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合衆国への忠誠を示すため、砂漠の強制収容所から米軍に志願し、欧州戦線に向かった末弟・勇。日本で教育を受け、帝国陸軍兵士として出征した次弟・忠。自らも米軍の語学将校となって南太平洋に配属された賢治は、血を分けた弟と戦場で出会うことを恐れていた。しかし地獄のフィリピンで彼が遭遇した、痩せさらばえた日本兵は……。

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'; so the recording begins and ends with some of Dickens's best-known words, and between those lines is every Briton's view of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, the audiobook tells the story of a French doctor who is imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille in Paris. Upon his release, he moves to London with his daughter, Lucie, whom he had never met.

Dickens wrote into life some of the most beloved and well-known characters in the history of English literature, introducing us to Pip, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Little Nell, Scrooge, Nicholas Nickleby, Miss Haversham, and many more who have lived in the imagination of generations. In this definitive and beautifully curated collection, you'll discover some of Dickens's most beloved classics and walk the streets of London, Paris...

October 1992 - Another Friday night in the small fishing village along the New Jersey coast. With another pending snowstorm aiming at the town, everyone has to make a choice: stay in and write the night off or go out and see what trouble they can get into. Guess which choice most of them will make? Check back in with Willie, April, Tommy, George, Frankie, Gary, Billy, Jimmy, Suzanna, and Garrett five years after the events of the original Belford Stories!  

Meet Henry Wilt: underpaid lecturer, reluctant husband, accidental outlaw and one of Britain's most gloriously ill-equipped heroes. Trapped in a dead-end job and surrounded by chaos at work and at home, he inadvertently, yet continuously, finds himself at the centre of increasingly outrageous disasters. Wherever he goes, misunderstandings spiral into mayhem, authority descends into farce, and the ordinary becomes spectacularly absurd.

'Riveting' Lesley Pearse on The Letter. 'Gripping' Good Housekeeping on The Secret. From Kathryn Hughes, the #1 bestselling author of The Letter and The Secret, comes a powerful, shocking, heartbreaking story set to get everyone talking in spring 2018. 1956 It's Ellen Crosby's first day at work...

A sudden widow. A single mother. Both have a habit of hiding from hard truths until a brutal accident-or was it?-forces them to face what they're hiding, and what they want, in an unforgiving Texas town.Helen is childless and widowed after a long marriage, and gets a second chance with a long...

Narrated by the award winning Nathaniel Priestley, this modern military action thriller instantly pulls you into the authors mind. Modern warfare doesn't get more realistic than this. Still reeling from the devastating attacks, the UK struggles to stop the relentless advance of the enemy war...

Here is the best of the audio from the famous Catholic television program, "Life is Worth Living!" For more than 30 years, Archbishop Fulton Sheen was the voice of the Catholic Church, with his radio and television ministries that touched hearts all over the world. His wisdom and gentle insight are once again available in digitally remastered audio recorded from his live programs.

People feared him. They respected him. But most of all, they obeyed him. And now he's dead. Danielle Lewis has just inherited the top spot in the Lewis crime family, following her uncle Ged's death. Danielle doesn't want to be boss. But if she doesn't step up, someone far worse will. The reluctant heiress has no interest in carrying her uncle's empire. She doesn't want to fight for territory with the rival Flynns. And she certainly doesn't care about the €5 million stash of cocaine that Ged had hidden just before he died. But others will do anything to take her place.

Brought to you by Penguin. Narrated by John le Carre. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Le Carré delivers a tale for our times . . . a demonstration of the British spy thriller at its unputdownable best' Robert McCrum, Observer ________________________________ Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's...

Moon, Jade, and other favorites from the Indigo Cloud Court return with two new novellas from Martha Wells, who continues to enthusiastically ignore genre conventions in her exploration of the fascinating world of the Raksura. Her novellas and short stories contain all the elements fans have come to love from the Raksura books: courtly intrigue and politics, unfolding mysteries that reveal an increasingly strange wider world, and threats both mundane and magical.

Aspiring actor Robert is always on the look out for work, and isn’t too fussy about what he takes. Chauffeur, prison performer, children’s TV, part-time teacher - he’ll take it all, and one day he’ll be famous. Maybe the next job will be his big breaK. From the writer behind The Vicar of Dibley, this lively comedy stars John Gordon Sinclair, Caroline Quentin, Gary Waldhorn and Gina McKee.

Michael Mann, l'un des plus grands cinéastes contemporains, fait une entrée fracassante dans le monde du polar avec un premier roman explosif qui raconte l'avant et l'après de son film iconique Heat. Chris Shiherlis, blessé et fiévreux, tente désespérément d'échapper au détective Vincent Hanna. Quelques heures plus tôt, Hanna a tué son complice Neil McCauley lors d'une fusillade sur la piste de l'aéroport. Il est maintenant déterminé à éliminer Chris, le dernier survivant du gang.

Sleeping Beauty might be the title character of the famous fairy tale, but, in truth, she didn't do much to bring the story to a happy ending. Let us find out who really did all the hard work.

Brought to you by Penguin. A TIMES and INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE IRISH NOVEL PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD & THE DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE Soon to be a major BBC film starring Sir Lenny Henry, Malachi Kirby, Monica Dolan, Olivia Williams and Christopher Eccleston...

A RADIO 2 Book Club Pick A Woman & Home Book of the Month A Prima Book of the Month 'Compelling ... searing and intimate' - New York Times 'Saoirse deserves to be on prize lists this year. Utterly beautiful with lyrical prose and storytelling, I loved this!' - Prima, Book of the Month 'An...

The stakes are higher. The relationships are more dangerous. And nobody has forgotten what happened last time. In The Fauna and the Flora, Book Two: Revenge, the animal fantasy family saga continues with a sprawling cast of mice, rabbits, squirrels, birds, and other woodland creatures whose...

One faithful day, Henry Tsien finds a briefcase and a ring within it. Within hours, his world has changed, as a helpful jinn introduces him to a hidden world. What can an old-school gamer given magic do in a world filled with age-old, hidden, supernatural creatures? The Hidden Wishes series is an urban fantasy take on the gamlit genre. It is much lighter in terms of "statistics" and its game system.

Daniel Loveless and Charlotte McManus—aka Charlie—have been best friends since forever. Together, they’ve made it through everything from middle school dances to Daniel finding out he had a daughter, and they’re still thick as thieves. Faking an engagement, though? That’s… a lot.