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Monica Tsai spends most days on her computer coding for a program that seeks to connect strangers online. A self-confessed recluse, she finds herself escaping into a digital world, counting the days until she can return home to her beloved grandparents. Now in their nineties, Monica worries about them—especially her grandmother Yun whose memory has begun to fade. Monica has become intent on tracking down the long-lost cousin Meng that her grandmother was separated from back in China before it’s too late.

Monica Tsai spends most days on her computer, journaling the details of her ordinary life and coding for a program that seeks to connect strangers online. A self-proclaimed recluse, she's always struggled to make friends and, as a college freshman, finds herself escaping into a digital world, counting the days until she can return home to her beloved grandparents. They are now in their nineties, and Monica worries about them constantly—especially her grandmother, Yun, who survived two wars in China before coming to the States, and whose memory has begun to fade.

A Language of Limbs is a breathtaking spin on a will-they-won’t-they love story; it is a tender epic that explores the weight of a choice, the love of community, and how joy is found in even the darkest corners.

In the summer of 1980, astrophysics professor Joan Goodwin begins training to be an astronaut at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilots Hank Redmond and John Griffin; mission specialist Lydia Danes; warm-hearted Donna Fitzgerald; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer. As the new astronauts prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined and begins to question everything she believes about her place in the observable universe.

From the bestselling and award-winning author of the Patrick Melrose novels, a hilarious and moving story about a group of wildly different characters whose fates are improbably yet inextricably linked—a novel about extinction and survival, inheritance and loss, written with St. Aubyn’s trademark wit and inimitable style

1982. Dawn is a young mother, still adjusting to life with her husband, when Hazel lights up her world like a torch in the dark. Theirs is the kind of connection that’s impossible to resist, and suddenly life is more complicated, and more joyful, than Dawn ever expected. But she has responsibilities and commitments. She has a daughter.

On an ordinary summer morning, the world is changed by the appearance of seven mysterious doors that seemingly lead to another world. People are, of course, mesmerized and intrigued: A new dimension filled with beauty and resources beckons them to step into an adventure. But, perhaps inevitably, people soon learn that what looks like paradise may very well be filled with danger.

High in the Appalachian mountains is a place quite unlike any other. The Avallon Hotel and its enigmatic General Manager, June Hudson, are famed for offering unrivalled luxury, season after season, to those who come from far and wide to indulge in its beautiful hot springs and take the healing waters. Everything is perfect. Perhaps too perfect.

世代を超えて読み継がれてきた感動作　32歳になっても幼児なみの知能しかないチャーリイ・ゴードン。そんな彼に夢のような話が舞いこんだ。大学の先生が頭をよくしてくれるというのだ。

Eine verbotene Liebe und die Chance auf neues Glück in Paris. Die verschwundene Tochter ist der 5. Familiengeheimnis-Roman der romantisch-dramatischen Familiensaga Die verlorenen Töchter. Paris, 1939. Mit zitternden Händen hält Evelina den Brief ihres Geliebten, während ihr Blick über die glitzernde Skyline schweift. "Ich weiß, dass ich dich nicht verdiene, mein Schatz, aber ich bete, dass du deine Meinung änderst. Dir gehört mein Herz, und ich hoffe, dass uns nichts mehr trennen wird …". London, heute.

In the 1950s Gulf Country of Queensland’s far North, black and white cultures collide in a thousand ways as Aboriginal spirituality clashes with the complex brutality of colonisation at St Dominic’s Mission. When Ivy Koopundi and her mother arrive at the Mission, they are immediately separated and Ivy’s life changes irrevocably. Years later, Mary, a young woman who is working for a city-based Aboriginal Coalition, visits the old Mission and learns of her mother’s and grandmother’s suffering there.

Mayfair, 1910. At the age of 90, Florence Nightingale is frail and no longer of sound mind. After a celebrated career as a nurse, writer and statistician, she now leads a reclusive existence. One summer evening she is astonished to receive a visitor – a young man named Silas Bradley, who claims to have met her during the Crimean War 55 years ago. But how can this be? And how does the elusive Jean Frawley connect their two lives? Nightingale is a luminous tale of faith and love, bravery and care, and the vitality of women's work.

Marnie is 63 and downwardly mobile. Her middle-class marriage is long gone, her only child more or less estranged. She's living in a granny flat behind a stranger's house. Still, things could be worse. She likes her new boss, Trinh, and her flat has a leadlight window depicting a galleon in full sail. Also, her daughter Lenny has just brought Marnie's adored grandchildren to stay. She's also brought her repellent boyfriend and raging drug habit, so nothing new there. But this time it's different. This time Marnie can see with absolute clarity the danger the children are in.

Pompous, vain and a self-professed charmer, George Brewster moves from one unfulfilling journalism job to the next, one empty relationship to another, his faithful wife and daughter ever the afterthought. The Well Dressed Explorer is the story of a man of his time, but as a story of toxic workplaces and an Australia where comfort and self-interest breed men like George, it might well feel familiar to a new generation of listeners.

警視庁公安庶務課、通称「公安J」。類稀なる身体能力、海外で傭兵として活動したことによる豊富な経験、莫大な財産を持つ小日向純也が率いる公安の特別室である。ある日、警視庁公安部部長・長島のもとへドイツの駐在武官が一緒に自衛隊閲覧式へ行ってほしいとやって来た。一緒に向う長島だったが、式にて日本国総理大臣でもあり純也の父でもある和臣が狙撃されてしまう。

もう会えないあなたに、伝えたいことがある。生前に託された依頼人の遺品配送サービス「天国宅配便」シリーズの第二弾。

大学の客員教授、久和が窃盗と公務執行妨害の容疑で逮捕された。運転する車の中から、血の付いた他人の財布が発見されたのだ。

本当に「あの日」に戻ることができたなら。そんな切実な思いが叶えられる――それが鎌倉一条神社。

「こぶ男の物語」の続きで，殺人の罪を着せられた三人の一人，仕立屋が語るおしゃべりな床屋と，その五人の兄たちの抱腹絶倒の物語．

迫られる攘夷か、開国か――。嘉永六年(一八五三年)六月、浦賀にその姿を現した四隻のアメリカ軍艦。強大な武力をもって日本に開国を求める艦隊司令長官・ペリーの対応に幕府は苦慮していた。