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Professeure de mathématiques à la retraite, Grace Winters vit une existence solitaire et monotone depuis le décès de son mari. Quand une amie, perdue de vue quarante ans auparavant, lui lègue une maison à Ibiza, elle n'hésite pas à prendre un aller simple pour les Baléares. Grace cherche alors des réponses au mystère de ce legs, qui s'avèrent dépasser toute logique.

Après le succès de Tant que le café est encore chaud et Le Café du temps retrouvé, cette suite nous entraîne dans un nouveau lieu, le café Dona Dona, au nord du Japon, pour d’émouvants voyages dans le temps.

Ничто не вечно. Рождаются и исчезают люди, переклеиваются обои, меняют названия переулки, на месте прежних домов вырастают новые. Но есть нечто неизменное: стены первой квартиры, первый в твоей жизни двор, скрип старых качелей – как мелодия далекого детства. Еще один взмах дирижерской палочки... и соседи по коммунальной юности становятся близкими тебе людьми, застревая в памяти навсегда. Героиня книги – в прошлом риелтор.

Боря Шустов — не вполне человек. С детства он знает, что ему предстоит болеть, терпеть и умереть ради того, чтобы мир стал чуточку лучше. Знает, что он и ему подобные нужны для того, чтобы предотвращать беды на планете — и цена этой способности слишком велика. Борина мама рано умерла — но осталась и в нем, и в его папе. В прямом смысле тоже. Борин папа честно старается исполнять свой долг, но он тоже не вполне человек, и долг его несколько выходит за рамки человеческого. Боря думает, что у него есть выбор. Думает, что он может жить отдельно, а мир отдельно.

目からうろこの詩作入門書三部作の第三巻にあたる本書では、大きな意味での比喩を使う詩の書き方をご案内します。①形のないものを形のあるものにたとえる方法➁人以外のものの視点で描く方法③「〇〇」と「心の〇〇」とを重ねる方法④「〇〇」と「人生の〇〇」とを重ねる方法⑤かけ離れたものどうしを必然的に結びつける方法・・・これらを例をあげて具体的に解説します。

In resplendent prose, Denne Michele Norris’s When the Harvest Comes fearlessly reveals the pain of inheritance and the heroic power of love, reminding us that, in the end, we are more than the men who came before us.

Cross the jet bridge with Linda, a frequent flyer with a dangerous obsession, in this hilarious and provocative debut novel by the acclaimed author of Out There.

The Pretender tells the story of Lambert Simnel, who was raised in obscurity as a peasant boy to protect his safety, believed to be the heir to the throne occupied by Richard III, and briefly crowned, at the age of ten, as King Edward VI, one of the last of the Plantagenets.

In the waning months of George W. Bush’s presidency, Neel Chima, a former Naval officer and federal prosecutor, is recruited to join a new federal intelligence agency—one with greater-than-usual powers and fewer-than-usual restrictions. Neel soon finds himself intimately involved in the surveillance of domestic terrorism suspects and the selection of foreigners for drone assassination—men who often look just like his Sikh family members.

In the small town of Dixon, Tennessee, Jimmy Joe spends 40 years living with his wife Vada, after getting her pregnant at sixteen; although, he never truly had gotten over his first love, Grace. After Grace's husband passes and after ten years without any marital intimacy, Jimmy Joe decides to confront his love for Grace and tell his best friend and wife, Vada, what he's kept hidden, but probably was more than obvious. Before he does, though, Vada shares she has stage 4 cancer and doesn't have long to live.

A poignant coming-of-age story following the friendships, hopes, fears, and struggles of a group of Native high school students from Winnipeg’s North End illuminating what it's like to grow up forgotten, urban, poor, and Indigenous.

Over four decades in public safety, Alex encounters a changing America, where veterans are left to rot on streets, women are welcome in dangerous fields but abusers still walk free, and service providers are subjected to intense public scrutiny while being denied the resources they need. After moving from bustling Boston to small town Vermont, Alex discovers an escalating feud between emergency operators and must decide which to protect: their community, or their legacy.

To strangers that pass her on the streets of Lahore, Mona Ahmed lives a life to be envied. Married to wealthy businessman Bilal, with happily married children, she seems to want for nothing. But behind the gilded exterior lies a past of secrets and heartbreak. While they may have weathered the storm of Mona's infidelity, with Bilal embracing the child born out of that secret love affair, their marriage remains shaky. Each day has the same slow, regular rhythm. . .until the first message arrives, and everything in Mona's life changes in an instant.

After a heartbreaking summer on the Connecticut shore, a group of beach friends is as adrift as an unmoored rowboat. When a dismayed Jason Barlow drives as far away from the sea as he can, leaving behind his wife, Maris, as well as their stately cottage on the bluff, that news hits like a sudden wave. Gathering over an intimate meal in a coastal diner, the friends make a solemn pact to lean on each other and not make any more rash decisions.

Funny, whip-smart, and often tender, Bitter Texas Honey introduces us to the unforgettable and indefatigable Joan West: ambitious, full of contradictions, utterly herself. As she wades through it all—addiction, politics, loss, and, notably, her father’s string of increasingly bizarre girlfriends—we witness her confront what it means to be a person, and an artist, in the world.

Nobody's better at taking out bodies than Larry Jackson, aka "Daddy Cool." Long as he's paid in full, he'll pull the trigger or stick a knife deep, whatever it takes to get the job done. No questions asked. Nobody's better. Nothing knocks him off his game-except his own family. Dead ass. He's got two stepsons wasting space and a wife he almost forgot about. But his daughter is another story.

I never imagined I'd be living in Jemima Eden's world. As her new assistant, I'm suddenly part of a life I've only ever dreamed of. After years of barely scraping by, juggling temp jobs and failed auditions, it feels like my chance to finally be someone. But the closer I get to Jemima, the more I realise that her glossy life is just another performance. Behind the dazzling smile and happy marriage to her thoughtful husband George, there's a darkness I never expected.

It’s the start of the new academic year and Ivy is ready for her future to begin at a prestigious university far from home. But her first year will be everything and nothing like she expected. Flung into a world of rigorous academics, secret societies and intense relationships, Ivy finds her feet quicker than she expected – things couldn’t be going better if she had planned them. But Ivy is keeping secrets.

When Mar Meyer's husband divorces her for another woman, she reacts by abandoning everything in her past: her home, her friends, even her name. Though it's not easy to start over, Mar is young-looking, fit, and ready for new adventures - as long as she can keep things casual. With each passing month, Mar goes from one acquaintance to the next.

Retired CIA counterterrorist operator, Jack Trench was brought back into the spy game in "Full Circle." After two members of his former counterterrorist team - known as The Watchers - were attacked by an enemy they thought they had defeated long ago, Trench was brought back in by the CIA to help find the killers, A global manhunt led Trench and his team to the Philippines where they eventually tracked and killed the terrorists who attacked them. All was right in the world again. Or so, Trench thought.