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Lonely thirty-seven-year-old Satoru Mikami is stuck in a dead-end job, unhappy with his mundane life, but after dying at the hands of a robber, he awakens to a fresh start in a fantasy realm...as a slime monster! As he acclimates to his goopy new existence, his exploits with the other monsters set off a chain of events that will change his new world forever!

Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are lovesick doctors, students, ex-boyfriends, actors, bartenders, and even Kafka’s Gregor Samsa, brought together to tell stories that speak to us all. In Men Without Women, Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic, marked by the same wry humor and pathos that have defined his entire body of work.

Godzilla emerged from the sea to devastate Tokyo in the now-classic 1954 film, creating a global sensation and launching one of the world's most successful movie and media franchises. Awakened and transformed by nuclear weapons testing, Godzilla serves as a terrifying metaphor for humanity's shortsighted destructiveness: this was the intent of Shigeru Kayama, the science fiction writer who drafted the 1954 original film and its first sequel and, in 1955, published these novellas.

When Neil Armstrong first set foot in the lunar dust, the Earth held its breath. That one small step forever changed our view of what was possible, sparking a dramatic expansion of humankind's cosmic awareness. When we gain a new perspective, a transformation begins, profoundly altering the understanding of the world our human experience had previously granted us.

In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada language between 1990 and 2023, praised for their dry and gentle humor, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq’s years as a journalist and lawyer, in which she tirelessly championed women’s rights and protested all forms of caste and religious oppression.

Em Não pisque, Stephen King retorna ao mundo investigativo da fascinante personagem Holly Gibney para narrar tramas paralelas cheias de mistério e tensão. E mais uma vez se prova mestre não só do terror e da fantasia, mas também na arte de construir thrillers. Em mais um romance protagonizado por Holly Gibney, Stephen King retorna com uma história que entremeia duas linhas narrativas: a primeira sobre um assassino em busca de vingança, e a segunda sobre um justiceiro cujo alvo é uma celebridade feminista.

Vreemd: een vrouw wordt op klaarlichte dag vermoord, in het bijzijn van meerdere getuigen, maar niemand kan de dader beschrijven. Inspecteur Lindsay Boxer krijgt al snel het unheimliche gevoel dat de dader in het politiekorps zelf gezocht moet worden – en dat hij opnieuw zal toeslaan. Dit 14de deel in de reeks 'Women's Murder Club' heeft de bekende combinatie van persoonlijke ervaringen (schokken in het huwelijk, spanningen tussen vriendinnen…) en snel escalerende onderzoeken, met een cliffhanger die je gewoon naar het volgende deel dwingt.

Dos familias que están acampadas en la costa escocesa son víctimas de un ataque brutal mientras duermen. Solo sobrevive Iris, la hija mayor de una de ellas. Los autores de los asesinatos de Kilbride, como se bautiza el crimen, nunca a llegan a ser detenidos. Quince años más tarde Iris es víctima del acoso de un individuo siniestro y, poco después, durante unas vacaciones junto con una amiga, esta desaparece sin dejar rastro, ¿tal vez ha sido víctima de un crimen que en realidad estaba destinado a Iris?

Nadie le dijo a la bruja Selene Bowers que tener un alma gemela sería tan complicado. Tampoco nadie la advirtió de que su compañero espiritual sería un antiguo hechicero vengativo que la acusaría de asesinato, que la obligaría a recordar la vida pasada que él jura que vivió y que la coaccionaría para que aceptara un pacto de matrimonio irrompible. Pero eso es justo lo que pasó la noche del baile de Samhain, cuando Selene acabó encerrada en una celda.

Ya sea que quieras dejar el alcohol, simplemente beber menos —o incluso si solo estás considerando reducir tu consumo— esta guía es para ti. Cada día durante 30 días, la autora bestseller del New York Times y experta en recuperación, Holly Whitaker, te ofrece una reflexión de 5 a 10 minutos destinada a ayudarte a transformar tu relación con el alcohol. Cada reflexión está inspirada en su experiencia personal y respaldada por las últimas investigaciones al respecto.

Essentially the start of Dazai's career, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of a lost time, as well as the struggle of the individual against them—a theme that occupied Dazai's life both personally and professionally. This new translation preserves the playful language of the original and offers the listener a new window into the mind of one of the greatest Japanese authors of the 20th century.

Miyagaki Yōtarō is one of Japan's most famed mystery writers, but several years ago he put down his pen and left the Tokyo literary world for a life of seclusion in the remote Labyrinth House, built by the notorious architect Nakamura Seiji. When four of the country's most exciting up-and-coming crime writers are invited to the house for Yōtarō's birthday party, they are honored to accept. But no sooner have they arrived than they are confronted with a shocking death, then lured into a bizarre, deadly competition with each other . . .

Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2016. When a small-time criminal and gun dealer is shot down in the street, all signs point to Tomas Gomez, a quiet man with a mysterious past—and deep connections to a notorious gang—who has seemingly vanished into thin air. Other murders soon follow, and it appears Gomez is only getting started. Meanwhile, Bob Oz, a down-and-out suspended police officer with a dubious past of his own, becomes fascinated by the case.

Incluso en las zonas más desoladas de las ciudades estadounidenses, los desahucios solían ser acontecimientos raros. Hoy en día, sin embargo, las familias pobres se ven obligadas a invertir más de la mitad de sus ingresos en el alquiler de sus viviendas, y el desahucio se ha convertido en algo cotidiano, especialmente en el caso de las madres solteras. De los barrios marginales a los refugios, de los juzgados a los guetos, Matthew Desmond pasó años registrando las historias de aquellos que luchan por sobrevivir y no se dan por vencidos.

Det er en iskold nytårsnat i Oslo. På den store udendørs skøjtebane midt i byen er der nytårsfejring og fyldt med festglade mennesker, da den hjemløse Bønne, en af politiets gamle kendinge, bliver fundet skudt midt i den larmende menneskemængde. Samtidig ligger en kvinde på intensivafdelingen for at blive opereret efter en alvorlig trafikulykke, men næste morgen er hun forsvundet. Hun bliver til sidst fundet i hospitalets lighus med et stort ar hen over brystet. Nogen har opereret hendes hjerte ud, mens hun var i live.

Journaliste Cindy Thomas vindt het lijk van een dakloze man. Tot haar ontzetting onderzoekt de politie de zaak amper: die heeft haar handen vol met meerdere overlijdens in de elite van San Francisco – overlijdens zonder duidelijke doodsoorzaak. Cindy trekt dan maar zelf op onderzoek uit. Yuki, een ander lid van de Women's Murder Club, krijgt een moeilijk dossier op haar bord. Ze heeft een video waarin een moeder haar dochter beschuldigt van de moord op haar man, maar is dat genoeg voor een veroordeling? Bovendien worstelt Yuki met gender issues.

As a Korean student in a Japanese high school, Sugihara has had to defend himself against all kinds of bullies. But nothing could have prepared him for the heartache he feels when he falls hopelessly in love with a Japanese girl named Sakurai. Immersed in their shared love for classical music and foreign movies, the two gradually grow closer and closer. One night, after being hit by personal tragedy, Sugihara reveals to Sakurai that he is not Japanese - as his name might indicate.

War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy's finest achievment, chronicles the history of the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families.

In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novels—Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973—that launched the career of one of the most acclaimed authors of our time. These powerful, at times surreal, works about two young men coming of age—the unnamed narrator and his friend the Rat—are stories of loneliness, obsession, and eroticism. They bear all the hallmarks of Murakami’s later books, and form the first two-thirds, with A Wild Sheep Chase, of the trilogy of the Rat.

With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hunger that drive them to hold up a McDonald's in the middle of the night; and a young woman discovers that she has become irresistible to a little green monster who burrows up through her backyard.