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In 1967, on the night of the first Apollo mission, a child named Izzy is orphaned when the doomsday cult she was born into clashes with the sheriff in the high desert of New Mexico. She’s taken in by a struggling rancher who is trying to keep his mind from falling apart as NASA rocket tests encroach on his outer range. Inspired by the true story of a UFO cult in a village near White Sands, this audiobook traces Izzy Gently’s whole life.

Dive into the haunting depths of H. P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow over Innsmouth, a chilling masterpiece of cosmic horror and psychological dread. When a curious traveler arrives in the decaying seaport of Innsmouth, he uncovers a terrifying secret lurking beneath the surface—an ancient cult, monstrous sea-spawn, and the horrifying truth about his own bloodline. With its eerie atmosphere, nightmarish revelations, and ties to the legendary Cthulhu Mythos, this tale stands as one of Lovecraft’s most unforgettable works.

Cecília Matzenbacher is a taxidermist working in Northern California. Her passion for restoring once-living things and constructing dioramas of enclosed immobilized worlds is all-encompassing. But when it comes to reconstructing her own history, Cecília's knack for composition frays. When news comes that her father's heart is failing and she may need to return home to Brazil to see him before it's too late, Cecília's past won't stay fixed like a specimen behind glass any longer. Her story emerges, it stalks her, hunts her, and becomes her natural predator.

En el pequeño pueblo de Maycomb, Alabama, durante los años treinta, un hombre negro es acusado de violar a una mujer blanca. Atticus Finch, abogado íntegro y viudo a cargo de sus dos hijos, Jem y Scout, decide ponerse al frente de una defensa imposible. Desde la mirada impregnada de humor y de ternura de la pequeña Scout, Harper Lee explora las grietas de una sociedad dominada por el prejuicio racial, la desconfianza hacia lo diferente, la rigidez de los vínculos familiares y vecinales y un sistema judicial sin garantías de imparcialidad.

Join the T'ang Dynasty detective Judge Dee on his very first full-length mystery! Poisoned plums, a cryptic scroll picture, passionate love letters, and a hidden murderer with a penchant for torturing and killing women lead Judge Dee to the heart of the Governor’s garden maze and the answers to three interwoven mysteries. This book kicked off Robert van Gulik's long-running series and introduced countless listeners to a cozy, clever series and the incredible detective at its center. Listen to this one, and you'll quickly find yourself seeking out the whole series.

When college sophomore Tessa Wilde visits her Alzheimer’s-stricken grandmother Esther, a shocking secret slips out, one that threatens Tessa’s identity and raises old feelings of betrayal and rejection. The only way to pursue the truth, though, is to explore those unreliable memories. But can she separate Esther’s ramblings of a storied past from the effects of Alzheimer’s? Relying on Grandmother’s stories that live in the charms of her beloved bracelet, Tessa pushes her grandmother to reveal the truths that have been hidden for too long.

La obra cumbre del teatro barroco español, un drama sobre el espejismo de la libertad.

In the third novel by Foreword Indies Book of the Year award-winning author, Micah Thorp, Oregon homesteader and lumberman Don Karlsson finds himself engulfed in conflict, both in his tight-knit community and within his own family, when a new, possibly endangered species of vole is discovered in his trees.

Robinson Crusoe naufraga y acaba en una isla desierta. Allí tendrá que hacer uso de su inteligencia y perspicacia para defenderse de los peligros que esconde el lugar, deshabitado solo en apariencia. Publicada en 1719, está considerado uno de los clásicos más leídos de todos los tiempos, y en rigor, se trata de la primera de las grandes novelas inglesas, un texto fundacional. Además de un libro de aventuras, lleno de inolvidables personajes, Robinson Crusoe es una de las primeras reflexiones narrativas sobre la soledad, la sociedad y las relaciones humanas.

A searing dystopian vision of a young boy's flight through an unnamed, savaged country, searching for sanctuary and redemption - a debut novel from one of Europe's best-selling literary stars.

A smart, funny, and essential survival guide that you didn't know you needed. But you do. As any current or former 20-something knows, adult life can get a bit weird because no one tells you what to expect. Many of us spend a decade or more figuring out how the world works, hoping that by age 30 our friends are too old to remember what happened. Unfortunately, Andy Boyle does not have it all figured out. But the funny and useful advice and observations in this engaging audiobook will help any newly minted adult get through the hard parts.

The day a stained brown envelope reaches Taduno from his homeland, he knows that the time has come to return from exile. Arriving full of hope, the musician discovers that his people no longer recognize him and no one recalls his voice. His girlfriend, Lela, has disappeared, abducted by government agents.

Here is the astonishing new novel by the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The White Tiger, a book that took rage and anger at injustice and turned it into a thrilling murder story. Now, with the same fearlessness and insight, Aravind Adiga broadens his canvas to give us a riveting story of money and power, luxury and deprivation, set in the booming city of Mumbai.

電車で乗り合わせる内に見憶えた女学生もいました――【数分で味わう文豪の世界】　品格、叙情、エゴ、真情、変態性、エロス、醜、美・・・巨星「川端康成」のあらゆる要素が凝縮された「掌の小説」。４０年余の歳月をかけて滴り落ちた掌編をあつめた、文豪の半生ともいうべき１２２編のうちの１編です。川端康成の本質と深く関わる濃密な時間を、じっくりとご堪能ください。　　　監督/吉田純子・編集/三好達也_林岳史

【解説】 井伏鱒二の処女作「山椒魚」に続く佳作。「花に嵐のたとえもあるぞ　さよならだけが人生だ（『厄除詩集』）」という井伏作品の放浪的基調低音に通じる抒情的作品。 私は散歩の途中、沼池のほとりで猟銃で撃たれて苦しんでいる雁（がん）を見つけた。抱き上げたときの羽毛や体の温かみ、意外に重たい目方に、その時の私の思い屈した心は慰められる。私は、どうしても丈夫にしてやりたい思いに駆られ、家に連れて帰り治療し、羽を切り、”サワン”と名付けた。雁との心通わせる日々は続く。――しかしある月夜のこと、けたたましいサワンの鳴き声がするので出てみると、屋根の上にのぼって、飛び去っていく３匹の雁と交信している様子だった。「サワンに対する私の愛着を裏切ってかれが遠くに逃げ去るはずはない」。けれどサワンは、月の明るい夜更けに限って鳴き声をたてるようになり、そして……。 【朗読時間】　２０分１２秒 【朗読】wis ※透明感と落ち着きのある声で親しまれている女性朗読家です。

精神状態が回復した「私」は退院するために院長に相談する。事業を聞かないと退院させる訳には行かないという院長。

代々江戸城の茶室を管理し、将軍や大名に茶の接待をする「奥坊主」と呼ばれる職を務めた家柄に育ち、文芸や芸事への興味・関心を早くから持っていた芥川龍之介。 才気にあふれ、世話好きな性格は周りの人

イギリスの小説家アーサー・コナン・ドイルによる「シャーロック･ホームズ」シリーズの一作（短編小説）。三上於莵吉訳。ある冬の夜、探偵ホームズは相棒ワトスンに内容が暗号になったある手紙を見せる。

【解説】 永井荷風の江戸情緒を漂わせる作品集。 風流三昧の俳諧師蘿月は、遊芸への思いを断ち切れずにいる甥の長吉に、敢えて親孝行のために辛抱せよと諭し、長吉と懸隔が生じる苦衷を味わう荷風の懐旧情緒の代表作のひとつ「すみだ川」。他に、新橋の花柳街を題材にした『新橋夜話』より「牡丹の客」、麻布の古家に響いてくる鐘の音の情緒を描く「鐘の声」、明治末年、外遊から帰国して東京の喧噪や雑然さに憤然とする中で訪れた深川で、たちまち懐かしい昔に戻ることができたしみじみさを描く随筆「深川の唄」の3編を収録。 【朗読】 wis ※透明感と落ち着きのある声で親しまれている女性朗読家です。

代々江戸城の茶室を管理し、将軍や大名に茶の接待をする「奥坊主」と呼ばれる職を務めた家柄に育ち、文芸や芸事への興味・関心を早くから持っていた芥川龍之介。 才気にあふれ、世話好きな性格は