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芝永井町で鳩尾を一突きされた骸が見つかった。手口からヤクザ者の仕業と断定されたものの身元が割れず苛立つ南町奉行所の面々。しかし吉原命の放蕩同心、八巻卯之吉は持ち前の好奇心と洞察力で骸の正体を見破る。

Cal may only be twelve years old, but his father has threatened to throw him onto the streets if he doesn’t start earning his keep. Keen to prove himself, he unearths an opportunity through stealthy eavesdropping. Two gentlemen need help transporting an unnamed cargo across the Firth of Forth, no questions asked. Cal is happy to secure the job, but soon discovers that holding up his end will entangle him in a ruthless underworld of thievery, smuggling and body snatchers.

「辣腕同心」の勇名とは裏腹に、連夜の大酒宴に興じる八卷卯之吉。その正体がバレぬよう健気に尽くすダメ幇間の銀八だったが、下総から出てきた伯父金五郎の百姓踊りにまでお株を奪われる始末。

A beautifully designed edition of number-one New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett’s prized classic, annotated and with an introductionby the author herself. 'A book that works both as a paean to art and beauty and a subtly sly comedy of manners' New York Times First published in 2001...

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""A haunting, unforgettable story about a shattered girl and a shattered boy rebuilding their lives on the thinnest reeds of hope."" — Lawrence Hill “If Toni Morrison is a language, Tarisai Ngangura speaks it as well as any novelist writing today. . . .A magnificent novel.” — Donna...

将軍の毒味役｢鬼役｣を務める矢背蔵人介。将軍を誹謗する落首を書いたとして、知己の奥医師が切腹を申し付けられた。冤罪を晴らさんと動く蔵人介の前に立ちはだかったのは「甲賀五人之者」と呼ばれる手練たち。

'A riveting and remarkable retelling of a true story.' - SARA SHERIDAN 'A very enjoyable novel, one that can give pleasure and invite speculation at the same time.' - THE SCOTSMAN 'His remarkable life story has, for the first time, been pieced together from myriad contemporary newspaper reports...

This is a story of philosophy, identity, and the powerful grip of travel, written by an iconic American author at the height of his fame, after spending ten days in France searching for his French heritage. Was the satori handed to him by a taxi driver, a waiter, a monsieur with a dazzlingly beautiful secretary, or while feeling fearful in the foggy streets at 3:00 a.m.?  Or was it when hearing a requiem by Mozart in an old church, seeing trees in the Tuileries Garden, or while walking on a bridge over the River Seine?

「どんなことがあっても貴女（おまえ）を護る」友はなぜ不遇の死を遂げたのか。涙が止まらない、二人の絆、そして友情。

May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She's been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs to experience real island life and to taste its authentic cuisine.

Lucio Falerio ha muerto y todo el Imperio llora por el fallecimiento de su mejor senador. Pero no hay tiempo para el duelo: su hijo, Marcelo, tendrá que seguir con el legado que ha heredado para evitar la corrupción de la República, y cumplir con la palabra que dio su padre a los esclavos sicilianos. Con las intrigas políticas a su espalda y la amenaza de los Celtas ante él, Marcelo se adentrará en un camino complicado y sangriento. Mientras, Aquila seguirá inmerso en una búsqueda de identidad que lo llevará hasta los límites del Imperio.

Una novela épica que abre la trilogía de La República. Los dos protagonistas, Aulo Cornelio y Lucio Falerio, son dos jóvenes patricios que tendrán que luchar y vivir para desafiar su funesto destino. Ambos tendrán un papel importante en el futuro que le depara a la República romana: un final lleno de sangre y traición. Los pilares de Roma es novela cargada de acción, amistad y brutalidad que trasladará a los lectores a la antigua Roma.

浅草門前町の両替商・分銅屋仁左衛門に用心棒として雇われた浪人・諫山左馬介は、剣の腕はさほど立たぬも、鉄扇の扱いには長けていた。変わらぬ真面目さと謙虚さで雑用も厭わずよく働く左馬介を、ある日つけ狙う者が現れる。刺客を差し向けたのは、分銅屋を蹴落とそうとする札差の加賀屋。

御用金を着服して公領の大水を引かせ、世間を驚嘆させた放蕩同心、八巻卯之吉がついに江戸に戻ってきた。

Originally published in 1965, this autobiographical novel covers a key year in Jack Kerouac’s life—the period that led up to the publication of On the Road in September of 1957. After spending two months in the summer of 1956 as a fire lookout on Desolation Peak in the North Cascade Mountains of Washington, Kerouac’s fictional self Jack Duluoz comes down from the isolated mountains to the wild excitement of the bars, jazz clubs, and parties of San Francisco, before traveling on to Mexico City, New York, Tangiers, Paris, and London.

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Sie hat die Pest überlebt – doch der Tod schleicht weiter um die Häuser. Rosenheim 1648: Die junge Marianne lebt und arbeitet in der Brauerei, die von der Witwe Hedwig Thaler geführt wird. Die alte Frau hat Marianne bei sich aufgenommen und aufgezogen – doch das Mädchen hat von ihr nur böse Worte und Ungerechtigkeiten empfangen. Einzig der Pfarrer des Ortes begegnet Marianne freundlich und nimmt sie vor den Anfeindungen der Leute in Schutz: Diese sehen in ihr so etwas wie eine Hexe, da sie einst die Pest überlebt hat.

茂兵衛の一人娘が祝言を挙げたのも束の間、太閤・秀吉薨去により世は大いに動揺する。続く前田利家逝去、豊臣家武断派による石田三成襲撃を経て、いよいよ家康は天下への野心を隠さなくなった。