<p>At the age of twelve my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world.&quot;&quot; -- Henry Hill </p> <p><em>Wiseguy</em> is Nicholas Pileggi's remarkable bestseller， the most intimate account ever printed of life inside the deadly high-stakes world of what some p...(展开全部)

Anywhere But Here and The Lost Father have established Mona Simpson as one of our most accomplished writers. In her new novel--the portrait of a legendary, quintessentially American entrepreneur trapped by the age he helped to define--she brilliantly extends her achievement. More powerfully than ever before, Simpson uncovers the nature of longing and belonging, of blood relatio...(展开全部)

Mona Simpson's first two novels, Anywhere But Here and The Lost Father , won her literary renown and a wide following. Now, in her third novel, the narrator Ann Atassi has been replaced by a third-person narrator recounting the adventures of young Jane di Natali, but the theme remains the same: the search for, and the attempt to understand, the absent father. This time the ...(展开全部)

When Lily, her sister Sam, and their mother move in with her sick grandmother, Lily meets a tiger and makes a deal with her to heal Halmoni.

高校教師の山崎はある日、 偶然担任をしているクラスの学生・ニーナの弱みを握る。 それをニーナに話すと、彼は「なんでも言うことを聞くから」と懇願した。 すると山崎がニーナに身体の関係を強いて――。

This powerful graphic novel confirms Will Eisner as a master of the genre. In this classic graphic novel, Will Eisner’s pen cuts an expansive swath through all aspects of the human condition. A Family Matter starts close to home, following a family as it gathers to observe the ninetieth birthday of its patriarch. While they must decide how best to provide for him, he ends up ma...(展开全部)

A Healing Family, Kenzaburo Oe's first book since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, is an intimate portrait of the people closest to him. Above all, it is about his son Hikari. Hikari was born in 1963 with a growth on his brain so large it made him look as if he had two heads. His parents were told he might never be more than a "human vegetable" requiring constant car...(展开全部)

A Healing Family, Kenzaburo Oe's first book since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, is an intimate portrait of the people closest to him. Above all, it is about his son Hikari. Hikari was born in 1963 with a growth on his brain so large it made him look as if he had two heads. His parents were told he might never be more than a "human vegetable" requiring constant car...(展开全部)