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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！】Poetic Stories from the Eyes of My Windows【電子書籍】[ ANGELLIA MOORE ]

＜p＞＜em＞Poetic Stories from the Eyes of My Windows＜/em＞ presents a compilation of personal and heartfelt stories written in poetic form. Author Angellia Moore reveals her memories of love, death, illnesses, and suicide, sharing her stories through verse. The poems in this collection were inspired by actual people around her, actual events in her life, and ideas in her head and heart. No two stories are alike; each one tells its own tale and takes on its own design and meaning. Setting the scene for each carefully, she explores a variety of topics, moments, and memories. ＜em＞Prayer for Black Boys Dear God, Now I lay me down to sleep I pray for Black Boys on the street. I pray that they will make good choices Let them hear their mamas voices. Son, grow up and do whats right I pray that youll come home tonight＜/em＞ Her remarkable gift of dreaming and writing is no longer a vision but a reality. She has put her writing skills into a remarkable book of poems. These poems made me laugh, and they made me think about how I have the power to make a positive influence in this world. Harriet S. Stephens, Lieutenant Colonel, Retired, US Army Angellia's poetry is respectful, insightful, and uplifting. She is brave, bold, and inspiring. Her poetry wakes my sleeping soul. Denise Ondishko, PhD, Music Educator＜/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！】Critical Mass【電子書籍】[ Kathleen M. Henry ]

＜p＞Remember parochial school? Or were you public, dear girls, dear boys, and had to sit in the back of the church so the parochials could get the good seats? Even if your Bible study class was at Yeshiva you will still relish the detail and irony in this "Mass." If you have ever wondered what the church was like "back then" or if you remember it well, you will love this book.＜/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！】Ancient Man - The Beginning of Civilizations【電子書籍】[ Hendrik Willem Van Loon ]

＜p＞Unless we are very lucky we shall sometimes lose ourselves in a sudden and dense fog of ignorance.＜br /＞ Wherever we go we must carry our warm cloak of human sympathy and understanding for vast tracts of land will prove to be a sterile desert--swept by icy storms of popular prejudice and personal greed and unless we come well prepared we shall forsake our faith in humanity and that, dear boys, would be the worst thing that could happen to any of us.＜/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 Magic City (Illustrated)【電子書籍】[ Edith Nesbit ]

＜p＞Philip Haldane and his sister lived in a little red-roofed house in a little redroofed town. They had a little garden and a little balcony, and a little stable with a little pony in itーand a little cart for the pony to draw; a little canary hung in a little cage in the little bow-window, and the neat little servant kept everything as bright and clean as a little new pin.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Philip had no one but his sister, and she had no one but Philip. Their parents were dead, and Helen, who was twenty years older than Philip and was really his half-sister, was all the mother he had ever known. And he had never envied other boys their mothers, because Helen was so kind and clever and dear. She gave up almost all her time to him; she taught him all the lessons he learned; she played with him, inventing the most wonderful new games and adventures.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞ABOUT AUTHOR:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 1858 ? 1924) was an English author and poet; she published her books for children under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of fiction for children, several of which have been adapted for film and television. She was also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later connected to the Labour Party.＜/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！】Lost in the Jungle【電子書籍】[ Paul du Chaillu ]

＜p＞MY Dear Young Folks,ーIn the first book which I wrote for you, we traveled together through the Gorilla Country, and saw not only the gigantic apes, but also the cannibal tribes which eat men.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the second book we continued our hunting, and met leopards, elephants, hippopotami, wild boars, great serpents, etc., etc. We were stung and chased by the fierce Bashikouay ants, and plagued by flies.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Last spring, your friend Paul, not satisfied with writing for young folks, took it into his head to lecture before them. When I mentioned the subject to my acquaintances, many of them laughed at the notion of my lecturing to you, and a few remarked, "This is another of your queer notions." I did not see it!!! I thought I would try.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Thousands of young folks came to your friend Paul's lectures in Boston, Brooklyn, and New York; not only did my young friends come, but a great many old folks were also seen among them.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The intelligent, eager faces of his young hearers, their sparkling eyes, spoke to him more eloquently than words could do, and told him that he had done well to go into the great jungle of Equatorial Africa, and that they liked to hear what he had done and what he had seen.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When he asked the girls and boys of New York if he should write more books for them, the tremendous cheers and hurrahs they gave him in reply told him that he had better go to work.＜br /＞ When, at the end of his third lecture, he made his appearance in the old clothes he had worn in Africa, and said he would be happy to shake hands with his young hearers, the rush then made assured him that they were his friends. Oh! how your hearty hand-shaking gladdened the heart of your friend Paul; he felt so happy as your small hands passed in and out of his!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Before writing this new volume, I went to my good and estee-med friends, my publishers in Franklin Square, and asked them what they thought of a new book for Young Folks.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Certainly," they said;＜br /＞ "by all means, Friend Paul. Write a new book, for STORI-ES OF THE GORILLA COUNTRY and WILD LIFE UNDER THEEQUATOR are in great demand."＜br /＞ I immediately took hold of my old journals, removed the African dust from them, and went to work, and now we are going to be＜br /＞ "LOST INTHE JUNGLE"＜/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！】Skipping Stones Series (Emily and Unexpected)【電子書籍】[ Jasmine Lee ]

＜p＞Emily (Book 1)＜/p＞ ＜p＞I thought I was in love, I thought I was happy, I thought everything was perfect.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But then I found out my husband of six years was having an affair. I knew it had to be a dream, but it wasn’t. So now I’m left at square one, only now I’m a single mom also.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dating isn’t easy but it’s especially not easy for a single mom of twin boys, with a soon to be ex-husband who’s still around. I mean what else could happen?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Throw in a hot prison guard and my ex-husband the mechanic and you have a whole mess of problems, and its only Monday!＜/p＞ ＜p＞What am I supposed to do?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Unexpected (Book 2)＜/p＞ ＜p＞In Emily you got part of my story. But now in Unexpected you get the rest of it.＜/p＞ ＜p＞True, it doesn't go the way I planned and I don't end up with the man I had planned on. But then again, that's why they say to 'expect the unexpected.'＜/p＞ ＜p＞I have a choice to make...＜/p＞ ＜p＞Do I choose my past? Or do I choose a path that is uncertain?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Only time can tell in the end. I have to choose before feelings are hurt and it's too late, causing me to loose everything I hold dear.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Sincerely,＜br /＞ Emily＜/p＞ ＜p＞Readers 18+ Sexual Content, Language, Violence＜/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 Sunday School Teacher as a Soul Winner【電子書籍】[ Marion Lawrance ]

＜p＞I am very sure, dear friends, that with me you have been singing the doxology in your hearts as we have been listening to these wonderful testimonies of Mr. Hadley and Mr. Monroe and Mr. Reed, and I have a fear that what I shall say may sound somewhat tame after these words to-night; but it is just for the purpose of making that sort of testimony less frequent that we are so interested in the Sunday School.＜br /＞ The government has two ways of saving life on the ocean. It takes a number of men and plants them in this place and says: “You are to conduct a live-saving station.” They have all the apparatus for that sort of work, but they must wait until the ships are on the rocks, until the men are struggling in the water for their lives before they can send men out to save them. Then the government has another wayーthe lighthouse. It plants this house and says: “You live in this house, and before the ships get onto the rocks you warn them off, and show them from the place of danger into a place of safety.” The rescue-mission work that these dear brothers are giving their lives for is the life-saving station, but the Sunday School is trying to save life by the light-house plan rather than the life-boat plan. We are trying to keep these boys and girls off the rocks.＜/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 Mississippi by Raft【電子書籍】[ Richard Ankony ]

＜p＞The first thing you will learn about the Mississippi River if you travel the length of it, is that “Tug Boats Rule.”＜br /＞ These “monsters” that are pushing their massive loads in barges, both rule the day and the night and take no prisoners.＜br /＞ For if someone tells you that they traveled the river and do not inform you of this, then they have done you a grave disservice.＜br /＞ For either they hugged the shoreline the whole way, so as to keep themselves out of harm’s way, or they didn’t go at all.＜br /＞ If you intend to travel this majestic and mighty river by raft, canoe or kayak then you must know this critical fact, otherwise your life will be in imminent danger.＜br /＞ For those of us who went the distance in the sea-lane or center of the channel, learned quickly, that tugboats are to the Mississippi River as great white sharks are to the oceans.＜br /＞ You must give them a wide berth and pay homage to them or you will pay the ultimate price.＜br /＞ The second thing you must be told about the Mississippi River is that the river is alive, a living being, but not “Old Man River.”＜br /＞ Yes, she is a living being, a woman, a mother and a teacher who will embrace you with her love, tenderness and beauty. But as a teacher and a mother, you must pay attention and listen to her advice for your survival depends on it or you will die.＜br /＞ The third thing you must be told is that the American people who live along the riverbanks of this great river have to be the kindest and sweetest people you will ever meet.＜br /＞ For from them, they restored my faith, renewed my dreams and from their simple humanity, I was born again.＜br /＞ That said, come join three Detroit city white boys, who bought a $50.00 rubber raft and a small trolling outboard engine with a broken propeller to take on the mighty Mississippi.＜br /＞ We were clueless about waterways and rivers but a gentleman’s bet pushed us to the limits and outside the envelope of what most people can only dream about.＜br /＞ During our journey we gained the respect of the rivermen and the twenty-nine lockmasters that monitored us throughout our near 30-day adventure.＜br /＞ Come follow our true story as three young men with $150.00 each and a $50.00 rubber raft navigate the mighty Mississippi with all its dangers at eye level.＜br /＞ Follow us, as we and four other teams of young men from across the nation who met a different fate then ours, challenged the mighty Mississippi by canoe and small rafts.＜br /＞ Join us as we travel through the heartland of America with just gas station maps and a $10 dollar compass to point the way in this heart-warming venture.＜br /＞ Experience the dangers that we encountered as we face broken dams, breached levees, flooding conditions, snakes, raging whirlpools and the dreaded "four stackers" that took the lives of our friends.＜br /＞ See how an old black man in the bayous saved our lives as if an angel like in the movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life.”＜br /＞ The Hollywood movie, "Deliverance" is fictional and the actors play "pretend” but our names are real and our story is true, so follow us as we travel at wave level 2,300 miles and 29 locks down the mighty Mississippi.＜br /＞ I, Richard, invite you to come join my friends, Dave and Tonsabuns, who lived the dream of the young at heart as I recall the greatest trip of my lifetime.＜br /＞ Lastly, as an epitaph to the memory of my dear friends who have since disappeared and to those eight young men who perished who will rise again to the sure and certain resurrection to the life of the world to come when the Mississippi River shall give up her dead.＜br /＞ I, Richard, last man standing, write this in remembrance of yous.＜br /＞ Now, we are immortal.＜/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 Eternal【電子書籍】[ Idella Breen ]

＜p＞＜em＞When Integra offers＜/em＞ Snow a seat on the United Monster’s Council, she is eager to accept, but her mother will only allow it under one condition.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞“Make them love you.”＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Snow met her mother’s gaze with quiet determination. “And if I can’t?”＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Integra grinned, showing off white, shiny teeth. “Then strike the fear of the gods in them. They will regret not loving you.”＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Now tasked with＜/em＞ the mission of building up her notoriety, Snow must make a name for herself in the monster world. Too bad something or someone wants her dead. As Snow and Cait fall deeper into a world ruled by hidden kings and ancient creatures, governed by ambiguous laws, they will have to fight to keep what they hold most dear. A love most eternal will prevail, even on the darkest of nights.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Also contains the short novella called Adventures of Elena the Werewolf.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞While Elena’s parents＜/em＞ are away, she is having her own little adventure. Along with slaying imaginary dragons and beating up rude boys, Elena might just discover a little bit of puppy love.＜/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！】Eight Cousins【電子書籍】[ Louisa May Alcott ]

＜p＞＜em＞“If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman…”＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Eight Cousins＜/strong＞＜/em＞ reveals a very ambitious young Louisa May Alcott finding her voice as a writer and addressing difficult and taboo subjects in the 1860s.＜/p＞ ＜p＞After the death of her father, orphaned Rose Campbell is sent to live at ‘Aunt Hill’, so termed by the Campbell clan, with her great-aunts and to await the arrival of her new guardian, Uncle Alec.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Rose is a thirteen-year-old girl and at first looks and acts touchingly miserable.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Her Uncle Alec decides to conduct an experiment: he introduces her to seven rambunctious, messy, and reckless (but charming) male cousins.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Uncle Alec proves to be a most unconventional guardian for a young girl, disregarding most of the advice of Rose’s aunts and great-aunts as well as societal conventions. No corsets or hobble skirts for Rose, just exercise, fresh air, and high ideals!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Over time, Rose grows from a pale little shadow into a girl possessed of health, vitality.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Rose also makes friends with Phebe, her aunts' maid of her own age, whose cheerful attitude in the face of poverty helps to illustrate to Rose her own good fortune.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞LOUISA MAY ALCOTT＜/strong＞ (1832-1888) was a prolific and multi-talented American writer. Amongst her works are passionate, fiery novels, moralistic and wholesome stories for children, philosophical essays and letters. She is best known as the creator of the classic novel Little Women, and its sequels: Good Wives, Little Men, and Jo's Boys.＜/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 Traveler's Touch The Invasion of the Fallen Angels【電子書籍】[ Jarrod D. Dixon ]

＜p＞“This year Halloween fell on a weekend.＜br /＞ Me and Geto Boys are trick-or-treatin’…”＜/p＞ ＜p＞Remember these “profound” lyrics from Bushwick Bill? Word. I sort of thought you might. Well anyway, guess what dear Reader? Your favorite Travelers have all returned for this immensely intense sequel to the internationally successful Part IV; The Mystery of the Thick Red Socks. Here is a spoiler alert: Patience is back! Passion is back! Desire is back! Gifted is back! And “SURPRISE! SURPRISE! SURPRISE!” as Gomer Pyle would say. The very first Traveler whom I introduced you to, in Part I ? The Greatest Touch, has returned. That is correct, my friend. The Ving Rhames lookalike, the incomparable Imagination is in the building! YES! And you will also be blessed by surprise cameo appearances from a few other Traveler “celebrity lookalike” heavyweights who touched your life throughout the prophetic pages of this life-changing 7-Part Series!＜/p＞ ＜p＞So if Suspense-Thriller is indeed your preferred genre, then what you are about to encounter between the front cover and this back cover of my latest book ? The Traveler’s Touch Saga: Invasion of the Fallen Angels ? is a nail-biting, heart-pounding, “Haunted House Rollercoaster Ride,” metaphorically speaking, that will miraculously motivate you to touch lives wherever your travels take you, with the “healing touch of hope” from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ via the Holy Spirit. With that being said, if God is indeed IN you, then after reading this Inspirational Self-Help Chapbook I exhort you, my fellow Christian Traveler, to share the blissful blessings of God by reaching out and touching somebody’s hand, and make this world a better place…if you can.＜/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！】Fairyland【電子書籍】[ Rita Michaels ]

＜p＞What if you realize that your life has been a lie and everything you hold dear could easily slip from your fingers?＜br /＞ Aurora Scea, having lost an only sister, believes she’s seen it all until she returns to school and series of events begins to occur.＜br /＞ Two mysterious boys enroll in her school and vie for her friendship. She’s smitten by both, but she soon finds that they aren’t strangers; her life is woven around theirs, and she isn’t what she thought she was. They are determined to win her over; each having his agenda.＜br /＞ Curious to know the full mystery behind her existence, she ventures into the unknown and finds that everything isn’t what it seems.＜/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！】Old Mr. Tredgold【電子書籍】[ Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant ]

＜p＞They were not exactly of that conventional type which used to be common whenever two sisters had to be describedーthe one dark and the other fair, the one sunny and amiable, the other reserved and proud; the one gay, the other melancholy, or at least very serious by nature. They were not at all like Minna and Brenda in the “Pirate,” which used to be a contrast dear to the imagination. But yet there was a very distinct difference between them. Katherine was a little taller, a little bigger, a little darker, than Stella. She was three years older but was supposed to look ten. She was not so lively in her movements either of mind or person, and she was supposed to be slow. The one who was all light threw a shadowーwhich seems contradictoryーon the other. They were the two daughters of an old gentleman who had been that mysterious being called a City man in his time. Not that there was anything at all mysterious about old Mr. Tredgold; his daughters and his daughters’ friends were fond of saying that he had come to London with the traditionary half-crown in his pocket; but this was, as in so many cases, fabulous, Mr. Tredgold having in fact come of a perfectly creditable Eastern Counties family, his father being a well-to-do linen draper in Ipswich, whose pride it was to have set forth all his boys comfortably, and done everything for them that a father could do. But perhaps it is easier to own to that half-crown and the myth of an origin sudden and commercially-romantic without antecedents, than to a respectable shop in a respectable town, with a number of relatives installed in other shops, doing well and ready to claim the rights of relationship at inconvenient moments. I do not know at all how fortunes are made “in the City.” If you dig coals out of the bowels of the earth, or manufacture anything, from cotton to ships, by which money is made, that is a process which comes within the comprehension of the most limited faculties; but making money in the City never seems to mean anything so simple. It means handing about money, or goods which other people have produced, to other third or fourth people, and then handing them back again even to the Scriptural limits of seventy times seven; which is why it appears so mysterious to the simple-minded.＜/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 Rancher's Mistletoe Bride (Wyoming Cowboys, Book 1) (Mills & Boon Love Inspired)【電子書籍】[ Jill Kemerer ]

＜p＞Coming Home for Christmas＜/p＞ ＜p＞Wedding planner Lexi Harrington needs a manager for her inherited Wyoming ranch. Clint Romine is the perfect man for the job, but the ruggedly handsome cowboy soon presents a new dilemmaーdistraction. Lexi can’t fall for a small-town rancher when she’s planning to return to her big-city career after the holidays. Home has always been elusive for former foster kid Clint. Working alongside Lexi at Rock Step Ranch feels too cozyーand too risky. Opening up to her means revealing a secret about his past that could jeopardize everything he holds dear. This Christmas, can Clint learn to trust Lexi with the truth…and with his heart?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Wyoming Cowboys: Following their hearts home＜/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！】Joseph Schmoe, The Reluctant Vampire (A Tale of Bloody Melancholy)【電子書籍】[ Pierce Nahigyan ]

＜p＞Joseph is a very old vampire, or at least old by vampire standards. He doesn't play the part of the gothic undead, he doesn't revel in his bloody damnation. He just exists, and very uncomfortably. When a hip young bloodsucker starts calling for a "Red Revolution," Joseph is happy to stay out of it. But the youth's insistence that Joseph join him carries with it a none-too-subtle threat: If Joe doesn't get with the program, his undead days are numbered.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this tale of macabre melancholy, Joseph remembers the wicked betrayal that transformed him from a man into a beast. It's been more than a century since he was mortal, but a hundred years of lonely nights have not solved his existential crisis.＜/p＞ ＜p＞~~~ Excerpt ~~~＜/p＞ ＜p＞Joseph looked dumbly at his hands. He was dressed in a sheet, his skin was pale and his hair was plastered to his face. “Where are my clothes?” he asked.＜/p＞ ＜p＞“The clothes I gave you have been disposed of. They were old, in any case.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞Joseph smiled despite himself. His eyes peered down into his hands. He could now see the tiny granules of soot and dirt hiding between the crevices of his palms, and when he curled his fingers he did not understand the glassy resilience of his fingernails. “What happened to me?”＜/p＞ ＜p＞Bevan shifted in his chair. “You were duped,” he said.＜/p＞ ＜p＞“‘Duped?’” Joseph repeated, incredulous. “I was destroyed,” he growled, feeling the ghosts of pain flit down his back.＜/p＞ ＜p＞“More than you know,” the old man said. He leaned forward and put his hands together, fixing Joseph in his gray-eyed gaze. “Your presence here proves that you were unwilling to die when death came for you. You have no doubt felt the cold presence settling upon your head. So, whether your beliefs sustain such a statement as I am about to make or not, you must accept it, or face a second death.” Bevan swallowed, and for a moment he looked pathetically old. “You are a vampire, Joseph.” He gave a cracked, awkward smile. “You have heard the legends, no doubt.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞Joseph gazed levelly at the old man. Conjectures rose up within him, contradictions, then a cold, obstinate belief that transcended thought. Reflexively, he spun his wedding band about his finger. Without his wife, without any bearing upon the life that he had lived, how could such a thing be untrue? Nothing of Joseph’s world remained with him. Nothing to cling to or cradle. Could fate be so twisted, he thought with a bittersweet smile, that he would not only be denied Emily, but his humanity as well? He stared at Bevan, not saying a word. So be it, if it were true. Reality vanished within the cloud of bubbles that stole him from his family.＜/p＞ ＜p＞“My boys could not kill you outright, though Morgan surely intended to make you a meal,” Bevan said. “Yet I put you under my protection, Joseph, which may have been your undoing. For that, I apologize. I should have allowed the boys to murder you in the forest, but I was unwilling to let such a foul act be committed before me. Yet I did not kill you, and I did not seek to have you killed. I wanted you away from my castle, to flee back to the rest of your life.” Bevan bit down on the first knuckle of his fist. “This did not sit well with the boys, who do not remember??or perhaps never knew??what it was to be human.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞“You left me with them,” Joseph said.＜/p＞ ＜p＞“They promised me??”＜/p＞ ＜p＞“The promise of monsters?” Joseph spat. But why was he angry? The thing had been done. He sighed, and fell back against the aged chair. The chair squealed back.＜/p＞ ＜p＞“You will say I am a neglectful parent, too, then? Yes… I should not have left you alone. But. You do not know the hunger, Joseph. And you will. Dear Christ, you will. Or perish.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞Joseph frowned. “Why was this done to me?”＜/p＞ ＜p＞Bevan barked a wicked laugh. “Oh, young man, that question will never be answered to your satisfaction. But, as to why you are now a monster like me and no longer a man, when Morgan realized that he could not kill you outright, he sought to transform you into the thing I hate the most.”＜/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！】Ferdinand Finds Christmas【電子書籍】[ Jay Tucker ]

＜p＞"Dear Santa, I think I finally know what you meant during our visit.＜br /＞ Christmas is truly about something more, it's not about toys, now is it?"＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Ferdinand Finds Christmas＜/em＞, the true meaning of Christmas is told in this story that will delight and touch children and their families. Our yellow frog friend, Ferdinand, learns that the true meaning of Christmas isn't all the toys and tinsel, it's about the birth of Jesus Christ.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Ferdinand Finds Christmas＜/em＞ is written by veteran youth minister Jay Tucker, and is illustrated by award winning artist D.E. West.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Raves for ＜em＞Ferdinand Finds Christmas＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜br /＞ "This Christmas story will quickly become your child's favorite! Such a beautiful book to share with your children and spread The Christmas spirit! It is so nice to have a story to share the true meaning of Christmas with my boys!"＜br /＞ --Jenny Mallios, mother of 2, business owner, and Mrs. New Hampshire International, 2010＜/p＞ ＜p＞"While this touching little story teaches children the true meaning of Christmas, it's sure to remind us all. Ferdinand the frog will enlighten and engage a child's heart and mind. This rhythmic tale is sure to become a family tradition."＜br /＞ --Jennifer Lambein, Owner, artist, and designer at Studio Petite and the Opulent Nest＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Keeping our hearts focused on Jesus during the season of presents, parties, programs, and gatherings can be more than a colossal challenge. Add this book to your "tool box" of treasures, that help to focus us all on the birth of our Savior."＜br /＞ --Angie Roland, Children's Ministry Director, CLUMC, Master of Arts in Education＜/p＞ ＜p＞"This tale, with its darling illustrations and sweet little details, will keep your child coming back for more. Not only does this book have a wonderful core story relating to friendship, it also relays the true meaning of Christmas. Ferdinand Finds Christmas teaches that it is not about the presents, but about giving and time spent together."＜br /＞ --Brandi MacQuarrie, Owner of So Big, So Bright Preschool＜/p＞ ＜p＞Learn more at ＜strong＞www.JayTucker.net＜/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！】The Herland Trilogy: Moving the Mountain, Herland, With Her in Ourland (Utopian Classic Fiction)【電子書籍】[ Charlotte Perkins Gilman ]

＜p＞This carefully crafted ebook: "The Herland Trilogy: Moving the Mountain, Herland, With Her in Ourland (Utopian Classic Fiction)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Moving the Mountain is the first book in Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman's well known trilogy. Moving Mountain delivers Gilman's program for reforming society. She concentrates on measures of rationality and efficiency that could be instituted in her own time, largely with greater social cooperation - equal education and treatment for girls and boys, day-care centers for working women, and other issues still relevant a century later. Herland is a utopian novel. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women who reproduce via parthenogenesis. The result is an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination. The story is told from the perspective of Van Jennings, a student of sociology who, along with two friends, Terry O. Nicholson and Jeff Margrave, forms an expedition party to explore an area of unchartered land where it is rumored lives a society consisting entirely of women. The three friends do not really believe the rumors as they are unable to conceive of how human reproduction could occur without males. The men speculate about what a society of women would be like, each guessing differently based on the stereotype of women which he holds most dear… With Her in Ourland is the third book in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's utopian trilogy which begins where Moving the Mountain and Herland left off. Gilman masterfully compares our real modern male dominated WORLD with an imaginary perfect society comprised of only woman. Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860?1935) was a prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform.＜/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！】Fairyland【電子書籍】[ Rita Michaels ]

＜p＞What if you realize that your life has been a lie and everything you hold dear could easily slip from your fingers?＜br /＞ Aurora Scea, having lost an only sister, believes she’s seen it all until she returns to school and series of events begins to occur.＜br /＞ Two mysterious boys enroll in her school and vie for her friendship. She’s smitten by both, but she soon finds that they aren’t strangers; her life is woven around theirs, and she isn’t what she thought she was. They are determined to win her over; each having his agenda.＜br /＞ Curious to know the full mystery behind her existence, she ventures into the unknown and finds that everything isn’t what it seems.＜/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！】Long Tussle with Dearth【電子書籍】[ Kennedy Siboe ]

＜p＞It is not easy growing up in a little village on the slopes of Mt Elgon. It is even more difficult if that village is a marginalized, desolate place devoid of basic government infrastructure. In the eighties and nineties, the region was (and it still is) steeped in myth, custom, tradition and abject poverty. Almost every aspect of life was governed by superstitions and curious belief in mythical forces. Amid this ridiculous way of life, fierce ethnic jealousies and rivalry between the Sabaot and Bukusu communities were becoming increasingly difficult to conceal. Ultimately they would boil over in 1992.＜/p＞ ＜p＞My remembrance of my early days is a life of penury and astounding ignorance. I was surrounded by myths, tears, jiggers, hunger, illicit brews and ethnic conflict. Of all these, ethnic rivalry and tension gained prominence. Everything, from childhood games to adult relations had an ethnic dimension to it. As a matter of fact, apart from this heightened ethnic consciousness, the only other constant in our lives was poverty. Little boys and girls, their feet ravaged sore by jiggers, would stage meaninglessly painful duels to demonstrate the superiority of their tribe while elders concluded their illicit beer parties in acrimonious arguments over tribal relations. Weakness was frowned upon and you earned respect by not only demonstrating that you were fearless but also provoking someone from the other tribe into a fight and beating them resoundingly. A group of boys would organize fights between any two boys at some inconspicuous location and almost everyone would be present to watch the vicious exchange of kicks and blows. Bound by honour, no one dared refuse to fight when his combat was arranged. No one consulted you when scheduling the fight, but you had no right to reject the invite. You just fought when your day came. It was more honourable to have your nose bloodied than to chicken out of a fight. Later on, fanned by political differences, this ethnic rivalry degenerated into full scale ethnic violence with far-reaching ramifications.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Poverty, alcoholism, ignorance, negative ethnicity and marginalization. These things destroyed many. Emerging from such a background to lead a normal life needs determination. This is my story; a story of hope amid deprivation and senseless blood-letting.＜/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 Woman's Power【電子書籍】[ A. M. Barnard ]

＜p＞"Has she come?"＜/p＞ ＜p＞"No, Mamma, not yet."＜/p＞ ＜p＞"I wish it were well over. The thought of it worries and excites me. A cushion for my back, Bella."＜/p＞ ＜p＞And poor, peevish Mrs. Coventry sank into an easy chair with a nervous sigh and the air of a martyr, while her pretty daughter hovered about her with affectionate solicitude.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Who are they talking of, Lucia?" asked the languid young man lounging on a couch near his cousin, who bent over her tapestry work with a happy smile on her usually haughty face.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"The new governess, Miss Muir. Shall I tell you about her?"＜/p＞ ＜p＞"No, thank you. I have an inveterate aversion to the whole tribe. I've often thanked heaven that I had but one sister, and she a spoiled child, so that I have escaped the infliction of a governess so long."＜/p＞ ＜p＞"How will you bear it now?" asked Lucia.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Leave the house while she is in it."＜/p＞ ＜p＞"No, you won't. You're too lazy, Gerald," called out a younger and more energetic man, from the recess where he stood teasing his dogs.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"I'll give her a three days' trial; if she proves endurable I shall not disturb myself; if, as I am sure, she is a bore, I'm off anywhere, anywhere out of her way."＜/p＞ ＜p＞"I beg you won't talk in that depressing manner, boys. I dread the coming of a stranger more than you possibly can, but Bella must not be neglected; so I have nerved myself to endure this woman, and Lucia is good enough to say she will attend to her after tonight."＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Don't be troubled, Mamma. She is a nice person, I dare say, and when once we are used to her, I've no doubt we shall be glad to have her, it's so dull here just now. Lady Sydney said she was a quiet, accomplished, amiable girl, who needed a home, and would be a help to poor stupid me, so try to like her for my sake."＜/p＞ ＜p＞"I will, dear, but isn't it getting late? I do hope nothing has happened. Did you tell them to send a carriage to the station for her, Gerald?"＜/p＞ ＜p＞"I forgot it. But it's not far, it won't hurt her to walk" was the languid reply.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"It was indolence, not forgetfulness, I know. I'm very sorry; she will think it so rude to leave her to find her way so late. Do go and see to it, Ned."＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Too late, Bella, the train was in some time ago. Give your orders to me next time. Mother and I'll see that they are obeyed," said Edward.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Ned is just at an age to make a fool of himself for any girl who comes in his way. Have a care of the governess, Lucia, or she will bewitch 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！】Last Chance Cowboys: The Outlaw【電子書籍】[ Anna Schmidt ]

＜p＞＜strong＞"A feisty heroine and a hero eager to make everything right. What more could a reader want?"ーLeigh Greenwood, ＜em＞USA Today＜/em＞ bestselling author of To Love and to Cherish for ＜em＞The Drifter＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞"'Someone like me?' Is that how you see me, Amanda? As someone people should fear?"＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞"I don't know what to think," she said. "One minute you seem so dangerous, and the next you're sweet and caring and…"＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞He took a step closer, his eyes sweeping her face. "And which do you want me to be?" His voice was low; it sent shivers down her spine.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞"Both," she whispered, and lifted her face for a kiss.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Amanda Porterfield longs to experience real adventure. So when she's offered a position in bustling Tucson, she leaps at the chance despite unknown dangersーdangers like the mysterious Seth Grover.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As an undercover detective working to stop a gang of outlaws, Seth can't afford the distractions a woman like Amanda inspires. Yet when the fiercely intelligent beauty is thrust into the middle of a heist gone wrong, Seth will fight for a future that may never be theirs…even if it means risking everything he holds dear.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Where the Trail Ends Series:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Last Chance Cowboys: The Drifter (Book 1)＜/p＞ ＜p＞Last Chance Cowboys: The Lawman (Book 2)＜/p＞ ＜p＞Last Chance Cowboys: The Outlaw (Book 3)＜/p＞ ＜p＞Last Chance Cowboys: The Rancher (Book 4)＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Praise for Anna Schmidt:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Readers wanting a good old fashioned Western romance need look no further than this one." ーDear Author for Last Chance Cowboys: The Drifter＜/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！】Master and Maid【電子書籍】[ L. Allen Harker ]

＜p＞On the second Friday of term Anthony Bevan, whom all his world called "Bruiser Bevan," Housemaster of "B. House" in Hamchester College, sat at dessert with three of his prefects. They had exhaustively discussed the prospects of the coming football season, had mutually exchanged their holiday experiences, and now, when it was really time that the boys should betake themselves to their several studies, they still lingered enjoying the last few pleasant moments over the walnuts and the very light port that their housemaster considered suited to their young digestions. The big window at the end of the room stood open to the soft September evening, and the sudden crunch of wheels upon the newly gravelled drive was plainly audible, followed as it was by a loud ring. Master and boys fell silent, listening; and the parlour-maid opened the dining-room door. "Please, sir, there's a young lady--" she began; when the tale was taken up by another voice, a young voice, singularly full and pleasant: "It's me, Tony, dear; and didn't you expect me? Dad promised faithfully he would telegraph, but I suppose he forgot, as usual; and oh, I'm so tired! We had a good crossing, but I couldn't sleep, it was so stuffy." Val, the Irish terrier, who always lay under his master's chair, rushed at the newcomer, leaping upon her in rapturous and excited welcome. "Ah! 'tis the dear dog is pleased to see me. Down, Val, down! You'll tear me to bits! Dear Val! but your welcome is too warm altogether." Into the circle of light thrown by the hanging lamp above the table came a girl--a remarkably upright, small, slim girl of nineteen--clad in a long light grey travelling coat, with a voluminous grey gauze veil thrown back from her hat. Her little face was delicately featured and pale.＜/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！】Greek Tales: The Tortoise and the Dare【電子書籍】[ Terry Deary ]

＜p＞＜strong＞From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories, named 'the outstanding children's non-fiction author of the 20th century' by ＜em＞Books For Keeps＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞____________________＜/strong＞＜br /＞ The boys at school are excited. The Olympic games are coming to the city. They may be too young to compete, but their teacher suggests the school should have its own games. Of course, girls have no part at all in these festivities but Elena discovers her twin brother, Cypselis, has made a bet with Big Bacchiad (the school bully). If Cypselis wins he will get a new goat. If he loses then Elena will become Bacchiad's slave. Elena's freedom is at stake - she needs all her cunning to make sure her brother wins. But will he?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Terry Deary's Greek Tales＜/strong＞ explore the world of Ancient Greece through the eyes of children who could have lived at the time. These stories feature real people and take place in some of the most recognisable Greek settings. This new edition features notes for the reader to help extend learning and exploration of the historical period.＜br /＞ ＜strong＞____________________＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞'Bubbling with wit, language play and robust dialogue....just the right mix of ingredients to trigger young readers' interest in all things historical.'＜/strong＞ ＜em＞Books For Keeps＜/em＞＜/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！】Viking Tales: The Battle for the Viking Gold【電子書籍】[ Terry Deary ]

＜p＞＜strong＞From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories, named 'the outstanding children's non-fiction author of the 20th century' by ＜em＞Books For Keeps＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞_______________＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Ideal for readers aged 7+＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Whitby, Northern England, 867. Edwin and Luke are young boys training to be monks. It's a quiet life, until one day the Vikings invade. The boys are terrified of the fearsome Danes, whose gods are even more terrifying warriors than they are. What will happen if the boys are caught?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Terry Deary's Viking Tales explore the world and mythology of the Vikings through the eyes of children who could have lived at the time. These stories feature real people from history and take place in some of the most recognisable Viking settings. This new edition features notes for the reader to help extend learning and exploration of the historical period.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Book band: Brown＜br /＞ Quizzed for Accelerated Reader＜br /＞ ＜strong＞_______________＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'Bubbling with wit, language play and robust dialogue....just the right mix of ingredients to trigger young readers' interest in all things historical' ＜em＞- Books For Keeps＜/em＞＜/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！】Tales of Magical Adventures & Fantastic Journeys ? Peter Pan Books & Other Children's Books (Illustrated) A Kiss for Cinderella, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Peter and Wendy, When Wendy Grew Up, The Little White Bird, Sentimental T【電子書籍】

＜p＞This carefully crafted ebook: "Tales of Magical Adventures & Fantastic Journeys ? Peter Pan Books & Other Children's Tales (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Peter Pan Books Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens Peter and Wendy Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up When Wendy Grew Up Other Books The Little White Bird Sentimental Tommy Tommy and Grizel Dear Brutus A Kiss for Cinderella Mary Rose Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland but moved to London, where he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens, then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland.＜/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！】Best Day Ever【電子書籍】[ Kaira Rouda ]

＜p＞‘Compelling’ ＜em＞Hello!＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘[A] deliciously dark story shot through with black humour.’ ＜em＞Sunday Mirror＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞A loving husband. The perfect killer?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞‘I wonder if Mia thinks I have a dark side. Most likely as far as she knows, I am just her dear loving husband.’＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Paul Strom has spent years building his perfect life: glittering career, beautiful wife, two healthy boys and a big house in the suburbs.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But he also has his secrets. That’s why Paul has promised his wife a romantic weekend getaway. He proclaims this day, a warm Friday in May, will be the ＜em＞best day ever＜/em＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Paul loves his wife, really, he does. But he also wants to get rid of her. And with every hour that passes, Paul ticks off another stage in his elaborately laid plan…＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Creepy, fast-paced psychological thriller for fans of B A Paris and Shalini Boland!＜/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！】Raw and Dirty A Motorcycle Club Romance【電子書籍】[ Violet Blaze ]

＜p＞Make nice with the President of the Alpha Wolves Motorcycle Club.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Yeah right.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It was what my job description called forーI just never realized exactly how nice I needed to be.＜/p＞ ＜p＞I certainly never expected to find myself twisted up and tangled in the raw, dirty world of an outlaw motorcycle club … or in the sexy, tattooed hands of the man in charge.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Royal McBride is a jerkーbut a jerk with a swoon worthy accent, a big bike, and big … well, other things.＜/p＞ ＜p＞I didn't think falling in love with him would threaten my life. His life.＜/p＞ ＜p＞That we'd both risk losing everything we hold dear.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The mayor's daughter … an outlaw MC president.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It's a match made in heaven … a match tested in hell.＜/p＞ ＜p＞***＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Raw and Dirty＜/strong＞ (＜em＞Bad Boys MC Trilogy #1＜/em＞) - a full-length motorcycle club romance with no cliff-hanger, a sexy British bad boy president and a sense of humor. ＜strong＞This trilogy is now complete!＜/strong＞ (Book #2: ＜strong＞Risky and Wild＜/strong＞ and Book #3: ＜strong＞Savage and Racy＜/strong＞ are available now!)＜/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 Young Alaskans on the Missouri【電子書籍】[ Emerson Hough ]

＜p＞Uncle Dick moved his leg. “Cheap!” said he. “Cheap! But we don’t talk of that. What I was talking about, or was going to talk about, was something by way of teaching these boys what a country this America is and always has been; how it never has played any game to lose it, and never is going to.” “Well, Richard, what is it this time?” His sister began to fold up her work, sighing, and to smooth it out over her knee. “We’ve just got settled down here in our own country, and I was looking for a little rest and peace.” “You need it, after your Red Cross work, and you shall have it. You shall rest. While you do, I’ll take the boys on the trail, the Peace Trailーthe greatest trail of progress and peace all the world ever knew.” “Whatever can you mean?” “And made by two young chaps, officers of our Army, not much more than boys they were, neither over thirty. They found America for us, or a big part of it. I call them the two absolutely splendidest and perfectly bulliest boys in history.” “Oh, I know! You mean Lewis and Clark! You’re always talking of them to the boys. Ever since we came to St. Louisーー” “Yes, ever since we came to this old city, where those two boys started out West, before anybody knew what the West was or even where it was. I’ve been talking to our boys about those boys! Rather I should say, those two young gentlemen of our Army, over a hundred years agoーCaptain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark.” His sister nodded gravely, “I know.” “What water has run by here, since 1804, in these two rivers, the Mississippi and the Missouri! How the country has grown! How the world has changed! And how we have forgotten! “That’s why I want to take them, even now, my dear sister, these young Americans, over that very same old trailーnot so long and hard and full of danger now. Why? Lest we forget! Lest our young Americans forget! And we all are forgetting. Not right. “You see? Because this old town of St. Louis was then only a village, and we just had bought our unknown country of France, and this town was on the eastern edge of it, the gate of itーthe gate to the West, it used to be, before steam came, while everything went by keel boat; oar or paddle and pole and sail and cordelle. Ah, Sis, those were the days!”＜/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！】Last Chance Cowboys: The Lawman【電子書籍】[ Anna Schmidt ]

＜p＞＜strong＞"A feisty heroine and a hero eager to make everything right. What more could a reader want?"ーLeigh Greenwood, ＜em＞USA Today＜/em＞ bestselling author of ＜em＞To Love and to Cherish＜/em＞ for ＜em＞The Drifter＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Second in a historical Western series, set in the sweeping 1892 Arizona Territory, Jess Portfield is in for the fight of his life to prove himself as Sheriff in the midst of a desperate land battle and earn a second chance to capture the heart of local would be doctor, Addie.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jess Porterfield fled to the big city after his father's sudden death, leaving behind his family ranch-and his childhood sweetheart. Now Jess has returned as the local lawman, determined to prove his worth...and win back the one woman he could never live without.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Young frontier doctor Addie Wilcox was devastated when Jess left her behind. Now he's back and it's difficult to remember why she should keep her distance. But with the town's richest man set to see her hang for a crime she didn't commit, Addie must put her faith in the lawman who broke her heart-and trust that together they'll find their second chance at love.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Where the Trail Ends Series:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Last Chance Cowboys: The Drifter (Book 1)＜/p＞ ＜p＞Last Chance Cowboys: The Lawman (Book 2)＜/p＞ ＜p＞Last Chance Cowboys: The Outlaw (Book 3)＜/p＞ ＜p＞Last Chance Cowboys: The Rancher (Book 4)＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Praise for Anna Schmidt:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Readers wanting a good old fashioned Western romance need look no further than this one." ーDear Author for ＜em＞Last Chance Cowboys: The Drifter＜/em＞＜/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！】Herland Trilogy Moving the Mountain; Herland; With Her in Ourland【電子書籍】[ Charlotte Perkins Gilman ]

＜p＞Moving the Mountain is the first book in Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman's well known trilogy. The second book in the trilogy is her land mark classic Herland. Moving the Mountain delivers Gilman's program for reforming society. She concentrates on measures of rationality and efficiency that could be instituted in her own time, largely with greater social cooperation - equal education and treatment for girls and boys, day-care centers for working women, and other issues still relevant a century later. Yet Gilman also allows for technological progress: electric power is the motive force in industry and urban society, power generated largely by the tides, wind-mills, water mills, and solar engines. Herland is a utopian novel written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women who reproduce via parthenogenesis. The result is an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination. The story is told from the perspective of Van Jennings, a student of sociology who, along with two friends, Terry O. Nicholson and Jeff Margrave, forms an expedition party to explore an area of unchartered land where it is rumored lives a society consisting entirely of women. The three friends do not really believe the rumors as they are unable to conceive of how human reproduction could occur without males. The men speculate about what a society of women would be like, each guessing differently based on the stereotype of women which he holds most dear With Her in Ourland is the third book in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's utopian trilogy which begins where Moving the Mountain and Herland left off. Gilman masterfully compares our real modern male dominated world with an imaginary perfect society comprised of only woman. Gilman was a well known and deeply respected sociologist and this trilogy holds an important place in feminist fiction.＜/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。