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Ayn Rand’s complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982. In the 21st century, she has been resurrected as a serious reference point for mainstream figures, especially those on the political right, from Paul Ryan to Donald Trump. Mean Girl follows Rand’s trail through the 20th century from the Russian Revolution to the Cold War and traces her posthumous appeal and the influence of her novels via her cruel, surly, sexy heroes.

Michael Kind is raised in the Jewish cauldron of 1920s New York, familiar with the stresses and materialism of metropolitan life. Turning to the ancient set of ethics of his Orthodox grandfather, with a modern twist, he becomes a Reform rabbi. As insecure and sexually needy as any other young male, he serves as a circuit-rider rabbi in the Ozarks, and then as a temple rabbi in the racially ugly South, in a San Francisco suburb, in a Pennsylvania college town, and, finally, in a New England community west of Boston.

In a time before history, in a harsh and beautiful land near the top of the world, womanhood comes cruelly and suddenly to beautiful, young Chagak. Surviving the brutal massacre of her tribe, she sets out across the icy waters off Ameria's northwest coast on an astonishing odyssey that will reveal to Chagak powerful secrets of the earth and sky...and the mysteries of love and loss.

Kurt Vonnegut presents in Fates Worse than Death a veritable cornucopia of his thoughts on what could perhaps best be summed up as "anti-theology", a manifesto for atheism that details Vonnegut's drift from conventional religion, even a tract evidencing belief in the divine held within each individual self--the deity within each individual person present in a universe that otherwise lacks any real order.

Bukowski's mad immortal origins, surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of audiences who've recognized Bukowski as one of America's greatest realist writers and poets. Audible Studios narrator and OBIE winner Will Patton ( Remember the Titans, The Good Wife, Armageddon) gives a tour de force performance of Bukowski's greatest work in his prime.

宿敵・童貫を討ち、梁山泊は宋禁軍との闘いを終える。戦勝後に頭領の楊令が目指したのは、交易によって富む、小さく豊かな国の姿だった。その実現のため、梁山泊は、日本と遙か西域とを結ぶ交易路を開拓する。

Os Lusíadas é um poema épico que marcou a língua portuguesa, escrito há mais de 450 anos. Inspirado pelas epopéias gregas, foi escrito pelo poeta português Luís Vaz de Camões e publicado em 1572. Ao narrar as aventuras de Vasco da Gama em sua jornada para as Índias, o poeta engrandece as grandes navegações e o próprio homem português que desbravou o mundo em busca de novas terras. Por meio dos cantos, também conta a história de fundação de Portugal, mitos e lendas locais.

負けたのだ。「替天行道」と「盡忠報国」というふたつの志の激突だった。半年前の梁山泊戦。瀕死の状態の楊令に右腕を切り飛ばされた岳飛は、その敗戦から立ち直れずにいた。頭領を失った梁山泊は洪水のために全てが壊滅状態にあった。

Ela é uma garota comum, que sempre acaba falando demais, ele é um homem famoso e discreto. Tudo está para mudar quando ela fala em um jantar que eles estão noivos.

Alien visitors devastate a remote farm in Lovecraft’s first and best venture into science fiction.

梁山泊は、国としてのかたちを整えていく。西域への交易路開拓のため、韓成は西夏に遣わされる。楊令自ら護衛する最初の商隊が、西域へと出発した。兀朮らが率いる金軍は、南宋の帝となった趙構を討つために旧宋領への侵攻を続ける。

金国内での政争を粘罕が制し、漢人を推戴した傀儡国家・斉が中原に建国された。李富が操る南宋では、趙構が『抗金』の檄を飛ばし、皇太子にしんを冊立する。一方、梁山泊は西域との交易を順調に続け、さらに富を増やし始めていた。

楊令率いる梁山泊は北京大名府を占領し、自由市場を開く。だが、同志の中からは、天下を取るべきだという声も上がり始めていた。金国の傀儡国家・斉は、扈成が宰相となり、都を開封府へと移して勢力を拡げる。北京大名府を離れた張俊は、扈成と結んで斉軍に加わった。

梁山泊軍と金軍の果てしなく続く消耗戦。その最中、戦場に切り込んできた史進は兀朮にとどめを刺すも、深手を負い戦線を離脱。岳飛は南宋・程雲の首を獲り、臨安府に入る。一足先に呼延凌と合流した秦容は、金の沙歇との最終決戦に挑む――。

Forty-eight of H.P. Lovecraft’s most important stories are brought together in this collection–available only from Audible–selected and with introductions by the award-winning, best-selling Lovecraft editor Leslie S. Klinger. Howard Philips Lovecraft was the early 20th-century genius who, almost singlehandedly, pioneered horror and scientific fiction, only to die in near-obscurity. Rediscovered by critics and scholars in the 1970s, Lovecraft’s work has influenced—by their own admission—every major horror or science-fiction writer of today.

Set during the time of the Napoleonic Wars, this classic gives a satirical picture of a worldly society. The novel revolves around the exploits of the impoverished but beautiful and devious Becky Sharp who craves wealth and a position in society. Calculating and determined to succeed, she charms, deceives and manipulates everyone she meets. A novel of early 19th-century English society, it takes its title from the place designated as the centre of human corruption in John Bunyan's 17th-century allegory.

Frank O'Hara was a pioneering modern American poet and playwright - an art critic, a musician, and a curator at the Museum of Modern Art - who defined New York City in its post-WWII heyday. For many these poems defined the city's midcentury zeitgeist.

金軍・兀朮と呼吸を合わせたかのように戦を停止し、本拠に戻った岳飛。一方、呉用は宣凱に「岳飛を救え」と言い遺していた。梁山泊が救出に動き始める。ようやく臨安府に赴いた岳飛は、帝に拝謁後監禁されてしまう。

LA gardener Mas Arai returns to Hiroshima to bring his best friend’s ashes to a relative on the tiny offshore island of Ino, only to become embroiled in the mysterious death of a teenage boy who was about the same age Mas was when he survived the atomic bomb in 1945. The boy’s death affects the elderly, often-curmudgeonly, always-reluctant sleuth, who cannot return home to Los Angeles until he finds a way to see justice served.

So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment, where there is no suffering, Azaro chooses to stay in the land of the Living: to feel it, endure it, know it and love it. This is his story.