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A heartbreaking novel of love, betrayal, and a secret passed down through a family. Inspired by an incredible true story. Perfect for fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, We Were the Lucky Ones, and The Alice Network.

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Facing challenges in an increasingly colonial world, Chye Hoon, a rebellious young girl, must learn to embrace her mixed Malayan-Chinese identity as a Nyonya - and her destiny as a cook, rather than following her first dream of attending school like her brother. Amidst the smells of chillies and garlic frying, Chye Hoon begins to appreciate the richness of her traditions, eventually marrying Wong Peng Choon, a Chinese man. Together, they have ten children.

Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly handsome. Sophie quickly develops deep affection for Kat, Martin's silent five-year-old daughter, but Martin's odd behavior leaves her with the uneasy feeling that something about her newfound situation isn't right.

A spellbinding novel of World War II based on the little-known history of the X Troop—a team of European Jews who escaped the Continent only to join the British Army and return home to exact their revenge on Hitler’s military. A lone soldier wearing a German uniform stumbles into a British...

The New York Times bestseller—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz! “An irresistible tale which showcases the transformative power of literacy, reminding us of the hope and sanctuary our neighborhood bookstores offer during the perilous trials of war and...

This is the story Harry Ransom. If you know his name it's most likely as the inventor of the Ransom Process, a stroke of genius that changed the world. Or you may have read about how he lost the battle of Jasper City, or won it, depending on where you stand in matters of politics. Friends called him Hal or Harry, or by one of a half-dozen aliases, of which he had more than any honest man should. He often went by Professor Harry Ransom, and though he never had anything you might call a formal education, he definitely earned it.

Ses dons percent tous les secrets, même les plus sombres, mais lui ouvriront-ils celui de ses origines ? Printemps 1944. À Angoulême, les miliciens et l'armée allemande affrontent les Combattants de l'ombre. Parmi eux, le jeune maquisard Adrien, dont la jolie Abigaël est profondément éprise. Mais en ces temps troublés, il est difficile pour les deux tourtereaux de vivre pleinement leur amour.

It's 1943: Amid the bitter, violent Solomon Islands campaign, Billy is assigned the murder investigation of a native coastwatcher whom future president Jack Kennedy discovered on a nearby island with his head bashed in. As the body count climbs, Billy must figure out whether Jack is a cold-blooded killer, even as war rages around him.

Two Solitudes is the story of two peoples within one nation, each with its ideas of what a nation should be. Set in WWI-era Quebec, MacLennan focuses on two individuals whose love increases the prejudices that surround them until they discover that “love consists in this, that two solitudes protect, and touch and greet each other”.

It is 1942 and Eva Adami has boarded a train to Auschwitz. Barely able to breathe due to the press of bodies and exhausted from standing up for two days, she can think only of her longed-for reunion with her husband Michal, who was sent there six months earlier. But when Eva arrives at Auschwitz, there is no sign of Michal and the stark reality of the camp comes crashing down upon her. As she lies heartbroken and shivering on a thin mattress, her head shaved by rough hands, she hears a whisper. Her bunkmate, Sofie, is reaching out her hand....

The story opens with a poem and a premonition just outside Ft. Lewis in the early days of World War II. Young newlywed Maudie Cameron watches her husband and others around her do their part to help on the home front. Feeling left out, she is determined to help with the war effort in the only way she can: she becomes a landlady and rents out one-room cabins and a trailer that resides on her secluded property.

‘This book's power lies in its depiction of civilians trying to lead ordinary lives during the horror of war . . . It is shattering stuff, but Rothmann is tender towards his characters and this book is as memorable as his last.’ The Times, ‘Historical Fiction Book of the Month’ As the...

The year is 1928. On the outskirts of a large German city, three young men are earning a thin and precarious living. Fully armed young storm troopers swagger in the streets. Restlessness, poverty, and violence are everywhere. For these three, friendship is the only refuge from the chaos around them. Then the youngest of them falls in love and brings into the group a young woman who will become a comrade as well, as they are all tested in ways they can have never imagined.

Deserts of sand and deserts of the heart, Middle Eastern deserts and American deserts: Two Deserts, a collection of stories, follows the circles of two unforgettable women across cultures and deserts. The Arabian circle includes a 17-year-old girl yearning for freedom and a Muslim mother plotting to rescue her son from a jihadist movement. The American circle includes a hooker who is training her daughter for the life, a priest in love, and a club of women whose husbands are dying.

In The Last of All Possible Worlds, royalty, bankers, lovers, and wives intertwine to create a vivid portrait of Europe in the early 1900s. We meet wise and worldly Prince Sobieski, Vienna's ambassador in London, his enchanting wife, her English lover, and her enigmatic lifelong companion, Josefa. When Sobieski's illegitimate daughter makes a demand of her influential father, the unspoken rules of the family are challenged.

日本の文学史でも、指折りの短編小説の名手である芥川龍之介。その名を冠する「芥川龍之介賞」（芥川賞）は、今日に至るまで権威のある文学賞として社会的関心を集めています。主に短編小説に多くの傑作を残し、その作品は平易な文体ながらも、その秀逸な言葉選びや、深くまで切り込んだ心理描写の生々しさも相俟って、読み手を瞬く間に作品世界に引き込んでくれます。それも一因となって非常に人気が高い作家であり、没後には、何度も全集が刊行されて広く愛読されています。この度、芥川龍之介全集が、満を持してオーディオブックに登場です。代表作以外にも隠れた傑作が数多く収録されています。通勤や移動の合間にも、文学史上に輝く綺羅星のような作品に触れられる当オーディオブックは、きっと感性にも豊かに響く、意義深い時間を届けてくれることでしょう。こちらはシリーズ第二集です。第一集に続きまして、名作の数々をお届けします。

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「鼻」
　禅智内供の鼻は長さが五六寸あり、上唇の上から顋の下まで下っていた。
　そして内供は、人に笑われ、馬鹿にされるこの鼻のことを非常に気にしていた。絶えず他人の鼻を気にしたり、内典外典の中に、自分と同じような鼻のある人物を見出して、せめても幾分の心やりにしようとさえ思った事がある。一方ではまた、積極的に鼻の短くなる方法を試みたが、どれも上手く

As a child, isolated from the world in a secretive military encampment with her distant mother, she turns for affection to a sympathetic soldier and to the only other girl in the camp, forming two friendships that will shape the rest of her life. As a young adult in New York, cut off from her native country and haunted by the scars of her youth, she is still in search of a home. She falls in love with a married woman who is the image of her childhood friend, and she follows strangers because they remind her of her soldier.

【解説】 「人間失格」は、「恥の多い生涯を送って来ました。」という告白で始まる人間を恐れる男の手記。子どもの頃から、人間を恐れる一方で求愛するがために、道化となり人を笑わせる。長じて、女性に好かれる天性があることを悟り、女道楽に耽り心中未遂も起こす。実家から縁を切られた「私」は、編集者の女との同棲、荒れた飲酒などの日々の後、人を疑うことを知らない処女のヨシ子に惹かれて結婚。しかし、彼女が出入りの商人に汚され、「私」は荒れて薬物中毒となり、遂に脳病院に入れられてしまった。人間失格・・・。しかし、それでも、ある女性は彼のことを、「とても素直で気がきいて、神様みたいないい子でした。」と語るのだった。 「日の出前」は、実際にあった殺人事件をもとに書かれた小説で、昭和十七年に「花火」という題名で発表されたが、検閲で全文削除された。戦後に改題して刊行。高名な画家の息子が、非行に走り凶暴化していく。チベットで事業をやるなどと非現実的なことをいい、金や妹の着物、親の作品を持ちだして売り払う、家族を脅し、女中を犯す、無頼の作家や左翼の活動家とつきあう。一家は疲弊しきった。そんなある月夜の晩、泥酔した息子と一緒に、井の頭公園でボートに乗った父親が、一人だけで岸に戻ってきた…。最後の妹の言葉が衝撃的である。 ...

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