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Across Lagos, one of Africa's largest urban areas and one of the world's most dynamic cities, Osunde’s characters seek out love for themselves and their chosen partners, even as they risk ruining relationships with parents, spouses, family, and friends. As the novel unfolds, a rolling cast emerges: vibrantly active, stubbornly alive, brazenly flawed. As these characters grapple with desire, fear, time, death, and God, they form and break unexpected connections.

In a future San Francisco transformed by years of rain, Bo, a 40-year-old lapsed artist, is grieving the community she’s lost to catastrophic flooding. Her friends and family have disappeared or fled, the streets are rivers, and the buildings are falling apart. Yet on the day of her planned departure, Bo finds a note slipped under her door: I need help, it reads. Three days a week, afternoons. Can pay in cash.

映画化「もしも徳川家康が総理大臣になったら」著者による最新作　読むと、なぜか心が熱くなる。祖父のコンサル会社を継いだ武田倫太郎は幼少期から感性が鋭く、中学の歴史の授業中に、なぜか源義経の霊を見てしまう。

Jeune, naïve et passionnée de romans gothiques, Catherine Morland quitte sa campagne pour découvrir la ville de Bath, ses bals et ses intrigues mondaines. Elle y fait la rencontre de la vive Isabella Thorpe et du séduisant Henry Tilney. Invitée au mystérieux domaine de Northanger Abbey, Catherine laisse libre cours à son imagination débordante… jusqu'à confondre fiction et réalité. Dans ce roman à la fois drôle et subtil, Jane Austen mêle satire sociale, roman d'apprentissage et parodie du genre gothique.

A tea party at an Oxford college. Earnest undergraduates in floral dresses clink cups, discussing essay-crises, punting, summer balls. But to one student, they are grotesquely transformed: she is sitting among ominous armadillos with scaly shells, buzzing with black flies. Then, the laughter comes. As she is engulfed by mirthless hysterics, the Principal has no choice but to send her away.

When Lena Conti—a young, unwed mother—sees immigrant families being forcibly separated on Ellis Island, she vows not to let the officers take her two-year old daughter. But the inspection process is more rigorous than she imagined, and she is separated from her mother and teenage brother, who are labeled burdens to society, denied entry, and deported back to Germany. Now, alone but determined to give her daughter a better life after years of living in poverty and near starvation, she finds herself facing a future unlike anything she had envisioned.

悩んだときには、まずは美味しい料理をどうぞ！　元占い師の女将が常連客たちの結婚の悩みを解きほぐす、人気の人情グルメシリーズ「めぐみ食堂」の仕入れ先である、豊洲市場の鰹節屋の娘が“玉の輿婚”の末、子供を連れて実家に戻ったという

身許引受人の町工場で働きながら、大学に通いはじめた町田。知り合った学生たちの起業を手伝うことにもなり、他人と過ごす時間が彼の心を少しずつ解きほぐしていく。だが、忌まわしい過去は、彼を易々と手離しはしなかった。

30年ぶりにアメリカから帰国し、武蔵野の一角・うらはぐさ地区の伯父の家にひとり住むことになった大学教員の沙希。そこで出会ったのは、伯父の友人で庭仕事に詳しい秋葉原さんをはじめとする、一風変わった多様な人々だった。

王の命で買った賢く美しい女奴隷と宰相の息子の話，ペルシア王と海の王女との間に生まれた王子と海の王国サマンダルの王女との縁談をめぐる話，ダマスの商人の息子がカリフお気にいりの貴婦人を助ける話，

アイドルプロデュースで成功したクロちゃんが、衝撃の恋愛小説家デビュー！唯一無二の世界観で描き出すラブストーリー4篇を収録。

Dans le train qui relie Paris à Hendaye, quatre femmes voyagent dans le même carré famille. Éliane, 82 ans, est une habituée. Depuis que l'amour de sa vie est parti, elle fait ce trajet une à deux fois par mois pour tromper sa solitude. En face d'elle, Lola, une adolescente à fleur de peau, hésite à fuir, mais une petite voix lui souffle de rester à sa place. Quant à Pénélope et Betty, deux sœurs que tout oppose, leurs retrouvailles auraient pu être différentes si elles ne devaient pas se rendre au chevet de leur père malade.

Karriere ist Dating im Anzug. Nach seinem Studium hören die Herausforderungen für Bo Martens nicht auf. Bei der Frage, wie es beruflich weitergeht, hilft ihm der exzentrische Topmanager Dr. Thomas Meermann aufs Pferd, indem er ihn mit zahlreichen voll- oder teilumfänglich hohlen Business-Weisheiten versorgt. Als Bo sich unsterblich in seine Zahnärztin verliebt, quält ihn die Frage, wie ein überdurchschnittlich durchschnittlicher Typ wie er Erfolg bei einer solchen Traumfrau haben könnte.

À l'origine de la série Netflix Hotel Portofino. L'hôtel Portofino n'est ouvert que depuis quelques semaines, que déjà les ennuis s'accumulent pour Bella Ainsworth, sa propriétaire. Les hôtes qu'elle reçoit sont des habitués de la haute société anglaise, et sont donc exigeants et difficiles à satisfaire. Et Bella est la cible d'un politicien local corrompu, alors que l'Italie s'enfonce de plus en plus dans l'ère de Benito Mussolini. Pire encore, son mariage est en difficulté, et ses enfants peinent à se remettre des dégâts de la Grande Guerre.

Nicholas has plenty of reasons to feel unstable: he’s fifteen, the child of divorced parents, living with his absent dad in the bleak Chicago suburbs, and an outsider at school. Then, one day in geometry class, he forgets how to breathe. The doctor says it’s just panic, but Nicholas suspects that his real problem might not be a psychiatric one: maybe the Greek god Pan is trapped inside his body.

Nestled among rugged mountains, in a remote part of Catalonia frequented by wolf hunters, bandits, deserters, ghosts, beasts and demons, sits the old farmhouse called Mas Clavell. Inside, an impossibly old woman lies on her deathbed while family and caretakers drift in and out. All the women who have ever lived and died in that house are waiting for her to join them. They are preparing to throw her a party.

An Israeli woman relocates to America on assignment from her tech company. In an attempt to leave her past behind and adapt entirely to the new culture in which she finds herself, she joins her colleagues on a deer hunt, discovering a surprising acumen for the sport. She fires again and again, refining her skills with every shot.

Oghi wakes in a hospital bed unable to speak or move. The car accident that killed his wife has left him trapped in his own body and under the control of his mother-in-law, as she grieves the loss of her only child. Isolated from his friends and neglected by his nurse, Oghi’s world shrinks to the room he lies in and his memories of his wife, a sensitive woman who found solace in cultivating her garden. But as Oghi remains alone and paralysed, his mother-in-law is hard at work in the garden, uprooting what her daughter had worked so hard to plant and obsessively digging larger and larger holes.

Fee Drummond has taken over the running of the Carnbeg Hydro Hotel following the death of her husband in a speedboat accident. But Fee is not short of enemies who would love to see her fail. Can she hold her nerve? Meanwhile, the staff of the Hydro are having their ‘Potential Superfactors’ assessed by a management guru, a distinguished concert violinist suffers stage fright on the eve of the Edinburgh Festival, and the bank drops a legal bombshell.

A man and a woman walk into a restaurant. The woman expects a lovely night filled with endless plates of samosas. Instead, she finds out her husband is having an affair with a woman named Maggie. A short while after, her chest starts to ache. She walks into an examination room, where she finds out the pain in her breast isn't just heartbreak-it's cancer. She decides to call the tumor Maggie.