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『河童』（かっぱ）は、芥川龍之介が1927年（昭和2年）に総合雑誌『改造』誌上に 発表した小説であり、当時の日本社会や人間社会を痛烈に風刺、批判した小説です。 芥川の晩年の代表作のひとつで、また

小泉八雲の「Kwaidan」を新たにオーデイオブック用に日本語に訳した完全版「怪談」です。
全部で17の話をオリジナルの「Kwaidan」と同じ順序で再現しました。

ときは藤原道長の時代。美しい娘をめぐる恋模様と芸達者な牛の周りで浮かび上がる、登場人物たちの人間味あふれる人柄が、可笑しげに描かれる。恋にやぶれ権力や富を手にすることができずにいる男の目線で

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Two brothers. One murder. A court that has already made up its mind. Karl and Pieter Kip are Dutch sailors, castaways in the South Pacific, when they are rescued by the brig James Cook and prove their worth by helping to suppress a mutiny during a storm...

A USA TODAY bestseller! Hurricane Season is the story of sisterhood, motherhood, and an unconventional journey to healing—and the relationships that must be mended along the way. Betsy and Ty Franklin, owners of Franklin Dairy Farm in southern Alabama, have long since buried their desire for...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the man who saves a city is also the hidden wound at its heart? In *Oedipus King of Thebes*, Sophocles creates one of the most devastating tragedies in world drama: a story of plague, prophecy, truth, blindness, and the terrifying limits of...

An artistic "gem," (Historical Novel Society) as revealing as it is beautifully told from beloved author "Sean of the South." "The Southern story you've been waiting for." --Patti Callahan Henry, NYT bestselling author "A heartwarming and well-told tale with lyrical writing." --Boo Walker...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Experience Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy translated directly from the original Italian. Journey through the terrifying depths of Inferno, the hopeful ascent of Purgatorio, and the transcendent glory of Paradiso in a translation that honors Dante's...

Nell's new job sees her welcomed into a more prestigious social circle. But she comes to realise that not all friendships are what they seem . . . November 1882 Scarred by the events of her last voyage, Nell is ready for a change, and being offered a role as a lady's companion is too good an...

A genre-breaking novel from a powerful new African voice It is 2019, The Year of Return. Ghana is inviting Black diasporans to return and get to know the land of their enslaved ancestors. Elton, Vincent, and Scott arrive from America to explore Ghana's colonial past, and to experience the...

America is cat crazy, and Mark Twain may have been the American writer most crazy about cats. From his boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri, to his last years in Connecticut, Mark Twain spent much of his life surrounded by cats, and they stalk through many of his best-known books, including The...

Mark Twain for Dog Lovers combines one of America's most beloved authors and dogs. Twain specialist R. Kent Rasmussen traces the history of dogs in Twain's life—from the ones he knew personally, like his daughter's dog which he took in after she died, to the foreign dogs he saw on his travels...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. At seventeen, Augustin Meaulnes arrives at a remote country school in central France and transforms the quiet world of fifteen-year-old François Seurel. Tall, charismatic, and restless, Meaulnes becomes "le Grand Meaulnes"—the great Meaulnes—to his...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Jules Verne published The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (Voyages et Aventures du capitaine Hatteras) in 1866, and it's one of his darkest books. This isn't a cheerful adventure story—it's about what happens when ambition curdles into obsession...

Set against the devastating backdrop of the Biafran War (1967–1970)—where two million civilians, most of them children, died of starvation—this powerful novel draws on the little-known story of Ireland’s humanitarian response. While much of the world turned away, Irish missionaries remained, establishing feeding centres and clinics. When their last supply route was cut off, they carved an airstrip from the bush, risking everything to smuggle in aid and evacuate dying children. Before the war, before Africa, Valerie Corrigan believed her life would follow a different path.

New Badge. Old Blood. In the High Lonesome where secrets kill, the only thing shorter than a rookie Sheriff's term is his life expectancy. Nick Drake has traded his wildlife ranger uniform for a Sheriff’s star—but the unforgiving territory doesn't offer election honeymoons. His tenure kicks off with a brutal double homicide meticulously staged to look like a tragic murder-suicide. It’s a convenient lie designed to keep the peace, but Nick isn’t buying it.

Toledo, 1086. El arzobispo Bernardo ha llegado con mandato de purgar el saber infiel. Pero bajo el mecenazgo improbable de clérigos suspicaces, la famosa Escuela de Traductores de Toledo toma forma — y los herederos del pacto original caminan sobre el filo de una navaja. Satisfacer a los clérigos de día. Poner textos filosóficos a salvo de noche. Codificar el conocimiento médico en patrones de bordado femenino. Inscribir pistas en la piedra de los edificios que solo los iniciados encontrarán. La Segunda Cruzada se moviliza. La invasión almorávide avanza desde el sur.

Madison La Croix grew up in a world where every word mattered—and silence mattered even more. Born into one of Newport’s most powerful families, Madison is raised among wealth, expectations, and rules no one ever explains. Conversations are careful. Appearances are everything. At Ashmore Academy and within the rarefied circles of Newport society, she begins to notice the small contradictions beneath the polished surface—friendships that shift with status, kindness that hides quiet competition, and traditions that demand loyalty whether they deserve it or not.

This anthology is a step into the mind of a young poet who herself suffers with her mental health. With a range of poems all mental health related, this book is aimed for people who want to understand what it could be like and for people who already suffer to not feel alone.

The Great Gatsby is a classic novel of ambition, illusion, wealth, longing, and disillusionment in the glittering world of the Jazz Age. The story follows Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire known for his extravagant parties, and his obsessive dream of reclaiming a lost love. Through the eyes of Nick Carraway, the novel reveals a society dazzled by money, status, beauty, and pleasure, while quietly exposing the emptiness and moral decay beneath its surface.