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孤独な弁護士と人殺しの罪を背負う男 僕らは友達になれるだろう？ 二人は「過去」という「籠」から羽ばたけるのか。著書25作目、もっともハートフルな長篇ミステリーの誕生！

Yuki Hirano is just out of high school when his parents enroll him, against his will, in a forestry training program in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. No phone, no internet, no shopping. Just a small, inviting community where the most common expression is “take it easy.” At first, Yuki is exhausted, fumbles with the tools, asks silly questions, and feels like an outcast. Kamusari is the last place a city boy from Yokohama wants to spend a year of his life. But as resistant as he might be, the scent of the cedars and the staggering beauty of the region have a pull.

小6の拓人、忍、宇太佳はスケボーが大好きな仲良し三人組。新たに見つけた格好のスケボー練習場所で出会ったのが神社の管理人、田中さんだ。その日から、11歳と85歳の交流が始まった。いつも穏やかに話を聞いてくれる田中さん。

【原作　吉川英治】歴史をテーマにした大衆小説を多数執筆。史実にもとづいた話の中で、魅力的なキャラクターが活躍する。幅広い読者層に親しまれ「国民文学作家」と呼ばれている。

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved killings. But when a local property developer shows up dead, 'The Thursday Murder Club' finds themselves in the middle of their first live case. The four friends, Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron, might be octogenarians, but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it's too late?

A bestseller in Japan—a beautiful story about shared self-discovery and friendship involving an unlikely group of students who decide to defy the odds and pursue a seemingly impossible goal together.

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Jens er en gammel mand, der er flyttet på plejehjem. Det er han ikke vild med, han vil hellere hjem til sit eget hus. Men på plejehjemmet får han en kælesæl, som han kan tale med, og gradvist opstår en form for venskab mellem dem. For selvom Jens nogle gange får besøg af sin familie, så er det, som om det er nemmest at tale med sælen.

It’s the mid-nineties, and in the small, shitty coastal town of Vincent, Australia, four Nirvana-obsessed fourteen-year-old girls form a grunge band. The Bastards are “forgettable girls”—poor, not particularly clever, ridiculed by their better-off classmates, and desperate to escape the fates of their mothers, who seem locked into a life of minimum-wage jobs, surprise pregnancies, and drunk boyfriends. The Battle of the Bands is the girls’ one ticket out.

Gloria's life is upended when her son, once a promising college athlete, returns home to Florida after dropping out of school in Boston. Desperate to get his life back on track, he's a shell of the confident young man he once was. As Gloria works to rebuild their relationship and help him heal, she's forced to confront her own desires for the future—and whether she's ready to rebuild her own life as well, and finally leave the past behind her.

For A&E nurse Eden Grainger, Port Kara offers more than just a safe haven. It's a chance to break free from her ex Jesse and start a new life. Her focus now is solely on her four-year-old son, Teddie, whose autism means he sees the world in his own unique way.

When Maggie Tang arrives as a transfer student at UC Berkeley in 2005, she has no idea how her life is about to change. In the hallway of her dingy apartment building, she meets Adam, Charles, and Hari, the friends with whom she’ll create Circle, the world’s first major social media platform. But navigating her ambitions alongside love and friendship isn’t so simple, and when they inevitably collide, Maggie exits Circle in dramatic fashion.

Introducing The Last Laugh Club. Four strangers who meet to discuss the one thing they don’t want to talk about. But sometimes, when it rains, it pours. Because retired copper Ray has been mugged. This is unfortunate – mostly for the thief, who ends up dead. Ray should feel guilty. But doesn’t quite. And that’s when The Last Laugh Club finds its calling. There are other bad people out there. People who the world might be better off without. And once you’ve had a taste, murder is strangely moreish . . .

Кэти и Том подружились в кулинарном колледже и теперь надеются покорить Дублин, создав кейтеринговую компанию «Алое перо». Свекровь Кэти не одобряет ни саму невестку, ни ее новое «хобби», в то время как муж Кэти Нил настолько занят работой, что не обращает внимания на все остальное. У Тома свои трудности. Тому и Кэти предстоит пережить непростой и вместе с тем счастливый год — их ожидают взлеты и падения, боль и радость, горькие неудачи и вдохновенные победы.

Niklas, Anfang 30, gerade arbeitslos geworden und irgendwie entwurzelt, entscheidet sich für eine Auszeit in Andalusien. Dort begegnet er Señor Gonzalez, einem alten Gärtner, der seit Jahrzehnten Gemüse auf natürliche Weise anbaut, »immer mit der Natur als Freund und Gehilfe«. Zuerst besucht Niklas den alten Mann hin und wieder, dann hilft er ihm täglich einige Stunden bei der Gartenarbeit. Dabei lernt Niklas nicht nur etwas über den Anbau von Tomaten, sondern vor allem etwas über Gelassenheit und Achtsamkeit.

When a spell gone wrong brings more than just magic to Theo Brylar’s life, things in Adenashire get a little… purrplexing. Suddenly, cats of all shapes and sizes are drawn to him, much to the amusement of Faylin the forest lynx (and Theo’s “house cat”). But when someone suggests opening a cat café next to Arleta’s bakery, Theo finds himself juggling more than feline antics.

Als Influencerin Anouk eine neue Mitbewohnerin sucht, sieht die unscheinbare Delia darin die perfekte Gelegenheit für einen Neuanfang. Sie zieht als Lilly ein und will endlich die werden, die sie immer sein wollte: eine selbstbewusste Bühnenautorin. Anouk wiederum glaubt, Lilly für ihre eigenen Zwecke nutzen zu können, und lässt sie immer mehr in ihr Leben.

"Non c'è posto al mondo che io ami di più della cucina". Così comincia il romanzo di Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen. Le cucine, nuovissime e luccicanti o vecchie e vissute, riempiono i sogni della protagonista Mikage, rimasta sola al mondo dopo la morte della nonna, e rappresentano il calore di una famiglia sempre desiderata. Ma la famiglia si può non solo scegliere, ma anche inventare. Così il padre del giovane amico Yuichi può diventare o rivelarsi madre e Mikage può eleggerli come propria famiglia, in un crescendo tragicomico di ambiguità.

Kayleigh Morris is just trying to survive her first year at St. Kellum’s University. Freshers’ Week is a blur of social anxiety, parties, and the weight of trying to fit in. But when Kayleigh’s panic attack becomes the talk of the campus, she retreats into herself, shutting herself away in her room. Everything changes when she’s selected for a mysterious new module, led by Professor Lady Marian, who introduces her and a group of misfits to a psychedelic drug believed to cure anxiety and promote productivity.

An all-new recording published for the 100th anniversary of The Great Gatsby, this production presents the enduring original text, updated with the author’s own revisions, a foreword by his granddaughter, and with an introduction by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.