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Book Two of the Lost Souls Series The much-anticipated follow-up novel to the instant national bestseller Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon picks up seven years later with go-between Ayumi, a young man caught between the demands of everyday life and his extraordinary gift: reuniting the living with the dead. Ayumi has a rare and mysterious ability, inherited from his grandmother. During a full moon and guided by strict rules, he arranges meetings between souls who have passed and those they left behind. However, after years in this role, Ayumi begins to question its meaning and the impact it has had on his life. As he juggles his supernatural calling with his full-time job as a toy designer in Tokyo, Ayumi quietly wonders if he will ever find the peace he so often helps others attain. Meanwhile, he assists five individuals, including: a rising film star who seeks closure with the father who abandoned him; a passionate amateur historian longing to meet a forgotten sixteenth-century warl

我們讀珍・奧斯汀，那麼，珍・奧斯汀讀誰？在《傲慢與偏見》成為經典之前，哪些女性作家的文字，曾讓奧斯汀愛不釋手，並滋養她的創作？珍本書商 Rebecca Romney 循著奧斯汀的閱讀足跡，尋訪 Frances Burney、Ann Radcliffe、Maria Edgeworth 等作家的作品，試著重建她的書架，也追問：這些曾經備受歡迎的女性作家，為何逐漸淡出我們的視野？《Jane Austen’s Bookshelf》將珍本收藏、作家人生與文學史交織成一場尋書之旅。從奧斯汀喜愛的故事出發，重新發現那些值得被閱讀的女性聲音——也讓自己的待讀書單，多出幾個意想不到的名字。From rare book dealer and guest star of the hit show Pawn Stars, a page-turning literary adventure featuring "your favorite author's favorite authors" (Today)--the women who inspired Jane Austen--that's "a meditation on reading and writing, on honesty and self-discovery--and on what books can teach us, if we let them" (The Washington Post). Long before she was a rare book dealer, Rebecca Romney was a devoted reader of Jane Austen. She loved that Austen's books took the lives of women seriously, explored relationships with wit and confidence, and always, allowed for the possibility of a happy ending. She read and reread them, often wishing Austen wrote just one more. But Austen wasn't a lone genius. She