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Against the mythical dreamscape of America, Auster brilliantly weaves the bizarre narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan searching for love, his father, and the key to the riddle of his origin and fate.

江戸時代の日本は徳川将軍家が率いる幕府と、三百諸侯と称された大名家が率いる実数約260もの藩が共同統治する時代であった。

Neva Bradley was going to tell her family that she was pregnant – eventually. The discovery that Neva, a third-generation midwife, is six months pregnant is a surprise for everyone, but her stubborn refusal to identify the father is the greater shock. Her mother, Grace, cannot let this secret rest, even while her own life begins to crumble around her – a scandal that she must keep from her husband at all costs.

Die harten Zeiten scheinen überwunden. Der Teehandel der drei Schwestern beginnt, erste Gewinne abzuwerfen. Da steht eines Tages ein abgerissener Kriegsheimkehrer vor der Tür des Friesenhofes. Es ist Gerold, der als verschollen galt. Gesa hatte die Hoffnung, ihn je wiederzusehen, längst aufgegeben.

Ava Flynn, a once-successful New York attorney, finds herself jobless and heartbroken at fifty-four. When a generous benefactor bequeaths her a house in Nantucket's idyllic Sconset Beach, Ava embarks on a transformative journey with her best friends, Quinn and Hallie, each grappling with their own life-altering challenges. As Ava restores the property into a charming bed and breakfast, she meets Deacon Cromwell, a handsome contractor who challenges her insecurities.

A lush, multigenerational journey across time and continents, from 1920s Ohio to wartime France to modern-day Paris, where music, recipes and DNA reveal the stories they carry and the truths they can no longer hide. At the heart of the story is Audrey Dupré, a teenage piano prodigy who finds herself pregnant and exiled to Paris. Amid war and heartbreak, Audrey works in a vineyard in Beaune and as WWII ends, she is gifted four bottles of exquisite Burgundy. She opens each one at a defining moment in her long life.

Поздней осенью, в последний год XVIII века, в маленький итальянский городок Стеллата на берегу реки По заехал цыганский табор, и прекрасная цыганка Виолка похитила сердце сорокалетнего холостяка Джакомо Казадио. Несмотря на противодействие обеих семей, влюбленные поженились, но однажды Виолка решила раскинуть карты, чтобы узнать, что ждет их в будущем. И карты предрекли ужасную трагедию, которая ожидает кого-то из их потомков...

Leah was awakened from a deep sleep by the wails of a screaming baby. Cupping her hands over her ears to muffle the sounds, which were a cross between a howling cat in heat and the chortling of a hyena, was no match for the insistent noise. It was as if her hands were mere fishnets with open holes, trying to barricade the continual oncoming assault from the baby's lungs.

In 1940s Italy, Ottie’s life is defined by family loyalty and the demands of her domineering father. Sent to work in a British munitions factory near Positano, she finds herself drawn to Hal, a soldier grappling with the horrors of war. As their forbidden love grows, Ottie is forced to confront the expectations of her family and the brutal realities of a country at war.

Six generations of Mason Family men have maintained the black stone bridge that once led to the sugarcane fields of Dieffenbach Plantation, but now leads to a barbed-wire fence separating the town of Diffenbourg, Louisiana from Caesar Oil Company’s petroleum tank farm. Warren Mason was to be the bridge’s next guardian, but his departure has left its upkeep in the hands of his ailing father who has spent his life preserving it, and his myopic older brother who would sacrifice it to settle a class action with Caesar.

With his family fortune dwindling and Penrith Manor and estate falling into disrepair, Sir Phillip Penrith signs over the deeds to Penrith Scar lead mine to his respected manager and illegitimate half-brother Tor Hardy. Emma Watts works at Penrith Manor and is the family's breadwinner following her father's crippling mine accident. Emma's head is turned when Tor saves her virtues from local rogue Ike Hanson, and their unexpected romance begins.

San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1968: A pesar de ciertas dudas, Rafaela Acuña y Daubón decide casarse con Peter Brennan Jr. en un arrebato de optimismo romántico. Sin embargo, no es consciente de hasta qué punto cambiará su vida cuando desarraigue a su joven familia de la isla para instalarse en el Midwest de los Estados Unidos, ni de cómo esta será la primera de muchas decepciones en su vida. En los años ochenta, viendo el aislamiento de su madre en Missouri, la hija de Rafaela, Ruth, decide abandonar la lengua, las costumbres y los recuerdos de su infancia en Puerto Rico.

Jella und Clara sind entschlossen, das Erbe ihrer Mutter zu bewahren - koste es, was es wolle. Während Jella sich ihrer Vergangenheit stellt und das Schweigen über ein dunkles Familiengeheimnis bricht, ringt Clara mit einer Entscheidung: Soll sie ihrem Ehemann in ein neues Leben nach New York folgen, oder auf Sylt bleiben - und damit auch bei dem Mann, den sie wirklich liebt? Als ein Unwetter über die Insel hereinbricht, ist nicht nur die Strandperle in Gefahr, sondern auch das fragile Band zwischen den Schwestern.

La gran voz de la narrativa femenina de nuestro país vuelve con La casa de huéspedes. Una espléndida saga de mujeres tan reales como la vida misma. Madrid, 1937. En el preciso instante en que una bomba cae sobre un edificio del centro de la ciudad, cerca de la Gran Vía, las vidas de dos jóvenes vecinas cambian para siempre. Elvira, cuyos padres regentan la casa de huéspedes ubicada en la tercera planta, se encuentra exiliada de la Guerra Civil en Francia en el momento de la explosión. Sin embargo, la desaparición del hogar al que tanto anhela regresar supondrá un punto y aparte en su destino.

Cormac McCarthy, best-selling author of National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, delivers his first new novel in seven years. Written in muscular prose, No Country for Old Men is a powerful tale of the West that moves at a blistering pace.

Murasaki Shikibu, born into the middle ranks of the aristocracy during the Heian period (794-1185 CE), wrote The Tale of Genji, widely considered the world's first novel, during the early years of the 11th century. Expansive, compelling, and sophisticated in its representation of ethical concerns and aesthetic ideals, Murasaki's tale came to occupy a central place in Japan's remarkable history of artistic achievement and is now recognized as a masterpiece of world literature.

After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen—Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom. As internal political strife and a clash of cultures lead to seemingly inevitable conflict, Blackthorne’s loyalty and strength of character are tested by both passion and loss.

Joachim von Hartmann was born and raised in Buenos Aires by his loving German mother, inseparable from his identical twin. When Joachim moves to Paris with his mother in his late teens, his twin stays behind and enters a dark world. Meanwhile, Joachim begins training to be a butler, fascinated by the precision and intense demands, and goes on to work in some of the grandest homes in England. Olivia White has given 10 years of her life to her magazine. A bequest from her mother allows her a year in Paris to reinvent herself. It is then that her path and Joachim's cross.

Les Misérables is set in Paris after the French Revolution. In the sewers and backstreets, we encounter "the wolf-like tread of crime", and assassination for a few sous is all in a day's work. We weep with the unlucky and heart-broken Fantine, and we exult with the heroic revolutionaries of the barricades; but above all we thrill to the steadfast courage and nobility of soul of ex-convict Jean Valjean, always in danger from the relentless pursuit of the diabolical Inspector Javert.

“The first of my father’s illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels.” So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the strange times encountered by the family Berry. Hoteliers, pet-bear owners, friends of Freud (the animal trainer and vaudevillian, that is), and playthings of mad fate, they “dream on” in a funny, sad, outrageous, and moving novel.