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Christmas is approaching, but the mood on Peppercorn Street is anything but jolly. Claire is convinced her stalker ex will catch up with her and her young daughter, and Luke is finding that living with his estranged teenage daughter brings its own problems. When a road accident brings them together, Luke impulsively offers them shelter in his home. Will this Christmas give them the best present of all: a new family? Or will Claire’s ex again cause trouble?

Joanna to czterdziestoletnia nauczycielka samotnie wychowujaca nastoletnia córke Lusie. Zmeczona praca zawodowa postanawia isc na urlop zdrowotny i zaczac realizowac swe marzenia. Zamiast odpoczywac, musi jednak wyjechac, by zaopiekowac sie chora ciocia. Pobyt w Starogardzie Gdanskim okazuje sie pelen niespodzianek. Joanna zaczyna pisac, prowadzi "sledztwo" dotyczace przystojnego sasiada i udziela sie w hospicjum, przede wszystkim jednak wskutek tych doswiadczen calkowicie odmienia swe zycie.

Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book Association Number One Fiction Book Award for 1995, The Sky Fisherman is the poignant story of a young man coming of age in a small Oregon town. Laced with love of the great outdoors and infused with colorful local characters, this audiobook is a rich glimpse at life in the Pacific Northwest. The lives of young Culver, his twice-married mother, and his charismatic Uncle Jake are shadowed by the death of Culver’s father in a fishing accident.

L’educazione sentimentale di un giovane uomo che, per sfuggire all’asfissiante supervisione paterna, decide di frequentare l’università di Trieste. La gioventù, in quella città celeste al crocevia di diverse culture, diviene la stagione dell’immortalità, delle nuove scoperte, delle amicizie inossidabili. E di amori smisurati e sofferti. La Trieste descritta minuziosamente tra le pagine di questo romanzo è un luogo dall’identità composita e dal confine sempre incerto, come i protagonisti di queste pagine, giovani studenti entusiasti con il futuro tutto da inventare.

Fiddle player Eliza Bancroft had to improvise after an unplanned pregnancy four years ago. Instead of pursuing her dream of performing live music, she changed keys and has focused on being a good mom and a sought-after studio musician in Nashville. Her rhythm is set until she spots her son’s father in a local magazine and realizes the man she was unable to track down lives right under her nose in Music City.

1995年1月、地震はすべてを一瞬のうちに壊滅させた。

Raimund Gregorious - Mundus, as his students affectionately call him - is a predictable character. A bookish Latin professor, well-respected but perhaps a little boring. One stormy morning, he encounters a beautiful, distraught Portuguese woman in a red leather coat... Later that day Raimund will realise: that moment changed everything. All of a sudden, nothing in his life feels right. His restlessness is further fuelled when he finds a book by a little-known Portuguese writer, Amadeo de Prado.

Mulheres abandonadas. Desde sempre, a literatura é permeada de histórias trágicas de figuras fascinantes, como Medeia e Dido, que se desfazem diante do abandono masculino. Emma Bovary e Anna Kariênina, personagens inesquecíveis, também sucumbem. A mesma Simone de Beauvoir de O segundo sexo escreveu A mulher desiludida, antologia de contos sobre personagens despedaçadas, uma delas por essa mesma via. No século xxi, Elena Ferrante atualiza a tradição, criando personagens que definham ou enlouquecem depois de dispensadas — é o caso de Olga, em Dias de abandono, que se vê confrontada com novas questões: Como pode uma mulher padecer "de amor" nos anos 2000?

Pieta has a secret. Ten years ago, Pieta was kidnapped by a man calling himself The Blindfolder who said he wouldn't kill her if she kept her eyes closed for 48 hours. She never told anyone what happened to her, vowing to move on with her life. But when The Blindfolder starts hunting down his past victims, Pieta realises she may finally be forced to tell her deepest secret to stay alive....

Nestled in the lush Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the town of Big Stone Gap has been home for Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney and her beloved family and friends for generations. But with her daughter, Etta, having flown the nest to enchanting Italy, Ave Maria has reached a turning point, and she realizes that it’s time to go in search of brand-new dreams. Yet before she can put her foot on the path, her life is turned upside down.

・・・この『時をかける少女』というのは、自分にとってはよく稼いでくれるお嬢さんみたいなものでしてね(笑)。これでもう何作目になりますか、その時代その時代の女子中学生や女子高校生の制服のアイドルとして訪ねてきてくれる。・・・2006年のアニメ化にあたって、筒井康隆氏が語った言葉です。彼によって『時をかける少女』が書かれてから40年。明治の文豪の作品とは違った意味で時代を感じさせる内容は、しかし、かわることなく訴えかける力を秘めています。 人生をリセットしたい、と思ったことは誰しもあるのではないでしょうか。しかし、ゲームをリセットして、さっきの方がよかったかも、と思ったことのある人も多いでしょう。「リセットした人生」「リセットしなかった人生」・・・・結局、人がたどれる道は、一筋きりなのです。 重ささえ感じられる正統派SF小説に、声優として大活躍中のあの ゆかな が挑戦。さわやかに読み上げました。 ことのは出版オーディオブック詳細はhttp://www.kotonoha.co.jpまで

«Nací cuando mis padres ya no se querían», recuerda Adriana, mucho después de que todo haya sucedido. Por ello, la niña se crea un paraíso propio, poblado por amigos imaginarios y una familia de su elección. «Uno de mis recuerdos más lejanos se remonta a la noche en que vi correr al Unicornio que vivía enmarcado en la reproducción de un famoso tapiz. Con asombrosa nitidez, le vi echar a correr y desaparecer por un ángulo del marco, para reaparecer enseguida y retomar su lugar; hermoso, blanquísimo y enigmático.»

During the day, the heat of June clashes with the start of the rainy season, while at night, the fragrance of damp leaves flows through the open window. But the coming of summer does little to warm Lily’s spirits. As the world turns slower than it did yesterday, a new emptiness appears which the vibrant colours fail to fill.

19 texte semnate I.L. Caragiale, 7 actori: "Amici" - lectura Razvan Vasilescu, "Atmosfera incarcata" - lectura Dan Radulescu, "O zi solemna" - lectura Irina Petrescu, "Situatiunea" - lectura Ion Caramitru, "Mici economii" - lectura Dan Radulescu, "Diplomatie" - lectura Marius Manole, "Lantul slabiciunilor" - lectura Marius Manole, "O cronica de Craciun" - lectura Mihai Constantin, "Meteahna" - lectura Victor Rebengiuc, "Repausul dominical" - lectura Dan Radulescu, "La Pasti" - lectura Irina Petrescu.

Ava: I was about to land my dream writing job when I hit a plot twist. See, I inherited a fixer-upper inn in my small hometown. Where my first love—the guy who broke my heart—still lives. I wish I could say our chemistry had disappeared. But it hasn’t. So now, I have to figure out how to walk down memory lane without repeating history. Because there’s no way I can afford to give him a second chance....

4枚の絵が、新たな謎を語り出す。ユーモアとアフォリズムに満ちた物語の行方を、まだ誰も知らない。森の小径を抜けて、絵画教室の少女と美しい叔母が山荘を訪れる。

その日、東京第一銀行に激震が走った。頭取から発表されたライバル行との合併。生き残りを懸けた交渉が進む中、臨店指導グループのはねっかえり・花咲舞は、ひょんなことから「組織の秘密」というパンドラの箱を開けてしまう。隠蔽工作、行内政治、妖怪重役……このままでは我が行はダメになる！　花咲舞の正義が銀行の闇に切り込む痛快連作短編。

人事が怖くてサラリーマンが務まるか！　
まさかの出向で銀行から証券子会社に飛ばされた半沢直樹に、ＩＴ企業買収の案件が転がり込む。巨額の収益が見込まれたものの、親会社の銀行が卑劣な手段で横取りしようとする。倍返しをもくろむ半沢は、バブル世代に反発するロスジェネ世代の部下・森山とともに、周囲をあっと言わせる秘策に出るが――!?

Endlich: Der neue Roman von Daniel Glattauer. Die Binders und die Strobl-Marineks gönnen sich einen exklusiven Urlaub in der Toskana. Tochter Sophie Luise, 14, durfte gegen die Langeweile ihre Schulfreundin Aayana mitnehmen, ein Flüchtlingskind aus Somalia. Kaum hat man sich mit Prosecco und Antipasti in Ferienlaune gechillt, kommt es zur Katastrophe. Was ist ein Menschenleben wert? Und jedes gleich viel? Daniel Glattauer packt große Fragen an in seinem neuen Roman, der einen nicht mehr loslässt und in dem er all sein Können ausspielt: spannende Szenen, starke Dialoge, Sprachwitz.

Michel Marini - douze ans en 1959, élève à Henri IV - a une passion, la littérature. Il ne s'en intéresse pas moins au rock'n'roll. Et au baby-foot. Au café où il joue tous les jours se réunit un club d'échecs fréquenté par Tibor, Léonid, Sasha, et les autres, tous réfugiés de l'Est qui ont dû s'exiler pour survivre.