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「東京に逃げることにしたの」。高校を卒業してまもなく、同級生だった順子から清美に連絡が入る。二十も年上の男と駆け落ちするという。

1934年上海。「魔都」と呼ばれるほど繁栄と悪徳を誇るこの地に成功を夢見て渡ってきた日本人の青年・吾郷次郎。租界で商売をする彼のもとへ、原田ユキヱという謎めいた女から極上の阿片と芥子の種が持ち込まれる。

特養老人ホーム「敬徳苑」で入所者が何者かに殺害された。第一発見者の介護員・清水穂香はストーカー被害に悩むシングルマザー。

「ホームレス中学生」を知らない世代に、もう一度、読んでほしい。「うんこの神様」「味の向こう側」を再び、小・中学生に届けたい。日本全国が涙した、子が思う、親への愛。川島 明さん推薦！

On a small liberal arts campus in upstate New York, Charlotte begins her final year with a lie. Charlotte had never been close with her classmates but as she repeats her tale, their expressions soften into kindness. All she needs to do is keep control of the threads that hold her lie – and her life – together. But six thousand miles away, alone in the grey two-up-two-down Staffordshire terrace she grew up in, her father is very much alive, watching television and drinking beer.

Nobody at the corporate offices of Athletius Japan knows much about the massage therapist, Jackson, but rumors abound. He used to work as a model. He likes to party. He's mixed race—half-Japanese, half-somewhere-in-Africa-n. He might be gay. Fueling the gossip is the sudden appearance of a violent pornographic video featuring a man who looks a lot like Jackson. When Jackson serendipitously meets three other queer mixed-race guys, he learns he's not the only one being targeted. Together they concoct a plan...

Susan Bliss is trying to make it all work. Her growing stardom in L.A., where she's a regular on the nation's favorite TV show. And her less lauded role as wife in New England, married to a history professor and raising young twins. But the past can't stay hidden forever, and as the teenaged twins pursue the secrets their mother left behind, they spin off in different directions.

When teenager Nora Sheehan fatally shoots her brother Nico in their family home one evening, her parents’ lives are left shattered. Nico had been diagnosed with a terminal illness – was what Nora did an act of mercy, or something far darker? And what will happen to her now, alone in a juvenile detention centre awaiting trial, unable or unwilling to speak? Out of their depth, Angie and David Sheehan turn to local lawyer Martine Dumont for help.

When the Kitchen God is challenged by the Jade Emperor to fathom the workings of the human heart, he chooses to trace the lives of Jinyi and his wife, Yuying, from their blossoming love until their old age, in hope of finding an answer. The Kitchen God watches as government strictures split their family in two, living inside their hearts as they endure the losses of two children, homesickness, and isolation—all while keeping alive a love that survives famine, forced labor, and even death.

Agathe leaves New York and returns to her home in the French countryside, after fifteen years away. She and her sister Véra have not seen each other in all those years, and they carry the weight of their own complicated lives. But now their father has died, and they must confront their childhood home on the outskirts of a country estate ravaged by a nearby fire before it is knocked down. They have nine days to empty it. As the pair clean and sift through a lifetime’s worth of belongings, old memories, and resentments surface.

Aleksy still remembers the last summer he spent with his mother in Northern France. At eighteen, eager to fly the nest and escape a family still grief-stricken by the death of his sister years earlier, these lazy months in the countryside are akin to torture. And then, his mother tells him she’s dying.

Set against a backdrop of steaming cups of tea, freshly baked cakes, and lovely company, The Awakening of Miss Prim is a distinctive and delightfully entertaining tale of literature, philosophy, and the search for happiness.

Simón López Trujillo’s “mind-blowing” (Gabriela Cabezón Cámara) debut takes listeners into a dry and degraded, fire-prone landscape where humanity has encroached a step too far into the natural world, and a deadly fungus mounts its own resistance....

The USA TODAY bestselling author of Middletide returns with a lush and atmospheric novel of suspense following a young woman whose job as a game warden puts her in the path of a murderer in a small town eager to protect its own.

It’s 2015 and Maxine Thomas, the founder and creative director of the cult makeup company Reveal, has just been suspended by her own Board for a scandalous transgression. Housebound in her New York City apartment, where she awaits the verdict on her future, Max recounts her version of the events that have brought her to this moment.

After being fired for taking an uncharacteristic risk at her commodities trading job, Bea Macon sublets her New York apartment and books a one-way ticket to stay with her mother, Christy, a free spirit who has been living in Salt Lake City on Bea's dime. Usually the responsible one, Bea isn't about to admit exactly why she's suddenly decided to visit, but she isn’t the only one keeping secrets: Christy has a man. She has a map. She has . . . a username on a forum devoted to unearthing $1 million in buried treasure that an antiquities dealer claims to have hidden somewhere in the western U.S.?

“I can’t remember the last time a novel made me laugh so hard or feel so much tenderness for its characters.” —Leslie Jamison, author of Splinters “Madeline Cash is a voice like no other.” —Lena Dunham “I’ve read entire books that contain less wit and inventiveness than a...

1869. Tibet is closed to Europeans, an infuriating obstruction for the rap­idly expanding British Empire. In response, Britain begins training Indians—permitted to cross borders that white men may not—to undertake illicit, dangerous surveying expeditions into Tibet. Balram is one such surveyor-spy, an Indian schoolteacher who, for several years, has worked for the British, often alongside his dearest friend, Gyan. But Gyan went missing on his last expedition and is rumored to be imprisoned within Tibet.

Selma Lagerlöf ist die erste Frau, die den Literatur-Nobelpreis verliehen bekam. Ihre Prosa besticht durch eine überaus klare und flüssige Sprache, welche Situationen herbeiführt, innerhalb derer die vermittelten Gedanken tiefes moralisches und zwischenmenschliches Verständnis beweisen. Sehr lebensnah und humorvoll mit starkem Gespür für die menschliche Natur ist Lagerlöf in der Lage Charaktere zu schaffen, deren Geschichten berühren und zum Träumen und Nachdenken anregen.

姫川（ひめかわ）班が捜査に加わったチンピラ殺人事件。暴力団同士の抗争も視野に入れて捜査が進む中、「犯人（ホシ）は柳井健斗（やないけんと）」というタレ込みが入る。ところが、上層部から奇妙な指示が下った。