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While aiming for the bright lights of Broadway, Elise misses her target and is instead thrown into the chaos of Mumbai, dancing in Bollywood blockbusters. The richness of India ignites a deep desire for travel, but when the sudden death of a loved one draws her home, Elise is overcome with hopelessness. Her despair transforms into an eating disorder that consumes the next five years of her youth. Determined to discover her unrecognised potential, Elise makes radical changes and, amid these modifications, finds love.

イーハトーヴの大きな森。木こりの息子として生まれたグスコーブドリは、冷害による飢饉で両親を失い、妹は人さらいに連れていかれてしまいます。一人後に残されたブドリは、森でてぐす工場をたてた男を手伝いますが、火山の噴火で工場は閉鎖。その後沼ばたけで農業に携わりますが、そこでも寒さと旱魃の影響で職を失います。イーハトーヴの市へ出たブドリはクーボー大博士のところで勉強し、イーハトーヴ火山局でペンネンナーム技師のところで働くことになります―。

The crumbling Gothic mansion of Thornwalk, long-term home of the Gilbert family, is being handed over to a chain of luxury 'historic' hotels. Millions will be spent in its restoration. But for every 'improvement', what will be lost? What value can there possibly be in a threadbare carpet, a tarnished spoon and a thousand empty jam jars? Before the hotel people arrive, with their clipboards and their skips and their bottles of bleach, Maximus, loyal guardian of the Gilberts' legacy, invites us on a final tour of the once-stately home, where each room holds a secret.

Osman Warning is a gripping, thought-provoking book that explores the chilling consequences of a threat to life and the ripple effect it has on an ordinary family. Inspired by the real-life case of the Osman family, this fictionalized account follows the journey of Yasmin and Ali Osman as they struggle to protect themselves and their loved ones from a seemingly unstoppable danger. As the family grapples with mounting fear, paranoia, and a shattered sense of safety, they must rely on each other and the support of their community.

In this charming patchwork of fever dreams and memories, Pirkko Saisio transports us to the 1950s Finland of her youth, where she navigates life as an only child of communist parents. Convinced she will grow up to become a man, a young Pirkko keeps trying and failing to meet the expectations of the adults around her. But as she discovers that she can be the narrator of her own story, it is in language that she finds a refuge and a way to be seen at last.

Paris, 1924. The Olympics. Lucy Morton, an ambitious Blackpool swimmer waits to find out if she’s won against her American rival. If she has, she’ll be the first British woman to win Gold in an individual event. If she has, it’ll upset the apple cart. The Americans have been sweeping the boards and, at 26, she’s a veteran in the sport. If she has, it’ll be despite the car accident she was in just 48 hours before, which saw her lose five teeth, crack a rib and be out cold until the morning of the biggest race of her life.

The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. Miyamoto Musashi becomes a reluctant hero to a host of people whose lives he has touched and by whom he has been touched. Inevitably, he has to pit his skill against the naked blade of his greatest rival.

This is a memoir with a side of murder (90% fiction)! In this book, I retell the story (through the character Rae) about my time working at the hottest salon in Richmond, Virginia. In the book, the salon owners buy a building and renovate it into a high-end salon. Hiring new people is tricky but when they start having accidents they begin to notice that something is amiss. The employees begin to get nervous, looking over their shoulders and into each other's business. A group of them decide to keep tabs on some sketchy activities that the manager is doing.

Land Where My Fathers Died is the story of a young man's search for identity, love, and his place in the world. While incarcerated six years for a murder he never committed, Jo Shelby Ferguson lost his only family in a highway accident. Upon his release from the Mississippi state penal farm, a trunk, the only earthly possession left to him, yields several bundles of old letters. Upon reading the first letter, he discovers they are written by his great-great-great grandmother.

Michael Frayn's classic is set in the crossword and nature notes department of an obscure national newspaper during the declining years of Fleet Street, where John Dyson dreams wistfully of fame and the gentlemanly life—until one day his great chance of glory at last arrives.

In a small modern day little village of Ingleton, the family of Wilsons have always had a reputation. Living in a huge manor overlooking the town full of history, they are also well known for being a family of witches, reaching back to the 1600s. When a thick fog lays over the village and begins to spread across the neighbouring towns and cities, bringing the undead and spirits of the underworlds with it, it is up to the Wilson witches.

Hanna Sheehy Skeffington was a beacon of light in the early 1900s with her campaigns for women’s right to vote and right to education. Hanna was a prolific activist and organiser. She was the only woman to be chosen to be on the provisional government post 1916 Rising, if it had succeeded. She is a legendary figure for Irish feminism. This Play is about Hanna Sheehy Skeffington on hunger strike in Mountjoy. She is joined by James Connolly in Mountjoy prison. In 1913 both were in Mountjoy prison and both went on hunger strike. The people are real and of great historical importance.

Francesco Lentini nasce con tre gambe, quattro piedi, sedici dita e due genitali, in una Sicilia di fine Ottocento dove la sua vita si prospetta misera e inevitabilmente destinata alla vergogna. Finché a nove anni l'incontro con un impresario gli cambia la vita: Francesco diventa Frank e si trasferisce negli Stati Uniti, dove la sua «mostruosità» diventa una «meraviglia» per tutti gli avventori dei circhi, delle fiere e dei freak show.

Nelle sue molte vite, Diana Karenne è stata qualsiasi cosa: straniera misteriosa, femme fatale, zingara, cantante, imprenditrice cinematografica, spia, suora strappata al convento, santa, contessa, regina, zarina. Prima che il tempo ne cancellasse ogni ricordo, fra il 1916 e il 1919 è stata soprattutto la più affascinante diva del cinema muto italiano. Diana si destreggia fra aristocratici, diplomatici, produttori dalla fama di banditi, attori a caccia di conquiste, sempre inseguita dal sospetto di essere una spia. Si sposta da Roma a Torino, da Milano a Napoli e Genova.

宮本百合子によるフロレンス・ナイチンゲールの生涯を描いた短編小説

人々を自然の災害から救おうと、命がけで立ち向かうグスコーブドリの壮大な物語。 後編は「クーボー大博士」から最終章「カルボナード島」です。 イーハトーブの市に出てクーボー大博士に認められたブドリは、イーハトーブ火山局に雇われます。ペンネン技師の教えで火山活動の観測を始めたブドリは噴火を事前に鎮めることに成功、幸せな生活を送ります。やがて、異常気象から人々を守ろうと対策を思いついたのですが…。飛行船に乗る博士が登場したり、地震感知の測定器を張り巡らしたり、と賢治の想像力は未来の科学の発展を見通していたようです。 三上博史の朗読は聴き手をドキドキ、ワクワクさせ、物語のスケールの大きさを巧みに伝えます。

世界の歴史を動かしてきた人物たち、総勢415名の伝記・小伝をまとめたオーディオブック。
要点をかんけつにまとめ、きちんと文学性をもった文章によって語られる内容は、
大人にも子どもにも分かりやすくしっかりと真実を伝えることができます。

さらにはじめから順に聞いていくことによって歴史の流れをきちんとつかむことができ、
それぞれの人物たちの歴史が大きくつながっていることに気がつきます。

ただ歴史を学ぶだけではなく、偉人たちの「夢」や「情熱」に触れることによって、
子どもたちの心の成長につながるかもしれません。

お休みの日に、夜寝る前に、ぜひ子どもたちに聞かせてあげてください。

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人々を自然の災害から救おうと、命がけで立ち向かうグスコーブドリの壮大な物語をお届けします。 前編は「森」、「てぐす工場」、「沼ばたけ」です。 木こりの家に生まれ、幼年時代を森で幸せに暮らすブドリ。しかし十才の年に村は突然飢饉に襲われ、両親は家を出て行方不明になってしまいます。そしてその後にやってきたのは、蚕で一儲けしようという男。それも火山の噴火で失敗し、ブドリは森を出て沼ばたけで一生懸命働きますが…。 三上博史が、荒々しい大人と少年のやりとりを素朴に情感を込めて語ります。

"Dans "L'Amant", Marguerite Duras reprend sur le ton de la confidence les images et les thèmes qui hantent toute son œuvre. Ses lecteurs vont pouvoir ensuite descendre ce grand fleuve aux lenteurs asiatiques et suivre la romancière dans tous les méandres du delta, dans la moiteur des rizières, dans les secrets ombreux où elle a développé l'incantation répétitive et obsédante de ses livres, de ses films, de son théâtre."

On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. Neither parent knows that one of the children will not survive the week.

In the century's darkest time, one man became the most unlikely of heroes. German-Catholic industrialist and Nazi Party member Oskar Schindler used his wealth and influence to save the lives of more than 1,300 Jews who would have otherwise died in the concentration camp at Plaszow. Here is the story on which Steven Spielberg based his powerful motion picture. If you like this, try Ursula Hegi's Stones from a River.

Legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style - the iconic little black dress - and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No. 5. Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. The Queen of Paris, the new novel from award-winning author Pamela Binnings Ewen, vividly imagines the hidden life of Chanel during the four years of Nazi occupation in Paris in the midst of WWII - as discovered in recently unearthed wartime files.

Aus dem Urlaub nach Wien zurückgekehrt findet der Schriftsteller R. den Brief einer ihm unbekannten Frau vor, die sich schon früh in ihn verliebt und einst mit ihm drei Liebesnächte verbracht hatte. Dabei ist ein Kind entstanden. R. hat die junge Frau damals rasch für eine andere verlassen, von dem Kind weiß er nichts. Um es zu versorgen, arbeitet die Unbekannte als Prostituierte und hat für Geld später nochmals mit R. geschlafen. Doch der kann sich bei bestem Willen an nichts mehr erinnern.

【解説】 宮沢賢治童話の名作シリーズの第１として、４編を収録。 代表的名作の「銀河鉄道の夜」では、ジョバンニは、父親が北の海に漁に出かけたまま消息がわからず、母親も病気なので、家計を助けるために働いている。子供たちからは仲間はずれにされるが、カムパネルラだけは優しくしてくれた。ある日、いじめっ子のザネリたちにからかわれ、丘の草原に寝転んで星空を見上げていたところ、目の前がぱっと明るくなり、気が付くとカムパネルラとともに銀河鉄道に乗っていた。鳥捕りらいろいろな人々と出会ったが、やがて誰もいなくなり、二人だけになった。そして、カムパネルラもいなくなる。その意味は、目が覚めたところで明らかになる・・・。 「グスコーブドリの伝記」の主人公は、イーハトーヴの森に、名高い木こりの子として生まれたグスコーブドリ。妹ネリと毎日楽しく遊んでいたが、ある日、父親が森に行ったまま帰らず、それを探しに行った母親もそれっきりになってしまった。そして、突然やってきた男がネリを連れていってしまい、とうとうブドリは一人ぽっちになってしまう。 それからある農場で雇われて懸命にオリザ作りに励んだ。それが縁でクーボー大博士と出会い、火山局の仕事を得る。イーハトーヴには三百幾つの火山があり、その働き具合は手にとるようにわかって来た。やがて、地球に大寒波がやってきた。クーボー博士が言うには、「カルボナード火山島が爆

The greatest moment in Roman history, from the perspective of the man who could have had it all.Julius Caesar is dead. Mark Antony, his second in command, is surely also in the sights of the assassins.But for Antony, where there is danger, there is opportunity. Can he seize the chance, and replace Caesar as Rome's undisputed ruler? The portents are good until a young man named Octavian appears, claiming to be Caesar's heir... The following months and years are a time of shifting alliances, betrayals and score-settling.

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant Nobel-prize-nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results.

The politics of empire-building and the hypocrisies, back-stabbings, and corruptions of Rome's first family come to light. First published in 1934, the book retains a marvelously modern and often comic tone, and is written in the form of Claudius' autobiography. This is gripping stuff, read by one of our finest actors, who also starred as Claudius in the classic television series.

Born into rural poverty, Gabrielle Chanel and her siblings are sent to an orphanage after their mother's death. The sisters nurture Gabrielle's exceptional sewing skills, a talent that will propel the willful young woman into a life far removed from the drudgery of her childhood.

« L'innocence volée de ma tendre enfance plane sur mon être depuis le début de ma vie, l'innocence violée et mes années de souffrance, lorsqu'un un père a volé ma fraîcheur et mes envies ! » De rendez-vous à l'hôpital en interrogatoires de police, Astrid fut bientôt prise en charge par la direction des affaires sanitaires et sociales qui a organisé son placement en famille d'accueil le temps de trouver une institution. Alors elle se revoit placée chez la voisine du dessus, chez des amis ou de simples relations, chez des oncles ou des tantes.

世界の歴史を動かしてきた人物たち、総勢415名の伝記・小伝をまとめたオーディオブック。
要点をかんけつにまとめ、きちんと文学性をもった文章によって語られる内容は、
大人にも子どもにも分かりやすくしっかりと真実を伝えることができます。

さらにはじめから順に聞いていくことによって歴史の流れをきちんとつかむことができ、
それぞれの人物たちの歴史が大きくつながっていることに気がつきます。

ただ歴史を学ぶだけではなく、偉人たちの「夢」や「情熱」に触れることによって、
子どもたちの心の成長につながるかもしれません。

お休みの日に、夜寝る前に、ぜひ子どもたちに聞かせてあげてください。

※本商品は「せかい伝記図書館」(いずみ書房刊)をオーディオ化したものです。

本オーディオブックを全部走りながらお聴きいただいたら、約 46 km、2816 kcal 消費できます。