、波打ち際に立つ若い女性の姿を目にした。彼女が自殺を図るのではと駆け寄るが、自身が喀血して倒れてしまう。介抱をきっかけに、宿が近かったこともあり、二人は自然と交流を深めていく。彼女には轡川という男がつきまとっており、暴力的に関係を持たれた過去があるという。

Now comes this remarkable anthology uniting 20 of today's leading thinkers, writers, and visionaries - among them Cory Doctorow, Gregory Benford, Elizabeth Bear, Bruce Sterling, and Neal Stephenson - to contribute works of "techno-optimism" that challenge us to dream and do Big Stuff. Engaging, mind-bending, provocative, and imaginative, Hieroglyph offers a forward-thinking approach to the intersection of art and technology that has the power to change our world.

Are you ready for an enormous erotica collection of female cuckold stories, featuring submissive wives, hot husbands, seductive cuckcakes, lesbian sex and more? Dive right in to this huge bundle of erotic audiobooks that tap in to the most sinful kinks, where cheating husbands claim their younger, hotter prizes as downtrodden wives watch on.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】戦後の東京郊外に住む大学教授の妻は、夫が戦地で消息不明となり、女中のウメと暮らしていた。ある日、昔の知人である笹島医師と再会する。

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日本画家という立場から、画材の品質と贋作問題について述べたエッセイ。松園は古い唐紙の質のよさを称え、西陣の画絹を好んで使用すると述べている。作家として最も困るのは、自分の作品でないものが自作として出回ることであり、贋物や「直し物（色や模様を加えられた改変作品）」の問題を指摘している。

Acclaimed actress Claire Danes burnishes an epic story of heroes, gods, and monsters in a groundbreaking translation of The Odyssey, the first great adventure story in the Western literary tradition. When the wily warrior-king Odysseus sets off for home after the Trojan War, he doesn’t realize this simple undertaking will become a perilous journey of 10 years. Beset at every turn, he encounters obstacles, detours, and temptations—both supernatural and human—while his wife Penelope fends off would-be suitors desperate to take the throne.

In "Strange Highways," a floundering alcoholic gets a mysterious second chance to relive the night his life began its downward spiral 20 years ago. But on this dark journey, he’ll be supremely tested by conflict with his successful, charismatic older brother, his loss of faith, and the clash between good and the ultimate evil. Sink into this binge-worthy collection of beloved Koontz short stories, featuring denizens of hell, vengeful children, and eerily human-like robots that will send shivers down your spine.

The first volume of Wodehouse's brilliant complete and unabridged short stories. Originally a semi-novel, this version contains self-contained stories which are nonetheless linked, often by Bingo Little, an endearingly hopeless chap and a serial romancer.