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古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 All Over Creation - Ruth L Ozeki (Viking Adult) 【紙書籍】 9780670030910

タイトル: All Over Creation著者: Ruth L Ozeki出版社: Viking Adult出版日: 2003年03月10日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。The quirkily titled "My Year of Meats" took the literary community by storm, garnering widespread, glowing reviews, awards, and a still-growing readership for first-time author Ruth Ozeki. "Newsweek" declared it "a feast that leaves you hungry for whatever Ozeki cooks up next." Well, hunger no more; "All Over Creation" is served and Ozeki has laid out a four-star spread replete with humor, warmth, originality, and brilliantly drawn characters whom you'll never forget. Meet Yumi Fuller. A Japanese American prodigal daughter, Yumi-aka Yummy-is returning home to the Idaho potato farm she ran away from twenty-five years earlier. Then a freewheeling hippie chick, Yumi is now a (semi) responsible parent and a professor with a side gig selling lava lots in Hawaii. But can she possibly be prepared to face her dying father, Alzheimer's-devastated mother, and Cass, the best friend she left behind? Not to mention a former lover whose agribusiness client has banished him to Idaho-where he lands in the small-town community he once offended and in Yumi's life. As she grapples with her conflicted past and uncertain future, Yumi collides with the Seeds of Resistance, an eco-activist group with a knack for causing trouble wherever it plants itself. With her signature wit and uncanny ability to evoke the pathos and humor of life's conundrums, Ozeki spins a timeless tale of birth and death, family and friendship. "All Over Creation" is the emotionally resonant and utterly unique story of an ordinary woman just trying to make sense of it all as the unceasing cycle of all creation continues around her.

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Charleston - Margaret Bradham Thornton (Ecco) 【紙書籍】 9780062332523

タイトル: Charleston著者: Margaret Bradham Thornton出版社: Ecco出版日: 2014年07月29日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。A gifted writer makes her fiction debut with this lyrical and haunting story of missed chances and enduring love, set against the backdrop of high society Charleston, which probes the eternal question: can we ever truly go home again?When Eliza Poinsett left the elegant world of Charleston for college, she never expected it would take her ten years to return. Now almost a decade later, she is an art historian in London with a charming Etonian boyfriend who adores her. But the past catches up with her when she runs into Henry, her childhood love, at a wedding in the English countryside.Already unnerved by the encounter, Eliza's carefully guarded equilibrium is shattered when she meets Henry again in Charleston, where she's come for her stepsister's debut. Set against a backdrop of stately homes, the seductive Lowcountry landscape, and the entangled lives of families who trace their ancestors back for generations, Eliza has to decide if she is willing to risk everything for which she has worked so hard to be with the only man she has ever truly loved.Charleston is an evocative, melancholy novel about one woman's love--for both a man and an unforgettable city. Emotionally resonant, beguiling in its atmosphere, it illuminates the elusive notion of home, and explores whether we can we truly ever go back to the place--and the people--that indelibly shaped us.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose - Third Edition - Laura Buzzard (Broadview Press) 【紙書籍】 9781554813339

タイトル: Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose - Third Edition著者: Laura Buzzard出版社: Broadview Press出版日: 2016年08月29日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky (Knopf) 【紙書籍】 9781400044733

タイトル: Suite Francaise著者: Irene Nemirovsky出版社: Knopf出版日: 2006年04月11日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。By the early l940s, when Ukrainian-born Irene Nemirovsky began working on what would become "Suite Francaise" the first two parts of a planned five-part novel she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz: a month later she was dead at the age of thirty-nine. Two years earlier, living in a small village in central France where she, her husband, and their two small daughters had fled in a vain attempt to elude the Nazis she d begun her novel, a luminous portrayal of a human drama in which she herself would become a victim. When she was arrested, she had completed two parts of the epic, the handwritten manuscripts of which were hidden in a suitcase that her daughters would take with them into hiding and eventually into freedom. Sixty-four years later, at long last, we can read Nemirovsky s literary masterpiece The first part, A Storm in June, opens in the chaos of the massive 1940 exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion during which several families and individuals are thrown together under circumstances beyond their control. They share nothing but the harsh demands of survival some trying to maintain lives of privilege, others struggling simply to preserve their lives but soon, all together, they will be forced to face the awful exigencies of physical and emotional displacement, and the annihilation of the world they know. In the second part, Dolce, we enter the increasingly complex life of a German-occupied provincial village. Coexisting uneasily with the soldiers billeted among them, the villagers from aristocrats to shopkeepers to peasants cope as best they can. Some choose resistance, others collaboration, and as their community is transformed by these acts, the lives of these these men and women reveal nothing less than the very essence of humanity. "Suite Francaise" is a singularly piercing evocation at once subtle and severe, deeply compassionate and fiercely ironic of life and death in occupied France, and a brilliant, profoundly moving work of art."

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 On Beauty - Zadie Smith (Penguin Press HC, The) 【紙書籍】 9781594200632

タイトル: On Beauty著者: Zadie Smith出版社: Penguin Press HC, The出版日: 2005年09月13日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-suffering professor at Wellington, a liberal New England arts college. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths: Levi quests after authentic blackness, Zora believes that intellectuals can redeem everybody, and Jerome struggles to be a believer in a family of strict atheists. Faced with the oppressive enthusiasms of his children, Howard feels that the first two acts of his life are over and he has no clear plans for the finale. Or the encore.Then Jerome, Howard's older son, falls for Victoria, the stunning daughter of the right-wing icon Monty Kipps, and the two families find themselves thrown together in a beautiful corner of America, enacting a cultural and personal war against the background of real wars that they barely register. An infidelity, a death, and a legacy set in motion a chain of events that sees all parties forced to examine the unarticulated assumptions which underpin their lives. How do you choose the work on which to spend your life? Why do you love the people you love? Do you really believe what you claim to? And what is the beautiful thing, and how far will you go to get it?Set on both sides of the Atlantic, Zadie Smith's third novel is a brilliant analysis of family life, the institution of marriage, intersections of the personal and political, and an honest look at people's deceptions. It is also, as you might expect, very funny indeed.

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Gryphon: New and Selected Stories - Charles Baxter (Pantheon) 【紙書籍】 9780307379214

タイトル: Gryphon: New and Selected Stories著者: Charles Baxter出版社: Pantheon出版日: 2011年01月11日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Ever since the publication of The Harmony of the World in 1984, Charles Baxter has slowly gained a reputation as one of America s finest short-story writers. Each subsequent collection Through the Safety Net, A Relative Stranger, and Believers was further confirmation of his mastery: his gift for capturing the immediate moment, for revealing the unexpected in the ordinary, for showing how the smallest shock can pierce the heart of an intimacy. Gryphon brings together the best of Baxter s previous collections with seven new stories, giving us the most complete portrait of his achievement. Baxter once described himself as a Midwestern writer in a postmodern age: at home in a terrain best known for its blandness, one that does not give up its secrets easily, whose residents don t always talk about what s on their mind, and where something out of the quotidian some stress, the appearance of a stranger, or a knock on the window may be all that s needed to force what lies underneath to the surface and to disclose a surprising impulse, frustration, or desire. Whether friends or strangers, the characters in Baxter s stories share a desire sometimes muted and sometimes fierce to break through the fragile glass of convention. In the title story, a substitute teacher walks into a new classroom, draws an outsized tree on the blackboard on a whim, and rewards her students by reading their fortunes using a Tarot deck. In each of the stories we see the delicate tension between what we want to believe and what we need to believe. By turns compassionate, gently humorous, and haunting, Gryphon proves William Maxwell s assertion that nobody can touch Charles Baxter in the field that he has carved out for himself. "

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Writings from the New Yorker: 1927-1976 - E B White (Harper Collins Publishers (1990).) 【紙書籍】 9780060165178

タイトル: Writings from the New Yorker: 1927-1976著者: E B White出版社: Harper Collins Publishers (1990).出版日: 1990年11月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Beautifully written, full of vitality, humor, love of life, and the free spirit, these short pieces and essays are classics to be read, savored, and read again. Here, in matchless style, E.B. White writes about everything from cicadaas to Khrushchev.

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Northbridge Rectory: A Barsetshire Novel (Carroll & Graf) - Angela Mackail Thirkell (Carroll & Graf Pub) 【紙書籍】 9780786703807

タイトル: Northbridge Rectory: A Barsetshire Novel (Carroll & Graf)著者: Angela Mackail Thirkell出版社: Carroll & Graf Pub出版日: 1997年03月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 August Folly - Angela Mackail Thirkell (Carroll & Graf Pub) 【紙書籍】 9780786702725

タイトル: August Folly著者: Angela Mackail Thirkell出版社: Carroll & Graf Pub出版日: 1995年08月15日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings - John Fowles (Owl Books: Henry Holt) 【紙書籍】 9780805061727

タイトル: Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings著者: John Fowles出版社: Owl Books: Henry Holt出版日: 1999年05月15日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Sharpest Sight - Louis Owens (Univ of Oklahoma Pr) 【紙書籍】 9780806124049

タイトル: Sharpest Sight著者: Louis Owens出版社: Univ of Oklahoma Pr出版日: 1992年12月31日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。When Attis McCurtain, a Vietnam veteran of mixed Choctaw and other origins, dies, his uncle commands Attis' younger brother Cole to find and bury his brother's bones, and in the process Cole and his friend Mundo Morales come to terms with their mixed heritages.

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Eyes for the Allies: A Novel of World War II Espionage in Eastern France - Chris Santner (Litprime Solutions) 【紙書籍】 9781954886964

タイトル: Eyes for the Allies: A Novel of World War II Espionage in Eastern France著者: Chris Santner出版社: Litprime Solutions出版日: 2021年07月15日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Set in the rural French farmland and forest west of Verdun, this World War II story is filled with intrigue, action, and romance. Alphonse DeBoy and his three grandchildren-Aurélie, Josette, and Luc-have been supplying food to their American visitor, Maj. Mark Dornier, for close to a year from their farm just outside Les Petites Islettes west of Verdun. Dornier parachuted into the Forêt Domaniale de Lachalade in October 1943, and he's been living at a World War I French artillery camp. He's waiting for a second British officer, Lt. Alex Ryder, to join him. Ryder is in love with a secretary, Polly Berson, who is really a captain in the SOE. She also happens to be the cousin of Aurélie, Josette and Luc. To complicate things further, Josette and Aurélie develop feelings for Dornier. As Dornier gathers information on German defensive positions, the Nazis have developed several weapons to slow down the Allies when they invade, leaving it to the SOE and its operatives to gather intelligence on the weapons. Now, after almost a year of observing the German defenses, Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army approaches the area needing all the information it can get to circumvent the Nazi special weapons. The unexpected events of war challenge them all.

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Before We Sleep - Jeffrey Lent (Bloomsbury USA) 【紙書籍】 9781620404997

タイトル: Before We Sleep著者: Jeffrey Lent出版社: Bloomsbury USA出版日: 2017年05月02日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。The sweeping, intergenerational story of a Vermont family, from WWII to the dawning of the '60s--the most magisterial and moving novel of acclaimed author Jeffrey Lent's career. Katey Snow, seventeen, slips the pickup into neutral and rolls silently out of the driveway of her Vermont home, her parents, Oliver and Ruth, still asleep. She isn't so much running away as on a journey of discovery. She carries with her a packet of letters addressed to her mother from an old army buddy of her father's. She has only recently been told that Oliver, who she adores more than anyone, isn't her biological father. She hopes the letter's sender will have answers to her many questions. Before We Sleep moves gracefully between Katey's perspective on the road and her mother, Ruth's. Through Ruth's recollections, we learn of her courtship with Oliver, their marriage on the eve of war, and his return as a changed man. Oliver had always been a bit dreamy, but became more remote, finding solace most of all in repairing fiddles. There were adjustments, accommodations, sacrifices--but the family went on to find its own rhythms, satisfactions, and happiness. Now Katey's journey may rearrange the Snows' story. Set in a lovingly realized Vermont setting, tracking the changes that come with the turning of the seasons--and decades--and signaling the dawning of a new freedom as Katey moves out into a world in flux, Before We Sleep is a novel about family, about family secrets, and about the love that holds families together. It is also about the Greatest Generation as it moves into the very different era of the 1960s, and about the trauma of war that so profoundly weighed on both generations. It is Jeffrey Lent's most accomplished novel.

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Long Answer - Anna Hogeland (Riverhead Books) 【紙書籍】 9780593418130

タイトル: Long Answer著者: Anna Hogeland出版社: Riverhead Books出版日: 2022年06月21日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。A woman considers pregnancy, motherhood, and the nature of female relationships in this profound and provocative novel. Twelve weeks pregnant for the first time, Anna speaks to her sister on the other side of the country and learns she has just miscarried her second child. As this loss strains their bond and complications with Anna's own pregnancy emerge, her tenuous steps towards motherhood are shadowed and illuminated by the women she meets along the way, whose stories of the children they have had, or longed for, or lost, crowd in. The Long Answer is a stunning novel of secrets kept, and secrets shared. Deeply empathetic and hugely absorbing, it unravels the intimate dynamics of female friendship, sisterhood, motherhood and grief, and the ways that women are bound together and pulled apart by their shared and contrasting experiences of pregnancy, abortion, miscarriage, and infertility.

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Russian Debutante's Handbook - Gary Shteyngart (Riverhead Books) 【紙書籍】 9781573222136

タイトル: Russian Debutante's Handbook著者: Gary Shteyngart出版社: Riverhead Books出版日: 2002年06月10日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。"The Russian Debutante's Handbook" is infused with energy and wit and a brilliant use of language. Hilarious, extravagant, yet uncannily true to life, it follows the adventures of Vladimir, a young Russian-American immigrant, whose capitalist dreams and desires for a girlfriend lead him off the straight and narrow and into uncharted territory. Taking us from the dreary confines of New York City's Emma Lazarus Immigrant Absorption Society to the hip frontier wilderness of Prava-the Eastern European Paris of the nineties-whose grand and glorious beauty is marred only by the shadow of the looming statue of Stalin's foot, "The Russian Debutante's Handbook" is both a madcap adventure and a serious look at what it means to be an outsider in America, and what it means to be an American.

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Selected Works of T. S. Spivet - Reif Larsen (Penguin Press) 【紙書籍】 9781594202179

タイトル: Selected Works of T. S. Spivet著者: Reif Larsen出版社: Penguin Press出版日: 2009年05月05日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。A brilliant, boundary-leaping debut novel tracing twelve-year-old genius map maker T.S. Spivet's attempts to understand the ways of the world When twelve-year-old genius cartographer T.S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing he has won the prestigious Baird Award, life as normal-if you consider mapping family dinner table conversation normal-is interrupted and a wild cross-country adventure begins, taking T.S. from his family ranch just north of Divide, Montana, to the museum's hallowed halls. T.S. sets out alone, leaving before dawn with a plan to hop a freight train and hobo east. Once aboard, his adventures step into high gear and he meticulously maps, charts, and illustrates his exploits, documenting mythical wormholes in the Midwest, the urban phenomenon of rims, and the pleasures of McDonald's, among other things. We come to see the world through T.S.'s eyes and in his thorough investigation of the outside world he also reveals himself. As he travels away from the ranch and his family we learn how the journey also brings him closer to home. A secret family history found within his luggage tells the story of T.S.'s ancestors and their long-ago passage west, offering profound insight into the family he left behind and his role within it. As T.S. reads he discovers the sometimes shadowy boundary between fact and fiction and realizes that, for all his analytical rigor, the world around him is a mystery. All that he has learned is tested when he arrives at the capital to claim his prize and is welcomed into science's inner circle. For all its shine, fame seems more highly valued than ideas in this new world and friends are hard to find. T.S.'s trip begins at the Copper Top Ranch and the last known place he stands is Washington, D.C., but his journey's movement is far harder to track: How do you map the delicate lessons learned about family and self? How do you depict how it feels to first venture out on your own? Is there a definitive way to communicate the ebbs and tides of heartbreak, loss, loneliness, love? These are the questions that strike at the core of this very special debut. Now a major motion picture directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Kyle Catlett and Helena Bonham Carter.

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Lesson in Secrets - Jacqueline Winspear (Harper Perennial) 【紙書籍】 9780061727719

タイトル: Lesson in Secrets著者: Jacqueline Winspear出版社: Harper Perennial出版日: 2012年03月06日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。From New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear, now available in paperback-- the latest episode in the New York Times bestselling series, Maisie Dobbs' first assignment for the British Secret Service takes her undercover to Cambridge as a professor, and leads to the investigation of a web of activities being conducted by the emerging Nazi party.Private investigator Maisie Dobbs receives her first assignment from the British Secret Service in A Lesson in Secrets, the eighth book in Jacqueline Winspear's award-winning mystery series. Sent to pose as a junior lecturer at a private college in Cambridge, she will monitor any activities "not in the interests of His Majesty's government." When the college's pacifist founder is murdered, Maisie finds herself in the midst of sinister web of murder, scandal, and conspiracy, activities that point towards members of the ascendant Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei--the Nazi Party--on Britain's shores. An instant classic, and sure to captivate long-time Maisie Dobbs fans as well as readers of Agatha Christie, Elizabeth George, and Alexander McCall Smith, A Lesson in Secrets is "a powerful and complex novel, one that will linger in memory as a testament to her talent and her humanity" (Richmond Times-Dispatch).

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Best American Essays (1998) - Cynthia Ozick (Mariner Books) 【紙書籍】 9780395860526

タイトル: Best American Essays (1998)著者: Cynthia Ozick出版社: Mariner Books出版日: 1998年10月30日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。"The Best American Essays 1998" features a captivating mix of people and prose, as guest editor Cynthia Ozick shapes a volume around the intricacies of human memory. The reflections and recollections of Saul Bellow, John Updike, Jamaica Kincaid, John McPhee, and Andre Dubus join company with many voices new to the series, as an astonishing variety of writers share their deepest thought on ecstasy and injury, ambition and failure, privacy and notoriety.

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Maisie Dobbs - Jacqueline Winspear (Penguin Books) 【紙書籍】 9780142004333

タイトル: Maisie Dobbs著者: Jacqueline Winspear出版社: Penguin Books出版日: 2004年05月25日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Hailed by NPR s Fresh Air as part Testament of Youth, part Dorothy Sayers, and part Upstairs, Downstairs, this astonishing debut has already won fans from coast to coast and is poised to add Maisie Dobbs to the ranks of literature s favorite sleuths.Maisie Dobbs isn t just any young housemaid. Through her own natural intelligence and the patronage of her benevolent employers she works her way into college at Cambridge. When World War I breaks out, Maisie goes to the front as a nurse. It is there that she learns that coincidences are meaningful and the truth elusive. After the War, Maisie sets up on her own as a private investigator. But her very first assignment, seemingly an ordinary infidelity case, soon reveals a much deeper, darker web of secrets, which will force Maisie to revisit the horrors of the Great War and the love she left behind."

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Possessions - Julia Kristeva (Columbia University Press) 【紙書籍】 9780231109987

タイトル: Possessions著者: Julia Kristeva出版社: Columbia University Press出版日: 1998年01月27日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。This sequel to Kristeva's celebrated allegory The Old Man and the Wolves returns to the corrupt, seaside resort of a mythical town, where the boundaries between East and West, civilization and barbarism, and good and evil are erased.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Ashes To Alleluias - Cheryl F Damian (Xlibris) 【紙書籍】 9781425799861

タイトル: Ashes To Alleluias著者: Cheryl F Damian出版社: Xlibris出版日: 2011年01月13日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Chimney Pond Tales: Yarns Told by Leroy Dudley - Clayton Hall (Pamola Pr) 【紙書籍】 9780963171801

タイトル: Chimney Pond Tales: Yarns Told by Leroy Dudley著者: Clayton Hall出版社: Pamola Pr出版日: 1991年12月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。High in a basin of Maine's Mount Katahdin lies crystal-clear Chimney Pond. There, during the first half of this century, guide and trailblazer Leroy Dudley enchanted countless hikers with his tails about Pamola, the Penobscot Indian god of thunder who, as legend goes, protects the mountain.Roy Dudley died in 1942, but his wonderful tales live on in Chimney Pond Tales. In this collection of Dudley yarns, we hear Roy tell of his uneasy truce with Pamola, the mountain god, and how the two became true friends. Pamola's attempts at skiing, romance and smoking will entertain readers and listeners of ages.

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Skeletons at the Feast - Chris Bohjalian (Crown) 【紙書籍】 9780307394958

タイトル: Skeletons at the Feast著者: Chris Bohjalian出版社: Crown出版日: 2008年05月06日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines. Among the group is eighteen-year-old Anna Emmerich, the daughter of Prussian aristocrats. There is her lover, Callum Finella, a twenty-year-old Scottish prisoner of war who was brought from the stalag to her family's farm as forced labor. And there is a twenty-six-year-old Wehrmacht corporal, who the pair know as Manfred-who is, in reality, Uri Singer, a Jew from Germany who managed to escape a train bound for Auschwitz. As they work their way west, they encounter a countryside ravaged by war. Their flight will test both Anna's and Callum's love, as well as their friendship with Manfred-assuming any of them even survive. Perhaps not since The English Patient has a novel so deftly captured both the power and poignancy of romance and the terror and tragedy of war. Skillfully portraying the flesh and blood of history, Chris Bohjalian has crafted a rich tapestry that puts a face on one of the twentieth century's greatest tragedies-while creating, perhaps, a masterpiece that will haunt readers for generations.

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Jungle Law - Victoria Vinton (Macadam Cage Pub) 【紙書籍】 9781596921498

タイトル: Jungle Law著者: Victoria Vinton出版社: Macadam Cage Pub出版日: 2005年10月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。In 1892, at the age of twenty-six, Rudyard Kipling arrived in Vermont, virtually penniless with a newly pregnant wife and the germ of a story about a feral child who was raised by a pack of wolves. Having fled the literary high life in London, he hoped to find a quiet corner in which to raise a family and work, where he might build a sanctuary that could offer him refuge from the scrutiny incurred by his burgeoning fame and the wounds of his own troubled past. From this literary footnote, first-time novelist Victoria Vinton has fashioned a tale of wisdom and grace as she tracks Kipling's ultimately doomed attempt to establish a home in Vermont. She brings to life Kipling's early years in Bombay where he lived as the pampered rapscallion son of a well-connected British family and limns the repercussions of the abandonment he felt when, at the age six, he was severed from his family and sent to live in a foster home in England that he later dubbed ?The House of Desolation.? And she shows how those experiences formed the basis of his art, as out of this cauldron of comfort and pain he wrote The Jungle Books and created his most enduring character Mowgli. Mixing fact and invention, Vinton parallels Kipling's story with that of his neighbor?s, the Connollys, who, like Kipling, have come to Vermont to forge a better life but who are forced to question the decisions they have made in the wake of Kipling's presence in their lives. There is Joe, the Connolly's eleven-year-old son, who finds himself drawn to Kipling and his stories, seeing in the tales and adventures of Mowgli a template for his own self-transcendence. There is Jack, his father, who views Kipling's influence over his son as achallenge to his very sense of self. And there is Addie, Jack's wife, whose task it becomes to somehow embrace and assimilate these changes in order to hold onto her family.

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Land of the Living - Timothy Crellin (Green Place Books) 【紙書籍】 9798990480117

タイトル: Land of the Living著者: Timothy Crellin出版社: Green Place Books出版日: 2025年02月25日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。The Land of the Living is a historical novel that explores the themes of immigration and assimilation, war and its impact on families, the role of race and class in forging identity, and what it means to find home. The story follows Angela Amorelli and her husband Tommaso through Ellis Island and on to their new life in a New England fishing town. Angela sacrifices everything, hoping to create a better future for her children, only to be confronted with more loss and strife than one could bear. But with remarkable strength and resilience, she carries on through the wars and upheaval that shaped the 20th century, becoming the force that confronts war's impact and heals her family. An unforgettable story of family and faith, The Land of the Living inspires readers to rethink how we came to be who we are.

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Enter Ghost - Isabella Hammad (Grove Press) 【紙書籍】 9780802162380

タイトル: Enter Ghost著者: Isabella Hammad出版社: Grove Press出版日: 2023年04月04日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Winner of the Aspen Words Literary PrizeWinner of the Royal Society of Literature's Encore AwardShortlisted for the Women's Prize for FictionA New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book of the Year"Assured and formidable." -- Wall Street JournalAfter years away from her family's homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit her older sister Haneen. This is her first trip back since the second intifada and the deaths of their grandparents: while Haneen made a life here commuting to Tel Aviv to teach at the university, Sonia remained in London to focus on her acting career and now dissolute marriage. On her return, she finds her relationship to Palestine is fragile, both bone-deep and new.At Haneen's, Sonia meets the charismatic and candid Mariam, a local director, and finds herself roped into a production of Hamlet in the West Bank. Sonia is soon rehearsing Gertude's lines in Classical Arabic and spending more time in Ramallah than Haifa, along with a dedicated group of men from all over historic Palestine who, in spite of competing egos and priorities, each want to bring Shakespeare to that side of the wall. As opening night draws closer it becomes clear just how many violent obstacles stand before a troupe of Palestinian actors. Amidst it all, the life Sonia once knew starts to give way to the daunting, exhilarating possibility of finding a new self in her ancestral home.A stunning rendering of present-day Palestine, Enter Ghost is a story of diaspora, displacement, and the connection to be found in family and shared resistance. Timely, thoughtful, and passionate, Isabella Hammad's highly anticipated second novel is an exquisite feat, an unforgettable story of artistry under occupation.

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Great Black Hope - Rob Franklin (S&S/Summit Books) 【紙書籍】 9781668077436

タイトル: Great Black Hope著者: Rob Franklin出版社: S&S/Summit Books出版日: 2025年06月10日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Cool and concise; a talent to watch." --Jay McInerney author of Bright Lights, Big City "You're going to get papercuts, you're going to turn the pages so fast." --Brad Thor, Today A gripping debut from an electrifying new voice about an upwardly mobile and downwardly spiraling Black man caught between worlds of race and class, glamourous parties and sudden consequences, a friend's mysterious death and his own arrest. An arrest for cocaine possession on the last day of a sweltering New York summer leaves Smith, a queer Black Stanford graduate, in a state of turmoil. Pulled into the court system and mandated treatment, he finds himself in an absurd but dangerous situation: his class protects him, but his race does not. It's just weeks after the death of his beloved roommate Elle, the daughter of a famous soul singer, and he's still reeling from the tabloid spectacle--as well as lingering questions around how well he really knew his closest friend. He flees to his hometown of Atlanta, only to buckle under the weight of expectations from his family of doctors and lawyers and their history in America. But when Smith returns to New York, it's not long before he begins to lose himself to his old life--drawn back into the city's underworld, where his search for answers may end up costing him his freedom and his future. Smith goes on a dizzying journey through the nightlife circuit, anonymous recovery rooms, Atlanta's Black society set, police investigations and courtroom dramas, and a circle of friends coming of age in a new era. Great Black Hope is a propulsive, glittering story about what it means to exist between worlds, to be upwardly mobile yet spiraling downward, and how to find a way back to hope.

古本, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Memories in Clay, Dreams of Wolves: Poems - David Anthony Sam (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) 【紙書籍】 9781496078834

タイトル: Memories in Clay, Dreams of Wolves: Poems著者: David Anthony Sam出版社: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform出版日: 2014年05月08日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。"Memories in Clay, Dreams of Wolves" gathers semi-autobiographical poetry about a boyhood and adult life lived in conversation with nature. In this volume, Sam describes a life shaped by his youth in Pennsylvania and Michigan and his journey by thumb through the Pacific Northwest. The imprint of these experiences molds his ecological holism and sense of the holiness of the commonplace and of all life.All profits to the author from the sale of this book will be donated to the Germanna Community College Educational Foundation.What other poets are saying about "Memories in Clay, Dreams of Wolves" "David Sam is a poet of deep identity with the natural world. In these intimate narratives of discovery and awe, the poems speak often with an almost breathless urgency, reminding us of the inexhaustible life within life, testaments to a unique sensitivity, in a boy and then a man. In journeys both actual and metaphorical, the self is not different than rivers or sunrise. 'I am made of water and wild air, ' one poem says. The lucky reader breathes deeply."- Allan Peterson, author of Fragile Acts and All the Lavish in Common"David Anthony Sam's poems are literally rooted in the earth, seeded in the rich, dark soil. Whether he's writing about childhood or the rivers of Pennsylvania, these poems are filled with fields, mountains, lakes, snow and stars; they remind us that human life is found in the morning air, in the golden rays of the rising sun, in a bird's call as dusk arrives. Memories in Clay, Dreams of Wolves is an impressive book that will transport you into the natural world where, as Sam writes, you will become 'forgetful and human again.'" - David James, author of She Dances Like Mussolini, winner of the 2010 Next Generation Indie book award in poetry

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Odyssey of Star Wars: An Epic Poem - Jack Mitchell (Harry N. Abrams) 【紙書籍】 9781419756283

タイトル: Odyssey of Star Wars: An Epic Poem著者: Jack Mitchell出版社: Harry N. Abrams出版日: 2021年09月28日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Poet and scholar Jack Mitchell presents a thrilling retelling of the Star Wars saga in the style of classic epic poetry in this handsome gift-ready book. Punctuated with stunning illustrations inspired by the terra-cotta art of Greek antiquity, The Odyssey of Star Wars: An Epic Poem presents the greatest myth of the twentieth century as it would have been told nearly 3,000 years ago. Journey to a galaxy far, far away like never before--through lyrical verse and meter. Like the tales of Odysseus and Beowulf, the adventures of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia, Jyn Erso, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Vader, and the Emperor are fraught with legendary battles, iconic heroes, fearsome warriors, sleek ships, and dangerous monsters. Beginning with Rogue One's rebel heist on Scarif to secure the plans to the Death Star and continuing through the climax of Return of the Jedi, author Jack Mitchell uses the ancient literary form of epic poetry to put a new spin on the Star Wars saga. "I look not to myself but to the Force, In which all things arise and fall away."

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Thaïs - Anatole France (University of Chicago Press) 【紙書籍】 0226259897

タイトル: Thaïs著者: Anatole France出版社: University of Chicago Press出版日: 1976年02月01日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。