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The moment Zoe notices Jack in their Harvard chemistry class, with his scruffy clothes and casual self-assurance, she knows he’s the one to beat. When Zoe starts trying to outsmart Jack in chemistry, he knows she’s the person he’s been looking for. Because Jack has dreams that go far beyond the classroom. And while he and Zoe might be from different worlds, they share the same thirst for knowledge and fierce ambition. When he invites her to partner with him on some research, she puts aside her pride, and joins him.

Twin sisters Clara and Dempsey have always struggled to relate, their familial bond severed after their mother vanished into the Thames. In adulthood, they are content to be all but estranged, until Clara sees a woman who looks exactly like their mother on the streets of London. The catch: this version of Serene, aged not a day, has enjoyed a childless life.

Since her father’s death twelve years previously, our unnamed narrator, a pharmacist, has been living with her older sister Dong Ji in Five Poems Lake on the edge of the desert. The sun over their isolated town has begun to disappear in crescents, like a gibbous moon. These increments are reported on the evening news, while the temperature drops, the lake freezes over, and the trees start to die. One night, as the narrator returns from visiting a friend in hospital, she is accosted by a man who tries to assault her – but who transforms before her eyes into a Beacon.

As the city thrums with Blitz bombers, lonely A.R.P warden Ruby Thacker is drawn into the unfamiliar world of the India Forum. There, at the dishevelled townhouse in Bloomsbury, she meets Kitty, an ambitious barrister doing all she can to free her beloved India from British rule. But Ruby has secret motives for joining the Forum, and when the mysterious Satyajit appears with radical ideas about fighting for freedom, she finds herself torn between head and heart.

Years after escaping her unbearable artworld friends in New York for a new life in London, an unnamed writer finds herself back on the Lower East Side attending a dinner party hosted by Eugene and Nicole – an artist-curator couple – and attended by their pretentious circle. It’s the evening after the funeral of their mutual friend, a failed actress, and if the narrator once loved and admired Eugene and Nicole and their important friends, she now despises them all.

The Cabman's Story (sub-titled The Mysteries of a London "Growler") is a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published anonymously in the Cassell's Saturday Journal on 17 May 1884. A cabman tells one of his clients three stories he experienced. The first one is about a dead passenger, the second about a passenger with a mysterious box, and the last one tells the story of a passenger who is a terrorist.

Décembre 1942. La France est désormais totalement occupée. Pour Albane, Noël s’annonce sous le signe des restrictions, sans la présence rassurante de Raphaël, membre actif d’un réseau de résistance. Si elle cède à une joie timide lorsqu’il lui annonce son retour, des incidents troublants se succèdent au château, faisant peser une mystérieuse menace sur la jeune femme, sa famille et ses amis. Révoltée par les exactions commises par des soldats allemands, Albane se consacre à son métier d’enseignante sans pour autant renoncer au combat.

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.