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Follow the seashell path along Tokyo Bay until you get to the Chibineko Kitchen, where a traditional Japanese meal can summon anyone you choose from your past, but only for as long as it continues to steam . . . —for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, The Midnight Library, and Studio Ghibli...

In this richly layered debut thriller reminiscent of the real issue of missing and murdered Indigenous people, a badass Choctaw detective discovers an insidious plot against her reservation while investigating the disappearance of a beloved champion athlete. Choctaw Detective Perry Antelope has...

Young Betty Cantrel is just 14-years-old when she reluctantly leaves her troubled family home to take up a position as companion to Frances Crawley, the ailing daughter of Eben and Mary Crawley. As her friendship grows with Frances, Betty accompanies her to London, where she glimpses another world – a world full of art, music, and freedom, and she begins to dream of a different kind of life.

「俺らマブになろうぜ」40歳の波那の目の前に現れたのは、上下金色でかためたアッパーな53歳の義母・張子だった。

Londres, mai 1941. Pierre de Vomécourt, alias « Lucas », est l'un des premiers agents « action » du SOE parachutés sur le sol français sur ordre de Churchill. Avec René Piercy et sa femme Thérèse, ils vont créer à Lyon le noyau dur du SOE dans le Rhône. Sous le pseudonyme de Lucas, Pierre de Vomécourt est l'un des premiers Français parachutés. Il recrute René Piercy et Thérèse Leblond, un couple lyonnais décidé à tout risquer pour la liberté.

Three classic novels by renowned feminist writer and activist Nawal El Saadawi. A peasant family is torn apart by a village mayor and his lackeys in God Dies by the Nile , Saadawi's dark parable of poverty, female exploitation, injustice and religious hypocrisy in rural Egypt. In Searching the disappearance of her lover causes Fouda to question everything. Circling Song is a hypnotic meditation on gender, class and state violence told through the story of two mysterious twins.

Cornwall, heden. Lamorna Trelenna keert na tien jaar terug naar haar ouderlijk huis op de kliffen van Cornwall. Het ooit zo statige landgoed is danig in verval geraakt. Terwijl haar jongste zusje een plan heeft bedacht om het huis in zijn oude glorie te herstellen, zou Lamorna het liefst zo snel mogelijk weer vertrekken. Totdat ze op de zolder de familiearchieven ontdekt. Singapore, 1941. Issey Trelenna werkt op een afluisterpost van de Britse marine in Singapore. Als gefortuneerde expat leidt ze een leven van cocktailparty's en luxe.

Der amerikanische Prosa-Künstler Washington Irving hat mit seinen Erzählungen einen prägenden Einfluss auf die amerikanische Literatur ausgeübt. Das liegt an seiner sehr angenehmen Sprachgestaltung und dem Realitätsbezug des gewählten Gegenstands. Allerdings ummantelt er seine Geschichten ebenso gerne mit einem Grotesk-Phantastischen Gewand, so dass man zum einen nie weiß was als nächstes kommt und zum anderen immer das Gefühl vermittelt bekommt hautnah dabei zu sein, wobei einem die beschriebenen Szenen sofort vor dem geistigen Auge vorüberzuziehen scheinen.

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Goodreads, Essence, Sunset Magazine, SheReads, BookBub, and more! From acclaimed author Terah Shelton Harris comes a poignant story of survival and redemption that questions what it means to stop existing and start living. Leigh is the last of the...

Across a bridge in a quiet neighborhood in Tokyo, a seasonal cherry blossom sits on the river. Nearby is the Marble Cafe, where a woman writes in a notebook and a young waiter prepares her favorite hot drink. Both wonder about each other and about the other lives of the clientele who frequent...

A groundbreaking, potent novel about the destructive force of romantic love from award-winning writer Vigdis Hjorth. It asks, can passion be mistaken for love? And proceeds to document the destruction a decade defined by such a misconstruction can yield on a life.

A haunting, gothic love triangle set in postwar Moscow and an Arctic gulag, where forbidden passion and betrayal shape destinies and echo across decades. House of Meetings is a gothic love story, triangular in form and steeped in darkness. In 1946 Moscow, amid the palpable threat of pogroms, two...

“Mohammed Hanif is a brave, gifted writer.” —Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit West From the brilliant Booker-longlisted Mohammed Hanif comes a lively, rich novel about the power of language, friendship, and protest in the face of political turmoil. When a major Pakistani political figure is...

“Open any of his novels—from the outset, the magic operates: from the first paragraph you are caught in the jaws of a trap that will not release you until the full-stop at the end of the last page, and even then with the book closed, you remain dizzy and panting as you try to regain your...

Four obsessed women kidnap a K-Pop idol with unexpected and devastating results in this chilling, thought-provoking literary thriller that blends the dark impulsions of Butter with the ratcheting tension of Stephen King's Misery. Four wildly different women are consumed by Yosep, a dreamy...

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学友との学生時代の生活の思い出を綴り、ロンドンでの再会、帰国後の様子などを描いています。そして月日は流れ、現在の二人は。随筆的な作品で時が穏やかに流れていきます。

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