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ひょっとしたら、と彼女は思う、世界は本当に終わりかけているのかもしれない。

「島崎、わたしはこの夏を西武に捧げようと思う」。各界から絶賛の声続々、いまだかつてない青春小説！2020年、中２の夏休みの始まりに、幼馴染の成瀬がまた変なことを言い出した。

空想です――。弁護人・神原和彦は高らかに宣言する。大出俊次が柏木卓也を殺害した根拠は何もない、と。

The recent death of one of the descendants of Dr. Watson has brought to light his personal papers. These include a number of stories that Dr. Watson suppressed at the time for various reasons. As all involved are long dead, the inheritor has agreed to the publication of a set of eight of the most interesting adventures.

The call disconnected. Vijay put his phone down and sat thinking. His mind spun. Who was this mysterious caller? He clearly had an urgent need to meet. So why wait for six months? His explanation didn’t make sense. What preparation did he have to do? And what was he going to reveal to Vijay when they did meet? There were too many questions that were unanswered. Six months from today this puzzle would unravel. He would have to wait.

走ることについて語りつつ、小説家としてのありよう、創作の秘密、そして「彼自身」を初めて説き明かした画期的なメモワール。

その誰かは、そこにあるものが本当(傍点傍点)に(傍点)ある(傍点)ことを確認するために、彼の幅広い手をいっそう強く握りしめた。長く滑らかな指、そして強い芯を持っている。

青豆は「さきがけ」のリーダーが最後に口にした言葉を覚えている。「君は重い試練をくぐり抜けなくてはならない。それをくぐり抜けたとき、ものごとのあるべき姿を目にするはずだ」。彼は何かを知っていた。

ひょっとしたら、と彼女は思う、世界は本当に終わりかけているのかもしれない。

あたしたちで真相をつかもうよ――。二人の同級生の死。マスコミによる偏向報道。当事者の生徒たちを差し置いて、ただ事態の収束だけを目指す大人。

Twenty-five-year-old Jinni lives in Mumbai, works in a hip animation studio and is perfectly happy with her carefree and independent existence. Until her bossy grandmother shows up and announces that it is Jinni s 'duty' to drop everything and come and contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from their sleepy hometown, Bittora.

人生にあるいくつかの大事な分岐点。そして私は今ここにいる。ビートルズのLPを抱えて高校の廊下を歩いていた少女。同じバイト先だった女性から送られてきた歌集の、今も記憶にあるいくつかの短歌。

もう一度 事件を調べてください

Joey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on a mission to save his wayward cousin from the fleshpots of Hollywood. Both are under anaesthetic at the dentists when something strange happens - and their identities are swapped. Suddenly Joey can use his six-foot frame to get his own back on his Hollywood persecutors. But Reggie has to endure everything Joey had to put up with in the horrible life of a child star - including kidnap.

青豆に言わなくてはならないことがいくつもあった。しかし今ここで天吾にできるのは、ただ名前を口にすることだけだ。青豆、と彼は呼びかけた。

For Meridian Wallace - and many other smart, driven women of the 1940s - being ambitious meant being an outlier. Ever since she was a young girl, Meridian had been obsessed with birds, and she was determined to get her PhD, become an ornithologist, and make her mother's sacrifices to send her to college pay off. But she didn't expect to fall in love with her brilliant physics professor, Alden Whetstone. When he's recruited to Los Alamos, New Mexico, to take part in a mysterious wartime project, she reluctantly defers her own plans and joins him.

Lifelong friends, now in their sixties, James, a teacher, and Hugh, a TV personality, both live with attractive women 25 years their junior. But the age difference is a time bomb, ticking away at the heart of both relationships. Kate's hunger for a life more in keeping with her own age threatens to bring her eight years with James to an end. And how is Julia to cope when her own career begins to blossom while Hugh's is withering before their eyes? The arrival of Miss Beatrice Bachelor, a razor-sharp Oxford spinster, fuels the discontent in both girls.

For the whole of Rose's respectable married life, she had kept faith with two men. To Ned she was a perfect wife, mother of his son, and elegant hostess of Slepe. To Mylo, Rose was an impetuous and unconventional mistress, answering his erratic and impassionate calls throughout 50 years of tactful duplicity. After Ned's funeral Rose looks back on a life of dual constancy, passion, humour, and the ambiguities of love - and chooses her future.

«Se non capisci tua madre, è perché ti ha permesso di diventare una donna diversa da lei». Questa è la storia di chi parte e di chi resta. Di una madre che va a prendersi cura degli altri, dei suoi figli che rimangono a casa ad aspettarla covando ambizioni, rabbie, attese. E un'incontenibile voglia di andarsene lontano. Dopo il grande successo di Resto qui, Marco Balzano torna con un racconto profondo e tesissimo di destini che ci riguardano da vicino, ma che spesso preferiamo non vedere.

休職中の刑事、本間俊介は遠縁の男性に頼まれて彼の婚約者、関根彰子の行方を捜すことになった。