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Flo is sick of Tokyo. She is stuck in a rut, her translation work has dried up, and she's in a relationship that's run its course. That's until she stumbles upon a mysterious book left by a drunken passenger on the Tokyo Subway.

The fourth volume of classic Sherlock Holmes stories on audio, brilliantly performed by John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson.

Eighteen years old and fresh out of high school, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to a tiny fisherman's village far north of the polar circle to work as a schoolteacher. He has no interest in the job itself - or in any other job for that matter. His intention is to save up enough money to travel while finding the space and time to start his writing career.

The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories featuring the fictional detective. The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards.

In 1950, the Buttonbush Museum is circling the financial drain, and Irene Pickett—a sassy farmer's wife from rural California—is determined to stop the flush. Tired of being typecast as the housewife queen of pickling and laundry, Irene has something to prove. Enter The Four Queens: Irene and three other firebrand women ready to take on the museum's bottomless budget issues.

Despite her broken heart, when Dilly Gently joins Magnus Olensen's new band, the chemistry between them is explosive. Both impossibly romantic dizzy blondes with the souls of poets, they could be made for each other. But before they have chance to declare themselves, Dilly's friend Nell confides that she has a huge crush on Magnus, and Dilly nobly steps down in order to play reluctant matchmaker.

In the world of interconnected novels by Louise Erdrich, Four Souls is most closely linked to Tracks. All these works continue and elaborate on the intricate story of life on a reservation peopled by saints and false saints, heroes and sinners, clever fools and tenacious women. Louise Erdrich...

1630: after long years of peace the reign of Charles I brings brutal civil war to England. The clash between King and Parliament is echoed at Morland Place when Richard brings home a Puritan bride while his brother, Kit, joins Prince Rupert and the Royalist cavalry, leaving their father Edmund desperately trying to steer a middle course between the fighting factions. As the war grinds on, bitterness and disillusion replace the early fervour, and the schisms between husband and wife, father and son, grow deeper.

꾸준히 영화와 연극, 브로드웨이 뮤지컬로 재탄생한 고전 중의 고전 과거와 현재를 잇는 디자인 스튜디오 오이뮤의 커버 디자인 젊은 여성 번역가가 현대적 감각으로 완역 빨강 머리 앤, 말괄량이 삐삐와 함께 재평가되는...

في هذا المجلّد الرابع تُغطّي الشهادةُ وقائع الفترة من 1963 الى 1968 والكثير من أسرارها. هذه التغطية تشمل عقابيل الصراع البعثيّ الناصريّ الدامي ووقائع تفرّد حزب البعث...

더 강력하고! 더 귀여운! 요괴 아이들이 들이닥친다! 요괴 아이 돌보미를 시작하고 두 번째 봄을 맞이한 소년, 야스케. 첫 번째 손님은 무려, 돌? 먹물로 눈과 코가 그려진, 하얗고 매끈한 작은 돌이 갈색 포대기로 감싸여있다...

หน่วยเจรจาต่อรองในกรณีเกิดเหตุอาชญากรรม หรือ NIC...

京都の路地にある怪しげなクリニック「中京こころのびょういん」。今日も飄々としてノリが軽いニケ先生とクールな看護師・千歳さんが、スマホ依存症の小学生、ルッキズムに囚われた女子大生、亡くなった飼い猫を想う母……

한국문학 최고의 유산인 박완서를 다시 읽는 「박완서 소설전집」 제3권 『도시의 흉년』 제1권. 1931년 태어나 마흔 살이 되던 1970년 장편소설 '나목'이 여성동아 여류 장편소설 공모에 당선되면서 문단에 등단한 저자의 타계...

In the 99th district of a sprawling labour camp, the Author, Musician, Scholar, Theologian and Technician - and hundreds just like them - are undergoing Re-education, to restore their revolutionary zeal and credentials. In charge of this process is the Child, who delights in draconian rules, monitoring behaviour and confiscating treasured books. But when bad weather arrives, followed by the ‘three bitter years’, the intellectuals are abandoned by the regime and left on their own to survive.

From the beloved author of The Old Place comes a tender, funny, and fresh novel about a gay writer in New York City whose life is irrevocably altered, and then again thirty years later. In 1992, on his thirtieth birthday, Artie Anderson meets the man who will change his life. Artie spends his...

Paterson Joseph, John Hurt, Lesley Manville and Harriet Walter are among the cast of BBC Radio 4's epic full-cast dramatisation. Adapted for radio by Timberlake Wertenbaker, Leo Tolstoy's epic story follows the fortunes of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic War. First broadcast on New Year's Day 2015, the drama also features Alun Armstrong, Natasha Little, David Calder, Phoebe Fox, Sam Reid and Joanna David. Duration: 10 hours approx.

Set entirely at Wybrany College - a school where the wealthy keep their kids safe from the chaos erupting in the cities - Four by Four is a novel of insinuation and gossip, in which the truth about Wybrany's "program" is always palpable but never explicit. The mysteries populating the novel open with the disappearance of one of the "special", scholarship students. As the first part unfolds, it becomes clear that all is not well in Wybrany and that something more sordid lurks beneath the surface.

Septembre 1944. Angoulême libérée connaît les heures sombres de l'Épuration en attendant de retrouver sa quiétude d'antan. Abigaël, qui y commence une nouvelle existence auprès du notaire Maxence Vermont, découvre chaque jour avec amertume le véritable visage de son époux. Surtout depuis que celui-ci a éloigné du foyer Cécile, la petite sœur d'Adrien, le maquisard dont la jeune femme était follement éprise et qui a disparu.

Movie addict Scarlett O'Brien is finally living the jet-setting life she's dreamed of - but it all hangs by a shiny, golden thread. Flying between London and New York, running two businesses, planning her wedding to handsome fiancé, Sean, with best friends Oscar and Maddie - life couldn't be better. But then Scarlett meets paparazzi darling, Gabriella Romero, and life suddenly becomes even more extravagant and glamorous.