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The Bradford-Shmulkin family is falling apart. A very modern blend of Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASP, they love each other deeply but the pressures of life in an unstable America are fraying their bonds.

America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while California is ruled by the Japanese. But between these two states—locked in a cold war—lies a neutral buffer zone in which legendary author Hawthorne Abendsen is rumoured to live. Abendsen lives in fear of his life for he has written a book in which World War Two was won by the Allies . . .

Pride and Prejudice unfolds the timeless tale of spirited Elizabeth Bennet and the brooding Mr. Darcy, set against the elegant backdrop of Regency-era England. This classic Jane Austen novel weaves sharp social commentary with an enduring romance that has captivated readers for over two centuries.

As a prospective barrister, Zaid Saban is on the cusp of achieving everything he has dreamed of. His social and professional world is far removed from his schoolyard days in the suburbs of western Sydney, even more far removed from the traumatic events of his final year of school in which best friend, Hass, was arrested for murder. Zaid thinks he has put all this behind him. But when Hass’s sister, Amira, finds him and asks him to read her brother’s diary, Zaid is pulled back to the very world he had left behind. Is it possible that Hass was innocent?

In 1978, two tenements on Livonia Avenue in Brownsville burn to the ground, killing one resident and displacing dozens of others. It remains unclear who set the buildings ablaze, but the survivors are convinced the culprit is Mr. Wong. Who exactly is Mr. Wong, and what allegedly drove him to this extraordinary act of violence, is the question that consumes this novel as it plunges into four generations of Wong family history.

日銀、東京駅…近代日本を建てた男の一代記！日本銀行本店や東京駅など、近代日本を象徴する建物を矢継ぎ早に設計した、明治を代表する建築家・辰野金吾。

Lent against a lamppost in the black of night as freezing cold rain lashes down from above. He wants to reach the sanctuary of the bar on the other side of the road, but the night and the cold rain and the lack of light make it seem a wide reaching roadway that perhaps is too far for him to stumbling across. Join our protagonist striving to make his way out of the driving rain to the bar that teases just out of reach and leads us to distraction, as haunting lights bedazzle and amaze the eye once we're lost in the abyss of night's darkness.

The Michaelmas Daisy: a contemporary story of loneliness, loyalty, love, finding new friends, and hope. Beverley may be dead, but that doesn’t make it any easier to let go. She watches over her husband and daughter, sharing their pain, laughter, fears and dreams. As she watches, memories of her own life and love for her husband bring comfort and tears in equal measure. Her daughter, Philippa (58, divorced), looks after her ailing father. She does so willingly, but caring for him 24/7 takes great patience and compassion, and such devotion is isolating.

Dans le Finistère, Adam vit heureux avec sa famille, jusqu'au jour où son épouse disparaît. «Besoin d’une pause» est le dernier message envoyé par Lola, avant le silence. Adam doit pour la première fois gérer seul l’hypersensibilité et les étranges cauchemars de Maël, leur fils de 5 ans et demi à l'affût du moindre signe de sa mère. Lola, dévouée et fusionnelle, ne resterait pas sans nouvelles de Maël ! Persuadé qu'elle court un danger, Adam fait appel au détective privé Aimé Bellec pour l’aider à la retrouver.

This prizewinning novel weaves together four animal odysseys in a poignant meditation on migration, displacement, and the inextricable human and natural worlds. In Only a Little While Here, award-winning author María Ospina evokes a sensation birders know well—the gratification to be had through close, humble observation of nature.

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.

Quand on a vingt ans et des poussières, comment concilier l'amour fou, l'impasse des rêves et les conséquences d'un meurtre ? Du grand Cauwelaert : retour sur l'itinéraire d'un écrivain pas comme les autres.

A ragged fur peddler arrives at a remote outpost of the Hudson Bay Company in the winter of 1766 with a lump of gold, claiming that there is plenty more like it further north at a place called Ox Lake. The outpost’s chief factor, Magnus Norton, dreams of instant riches and launches a secret and perilous expedition to find the treasure and bring it back. Led by a family of native guides, the party of prospectors includes Norton’s brutish deputy, John Shaw, and Thomas Hearn, the insular and intellectual first mate from the factory’s whaling sloop.

所謂堅気でない女性を描いて一世を風靡した永井荷風の典型的な作品の一つ。荷風は昭和10年頃から浅草に通い六区の劇場に入り浸っていたといわれているが、時代の風俗や女達をリアルに見つめる姿勢が文章の端々に伺える。戦争も激しくなった昭和19年にこのような作品が書かれたことも彼の個性が伺える。出版されたのは戦後昭和21年。

イギリスの小説家、メアリー・シェリーが匿名で発表した作品。科学者を目指す少年、ヴィクター・フランケンシュタインが主人公で、死んだ人間に生命を吹き込む実験を試みる。

『セロ弾きのゴーシュ』は1934年（昭和9年）、賢治が亡くなって1年後に発表された。
チェロの演奏がなかなか上達しないゴーシュ、夜ごと練習する彼のもとへ様々な動物がやってくる・・。死ぬまで推敲を重ねた賢治の最後の作品とされる名作童話である。
宮沢 賢治（みやざわ けんじ、1896年 - 1933年）岩手県生まれ、童話作家、詩人。郷土をこよなく愛し、作品中にも岩手をモチーフにした架空の理想郷が登場する。

「ある日の暮方の事である。一人の下人が、羅生門の下で雨やみを待っていた。……」生き惑う下人が羅生門で見たものは――。 芥川龍之介の名作「羅生門」を俳優、田島令子と後藤敦が熱演。人のモラルが壊れていく様を、怖いと感じてしまうところまで入って朗読をされています。女優 田島玲子の老婆役の部分は必聴です。 最近では個人のモラル、会社のモラルなど改めてモラルを問う機会が増えています。今一度、この名作を聴いて「モラルの線引きは誰がするのか?」自分自身に問いかけてみてはいかがでしょうか 「ことのは出版オーディオブック作品一覧はhttp://www.kotonoha.co.jpにて」

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Clare and Henry have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was 36. They were married when Clare was 23 and Henry was 31. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity from his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing.