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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.

「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....

Tucked away in a near-derelict library in the center of London, The House of Marvellous Books is a publishing house on the brink of financial disaster. With assistant Ursula asleep at her desk, head publisher Gerard going health and safety mad, and chief editor Drusilla focused on finding a supposedly priceless but famously missing manuscript, there is hardly anyone left to steer the ship. Young Mortimer Blackley, assistant editor, charts the descent of the House in his logbook as it lurches from one failure to the next.

"Голос" – вторая книга трилогии Дины Рубиной "Русская канарейка", семейной саги о "двух потомках одной канарейки", которые встретились вопреки всем вероятиям. Леон Этингер – обладатель удивительного голоса и многих иных талантов, последний отпрыск одесского семейства с весьма извилистой и бурной историей.

Ты что, маньяк? Этот вопрос врач-психиатр Гуревич все время слышит ото всех вокруг. Не умеет он сидеть спокойно, не высовываться, не лезть «не в свое дело», вечно норовит кого-то спасти, кому-то помочь, поставить всех на уши – за что и получает с незавидной регулярностью. И ничему-то его жизнь не учит, ну точно маньяк какой-то! В жизни и практике психиатра Гуревича – множество смешных и драматических, трогательных и нелепых, грустных и гомерически смешных историй.

Podczas II Wojny Swiatowej bohaterki wywiezione zostaja z Kresów wschodnich na Syberie. Czas wielkiej próby udaje im sie przetrwac dzieki niezwyklemu hartowi ducha matki. Pierwsza czesc wielkiej Sagi Barbary Rybaltowskiej.Odkryj karty historii polski poprzez niezwykla opowiesc o pewnej rodzinie. Napisana ujmujacym, cieplym jezykiem saga rodzinna, opowiadajaca historie matki i córki wobec burzliwych dziejów Polski XX wieku.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "The Rose Garden". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

Spitcat, a raging forest fire in the Sierra Nevada of California, had a lifespan of merely eleven days, "yet its effects could be reckoned ahead in centuries." So writes George R. Stewart in this engrossing novel of a fire started by lightning in the dry heat of September, and fanned out of control by unexpected winds. The book begins with the origins of the fire - smoldering quietly at first, unnoticed, then suddenly bursting into a terrifying inferno, devouring trees and animals over acre after acre and leaving nothing but desolation in its wake.

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.

A boy can’t be a bestie, can he? Mia and Jack are great friends - they live next door to each other and they like the same things. But what happens when everyone thinks he’s her boyfriend?

The story of a friendship between two couples - and an affair that blows their worlds apart. Two married couples: Kate and Cary, Cressida and Luke. Four people who meet, click, and become firm friends. But then Kate and Luke discover a growing attraction, which becomes an obsession. They fall in love, then fall into an affair. It blows their worlds apart. After the fall, nothing will ever be the same again.

報われない努力なんてない!累計80万部 喜多川泰、渾身の感動作!「……なんで俺ばっかりこんな目に合うんだよ」思わず独り言を言った

想像力が足りない人ほど、他人に想像力を求める。就活対策のため、拓人は同居人の光太郎や留学帰りの瑞月、理香らと集まるようになるが――。衝撃のラストが襲いかかる戦後最年少の直木賞受賞作。

事故か、自殺か、殺人か――。母の手記と娘の回想が交錯し、浮かび上がる事件の真相とは。圧倒的に新しい、母娘ミステリー!

かけがえのない人生と愛しい物語が出会う!神保町の小さな古書店が舞台の絶品グルメ×優しい人間ドラマ

Daisy Jones, jung, schön, von ihren Eltern vernachlässigt, hat eine klare Stimme und einen starken Willen: Sie möchte mit ihren eigenen Songs auf der Bühne stehen. Als sie zum ersten Mal gemeinsam mit THE SIX auftritt, ist das Publikum elektrisiert von ihr und Billy, dem Leadsänger der Band. Die beiden zusammen sind nicht nur auf der Bühne explosiv und führen die Band zu ihrem größten Erfolg, auch Backstage sprühen die Funken.

In Scarborough, a low-income urban neighborhood, three kids struggle to rise above poverty, abuse, and a system that consistently fails them. The adults in their lives either rise to the occasion or fall by the wayside; together, they make up a troubled yet inspired community that refuses to be undone.