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An infant is left on the doorstep of Saint Michael's Orphanage in the winter of 1936 with only an engraved medallion to mark his identity. Marvin Saint Michael grows up under the watchful gaze of the nuns and priests, yet his upbringing is anything but loving. Marvin learns from an early age to keep his mouth shut, to obey, and to refrain from questioning the authority figures that surround him. For when one disobeys, severe repercussions are handed out . . .

※本オーディオブックは書籍の一部シーンのみの抜粋版です※　海沿いの町に暮らす高校２年生・瀬山流星は、中学の時の部活動退部をきっかけに、人との距離を置くようになる。本当は友だちと仲良くしたいし、青春を謳歌したい。そう思ってはいるものの、どうして良いかわからず、流星はぼっちのまま。

８つの物語の「軌跡」を奇跡の構成力で描き切った、『同志少女よ、敵を撃て』を超える最高傑作。底が抜けた社会の地獄で、あなたの夢は何ですか？

【第172回芥川賞受賞作】高明なゲーテ学者、博把統一は、一家団欒のディナーで、彼の知らないゲーテの名言と出会う。ティー・バッグのタグに書かれたその言葉を求めて、膨大な原典を読み漁り、長年の研究生活の記憶を辿るが……。

結婚五年目にして夫婦関係が冷えきってしまった麻矢、離婚を経験した璃子、モラハラ気質の夫に悩みながら一人娘を育てる友里香。三十代半ばになった大学の同級生三人組は、立場は違えどみな夫への不満を抱え、時に集まり愚痴を言い合っていた。

鬼が哭(な)く夜は死人が出る――まさか、令和になってまで終戦直後、中国地方の寒村で起きた惨殺事件。姿を消した犯人の呪いにより、今も犠牲者が出ているというが……。驚愕の呪いの真相とは!?

Lorsque Marie, l'amour de sa vie, meurt dans des circonstances dramatiques, François rompt avec son passé, son milieu, sa famille, et surtout avec sa sœur qu'il tient pour responsable de cette disparition. Persuadé qu'aucune femme ne pourra jamais remplacer Marie, François se jette à corps perdu dans les études. Il devient écrivain. Marie hante chacun de ses romans. Un jour, une lettre lui parvient, et le plonge dans l'incompréhension. Se serait-il trompé ? Que s'est-il réellement passé le soir où Marie a disparu ? François se met en quête de vérité, et découvre l'impensable.

En manos de Francisco Martín Moreno el arte narrativo es un eficaz instrumento para ahondar en nuestra realidad histórica, política y social. En esta novela, que combina ficción y realidad, se desentraña la intimidad de un hombre poderoso, paradigma de aquellos que detentan el poder político y económico en nuestro país, el cual se ha convertido para ellos en una necesidad existencial. A través siempre de una absorbente narración, el poderoso es sometido a un análisis exhaustivo de su cotidianidad, sus relaciones, su intimidad...

Una historia en homenaje a la amistad, de una calidad humana extraordinaria. Magda Szabó relata en La puerta su relación con Emerenc Szeredás, la fascinante heroína de esta novela. Si bien la fuerte personalidad de Emerenc cohíbe en un primer momento a la escritora, poco a poco se irá desvelando como un ser extraordinario: bondadosa, ejemplar y a la vez severa, representa el esfuerzo del ser humano por vivir una existencia digna y que sirva de ayuda a otros. No obstante, nunca acepta nada a cambio y prohíbe terminantemente que nadie cruce la antecámara y penetre en su casa y su intimidad.

Laura ha da poco compiuto diciotto anni, ha capelli neri e lunghi e grandi occhi a mandorla. È inquieta e bellissima, e sogna una vita oltre la linea dell'autostrada, magari in un piccolo appartamento nel centro di una grande città. Romina, due anni più piccola, la ammira e la imita, sogna insieme a lei. Entrambe vivono in un luogo in cui il tempo sembra fermarsi e dove il dolore e gli sguardi della gente scavano solchi profondi come l'aratro nella terra. Lo sa bene la loro madre, la signora Nives, che ha sempre vissuto ascoltando il ritmo delle stagioni e il respiro della campagna.

A sinister hidden room. A dead space between two walls. A sealed cellar. A child's face glimpsed at a window. Every house hides secrets. But some secrets are far darker than others. More than a million people have discovered the terrible truth behind these strange houses. Now it's your turn.

On an ordinary morning in an ordinary house, a woman discovers a secret her husband has been keeping. It is a secret that explodes their marriage. As Dolores grapples with her new reality, she unwillingly delves into her past to work out how she got here, unpicking the seams of the relationships that have built her. She's a sister, a daughter, a wife, a teacher. How much does her past have to influence her present? Can't she just forgive and forget? And most importantly: what is a woman for, anyway?

Gail is in trouble at school. Saint Saviours, the exclusive private girls school that she attends on a scholarship, cannot contain her. Impulsive, bored and looking for someone to adore, she is at that dangerous age when you want to be picked up by men and then driven home by your mother. Ezra is rich, powerful and at the top of his game. His comfortable middle age is tainted only by the knowledge that, in his heady youth, he'd loved new wave music and had people killed - and by his crushing anxieties about his teenage daughter, Agata.

Students, journalists, farmers, birdwatchers, ex-wives, adolescent lovers - and dancing girls. All ordinary people. Or are they? In brilliant flashes of fantasy, humour and unexpected violence, Margaret Atwood reveals the complexities of human relationships and maps the motivations we scarcely know we have within us. Populated with characters who evoke laughter, compassion, terror and recognition, Atwood's stories show why she remains one of our greatest, most original storytellers.

Pericles Drakos has lived in the exquisite Circle Building for all of his seventy-five years. From its lofty windows, he has seen his little corner of Istanbul shift and transform. But as the area has become increasingly gentrified, Pericles has retreated into its shadowy corners. And when the pandemic hits, his isolation deepens.

Margaret Smith is at the beach. It is a summer day unlike any other Margaret has ever known. The Smith family have left the town where they live and work and go to school and come to a place where the sky is blue, the sand is white, and the sound of the sea surrounds them. An ordinary family discovering the joy of getting away for the first time. Over the course of the coming decades, they will be transformed through their holiday experiences, each new destination a backdrop as the family grows and changes, love stories begin and end -- and secrets are revealed.

In Japan's recent past, Miyako suspects her mother-in-law is a murderer. She uses her secret skills as an ex-spy to investigate her, while trying to maintain a peaceful home life. And in Japan's not-too-distant future, a courier named Mito finds himself embroiled in the death of the developer of a sinister AI surveillance system.

Lily wakes up in a compound in the middle of the desert, along with nine other women. All young, all beautiful, all keen to escape the grinding poverty, political unrest and environmental catastrophe of the outside world. Cameras track their every move, broadcasting to millions of reality TV fans. Soon, ten men will arrive on foot – if they all survive the journey. By sundown on their first day together, each contestant must have chosen a bedmate of the opposite sex or risk immediate banishment. Tasks must be completed, and rewards won to make the residents more desirable to each other.

Ragle Gumm has a unique job: every day he wins a newspaper contest. And when he isn't consulting his charts and tables, he enjoys his life in a small town, in 1959. At least, that's what he thinks. But then strange things start happening. He finds a phone book where all the numbers have been disconnected, and a magazine article about a famous starlet named Marilyn Monroe, whom he's never heard of. Plus, everyday objects are beginning to disappear and are replaced by strips of paper with words written on them, like "bowl of flowers" and "soft-drink stand".

Fleeing Scotland in the wake of family disgrace, 16-year-old Ida Campbell secures a scholarship at a failing girls' boarding school on a remote part of the south English coast. Despite the eccentricities of her new Headmistress, who warns her of the dangers of the Cold War and the ever-present threat of the bomb, St Anne's seems like a refuge to Ida. But all this is about to change. For a start, her new room-mate is the infamous Louise Adler, potential arsonist and total outcast.