Contemporary Fiction

Von der Autorin des Bestsellers Die sieben Männer der Evelyn Hugo und Daisy Jones & The Six kommt ein epischer neuer Roman über die außergewöhnlichen Anstrengungen, die wir unternehmen, um über unsere Grenzen hinaus zu leben und zu lieben. Joan Goodwin sieht zu den Sternen auf, seit sie denken ...

McMillan revisits Savannah, Gloria, Bernadine, and Robin fifteen years later....

Introducing Wyoming's Sheriff Walt Longmire in this riveting novel, the first in the Longmire series, the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire....

An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he'll be reunited with his loved ones after death in an eternal hereafter....

A riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives....

STOP. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands. NO, don't put it down. It's too late. They're watching you. My name is David Wong. My best friend is John....

The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.....

Andrew Yancy—late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe County sheriff’s office—has a human arm in his freezer. There’s a logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it parted from its shadowy owner....

The quiet 1960s midwestern life of the Land family is upended when son Davy kills two marauders who have come to harm the family. The morning of his sentencing, Davy escapes from his cell....

In I Almost Forgot About You, Dr. Georgia Young's wonderful life--great friends, family, and successful career--aren't enough to keep her from feeling stuck and restless. When she decides to make some major changes in her life, including quitting her job as an optometrist and moving house....

Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death....

Garrison Keillor is the consummate storyteller, gifted with the rare ability, both in print and in performance, to hold an audience spellbound....

In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski....

There's a secret to mastery that you may have never heard, a single little thing that only the very best in the world know how to do....

16-årige, Starr, er eneste vidne til, at hendes ubevæbnede ven, Khalil, bliver skudt og dræbt af en hvid politimand. Indtil nu har Starr balanceret...

The plot centres round Miss Barbara Buncle, a maiden lady who was obliged to write a book because – as she naively explained – her dividends were so poor....

Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others....

Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and is imprisoned....

On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It's her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she's just realized her infant daughter has gone missing....

For years, guitarist Quinn Porter has been on the road, chasing gig after gig, largely absent to his twice-ex-wife Belle and their odd, Guinness records-obsessed son....

A week on an island sounds like the stuff of beach dreams, but for Paisley Royce, it's a nightmare. Her little sister is marrying her ex-college sweetheart, and Paisley is serving as maid of honor. To add insult to injury, nobody will let Paisley forget she's single.

For more than three decades Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culture....

Jealousy, tragedy, survival, and revenge - the discovery of Christopher’s diary in the ruins of Foxworth Hall brings new secrets of the Dollanganger family to light....

In Paris, in Washington, and in Greece in a fabulous villa, an innocent American becomes a bewildered, horror-stricken pawn in a game of vengeance and betrayal....

The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate togetherness: an indefinable, enviable kind of specialness. But they are also like all families....

第172回直木賞候補作！数百年先に帰ってくるかもしれない。懐かしい、この浜辺に―ー。徳島の海辺の小さな町で、なんとかウミガメの卵を孵化させ、自分ひとりの力で育てようとする、祖父と二人暮らしの中学生の女の子。

ピュア度１００％！　ハートフル青春小説　いみじ！　新入生、部活つくったってよ

県立菅原高校の入学式当日、同じクラスになった平尾安以加から「平安時代に興味ない？」と牧原栞は声をかけられた。

中堅製薬会社のMRである紀尾中は、自社新薬の「診療ガイドライン」第一選択Aグレード決定のために奔走する。決まれば年間売上1000億円超のメガヒット商品となる。

直木賞作家が描く、明治開国の仏を巡る群像 法隆寺・救世観音像。二百年以上封じられた秘仏の扉を開けた、五人の男がいた。開帳の裏に秘められた思惑と戦い。その真相は――。

高校2年生の朔太郎と、恋人のアキ。アキの死から、物語は始まる。ふたりの出会い、無人島への旅、そしてアキの発病、入院……。最愛の人を失うとは、どういうことなのか。日本中を涙させたラブストーリー。

Renée è una nota accademica francese di origine italiana, con una routine sempre uguale e frustrante: i colleghi maschilisti la considerano una segretaria e, nonostante il successo delle sue pubblicazioni, Renée vive in solitudine da anni, con la sola compagnia dei lirici alessandrini. All'improvviso, arriva una mail a sconvolgere tutto: Gene Petrov, brillante matematico, lettore appassionato, emulo di Casanova e grande amore di Renée ai tempi degli studi a Harvard, è morto per una malattia fulminea.

Shadi sa molte cose, troppe per una bambina di tre anni. Sa che nella sua città, Kabul, adesso comandano uomini crudeli, talebani si chiamano. Sa che suo padre è in pericolo perché li aveva combattuti. Sa che per lei e per le donne dell’Afghanistan «la libertà è acqua passata», come le spiega amaramente la mamma il giorno in cui viene al mondo Jahan, sua sorella. Un anno dopo, nascosta, assiste all’irruzione di quegli uomini nella loro casa. Pochi istanti e un cofanetto o e la sua amata Jahan sono le uniche cose che le restano.

【第172回直木賞候補作】より多くの金をつかんだ者が京都を制する――最後に嗤うのは仏か鬼か。日本仏教の最大宗派・燈念寺派。弱者の救済を志す若き僧侶・志方凌玄がバブル期の京都で目にしたのは、暴力団、フィクサー、財界重鎮に市役所職員……

村山由佳が描く、業界震撼の〝作家〟小説！ 大人気作家・天羽カインがどうしても欲しいもの――それは直木賞という栄誉。業界震撼！作家の承認欲求と破壊的な情熱が迸る話題作。

妻の様子がなんだかおかしい。毎週金曜日に仕事と偽って、近所のカフェに通っているのだ。常連客は、不登校の小学生に、定年退職した男性、憧れの日本で暮らす外国人、そして僕!?

過失による患者の死に平然とする医師たちに怒りがたぎる元新聞記者・松野。心臓外科教授の椅子だけを目指すエリート助教授・香村。「手術の失敗で父は死んだ」と香村を訴える美貌の人妻・枝利子。医療の国家統制を目論む“厚労省のマキャベリ”佐久間。

「恋はするものじゃなく、おちるものだ」。 東京タワーの見えるマンションに母親とふたりで住む20歳の大学生・透（トオル）。彼と恋人、親友、そして３年間想いつづけている年上の人妻―ー恋の極みを描き、映画やドラマにもなった話題の長篇恋愛小説。

Claudia e Anika, due donne apparentemente diverse ma che entrambe incarnano l'universo femminile, la sua fragilità e la sua forza. Un romanzo toccante sulla maternità, sull'essere donna e sul suo significato.

La protagonista de esta historia fue hija durante 25 años y lleva siendo madre incluso más tiempo. Una madre sola con tres hijas trillizas a las que ha dedicado todos sus desvelos, olvidada de sí misma mientras las veía crecer. Ahora una de ellas, Margarita, abandona el nido para trabajar en París en el mundo de la moda. Lo que debería ser una circunstancia tan inevitable como feliz, que los retoños vayan encontrando su camino, se convierte para su madre en el punto de partida de una vida completamente diferente a la que había llevado hasta entonces.

Après dix ans passés derrière les barreaux, Riley Materson revient à Riverton, sa ville natale. Il a l'intention d'aider Sheldon, son frère, qui a pris la direction des Droks suite au décès de leur paternel. Toutefois, Riley ne s'attendait pas à devenir leur chef, comme l'avait exigé son père. Lui qui désirait justement écarter Sheldon et Hayden de ce milieu dangereux où règnent les trafics d'armes, de drogue et la violence ; il va devoir revoir ses résolutions.

Schon als Kind ist Amélie fasziniert von dem Märchen des Kranichs, der aus seinen eigenen Federn ein Gewebe macht, so schön, wie es noch nie jemand gesehen hat. Sie fühlt sich ihm verwandt und studiert fortan die Vögel all jener Weltteile, in die sie als Diplomatentochter kommt: Japan, China, USA, Bangladesch, Bhutan. Sie lernt von ihnen den Aufschwung, den Sturzflug, das Leben. Aber auch den Übergang ins Reich der Toten – und die Kunstflüge des Schreibens.

Bonita è una giovane studentessa di Delhi in viaggio in Messico per imparare lo spagnolo. Seduta su una panchina del Jardín di San Miguel de Allende, all'ombra della maestosa cattedrale, si gode l'estraneità di un luogo mai visitato. Non conosce nessuno lì, e nessuno la conosce. Eppure un'anziana donna in abiti tradizionali, loquace ed eccentrica, l'avvicina con accalorata familiarità, affermando di rivedere in lei la figlia della sua cara amica, Rosarita, conosciuta proprio lì tanti anni prima, quando Rosarita era arrivata dall'India, come ora sua figlia, per seguire la sua vocazione di pittrice.

Patrizia und Alexander bilden ein Team und suchen nach einem zweiten Patissier. Theo lässt derweil seinen Emotionen freien Lauf.

In der Dessertküche eines Sternerestaurants soll Patrizia in den nächsten Tagen ihre Erfahrungen als Köchin erweitern. Der Patissier ist eine merkwürdige Nummer und ihr neuer Chef eine heiße Erscheinung. Patrizia hat keine Ahnung, was sie von den Männern halten soll.

Ort der weltweiten Begegnung - noch bevor die Unterschiedlichkeit der Menschen als politische Waffe genutzt, dort stattdessen aber gelebt - und geliebt - wurde. Parallel erzählt werden die Liebesgeschichte zwischen Ko-Repetitor Behrens und dem Ballettmeister, sowie dem Erzähler und Tanzstudentin Anna. Eine davon geht nicht gut aus.