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『くもをさがす』の西加奈子が贈る、８つのラブレター。この本を読んだあと、あなたは、きっと、自分の体を愛おしいと思う。「わたし」の体と生きづらさを見つめる珠玉の短編小説集。わたしを生きるための言葉。

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.

俵万智さん推薦！今こそ読みたい与謝野晶子の「美しく力強い言葉の数々」を１ページに１項目ずつ読みやすくまとめました

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.

Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, is hired as the assistant to Miranda Priestly, the successful editor of Runway magazine. Andrea finds herself in an office that shouts Prada! Armani! Versace! at every turn. As things escalate from the merely unacceptable to the downright outrageous, Andrea begins to realize that the job a million girls would die for may just kill her. And even if she survives, she has to decide whether the job is worth the price of her soul.

A chance encounter between two lonely women leads to a passionate romance in this lesbian cult classic. Therese, a struggling young sales clerk, and Carol, a homemaker in the midst of a bitter divorce, abandon their oppressive daily routines for the freedom of the open road, where their love can blossom. But their newly discovered bliss is shattered when Carol is forced to choose between her child and her lover.

Psychiatrist Dr. Gwen Moore is an expert on killers. She’s spent a decade treating California’s most depraved predators and unlocking their motives - predators much like the notorious Bloody Heart serial killer, whose latest teenage victim escaped and then identified local high school teacher Randall Thompson as his captor. The case against Thompson as the Bloody Heart Killer is damning - and closed, as far as Gwen and the media are concerned. If not for one new development.

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.

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.

When the Dickenson clan sits down for Thanksgiving dinner in 2016, it is the last holiday where their tight-knit family will ever be the same. Oldest brother Pete and his wife are expecting their first child. Youngest sibling Sophie is too busy running her restaurant. The Little Plum, to bother with any kind of social life. And middle child Charlie’s happy, uncomplicated life as a midwestern science professor is upended when his wife Annette is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Knowing this will be her last Thanksgiving, Annette asks Sophie to look after Charlie after she’s gone.

У Джулиет есть тридцать дней в Париже, чтобы осуществить свою мечту и написать книгу, посвященную самой себе — двадцатилетней, наивной, влюбленной. Что же произошло тогда, четверть века назад, и по какой причине она внезапно покинула город, подаривший ей новых друзей и надежду на счастье?

Als Liv van haar vader een huis in de bossen erft, besluiten de twee vriendinnen hier een opvang van te maken voor vrouwen die hun echtgenoot ontvluchten. Liv en Marlene zetten alles op alles om het huis nieuw leven in te blazen, de rozentuin weer te laten bloeien en vrouwen een zo veilig mogelijke plek te kunnen bieden. Om hun plan te laten slagen moet Marlene de hulp aanvaarden van Oskar, een journalist. Liv houdt ze nauwlettend in de gaten, want uit deze samenwerking kan nog weleens meer dan alleen een vriendschap ontstaan.

Sie lassen sich nichts mehr gefallen, verhalten sich anders, als die Gesellschaft es von ihnen erwartet, sie leben anders, lieben anders, hassen anders. Sie wollen nicht funktionieren müssen, sie sind skrupellos und dabei bestechend originell. Während Anna hochschwanger fremdgeht, fotografiert Sabine heimlich den schlaffen Penis ihres Mannes. Gabi rührt ihren One-Night-Stands morgens Salz in den Kaffee und die Chefin gewöhnt sich ihr Dauerlächeln mit einer Botoxbehandlung ab.

Cléo weiß schon früh, dass sie den fürchterlich durchschnittlichen Verhältnissen, in denen sie aufwächst, entkommen will. Spätestens als sie bei einer banalen Modenschau von einer Mitschülerin ausgestochen wird, reift in ihr die Erkenntnis, dass sie sich rächen muss. Unerbittlich arbeitet Cléo jahrelang an ihrem Timbre, ihren Lyrics, ihrem Charisma, überhaupt an ihrer Außenwirkung bis ins winzigste Detail. Immer obsessiver verfolgt sie ihr einziges Ziel, geht dabei immer strenger mit sich selbst ins Gericht.

Lever les yeux vers les étoiles. Aussi, à défaut de pouvoir les approcher, dans un monde où le métier d'astronaute est réservé aux hommes, elle est devenue astrophysicienne. Mais le jour où elle apprend que la NASA recrute des scientifiques, consciente des sacrifices qui s'annoncent, elle saisit sa chance. Ce matin de décembre 1984, quand Joan arrive au centre de contrôle à Houston, elle s'attend à vivre une journée comme les autres.

Ava Ellin didn’t mean to fracture time. But when her strange gift begins to ripple across centuries—unraveling governments, altering revolutions, and drawing the attention of artificial consciousness—she becomes more than a traveler. She becomes the thread. Mentored by Delphi, an exile from a secretive order called the Slippers, Ava slips through crumbling timelines and emotional archives. Her journey is not just across history, but through the resonance of empathy itself.

Moving between the present and 1715 the stories of four women are woven together by circumstance. Set in the sweeping landscape of central Scotland against the backdrop of the ‘15 Jacobite uprising. Jeannie Kellie and Mairead Erskine are caught in a desperate battle to survive.

Нельзя носить шорты, нельзя есть сладкое на людях, нельзя фотографироваться, нельзя ходить в бассейн без парео… Список вещей, которые Марни себе запрещает, длинный. Потому что Марни не любит себя. И поскольку сеансы психотерапии, откровенно говоря, безрезультатны... самое время встряхнуться! Марни соглашается на невиданную авантюру: поехать с новой подругой, Фран, в путешествие от Франции до Бельгии и превратить свой список запретов в список дел на ближайшую неделю. Так Марни выпадает шанс попробовать стать той, кем она всегда мечтала быть. И, может, наконец узнать о себе что-то новое.

Criminal Plague deeply dives into who Michelle Hartmann is, what she's done, how it all happened and why she became the woman she is today. The story of an unapologetic, merciless, privileged and now disgraced lawyer.