検索キーワード： アメリカ

Some neighborhoods are there to keep you safe. This one wants to keep you prisoner. Kate Harris thought River Falls was her family’s ticket to a fresh start: a pristine, exclusive gated community with perfect lawns, friendly neighbors, and all the luxuries they could ever dream of. But beneath the glossy veneer of this suburban paradise lies something sinister.

Henry David Thoreau was a leading figure in the American Transcendentalist movement and the era of US literary emergence, an intellectual with worldwide influence as essayist, social thinker, naturalist-environmentalist, and sage. Thoreau's Walden, an autobiographical narrative of his two-year sojourn in a self-built lakeside cabin, is one of the most widely studied works of American literature. It has generated scores of literary imitations and experiments in back-to-basics living.

The 75th anniversary edition of The Martian Chronicles, a seminal work in Ray Bradbury’s career, whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time’s passage. Now in a new edition from S&S Audio! In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, America’s preeminent storyteller...

From USA Today bestselling author, Ashley Cade comes a brand new small town romance between the sweet southern baker and her ex's surly older brother.

The Last Wind Walker delivers a powerful blend of medical drama, legal intrigue, supernatural mystery, and emotional depth. When young doctor Ashe Carter begins experiencing vivid past-life memories and an uncanny new talent for classical piano, he's diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Surgery saves his life but ends his dream of becoming a surgeon—driving him to file a devastating malpractice lawsuit that strains his marriage to his beloved wife, Mattie.

Miguel Balfour has been writing poetry since high school. What started out as two poems in the 12th Grade led to two volumes of hand-written song lyrics in two hardcover exercise notebooks. The initial thought was to possibly be a songwriter as one of my future endeavors. But alas! There was College, then Medical School, then Residency, then “real world” work, and as such the writing, which had continued over the years, never materialized to becoming actual songs. I had put the books away and only recently found the two volumes.

Una arrebatadora novela gótica-vampírica-tropical, que entremezcla el horror con el folklor afrocaribeño en medio del vibrante caos del carnaval de Barranquilla. Ganadora del Premio de Narrativa Elisa Mújica. «Dicen que de cachorra le gustaba morder. Le arrancó pedazos de piel a tres...

Uma criança desaparece em plena luz do dia. De um lado desse vazio brutal, o instante de desatenção de uma mulher que nunca quis ser mãe. Do outro, uma mulher que deseja ser mãe a ponto de cometer um ato desesperado. Entre esses dois pontos de vista, acompanhamos uma narrativa que ecoa as diversas formas de maternidade, das impostas às almejadas, do seu papel social à sua natureza primordial, em uma trama visceral e inquietante.

“Dona Bárbara” foi escrito em 1929 e tem como cenário uma Venezuela rural, com enredo que foca no conflito entre diferentes famílias ao longo de gerações e a chegada de uma mulher que, por sua beleza e inteligência, corrompe a todos com o objetivo de enriquecer e tomar o poder da região. Para além do protagonismo feminino, a obra chama a atenção por trazer questões que ainda são bastante atuais na América Latina.

When one of Bethany Anne's loved ones gets caught in the crossfire between her and the Forsaken, she goes rabid in rage. She doesn't believe in seeking peace and harmony, but rather revenge and mayhem. Continuing the story of Bethany Anne and TQB team, Love Lost picks up after Queen Bitch. She works to complete both her business and military team leads and we meet Stephen's daughter Gabrielle as plans are made to exact revenge South of the Border. You don't touch one of Bethany Anne's loved ones and get away with it, no matter how far away you live.

An idealistic American diplomat locks horns with a mercurial Soviet negotiator during a series of conversations in the woods outside Geneva. As their mutual friendship and understanding deepens, an awareness that their work may ultimately be pointless casts a shadow over their hopes to achieve a lasting peace.

Life is hard in the best of times; in war, life is hell. Matilda had been in Vicksburg a little over two years when the war caught up with her again. Alex McDowell had a way about him that drew folks near. Whether it was the warmth of his soft Georgia drawl or the quiet way he moved through life, men respected him, and women fancied him. His hankering for adventure had taken him from the coastal plains of Georgia to the piney woods of east Texas. Along the way, he had fallen in love.

Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on her endless to-do list. The only thing keeping her sane is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime. At these meetings they’re as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are about their own families.

At the age of 64, legendary athlete Diana Nyad inspired the world when she walked onto the shores of Key West after "crossing the Mt. Everest of the earth's oceans", becoming the first person in history to make the 111-mile swim from Cuba to Florida without the assistance of a shark cage. In her riveting new play The Swimmer, recorded live at the Minetta Lane Theatre, Nyad shares the heartbreaking setbacks, brushes with death and the victories that kept her going, plunging the audience into the depths of her extraordinary journey.

Born in 1940, one of eight children, Maxine Hong Kingston is the daughter of Chinese immigrants to America. Her father, a scholar in China, ran a laundry business and a gambling house in California; her mother, a doctor in China, helped with the laundry and worked in the fields. Maxine won scholarships to the University of California at Berkeley, where she returned to teach as Senior Lecturer in the Department of English.

“Thoroughly modern, accessibly brainy, hilariously eccentric, and beautifully human.” —The New York Times Book Review John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory. In Avenue of Mysteries...

Joins us for a cup of tea, won't you? Katharine Hepburn beckons us into her Connecticut home for a cozy chat and an intimate look at the legend, and the woman behind the legend. Based on the critically acclaimed New York production, the independent, intelligent, feisty Hepburn comes alive once again when Kate Mulgrew, of Star Trek: Voyager fame, slips deftly into the voice and being of the famous actress.

Here is Neil Simon’s acclaimed semi-autobiographical Eugene Trilogy, including Brighton Beach Memoirs. In the first installment of the trilogy, 14-year-old Eugene is preoccupied by his passion for the Yankees and his lust for his beautiful cousin. Biloxi Blues, The second hilarious installment of the Eugene Trilogy follows our naïve hero and his sadistic drill sergeant through boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi.

“This is the hopeful book we all need right now. I loved it!”—Emily Giffin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lies That Bind As Seen on the TODAY SHOW A Southern Living Best Beach Read * A PopSugar Best Book of May * An Us Weekly Summer Beach Staple * A Frolic Under-the-Radar...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE 2020 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE WINNER OF THE ROSENTHAL FAMILY...