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Yuki Hirano is just out of high school when his parents enroll him, against his will, in a forestry training program in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. No phone, no internet, no shopping. Just a small, inviting community where the most common expression is “take it easy.” At first, Yuki is exhausted, fumbles with the tools, asks silly questions, and feels like an outcast. Kamusari is the last place a city boy from Yokohama wants to spend a year of his life. But as resistant as he might be, the scent of the cedars and the staggering beauty of the region have a pull.

【原作　吉川英治】歴史をテーマにした大衆小説を多数執筆。史実にもとづいた話の中で、魅力的なキャラクターが活躍する。幅広い読者層に親しまれ「国民文学作家」と呼ばれている。

Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyoku stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward and spiritless woman who has lacked the strength to change her life and decides to do something about it.

In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all - beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn.

Without Cassandra, Aaron would probably be dead. Fortunately, she won’t leave him—despite the drinking, flirting, solipsism, armchair socialism, overspending, infidelity, catastrophic depression, and disparate but increasingly frequent spells of drug- and booze-addled debauchery. Unfortunately, she might be reaching the end of her rope.

Diana, Justin, Errol, and Vivian have been told their entire lives that success is guaranteed by following a simple checklist. They worked hard, got good grades, and attended a great university—only to graduate into the Great Recession of 2008. Despite their newly minted degrees, they're unemployed, stuck again under their parents’ roofs in a hypercompetitive Chinese American community. So when Grace—once the neighborhood golden child, now a Harvard Law School dropout—asks to make a documentary about the crew, they say yes. It’s not like her little movie will ever see the light of day.

Bella Beckett is clearing out her mother Betty’s house when she finds a hidden diary. On the cover, two words are written: BURN THIS. According to the diary, thirty-five years earlier, Betty witnessed the murder of Bella’s childhood friend, Vicky. The diary is quickly dismissed by the police as fiction – Betty’s attempt at creative writing – but Bella is convinced they are wrong. As she uncovers a series of dark connections, it is clear Vicky’s killer is still at large. And they weren’t just someone familiar to Betty, but a person Bella herself knows well…

When a creative writing academic becomes infatuated with his colleague – the poet – it is not long before it begins to threaten his relationship with his partner, Michael. Michael is beautiful. Michael is safe. But the poet is everything he isn’t; she has everything he wants. While he writes about steel and sex, she dreams about the movements of swallows. While he tends to his budding career, she writes from her big, white house in the woods. As he slips between his old life and this new one, his fixation grows into something more powerful. The poet, his Kingfisher, is his sole focus.

Een liefdevol en beeldend geschreven verhaal met veel aandacht voor de Koreaanse cultuur, voor de luisteraars van de bestsellers Als katten van de wereld verdwijnen en Morisaki's boekwinkel Dit verhaal speelt zich af in een brievenwinkel in een hippe wijk in Seoul die echt bestaat en een penvriendendienst heeft; de auteur mocht de anoniem geschreven brieven inzien en gebruiken voor dit boek Hyoyeongs droom om regisseur te worden is uiteengespat: haar oudere zus heeft de familie plotsklaps verlaten en zonder haar steun ontbreekt het Hyoyeong aan zelfvertrouwen om haar filmproject af te ronden.

小6の拓人、忍、宇太佳はスケボーが大好きな仲良し三人組。新たに見つけた格好のスケボー練習場所で出会ったのが神社の管理人、田中さんだ。その日から、11歳と85歳の交流が始まった。いつも穏やかに話を聞いてくれる田中さん。

Romantikerin Millie hat eine Mission: Sie will die Frau finden, in die sich ihre ältere beste Freundin vor fast achtzig Jahren verliebte. Doch eine Computerpanne legt den Flugverkehr lahm, und so muss sie wohl oder übel mit Hollis Hollenbeck im Auto mitfahren, einem zynischen Schriftsteller, der die ewige Liebe für ein Märchen hält. Auf ihrer langen Reise quer durch die USA stellt Millie fest, dass Hollis ihre Gesellschaft mehr genießt, als er zugibt. Denn obwohl er Romantik angeblich für Unsinn hält, tut er alles für den Erfolg ihrer Suche.

Tucked away on a narrow side street in Tokyo is the Torunka Café, a neighbourhood nook where the passersby are as likely to be local cats as tourists. Its regulars include Chinatsu Yukimura, a mysterious young woman who always leaves behind a napkin folded into the shape of a ballerina; Hiroyuki Yumata, a middle-aged man who's returned to the neighbourhood searching for the happy life he once gave up; and Shizuku, the café owner's teenage daughter, who is still coming to terms with her sister's death as she falls in love for the first time.

LA romcom writer Mia Valentina has it all; money, success, a tanned and toned body, golden blonde hair and a string of sexy lovers. She’s almost forgotten her previous self: plain old Mia Harrison. Until a wedding invitation arrives requesting (demanding!) her presence as chief bridesmaid at her younger sister Belle’s upcoming nuptials. Mia’s barely been back in England before she’s accidentally injured the groom, unintentionally ‘cursed’ the wedding and been caught in a compromising position with her sister’s soon to be brother-in-law!

With her family’s perfumery in dire straits, Stella Penhallam needs a miracle. So, when her great-aunt’s journal from 1940s Paris lands on her desk, Stella realises that the missing pages could hold the answers she seeks. In 1939, as war breaks out across Europe, Iris Penhallam is forced into an impossible situation, one that will cause her world to come crashing down.

Stellas Café betyder många saker för många människor, men framför allt är det en plats där livet kan få vänta utanför dörren. En plats för små vänligheter. En plats där vem som helst kan vara den de vill, där alla alltid är välkomna.

Hjärta av jazz är en varm berättelse om oväntad vänskap. Det är Sara Lövestams fjärde roman, hennes tidigare böcker har alla fått fantastiska recensioner.

Ett reportage i en tidning inspirerar Maja–hon ska starta en simskola för vuxna, där eleverna får bo på slottet under några veckor. Maja drömmer om hur simskolan ska bli ett möte mellan olika spännande kulturer och människor. Men det kommer bara tre elever–kulturjournalisten Karin, trädgårdsmästaren Jens och tonårskillen Alex. Tre ensamma människor med hemligheter bakom sina skyddande skal som de vill dölja till varje pris. Simskolan blir inte alls som någon av dem hade tänkt sig. De två varma sommarveckorna förändrar livet totalt för dem allihop.

Ci sono luoghi da cui sembra impossibile uscire, posti che ti stringono come una gabbia, tra strade che tornano sempre su se stesse e segreti che affondano fra le crepe dell'asfalto. Max lo sa bene. Lo vive tutti i giorni sulla propria pelle da che il padre, di punto in bianco, ha deciso di abbandonare lui e la mamma. Poi anche Rachele è scomparsa nel nulla, e tutto è diventato più cupo e soffocante. Per fortuna ci sono Cosma lo Zingaro, Tobia e Guido, il suo branco, gli amici di sempre, e le loro nottate di fumo e nostalgia alla Fabbrica abbandonata.

15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year after that? And every year that follows?