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In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul lives Kim Jiyoung. A 30-something-year-old “millennial everywoman”, she has recently left her white-collar desk job - in order to care for her newborn daughter full-time - as so many Korean women are expected to do. But she quickly begins to exhibit strange symptoms that alarm her husband, parents, and in-laws: Jiyoung impersonates the voices of other women - alive and even dead, both known and unknown to her.

After a staged terrorist attack kills the President and most of Congress, the government is deposed and taken over by the oppressive and all-controlling Republic of Gilead. Offred is a Handmaid serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name.

作家本人と思しき女性が、オーロラ見物と白夜体験のため、真冬と初夏の二度、アラスカを訪ねる、という筋立ての短篇。二月はマイナス30℃近く、ブリザード（猛吹雪）が来れば、遭難しかねず、反対に30℃近くに達する夏は一転、植物の色彩で溢れるが、油断をすると凍土に足をとられ、身動きできなくなる。そんな極地で、作家は「ウルフトラッパー」を名乗る日本人男性と出会う。
「ウルフトラッパー」は、先住民の中でも特に狩に秀でたアサバスカ族から送られた尊称で、狼を銃で撃つのではなく、罠、つまり知恵で捕らえる賢者を指す。年齢不詳、一人でテント生活をしているらしい男に、作家は徐々に親しみを覚えてゆく。謎めいた男が明かす極地の真実、また“五感の訓練”とは？　フィクションの愉楽に満ちた逸品。

Katie Chandler had always heard that New York is a weird and wonderful place, but this small-town Texas gal had no idea how weird until she moved there. Everywhere she goes, she sees something worth gawking at and Katie is afraid she's a little too normal to make a splash in the big city. Working for an ogre of a boss doesn't help. Then, seemingly out of the blue, Katie gets a job offer from Magic, Spells, and Illusions, Inc., a company that tricks of the trade to the magic community. For MSI, Katie's ordinariness is an asset.

After a violent coup in the United States overthrows the Constitution and ushers in a new government regime, the Republic of Gilead imposes subservient roles on all women. Offred, now a Handmaid tasked with the singular role of procreation in the childless household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost everything, even her own name.

Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol and extreme cinema. The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centred around Irina's relationship with her obsessive best friend and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention....

Zwei Schwestern im von den Deutschen besetzten Frankreich: Während Vianne ums Überleben ihrer Familie kämpft, schließt sich die jüngere Isabelle der Résistance an und sucht die Freiheit auf dem Pfad der Nachtigall, einem geheimen Fluchtweg über die Pyrenäen. Doch wie weit darf man gehen, um zu überleben? Und wie kann man die schützen, die man liebt? In diesem epischen, kraftvollen und zutiefst berührenden Roman erzählt Kristin Hannah die Geschichte zweier Frauen, die ihr Schicksal auf ganz eigene Weise meistern.

「深紅よりもっと鮮やかな朱赤」と描写される“ポンペイアンレッド”の椅子をモチーフにした幻想譚。
小雨の降る四月、還暦の誕生日を一週間後に控えた語り手の女性のところに、家具店からお探しの商品が漸く見つかったと、電話が入る。360度回転し、リクライニングを倒すと180度水平になる本革製の椅子。最も難しい条件が色の指定で、どうしてもポンペイアンレッドでなければならなかった。強く輝き、その強烈さゆえ座る人間を体内から崩壊させるような赤い椅子に、「私」はこの先の人生を託す意気込みなのだ。生憎、現物はなかったものの、革素材と写真を確かめ、即決で購入を決めた。
椅子が届いて数日後、すっかり満足した「私」のところに、一通のダイレクトメールが届く……。時空を超えて官能の世界へと誘う怪しげな赤がとりわけ印象に残る佳編。　

Surrey, England, 1938. After 30 devoted years of marriage, Ellie Endicott is blindsided by her husband’s appeal for divorce. It’s Ellie’s opportunity for change too. The unfaithful cad can have the house. She’s taking the Bentley. Ellie, her housekeeper Mavis, and her elderly friend Dora—each needing escape—impulsively head for parts unknown in the South of France.

As the Great War continues to take its toll, headstrong 21-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage. When he is sent back to the front, Emily volunteers as a “land girl,” tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. It’s here that Emily discovers the long-forgotten journals of a medicine woman who devoted her life to her herbal garden.

作家を思わせる語り手の女性が、人生の折々に鮮烈に現われたトマトとの関わりを追想する、という趣向の短編。幼い頃、科学者だった父親と二人で出かけた地元近くの海水浴場に浮かんでいたトマト。「おばあちゃん」になった今では、猛暑のなか、孫が止めるのにも耳を貸さず、アーチ状の「トマトの林」を丹精込めて育てている。こうしたトマトはいったいどこからやってきたのか？
語り手にとってトマトは、男たちとの交際の記憶を幼時に齧った折の青ぐささと共に甦らせる不思議な存在だ。学生時代、初めてキスし、交わった男は農業大学の研究生。アステカ族が住む地域でトマトの原種を育成研究するため、「私」のもとを去り、メキシコへ渡った。一個のトマトをベッドに残して……。
南米アンデス山脈原産のトマトは、大航海時代にイタリア半島にもたらされたが、毒性が恐れられ、当初は観賞用だったとされる。「黄金の果実」を巡って、作家の奇想が冴えわたる作品。

Click your heels three times and say, "There's no place like Bloomies!" Katie Chandler's life is pure magic - literally. As an executive assistant at Magic, Spells, and Illusions, Inc., she's seen more than her share of fantastical occurrences. A mere Manhattan mortal, Katie is no wizard, but she's a wiz at exposing "hokum" pocus, cloaked lies, and deceptive enchantments. And she's fallen under the all-too-human spell of attraction to Owen, a hunky wizard and coworker. Owen, however, is preoccupied. Someone has broken into his office and disrupted top-secret files, and it reeks of an inside job.

円熟の境地にある芥川賞作家が描く、“もの”を巡る幻想譚のシリーズ短篇。祖先の来し方を探るエッセイのように筆を起こし、何時の間にか、するっと時空を超越し、読者を想像の彼方へと誘って、馥郁たる余韻を残して着地する。
本作の“主役”は、作家が生まれた頃から慣れ親しみ、今も所有している一つの火鉢。日露戦争で中国大陸に出兵した祖父が入手したらしい有田焼の火鉢は、姿形を変えぬまま、およそ百年を生き抜いてきた。火鉢には、江戸時代の旅人たちが描かれていた。現在の山口県防府市で地主の惣領として生まれながら祖父は学問を志して東京へ出て、大学を卒業すると、徒歩で郷里に帰ったという。祖父は、火鉢に描かれた旅人に興趣を覚えたのではないか？　不動の火鉢に、作家は有為転変の来歴を与え、「旅する火鉢」に想いを馳せる。

Margherita Dolcevita è una ragazzina allegra, intelligente e appena sovrappeso, con un cuore che di tanto in tanto perde un colpo. Vive con la famiglia fra città e campagna. Un giorno, davanti alla sua casa, spunta, come un fungo, un cubo di vetro nero circondato da un asettico giardino sintetico e da una palizzata di siepi. Sono arrivati i signori Del Bene, i portatori del "nuovo", della beatitudine del consumo. Amici o corruttori? La famiglia di Margherita cade in una sorta di oscuro incantesimo, nessuno rimane immune.

Sophie ist eine absolute Stadtpflanze, doch ihr Leben in Hamburg läuft eher schlecht als recht. Als sie dann auch noch vom Tod ihrer lieben Tante Dotti erfährt, zieht es ihr den Boden unter den Füßen weg. Aber Dotti hatte einen Plan für sie - und so findet sich Sophie kurze Zeit später in Wümmerscheid-Sollensbach wieder, einem idyllischen, wenn auch verschlafenen kleinen Ort zwischen Rhein und Mosel. Dort steht sie überrascht vor ihrem Erbe: ein renovierungsbedürftiges, altes Mühlengebäude mit einem Café im Erdgeschoss.

From Wall Street Journal best-selling author Nicole Snow - a tale of pretend love turned way too real. See the sparks fly when tight-wound alpha protector gets a taste of his ultimate sugar and spice. Full-length romance novel with a happily-ever-after roller coaster!

Waking up next to the world's hottest stranger is my first red flag. The huge rock on my finger? Hint number two I'm head-over-heels in trouble. I'm hair-on-fire freaked by the marriage certificate. Then I sit down with Noah Bernard, my mysterious new "husband." He talks a good game. Easy, when he'd put Hercules to shame. Olympian abs. Defiant growl. Come-to-mama eyes. Mammoth freaking ego. I almost wish I remembered our honeymoon. But I need answers. Not more secrets.

Jane Cobalt is an American princess. The loyal and painfully curious 23-year-old has inherited immense pressure to preserve the Cobalt legacy. But for Jane, sex, love, and life have been a series of royal failures. After a friends-with-benefits ended in disaster, she's sworn to a "no sex" hiatus for, well, eternity - and she has no intention of letting anyone in her bed and definitely not her heart.

It was one freaking kiss with a stranger. I wasn't looking for a hero the day Brent Eden charged into my life. He saw a damsel in distress facing humiliation. We played pretend. Swore I was his. Baited sweet chaos. Blew apart everything. My dating disaster? Gone. Our kiss? Electric. Divine. Toe-curling. His mistake? Oh, boy. Dropping the ultimate F-bomb: fiancée. Especially when my gossipy cousin tells the whole family.

Twenty years as an army brat, and Ember Howard knew, too. The soldiers at the door meant her dad was never coming home. What she didn't know was how she would find the strength to singlehandedly care for her crumbling family when her mom falls apart. Then Josh Walker enters her life. Hockey star, her new next door neighbor, and not to mention he has the most delicious hands that insist on saving her over and over again.