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L’histoire bouleversante d’un jeune adolescent échappé d’un bagne pour enfant dans la France des années 30, lu avec force et talent par Féodor Atkine.

Die Schwestern Enne und Suse wachsen in den Siebzigern in einem abgelegenen Dorf an der Ostküste in Vorpommern auf, wo Fremde schon einmal befürchten, "über den Rand zu kippen". Suse ist oft krank und Enne muss zurückstecken, weil die Sorge und Zuwendung der Eltern vor allem Suse gilt, was das Verhältnis der beiden Schwestern nicht ganz einfach macht. Es gibt nur wenige Momente der Nähe zwischen ihnen. Als 1989 Ungarn die Grenzen öffnet, nutzt Suse die Chance und verschwindet in den Westen.

Rachel Elliot is single and attractive, a director of a successful advertising agency, with a handsome lover, close friends, and a clutch of beloved godchildren. But as her fortieth birthday approaches, so does a whispering fear that she might have missed the point.

En medio de la convulsa realidad colombiana de los años noventa, una joven actriz viaja a España como parte de un nuevo proyecto. Su matrimonio ha fracasado, y aún herida por su mediático divorcio, se niega a regresar a su país. La excusa perfecta para alargar su estancia en Madrid será un curso de actuación, pero su nueva condición de soledad desatará una crisis de ansiedad por todo aquello que cree estar dejando atrás.

As plain-clothes men go, Dangerous Davies looks like a non-starter. The small fry of petty larceny and minor disturbances in the backwaters of north-west London are his daily round. His philosophising Welsh drinking companion Mod, his outsized and unruly dog Kitty, his quarrels with his landlady Mrs Fulljames - none of these bodes well for the efficient solving of crimes and the outwitting of villainy. But Davies is encouraged by his beautiful friend, Jemma, and every so often he stumbles upon something really big.

On a normal day, in a normal house, on a normal street, wife and mother Fran has had enough. She packs a case, leaves a note for her bullying husband, Pete, and one for her beloved 21-year-old son, Harry, and heads to the airport - and freedom. In another house, on another street, Helena is desperately baiting her husband, Jack, into a fight. These days it feels like the only way to get Jack to take notice of her. Passionate, volatile, increasingly fragile, Helena is fast running out of hope.

もう一度 事件を調べてください

The second book in Jan Karon’s bestselling Mitford series confirms that a trip to Mitford is good for the soul. His attractive neighbor is tugging at his heartstrings. A wealthy widow is pursuing him with hot casseroles. And his red-haired cousin Meg has moved into the rectory, uninvited. As...

ひとつの死をきっかけに膨れ上がる人々の悪意。それに抗し、真実を求める生徒たちを描いた、現代ミステリーの最高峰。

"La tregua" è il racconto del ritorno di Primo Levi, il seguito di "Se questo è un uomo", che racconta le esperienze dell'autore durante il lungo viaggio attraverso Russia e Europa dell'Est per tornare alla sua Torino. Un viaggio assurdo, fatto di incontri con persone di civiltà e lingue diverse ma tutte vittime della stessa guerra. "Ci sono voluti anni per capire che quello che veniva etichettato come un testimone era uno dei più grandi scrittori del Novecento non soltanto italiano: cioè che era il migliore dei testimoni proprio perché grande scrittore."

五人に何があったのか 事件はなぜ起きたのか 関係者の証言から展開される、息を呑む心理劇 『慟哭』『愚行録』の著者、新たなる到達点

Es ist autobiographisch, vielleicht mehr denn je. Der Held heißt so wie Heinz Strunk im wahren Leben: Mathias Halfpape. Es sind Erinnerungen...

In Kate Rorick’s first adult fiction novel, we enter the wild, bewildering world of modern pregnancies. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll shake your head as you wonder where everyone’s sanity went... Meet the mothers… Nathalie Kneller: Nathalie’s plan: to announce her pregnancy now...

Auf den ersten Blick ist Dunkelblum eine Kleinstadt wie jede andere. Doch hinter der Fassade der österreichischen Gemeinde verbirgt sich die Geschichte eines furchtbaren Verbrechens. Ihr Wissen um das Ereignis verbindet die älteren Dunkelblumer seit Jahrzehnten - genauso wie ihr Schweigen über Tat und Täter.

Tragicómica y melancólica, esta novela nos presenta un mundo plúmbeo y totalitario, dominado por fuerzas ciegas e impersonales. Un escenario humano desolador en el que la inteligencia es anulada por la fuerza bruta y la violencia, y en el que el caos arrastra irremediablemente a unos personajes que, entre el conformismo y la insignificancia, no aciertan a crear un orden nuevo menos cruel y menos gris. El estallido de violencia no alcanza siquiera el rango de revolución y la vida transcurre, en esta pequeña y anónima ciudad húngara, sumida en una atmósfera de terror y amarga ironía.

「私、学校教育が太陽だとしたら、塾は月のような存在になると思うんです」　昭和36年。人生を教えることに捧げた、塾教師たちの物語が始まる。胸を打つ確かな感動。著者渾身の大長編。

Boomtown Los Angeles, 1929: Into a world of movie lots and speakeasies comes Xas, stunt flier and wingless angel, still nursing his broken heart and determined only to go on living in the air. But there are forces that will keep him on the ground. Forces like Conrad Cole, movie director and aircraft designer, a glory-seeking king of the grand splash who is also a man sinking into his own sovereign darkness. And Flora McLeod, film editor and maimed former actress, who sees something in Xas that no one has ever seen before, not even God, who made him, or Lucifer, the general he once followed.

Eine letzte Reise in die magische Erzählwelt von Carlos Ruiz Zafón. Der Friedhof der vergessenen Bücher ist der geheimnisvolle Ort, um den das gesamte Erzähluniversum von Carlos Ruiz Zafón kreist: Eine tief unter Barcelona verborgene Bibliothek, in der die Bücher darauf warten, ihre Seele an ihren Leser weiterzugeben. Zafóns letztes Projekt war es, diesen Ort in Erzählungen weiterwachsen zu lassen. Es entstand ein Geheimfach von Geschichten, das hier zum ersten Mal vollständig geöffnet wird.

Sixteen-year-old Mikaela has grown up isolated and home-schooled on an orchard in Tasmania, until an unexpected event shatters her family. Eighteen months later, she and her older brother Kurt are running a small business in a timber town. Miki longs to make connections and spend more time in her beloved forest, but she is kept a virtual prisoner by Kurt, who leads a secret life of his own. When Miki meets Leon, another outsider, things slowly begin to change. But the power to stand up for yourself must come from within....

Loulou Landers is about to turn 49 and she's feeling seriously overlooked. She hasn't had a relationship for 20 years, her 21-year-old daughter Theo is giving her the cold shoulder, and is that really a bunion making it so painful to walk, or is Christian Louboutin losing his touch? Theo can't see what her mum is so hung up about. It's only another birthday. And she has more important things to think about - mainly herself. For not only is Loulou permanently single, but so is Theo – despite her legendary good looks. But over the course of a summer, everything changes.