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Cat in the Rain
- 著者: Ernest Hemingway
- ナレーター: Mike Vendetti, Kathy Verduin
- 再生時間: 7 分
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Narrated by Mike Vendetti and Kathy Verduin, Cat in the Rain is not just about a cat. The cat can be taken at face value and surface-level as "just" a cat, and the events of the story as being a minor snapshot into one hour's events in the lives of an American couple living in 1920s Italy. But since when in our own lives do events simply happen without having wider implications? Many things we do are motivated by other desires, drives, wants, fears, and anxieties.
著者: Ernest Hemingway
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The New York Trilogy
- 著者: Paul Auster
- ナレーター: Joe Barrett
- 再生時間: 12 時間 41 分
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Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room - haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.
著者: Paul Auster
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What Is Life?
- Five Great Ideas in Biology
- 著者: Paul Nurse
- ナレーター: Paul Nurse
- 再生時間: 5 時間 6 分
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The renowned biologist Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. In What Is Life?, he takes up the challenge of describing what it means to be alive in a way that every listener can understand. It is a shared journey of discovery; step-by-step Nurse illuminates five great ideas that underpin biology - the Cell, the Gene, Evolution by Natural Selection, Life as Chemistry, and Life as Information.
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わかりやすい。生物、遺伝と人生の勉強になる
- 投稿者: しの 日付: 2021/10/28
著者: Paul Nurse
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The Sense of Wonder
- 著者: Rachel Carson
- ナレーター: Kaiulani Lee
- 再生時間: 32 分
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First published more than 50 years ago, this award-winning classic brings Rachel Carson's unique vision to a new generation of listeners. The Sense of Wonder is Carson's intimate account of adventures with her young nephew, Roger, as they enjoy walks along the rocky coast of Maine and through dense forests and open fields, observing wildlife, strange plants, moonlight, and storm clouds, and listening to the "living music" of insects in the underbrush.
著者: Rachel Carson
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The Happy Prince
- 著者: Oscar Wilde
- ナレーター: Anton Lesser
- 再生時間: 21 分
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This is a story from the The Happy Prince and Other Stories collection.
著者: Oscar Wilde
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The Locked Door
- 著者: Freida McFadden
- ナレーター: Shaina Summerville
- 再生時間: 8 時間 15 分
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Some doors are locked for a reason.... While 11-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door. Decades later, Nora's father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows her father was a notorious serial killer. And she intends to keep it that way. Then Nora discovers one of her young female patients has been murdered.
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good ending …?
- 投稿者: RoseyH 日付: 2024/03/04
著者: Freida McFadden
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Cat in the Rain
- 著者: Ernest Hemingway
- ナレーター: Mike Vendetti, Kathy Verduin
- 再生時間: 7 分
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Narrated by Mike Vendetti and Kathy Verduin, Cat in the Rain is not just about a cat. The cat can be taken at face value and surface-level as "just" a cat, and the events of the story as being a minor snapshot into one hour's events in the lives of an American couple living in 1920s Italy. But since when in our own lives do events simply happen without having wider implications? Many things we do are motivated by other desires, drives, wants, fears, and anxieties.
著者: Ernest Hemingway
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The New York Trilogy
- 著者: Paul Auster
- ナレーター: Joe Barrett
- 再生時間: 12 時間 41 分
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Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room - haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.
著者: Paul Auster
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What Is Life?
- Five Great Ideas in Biology
- 著者: Paul Nurse
- ナレーター: Paul Nurse
- 再生時間: 5 時間 6 分
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The renowned biologist Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. In What Is Life?, he takes up the challenge of describing what it means to be alive in a way that every listener can understand. It is a shared journey of discovery; step-by-step Nurse illuminates five great ideas that underpin biology - the Cell, the Gene, Evolution by Natural Selection, Life as Chemistry, and Life as Information.
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わかりやすい。生物、遺伝と人生の勉強になる
- 投稿者: しの 日付: 2021/10/28
著者: Paul Nurse
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The Sense of Wonder
- 著者: Rachel Carson
- ナレーター: Kaiulani Lee
- 再生時間: 32 分
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First published more than 50 years ago, this award-winning classic brings Rachel Carson's unique vision to a new generation of listeners. The Sense of Wonder is Carson's intimate account of adventures with her young nephew, Roger, as they enjoy walks along the rocky coast of Maine and through dense forests and open fields, observing wildlife, strange plants, moonlight, and storm clouds, and listening to the "living music" of insects in the underbrush.
著者: Rachel Carson
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The Happy Prince
- 著者: Oscar Wilde
- ナレーター: Anton Lesser
- 再生時間: 21 分
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This is a story from the The Happy Prince and Other Stories collection.
著者: Oscar Wilde
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The Locked Door
- 著者: Freida McFadden
- ナレーター: Shaina Summerville
- 再生時間: 8 時間 15 分
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Some doors are locked for a reason.... While 11-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door. Decades later, Nora's father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows her father was a notorious serial killer. And she intends to keep it that way. Then Nora discovers one of her young female patients has been murdered.
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good ending …?
- 投稿者: RoseyH 日付: 2024/03/04
著者: Freida McFadden
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Never Lie
- 著者: Freida McFadden
- ナレーター: Leslie Howard
- 再生時間: 7 時間 21 分
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Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate… with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end. In search of a book to keep her entertained until the snow abates, Tricia happens upon a secret room. One that contains audio transcripts from every single patient Dr. Hale has ever interviewed.
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The best !
- 投稿者: 初スマートウォッチ 日付: 2024/05/31
著者: Freida McFadden
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桐原書店 きくeigo(英語) 『 オー・ヘンリー短編集』
- 著者: 桐原書店編
- ナレーター: Eric Kelso
- 再生時間: 25 分
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短編小説の名手オー・ヘンリーの作品を英語で!アメリカ南部に生まれたオー・ヘンリーは20世紀初頭、新しい小説の題材を求め、ニューヨークに移りました。収録の3作品もニューヨークを舞台にした短編を基本語彙レベルに併せて再編集したものです。貧しいけれどお互いを思いやる気持ちにあふれる夫婦を描いた「賢者の贈り物」、日常生活の中に冒険を求める男を描いた「緑のドア」、外界とは別世界の高級ホテルで優雅なひとときを過ごす男女を描いた「桃源郷の短期滞在客」・・・ さまざまな登場人物の心の機微、ストーリーの意外な結末を英語で楽しんでみませんか。 教科書・参考書出版の桐原書店は、ペンギンブックスやロングマンで有名な世界最大の教育出版社ピアソングループの一員でもあります。本格派の語学学習をはじめてみませんか。こちらは、世界の名作文学を、基本学習単語中心で再編集したオーディオブックです。英語力アップには、リスニング力強化が必須。英語を聞きながらイメージを頭に描くトレーニングは英語力の飛躍的なアップにも役立ちます。テキストを目で追うのではない、新しい語学学習法としてオーディオブックを活用してみませんか。心を動かす名作で、ビジネスマンも学生さんも、楽しみながら英語の底力を養ってください。 初中級者向け。 紙面でのスクリプトをご希望の方は、桐原書店サポート課 (ict@kirihara.co.jp)...
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聞き取りやすい
- 投稿者: ハチ 日付: 2022/11/23
著者: 桐原書店編
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The Joy of Less
- A Minimalist Guide to Declutter, Organize, and Simplify
- 著者: Francine Jay
- ナレーター: Teri Schnaubelt
- 再生時間: 5 時間 59 分
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Having less stuff is the key to happiness: Do you ever feel overwhelmed, instead of overjoyed, by all your possessions? Do you secretly wish a gale force wind would blow the clutter from your home? If so, it's time to simplify your life! The Joy of Less is a fun guide to minimalist living. Ready to sweep away the clutter? Just listen to this book, and you'll be on your way to a simpler, more streamlined, and more serene life. Francine has helped hundreds of thousands of people declutter their homes and simplify their lives with her bestselling book, The Joy of Less.
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The Joy to happiness
- 投稿者: シンプルイングリッシュの村上博昭 日付: 2022/11/27
著者: Francine Jay
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The Bookstore Sisters
- The Once Upon a Time Bookshop Stories, Book 1
- 著者: Alice Hoffman
- ナレーター: Jennifer Jill Araya
- 再生時間: 1 時間 6 分
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Isabel Gibson has all but perfected the art of forgetting. She’s a New Yorker now, with nothing left to tie her to Brinkley’s Island, Maine. Her parents are gone, the family bookstore is all but bankrupt, and her sister, Sophie, will probably never speak to her again. But when a mysterious letter arrives in her mailbox, Isabel feels herself drawn to the past. After years of fighting for her independence, she dreads the thought of going back to the island.
著者: Alice Hoffman
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Dubliners (Naxos Edition)
- 著者: James Joyce
- ナレーター: Jim Norton
- 再生時間: 6 時間 50 分
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James Joyce's Dubliners is a collection of short stories about the lives of the people of Dublin around the turn of the century. Each story describes a small but significant moment of crisis or revelation in the life of a particular Dubliner, sympathetically but always with stark honesty. Many of the characters are desperate to escape the confines of their humdrum lives, though those that have the opportunity to do so seem unable to take it.
著者: James Joyce
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Selected Shorts: New American Stories
- 著者: Aleksandar Hemon, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 、その他
- ナレーター: Boyd Gaines, Rita Wolf, Condola Rashad, 、その他
- 再生時間: 1 時間 59 分
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New American Stories presents diverse stories of contemporary American life and dreams lost and found, by four of the best young contemporary writers - Jhumpa Lahiri, Sherman Alexie, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Aleksandar Hemon - as performed by terrific stage and screen actors. All four writers have a unique perspective on the American experience, which is reflected in their work.
著者: Aleksandar Hemon, 、その他
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The Happy Prince and Other Tales
- 著者: Oscar Wilde
- ナレーター: Phil Chenever
- 再生時間: 1 時間 49 分
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The Happy Prince and Other Tales (or Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde.
著者: Oscar Wilde
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The Inmate
- 著者: Freida McFadden
- ナレーター: Leslie Howard
- 再生時間: 8 時間 5 分
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There are three rules Brooke Sullivan must follow as a new nurse practitioner at a men’s maximum-security prison: 1) Treat all prisoners with respect. 2) Never reveal any personal information. 3) Never EVER become too friendly with the inmates. But none of the staff at the prison knows Brooke has already broken the rules. Nobody knows about her intimate connection to Shane Nelson, one of the penitentiary’s most notorious and dangerous inmates.
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full of twists, to the very end
- 投稿者: 匿名 日付: 2024/02/27
著者: Freida McFadden
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Watchers
- 著者: Dean Koontz
- ナレーター: Edoardo Ballerini, Dean Koontz
- 再生時間: 16 時間 31 分
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On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever who will let him go no further into the dark woods. That morning, Travis had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life. What he finds is a dog of alarming intelligence that soon leads him into a relentless storm of mankind’s darkest creation....
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Einstein so long.. or..?
- 投稿者: RoseyH 日付: 2024/03/01
著者: Dean Koontz
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Inherit the Stars
- 著者: James P. Hogan
- ナレーター: John Pruden
- 再生時間: 8 時間 3 分
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The man on the moon was dead. They called him Charlie. He had big eyes, abundant body hair, and fairly long nostrils. His skeletal body was found clad in a bright red spacesuit, hidden in a rocky grave. They didn’t know who he was, how he got there, or what had killed him. All they knew was that his corpse was 50 thousand years old - and that meant this man had somehow lived long before he ever could have existed.
著者: James P. Hogan
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Sherlock Holmes Retold for Children
- 16 Books
- 著者: Alex Woolf, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- ナレーター: Thomas Judd
- 再生時間: 11 時間 4 分
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Join world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his ever-loyal sidekick Dr. Watson as they embark on a series of daring adventures. Priceless jewels disappear from a hotel suite, a monstrous hound is spotted on the moors and a woman is murdered in a locked room. Can our brilliant hero solve these mysteries and more before disaster strikes? This thrilling collection brings 16 adventures of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous detective to life, adapted by award-winning children's fiction author Alex Woolf.
著者: Alex Woolf, 、その他
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My Evil Mother
- A Short Story
- 著者: Margaret Atwood
- ナレーター: Hillary Huber
- 再生時間: 57 分
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Life is hard enough for a teenage girl in 1950s suburbia without having a mother who may—or may not—be a witch. A single mother at that. Sure, she fits in with her starched dresses, string of pearls, and floral aprons. Then there are the hushed and mystical consultations with neighborhood women in distress. The unsavory, mysterious plants in the flower beds. The divined warning to steer clear of a boyfriend whose fate is certainly doomed.
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mother-daughter moments
- 投稿者: 小野可奈子 日付: 2023/04/18
著者: Margaret Atwood
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The Easy Life in Kamusari
- Forest, Book 1
- 著者: Shion Miura, Juliet Winters Carpenter - translator
- ナレーター: Brian Nishii
- 再生時間: 6 時間 31 分
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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.
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Loved every minute
- 投稿者: Koharu 日付: 2023/07/23
著者: Shion Miura, 、その他
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In Watermelon Sugar
- 著者: Richard Brautigan
- ナレーター: Bronson Pinchot
- 再生時間: 2 時間 22 分
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iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different color every day and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the violence and hate of the old gang at the Forgotten Works, they lead gentle lives in watermelon sugar. In this book, Richard Brautigan discovers and expresses the mood of the counterculture generation.
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In Our Time (AmazonClassics Edition)
- 著者: Ernest Hemingway
- ナレーター: James Lurie
- 再生時間: 4 時間 3 分
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The 1925 New York edition of Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time trails readers through the years before, during, and after World War I. The collection’s first two stories, “Indian Camp” and “The Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife,” introduce Hemingway’s semiautobiographical character Nick Adams as a child. In total, seven stories portray the young man’s coming of age. All fourteen, including interspersed vignettes, embody the themes that Hemingway would return to throughout his career: alienation, grief, loss, and separation, as well as the regenerative powers of nature.
著者: Ernest Hemingway
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Other Voices, Other Rooms
- 著者: Truman Capote
- ナレーター: Cody Roberts
- 再生時間: 6 時間 29 分
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At the age of 12, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at the decaying mansion in Skully's Landing, his father is nowhere in sight. What he finds instead is a sullen stepmother who delights in killing birds; an uncle with the face - and heart - of a debauched child; and a fearsome little girl named Idabel who may offer him the closest thing he has ever known to love.
著者: Truman Capote
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終生ヒトのオスは飼わず
- 著者: 米原 万里
- ナレーター: 杉村 理加
- 再生時間: 5 時間 47 分
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ロシア語会議通訳、エッセイスト、作家として56年の生涯を走り抜けた米原万里さんのもうひとつの顔は、毛深い大家族(猫5+犬3)の“慈愛深き母”でした。
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「あとがき」が含まれていないようですが?
- 投稿者: eau 日付: 2024/05/16
著者: 米原 万里
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The Perfect Marriage
- 著者: Jeneva Rose
- ナレーター: Neil Hellegers, Teri Schnaubelt
- 再生時間: 8 時間 52 分
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Sarah Morgan is a successful and powerful defense attorney in Washington D.C. At 33 years old, she is a named partner at her firm and life is going exactly how she planned. The same cannot be said for her husband, Adam. He is a struggling writer who has had little success in his career. He begins to tire of his and Sarah’s relationship as she is constantly working. Out in the secluded woods, at Adam and Sarah’s second home, Adam engages in a passionate affair with Kelly Summers. Then, one morning everything changes. Adam is arrested for Kelly’s murder.
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結末が後味悪い…
- 投稿者: hana 日付: 2024/05/13
著者: Jeneva Rose
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A Little History of the World
- 著者: E. H. Gombrich
- ナレーター: Ralph Cosham
- 再生時間: 9 時間 11 分
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E. H. Gombrich's world history, an international best seller now available in English for the first time, is a text dominated not by dates and facts but by the sweep of experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity's achievements, and an acute witness to its frailties.
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Essential world history
- 投稿者: シンプルイングリッシュの村上博昭 日付: 2022/11/26
著者: E. H. Gombrich
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Indistractable
- How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
- 著者: Nir Eyal, Julie Li
- ナレーター: Nir Eyal
- 再生時間: 5 時間 15 分
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In Indistractable, Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving us to distraction. He describes why solving the problem is not as simple as swearing off our devices: Abstinence is impractical and often makes us want more. Eyal lays bare the secret of finally doing what you say you will do with a four-step, research-backed model. Indistractable reveals the key to getting the best out of technology, without letting it get the best of us.
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Great insight about how to deal with distractions
- 投稿者: Thiago Souza 日付: 2024/03/19
著者: Nir Eyal, 、その他
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よくわからないけど、あきらかにすごい人
- 著者: 穂村 弘
- ナレーター: 東城 光志
- 再生時間: 3 時間 59 分
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現代短歌を代表する著者が文学、アート、音楽など、それぞれの世界で活躍する「表現の神様」を訪ね、創作の根源に迫った、心躍る芸術談義。
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集合的無意識
- 投稿者: kips 日付: 2024/06/12
著者: 穂村 弘
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The Perfect Son
- 著者: Freida McFadden
- ナレーター: Suzie Althens, Daniel Thomas May
- 再生時間: 7 時間 58 分
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Erika Cass has a perfect family and a perfect life. Until the evening when two detectives show up at her front door. A high school girl has vanished from Erika's quiet suburban neighborhood. The police suspect the worst - murder. And Erika's teenage son, Liam, was the last person to see the girl alive. Erika has always sensed something dark and disturbed in her seemingly perfect older child. She wants to believe he's innocent, but as the evidence mounts, she can't deny the truth - Liam may have done the unthinkable.
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Good simple thriller
- 投稿者: 匿名 日付: 2023/12/26
著者: Freida McFadden
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Where the Forest Meets the Stars
- 著者: Glendy Vanderah
- ナレーター: Lauren Ezzo
- 再生時間: 9 時間 57 分
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After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises. The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles.
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とても面白かった(感動)
- 投稿者: ちくわ 日付: 2024/02/19
著者: Glendy Vanderah
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The Joy Luck Club
- 著者: Amy Tan
- ナレーター: Amy Tan
- 再生時間: 2 時間 37 分
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For decades, a quartet of Chinese women who have emigrated to San Francisco gather to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk — they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Over the years, their stories have informed the lives of four daughters who feel the weight of family and world history on their shoulders.
著者: Amy Tan
批評家のレビュー
"Moving and authoritative pictures of culture shock and displaced identity." (Kirkus Reviews)
"The crystalline writing in the nine stories of this Pulitzer Prize-winning debut collection dazzles. These sensitive explorations of the lives of Indian immigrants and expatriates touch on universal themes, making them at once specific and broad in their appeal. Narrator Matilda Novak's light voice is fine for stories written by a young woman, and the hint of melody in her reading is typical of Indian voices." (AudioFile)
あらすじ・解説
Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 2000
With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants, expatriates, and their children arrive, quite literally, at a cultural divide. The nine stories in this stunning debut collection unerringly chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.A blackout forces a young Indian American couple to make confessions that unravel their tattered domestic peace. An Indian-American girl recognizes her cultural identity during a Halloween celebration while the Pakastani civil war rages on television in the background. A latchkey kid with a single working mother finds affinity with a woman from Calcutta. In the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors and hears an astonishing confession.
Imbued with the sensual details of Indian culture, these stories speak with passion and wisdom to everyone who has ever felt like a foreigner. Like the interpreter of the title story, Lahiri translates between the strict traditions of her ancestors and a baffling new world.