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Les thought that playing minder to Peregrine Normanhurst III sounded like a dead-set snack: Les would keep Peregrine out of trouble. So what if he was on the run from the IRA? They’d never follow him to Australia… But Les quickly finds himself thrust into an adventure that moves at breakneck speed from the corridors of power in Canberra to the grimy tenements of Belfast, to climax in a nerve-shattering, blood-spattered shoot out on a survivalist fortress in the Tweed Valley.

吉沢香純と母の静江は、遠縁の死刑囚三原響子から身柄引受人に指名され、刑の執行後に東京拘置所で遺骨と遺品を受け取った。香純は響子が最期に遺した「約束は守ったよ、褒めて」という言葉の意味が気になっていた。

Aurélien est directeur du département des Peintures du Louvre. Cet intellectuel nostalgique voit dans le musée un refuge où se protéger du bruit du monde. Mais la nouvelle présidente, Daphné – une femme énergique d'un pragmatisme désinhibé –, et d'implacables arguments marketing lui imposent une mission aussi périlleuse que redoutée : la restauration de La Joconde. À contrecoeur, Aurélien part à la recherche d'un restaurateur assez audacieux pour supporter la pression et s'attaquer à l'ultime chef-d'oeuvre. Sa quête le mène en Toscane, où il trouve Gaetano, personnalité intense et libre.

A poignant story about friendship, betrayal, obsession and second chances – this novel is an immensely powerful portrayal of human resilience. Sierra Leone: civil war has left an entire population with terrible secrets to keep. In the capital's hospital Kai, a gifted young surgeon, is plagued by demons. Elsewhere in the hospital lies Elias Cole, a university professor who recalls the love that drove him to acts that are far from heroic. As past and present intersect, Kai and Elias are drawn unwittingly closer and into the path of one woman at the centre of their stories.

Agnes Martí es una joven arqueóloga que se muda a Londres en busca de una oportunidad. Poco tiempo después de llegar a la ciudad, sorprendida por una repentina lluvia mientras pasea por el barrio del Temple y se refugia en una librería muy especial: Moonlight Books. Edward Livingstone está buscando una ayudante y, en el tiempo que Agnes tarda en secarse y tomar una taza de té caliente, ambos comprenden que no es casualidad que sea precisamente ella quien ha llamado a su puerta.

Colm O’Flynn was loved by his close circle of family and friends, however his death came too soon for everyone to make peace with their past. Shauna, his second wife, adored him. But one night she broke their marriage vows and didn’t get time to ask Colm’s forgiveness. Jess was the first Mrs O’Flynn. Her heart is set on someone new, but will the last one-night stand she shared with Colm come back to haunt her? Colm’s best friend, Dan, is recently divorced. Can he take a second shot at happiness if it means betraying the one person who always had his back?

In his “finely crafted first novel” ( Booklist), Peter Geye evokes the savage beauty of Lake Superior’s north shore and the bittersweet reunion of a dying father and his hurting son after decades of estrangement. When Noah Torr returns to his family’s Minnesota cabin to reconnect with his father, he learns for the first time what really happened 35 years ago—and how it changed his father forever.

If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah thought, she would be more careful not to trudge through muddy fields. It is wash-day for the housemaids at Longbourn House, and Sarah's hands are chapped and bleeding. Domestic life below stairs, ruled tenderly and forcefully by Mrs Hill the housekeeper, is about to be disturbed by the arrival of a new footman smelling of the sea, and bearing secrets.

Der Weltbesteller von Fredrik Backman als ungekürzte Lesung. Ove ist 59. Er fährt Saab. Und wir alle kennen jemanden wie ihn: den grummeligen Nachbarn von nebenan, der kontrolliert, ob der Müll richtig getrennt ist, und heimlich die Falschparker aufschreibt. Doch niemand wird als grummeliger alter Nachbar geboren, und einst war auch Ove glücklich. Bis das mit seiner Frau passierte, und dann das mit der Arbeit. Jetzt macht nichts mehr wirklich Sinn. Noch einmal richtig aufräumen, dann ist Ove bereit, für immer zu gehen.

The Darling is Hannah Musgrave's story, told emotionally and convincingly years later by Hannah herself. A political radical and member of the Weather Underground, Hannah has fled America to West Africa, where she and her Liberian husband become friends and colleagues of Charles Taylor, the notorious warlord and now ex-president of Liberia. When Taylor leaves for the United States in an effort to escape embezzlement charges, he's immediately placed in prison.

Premio Biblioteca Breve 2023. Las mayores batallas de una mujer se libran en su propio cuerpo. "El jurado del Premio Biblioteca Breve 2023 ha destacado La educación física, novela ganadora por unanimidad, por una voz narrativa que explora su propia identidad a través del cuerpo y que, al hacerlo, recoge el sentir de una generación y lo convierte en una experiencia a la vez única y universal." Jurado del Premio Biblioteca Breve 2023. Una tarde de finales de agosto, Catalina, que acaba de cumplir dieciséis años, abandona la casa de su mejor amiga en una urbanización de las afueras tras un desagradable percance.

警察小説の新たなるヒロイン誕生！念願かない警察広報職員から刑事になった森口泉。記憶力や語学力を買われ、希望していた機動分析係へ配属された。

The Condition tells the story of the McKotches, a proper New England family that comes apart during one fateful summer. One day on the beach, Frank McKotch is struck by an image he cannot forget: his 13-year-old daughter, Gwen, strangely infantile in her child-sized bikini, standing a full head shorter than her younger cousin Charlotte. At that moment, he knows a truth that he can never again unknow: something is terribly wrong with his only daughter.

One summer following the Second World War, Robert Appleyard sets out on foot from his Durham village. Sixteen and the son of a coal miner, he makes his way across the northern countryside until he reaches the former smuggling village of Robin Hood’s Bay. There he meets Dulcie, an eccentric, worldly, older woman who lives in a ramshackle cottage facing out to sea. Staying with Dulcie, Robert’s life opens into one of rich food, sea swimming, sunburn and poetry.

Joey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on a mission to save his wayward cousin from the fleshpots of Hollywood. Both are under anaesthetic at the dentists when something strange happens - and their identities are swapped. Suddenly Joey can use his six-foot frame to get his own back on his Hollywood persecutors. But Reggie has to endure everything Joey had to put up with in the horrible life of a child star - including kidnap.

Ella, an author suffering writer's block after a tragic accident, comes to Florence hoping to flesh out a novel based on a mysterious story her father told her. There she encounters another lost soul and develops a sensual alter ego that allows her to experience life.

Erst sind es Kleinigkeiten: Konrad Lang legt aus Versehen seine Brieftasche in den Kühlschrank. Bald vergisst er den Namen der Frau, die er heiraten will. Je mehr Neugedächtnis ihm die Krankheit- Alzheimer - raubt, desto stärker kommen früheste Erinnerungen auf. Und das beunruhigt eine millionenschwere alte Dame, mit der Konrad seit seiner Kindheit auf die ungewöhnlichste Art verbunden ist.

The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling military thriller writer and coauthor of the bestselling Rogue Warrior series goes beyond the headlines and worldwide speculation in this pulse-pounding fictional account of the breathtaking hunt for the world’s most wanted terrorist, Usama Bin Laden. Some truths are better told in fiction.

信仰とは、愛や献身とは何かを考える物語。自らの命を賭して乗客の命を守り抜き、年若く鉄道事故で殉職した鉄道職員・永野信夫の生涯。

The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American writer Jack London. The book's protagonist, Humphrey van Weyden, is a literary critic who is a survivor of an ocean collision and who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him. Its first printing of forty thousand copies was immediately sold out before publication on the strength of London's previous The Call of the Wild.