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In the middle of the night, a car with two passengers drives off a pier. An elderly man drowns, but his young wife, Kumako Onizuka, lives. Kumako, with a past stained by yakuza entanglements and criminal activity, is accused of orchestrating the accident for a large insurance payout. Local journalist Moichi Akitani enjoys newfound success after writing a series of articles about the crime. Given her past, Kumako's guilt seems obvious to him, and as he portrays her as a devious femme fatale, the community turns against her.

Upward Bound is not a place anyone dreams of spending their days. The dreary adult daycare center for Los Angeles's disabled community is, for many of its clients and staff, a place of last resort. This includes Carlos, a young aide who lost his mother as a boy and now works there alongside his beloved sister Mariana; Jorge, the gentle nonspeaking giant whom Carlos seeks to befriend (and prevent from escaping); Tom, a beautiful young man with cerebral palsy, who pines for Ann, the summer lifeguard at the center's pool who feels out of her depth; then there's Dave, Upward Bound’s director.

Rising star Mieko Kawakami reaches new heights in this pacy, thrilling novel, a Japanese Breaking Bad, in which a group of friends fight for freedom, independence, and survival in Tokyo of the 1990s, a world rapidly dividing into haves and have-nots.

As a lover of classic crime stories, it’s no surprise that schoolteacher Kaede encounters everyday mysteries more often than your typical twenty-seven-year-old. Solving them is another matter though. For that, she turns to her beloved grandfather, who retains a keen sharpness of mind despite his dementia, and who was once a key member of The Waseda Mystery Club. From impossible locked room murders to confounding missing person cases, the grandfather-granddaughter duo ‘weave stories’ to get to the bottom of every mystery.

After months of financial strain and escalating arguments, Caroline is relieved when her husband, Adam, secures a job at Corridor, a prestigious Big Tech company. Though his long hours on top-secret projects often leave Caroline alone with their newborn son, Gabriel, the life-changing income seems worth the sacrifice. When Adam suggests a summer retreat to Haven, the exclusive island community that serves as Corridor’s base of operations, Caroline agrees, hoping the sun-soaked paradise will help Adam relax and bring their family closer.

Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in a broken-down property in the middle of a desert. Strangers to each other, they have no idea where they are or how they came to be there with eight other women, their heads shaved, guarded by two inept yet vicious jailers. Doing hard labor under a sweltering sun, the prisoners soon learn what links them: in each woman's past is a sexual scandal with a powerful man. They pray for rescue but as the hours turn into days and the days into weeks and months, it becomes clear that the women must rescue themselves.

Eighteen months later, the flat feels different. Love is merging with reality. Stephen's teenage daughter has re-appeared, while Eily has made a choice, the consequences of which she cannot outrun. Now they face a reckoning for all that's been left unspoken – emotions, secrets and ambitions. Tonight, if they are to find one another again, what must be said aloud?

Life is hard in Ireland in 1867. Eliza Carthy moves with her lighthouse-keeper husband James and sons Peter and Joseph to the remote island of Skellig Michael. When assistant keeper Edmund and his wife Ruth arrive, Eliza hopes for respite. But her new neighbours are not what she'd expected.

Meet Buffy. With three ex-wives, a failing career and only his dog George for company, Buffy's bachelorhood is looking worryingly confirmed. Until he meets Celeste. Dazzled by love, Buffy has no idea that Celeste is systematically researching his ex-wives, children and stepchildren, and unearthing secrets that will change all their lives.

C'est la guerre et c'est l'hiver. Deux hommes et une femme sont terrés dans un appartement. Combien de jours leur reste-t-il à vivre ? En attendant, il n'est plus interdit de révéler ses vraies passions. L'amour, le désir, l'intelligence résistent-ils au froid ? A-t-on le droit de consumer ses dernières forces à lire de la mauvaise littérature ? Enfin, à l'heure du choix ultime, quel livre est assez important pour ne pas être mis à l'épreuve du feu ?

武田信玄に戦術を具申し、川中島に忽然と消えたと言う軍師・山本勘助。その遺児とされる僧が、父の生きた痕跡を探る表題作ほか、歴史短編八篇をセレクト。さらに、単行本未収録のショートショート「トンボ突き」を付した傑作集。著者の多面的作風を、歴史小説を通して浮き彫りにする。

連作警察小説。子供の姿を見たいがために現れるであろう犯人を張込む俺。思惑通り、姿を見せた犯人を逮捕。取調べに向かう途中、庁舎の廊下で刑事から声をかけられた。

Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey were not the only ancient tales of the Trojan War—there were others, now vanished but for echoes and fragments, in what is known as the Epic Cycle. In Son of Nobody, Yann Martel imagines one such tale, the Psoad, an epic that follows a goatherd’s son, Psoas of Midea, who leaves his wife and family to fight at Troy. Psoas meets his doom, and the poem of his life is lost—until a Canadian academic studying at Oxford, Harlow Donne, discovers its relics thirty centuries later.

Ambientados en parajes rurales, acantilados y selvas exuberantes donde aún perviven las huellas indígenas, estos cuentos reflejan cómo el abuso de poder, venga de la corrupción, el narcotráfico, la violencia de género, estatal o insurgente, condiciona la vida de sus protagonistas: niños expuestos a todo tipo de opresiones y asedios.

1434: The Kalmar Union is cracking at its seams as a rebellion, led by miner Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, erupts in the north. Sent by his status-seeking family, young Måns Bengtsson must win Engelbrekt’s trust no matter the cost. Back at his family’s castle, his mother, father, and sister wait for news of his success. One is lost in longing, another forges plans for the throne and crown, and one might finally have the opportunity to rise from her brother’s shadow.

Estudiante de doctorado en neurociencia, Gifty explora la conducta en ratones para investigar el funcionamiento de los circuitos neuronales de la depresión y la adicción, dos enfermedades que han causado estragos entre sus seres más queridos: su hermano, Nana, era una promesa del atletismo que murió hace años a causa de una sobredosis de heroína tras una lesión de tobillo y la dependencia al OxyContin, mientras que su madre ha vuelto a caer en una depresión severa.

En esta novela imprescindible de la narrativa estadounidense del siglo xx, Sinclair Lewis nos presenta a George F. Babbit, un agente inmobiliario bullicioso, arrogante y siempre preocupado por su reputación. Babbit es el epítome del conformista, un personaje que piensa y siente lo mismo que la multitud. Mayormente con esa actitud lo vemos participar en reuniones, actos sociales y viajes de negocios que capturan toda la agitación de la cultura comercial de su país.

La novel·la que va consagrar Han Kang com una de les grans autores del segle: una lectura pertorbadora i transformadora. La vegetariana narra la història d'una dona, la Yeonghye, que per la simple decisió de no tornar a menjar carn converteix una vida normal en un malson pertorbador. Narrada a tres veus, explica el despreniment progressiu de la condició humana d'una dona que ha decidit deixar de ser allò que l'obliguen a ser.

The Attack on the Mill is a powerful tale of love, loyalty, and devastation set against the backdrop of the Franco-Prussian War. On the eve of a joyous wedding at Father Merlier's idyllic mill in the Lorraine countryside, the drums of war grow louder.

San Francisco. Two trailblazing women—separated by a century—fighting for their futures. The Covert Buccaneer is a sweeping, dual-timeline historical fiction, women’s fiction, legal drama, and love story..