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On the Nihonbashi Bridge in Tokyo stands the statue of a mythic beast - a kirin. One evening a man staggers onto the bridge and collapses beneath the winged creature. The patrolman on watch goes to rouse the man, who he presumes to be drunk - only to discover that the man had been stabbed in the chest. He is dead. Meanwhile, a young man named Yashima is injured in a car accident nearby while trying to flee from the police. Found on him is the wallet of the murdered man.

Instantly reminiscent of the work of Osamu Dazai and Patricia Highsmith, Fuminori Nakamura's latest novel is a dark and twisting house of mirrors that philosophically explores the violence of aesthetics and the horrors of identity. A young writer arrives at a prison to interview a convict. The writer has been commissioned to write a full account of the case, from its bizarre and grisly details to the nature of the man behind the crime.

 The Cheese and the Worms is an incisive study of popular culture in the 16th century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of heresy during the Inquisition and sentenced to death. Carlo Ginzburg uses the trial records to illustrate the religious and social conflicts of the society in which Menocchio lived.   

As boys, Robert and Andrew Kissel competed and excelled. As men, they made millions - Robert in the Asian markets and Andrew in real estate. But a darkness was chasing the brothers down. In November 2003, Robert was murdered in his posh Hong Kong apartment. Two-and-a-half years later, Andrew was found stabbed to death in his Greenwich, Connecticut, mansion.

Changing Our Mind has helped thousands of families and congregations carefully and compassionately rethink traditional religious teachings about full LGBTQ inclusion. With growing scientific evidence, our wider society has taken big steps, but too many religious families and communities have not kept up. Dr. David Gushee offers a powerful, inspiring message of hope and healing by helping Christians to return to Bible study, prayer, and reflection in a way that creates a vision for a more inclusive church.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】「せみ」：A坊とB坊は一緒に遊んでいるとみんみんぜみが飛んできて枝に止まった。A坊はB坊にセミの番を命じ、持ち棒を取りに行ったが、セミは逃げてしまった。A坊は帰ってくると、B坊を責め、嘘つき呼ばわりして殴りはじめる。

Brought to you by Penguin. A groundbreaking tour of the overlooked science of human diversity Real diversity isn’t skin deep. Over the past 100,000 years, as humans expanded into every biome on the planet, our bodies have been fine-tuned to our local environments. Our ability to adapt is at...

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

王と妃には十二人の王子がいたが、王は「こんど生まれる子どもが、もし女の子だったら、十二人の男の子はみんな殺してしまおう。そして、その女の子の財産がたくさんになって、この国がその子ひとりだけのものになるようにしてやろう。」と言い、棺まで用意する。

Brought to you by Penguin. DISCOVER THE UNFORGETTABLE TIKTOK SENSATION THAT HAS CAPTURED MILLIONS OF HEARTS Two hearts. One love story. An ending you will never forget . . . Rune Kristiansen and Poppy Litchfield met as children and swore to be friends forever. As teenagers, their friendship grew...

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】長者の娘おかめは八右衛門と結婚後二年も経たぬうち、土佐に流行していた病気にかかり、どんな良医も匙を投げた。食べることも飲むこともできず、自分でも助からぬことが分かってきた。

When an inexplicable cosmic disturbance hurls your town from 20th century West Virginia back to 17th century Europe - and into the middle of the Thirty Years War - you'd better be adaptable to survive. And the natives of that time period, faced with American technology and politics, need to be equally adaptable.  

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】義ちゃんがお父さんに買ってもらった絵本を見ていると、赤ちゃんの繁さんに取られてしまう。そのうちに本を口に入れて舐めようとしたので、義ちゃんは無理にひったくる。大声を上げて泣き出した赤ちゃんをなだめるため、お母さんは電車を見に行くという。

Listening is a critical skill that leaders and managers often take for granted. By learning to listen mindfully, you can keep your employees more engaged, foster the discovery of new ideas, and hear what you need to hear in a discussion rather than what you expect to hear. Mindful Listening will teach you what great listeners do, how to stay fully present in challenging conversations, and how empathic listening can help others learn and grow.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

どこからか小犬を貰ってきた三郎は、ボンと名付けて可愛がっていた。ボンは人馴れたやさしい犬で、誰でも呼ぶ人があれば懐いていたが、隣に住むばあさんと臆病な子供の母親からは、さんざん悪く言われ、いじめられた。姉や祖母は誰か欲しい人にあげたらどうかと言うが、三郎はどうしても納得できない。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】ある国の金持ちの王様は立派な御殿に住み、贅沢を尽くしていた。不老不死の薬も得て幸福だった。ある時、チベットで生まれたという占い者がさまよってきて、王様の運命を占う。幾年か後に、強い者が出てきて天下を取ると告げられると、王様は深い憂いに沈む。

Culture Smart! Peru introduces you to the changing realities of modern Peru. It describes contemporary values and attitudes, key customs and traditions, and reveals what people are like at home, in business, and in their social lives. Peruvians are outgoing, sociable, and laid-back; get to know them, and they will respond with warmth and generosity.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

コスモスの花が咲き乱れている。暗い土の底で、土の上へ出てみたいともぐらの子供が母に言うと、太陽の光を見たら危ないから夜まで待つことに。山の端に出た月が庭の真上に見えてくる頃、もぐらの母子は土の上に出る。赤、白、深紅、桃色のコスモスの花が月の光に浮いて見える。

While the Christian tradition has subordinated John the Baptist to Jesus of Nazareth, John himself would likely have disagreed with that ranking. In this eye-opening new book John the Baptist in History and Theology, Joel Marcus makes a powerful case that John saw himself, not Jesus, as the proclaimer and initiator of the kingdom of God and his own ministry as the center of God's saving action in history.

In Becoming Fluent, Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuz draw on insights from psychology and cognitive science to show that adults can master a foreign language if they bring to bear the skills and knowledge they have honed over a lifetime. Adults shouldn't try to learn as children do, they should learn like adults. Roberts and Kreuz report evidence that adults can learn new languages even more easily than children.

Learn about Einstein's theory of relativity from a physics Nobel laureate and "one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century" (New York Review of Books) in six memorable lessons It was Richard Feynman's outrageous and scintillating method of teaching that earned him legendary status among...