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おじいちゃんに恋人が！？　80歳という年齢からもそんなことが現実に起こっているなんて半信半疑の若菜は、祖父・茂がカラオケでデュエットしていたという目撃談を耳にした母・晴子から真相追究の勅命を受ける。

Drawing on her own experiences as a hostess and adult film actor, Gifted—Suzumi Suzuki's first novel to be translated into English—offers a nuanced, frank, and intimate portrayal of the lives of a mother and daughter getting by (or not) in an industry rarely depicted authentically in literary fiction.

19世紀後半、栄華を極めるパリの美術界。画商・林忠正は助手の重吉と共に流暢な仏語で浮世絵を売り込んでいた。野心溢れる彼らの前に現れたのは日本に憧れる無名画家ゴッホと、兄を献身的に支える画商のテオ。

Enter the haunting world of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem, "The Raven," brought to life by the evocative narration of Anthony Pica. This timeless piece of gothic literature tells the story of a grief-stricken man visited by a mysterious raven in the dead of night. As the raven utters its ominous refrain, "Nevermore," the man descends deeper into despair, haunted by memories of his lost love, Lenore.

Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret.

With her remarkable insight into the human condition and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more—as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, “What does anyone’s life mean?”

「すみれがぼくにとってどれほど大事な、かけがえのない存在であったかということが、あらためて理解できた。すみれは彼女にしかできないやりかたで、ぼくをこの世につなぎ止めていたのだ」　「旅の連れ」という皮肉な名を持つ孤独な人工衛星のように、誰もが皆それぞれの軌道を描き続ける。

秋山菜々子は、神奈川で看護師をしながら一人息子の航太郎を育てていた。湘南のシニアリーグで活躍する航太郎には関東一円からスカウトが来ていたが、選び取ったのはとある大阪の新興校だった。

James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel with a new introduction, Giovanni's Room is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair with a bartender named Giovanni.

経理部の新入社員・麻吹美華は、なんでも率直にものを言う。オブラートに包むということがない。おかげで波風立てずに会社員生活を送りたい沙名子は、気苦労が絶えない。

「私のことステラって呼んでね」初めて会った日、彼女はそう言った。つくり話のような自慢をする都会的なステラに、田舎から東京に出てきたフミコは憧れと嫉妬を抱きつつ、彼女と一緒に暮らし始めるが……。

In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan, to stay with her aunt’s family. Tomoko’s aunt is an enigma and an outlier in her working-class family, and her magnificent home—and handsome foreign husband, the president of a soft drink company—are symbols of that status. The seventeen rooms are filled with German-made furnishings; there are sprawling gardens and even an old zoo where the family’s pygmy hippopotamus resides.

A working-class orphan with aspirations for a university education, Jude Fawley is nothing if not ambitious. However, his class and economic situation drive him into a career as a stonemason, rather than to fulfil his scholarly leanings. It is a loveless marriage that finally propels him to pursue his dreams and find new love, but although his life follows a path that is dotted with joy, his ultimate fate is to suffer.

テレビドラマ化もされた大ベストセラー。 「さあ、神無月だ――出番だよ、先生」。二学期限定で奈良の女子高に赴任した「おれ」。 ちょっぴり神経質な彼に下された、空前絶後の救国指令とは?

It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself.

人とお金と人生について学べるビジネス小説
コスメ業界で働く加藤スミレは、リモートでゆるく働く毎日にどこか物足りなさを感じていた。

森若沙名子、28歳。経理一筋６年目。仕事とプライベートはきっちり分けたいと思っている。そんな沙名子に、広報課の室田千晶が相談があると言ってきた。

Unique among Jack Kerouac’s novels, Visions of Gerard captures the scenes and sensations of earliest childhood, the first four years in the life of Ti Jean Duluoz as they unfold in the short, tragic-happy life of his brother, Gerard. Set in Kerouac’s hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts, childhood’s intensity, innocence, suffering, and delight unfold as Gerard interacts with animals, has visions of Our Lady in heaven, astonishes the priest in the church confessional, and observes his family as they laugh and drink and weep—that is, when he isn’t sick and confined to bed.

あの夏、私たちは「家族」だった――。息子を事故で亡くした絵本作家の千紗子。長年、父・孝蔵とは絶縁状態にあったが、認知症を発症したため、田舎に戻って介護をすることに。

契約を切られた崖っぷちデザイナー × 毀誉褒貶激しい天才装丁家　同い年27歳、凸凹の二人が新大久保に事務所を設立　最強パートナー爆誕⁈