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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！】Elusive Promise【電子書籍】[ Barbara Freethy ]

＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞"Elusive Promise is a thrilling tale of dangerous love, heart-stopping action and haunting mind games" Isha C. - Goodreads＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞When tragedy strikes an engagement party, Special Agent Parisa Maxwell becomes the sole survivor and the only witness to a kidnapping and the theft of a legendary diamond. With her friend now missing, Parisa makes a promise to save the other woman, no matter the cost.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jared MacIntyre's entire life is a carefully cultivated set of lies. He wasn't looking for the beautiful brunette when he ventured into the private rooms at the consulate, but he couldn't ignore the woman fighting for her life. Now their lives are inexplicably intertwined. The kidnapping and theft may be part of a bigger, deadlier plotーone that he's on a mission to stop before someone else he loves ends up dead.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Two strangers, each with their own secrets. Two strangers who never expected to find love amidst the danger. Two strangers who will have to take the ultimate risk: trust each otherーor lose everything.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Don't miss this thrilling, chilling, new romantic suspense by #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Also Available in the OFF THE GRID: FBI SERIES＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Perilous Trust #1＜/p＞ ＜p＞Reckless Whisper #2＜/p＞ ＜p＞Desperate Play #3＜/p＞ ＜p＞Elusive Promise #4＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dangerous Choice #5＜/p＞ ＜p＞Ruthless Cross #6＜/p＞ ＜p＞Critical Doubt #7＜/p＞ ＜p＞Fearless Pursuit #8＜/p＞ ＜p＞Daring Deception #9＜/p＞ ＜p＞Risky Bargain #10＜/p＞ ＜p＞Perfect Target #11＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞What the readers are saying…＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞"ELUSIVE PROMISE is a fast paced read which has so many twists to it you don't want to put the book down until you know who took Jasmine, who wants to kill Parisa, and who Jared really is. Once again Barbara Freethy does not disappoint her readers and leaves you counting the days to the next FBI Off the Grid 5th book." Patricia ? Goodreads＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Wonderfully intense, breath-catching action, Barbara Freethy keeps getting better and better." R.J. ? Goodreads on ELUSIVE PROMISE＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Ms Freethy is a genius when it comes to character development, and these two were perfectly imperfect and as a reader you just fall in love with them. Can’t wait for the next book!" Claire ? Goodreads on ELUSIVE PROMISE＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Grab a drink, find a comfortable reading nook, and get immersed in this fast paced, realistic, romantic thriller! 5 STARS!" Perrin ? Goodreads on ELUSIVE PROMISE＜/p＞ ＜p＞"For me a good romantic suspense book needs a good story, strong characters, honest dialogue, chemistry between the hero and heroine and believable suspense. Elusive Promise checks off all the boxes for me. Thank you Barbara Freethy for another great read!" Trude - Goodreads＜/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！】2028 ... and Australia has gone to hell in a handbasket【電子書籍】[ Ken Saunders ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Move over Shaun Micallef ... a work of comic genius that takes the mickey out of anything and everything to do with Australian politics.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞'I've found the Australian Douglas Adams!' - Tom Gleeson＜br /＞ 'Hilarious.' - Wendy Harmer＜br /＞ 'It's awesome.' - H.G. Nelson＜br /＞ 'Absurdly funny.' - Sami Shah＜br /＞ 'The revolution is coming.' - Cathy Wilcox＜br /＞ 'Highly amusing.' - John Doyle＜br /＞ 'Fizzing with ideas.' - Dominic Knight＜/p＞ ＜ol start="2028"＞ ＜li＞Prime Minister Fitzwilliams' instincts tell him it's time to call a snap election. His cabinet team is adequate (just), the howling protests of the doctors after the GP changes has finally died down and, best of all, the Australian Greens are in receivership. So what could possibly go wrong?＜/li＞ ＜/ol＞ ＜p＞The PM is prepared for everything until he finds himself facing what he least expected - an actual opposition. How do you deal with a party that doesn't play by the rules, protests in the nude, sends mail by carrier pigeon and has a list of candidates all called Ned Ludd?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Welcome to the Australia of 2028 where parking meters double as poker machines, radio shock jocks have been automated, the Communist Party of China has turned itself into a multinational corporation and ASIO's glory days are so far over that it's resorting to surveillance of a Charles Dickens reading group.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Outrageous, sharp and wickedly funny, ＜em＞2028＜/em＞ takes us into the near future where the not very good ideas around today have become ten years worse.＜/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！】Albert Einstein: A Short Biography Father of the Theory of Relativity【電子書籍】[ Doug West ]

＜p＞For a man that would be known the world over for his genius, Albert Einstein had a rather unimpressive childhood. It would not be until his mid-twenties that his insight into nature and its connection with mathematics became apparent. Working as a Swiss patent clerk, he would squirrel away his research papers in his desk and work on them when no one was looking. During his “miracle year” of 1905, Einstein would produce four papers that would revolutionize theoretical physics. One of the masterworks would later earn him a Nobel Prize and another paper covering his Special Theory of Relativity would upset the foundations of physics set forth by Sir Isaac Newton.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Though Einstein’s professional career lead to world renown, his personal like was often in shambles ? a failed marriage, estrangement from his children, and his time wondering as a refugee. After the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, his Jewish ancestry forced him to flee to the United States with his second wife to find a new homeland. Einstein finished his brilliant career at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton working on his “theory of everything” or a unified field theory ? with no success.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This readable, compact biography surveys in concise terms the life and times of this towering figure. By the end of this short book, you will not only understand how the genius of Albert Einstein shaped our past, but how it continues to subtly influence the world in which we all live.＜/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 Professor Sparky Adventure: The Only Thing Left Was Their Underpants!【電子書籍】[ John Kelly ]

＜p＞THE ONLY THING LEFT WAS THEIR UNDERPANTS! (A PROFESSOR SPARKY SCIENCEY MYSTERY: Book 1) By John Kelly Professor Sparky is a scientific genius and sausage dog (The sausage dog part is a recent development.) He lives on Floating Island 1178, high above the surface of the planet Duplex with his best (and only) friend, Ellie-Ann. It is Ellie’s job to stop him accidentally killing himself, or blowing up the planet. One morning over breakfast Sparky and Ellie read in the newspaper that some unknown (but probably evil) genius is abducting members of the Extreme Cleverness Society from all over Duplex. The only thing left is their underpants! Realizing there is a pattern, the duo try to prevent the remaining members of the Extreme Cleverness Society from being abducted. (Which is pretty noble of Prof Sparky, considering he was expelled from the ECS after the biting incident at last year's Christmas party.) At the scene of one of the disappearances Prof Sparky discovers: a. A mysterious energy signature. b. A very interesting and familiar smell. He cobbles together a contraption, the Whiff-O-meter (it measures the energy signature of interesting smells), and use it to trace the smell to a robot dog-food factory. Then, after recalibrating it properly, it leads them to… ...CLOUD ONE, the research ship of Drs Odwin and Edwin SpodWangler (yes, CLOUD ONE does look like a cloud!). It is floating high above Duplex studying the migration patterns of the enigmatic Quadflapple birds. But before the SpodWanglers can heed Sparky’s warning, their semi-tame Quadflapple bird, Edgar, has taken a shine to Prof Sparky's glasses and absconded with them. During the ensuing chase the good doctors are both dematerialised. (Prof Sparky does get his glasses back though, so relax.) The rest of the book contains further dematerialisations as Sparky and Ellie find, warn, and fail to prevent the abduction of the other endangered professors. After LOADS more exciting stuff about worm-holes, indescribably foul dog-food, underpants in many exciting patterns, reverse-alchemy, indoor explosions, lava-cats, giant psychic birds, and splunge-diving, they eventually uncover the astonishing truth behind the villain’s motivations. Now read on…＜/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！】Essays【電子書籍】[ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

＜p＞THERE is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent. Of the works of this mind history is the record. Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days. Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history. Without hurry, without rest, the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty, every thought, every emotion, which belongs to it, in appropriate events. But the thought is always prior to the fact; all the facts of history preexist in the mind as laws. Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant, and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time. A man is the whole encyclopaedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man. Epoch after epoch, camp, kingdom, empire, republic, democracy, are merely the application of his manifold spirit to the manifold world.＜/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 Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu【電子書籍】[ Sax Rohmer ]

＜p＞We meet first Dr Petrie who is immediately surprised by a late night visitor, "a tall, lean ... square cut ... sun baked" man who turns out to be his good friend (Commissioner Sir Denis) Nayland Smith of Burma, formerly of Scotland Yard, who has come directly from Burma. We then learn that various men associated with India are the target of assassination by the Chinese Dr Fu Manchu, who seems to have been active in Burma (as distinct from India), in places such as Rangoon, Prome, Moulmein and the "Upper Irrawaddy" and who comes to England with dacoits and thuggees.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Fu Manchu is pursued from the opium dens of Limehouse in the East End of London to various country estates. We learn that Dr Fu Manchu is a leading member not of "old China", the Mandarin class of the Manchu dynasty, or "young China", a new generation of "youthful and unbalanced reformers" with "western polish" ? but a "Third Party". Nayland Smith is outwitted several times by Fu Manchu, and thus he reflects more the narrow escapes of the later Bulldog Drummond rather than the "logical" superior approach of the earlier Sherlock Holmes.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Fu Manchu is a master poisoner and chemist, a cunning member of the Yellow Peril, "the greatest genius which the powers of evil have put on the earth for centuries", though his mission is not exactly clear at this stage. He appears to be trying to capture and take back to China the best engineers of Europe, for some larger criminal purpose...＜/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 Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu【電子書籍】[ Sax Rohmer ]

＜p＞The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu is the first novel in the Dr. Fu Manchu (sometimes "Fu-Manchu") series by Sax Rohmer. It collates various short stories published the preceding year. The novel was also published in US under the title The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu.＜br /＞ We meet first Dr Petrie who is immediately surprised by a late night visitor, "a tall, lean ... square cut ... sun baked" man who turns out to be his good friend (Commissioner Sir Denis) Nayland Smith of Burma, formerly of Scotland Yard, who has come directly from Burma. We then learn that various men associated with India are the target of assassination by the Chinese Dr Fu Manchu, who seems to have been active in Burma (as distinct from India), in places such as Rangoon, Prome, Moulmein and the "Upper Irrawaddy" and who comes to England with dacoits and thuggees.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Fu Manchu is pursued from the opium dens of Limehouse in the East End of London to various country estates. We learn that Dr Fu Manchu is a leading member not of "old China", the Mandarin class of the Manchu dynasty, or "young China", a new generation of "youthful and unbalanced reformers" with "western polish" ? but a "Third Party". Nayland Smith is outwitted several times by Fu Manchu, and thus he reflects more the narrow escapes of the later Bulldog Drummond rather than the "logical" superior approach of the earlier Sherlock Holmes.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Fu Manchu is a master poisoner and chemist, a cunning member of the Yellow Peril, "the greatest genius which the powers of evil have put on the earth for centuries", though his mission is not exactly clear at this stage. He appears to be trying to capture and take back to China the best engineers of Europe, for some larger criminal purpose.＜/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！】Note Book of an English Opium-Eater【電子書籍】[ Thomas De Quincey ]

＜p＞"He was a man of very extraordinary genius. He has generally been treated by those who have spoken of him in print as a madman. But this is a mistake and must have been founded chiefly on the titles of his books. He was a man of fervid mind and of sublime aspirations: but he was no madman; or, if he was, then I say that it is so far desirable to be a madman. In 1798 or 1799, when I must have been about thirteen years old, Walking Stewart was in Bathーwhere my family at that time resided. He frequented the pump-room, and I believe all public placesーwalking up and down, and dispersing his philosophic opinions to the right and the left, like a Grecian philosopher. The first time I saw him was at a concert in the Upper Rooms; he was pointed out to me by one of my party as a very eccentric man who had walked over the habitable globe. I remember that Madame Mara was at that moment singing: and Walking Stewart, who was a true lover of music (as I afterwards came to know), was hanging upon her notes like a bee upon a jessamine flower. His countenance was striking, and expressed the union of benignity with philosophic habits of thought."＜/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！】CAPTAIN BOLDHEART and THE LATIN-GRAMMAR MASTER - An illustrated children's story by Charles Dickens【電子書籍】[ Charles Dickens ]

＜p＞From The Pen Of Lieutenant Colonel Robin Redforth, Aged Nine ? but in reality written by Charles Dickens as book III of IV in a series titled a Holiday Romance.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The subject of our present narrative, Captain Boldheart, would appear to have devoted himself to the Pirate profession at a comparatively early age, although we are not informed exactly how early. Nevertheless, we find him in command of a splendid schooner of one hundred guns, loaded to the muzzle, and he was yet to celebrate a party in honour of his tenth birthday!＜/p＞ ＜p＞It seems that our hero, considering himself spited by a Latin Grammar Master, demanded the satisfaction due from one man of honour to another. Not getting it, he privately withdrew his haughty spirit from such low company, bought a second hand pocket pistol, folded up some sandwiches in a paper bag, made a bottle of Spanish liquorice water, and enbarked on a career of valour.＜/p＞ ＜p＞What actually happened to Captain Boldheart and his crew? Was his honour assuaged or did he have to take more drastic action to obtain satisfaction? Just how far did he and his crew have to go? Did they visit any strange and exotic far-off lands on the way? Well, you’ll just have to download and read this book to find out!＜br /＞ ＜strong＞=================＜br /＞ Charles John Huffam Dickens＜/strong＞ (7 February 1812 ? 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Dickens's literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers and he went on to be regarded as the literary colossus of his age. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.＜/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！】Once Bitten【電子書籍】[ Adrian Hunter ]

＜p＞It isnt easy being an evil genius. Just ask Donovan Grant, author of the Internets first foolproof copyright-protection software. Hollywood adores him, but hes no hero to the millions who loved downloading free copies of their favorite TV shows. Insanely rich, or maybe just insane, he blew his royalties on a private island in the Caribbean where he pursues his not-so-private obsessions, like photographing young ladies bound in expensive leather and posting the results on his no-cost web site, exsx.org.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But when your sexual preference is dominance, nothing less than world domination will do. With the help of a wide-eyed apprentice from Glasgow, a ganja-sucking bodyguard, a jaded hacker, and a surly cheerleader-turned-dominatrix named Sindie, Grant is getting ready to launch his revenge on everyone who thinks hes nothing but a one-trick ponyboy who got lucky.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Like Carroll Farmer, the take-no-prisoners tech reporter with a few axes to grind, preferably on whomevers tied to her bed tonight. Sparks (and other implements) fly when her editor/former flame sends her across the Atlantic to profile the reclusive Mr. Grant. Carroll is determined to uncover Donovans secrets, but events and emotions conspire to expose a few of her own, resulting in a wild ride through the dark side of dreams made real.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dazzling, occasionally depraved and inevitably breathless, ＜em＞Once Bitten＜/em＞ reads like a turbocharged duet between Carl Hiassen and the Marquis de Sade. Award-winning authors Adrian Hunter and Chelsea Shepard have concocted a seriously-sexy caper that spans the globe in search of nice vice, twisted truths, cruel love and freedom in restraint. Fast, fun and funny, ＜em＞Once Bitten＜/em＞ puts the bon! back into bondage...where it belongs.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Other Xlibris books by Adrian Hunter:＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜em＞＜a href="www1.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=10615"＞Crash Your Party Dress＜/a＞＜br /＞ ＜a href="www1.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=12085"＞Something Just Clicked＜/a＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞For more information and sample stories, please visit ＜a href="www.adrianhunter.com"＞www.adrianhunter.com＜/a＞＜/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！】Math Is Murder【電子書籍】[ Robert C. Brigham ]

＜p＞Kenneth Salter, chairman of the math department at Marcus Rome State University, isnt a well-liked man; in fact, most people despise him. Its not surprising, therefore, when he ends up dead, slumped over in his office chair. All the animosity directed toward the professor makes this a challenging case for homicide detective Tom Warren. His list of possible suspects is long.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Much to his chagrin, Warren finds himself teamed up with some law enforcement outsiders. Jim Albright is a math professor and detective wannabe, while his wife, Donna, is a sexy psychologist. Elmo Sherwin is a loveable math genius, but hes as clumsy as he is eccentric. How can these novices help Warren solve his case?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Hell soon learn it takes more than crime scene know-how to catch a killer. Its going to take interviews, deduction, and reasoning to make sense of Salters murder. Everyone sees things differently, and what one person observes could be missed by everyone else. Are you clever enough to follow the clues and construct the argument that points uniquely to the guilty 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！】Waging an Unwinnable War The Communist Insurgency in Malaysia (1948?1989)【電子書籍】[ Lim Cheng Leng ]

＜p＞Chairman Mao Tse-tung declared: "Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun'..." Mao's dictum provided the guiding principle for the protracted armed struggle of the Communist Party of Malaya/Malaysia over a 40-year period, from the start of its guerrilla war in mid-1948 to the signing of the peace agreement to conclude the futile conflict in early December 1989. Although the CPM saw its contention for power as one continuous and non-stop campaign, the Government side recorded the Communist insurgency as Emergency I (1948-60), punctuated by a somewhat indetermnate interval, and then followed by "undeclared" Emergency II (1968-80). Emergency I ended in abject failure for the Communists. For the winning side, the unprecedented success in counter-insurgency wasthen described as "the only true complete victory over communist insurgency won by a former colonial power (Britain) and a newly emergent nation (Malaya) since 1945 (after World War II). While the first-round insurrection was reportedly initiated by a directive from Moscow, the second round was planned and directed as well as financed in Peking. Following Mao's demse in September 1976, the new paramount ruler in China Deng Xiaoping consigned the banner of revolution to history. It spelled the end of the Commuunist Revolution in Malaya/Malaysia. Rather than a narrative, this book offers an analytical study of the unwinnable war waged by Malayan/Malaysian disciples of the great revolutionary genius and grandmaster Mao Tse-tung.＜/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！】Close to Home The 'impossible to put down' Richard & Judy Book Club thriller pick 2018【電子書籍】[ Cara Hunter ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Someone took Daisy Mason . . .＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜em＞＜strong＞Someone you know.＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞--------＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'The last twist was a genuine stroke of genius'＜/strong＞ John Marrs＜br /＞ ＜strong＞'A mazey, gripping read'＜/strong＞ Ian Rankin＜br /＞ ＜strong＞'Compulsive'＜/strong＞ Emma Kavanagh＜/p＞ ＜p＞Last night, eight-year-old Daisy Mason disappeared from a family party. No one in the quiet suburban street saw anything - or at least that's what they're saying.＜/p＞ ＜p＞DI Adam Fawley is trying to keep an open mind. But he knows the nine times out of ten, it's someone the victim knew.＜/p＞ ＜p＞That means someone is lying...＜br /＞ And that Daisy's time is running out.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞The first twisty, up-all-night thriller from the ＜em＞Sunday Times＜/em＞ bestselling Cara Hunter. For fans of Shari Lapena, Claire Douglas and Lisa Jewell.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞--------＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Authors can't get enough of Close to Home＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'One of the＜/strong＞ ＜strong＞best crime thrillers I have ever read'＜/strong＞ Kathryn Croft, ＜em＞The Lying Wife＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞'＜strong＞Cancel everything＜/strong＞. ＜strong＞You're not going anywhere until you finish'＜/strong＞ Emily Koch, ＜em＞Keep Him Close＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'C****lassy, agile, fresh, unpredictable and utterly compelling'＜/strong＞ Nicci French*, The Unheard*＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'Cara Hunter is the new queen of the cliffhanger'＜/strong＞ John Marrs, ＜em＞What Lies Between＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'A real gripper of a read'＜/strong＞ Peter James, ＜em＞Left You Dead＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'Clever and wonderfully complex!'＜/strong＞ Jane Corry, ＜em＞The Lies We Tell＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'I finished ＜em＞Close to Home＜/em＞ in one sitting!'＜/strong＞ Nuala Ellwood, ＜em＞The Perfect Life＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞And readers are loving this series, too＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'A****ll hail the new queen of all things crime'＜/strong＞ Penny, Netgalley＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'Mind-bending brilliance'＜/strong＞ Kath, Netgalley＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'Packed full of twists'＜/strong＞ Gary, Netgalley＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'Definitely for fans of Lisa Gardner, Karin Slaughter and the like'＜/strong＞ Fiona, Netgalley＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'Captivating: full of mystery, tension, moral dilemma . . . outstanding'＜/strong＞ Peter, Netgalley＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'This series just gets better and better'＜/strong＞ Tina, Netgalley＜/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！】Pulling Out Too Late 3【電子書籍】[ Tabitha Cole ]

＜p＞Number 3 in this hot, unprotected series＜/p＞ ＜p＞Featuring:＜/p＞ ＜p＞My Billionaire Benefactor Didn't Pull Out＜br /＞ The Undercover Cop Didn't Pull Out＜br /＞ Santa Claus Didn't Pull Out＜/p＞ ＜p＞These titles can all be purchased individually.＜/p＞ ＜p＞My Billionaire Benefactor Didn't Pull Out＜/p＞ ＜p＞Alex Wood, C.E.O of Wood Enterprises, and one of the richest men in the world, has a proposition for his eighteen year old head stem-cell researcher. Ten million dollars every year, for every child she gives him. He wants to create the perfect race, and his genius employee is the best candidate for the job. It just so happens that she has an obsession, and can't wait to start a family of her own.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Undercover Cop Didn't Pull Out＜/p＞ ＜p＞An undercover cop with a unprotected obsession gets close to a man believed to be heading a prostitution racket. Lines blur as she poses as a high class escort to infiltrate his organisation, only to be given the best night of her life, when he fulfils her fantasy and fills her with his seed.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Santa Claus Didn't Pull Out＜/p＞ ＜p＞Suzy’s fantasy comes true at her office Christmas party, when her CEO dresses up as Santa, and surprises her in the stationery cupboard!＜/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 Paddington Mystery (Detective Club Crime Classics)【電子書籍】[ John Rhode ]

＜p＞A special release of the very first crime novel by John Rhode, introducing Dr Priestley, the genius detective who would go on to appear in more than 70 bestselling crime novels during the Golden Age.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When Harold Merefield returned home in the early hours of a winter morning from a festive little party at that popular nightclub, the ‘Naxos’, he was startled by a gruesome discovery. On his bed was a corpse.＜/p＞ ＜p＞There was nothing to show the identity of the dead man or the cause of his death. At the inquest, the jury found a verdict of ‘Death from Natural Causes’ ? perhaps they were right, but yet . . . ?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Harold determined to investigate the matter for himself and sought the help of Professor Priestley, who, by the simple but unusual method of logical reasoning, succeeded in throwing light upon what proved to be a very curious affair indeed.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This Detective Club classic is introduced by crime writing historian and expert Tony Medawar, who looks at how John Rhode, who also wrote as Miles Burton and as Cecil Waye, became one of the best-selling and most popular British authors of the Golden Age.＜/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！】Hitler: Philosopher King【電子書籍】[ Mark Morris ]

＜p＞Hitler and the NSDAP (Nazi party) are a social and historical phenomenon, Hitler’s Aspergic personality and postmodern philosophy combined to enable both his personal political success and then the postmodern power state that he constructed. By refracting the issues through leadership, psychiatric, sociological and philosophical disciplinary prisms, the hypothesis in this book proposes a synergy between Hitler's autistic leadership genius and the contemporaneously emergent radical postmodern ideas.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The collective insanity that seemed to sweep over the whole of the German nation with the Hitler phenomenon requires an additional explanation to the traditional version of the proud nation humiliated in Versailles. The extremity of the collective delusion, the racist, grandiose and murderous ideas of Hitler and the NSDAP that can emerge in small, paranoid, fanatic sects; these were adopted, embraced by, and then fought for by a whole nation, and perhaps the most educated, civilised, and cultured nation globally at that time. This phenomenon requires an explanation additional to the historical and structural accounts that currently prevail.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This book constructs such an explanation as a hypothesis; an account to bridge this conceptual gap. It argues that Hitler and the NSDAP as a phenomenon were different. Hitler and his NSDAP were not just another political party lead by another charismatic demagogue. Hitler and the NSDAP were a product of a unique moment in the cultural and philosophical evolution of human kind. Part of the tragedy of the Great War was the Generals catching up with the paradigm shift in the lethal effectiveness brought about by progress in the military technology. This thesis argues that the Hitler and NSDAP phenomenon was brought about by humanity as a whole catching up with the paradigm shift in the human condition brought about by the developments in philosophy and culture over the turn of the 19th and 20th century that later came to be known as postmodernism. Hitler and the NSDAP were able to opportunistically surf the tsunami of these new ideas as they crashed through western cultural givens and beliefs, allowing Hitler and the NSDAP to create their New Order in its wake.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Hitler was an Aspergic savant-genius in in his achievement of Chancellorship with a party that had 30 or 40 members a mere decade before; in the innovation of his political campaigns and strategies, then in his manipulation of other national leaders when he obtained a place on the world stage. On questions of values, ethics, relationships, the emotional and kinship bonds and cultural assumptions that comprises the fabric of societies and social groupings; on these issues he was an empty autistic vessel. But this was also a strength, in that he was able to reinvent a structure of ethics, value and assumptions, unencumbered by relationships, emotional ties, that would have given him pause in his pursuit of his aim.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Hitler's Asperger’s enabled him to single-mindedly pursue personal and political power. The postmodern state created did not rest on historical, religious or cultural traditions. Nietzsche’s crystallization of the previous century and a half of German idealism in a rigorous moral and cultural nihilism, could be reified and rolled out with Weberian bureaucratic and Prussian militaristic efficiency. Ideology could be shaped instrumentally in order to yield the maximal amount of the only currency that survives the caustic deconstruction of postmodernism, namely power itself＜/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！】Heydrich, Hitler's Most Evil Henchman【電子書籍】[ Charles Wighton ]

＜p＞THE MAN WITH THE IRON HEART＜br /＞ Hitler called him "The man with the iron heart"ーyet Reinhard Heydrich was utterly different from those other iron men who served the F?hrer. Gifted with intellect, charm and great courage, Heydrich used his outstanding talents to create the Nazi Security Service, the notorious SD (Sicherheitsdienst), thereby becoming one of the most powerful figuresーperhaps the most evil influence of allーin Nazi Germany.＜br /＞ Charles Wighton, through unprecedented co-operation on both sides of the Iron Curtain, has had access to top secret Nazi Party files, to official sources in East Germany, to highly secret records in Czechoslovakiaーand to the frank recollections of Heydrich's widow. The result is a fascinatingly detailed revelation of the rise of this diabolical genius.＜br /＞ Through Heydrich's racial campaigns, which gathered their own momentum after his death, six million Jews were murdered by 1945. And yet this son of a cultured, upper-middle-class Roman Catholic family, who became the real power behind Himmler, was himself blackmailed by the F?hrer for possessing non-Aryan blood.＜br /＞ In addition to clarifying this aspect of Heydrich's astonishing career, the author throws new light, too, on "Plan Ost", the blueprint for the extermination of thirty million Slavs, and on the mystery surrounding Heydrich's assassination in 1942.＜br /＞ Here, then, is the full story of the man with the iron heartーHeydrich, Hitler's most evil henchman.＜/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！】Dallas Cowboys 2nd Edition The Legends of America's Team【電子書籍】[ Jim Reeves ]

＜p＞This updated second edition recounts the action-packed 2016 season when overlooked quarterback Prescott gave new life to the Cowboys and proved he's a remarkably decent human being. ''Who better to tell the 'Legends of America's Team' than Jim Reeves, one of the most trusted and reliable sources for your Cowboy news and history.'' -- Daryl ''Moose'' Johnston, former star Cowboys fullback (Sept. 6, 2016). Meet the characters and relieve the games and controversies that captured the imagination of the nation's sports fans. Jim Reeves, for decades The Fort Worth Star-Telegram's award-winning sports columnist, goes behind the scenes to explain how the Cowboys battled for five Super Bowl titles, how Tex Schramm's creative genius forged them into America's Team, and became the richest NFL franchise under owner Jerry Jones. Reeves tells how star quarterback Roger Staubach inched along an 11 story window ledge to get Schramm's attention during contract talks. Reeves discloses how he scooped the sports world to report quarterback Troy Aikman's deep disgust for coach (and party-animal) Barry Switzer -- even during Super Bowl XXX victory celebrations. In a lengthy interview for the book, Jerry Jones makes clear that he regrets how he fumbled the firing of revered, founding coach Tom Landry. Jones also relives the abrupt split with winning coach Jimmy Johnson, his former Razorback college teammate. Then the owner candidly discusses his team's future.＜/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！】In the Deep Blue Sea Jack and the Geniuses Book #2【電子書籍】[ Bill Nye ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Jack and his siblings hit the high seas to solve the mystery of a sabotaged renewable energy project in another thrilling adventure in this ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling series from Bill Nye and Gregory Mone!＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jack and his genius siblings, Ava and Matt, embark on an adventure with Dr. Hank Witherspoon to the remote Hawaiian island home of Ashley Hawking, a technology billionaire. Hawking and engineer Rosa Morris have built a revolutionary electricity plant that harvests energy from the ocean’s depths, but someone has sabotaged the project.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In his search for the culprit, Jack ventures 2,000 feet below the surface of the ocean in a homemade submarine. He, Ava, and Matt attend the world’s strangest birthday party, face off against an arrogant young genius, and then find themselves lost at sea. The three siblings have to use all their brainpower and cunning to find out who’s behind the sabotage . . . and survive.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the Jack and the Geniuses series, readers join Jack, Ava and Matt on adventures around the world to tackle some of science's biggest challenges, including new ways to create clean drinking water, to generate clean and renewable energy, and to extend information access to the entire planet. Each book in the series includes cool facts about the real-life science found in the story and a fun DIY project.＜/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！】Robespierre The Voice of Virtue【電子書籍】[ Otto Scott ]

＜p＞It is a perverse but almost inescapable phenomenon in the history of violent revolutions that after the first heroic days a colorless bureaucrat will inherit the mantle of leadership. In the Russian Revolution, Lenin was followed by a plodding Stalin rather than a dazzling Trotsky. Even after the American Revolution the celebrated Jefferson barely made it into office as president between two party regulars.The French Revolution was no exception. After the genius and idealism of Mirabeau, Danton, and others who had created the Revolution, it fell into the hands of an unscrupulous and sententious bourgeois lawyer who had been lost among the back benches of the first Estates-General. Like Stalin, Robespierre rose through tireless party service and meticulous attention to detail and finally through the execution of men who had been the real heroes of the Revolution. Unlike Stalin, however, Robespierre was a brilliant orator who ultimately was destroyed on the guillotine by the very terror he had created to eliminate his rivals.In Robespierre: The Voice of Virtue, Otto J. Scott has created an ironic portrait of hypocrisy in power. This biography is a study in moral arrogance, self-proclaimed virtue, and the effectiveness of brutality in the position of political leadership; it is a reenactment of the events that Robespierre came to personifyーthe Reign of Terror. This political condition has since been re-enacted all too often.＜/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！】Symposium (Translated with an Introduction by Benjamin Jowett and a Preface by Friedrich Schleiermacher)【電子書籍】[ Plato ]

＜p＞Written sometime during the 4th century BC, “Symposium” is one the most poetic and sublime works by the Greek philosopher Plato. The action of the dialogue is set during a party hosted by the poet Agathon to celebrate his first victory in a dramatic competition. The title ‘Symposium’, or ‘Banquet’ refers to the setting of the work, however the more literal translation from the Greek is a ‘drinking party.’ At this party several notable figures from classical antiquity, including Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophanes, Agathon, Alcibiades, and Socrates in turn give speeches in praise of Eros, the god of love. The work at its core is an examination of the genesis, purpose, and nature of love. While it is possible that the circumstances of the work may be based on actual events known to Plato, scholars believe it most likely to be the sole invention of its author. An intriguing dialogue on the subject of love, “Symposium” is a preeminent example of Plato’s philosophical genius and a must read for any student of classical antiquity. This edition is translated with an introduction by Benjamin Jowett, includes a preface by Friedrich Schleiermacher, and a biographical afterword.＜/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！】Multifarious Funk: The Evolution and Biography of George Clinton and The Parliament-Funkadelic Empire (Funkentelechy) How's Your Funk!【電子書籍】[ Sabrina Marie ]

＜p＞While editing and preparing for publication this brilliant book by Sabrina-Marie on the extraordinary life of the living musical genius that is ＜strong＞George Clinton＜/strong＞, founder of the ＜strong＞Parliament-Funkadelic empire＜/strong＞, I began to remember and realize that I had once been a weed smoking, drug taking, alcohol drinking, no head, no backstage pass, full-fledged, dues paying, card carrying member of the Parliament-Funkadelic Nation, a true funkateer. My motherfunkin ass had danced and gotten high many times while partying and jammin’ to the music of The Parliaments, then the Funkadelics, and then Parliament-Funkadelics, through the late 60’s, all through the 70’s, and I felt that I was always, truly, standing on the verge of gettin’ it on and doing something great. I had funkafied hundreds and hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of girls while living in Boston, then Japan, South Korea, South Vietnam and even some North Vietnamese girls, then some Northern California girls, then back to Boston girls, then some cross country American ghetto girls, then some Los Angeles girls and then some Chicago girls, then funkafied some more back inBoston girls, to the music of the Funkadelic albums, Free Your Mind…and Your Ass Will Follow, Maggot Brain, America Eats Its Young, Cosmic Slop, Standing on the Verge of Getting It On, Let’s Take It to the Stage, Tales of Kidd Funkadelic, Hardcore Jollies, One Nation Under a Groove, Uncle Jam Wants You.＜/p＞ ＜p＞And the, Funkadelic singles, Music for My Mother, I’ll Bet You, I Got a Thing, You Got a Thing, Everybody’s Got a Thing, I Wanna Know If It’s Good to You?, You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks,Can You Get to That, Hit It and Quit It, A Joyful Process, Loose Booty, Cosmic Slop, Standing on the Verge of Getting It On, Red Hot Momma, Get Off Your Ass and Jam, Better by the Pound, Let’s Take It to the Stage, Undisco Kidd, Comin’ Round the Mountain, Smokey, One Nation Under a Groove, Cholly (Funk Getting Ready To Roll!), (Not Just) Knee Deep, Uncle Jam.＜/p＞ ＜p＞And then the, Parliament albums, Up for the Down Stroke, Chocolate City, Mothership Connection, The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein, Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome, Motor Booty Affair, Gloryhallastoopid, Trombipulation, and the infamous, Parliament singles, Breakdown, Up For The Down Stroke, Testify, Chocolate City, Ride On, Chocolate City, P. Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up), Tear The Roof Off The Sucker (Give Up The Funk), Mothership Connection (Star Child), Do That Stuff, Dr. Funkenstein, Fantasy Is Reality, Bop Gun (Endangered Species), Flash Light, Funkentelechy, Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop, Rumpofsteelskin, Party People, Theme From The Black Hole, The Big Bang Theory, Agony of DeFeet,with Funkentelechy being my favorite song of all time to funk the girls and the world with, to sing to, write to, and play to.＜/p＞ ＜p＞And by the time it’s early 1979 and I meet Maurice Starr, and his song About Time I Funk You Baby, I was ready to free my mind and let my ass follow, and then I would meet, manage and produce, Prince Charles Alexander and do a song called In the Streets,by Prince Charles and the City Beat Band, and we absolutely and magnificently, truly, funkafied the whole world, all thanks to the master, the legend, the master blaster of all that is funky, the Bop Gun himself, George Clinton, who made us and hundreds of his second and third generation funkateers, not just knee deep in the funk, but one nation under the groove! So, I dedicate this first Retro Book on the life of George Clinton, to my old back in the day musician friends, ＜strong＞Prince Charles Alexander＜/strong＞ and ＜strong＞Maurice Starr,＜/strong＞ two of the funkiest cats ever. ーTony Rose＜/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 Semester【電子書籍】[ Corine Mekaouche ]

＜p＞College. Party. Drama. Life.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When Johanna ‘Jo’ Gold, witty college life blogger and senior at Rutan University, decides to move in with three male strangers her last semester of school, her life unexpectedly turns upside down. While dealing with her new roommates, A.J., the pompous rich kid who feels trapped in following his father’s footsteps; Rob, the prematurely engaged former womanizer who tries to force Jo out of the house at all costs; and Drew, the 21-year-old virgin genius whose encounters with women have been more than limited, Jo learns that change isn't always easy and it's up to her to learn how to survive the remainder of her time at Rutan the best that she can. Along with searching for her missing mother, figuring out a clever way to pay for school tuition on her own, and dealing with the childish pranks brought on by a certain roommate, Jo’s issues seem more complicated than the average 21-year-old. Can Jo endure the dramatic perils of college while planning for life after graduation?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Navigating through college isn’t easy especially when you don’t know what the future holds, but Jo is determined to conquer her present even if it means figuring out what being an adult is all about. With graduation around the corner, Jo and her roommates have some growing up to do and the last semester is all they have.＜/p＞ ＜p＞College is complicated.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Partying is a necessity.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Drama is guaranteed.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Life is just beginning.＜/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！】Life Love & Lavenham【電子書籍】[ Anthony E Thorogood ]

＜p＞Philadelphia is a thoroughly modern girl with a determination to choose her own destiny but the matchmakers are swarming. Her 80 year old Grandmother is busy conspiring with Kaleen, an upwardly mobile fashion designer, the two of them want Philadelphia to team up with Algernon, Kaleen’s dysfunctional mathematical genius of a son. In the meantime Philadelphia’s Grandfather is also matchmaking and wants her to marry Sir Reginald Houghton-Smythe a globetrotting millionaire with a plum in his mouth. However there is a spanner in the works in the form of Johnny Compost a punk rocker from London and self- proclaimed leader of The Great Unwashed. With such a cast of zany characters the only possible outcome is pandemonium, mayhem and madness.＜br /＞ Reviews: 'This hilarious play kicks off with the self-deprecating Lavenham attending a garden party with a number of wickedly comic characters such as the elderly, slightly dotty hosts with matchmaking ambitions for their strident, gobby, self-opinionated teenaged granddaughter. Her anarchic, climate change punk rocker boyfriend, a "Nouveau Riche" Aussie couple and an ageing English aristocrat, all gathering to create a continuous comedy of confusion and misunderstanding and this mix is all peppered with rapid fire, zany exchanges of disconnected dialogue. If you enjoy comic fandangles, this is one not to miss. I've already got my next one.'＜/p＞ ＜p＞'My husband discovered Thorogood by chance. His laughter prompted me to read this as well. We are both well into our senior years and have always believed laughter is the best medicine. Thorogood is our new prescription.'＜/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！】Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion【電子書籍】[ Anne Somerset ]

＜p＞Her personal life riven by passion, illness and intrigue, Queen Anne presided over some of the most momentous events in British history. Like Antonia Fraser’s life of Marie Antoinette or Amanda Foreman’s ‘The Duchess’, ‘Queen Anne’ is historical biography at its best.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In 1702, fourteen years after she helped oust her father from his throne and deprived her newborn half-brother of his birthright, Queen Anne inherited the crowns of England and Scotland. Childless, despite seventeen pregnancies that had either ended in failure or produced heartrendingly short-lived offspring, in some respects she was a pitiable figure. But against all expectation she proved Britain’s most successful Stuart ruler.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Her reign was marked by many triumphs, including union with Scotland and glorious victories in war against France. Yet while her great general, the Duke of Marlborough, was performing feats of military genius, Anne’s relationship with his outspoken wife Sarah was becoming ever more rancorous. Political differences partly explained why the Queen’s earlier adoration for Sarah transformed to loathing, but the final rupture was precipitated by Sarah’s startling claim that it was the Queen’s lesbian infatuation with another lady-in-waiting, Abigail Masham, that had destroyed their friendship.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Having lost the will to continue an expensive war that the Marlboroughs and their political allies favoured, the Queen embarked upon a peace process that some condemned as a betrayal of the national interest. And, as it became clear that Anne did not have long to live, the nation became polarised by fears that she intended to bequeath her crown to her Catholic half brother, rather than the German Protestant cousin whom Parliament had designated her heir.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Drawing widely on unpublished sources, Anne Somerset vividly depicts the clashes of personality and party rivalries that aroused such strong feelings at the time. Traditionally depicted as a weak ruler dominated by female favourites and haunted by remorse at having deposed her father, Queen Anne emerges as a woman whose unshakeable commitment to duty enabled her to overcome private tragedy and painful disabilities, setting her kingdom on the path to greatness.＜/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 Time Machine【電子書籍】[ H. G. Wells ]

＜p＞Surely the Time Traveler threw great dinner parties! His guests were treated to a once-in-forever trial of a miniature time machine - an exquisite miniature that acted so flawlessly as to appear to be stage magic. That his guests did not believe the explanation - the machine vanished into the mists of the future - was patent. Still, a couple of the more thoughtful had reservations about branding the demonstration an outright trickery. And what about the nearly-complete full-size Machine in the Traveler's laboratory?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Confronted at the next party by the disheveled Traveler, who had apparently suffered privations and who displayed two curious flowers of no known type, the Narrator's wonderment increased. For the Traveler provided a perfectly arresting story to explain his condition - a surprising tale of a far future where humankind divides into a carefree above-ground race, the Eloi, and a mechanical subterranean race, the Morlocks. A tale in which it appears that the inheritors of the Earth inhabit it as cattle for the feeding of their underground cousins!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Believe, or disbelieve? But perhaps the inventive genius of a man who can translate "thousands of millions of days" of time travel into an exact date should not be doubted!＜/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！】FRIENDS TILL THE END【電子書籍】[ Gloria Dank ]

＜p＞＜strong＞When these old friends get together, it’s a party to die for.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞It was a fabulous eveningーgood food, plenty of drinks, a congenial mix of old friends and new. Indeed, if it hadn’t been for the hostess’s untimely demise, it would have been one of the best parties of the season. As it was, someone had mixed rich and lovely Laura Sloane a quite fatal cocktail, and she had gone from happily tipsy to terribly dead within hours.＜/p＞ ＜p＞That someone certainly wasn’t elegant, indolent Snooky Randolph, the only guest without a motive of love or money. But Snooky did have a growing passion for the number-one suspect, Laura’s beautiful stepdaughter, Isabel. He also had a brother-in-law who abhorred murder. Can Bernard, with his genius for armchair sleuthing, figure out who in the tight little circle of Laura’s friends is a killer, before the next corpse is served?＜/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！】Thomas Hardy Remembered【電子書籍】[ Martin Ray ]

＜p＞Thomas Hardy Remembered assembles some 150 annotated interviews and recollections of Hardy, most of which are being reprinted for the first time. They range from close personal reflections by old friends such as Sir George Douglas, J.M. Barrie, and Edmund Gosse, to fleeting glimpses by strangers who saw Hardy at a London party or at his club. Martin Ray has selected items having the greatest literary or biographical significance, and annotated them with meticulous accuracy and a keen eye for the telling detail. As a result, the volume will be an invaluable resource to scholars who are interested not only in what concerned Hardy personally and professionally, but also in how he was perceived by others. Having these items collected in one volume reveals Hardy's contemporaneous opinions about his own writings and also makes it possible to trace the marked recurrence, over time, of certain preoccupations: ancient families, Hardy's hostility to reviewers, architecture, Roman relics, Wessex folklore and dialect, animal welfare, Napoleon, and hangings. With regard to his literary career, a portrait emerges of Hardy as the scrupulous professional, properly aware of his commercial rights, while at the same time appearing, to some who met him, unconscious of his own genius.＜/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！】Gold Experience Following Prince in the '90s【電子書籍】[ Jim Walsh ]

＜p＞Throughout the 1990s, Prince feuded with his record label, Warner Bros., over his rights as an independent recording artistーand made some of the most brilliant music of his career. During that time, Jim Walsh covered Prince for the ＜em＞St. Paul Pioneer Press＜/em＞ and wrote about him passionately, thoughtfully, exhaustively. Here, in real time, is that coverage: a clip-by-clip look back at Prince in the ‘90s. Walsh’s newly unearthed interviews, essays, columns, and reviews make ＜em＞Gold Experience＜/em＞ an essential slice of history for fans, scholars, and latecomers to the Minneapolis-born musical genius Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958?April 21, 2016).＜/p＞ ＜p＞Join Walsh at the 1994 NBA All-Star game after party and release bash for the single “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World.” Accompany him to the after-hours clubs Erotic City, Glam Slam, and, of course, Paisley Park. Meet Prince’s wife and bandmate Mayte (and while you’re at it, take in the wedding and reception). Enjoy a two-hour sit-down interview with Prince. Explore Prince’s veganism, talk to fans in line for a Target Center show, preview the “Jam of the Year” concert and check in at the after party. The passions and influences, from Mozart to funk godfather Larry Graham; the gigs and the Paisley Park garage sale; Walsh’s open letter to the artist and his reflections on religion and spirituality. This is Prince as few have seen him, reported as only Jim Walsh can: a portrait of the artist from a dizzying array of angles, captured in living color for all time.＜/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！】Oxford Examined Town & Clown【電子書籍】[ Richard O. Smith ]

＜p＞Repeatedly jamming his fork of curiosity into the live toaster of opportunity, comedian Richard O. Smith captures the experience of living in Oxford in probably the funniest book written about the Dreaming Spires. Collected here are 70 of his best Oxford Examined columns from the award-winning Oxford Times magazine Oxfordshire Limited Edition including several previously unpublished stories. In these unflinchingly truthful columns he meets celebrities (Kate Middleton, Dara O'Briain, the one who plays Phoebe in Friends and a predictably grumpy Alan Sugar), visits the 11th dimension with an Oxford University maths prot?g?e, gatecrashes Encaenia, flirts with a Roman slave girl from 79AD, is ejected from the Oxford Union by burly security, witnesses a comeuppance for a pack of arrogant students, conducts a walking tour for Britain's scariest hen party, moves a library (which transpires to be harder work than moving a mountain), sees Britain's most pretentious theatre production, participates in the UK's national bell ringing championships (yes, that is a thing), allows Oxford University psychologists to experiment on him, rescues four escaped horses in a busy Oxford street (thankfully it wasn't the apocalypse), becomes a crime-fighting superhero, is hospitalised in a serious bike accident, gets chased by a furious revenge-fixated woman dressed as a Friesian cow, strides out of his house one morning and disappears down a giant sink hole, mentors two stand-up comedy virgins, commits a devastating social faux pas and pledges to never use a split infinitive or sentence this long again.'Right from the introductory preamble, this is pure comedy genius. I dare anybody to read it and not start sniggering out loud. Warning: this may attract odd looks if you are on a bus or anywhere else in public.' --Oxford Times'Bring together an outstanding comic writer and a city of unlikely people and you'll find the perfect love-match. The wittiest, zaniest, and most truthful guide to a city you'll read: armchair travel has never been so good. Or so funny.' --Susie Dent'The funniest book ever about Oxford. Pure comedy genius. I read Oxford Examined and laughed so much.' --Gill Oliver, Oxford Mail＜/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。