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【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Blacksheep's Arranged Marriage (Mills & Boon American Romance)【電子書籍】[ Karen Toller Whittenburg ]

＜p＞＜strong＞PETER BRADDOCK: The youngest Braddock brother puts honor to the test and lives up to the proud Braddock legacy!＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Braddock blood ran fierce and true in Peter Braddock. Yet his scandalous past kept the youngest Braddock sibling from feeling he really belonged in the elite society his family ruled. Perhaps that's what made him defend shy, awkward Theadosia Berenson?the ugly duckling debutante?and landed him in trouble that led to a marriage proposal!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Thea knew Peter felt honor-bound to propose. But the perpetual wallflower couldn't say no to the man who stirred her secret fantasies. Though she tried to hide her tender feelings, one kiss revealed a shocking desire between them. Would the spark ignite a fire?and lead two lonely hearts home?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Billion Dollar Braddocks: Born to a legacy of wealth and power, three handsome brothers discover that love is the ultimate privilege.＜/strong＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Conan, Gods of the North【電子書籍】[ Robert E Howard ]

＜p＞The clangor of the swords had died away, the shouting of the slaughter was hushed; silence lay on the red-stained snow. The pale bleak sun that glittered so blindingly from the ice-fields and the snow-covered plains struck sheens of silver from rent corselet and broken blade, where the dead lay in heaps. The nerveless hand yet gripped the broken hilt: helmeted heads, back-drawn in the death throes, tilted red beards and golden beards grimly upward, as if in last invocation to Ymir the frost-giant.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Across the red drifts and mail-clad forms, two figures approached one another. In that utter desolation only they moved. The frosty sky was over them, the white illimitable plain around them, the dead men at their feet. Slowly through the corpses they came, as ghosts might come to a tryst through the shambles of a world.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Their shields were gone, their corselets dinted. Blood smeared their mail; their swords were red. Their horned helmets showed the marks of fierce strokes.＜/p＞ ＜p＞One spoke, he whose locks and beard were red as the blood on the sunlit snow.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Man of the raven locks," said he, "tell me your name, so that my brothers in Vanaheim may know who was the last of Wulfhere's band to fall before the sword of Heimdul."＜/p＞ ＜p＞"This is my answer," replied the black-haired warrior: "Not in Vanaheim, but in Valhalla will you tell your brothers the name of Amra of Akbitana."＜/p＞ ＜p＞Heimdul roared and sprang, and his sword swung in a mighty arc. Amra staggered and his vision was filled with red sparks as the blade shivered into bits of blue fire on his helmet. But as he reeled he thrust with all the power of his great shoulders. The sharp point drove through brass scales and bones and heart, and the red-haired warrior died at Amra's feet.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Your Complete Manu Bennett Guide - 54 Facts【電子書籍】[ Albert Benton ]

＜p＞An excellent Biography of Manu Bennett. This book is your ultimate resource for Manu Bennett. Here you will find the most up-to-date 54 Success Facts, Information, and much more.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Manu Bennett's Early life, Career and Personal life right away.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A quick look inside: Rambo (film series) - Future, Spartacus: Vengeance, Production of The Hobbit - Casting, Beta Test (film), The Marine - Plot, Spartacus (TV series) - Gladiators and slaves, Sinbad the Sailor - Films, TV, animation, Great Goblin - Films, Clayton Watson - Career, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Cast, Deathstroke - Live action, Beta Test (film) - Cast, Manu Bennett - Personal life, S.T.A.R. Labs - Television, Spartacus: Blood and Sand - Cast and characters, The Condemned - Cast, Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms - Cast, League of Assassins - Television, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Paradise Beach - Production, Sinbad and The Minotaur - Cast, Ng?ti Kahungunu - Notable Ng?ti Kahungunu, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, 2013 in comics - Conventions, Grishn?kh - Films, Deathstroke (comic book) - Live action, Michael Bennett (film director) - Personal, Jack Hewitt (Shortland Street) - Patricia Hewitt, Crixus - In popular culture, Dinah Drake - Live action, Jack Hewitt (Shortland Street) - Jack Hewitt, The Flash (2014 TV series) - Arrow, KGBeast - Television, Black Canary - Live action, Chris Warner - Rachel McKenna, Paradise Beach - Cast, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Cast, The Hobbit: There and Back Again, Street Legal (2000) - Cast, List of Spartacus characters - Crixus, Spartacus: Vengeance - Rebels, and much more...＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Shadows Number 13 in series【電子書籍】[ J. R. Ward ]

＜p＞＜strong＞**Goodreads Finalist for Best Romance 2015**＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Two brothers bound by more than blood fight to change a brutal destiny in the heart-wrenching new novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood by ＜em＞Sunday Times＜/em＞ bestselling author J. R. Ward.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Trez "Latimer" doesn't really exist. And not just because the identity was created so that a Shadow could function in the underbelly of the human world. Sold by his parents to the Queen of the S'Hsibe as a child, Trez escaped the Territory and has been a pimp and an enforcer in Caldwell, NY for years- all the while on the run from a destiny of sexual servitude. He's never had anyone he could totally rely on . . . except for his brother, iAm.＜/p＞ ＜p＞iAm's sole goal has always been to keep his brother from self-destructing - and he knows he's failed. It's not until the Chosen Selena enters Trez's life that the male begins to turn things around . . . but by then it's too late. The pledge to mate the Queen's daughter comes due and there is nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, and no negotiating.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Trapped between his heart and a fate he never volunteered for, Trez must decide whether to endanger himself and others - or forever leave behind the female he's in love with. But then an unimaginable tragedy strikes and changes everything. Staring out over an emotional abyss, Trez must find a reason to go on or risk losing himself and his soul forever. And iAm, in the name of brotherly love, is faced with making the ultimate sacrifice . . .＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Wit'ch Gate【電子書籍】[ James Clemens ]

＜p＞＜em＞＜em＞＜em＞The dazzling epic of The Banned and the Banished has established James Clemens as an exciting new voice in fantasy fiction. Now his remarkable skills reach their peak with＜/em＞ Wit’ch Gate＜/em＞, as one girl remains her realm’s only hope against the forces of darkness . . .＜/em＞**＜/p＞ ＜p＞In a spectacular feat of daring and magic, Elena and her army of outlaws and rebels have defeated evil’s minions and released the mystic secrets of the Blood Diary. But the malevolent Dark Lord has unleashed the Weirgates?black wells of ferocious energy that are his greatest source of power. Now Elena’s bravest allies are sent to find and destroy the Gates, as windships carry the fight north to the frigid woodlands, south to the burning desert sands, and east to the blasted regions of dread Gul’gotha.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Along the way, they will face their own personal demons as well. The twin brothers Mogweed and Fardale race against time to break the curse that has stolen their shapechanging birthright, and Elena’s brother Joach must evade the desert sandsharks if he is to master his own elemental power. The trail will lead them even to the fabulous el’vin homeland of Stormhaven. None of the rebels will come back unscathed, some never returning at all . . .＜/p＞ ＜p＞And Elena herself must journey to Gulgotha. Daring the enemy’s own lair, she must emerge victorious if she is to reveal the secret of the Dark Lord’s frightening identity?and the shocking nature of his vast powers.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Final Hearing【電子書籍】[ Oscar Sanders ]

＜p＞Just when you thought that you saw it all, here comes award winning feature film and music video director Oscar Sanders switches lanes to provide you with a fiction crime/suspense/horror novel entitled Final Hearing which follows the lives of the infamous brothers Vincent and Reggie Cochran-which has a foundation in the Bronx to factualize the story. Then the book takes on a life of its own takes on a life of its own as a bonified adventure through Northern New York, Minnesota, Nevada, UK, Brazil, Cayman Islands, and North Carolina. There is political intrigue, vengeance, revenge, British Barons, Black Panthers, the parole system, supermodels, substance abuse, heavyweight boxing champions, terrorism financing, pharmaceutical theft, love, betrayal, crime, and finally blood, guts and gore! Oh, what a story this is! The book will be published this year 2014 on all media platforms. Stay tuned!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Synopsis:＜br /＞ What would you do if the older brother that you looked up to was set up, indicted, and convicted for a crime he didn't commit? In a fit of anger, you too became a convicted felon. Vincent Cochran, the current Bronx city councilman twice suspected in the deaths of a much loved political couple. His younger brother Reggie, a novice to politics but understandably loyal and revengeful towards anyone out to malign Vincent. Together they are the defendants in two legal dramas that were dubbed "The Bribe & Burn Trials". It is those trials and the before and after, sprinkled with a healthy eclectic dose of cast and characters that make up a thoroughly engaging novel Final Hearing. An adventure in life, sibling affection, and unforeseen real life emotion. Read Final Hearing! You won't be able to put it down!＜/p＞ ＜p＞This is Oscar Sanders first literary work. He is best known as the award winning director of the feature jazz documentary Billy Bang: Long Over Due, Industrious Grind: Artist Coming Up (music video compilation), and the up coming feature documentary Michael Carvin: No Excuses.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Shadows【電子書籍】[ J.R. Ward ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Two brothers bound by more than blood fight to change a brutal destiny in this novel in the #1 ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling Black Dagger Brotherhood series.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Sold by his parents to the Queen of the s’Hisbe as a child, Trez escaped the Territory and has been a pimp and an enforcer for years. On the run from a destiny of sexual servitude, he’s never been able to rely on anyone...except for his brother, iAm.＜/p＞ ＜p＞iAm’s sole goal has always been to keep his brother from self-destructingーand he knows he’s failed. It’s not until the Chosen Selena enters Trez’s life that the male begins to turn things around...but by then, it’s too late. The pledge to mate the Queen’s daughter comes due, and there is nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, and no negotiating.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Now Trez must decide whether to endanger himself and othersーor abandon the female he loves. When tragedy strikes and changes everything, iAm, in the name of brotherly love, is faced with making the ultimate sacrifice...＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Viper Boxed Set Books 1 & 2 VIPER【電子書籍】[ David Baker ]

＜p＞‘Black Operations’ involves activities that are highly clandestine＜br /＞ and often outside of the standard intelligence/military protocols.＜br /＞ It involves a significant degree of deception, to conceal who is behind it＜br /＞ or to make it appear that some other entity is entirely responsible.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Welcome to the world of VIPER , an Elite Black Operations Squad.＜/p＞ ＜p＞If you like action packed fiction, by authors like Stephen Leather, Robert Ludlum or Chris Ryan, you will love these two novels, ‘VIPER’ and ‘VIPER 2 'The Master of Tomorrows Spawn’ by David Baker.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Viper 1 was released in July 2012 and reached number 1 in the Bestsellers in Men’s adventure fiction and Lad Literature on Amazon.co.uk.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Viper 2 ‘The Master of Tomorrows Spawn’ was released on Amazon on 9th May 2013.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Both books are loaded with non-stop intrigue, suspense and breakneck speed action.＜br /＞ Thrilling, plot twisting reads with real-life parallels and possibilities to chew on.＜/p＞ ＜p＞These are David’s first two books in the ‘Viper’ series. Viper 3 ? 'Bad Russian Blood’ has been released, he is awaiting for the publication of Viper 4, 'Fog of Death' and is presently working on Viper 5.＜/p＞ ＜p＞VIPER a secret Elite ‘Black’ Operations squad.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Formed in Margaret Thatcher’s era following the Iranian Siege in London, continues to this day. A closely guarded British Secret handed down from one Prime Minister to the next. Operations are sanctioned only by the current serving British PM, through Charles Baker the brain-child and commander of Viper.＜br /＞ The Vipers are in Cyprus having hunted down their latest prey, two Bosnian Muslim brothers, arms dealers. They have been negotiating the purchase of a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) unit, complete with a radioactive reactor which can be removed and ground to a dust to make ‘Dirty Bombs’.＜br /＞ The buyer, Abu Karim, is planning to carry out worldwide attacks on the 10th September using the radioactive waste in body-worn human bombs, to upstage Al-Qaeda to whom Abu Karim was once attached. With the recent demise of Osama bin Laden, time is of the essence for Abu Karim and now Viper.＜br /＞ This Elite Squad starts striking at its prey, following the sickening and ruthless kidnapping of a fifteen year old girl. Following the dealers to Georgia where the RTG is stored Viper must prevent the RTG falling into the hands of Evil ? “At any cost!”＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘Viper 2 - The Master of Tomorrows Spawn’ by David Baker.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Is a clandestine black operation at its best.＜br /＞ With the recent capture by Viper of Abu Karim, the leader of a new Islamic terrorist extremist party ‘Sayed-al-Ghad’,＜br /＞ Viper step back into the shadows; allowing the British Intelligence services to start the operation mop up and subsequent arrests of the other members of this terrorist party.＜br /＞ A rogue senior MI5 officer tips off a personal protection police officer attached to the British Prime minister, about his imminent arrest.＜br /＞ Saif Mirak, a new terrorist party has penetrated the heart and soul of the British Police Service and the MI5 Intelligence Agency.＜br /＞ The head of MI5 turns to his old friend Charles Baker the commander of Viper to help him find this MI5 traitor and the PM’s personal protection Police officer.＜br /＞ Viper goes deep undercover; the ramifications of what they find out about this new terrorist party’s plans are far from over, news that shocks not just the British but the Worldwide Security agencies.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Last of the Fighting Farrells【電子書籍】[ Van Holt ]

＜p＞＜strong＞What some reviewers have to say about Van Holt’s writing:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Step aside Louis L'Amour, another great Western writer is here…” --Heather＜/p＞ ＜p＞“I had a feeling that Van Holt…might actually be the successor to Zane Gray, a master Western storysmith, whose novels set the style of a generation.” --Stern0＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Van Holt is King of the Spaghetti Western…” --Rarebird1＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞On sale for a limited time! Regularly $7.99.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞THE LAST OF THE FIGHTING FARRELLS＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Haggan brothers were all cocky, mean bastards. They felt they were above the law and that anyone who got in their way or crossed them, would pay.＜/p＞ ＜p＞They could not even remember when they had not been feuding with the Farrells, only that their Pa had killed old Matt Farrell over some cattle their Pa had rustled from him.＜/p＞ ＜p＞There had been an uneasy truce for many years, but the Haggan boys were restless and wanted to get things going again.＜/p＞ ＜p＞They ambushed Luke’s oldest brother, Matt and then killed the other three, Johnny, Mark and young Ben.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But they made their biggest mistake when they failed to kill the LAST OF THE FIGHTING FARRELLS.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Warning:＜/strong＞ Reading a Van Holt western may make you want to get on a horse and hunt some bad guys down in the Old West. Of course, the easiest and most enjoyable way to do it is vicariouslyーby reading another Van Holt western.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Van Holt writes westerns the way they were meant to be written.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞More action-packed gunfighting westerns by Van Holt:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞A Few Dead Men＜/li＞ ＜li＞Blood in the Hills＜/li＞ ＜li＞Brandon’s Law＜/li＞ ＜li＞Buck Hayden, Mustanger＜/li＞ ＜li＞Curly Bill and Ringo＜/li＞ ＜li＞Dead Man Riding＜/li＞ ＜li＞Dead Man's Trail＜/li＞ ＜li＞Death in Black Holsters＜/li＞ ＜li＞Dynamite Riders＜/li＞ ＜li＞Hellbound Express＜/li＞ ＜li＞Hunt the Killers Down＜/li＞ ＜li＞Maben＜/li＞ ＜li＞Rebel With a Gun＜/li＞ ＜li＞Riding for Revenge＜/li＞ ＜li＞Rubeck's Raiders＜/li＞ ＜li＞Shiloh Stark＜/li＞ ＜li＞Shoot to Kill＜/li＞ ＜li＞Six-Gun Man＜/li＞ ＜li＞Six-Gun Serenade＜/li＞ ＜li＞Six-Gun Solution＜/li＞ ＜li＞Six-Gun Showdown＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Antrim Guns＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Bounty Hunters＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Bushwhackers＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Fortune Hunters＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Gundowners＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Gundown Trail＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Hellbound Man＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Hell Riders＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Last of the Fighting Farrells＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Long Trail＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Man Called Bowdry＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Return of Frank Graben＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Revenge of Tom Graben＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Six-Gunner＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Stranger from Hell＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Vultures＜/li＞ ＜li＞Wild Country＜/li＞ ＜li＞Wild Desert Rose＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞ ＜p＞Coming soon by Van Holt:＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞Return of the Six-Gunner＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Rubeck's Raiders【電子書籍】[ Van Holt ]

＜p＞＜strong＞What some reviewers have to say about Van Holt’s writing:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞“Step aside Louis L'Amour, another great Western writer is here…” --Heather＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞“I had a feeling that Van Holt…might actually be the successor to Zane Gray, a master Western storysmith, whose novels set the style of a generation.” --Stern0＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞“Van Holt is King of the Spaghetti Western…” --Rarebird1＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞On sale for a limited time! Normally priced at $7.99.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞RUBECK'S RAIDERS＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Civil war divided the country and tore families apart. After the war, two half brothers became legendary gunfighters and cowboys in the old West--and deadly enemies.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Rubeck's Raiders, a confederate army unit, were so brutal, even their own army disowned them. When the leaders' son and paramour were killed one night, he knew it was one of his own men. A man hunt that spanned 10 years ensued.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The murdered girls' younger sister saw a face in the window that horrible night, and swore to track her sister's killer down. She hires trained killers to hunt him so she can get her revenge.＜/p＞ ＜p＞That's how both half brothers became two of the most wanted men in the old West.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Changing names and identities, moving from frontier town to frontier town, hiding out ? all became a way of life, along with having to fight for their lives at almost every turn.＜/p＞ ＜p＞One half brother knew he did it. The other was blamed for it. One didn't want anything to do with the other. The other was protecting him.＜/p＞ ＜p＞They are all in one deadly pursuit to get him first.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Warning:＜/strong＞ Reading a Van Holt western may make you want to get on a horse and hunt some bad guys down in the Old West. Of course, the easiest and most enjoyable way to do it is vicariouslyーby reading another Van Holt western.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Van Holt writes westerns the way they were meant to be written.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞More action-packed gunfighting westerns by Van Holt:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞A Few Dead Men＜/li＞ ＜li＞Blood in the Hills＜/li＞ ＜li＞Brandon’s Law＜/li＞ ＜li＞Buck Hayden, Mustanger＜/li＞ ＜li＞Curly Bill and Ringo＜/li＞ ＜li＞Dead Man Riding＜/li＞ ＜li＞Dead Man's Trail＜/li＞ ＜li＞Death in Black Holsters＜/li＞ ＜li＞Dynamite Riders＜/li＞ ＜li＞Hellbound Express＜/li＞ ＜li＞Hunt the Killers Down＜/li＞ ＜li＞Maben＜/li＞ ＜li＞Rebel With a Gun＜/li＞ ＜li＞Riding for Revenge＜/li＞ ＜li＞Rubeck's Raiders＜/li＞ ＜li＞Shiloh Stark＜/li＞ ＜li＞Shoot to Kill＜/li＞ ＜li＞Six-Gun Man＜/li＞ ＜li＞Six-Gun Serenade＜/li＞ ＜li＞Six-Gun Solution＜/li＞ ＜li＞Six-Gun Showdown＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Antrim Guns＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Bounty Hunters＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Bushwhackers＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Fortune Hunters＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Gundowners＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Gundown Trail＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Hellbound Man＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Hell Riders＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Last of the Fighting Farrells＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Long Trail＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Man Called Bowdry＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Return of Frank Graben＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Revenge of Tom Graben＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Six-Gunner＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Stranger from Hell＜/li＞ ＜li＞The Vultures＜/li＞ ＜li＞Wild Country＜/li＞ ＜li＞Wild Desert Rose＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞ ＜p＞Coming soon by Van Holt:＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞Return of the Six-Gunner＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Locus Magazine, Issue 624, January 2013【電子書籍】[ Locus Magazine ]

＜p＞Locus is the magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror publishing fields, with book reviews, author interviews, news, and listings.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Locus Issue #624, January 2013, contains interviews with Delia Sherman and James S.A. Corey (Daniel Abraham & Ty Franck); a new column by Cory Doctorow titled “Where Characters Come From”; an obituary of Boris Strugatsky; reports on the 2012 Sunburst Award Winners and Sail to Success writer's workshop; short fiction reviews by Gardner Dozois and Rich Horton, plus reviews by Gary K. Wolfe, Faren Miller, Russell Letson, and others, of new books by Nick Harkaway, Rudy Rucker, Steven Gould, Tad Williams, and more.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) ー＜/p＞ ＜p＞Asimov’s January 2013 (Rich Horton)＜br /＞ Beneath Ceaseless Skies November 2012 (Rich Horton)＜br /＞ Eclipse Online December 2012 (Rich Horton)＜br /＞ Phantom Drift Fall 2012 (Rich Horton)＜br /＞ Strange Horizons November 2012 (Rich Horton)＜br /＞ Strange Horizons December 2012 (Rich Horton)＜/p＞ ＜p＞Books reviewed in this issue, listed by author (indicating reviewer) ー＜/p＞ ＜p＞Adams, John Joseph, ed. ? Armored (Gardner Dozois)＜br /＞ Adams, John Joseph, ed. ? Epic (Gardner Dozois)＜br /＞ Andrews, Ilona ? Steel’s Edge (Carolyn Cushman)＜br /＞ Bardugo, Leigh ? Shadow and Bone (Gwenda Bond)＜br /＞ Belcher, R. S. ? The Six-Gun Tarot (Faren Miller)＜br /＞ Bishop, Anne, & Anthony Francis ? Stranded (Rich Horton)＜br /＞ Boccacino, Michael ? Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling (Carolyn Cushman)＜br /＞ Bullington, Jesse ? The Folly of the World (Faren Miller)＜br /＞ Carson, Rae ? The Crown of Embers (Gwenda Bond)＜br /＞ Connolly, Tina ? Ironskin (Carolyn Cushman)＜br /＞ Dart-Thornton, Cecilia ? The Midnight Game (Carolyn Cushman)＜br /＞ Datlow, Ellen, & Terri Windling, eds. ? After (Rich Horton)＜br /＞ Dozois, Gardner, ed. ? Rip-Off! (Rich Horton)＜br /＞ Fort, Ilene Susan, & Tere Arcq, eds. ? In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States (Karen Haber)＜br /＞ Froud, Brian, & Wendy Froud ? Brian Froud’s Trolls (Karen Haber)＜br /＞ Fuentes, Carlos ? Vlad (Stefan Dziemianowicz)＜br /＞ Gould, Steven ? Impulse (Russell Letson)＜br /＞ Gramazio, Ronnie ? Expos? 10 (Karen Haber)＜br /＞ Guinan, Paul, & Anina Bennett ? Frank Reade: Adventures in the Age of Invention (Karen Haber)＜br /＞ Guran, Paula, ed. ? Rock On: The Greatest Science Fiction & Fantasy Hits (Gardner Dozois)＜br /＞ Harkaway, Nick ? Angelmaker (Gary K. Wolfe)＜br /＞ Hockney, David ? Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm with Illustrations by David Hockney (Karen Haber)＜br /＞ Horton, Rich, & Sean Wallace, eds. ? Robots: Recent AI (Gardner Dozois)＜br /＞ Horton, Rich, & Sean Wallace, eds. ? War and Space: Recent Combat (Gardner Dozois)＜br /＞ Huff, Tanya ? The Silvered (Carolyn Cushman)＜br /＞ Joshi, S. T., ed. ? Black Wings 2 (Stefan Dziemianowicz)＜br /＞ Lockhart, Ross E. ? The Book of Cthulhu II (Stefan Dziemianowicz)＜br /＞ Phillips, Holly ? At the Edge of Waking (Faren Miller)＜br /＞ Powers, Tim ? Salvage and Demolition (Gary K. Wolfe)＜br /＞ Reed, Kit ? Son of Destruction (Gary K. Wolfe)＜br /＞ Resnick, Laura ? Polterheist (Carolyn Cushman)＜br /＞ Rucker, Rudy ? Turing & Burroughs: A Beatnik SF Novel (Faren Miller)＜br /＞ Saler, Michael ? As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary PreHistory of Virtual Reality (Stefan Dziemianowicz)＜br /＞ Sedia, Ekaterina, ed. ? Bloody Fabulous (Rich Horton)＜br /＞ Smith, Jad ? John Brunner (Gary K. Wolfe)＜br /＞ Stiefvater, Maggie ? The Raven Boys (Gwenda Bond)＜br /＞ Strahan, Jonathan, ed. ? Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron (Gardner Dozois)＜br /＞ Tardi, Jacques ? The Arctic Marauder (Karen Haber)＜br /＞ Temple, William F. ? A Niche in Time and Other Stories: The Best of William F. Temple, Volume 1 (Richard A. Lupoff)＜br /＞ Tierney, Kathleen ? Blood Oranges (Gary K. Wolfe)＜br /＞ Walton, Evangeline ? Above Ker-Is and Other Stories (Stefan Dziemianowicz)＜br /＞ Weber, David, & Jane Lindskold ? Fire Season (Carolyn Cushman)＜br /＞ Williams, Tad ? The Dirty Streets of Heaven (Carolyn Cushman)＜br /＞ Wolfe, Gary K., ed. ? American Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s (Russell Letson)＜br /＞ Wrede, Patricia C. ? The Far West (Carolyn Cushman)＜/p＞ ＜p＞About Locus:＜/p＞ ＜p＞Locus is the news magazine and trade journal for chain SF and fantasy buyers, independent bookstore SF and fantasy buyers, and independent distributors as well as librarians, editors, authors, publishing personnel, and interested readers. The magazine has been covering the SF and fantasy fields for over 40 years, and has won the Hugo Award, science fiction's premier honor, 30 times. The magazine's website, which contains a sampling of magazine content as well as additional genre news, media reviews, the Roundtable Blog, indexes of reviews and interviews published, the science fiction awards database, and much much more, can be found at ＜a href="www.locusmag.com"＞www.locusmag.com＜/a＞. Information about advertising in the magazine can be found at ＜a href="locusmag.com/Magazine/RateCard.html"＞locusmag.com/Magazine/RateCard.html＜/a＞ or on the website at ＜a href="www.locusmag.com/Home/LocusOnlineRates.html"＞www.locusmag.com/Home/LocusOnlineRates.html＜/a＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Our Quarterly Forthcoming Book issues (March, June, September, and December) usually sell out, and are used by librarians, bookstores, publishers, and readers to keep abreast of forthcoming titles. Each contains publishing schedules from the major genre publishers ? big houses to small presses ? for the next nine months.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Our February issue summarizes the previous year, and includes a highly regarded annual Recommended Reading List. The August issue has the Locus Awards, voted on by our readers from the best of the previous year. The October and November issues cover the World SF Convention and are constant back issue favorites. All issues have a list of the new books that month, a list of recommended books and bestsellers, and interviews with leading authors.＜/p＞ ＜p＞For information about the parent company, Locus Science Fiction Foundation (a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation), see ＜www.lsff.net＞.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Golden Age of Hollywood Movies, 1931-1943: Vol VI, Errol Flynn【電子書籍】[ James R Ashley ]

＜p＞Errol Flynn was literally born the star that he became. His entire life was one of a swashbuckling rogue who strode across life's stage bigger than life and in the process reduced everyone else's life to insignificance. As thrilling and exciting his swashbuckling movie roles were, his real life adventures frequently surpassed them. His life was the things dreams were made of and he enjoyed every minute of it. Errol was born in the South Seas, a mysterious and romantic place for moviegoers at the time. During his youth, while his contemporaries were getting dull jobs in government or business and settling down to an equally dull family life, Errol was leading the life of a modern day pirate, roaming the high seas in search of booty and lust. At one time or another he was a jewel thief, a "black slaver," a confidence man, a plantation manager, a soldier of fortune, and an explorer. He shot it out with headhunters, was on the run from the law, and once was tried for murder. He seduced almost any women he met, be they young or old, plain or beautiful, and if the opportunity offered, relieved them of their valuables. His youth was one of adventure and romance and from one day to the next he neither knew nor especially cared what tomorrow would bring. He lived for the moment and burned the candle at both ends, then burned it in the middle at the same time.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When Errol got to Hollywood he became an immediate success and zoomed right to the top, all in one stunning leap. He was everything men and women believed a real man should be: handsome, daring, bold, witty, and romantic. And his fans immediately saw that this was not just an act; Errol was the real deal, and they could not get enough of him. Errol was not a master at his craft like Humphrey Bogart, and in fact he admitted to his fellow actors on several occasions that he knew nothing about acting and wanted to keep it that way. But he had what many professional actors only dreamed about, an electrifying screen presence. Whereas his peers spent their entire careers attempting to steal scenes and prevent being upstaged by others, when Errol walked on a set all the other actors receded into insignificance and all attention was automatically riveted on him. His mere presence on the screen was enough to upstage all his fellow actors.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It was Errol Flynn against Warner Brothers every step of the way. Like no actor previous and no actor since, Errol waged a never-ending battle against his movie studio; in effect it was a duel between titans. On one side was Jack Warner, who had beaten down some of the most famous stars of that era (including Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, and Bette Davis) and on the other, Errol Flynn, who acknowledged no master.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Half way though the filming of a movie it was typical of Errol to refuse to continue unless he got a new contract and if he didn't, he was prepared to walk away from it all at a moment's notice. Errol would curse out his directors, particularly Michael Curtz, on the set in such foul language that his frequent co-star, Olivia de Havilland, would run to her dressing room in fright, with tears streaming from her eyes and covering her ears with her hands.＜/p＞ ＜p＞There will never be another actor like Errol Flynn. He strode across the movie screen like the colossus he was and between Captain Blood (1935) and They Died With Their Boots On (1941) he made the screen's greatest adventure movies of all time, all of which have become classics. In both his personal life and movie career Errol burned the candle at both ends, because, like the boy-wonder Irving Thalberg, he knew that he would die young. However, unlike Thalberg, who took the greatest of care to preserve his short life, Errol lit his afterburner and lived a life most others could only fantasize about. So read on and live the dream remembered that was Errol Flynn, for there will never be another like him.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】My Lover, My Garden【電子書籍】[ Erik Gustafson ]

＜p＞Crazy, vivid short story of battling the demons lurking in the garden.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Conscious Eggplants...Razor sharp onion stalks...Killer carrots...Envious tomatoes...Jealous angry vines...is brotherly love stronger than the sick love of a demonic garden? Two brothers are about to find out how strong love can be.＜/p＞ ＜p＞You have never seen a garden like this.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Bonus content: I've included chapter 1 of my horror novel Fall Leaves and the Black Dragon!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Random excerpt:＜/p＞ ＜p＞I pursued, chopping and stomping as I advanced. The only sound was the swoosh and thud of my machete tearing into vegetables. It was a perplexing scene: there were tall plants like corn and tomatoes everywhere but thriving perfectly underneath that canopy were berries of all sorts: strawberries, raspberries, blackberries. It was all so delicious looking I found myself forcing back the urge to pause and eat. I hacked my way past the corn, splattered through some tomato plants. I was panting; juices were streaming down my machete and sprayed all over my face and clothes. I could feel seeds stuck to my face. I must have looked like a mad murderer. I didn't look good but I pressed forward into some onions.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The onion stems were already on high alert and on the offense as they slashed upward at me from the dirt with green sabers. They popped out of the ground and lashed at me. I smashed many into mushy white pulp underfoot but at last, one managed to slice a line up the back of my jeans. I stumbled away, hopping because it burned to put weight on that leg; I felt the blood running down my leg.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Vistas in Sicily【電子書籍】[ Arthur Stanley Riggs ]

＜p＞Sicily is the rarest flower of the great midland sea. Built up on the North in a series of beetling cliffs, the island slopes gently down through mountain chains and undulating plains to the golden Southern shore. An enormous triangle it is, spiny with lofty peaksー?tna towers more than ten thousand feet in the airーspangled with flowering meads and dells where Nature loads the air with fragrance; pierced with infernal caverns, whence choking workers extract a large part of the world’s sulphur from the palaces of the former gods of the nether world; and fring?d about on every side with the lace-like foam of opal waves. It is rich in beauty and desolation, rich in song and story, rich in architecture, splendid and varied. To understand the beauty and charm of Sicily, however, it is essential to know something of the island’s picturesque and vivid story. We Americans are rarely familiar with it. Strange as it may seem, considering Sicily’s importance through many centuries, its consecutive history still remains to be written. Books there are, to be sure, but none attempts to cover more than a portion of one of the most intense chronicles in the world. Thucydides, in his “Peloponessian War,” tells in glowing phrases of the d?bacle that wiped out the Attic forces and left Sicily supreme. Later still, in the ante-Christian era Diodorus, a native of the island, prepared a flowing story of the Sicily he knew. It has been one of our chief sources of information ever since. In modern times the historians Grote and Curtius have included in their histories of Greece such parts of the Sicilian narrative as are germane to their work; and the English historian Freeman, in a monumental unfinished work, has left us a minutely detailed account of Sicily from prehistoric times to the reign of Agathocles. The Italian Amari, to go yet farther, handles the Saracen period with care and skill, and Gally Knight tells briefly of the dashing Normans and their fanciful architecture. But of the later periods almost nothing of lasting value has been written. Moreover, the books of travel dealing with Sicily are few in comparison with those which tell of other lands, and not many Americans discover, unaided, the paradise they omit from their itineraries. The most usual mistake made regarding Sicily is that it is a little island, vaguely located in imagination somewhere near Italy and peopled by Italiansーits inhabitants, Black Handers, organ-grinders, scissors-men, ditch-diggers and the rest, mala gente all. Sicily is near Italyーtwo miles away, in factーand it is full of Italians, in the sense that they are Italian subjects. But by heredity, by instinct, by everything that pertains to racial culture and development, they are far from being Italians yet. The explanation is a simple one. By consulting the map you see that the triangleーwith an area of some ten thousand square milesーis not only in the center of the Mediterranean from East to West, but that it is also a great stepping-stone between Europe and Africa. In ancient days, when all the civilized world bordered the Mediterranean, the geographical position of Sicily gave the island an especial political character and importance. And naturally, while it remained the very center of the civilized world, it was a rich prize to be fought for by each Nation which rose to power. Traditionーas usualーpeoples the land first with gods, both beneficent and malign, and then with giants to whom Homer refers in the Odyssey: Laistrygones, Cyclops, Lotophagi. After these “poetic monsters” came the Sikans, Sikels and Elymians, genuine peoples, who may be called the prehistoric natives as distinguished from the historic foreigners. Of the three the Sikels, undoubtedly blood-brothers to the pioneers of Rome and Tuscany, are the most interesting; and a legend has it that they drifted on rafts from the Italian mainland across the channel now called the Strait of Messina, about 1100 B. C. They were permanent and important enough to give the island the name Sikelia, which is still current in our modified form, Sicily＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Dragons Arising【電子書籍】[ UK Beil ]

＜p＞Smashwords Edition, Licensing Notes: This Ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This Ebook may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.＜br /＞ A keen eye was kept on the ridgeline in vigilance just in case the dark forces had a moment of inspiration and had changed their archers’ placement. Throughout the remainder of the trek not one bowman was spotted on the heights. As the dwarven warriors closed the gap, the command was given by Captain Rherger in his determined voice and again echoed through the ranks. “MODIFIED TURTLE FORMATION, HOOO!”.＜br /＞ In unison, the dwarven vanguard commenced the maneuver. The clerics finished, then held their prayer, waiting for the right moment. In the near distance, in front of the orc lines, emerged ten figures, all shrouded in black cloaks. It began. Red bolts of vile energy leapt forth from their hands towards the dwarven front. Orc arrows were let loose from the midpoint of the cut on their precarious debris-formed ledges. A crisp energetic blast issued from the captain’s horn as one of the brothers let loose his prayer. Instantaneously, divine blue light flashed in front of the column absorbing all but four of the red bolts as four dwarves fell. They were quickly replaced by the ranks. Another cleric released God’s pent up energy. Brilliant, bright yellow lightning, streaking down from heaven incinerated all but two of the dark emissaries. It continued ripping through the ranks of the orcs with blinding fury, sending some twenty odd more to their deserved fate. Another course of arrows streamed outwards from the beasts and a few more dwarves fell; much less than if the body had not been protected by the turtle. Another shrill blast left the captain’s horn. The dwarves now advanced at a run with their archers releasing their volley into the ever increasingly panicked orcs. The orc missile battery was just about to release another volley as their leader heard the dwarven anvil’s war cry at his rear, “For the blood of the Lamb!”＜br /＞ The opposition’s head archer’s hesitation and indecision allowed the dwarven archers to accurately begin counter battery engagement into the orcs. The dwarven arrows cut their rivals down with exact precision. The clergy focused on their dark opponents as the wretches attempted to scurry back into the center mass of the orcish formation. One brother directed his prayer at the abyssal cowards and the remainder of black-cloaked figures stood unmoving, frozen amidst their swarm.＜br /＞ The sound of melee raged everywhere, splashes of red and black blood flew about, with the crushing of bones and the shredding of flesh coursing through the field. Pressing the attack, the soldiers of Iron encircled the orcs, never allowing them a retreat. The greenish gray creatures, lacking any unit cohesion and being cowards at heart, turned to run as individuals, then small groups, and finally as a whole. Dwarven battle axes continued to hack into the despicable creatures. The beasts realized their error too late. Captain Rherger ordered, “to the last, to the last, to the last!” The orcs’ eyes opened to the light in a panicked frenzy. With a final desperate attempt, the orcs met their end while the sturdy warriors of light dispatched them with ruthless determination. The dwarves followed their captain’s orders, “to the last.”＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Kings of the Earth【電子書籍】[ Jon Clinch ]

＜p＞ Following up ＜em＞Finn,＜/em＞ his much-heralded and prize-winning debut whose voice evoked “the mythic styles of his literary predecessors . . . William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy and Edward P. Jones” (San Francisco Chronicle), Jon Clinch returns with ＜em＞Kings of the Earth, ＜/em＞a powerful and haunting story of life, death, and family in rural America.＜br /＞ ＜br /＞ ＜strong＞The edge of civilization is closer than we think.＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜br /＞ It’s as close as a primitive farm on the margins of an upstate New York town, where the three Proctor brothers live together in a kind of crumbling stasis. They linger like creatures from an older, wilder, and far less forgiving worldーuntil one of them dies in his sleep and the other two are suspected of murder.＜/p＞ ＜p＞ Told in a chorus of voices that span a generation, ＜em＞Kings of the Earth＜/em＞ examines the bonds of family and blood, faith and suspicion, that link not just the brothers but their entire community.＜/p＞ ＜p＞ Vernon, the oldest of the Proctors, is reduced by work and illness to a shambling shadow of himself. Feebleminded Audie lingers by his side, needy and unknowable. And Creed, the youngest of the three and the only one to have seen anything of the world (courtesy of the U.S. Army), struggles with impulses and accusations beyond his understanding. We also meet Del Graham, a state trooper torn between his urge to understand the brothers and his desire for justice; Preston Hatch, a kindhearted and resourceful neighbor who’s spent his life protecting the three men from themselves; the brothers’ only sister, Donna, who managed to cut herself loose from the family but is then drawn back; and a host of other living, breathing characters whose voices emerge to shape this deeply intimate saga of the human condition at its limits.＜/p＞ ＜p＞ ---＜/p＞ ＜p＞ ＜strong＞Praise for ＜em＞Kings of the Earth＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞ ＜strong＞O, The Oprah Magazine＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞ In his masterful and compassionate new novel,＜em＞ Kings of the Earth,＜/em＞ Clinch borrows from a true-life case of possible fratricide. Three elderly, semiliterate brothers live in squalor on a ramshackle dairy farm in central New York state. The prismatic narrative shifts time and point of view, and Clinch easily slips into the voices of his diverse cast of charactersーa nosy, good-hearted neighbor, a police investigator struggling to do the right thing, and the brothers’ drug-dealing nephew. Through evocative descriptions of the landscapeー“a countryside full of that same old homegrown desolation”ーand by imbuing these odd men with a gentle nobility and an “antique strangeness,” Clinch has created a haunting, suspenseful story.＜/p＞ ＜br /＞ ＜p＞ ＜strong＞The Washington Post Book World＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞ True feeling seems to be out of fashion in contemporary fiction, and fiction is the poorer for it. Disaffection and irony may be the tenor of the times, but too much of it can leave you estranged and lonely. Then along comes Clinch, and we are once again safe at home, in the hands of a master.＜/p＞ ＜p＞ ＜em＞Kings of the Earth＜/em＞ recalls the finest work of John Gardner, and Bruce Chatwin’s ＜em＞On the Black Hill, ＜/em＞another exploration of the bonds between brothers that go unspoken but never unexamined. It becomes a story that is not told but lived, a cry from the heart of the heart of the country, in William Gass’s phrase, unsentimental but deeply felt, unschooled but never less than lucid. Never mawkish, Clinch’s voice never fails to elucidate and, finally, to forgive, even as it mourns.＜/p＞ ＜p＞ ＜strong＞The Washington Post named ＜em＞Kings of the Earth＜/em＞ to its list of the five best novels of 2010.＜/strong＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Mooswa & Others of the Boundaries【電子書籍】[ William Alexander Fraser ]

＜p＞The short, hot Summer, with its long-drawn-out days full of coaxing sunshine, had ripened Nature's harvest of purple-belled pea-vine, and yellow-blossomed gaillardia, and tall straight-growing moose weed; had turned the heart-shaped leaves of the poplars into new sovereigns that fell with softened clink from the branches to earth, waiting for its brilliant mantle--a fairy mantle all splashed blood-red by crimson maple woven in a woof of tawny bunch-grass and lace-fronded fern. Oh, but it was beautiful! that land of the Boundaries, where Black Fox was King; and which stretched from the Saskatchewan to where the Peace first bounded in splashing leaps from the boulder-lined foothills of the Rockies; all beautiful, spruce-forested, and muskeg-dotted--the soft muskegs knee deep under a moss carpet of silver and green. The Saskatoons, big brother to the Huckleberry, were drying on the bush where they had ripened; the Raspberries had grown red in their time and gladdened the heart of Muskwa, the Bear; the Currants clustered like strings of black pearls in the cool beds of lazy streams, where pin-tailed Grouse, and Pheasant in big, red cravat, strutted and crouked in this glorious feeding-ground so like a miniature vineyard; the Cranberries nestled shyly in the moss; and the Wolf and Willow-berries gleamed like tiny white stars along the banks of the swift-running, emerald-green Saskatchewan and Athabasca. All this was in the heritage land of Black Fox, and Muskwa, and Mooswa. It was at this time, in the full Autumn, that Whisky-Jack flew North and South, and East and West, and called to a meeting the Dwellers that were in the Boundaries. This was for the choosing of their King, a yearly observance, and for the settling of other matters. When they had gathered, Black Fox greeted the Animals:-- "Good Year to you, Subjects, and much eating, each unto his own way of life!" Whisky-Jack preened his mischievous head, ruffled his blue-gray feathers, broke into the harsh, cackling laugh of the Jay, and sneered, "Eating! always of eating; and never a more beautiful song to you, or--" "Less thieving to you, eh, Mister Jay," growled Muskwa. "You who come by your eating easily have it not so heavily on your mind as we Toilers." "Well, let me see," continued Black Fox, with reflective dignity, "here Ye have all assembled; for form's sake I will call your names." From Mooswa to Wapoos each one of the Dwellers as his name was spoken stepped forward in the circle and saluted the King. "Jack has been a faithful messenger," said Black King; "but where are Cougar, and Buffalo, and Eagle?" "They had notice, thank you, Majesty, for your praise. Cougar says the mountain is his King, and that he wouldn't trust himself among a lot of Plain Dwellers." "He's a Highway Robber and an Outlaw, anyway, so it doesn't matter," asserted Carcajou. "You wouldn't talk that way if he were at your throat, my fat little Friend," lisped Whisky-Jack. "Buffalo is afraid of Man, and won't come; nearly all his brothers have been killed off, and he is hiding in the Spruce woods near Athabasca Lake." "I saw a herd of them last Summer," declared Mooswa; "fine big fellows they have grown to be, too. Their hair is longer, and blacker, and curlier than it was when they were on the Plains. There's no more than fifty of them left alive in all the North woods; it's awful to think of how they were slaughtered. That's why I stick to the Timber Boundaries."＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Lover Awakened Number 3 in series【電子書籍】[ J. R. Ward ]

＜p＞In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there's a deadly war raging between vampires and their slayers. And there exists a secret band of brothers like no other - six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Of these, Zsadist is the most terrifying member of the Black Dagger Brotherhood.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A former blood slave, the vampire Zsadist still bears the scars from a past filled with suffering and humiliation. Renowned for his unquenchable fury and sinister deeds, he is a savage feared by humans and vampires alike. Anger is his only companion, and terror is his only passion - until he rescues a beautiful aristocrat from the evil Lessening Society.＜br /＞ Bella is instantly entranced by the seething power Zsadist possesses. But even as their desire for one another begins to overtake them both, Zsadist's thirst for vengeance against Bella's tormentors drives him to the brink of madness. Now, Bella must help her lover overcome the wounds of his tortured past, and find a future with her.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Tower of Shadows A Novel【電子書籍】[ Drew Bowling ]

＜p＞＜strong＞From the boundless imagination and talented pen of a young storyteller springs the fabulous first novel in a major new epic fantasy series. Steeped in the traditions of its classic forebears, yet boldly original in its vision and sense of wonder, ＜em＞The Tower of Shadows＜/em＞ swells with heroism, sings with enchantment, and carries the reader at full gallop into a marvelously wrought world of breathtaking adventure＜/strong＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Untold ages ago, vainglorious spirits battled with the three gods in a bid for dominion over allーonly to be defeated and banished below the earth to fester in their unquenchable evil. One of these vengeful demons eventually broke free and rained bloody death upon an innocent village in the land of Ellynrie. Few survived. The Starcross brothers, mere children orphaned by their parents’ slaughter, suffered very difficult fates. Corin Starcross was delivered to safety by the wizard Dale, while his brother, Cade, was abandoned to the flames that devoured their childhood home. Likewise, the mercenary Wren Tident saved his infant daughter, Kayla, from the monstrous fate that claimed her mother. When the demon retreated to its black abyss, the haunted souls left in its murderous wake did their best to carry onーsave for one, who vowed retribution.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When Cade Starcross reappears, he immerses himself in a secret study of the blackest arts, and a grim dance of destiny begins. His humanity withered by grief and his mind twisted by his apprenticeship to darkness, Cade seeks to use sorcery to wreak vengeance on his demon nemesis. But in order to succeed, a dagger of unearthly power wrought by the gods themselves must be found. And the blood of Cade’s brother, Corin Starcross, must be spilled.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Yet all of Cade’s fury and magic will prove no match for the evil set free upon the earth. By any means and at all costs, the doomed vendetta must be stopped. A fledgling wizard, a tormented warrior, and a young girl burning with her father’s untamed spirit must rally together as the only hope of a world poised perilously at the abyss.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Red Run A Short Story【電子書籍】[ Kami Garcia ]

＜p＞Everyone in the Louisiana backwoods knows never to drive down Red Run at night, especially Edie. Her brother was murdered by the ghost that haunts the road -- a ghost Edie is hunting.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Suspense and Southern gothic meet in this modern ghost story, where nothing is what it seems.＜/p＞ ＜p＞From Kami Garcia, co-author of the New York Times bestselling Beautiful Creatures Novels.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞ABOUT THE AUTHOR:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Kami Garcia is the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly & international bestselling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures Novels (Beautiful Creatures, Beautiful Darkness, Beautiful Chaos & Beautiful Redemption). Beautiful Creatureshas been published in 48 countries and translated in 37 languages. The Beautiful Creatures movie releases in theaters on February 13, 2013 from Warner Brothers & Alcon Entertainment, directed by Academy Award nominee Richard LaGravenese, and starring: Viola Davis, Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson, Emmy Rossum, Alice Englert, and Alden Ehrenrich. Kami is also the author of Unbreakable, the first book her solo series, THE LEGION (coming Fall 2013), which is currently being developed as a major motion picture.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As a girl with Southern roots, Kami has always been fascinated by the paranormal and believes in lots of things "normal" people don’t. She’s very superstitious and would never sleep in a room with the number "13" on the door. When she is not writing, Kami can usually be found watching disaster movies, listening to Soundgarden, or drinking Diet Coke. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, son, daughter, and their dogs Spike and Oz (named after characters from Buffy the Vampire Slayer). You can find out more about Kami on her website at: www.kamigarcia.com, and on Twitter: @kamigarcia.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞PRAISE FOR THE BEAUTIFUL CREATURE NOVELS:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞"In the Gothic tradition of Anne Rice...Give this to fans of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight or HBO's "True Blood" series." - School Library Journal＜/p＞ ＜p＞"A hauntingly delicious dark fantasy." - Cassandra Clare, NYT bestselling author of City of Bones＜/p＞ ＜p＞"A potent mix of the gothic, the mythic, and the magical...With original characters, complex world building, and crackling prose, this is masterful storytelling." - Deborah Harkness, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches on the Beautiful Creatures novels＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Gorgeously crafted, atmospheric, and original." - Melissa Marr, NYT bestselling author of Wicked Lovely＜/p＞ ＜p＞"A lush Southern gothic." - Holly Black, NYT bestselling author of Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Like a thick, hot Carolina summer, this story seeps into you until it's all you can think about." - Carrie Ryan, NYT bestselling author of The Forest of Hands and Teeth＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Lamentations【電子書籍】[ Jonathan Woolf ]

＜p＞"A cursed be ye, but through thy daughters trine, scary and wary be of this signーfor one man shall not satisfy they, kill will thy kin, forever slay, slay, slay!"＜/p＞ ＜p＞As her words stopped traffic, with a nearby horse falling dead, and out of fear of just what Eunice had said, Darius and Leda, hoping to fend off the curse, left town on the most convenient train, scared by Eunice's verse.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Eunice retreated to the Delphine House, never to be seen on the village streets again. Some would say it was her that was seen by hunters' in the night, sacrificing animals to the moon and running naked through the woods. But for the most part, this was a myth to scare little children away from the Delphine homestead, or so the adults agreed as a comfort to themselves.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Eunice's solitary outburst condemned her to a most lonely life and she remained hidden in the house, terrified by her own eruption of that day; that single day that seemed to have changed her life, forever. But none of this had been her intended outcome. In kindness and remorse, she sent money to the dead horse's owner with an apology. Only after the money was returned wrapped in a prayer of serenity for her, did she understand the gravity of her situation.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In her latter days, Eunice was reported to have leapt to her death from the upper most room of the Delphine House in her finest black taffeta dress and pearls; spiraling downwards with a sharp rock and hard earth breaking her fall and cracking her skull. The ground upon which her blood spilled was rumored to have never recovered and to this day, the cursed soil bears the silhouette of her fallen figure.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In fear, and hoping to leave the curse behind them, knowing that the town's folk would forever remind them of the incident, Leda and Darius fled to a nearby parish and started their family, doing their best to forget the past by making a new life for themselves. But, with the birth of Leda's third daughter, Andra, and still with no son in sight, both began to fear the worse and Eunice's verse and so they began trying to find honorable suitors for their daughters when they became of age, suitors who had not heard of Eunice's dire prediction. However, because of Helen's remarkable beauty, when she came of age, she did not lack for a suitor. Rumor had it that every available bachelor, regardless of age, within five parishes, had attempted to court herーand that at one point, she had even been kidnapped by two brothers. But it was not until the dreamy-eyed, fair-haired Deutsche gentleman from New Orleans, Laus Menes, arrived, that her hand was given and she was carried away to his house in order to turn it into a home.＜/p＞ ＜p＞And the joy of the moment was not lost on Darius and Leda, for within nine months, Leda gave birth to a son, Castor Faye Archer. Thus, they began to feel more secure and somewhat spared from Eunice Delphine's iron-willed and feral curse, and that their son would be spared the indignity that they had known.＜/p＞ ＜p＞And so, that is precisely (the search for a decent suitor) how Nestra came to be on that dusty road to Miceny, and to be the obsession of Schylus Masters on that fateful day. Darius and Leda were on their way to Miceny to chaperone Nestra and Tanner, when their shiny black lacquered buggyーa Surrey with red spokes, red cushions, and white tasselsーwheel broke, sending the three into a ditch with the buggy itself came to rest on its side. Schylus who had been approaching them, after flipping up the brim of his hat, viewed the entire spectacle incredulously, and immediately rushed to their aid.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It is said that upon touching Nestra's hand, a small spark erupted in Schylus' finger that echoed in his heart which truly electrified the moment for him, as he helped to extricate Nestra from the ditch.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Governor's Daughter【電子書籍】[ Cedric Goudy ]

＜p＞Black Owl Zuni, or Boz, as his friends call him, is a serious student of the martial arts. With his Apache and Korean blood, he feels naturally drawn to the teachings of the wise Master Whiteheart. If he can learn from the past, his body and spirit can be linked forever, giving him unmatched power.＜/p＞ ＜p＞On a rare cool morning in Black Sands, Nevada, Boz goes for a run before school and inadvertently meets Cynthia Kolby, a beautiful new girl at his high school. A quick friendship is forged that may prove to be far more important than either of them can imagine.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Across the country, the sons of the governor's former business partner want revenge on Kolby for wronging their father. The Thomas Brothers hatch a plan to kidnap Cynthia and hold her for ranson.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Black Owl may very well be the only one strong enough to protect The Governor's Daughter.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Chant【電子書籍】[ Stella Drexler ]

＜p＞Dreary, desolate Spectra City is infested with thieves, criminals, low-lives and gruesome creatures in black cloaks that roam the poor districts and snatch people from the streets. Corrupt city officials deny rumors of chanters, citizens who possess strange, inexplicable, and dangerous powers that lay waste to the city and battle each other in the streets. The Creeds and Mobleys, Spectra City’s wealthiest and most powerful families, control the city’s officials and command the police forces. Only Chant, an underground organization of chanters, and their leader, tenacious Assistant District Attorney Balthazar Barbosa, are willing to stand up to the depraved chanters, capricious Mobleys and ruthless Creeds who bend the city to their will. But the Chanters are going missing one by one, only to reappear weeks later as a wasted, gibbering, inhuman shell with their powers mysteriously sucked out of them. When Cedric Knight is taken by the grisly creatures, his sister, Cerys, travels to Spectra City to find out what’s happened to him. As she investigates her brother‘s disappearance, Cerys meets handsome, inscrutable Lex Creed and his charming, devious brother, Nico, whom Barbosa and his Chanters suspect are behind the terrifying creature attacks. Cerys joins Chant’s crusade against the Creeds, becomes entangled in a decades old blood feud between the Creeds and Mobleys, and discovers an even more violent clash between brothers that threatens to shake Spectra City to the ground.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Fat White Vampire Blues【電子書籍】[ Andrew Fox ]

＜p＞＜strong＞He’s undead, overweight, and can’t get a date＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Vampire, ＜em＞nosferatu＜/em＞, creature of the nightーwhatever you call himーJules Duchon has lived (so to speak) in New Orleans far longer than there have been drunk coeds on Bourbon Street. Weighing in at a whopping four hundred and fifty pounds, swelled up on the sweet, rich blood of people who consume the fattiest diet in the world, Jules is thankful he can’t see his reflection in a mirror. When he turns into a bat, he can’t get his big ol’ butt off the ground.＜/p＞ ＜p＞What’s worse, after more than a century of being undead, he’s watched his neighborhood truly go to hellーand now, a new vampire is looking to drive him out altogether. See, Jules had always been an equal opportunity kind of vampire. And while he would admit that the blood of a black woman is sweeter than the blood of a white man, Jules never drank more than his fair share of either. Enter Malice X . Young, cocky, and black, Malice warns Jules that his days of feasting on sisters and brothers are over. He tells Jules he’d better confine himself to white victimsーor else face the consequences. And then, just to prove he isn’t kidding, Malice burns Jules’s house to the ground.＜/p＞ ＜p＞With the help of Maureen, the morbidly obese, stripper-vampire who made him, and Doodlebug, an undead cross-dresser who (literally) flies in from the coastーJules must find a way to contend with the hurdles that life throws at him . . . without getting a stake through the heart. It’s enough to give a man the blues.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Visions of Reality: The Short Story Collection【電子書籍】[ Erik Gustafson ]

＜p＞Seven of my most popular short stories wrapped up in one.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Ginger's Marble - the family that feeds together strays together＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Blood Knows - revenge is sweeter when dished out by crows＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Order of the Cat -this odd town loves blacks cat＜/p＞ ＜p＞My Lover, My Garden -two brothers and a jealous demonic garden＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Fuse -a home invasion and a desperate family＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Road to Safety -a broken down car, a hellish walk home＜/p＞ ＜p＞Let's Pretend -imagination leaking into reality＜/p＞ ＜p＞...plus Chapter 1 from my coming of age novel "Fall Leaves and the Black Dragon"＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Living Hell【電子書籍】[ Lisa Scullard ]

＜p＞Post-adolescent grunge fiction... Enter, one teenage blackmailer, one troubled band frontman, one questionably unresolved suicide, and an alternative religious history, for an irreverent and unpredictable swipe at youth culture, and the power of the small-time Media.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As the town's most notorious blackmailer, 19-year-old Kim Blackshields has plenty on her plate. Unscrupulous journalists trying to rummage through her stuff, two best friends and blood brothers whose main hobby is tapping phones - even in cohorts with the local police - and a younger brother also into blackmail, whose friends seem to think she's an easy target. And the small matter of the Halloween fiasco...＜/p＞ ＜p＞When the youth club Halloween event has to replace the live band at short notice, Kim tracks down The Hellraisers to step in, fronted by the charismatic, Harley-riding Alastair Brash. Who manages to live up to their name.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Not that anyone's complaining. The youngsters of Jericho already know far too much about explosives and burying things under concrete, and day-to-day Satanism is a way of life - even if no-one practises much these days (there's always the goat pinata on Black Mass to look forward to, at least). There's just an ongoing drama in the local Press about an unresolved 'suicide' of a young model, and who they're likely to pin the blame on.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But when the Halloween party ends violently and abruptly, and Alastair disappears leaving behind a large puddle of blood, it looks like there's more to this town than just nosey hacks, dodgy old videotapes, and blackmail...＜/p＞ ＜p＞Contains adult humour.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】A COWBOY'S HONOR【電子書籍】[ Laura Gordon ]

＜p＞＜strong＞The McQuaids:＜/strong＞ Easy to love, hard to forget, they are brothers by blood, lawmen by choice. Up against the toughest cases-and the strongest passions-they live by ＜strong＞THE COWBOY CODE＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞In Black Stetson, leather jacket and Levi's, sheriff Cameron McQuaid epitomized the sexy cowboy.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞His sense of honor was as rock hard has his physique, and he'd never come across anything to challenge that. Until he met Francesca Landon.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Caught in a rain of bullets, and with her best friend recently murdered, Frani needed the kind of help only Cam could give. As a lawman, Cam realized his father was the chief suspect, but as a man, he couln't walk away from the desire Frani ignited in him. With a secret Frani was desperate to hide and a family Cam was determined to protect, did their passion have a chance?＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Frat【電子書籍】[ Darren Dillman ]

＜p＞Christian Black, a sophomore transfer from a small town, is struggling in pre-med at his new university. He is failing his classes, his meal card has been shut off, and his roommate grunts Metallica lyrics while twirling a baseball bat. Christian’s luck changes when Leland, the leader of the fraternity Panis de Vita, introduces himself. The frat lures Christian in by resolving his financial problems as well as easing his stress with classes and girls. Leland and Skiv, a shades-wearing cowboy, spike Christian’s drinks with blood, and before he realizes it, he is draining O-negative IV bags and hitting supermarkets for pig’s blood. After human feeding fests with his new brothers, Christian must choose between the murderous, carefree lifestyle he has come to embrace, or the human friends Panis de Vita considers prey.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。