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A portrait of the poet as an office worker, plumbing the depths of the spiritual gulf between art and work. It’s the summer of 2017 and D__, a poet working by day as a copywriter at a retail start-up, can’t dispel a creeping sense of dissolution on the horizon. Whether it be the company’s...

This lyrical runaway Swedish hit follows a reclusive, elderly couple who cross paths with a pair of twentysomething newcomers in a small mountain town, revealing an unexpected, shared history and the reclamation of a nearly extinct culture. Meet Máriddja: eccentric, eighty-five years old, and...

A vibrant debut and powerful meditation on family, motherhood, and the cost of holding on to your dreams, reminiscent of Ann Napolitano. In New England, Susan Bliss is a young mother married to a professor. In LA, Susan Byrne stars in a soap opera beloved coast to coast. Decades after she’s...

A big-hearted, wise, unceasingly buoyant novel about a woman who, after escaping a bruising marriage, theorizes that happiness is possible solely with the eradication of all romance--only to find a love that could change her life forever Sylvie Broder was taught early to embrace joy. The...

A trio of women bond in friendship as a neighborhood tries to seek justice from a system that has forgotten them. “The Shape of Dreams is a powerful prayer, a novel that indicts the injustice for which there is no quick solution. . . . [It is] a song of furor and tenderness that will leave its...

“Good People is a stunning read. I could not recommend it more enthusiastically. . . . What a spectacular triumph this book is. This is the Afghan novel I have been eagerly waiting for.”—Khaled Hosseini Zorah Sharaf could do no wrong. Zorah Sharaf brought shame upon her family. What’s...

From the award-winning author of Hula, a dazzling saga about the generations of women tasked with protecting the history and place that made them. A young woman lies comatose in a hospital, watched by her estranged grandmother. Mystery surrounds the woman’s fall—did she jump off the cliff...

Always a rebel, Marianne was the first girl in her class to bleach her hair and learn how to smoke. A few boyfriends and one abortion later she falls in love with Salim, the proud and elegant Pakistani with eyes like treacle. East meets West in a passionate mixed marriage. However, Marianne knows little of the Islamic view of motherhood...

Twenty-two-year-old Jessie has served a two-year sentence for horse rustling. As a condition of her release she is apprenticed to Fitzgerald 'Fitz' Henry, who wants a woman to allay his loneliness in a valley populated by embittered ex-soldiers. Fitz wastes no time in blackmailing Jessie and involving her in his business of horse-rustling and cattleduffing. When Fitz is wounded in an accident he hires an Aboriginal stockman, Jack Brown, to steal horses with Jessie. Soon both Jack Brown and Jessie are struggling in the oppressive and deadening grip of Fitz.

Imogen, the beautiful and much younger wife of distinguished barrister Evelyn Gresham, is facing the greatest challenge of her married life. Their neighbour Blanche Silcox, competent, middle-aged and tweedy - the very opposite of Imogen - seems to be vying for Evelyn's attention. And to Imogen's increasing disbelief, she may be succeeding.

エリート公安捜査官・小日向純也の目の前で自爆テロ事件が起きた。犯人はスペイン語と思しき言葉を残すものの、意味は不明。ダイイングメッセージだけを頼りに捜査を開始した純也だったが、要人を狙う第二、第三の自爆テロへと発展してしまう。

昭和37年、墨田区本所。東京大空襲で焼け落ちた秋山善吉工務店に、両親を亡くした善吉が棟梁となって帰ってきた。高度経済成長の建築ブームのなか、下町で起こる様々な問題に、大工の善吉が体当たりで挑む！

人気作家、矢﨑健介70歳。都内のホテルで知り合った自称「世界一もてない男」に請われ、興味本位でユーチューブ番組への出演を承諾する。カメラの前で矢﨑が語るのは、かつて付き合った女性たちとの激しく、濃密な日々だった──。

神様の伝書鳩・ピースと、幸せ調査員の猫のノラが、あなたに幸せをお届けします。人類に割り当てられた幸せの総量は、あらかじめ定められている。

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。

Alma ist Niemands Tochter. Sie wächst in den Achtzigerjahren in der Eifel auf, doch das kluge und neugierige Mädchen fühlt sich fremd in seiner Familie. Denn um seine Herkunft wird geschwiegen. Zu einer anderen Zeit, an einem anderen Ort vermisst noch eine Frau ihre Mutter schmerzlich – Isabell, die 2019 in Berlin lebt. Diese Leerstelle hat ihre Vergangenheit geprägt und beeinflusst noch immer ihre Gegenwart, ihr Fühlen und Denken und ihr eigenes Familienleben. Als sich Almas und Isabells Wege auf schicksalshafte Weise kreuzen, entfaltet sich zwischen Polaroids und verlorenen Träumen eine Geschichte.

A sweeping epic set in nineteenth-century France on the cusp of revolution, Les Misérables charts the entwined lives of a rich cast of characters. Hugo begins with the story of Jean Valjean, a former convict seeking redemption after nineteen years in prison. Pursued relentlessly by Inspector Javert, Valjean’s narrative takes the reader on a poignant journey of poverty, injustice and hope – as seen with the tragic tale of Valjean’s former employee Fantine, her daughter, Cosette, and the idealistic Marius.

A little girl is missing. Her parents are hiding something. When eight-year-old Jasmine Peterson goes missing, the police want to know everything. With every passing minute, an unstoppable chain of events hurtles towards a tragic conclusion.

For three long years, she has battled with illness, enduring everything with bravery and always with hope. Then one day Emma is told that they've reached the end of the road. While her family and friends are thrown into denial, anger and grief, Emma feels something else: a spark of defiance. There is still life to be lived, still dreams to touch. So she begins to write, not just her story, but the life she's always imagined. And as her body weakens, the line between the life she writes and the life she lives begins to blur...

Am Anfang steht Kristalloma: Eigenhändig baut sie auf einer Industriebrache ein Haus, und das Lusthansa wird ein Zuhause für Frauen, die keines haben. Jahre später formt sich dort unter der Obhut von Kristalloma und ihrem Partner Bruno eine neue Gemeinschaft: Die Freundinnen Maj und Stevie, deren Vater und seine Frau Linde stoßen hinzu. Drei Generationen leben unter dem selbstgebauten Dach zusammen, teilen Paprikasuppe, schauen gemeinsam Astro-TV und passen aufeinander auf. Bis die naheliegende Stadt mit einem Abrissbescheid vor der Tür steht und das Lusthansa um seine Existenz kämpfen muss.