検索キーワード： アメリカ

“Beauty is possible even when it appears impossible. An astounding book.” —Joy Harjo, author of Washing My Mother's Body Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Jake Skeets’s highly anticipated second collection patiently tracks the impacts of climate change on the land and its myriad inhabitants...

Spending her days as a resort maid and nights as a casino entertainer, Bree Faust yearns for change no matter which role she plays. With her adult life barely started at twenty-two, Bree feels stuck in her legacy role as Lady Luck. Between her demanding, gambling grandmother and deep betrayals...

“Park’s prose is often gripping, and the novel is always readable.”—Kirkus Reviews Unraveling Eunjoo’s heritage is a bit like mining for gold—painstaking and seemingly futile. Her family’s Korean past and the conditions of their subsequent immigration are as hazy and ever-changing...

The electric story of two sisters and an unthinkable betrayal. Mira Guhathakurta is a poetry editor at a distinguished literary magazine in New York, a dream job that has given her nearly everything she's always wanted. And then she reconnects with Jack from college—kind, funny, intelligent...

A Goodreads Editors’ Pick | A Boston Globe Best Book of the Summer | A Time and LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year | A People Most Anticipated Summer Read A spellbinding story collection from Booker Prize finalist Ruth Ozeki, about the lives we almost lived, the people we can’t quite...

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Dennis explores the expansiveness and complexity of universal virtues within the realm of the everyday in this thought-provoking new collection Though most of the virtues that interest Carl Dennis in Earthly Virtues have traditional names, they are provided with...

The Circular Study By Anna Katharine Green Anna Katharine Green is considered a pioneer in American detective fiction, known for her legally accurate plots and the invention of the "girl detective" trope. Classic detective novel The Circular Study features New York Police Detective Ebenezer Gryce, who is drawn out of a melancholic pre-retirement by a bizarre murder. Set in a New York brownstone, a man is found stabbed in a secured, unique, circular study, involving a mute servant, hidden metal barriers, and a mysterious woman. BOOK I.

Annabel Lee: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories. It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.

"The Bells" is a heavily onomatopoetic poem by Edgar Allan Poe which was not published until after his death in 1849. It is perhaps best known for the diegetic use of the word "bells". The poem has four parts to it; each part becomes darker and darker as the poem progresses from "the jingling and the tinkling" of the bells in part 1 to the "moaning and the groaning" of the bells in part 4.

Love, in all its forms, is both a revelation and a puzzle. It is the one human experience that defies simple definitions yet exists within every language. Across centuries, poets, philosophers, and lovers alike have tried to unwrap its mystery—each discovering that love cannot be defined, only seen and felt deep.

Meg, onze ans, a appris à ne compter sur personne. Depuis que sa mère l'a abandonnée, elle fait partie des grandes filles « inadoptables » de l'orphelinat, où elle se bat chaque jour pour garder espoir malgré le mépris et la cruauté de la présidente. Birdie, missionnée d'aller retrouver sa sœur récemment mariée à un riche banquier pour sauver sa famille ruinée, découvre un foyer parfait en apparence mais qui repose en réalité sur un tissu de mensonges.

Sometimes the road home runs through everything you tried to forget. After a failed relationship and an unsettled teaching career, Sara Barlow returns to her childhood home in Arlington, Virginia, hoping for a fresh start. But when she applies for a job at her old high school, a chance glimpse into the gymnasium shakes her to the core—she spots the man she suspects was involved in a classmate’s violent death a decade earlier.

New poems on love, family, and art from the author of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden America, A Love Story is Camille T. Dungy's powerful testament to living and loving as a Black woman and mother in today's America, and her first book of poetry in almost a decade. Piercingly honest...

Dreams: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories. Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream! My spirit not awak'ning, till the beam Of an Eternity should bring the morrow: Yes! tho' that long dream were of hopeless sorrow, 'Twere better than the dull reality

En el año 2014, Carlos Carballo es arrestado por intentar robar de un museo el traje de paño de Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, líder político asesinado en Bogotá en 1948. Carballo es un hombre atormentado que busca señales para desentrañar los misterios de un pasado que lo obsesiona. Pero nadie, ni siquiera sus amigos más cercanos, sospecha las razones profundas de su obsesión.

" Je suis sur ta clavicule, sur ton poignet, dans tes mains. Je suis dans tes cheveux, sur ton sein, dans tes yeux. Je regarde ta bouche, tes mouvements, ta robe. Je te connais sans te connaître, Enriqueta. " La vie d'Enriqueta bascule le 18 août 1936, quand, en quelques minutes, elle doit...

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 an dem geistigen Auge vorüberzuziehen scheinen.

Now in development as a Hallmark channel original series, this bestselling series is perfect for fans of feel-good mysteries with a Southern twist. So pull up a camp chair, pour yourself a mason jar of sweet tea, and get ready to solve a mystery—because in Normal, the only thing you can expect...

Seeking a fresh start, Jamie, a newly widowed mother of two, moves her family from a busy metropolis to a small Southern town. Their temporary accommodation is a colonial mansion in the heart of the Lowcountry. Formerly a rice plantation, this home is now a den of suspended souls, the darkest of which resides in the attic.

From the award–winning author of Fiebre Tropical, an electric, highly anticipated novel set in Colombia’s underground queer scene. It is a known fact that the queens who refuse their destiny are haunted. Rejection turns itself inward, a bullet to the heart of said queen, and unleashes, per...