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単行本刊行時「もっと早く読んでいたら私も離婚にならなかった」「バスの中で涙で読めなくなり、恥ずかしくなるくらいでした」「もう人生の終わりに近づきこの本を読んだのは残念」

After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises. The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles.

Discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me. They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose...Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life - steady boyfriend, close family - who has never been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident.

On a hot summer’s day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: 30-year-old Natsu, her older sister, Makiko, and Makiko’s teenage daughter, Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing the loss of her looks, has travelled to Tokyo in search of breast-enhancement surgery. She's accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently stopped speaking, finding herself unable to deal with her own changing body and her mother’s self-obsession. Her silence dominates Natsu’s rundown apartment, providing a catalyst for each woman to grapple with their own anxieties.

Overworked and underappreciated, single mom Amy Byler needs a break. So when the guilt-ridden husband who abandoned her shows up and offers to take care of their kids for the summer, she accepts his offer and escapes rural Pennsylvania for New York City. Usually grounded and mild mannered, Amy finally lets her hair down in the city that never sleeps. She discovers a life filled with culture, sophistication, and - with a little encouragement from her friends - a few blind dates.

Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal deal for lunch every day and buys the same two bottles of vodka to drink every weekend. Eleanor Oliphant is happy. Nothing is missing from her carefully timetabled life. Except, sometimes, everything. One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleanor has built around herself. Now she must learn how to navigate the world that everyone else seems to take for granted – while searching for the courage to face the dark corners she’s avoided all her life.

Isabel Gibson has all but perfected the art of forgetting. She’s a New Yorker now, with nothing left to tie her to Brinkley’s Island, Maine. Her parents are gone, the family bookstore is all but bankrupt, and her sister, Sophie, will probably never speak to her again. But when a mysterious letter arrives in her mailbox, Isabel feels herself drawn to the past. After years of fighting for her independence, she dreads the thought of going back to the island.

Against the mythical dreamscape of America, Auster brilliantly weaves the bizarre narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan searching for love, his father, and the key to the riddle of his origin and fate.

Akira Kido is a divorce attorney whose own marriage is in danger of being destroyed by emotional disconnect. With a midlife crisis looming, Kido's life is upended by the reemergence of a former client, Rié Takemoto. She wants Kido to investigate a dead man - her recently deceased husband, Daisuké. Upon his death she discovered that he’d been living a lie. His name, his past, his entire identity belonged to someone else, a total stranger.

After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild. Everyone in her daughter’s life is determined to shut Kenna out, no matter how hard she works to prove herself. The only person who hasn’t closed the door on her completely is Ledger Ward, a local bar owner and one of the few remaining links to Kenna’s daughter.

Told in alternating perspectives, Both Can Be True follows Mare and Frankie—two sisters in their late thirties navigating motherhood, marriage, and identity in a post-pandemic world. Mare is the hyper-responsible older sister, mother of a neurodivergent preschooler, and married to a husband who's long since checked out. Frankie is a charismatic, sober bookstore owner raising two teenage daughters and struggling to maintain boundaries between her sobriety, motherhood, and the messy realities of womanhood.

In the South of France, on a mystical river called Le Chanson—The Song—lies a secluded village of ancient limestone maisons, cobbled streets, and mysterious forests. The village itself sings, alive with melodies of flowing water, rustling olive leaves, and whispering poppies—creating an otherworldly air of hidden magic. When Callie arrives there with her young daughter, she's charmed by her quirky neighbors, including the witchy owner of a run-down rental chateau, an older truffle hunter, his enigmatic son—a handsome and kind vet—and their lovable dogs.

When Marlowe, an illustrator living in New York City, returns to her family’s bewitching Hudson Valley estate for the holidays, she discovers a murder on the property that draws her back into the haunting case of her teenage best friend’s disappearance twenty years earlier. Marlowe soon finds herself unraveling the tangled dynamics of this small town and the legacy of a summer home that holds both secrets and scars.

Abandoning the ruins of her stalled life after an ill-omened romance, Brooke flies to Vancouver to care for her estranged sister, Izzy, who is recovering from reproductive surgery. But Izzy’s rapidly decaying apartment building, its hallways stalked by an ominous crone known only as Medusa, offers little of the refuge Brooke craves.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury—praised as "America's favorite inspirational novelist"—comes the Above the Line series, a powerful spinoff of her beloved Baxter family saga. Set against the glitz of Hollywood and grounded in the grit of real faith, these stories follow two filmmakers with a mission to change culture through the power of story.

Vi följer den vackra torpardottern Emilie i norska Trøndelag på 1880-talet, ett samhälle med stora klyftor mellan rika och fattiga. Fru Aas har kallat in både Emilie och hennes mor. Samtidigt tas en länsman in för att medla i Jacobs och Halvors tvist, vilket får Karen att överväga att berätta sanningen.

Ausgerechnet am Pariser Stammsitz lernt Pierre Emma kennen. Es ist Liebe auf den ersten Blick. Sie heiraten und eröffnen gemeinsam eine weitere Filiale an der New Yorker Fifth Avenue. Als Emma und Pierre den geheimnisumwobenen Hope-Diamanten erwerben, folgt eine Reihe unerwarteter Ereignisse. Der Erfolg der Familie Cartier ist ungebrochen. Unter der Leitung von Pierre Cartier eröffnet das Unternehmen eine Filiale in London.

Olivia Bevelstoke is beeldschoon en heeft een aanzienlijke bruidsschat; ze krijgt dan ook meer dan genoeg aanzoeken. Nu ook haar beste vriend getrouwd is gaat Olivia op zoek naar afleiding. Zo wordt er geroddeld dat haar nieuwe buurman misschien wel zijn verloofde heeft vermoord, al gelooft Olivia daar niets van. Toch besluit ze hem te bespioneren, gewoon voor de zekerheid. Sir Harry Valentine werkt bij het Oorlogsbureau in Londen. Net wanneer hij merkt dat een vrouw hem bespiedt is hij meteen wantrouwig.

England im Jahr 1840. Zwei Jahrzehnte sind vergangen, seit Cassandra Austen von ihrer geliebten Schwester Jane Abschied nehmen musste, und noch immer vergeht kein Tag, an dem sie sich nicht um das Andenken der berühmten Schriftstellerin sorgt. Als sie das Haus ihrer gemeinsamen Freundin Eliza Fowle besucht, stößt sie auf einen verborgenen Schatz: Janes Briefe.

Als seine Mutter Carolina — ein einst ikonisches Fotomodell — nach langer Krankheit verstirbt, richtet Marian eine alternative Trauerfeier für ausgewählte Gäste aus. Marian glaubt, dass mit diesem Ereignis die freudlosere Hälfte des Lebens beginnt. Doch es folgt ein Jahr der Verwandlung.