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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！】Skin Deep The twisted, unputdownable No. 1 bestselling crime thriller from the author of Strange Sally Diamond【電子書籍】[ Liz Nugent ]

＜p＞＜strong＞'Pure genius. Absolutely brilliant' Shari Lapena＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'A twisted thriller, reminiscent of Patricia Highsmith' Ian Rankin＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞IBA Crime Fiction Book of the Year Winner 2018＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞**___________＜/p＞ ＜p＞WINNER of the Dead Good Books Award for the Book That You Can't Put Down!**＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞She's not who you think she is . . .＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞'I could probably have been an actress.＜/em＞＜br /＞ ＜em＞It is not difficult to pretend to be somebody else.＜/em＞＜br /＞ ＜em＞Isn't that what I've been doing for most of my life?'＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Cordelia Russell has been living on the French Riviera for twenty-five years, passing herself off as an English socialite. But her luck, and the kindness of strangers, have run out.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The arrival of a visitor from her distant past shocks Cordelia. She reacts violently to the intrusion and flees her flat to spend a drunken night at a glittering party. As dawn breaks she stumbles home through the back streets. Even before she opens her door she can hear the flies buzzing. She did not expect the corpse inside to start decomposing quite so quickly . . .＜/p＞ ＜p＞___________＜/p＞ ＜p＞'Bloody brilliant!' ＜strong＞Denise Mina＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞'Extraordinary' ＜strong＞A.J. Finn＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞'The finest psychological thriller writer currently at work' ＜strong＞Tammy Cohen＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞'Dark, brutal and brilliant' ＜strong＞Colette McBeth＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞'Absorbing, beautifully written' ＜strong＞＜em＞The Times,＜/em＞ Crime Books of the Year＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞'Every bit as amazing as her first two [novels]' ＜strong＞Lisa Jewell＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞'Dazzling . . . chilling, mesmerising and, ultimately, devastating. Pure storytelling genius' ＜strong＞Mark Edwards＜/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 Time Machine【電子書籍】[ H. G. Wells ]

＜p＞'So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers...' At a Victorian dinner party, in Richmond, London, the Time Traveller returns to tell his extraordinary tale of mankind's future in the year 802,701 AD. It is a dystopian vision of Darwinian evolution, with humans split into an above-ground species of Eloi, and their troglodyte brothers. The first book H. G. Wells published, The Time Machine is a scientific romance that helped invent the genre of science fiction and the time travel story. Even before its serialisation had finished in the spring of 1895, Wells had been declared 'a man of genius', and the book heralded a fifty year career of a major cultural and political controversialist. It is a sardonic rejection of Victorian ideals of progress and improvement and a detailed satirical commentary on the Decadent culture of the 1890s. This edition features a contextual introduction, detailed explanatory notes, and two essays Wells wrote just prior to the publication of his first 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！】Fidel Castro 10 Speeches That Changed the World【電子書籍】[ Fidel Castro ]

＜p＞＜em＞“A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.”＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Fidel Castro was perhaps the most charismatic and controversial head of state in modern times.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Castro took power on New Year’s Day in 1959 serenaded by the Western media for toppling dictator Fulgencio Batista and promising democracy.＜/p＞ ＜p＞He soon revealed that his goal was to impose Communist rule.＜/p＞ ＜p＞He exiled clergy, took over Catholic schools and expropriated businesses.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Firing squads and dungeons eliminated rivals and dissenters.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A dictatorial pariah to many, he became a hero and inspiration for many of the world's poor, defiantly charting an independent and revolutionary path for Cuba over nearly half a century.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This collection of Castro’s speeches provide a revealing look into the mind and motives of a political and tactical genius who took everlasting delight in causing the United States to “turn tail and run,” after the crushing defeat of The Bay of Pigs invasion.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞FIDEL CASTRO＜/strong＞ (1926?2016) was a Cuban revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba for 47 years as Prime Minister. Fidel towered over Cuba for decades, fiercely rebelling against the United States under a communist ideology that promised equality and happiness but produced very little of it, instead leading millions to flee the state he took over. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party socialist state, industry and businesses were nationalized, and state socialist reforms were implemented throughout society.＜/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！】Flying Man Hugo Junkers and the Dream of Aviation【電子書籍】[ Richard Byers ]

＜p＞Hugo Junkers (1859?1935) was a German engineer and aircraft designer generally credited as the pioneer of all-metal airplanes. His company, Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG, more commonly referred to simply as “Junkers,” became a major German aircraft manufacturer based in Dessau. From humble beginnings producing boilers and radiators, by World War II the company was producing some of the most successful Luftwaffe planes, including the Ju 88, the primary bomber of the German air force.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Hugo Junkers himself, however, was a socialist pacifist who saw aviation as a way to unify the world. Soon after the Nazi party came to power in 1933, Junkers was forced to surrender his patents, found his holdings seized by the state, and was placed under house arrest. He died in 1935, a “tortured genius” exiled from his life’s work but, perhaps fortunately, spared from seeing his inventions destructively unleashed across Europe.＜/p＞ ＜p＞No biography of Junkers has been published to date. Author Richard Byers now fills that void with this compelling narrative of a man and his machines. ＜em＞Flying Man＜/em＞ is a contribution not only to the history of aviation but also adds to our understanding of the consolidation of power in Germany’s march toward World War II.＜/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！】Light Out of DarknessーLux E Tenebris (Thelema and the Necronomicon)【電子書籍】[ Gaius Corbin ]

＜p＞Read the book that your Imperator and Chief Adept does not want you to read.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A startling revelation of the brilliant intersection of the magic of Aleister Crowley, his Thelemic philosophy, and the dark forbidden magic of the Necronomicon. Revealed at last, a dark episode of the history of the Freemasonic Order of the Golden Dawn, of its founder and Imperator, the genius MacGregor Mathers, his secret teacher the famed Lux E Tenebris, and the battle to control the forgotten secrets of the dreaded black grimoire, the Necronomicon.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Read the book that everyone is losing their sanity over＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this book, one will find the Thelemic phrases associated with the fifty Sumerian (Babylonian) names of the god, Marduk. This knowledge will super-charge your magical work with the dreaded black grimoire, the Necronomicon, making you feared and respected by magicians and witches everywhere.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Learn the secret attributes of the fifty names of Marduk, and their connection with the dark Enochian magic of Doctor Dee and Edward Kelley.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Recite the forbidden invocation of Marduk in its most complete form, lost since ancient Sumer and Babylon, and finally restored to its original full glory.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Gaze upon proof that such knowledge was being utilized in the Freemasonic Golden Dawn, and its later offshoot, the Order of Thelemic Adepts, that the Golden Dawn was truly a magical Order, and not just a study group for occultists.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Read the shocking exchange of letters between Freemasonic Golden Dawn founder, William Wynn Westcott, and Fr?ulein Sprengel that proves that Sprengel was everything that Westcott could wish for in a Secret Chief.＜/p＞ ＜p＞What others have to say about Light Out of Darkness＜/p＞ ＜p＞“An excellent testimonial of the allure of black magic…and the hold that it has over modern occultism.”ーMoses Leecher, Freemasonic Golden Dawn＜/p＞ ＜p＞“What a total load of dingo kidneys…”ーMitzy Knitter, Extraordinary Legion of Numpty Haters＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Does Eric know about this?!”ーThe Living Devil＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Is this libel? Is this slander? I always confuse the two. Someone call my lawyer.”ーPhoenix Solomon, Chivalric Order of the Golden Dawn＜/p＞ ＜p＞“What he saidーcall my lawyer!”ーSymbolon Gimel, Grand PooBah, Order of Thelemic Adepts＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Coming soonーthis exact same information packed in a convenient hundred dollar a month correspondence course!”ー Jimmie Bob Beggains, Soar via Darkness Occult and Magic Emporium and Instructional Centre＜/p＞ ＜p＞“This is proof that every historian and occult writer has their price…and are only doing it for the money.”ーMad Uncle Morgan＜/p＞ ＜p＞“It is obvious that the writer needed money to pay the plumber.”ーJohn the plumber, the secret reincarnation of MacGregor Mathers＜/p＞ ＜p＞“How dare the translators put a real magical operation at the center of this…”ーExtremely Honored Frater QA of Expensive Golden Order＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Secrecy breach! Secrecy breach!”ーSupremely Honored Frater OY, One and True Order of the Golden Dawn＜/p＞ ＜p＞“One witch, two witch, three witch.”ーSister Seuss＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Some parts are obviously true. Other parts are obviously false. Unfortunately, no one can agree which parts are which.”ーNick Feral, Completely Modern Order of Crowley Haters＜/p＞ ＜p＞“I consider this to be the most important article on magic of this century.”ーElvis＜/p＞ ＜p＞“I have not read this book. I give it one star only because they mentioned that completely fake grimoire, the Necronomicon.”ーDirty Martini＜/p＞ ＜p＞“I have not read this book either; yet I give it five stars because they mentioned Thelema.”ーShirley Temple＜/p＞ ＜p＞“I met Gaius Corbin at a party, and he was the most learned and serious person there. As for the rest of the members of the Necronomicon Translation Project, they were some cool cats, and perhaps, just maybe, potheads.”ーStephanie Wiser, author of The Daemonolatry Sex ManualーFifty Diabolical Love Making Positions (Now available in a special censored expurgated edition, thanks to those whiners at the Daily Outhouse and the f**k filters at Apricot)＜/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！】Ladies Must Live【電子書籍】[ Alice Duer Miller ]

＜p＞Mrs. Ussher was having a small house party in the country over New Year's Day. This is equivalent to saying that the half dozen most fashionable people in New York were out of town. Certain human beings are admitted to have a genius for discrimination in such matters as objects of art, pigs or stocks. Mrs. Ussher had this same instinct in regard to fashion, especially where fashions in people were concerned. She turned toward hidden social availability very much as the douser's hazel wand turns toward the hidden spring. When she crossed the room to speak to some woman after dinner, whatever that woman's social position might formerly have been, you could be sure that at present she was on the upward wing. When Mrs. Ussher discovered extraordinary qualities of mind and sympathy in some hitherto impossible man, you might be certain it was time to begin to book him in advance. Not that Mrs. Ussher was a kingmaker; she herself had no more power over the situation than the barometer has over the weather. She merely was able to foretell; she had the sense of approaching social success. She was unaware of her own powers, and really supposed that her sudden and usually ephemeral friendships were based on mutual attraction. The fact that for years her friends had been the small group of the momentarily fashionable required, in her eyes, no explanation. So simple was her creed that she believed people were fashionable for the same reason that they were her friends, because "they were so nice." During the short period of their existence, Mrs. Ussher gave to these friendships the utmost loyalty and devotion. She agonized over the financial, domestic and romantic troubles of her friends; she sat up till the small hours, talking to them like a schoolgirl; during the height of their careers she organized plots for their assistance; and even when their stars were plainly on the decline, she would often ask them to lunch, if she happened to be alone. Many people, we know, are prone to make friends with the rich and great. Mrs. Ussher's genius consisted in having made friends with them before they were either. When you hurried to her with some account of a newly discovered treasureーa beauty or a conversable young manーshe would always say: "Oh, yes, I crossed with her two years ago," or "Isn't he a dear?ーhe was once in Jack's office." The strange thing was these statements were always true; the subjects of them confessed with tears that "dear Mrs. Ussher" or "darling Laura" was the kindest friend they had ever had.＜/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！】Nocturnal Academy 15: the Dark Magick Side of the Moon【電子書籍】[ Ethan Somerville ]

＜p＞All communication with the Nocturnal Moonbase has been lost, and the rescue party sent to investigate has not returned.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A second party is collected and includes Professor Abbacus, Alice and Andre. They travel to the Moonbase to find it airless but not abandoned. A nasty surprise within leads them down into a grim realm not even the genius Abbacus realised existed.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But from this dark place the party travels to a world the Professor knows all too well. It is a world within a world of strange, prehistoric creatures, beastmen, ancient temples and shining cities inhabited by godlike beings.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It is also a world of dark secrets, abandoned friends and old enemies. One being in particular has been waiting over a century for Professor Abbacus to return so he can have his final revenge upon 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！】Aeon Legion: Labyrinth【電子書籍】[ J.P. Beaubien ]

＜p＞Time travel has made the Edge of Time a dangerous place.＜/p＞ ＜p＞To protect the Edge of Time from the disastrous alterations of time travelers, the Aeon Legion seeks the greatest soldiers and warriors from the most bloody, war-torn eras in history. Those they deem worthy gain a chance to compete in the toughest training program ever designed.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Terra Mason, a plain eighteen-year-old girl from the modern United States, has an impressive stubborn streak. Her persistence and bravery gains the notice and sponsorship of one of the Aeon Legion's greatest heroines. Now Terra must turn that stubbornness into determination if she is to contend with history's finest soldiers and somehow pass the Aeon Legion's final test, the mysterious Labyrinth. She will not quit. Terra will prove that even someone as average as her can still be a heroine.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Hanns Speer is polite, good-natured, charming, a genius inventor of a time travel machine, and a dedicated member of the Nazi Party. Yet he cannot understand why people from the future regard him and his fellow Nazis as monsters. Now he must use his charisma and cunning to challenge the seemingly invincible Aeon Legion and its monopoly on time travel. He will not quit. Hanns will steal history itself if he has to, mistakenly believing it will prove him to be a hero.＜/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 Bravest of the Brave ー or, with Peterborough in Spain【電子書籍】[ G. A. Henty ]

＜p＞There are few great leaders whose lives and actions have so completely fallen into oblivion as those of the Earl of Peterborough. His career as a general was a brief one, extending only over little more than a year, and yet in that time he showed a genius for warfare which has never been surpassed, and performed feats of daring worthy of taking their place among those of the leaders of chivalry. The fact that they have made so slight a mark upon history is due to several reasons. In the first place, they were overshadowed by the glory and successes of Marlborough; they were performed in a cause which could scarcely be said to be that of England, and in which the public had a comparatively feeble interest; the object, too, for which he fought was frustrated, and the war was an unsuccessful one, although from no fault on his part. But most of all, Lord Peterborough failed to attain that place in the list of British worthies to which his genius and his bravery should have raised him, because that genius was directed by no steady aim or purpose. Lord Peterborough is, indeed, one of the most striking instances in history of genius and talent wasted, and a life thrown away by want of fixed principle and by an inability or unwillingness to work with other men. He quarreled in turn with every party and with almost every individual with whom he came in contact; and while he himself was constantly changing his opinions, he was intolerant of all opinions differing from those which he at the moment held, and was always ready to express in the most open and offensive manner his contempt and dislike for those who differed from him. His eccentricities were great; he was haughty and arrogant, hasty and passionate; he denied his God, quarreled with his king, and rendered himself utterly obnoxious to every party in the state. (excerpt from preface)＜/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！】Home Grown Enemy (Team Blake Pt 2)【電子書籍】[ Doug E Diamond ]

＜p＞Amidst a backdrop of exotic locations, LOGAN BLAKE and his team of Special Forces Operators must embark on a world-wide terrorist hunt. They are tasked with capturing the perpetrator alive. The situation intensifies when crooked CIA agents, rogue Mossad officers, and a rapidly expanding extremist organisation, all with separate agendas, begin searching for the same man.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dry witted one-liners and good old Aussie humour are never too far away, as love, lies and acts of treason abound.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When everyone’s favourite Irishman, Sean Macnally, decides to host a New Year’s Eve party, little does he realise the romantic effect it will have on two people’s lives. Cupid’s arrows aren’t the only things falling from the sky though.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Evil has manifested itself in a different form this time round. A natural born genius is creating havoc with his ability to hack into supposedly impenetrable Military Security Systems. A traitor is on the loose… a traitor with a gripe against his own family’s adopted country… a traitor who has some serious financial backing from an unexpected source.＜/p＞ ＜p＞BLAKE and his men must overcome physical obstacles and mental demons, as the global hunt for a HOME GROWN ENEMY reaches its suspense-filled, thrilling conclusion.＜/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 be-fallen 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.＜/p＞ ＜p＞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！】Seven Ways We Lie【電子書籍】[ Riley Redgate ]

In?Seven Ways We Lie, a chance encounter tangles the lives of seven high school students, each resisting the allure of one of the seven deadly sins, and each telling their story from their seven distinct points of view.The juniors at Paloma High School all have their secrets, whether it’s the thespian who hides her trust issues onstage, the closeted pansexual who only cares about his drug-dealing profits, or the neurotic genius who’s planted the seed of a school scandal. But it’s Juniper Kipling who has the furthest to fall. No one would argue that Juniperーobedient daughter, salutatorian, natural beauty, and loyal friendーis anything but perfect. Everyone knows she’s a saint, not a sinner; but when love is involved, who is Juniper to resist temptation? When she begins to crave more and more of the one person she can’t have, her charmed life starts to unravel.Then rumors of a studentteacher affair hit the fan. After Juniper accidentally exposes her secret at a party, her fate falls into the hands of the other six sinners, bringing them into one another’s orbits. All seven are guilty of something. Together, they could save one another from their temptationsーor be ruined by them.Riley Redgate’s twisty YA debut effortlessly weaves humor, heartbreak, and redemption into a drama that fans of Jenny Han and Stephanie Perkins will adore.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！】Endgame【電子書籍】[ Jeffrey Round ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A modern retelling of the classic Agatha Christie tale of suspense and murder, ＜em＞And Then There Were None＜/em＞.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞When Harvey Keill, ex-manager of the Ladykillers, arranges a reunion for his notorious punk band on a remote island off the coast of Seattle, it seems as though the group’s glory days are about to return.＜/p＞ ＜p＞One by one, the band members and their guests arrive. Lead singer Spike Anthrax, bassist Pete Doghouse, and guitarist Max Hardcore confront one another for the first time since their well-publicized and highly acrimonious split fifteen years earlier stopped them from finishing their musical testament to punk rock genius: ＜em＞Endgame＜/em＞. They are joined by an entourage of groupies, girlfriends, one of America’s best rock critics, and a real estate agent invited to put the island up for sale.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But where’s Harvey?＜/p＞ ＜p＞No matter ー a party’s a party, right? ＜em＞Wrong.＜/em＞ Once everyone has gathered, a dark secret emerges from the past to haunt them and, one by one, the guests begin to fall prey to a mysterious fate.＜/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！】Apocalypse North Who Killed Stebbin Harpoon?【電子書籍】[ Roland Kuhn ]

＜p＞A young man in Kingston, Ontario ponders the perplexities of his life as a first-year university student. Should he date the poetic Keiko, the athletic Meg, the temperamental actress Daphne ? or all of them? How can he prevent his eccentric father, dressed as a woman, from visiting him in residence? Why is Professor Svensen, the icily beautiful Swedish genius, behaving so oddly, and can he possibly pass her Economics course?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Soon, the young man will be a hardened saboteur blowing up pipelines and refineries in the Tar Sands region of northern Alberta, and setting explosive charges under the CN Tower in Toronto. The idyllic university campus where he flirted, and occasionally attended class, will be a battlefield. For “Apocalypse North” is set in a parallel Canada which takes a dark turn into civil war.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Ex-Prime Minister Stebbin Harpoon, bitter at his recent loss of power, appoints himself Lord Protector of the Greater Albertan States and invades Saskatchewan. Peter Mansbridge and Rex Murphy slip away from their CBC handlers and broadcast Harpooner propaganda from the Lord Protector’s capital in Red Deer. Mayor Rob Ford undergoes a religious conversion to overcome his multiple addictions, changes his name to Rahil Fuad, and establishes a brutal Caliphate in Toronto. Foreign fighters flood into the Caliphate; the city’s leading newspaper is renamed “The Toronto Star and Crescent”.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In Ottawa ? that “city of sheep ruled by weasels” - wily Gilles Luthier, Bloc Qu?b?cois Prime Minister, fights a two-front civil war to hold Canada together. Though his former rivals, the charismatic young leader of the Limber Party, St. Just Trudel, and the morose First Nations leader of the Noble Dreams Party, Tomtom Mad Bear, have joined Luthier’s government of national unity, Lord Protector Harpoon is winning battle after battle on the Prairies, and the Toronto jihadis are marching towards Ottawa. Worse, a powerful faction in Beijing is moving towards support for Harpoon.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Can the Prime Minister trust the Public Service, whose cynical motto “Do, Undo, Redo ? It’s All Good Pensionable Time” suggests that its loyalty to Canada may not survive the cybernetic deletion of federal pensions by Harpooner hackers? Will new technology ? drones, the Loyalty Detector, remote-controlled assassination devices (including a homicidal electric toothbrush) ? turn the tide for the feds? Can the Luthier government control its erratic allies, such as Moira Magdalen Kelly, the green-eyed Irish temptress, or Bernadette Archdyke-Dworkin, the brilliant guerrilla warrior whose ultra-feminist splinter group may be planning to execute the broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi for crimes against womanhood? Finally, why does Vice-Chairman Chiang of the Communist Party of China have a blue left eye?＜/p＞ ＜p＞This story of intrigue, love, and treachery is seen through the eyes of an obese, cross-dressing computer geek. There has never been a novel set in Canada anything like “Apocalypse North”.＜/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！】This Side of Paradise【電子書籍】[ F. Scott Fitzgerald ]

＜p＞First published in 1920, This Side of Paradise marks the beginning of the career of one of the greatest writers of the first half of the twentieth century. In this remarkable achievement, F. Scott Fitzgerald displays his unparalleled wit and keen social insight in his portrayal of college life through the struggles and doubts of Amory Blaine, a self-proclaimed genius with a love of knowledge and a penchant for the romantic. As Amory journeys into adulthood and leaves the aristocratic egotism of his youth behind, he becomes painfully aware of his lost innocence and the new sense of responsibility and regret that has taken its place.＜br /＞ Clever and wonderfully written, This Side of Paradise is a fascinating novel about the changes of the Jazz Age and their effects on the individual. It is a complex portrait of a versatile mind in a restless generation that reveals rich ideas crucial to an understanding of the 1920s and timeless truths about the human need for--and fear of--change.＜br /＞ "A very enlivening book indeed, a book really brilliant and glamorous, making as agreeable reading as could be asked . . . There are clever things, keen and searching things, amusingly young and mistaken things, beautiful things and pretty things . . . and truly inspired and elevated things, an astonishing abundance of each, in THIS SIDE OF PARADISE. You could call it the youthful Byronism that is normal in a man of the author's type, working out through a well-furnished intellect of unusual critical force."＜br /＞ --The Evening Post, 1920＜br /＞ "An astonishing and refreshing book . . . Mr. Fitzgerald has recorded with a good deal of felicity and a disarming frankness the adventures and developments of a curious and fortunate American youth. . . . [It is] delightful and encouraging to find a novel which gives us in the accurate terms of intellectual honesty a reflection of American undergraduate life. At last the revelation has come. We have the constant young American occupation--the 'petting party'--frankly and humorously in our literature."＜br /＞ --The New Republic, 1920＜/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 Christmas Edition: A Journey to Paradise【電子書籍】[ Robin Shope ]

＜p＞Lucy Collins is desperate. A large newspaper is planning to set-up shop in town, threatening the livelihood of her small, family-run business, The Turtle Creek Newspaper. Only a miracle can save them... but it's Christmastime, the season of miracles. At the staff Christmas party, Lucy makes a wish, and what seems like the answer to her prayer walks in the front door. Joe McNamara a genius when it comes to the written word, and he's gifted with ideas about keeping the newspaper afloat. Lucy finds herself not only falling in love with his talent, but also the man. Joe McNamara is desperate. He loves everything about Lucy-her fresh spirit, her zeal for the newspaper, and the way she looks at him across the table when they share hot chocolate. But Joe is harboring a dark secret that threatens to tear him up inside. If Lucy ever discovers his part in her fiance's death, what looks like a promising relationship will unravel like discarded Christmas ribbon. How can he find redemption for his sins and continue to keep the truth from Lucy? Will the spirit of celebration be enough to heal two hearts? Or will the reality of deception make this the worst Christmas of all?＜/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 Many Names of Leni Riefenstahl【電子書籍】[ Therese . ]

＜p＞Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Biographies, , language: English, abstract: Leni Riefenstahl has been, and still is, a much-discussed person. She has been called many things, and given many labels. She has been called a liar, a man-eater, a Nazi, an extraordinary talent and a genius. She was an actress, director, dancer, filmmaker and photographer. In her career, she has done everything between making Nazi propaganda films, to taking photos of Mick Jagger, to photograph unknown tribes in Africa. Leni had many talents, but her great passion, and what she is best known for is her great filmmaking. She was the brain behind the masterpiece of propaganda films Triumph of the Will [1935], which she made for Hitler and the Nazi Party before World War 2. She was a close friend to Hitler before and during the war, and as described in Bach (2007 p.388) she is probably best known as 'Hitler's Filmmaker'.＜/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 Sugar Hit!【電子書籍】[ Sarah Coates ]

＜p＞Sarah Coates, blogger behind the award-winning thesugarhit.com, is a baking genius. Sarah’s first book, ＜i＞The Sugar Hit!＜/i＞, introduces us to her fabulous cookies, cakes, pancakes, doughnuts, ice creams, brownies, drinks, cupcakes, pies and heaps more. She’s compiled her most ass-kicking recipes with the goal of bringing ridiculously spectacular, chocolate-coated, sprinkle-topped, pastry-wrapped, deep-fried, syrup-drizzled sweets into your life and kitchen.＜/p＞＜p＞Sarah’s got you covered from first thing in the morning to the middle of the night. Wake up to Blueberry Pancake Granola, take a break with a couple of Choc Chip Pretzel Cookies, or recharge with a Cherry Hazelnut Energy Bar. Or hey, why not just blow the lid off the place with a Filthy Cheat’s Jam Donut?＜/p＞＜p＞＜i＞The Sugar Hit!＜/i＞ is divided into 6 fun chapters:＜/p＞＜ul＞ ＜li＞ Breakfast & Brunch ＜li＞ Coffee Break ＜li＞ Healthy Junk ＜li＞ Midnight Snacks ＜li＞ Party Time ＜li＞ Happy Holidays＜/ul＞＜p＞Grab some sugar, butter, flour, chocolate and eggs and you’re just a cream, sift, melt and crack away from creating delicious snacks, cakes and desserts.＜/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！】Paulina & Fran【電子書籍】[ Rachel B. Glaser ]

＜p＞Sharp-tongued, fearsome Paulina meets lovely, listless Fran one night at a house party held near their privileged New England art school. Together they drift through their classes, critique their fellow students, lavish attention on their curls and nurture their shared dreams of genius. But when their burgeoning friendship tips from intensity into enmity our two heroines find themselves cast out from the halcyon days of art school, divided from one another and set adrift in the increasingly disappointing world of adulthood.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Written with wit and brio, dancing between razor-sharp satire and a tender portrait of unrequited love, ＜em＞Paulina & Fran＜/em＞ is a beguiling whirl of a novel from a writer of immense talent.＜/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 Language of Grief【電子書籍】[ Alex Gallo-Brown ]

＜p＞"The Language of Grief," a collection of poems in seven parts, took its author seven years to complete. The poems chronicle the sudden loss of his father to illness and the subsequent effect the loss had on his family, community, and psyche. As Gallo-Brown writes in the introduction, "This is a story about grief. There are exhortations of love here and gasps of fear, flashes of self-discovery followed by descents into confusion and rage." His lyrical, often darkly humorous poems show the ways that grief can shatter us--and ways we put ourselves back together.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Alex Gallo-Brown was born and raised in Seattle and holds a BFA in creative writing from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Rumpus, Salon, The Nervous Breakdown, The Collagist, Everyday Genius, The Monarch Review, and elsewhere. He has worked as a labor organizer, a caregiver for people with disabilities, and a farmhand, among other occupations. He lives in Atlanta. Find him at www.alexgallobrown.com.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Praise for The Language of Grief＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Alex Gallo-Brown's poems are the sad and beautiful tales of a lost son, lost father, and, yes, lost generation. But these poems are fun and smart. I love them."＜br /＞ -- Sherman Alexie, winner of the National Book Award＜/p＞ ＜p＞"The poet has lost his father, and the baffling, overwhelming grief is the sustained bass note under these songs of innocence and experience. To have arrived at his level of control while writing of a great blow, as well as of the uncontrollable plagues of youthーfeverish loneliness, ecstasy shading into disillusionーis remarkable."＜br /＞ -- Valerie Trueblood, author of Search Party and Marry or Burn＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Grief isn't always about death, rather it's a fundamental part of living a rich, meaningful life. Alex Gallo-Brown understands this on a deep level, and his masterful, lyrical poems convey the sad beauty of letting go."＜br /＞ -- Claire Bidwell Smith, author of The Rules of Inheritance＜/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！】Of Civil Liberty【電子書籍】[ David Hume ]

＜p＞THOSE who employ their pens on political subjects, free from party-rage, and party-prejudices, cultivate a science, which, of all others, contributes most to public utility, and even to the private satisfaction of those who addict themselves to the study of it. I am apt, however, to entertain a suspicion, that the world is still too young to fix many general truths in politics, which will remain true to the latest posterity. We have not as yet had experience of three thousand years; so that not only the art of reasoning is still imperfect in this science, as in all others, but we even want sufficient materials upon which we can reason. It is not fully known, what degree of refinement, either in virtue or vice, human nature is susceptible of; nor what may be expected of mankind from any great revolution in their education, customs, or principles. MACHIAVEL was certainly a great genius; but having confined his study to the furious and tyrannical governments of ancient times, or to the little disorderly principalities of ITALY, his reasonings especially upon monarchical government, have been found extremely defective; and there scarcely is any maxim in his prince, which subsequent experience has not entirely refuted. A weak prince,[1] says he, is incapable of receiving good counsel; for if he consult with several, he will not be able to choose among their different counsels. If he abandon himself to one, that minister may, perhaps, have capacity; but he will not long be a minister: He will be sure to dispossess his master, and place himself and his family upon the throne. I mention this, among many instances of the errors of that politician, proceeding, in a great measure, from his having lived in too early an age of the world, to be a good judge of political truth. Almost all the princes of EUROPE are at present governed by their ministers; and have been so for near two centuries; and yet no such event has ever happened, or can possibly happen.＜/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 Bravest of the Brave, or, with Peterborough in Spain【電子書籍】[ George Alfred Henty ]

＜p＞There are few great leaders whose lives and actions have so completely fallen into oblivion as those of the Earl of Peterborough. His career as a general was a brief one, extending only over little more than a year, and yet in that time he showed a genius for warfare which has never been surpassed, and performed feats of daring worthy of taking their place among those of the leaders of chivalry. The fact that they have made so slight a mark upon history is due to several reasons. In the first place, they were overshadowed by the glory and successes of Marlborough; they were performed in a cause which could scarcely be said to be that of England, and in which the public had a comparatively feeble interest; the object, too, for which he fought was frustrated, and the war was an unsuccessful one, although from no fault on his part. But most of all, Lord Peterborough failed to attain that place in the list of British worthies to which his genius and his bravery should have raised him, because that genius was directed by no steady aim or purpose. Lord Peterborough is, indeed, one of the most striking instances in history of genius and talent wasted, and a life thrown away by want of fixed principle and by an inability or unwillingness to work with other men. He quarreled in turn with every party and with almost every individual with whom he came in contact; and while he himself was constantly changing his opinions, he was intolerant of all opinions differing from those which he at the moment held, and was always ready to express in the most open and offensive manner his contempt and dislike for those who differed from him. His eccentricities were great; he was haughty and arrogant, hasty and passionate; he denied his God, quarreled with his king, and rendered himself utterly obnoxious to every party in the state.＜/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！】Unexpected【電子書籍】[ Trisha M. Wilson ]

＜p＞Unexpected:＜br /＞ Behold sixteen short stories. Different themes, different genres. Some light and fluffy, others darker. Yet all have some element of the unexpected in them...if you are willing to look for it.＜/p＞ ＜p＞***Author Note: All of these stories have been individually published and are available individually.***＜/p＞ ＜p＞Books included in this anthology:＜br /＞ Battle on the Stairs, The Magic Celebration Day Parade, Teddy’s Escape, Destiny Inc., Delivery, Spot For Sale, Figurehead, The Story Of…, Night of the Almost Dead, The Executioner, The General, The Wheel, Village X17, Real Life, Ruth’s Family, The Last Broken Sword.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Battle On the Stairs＜br /＞ While away, the Blair family was unaware of the daily carnage occurring in their home. Watch the magical, mystical events unfold in a battle which will never end.＜br /＞ This is a short story, 2000 words long.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Magic Celebration Day Parade＜br /＞ Feast your imagination with the 6217th annual Magic Celebration Day Parade. Experience the elaborate floats, the enchanting music, and the charismatic characters of the Bowling Dragons, the Secret Society of Trolls, the unicorns, and pixies, a few participants who spread their magic and joy for the world to relish in their jubilee. Grab a seat and immerse yourself into the party of the year, the Magic Celebration Day Parade from the comfort of your own home. Next year, join us in person to bring happiness to the world.＜br /＞ This is a short story, 2200 words long.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Teddy’s Escape＜br /＞ Teddy is missing and nowhere to be found. After searching every corner of the antique shop, Martha and Elmer report their beloved pet missing. Will Teddy be found? Was he kidnapped? Or did something else inspire Teddy to run away?＜br /＞ This is a short story, 3300 words long.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Destiny Inc.＜br /＞ Doe is the voice of destiny. However, do others desire to know what their future holds?＜br /＞ This is a short story, 1600 words long.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Delivery＜br /＞ A mistaken package delivery turns into more than ordered, an order that could cost Honey and Cherry their lives.＜br /＞ This is a short story, 4400 words long.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Spot For Sale＜br /＞ A spot holder outside Club Custodela, Isis makes a decent living along with her employees. A competitive, lucrative business, trouble makes an entrance and does the unthinkable. Will Isis outmaneuver her adversaries?＜br /＞ This is a short story, 3300 words long.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Figurehead＜br /＞ A forest dweller his entire life, his existence was one of necessity to nature. One day the children came and took him away from the only home he knew, loved, and nurtured.＜br /＞ Why? Why would they do such a thing?＜br /＞ This is a short story, 1300 words long.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Story Of…＜br /＞ A book buyer who reads proposals comes across a book written by a true literary genius. Determined to learn the identity of H.N.A., the book buyer is unstoppable in her pursuit.＜br /＞ This is a short story, 2700 words long.＜/p＞ ＜p＞And more...＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Laura and Julio【電子書籍】[ Juan Jose Millas ]

＜p＞When their friend and neighbour Manuel is left an in coma after a car accident, Julio, a film set designer, and his wife, Laura, a masseuse in an urban spa, begin to journey down strange ways. The fact that they live in an apartment that is a mirror image of their neighbours has something to do with it, as does the fact that Julio become attracted to the land of shadows, a world that he first created to entertain a child but which then he develops for himself. Meanwhile, Laura enters into a strange correspondence of her own that lacks any recipient. Laura and Julio looks at the eternal triangle once again, although in this case the third party never makes an appearance. A self-proclaimed genius, his presence is so strongly felt that it undermines the existential essence of the married couple as they separately attempt to assimilate what he means to each of them. Millas has firmly rooted this comic and painful novel in his on-going investigation of the human individual, always in search of the panacea that will cure all its fears and discomforts, torn between submerging itself into a partnership or struggling free from one as a newly fledged personality, and all the time lost in a world of illusions and delusions. On its release in Spain, Laura and Julio rapidly ran up sales of over 150,000 copies, which left no one surprised. Juan Jose Millas is one of Spain’s most loved and respected authors, who appeals to a broad spectrum of readers and at a multitude of levels.＜/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！】Defying Reason【電子書籍】[ Elizabeth Seckman ]

＜p＞Jo Leigh Harper comes from a long line of trouble-making, white trash stock.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Tanner Coulter comes from a longer line of wealth-creating, blue blood stock.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jo graduated college top of her class, moving toward a future full of possibilities.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Tanner dropped out of college, trading a law degree for drinking games and one night stands.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A family crisis throws the rich party boy and the poor genius girl together. The attraction is immediate, though neither one is a heart-in-the-sand-drawing believer in true love. But as the summer sun heats up along the shores of the Outer Banks, so does the connection between them. Maybe, just maybe, they can win at love by defying reason.＜/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 Male Stripper【電子書籍】[ Opal Carew ]

＜p＞＜strong＞From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Opal Carew.＜/strong＞＜br /＞ --＜br /＞ Her ultimate sexual fantasy brought to life…＜/p＞ ＜p＞While Becca's friends fantasize about multiple men and erotic situations, Becca longs for something more down to earthーa sizzling night with the male stripper she hired for her friend's bachelorette party.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Despite her friends' good-natured insistence that she go for it, Becca just doesn't know how to tell this super sexy man she wants to jump his bones.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But when he shows up at her door later that nightーand with a hunky friend in towーshe decides she just can't let this opportunity slip away.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Volume 1 of the Red Hot Fantasies series.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Length: 9,000 words＜/p＞ ＜p＞Plus excerpts from The Stranger (Red Hot Fantasies #2), The Office Slave (Red Hot Fantasies #3), and Pleasure Bound by Opal Carew.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Praise for Opal's books:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞5 Stars!＜/strong＞＜br /＞ "No one writes stories about erotic fantasies better than Opal Carew...＜br /＞ Kudos to Opal Carew for another well-written erotic romance. I look forward to where she takes us next."＜br /＞ Jennifer Porter, Romance Novel News＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞4.5 Stars!＜/strong＞＜br /＞ "...there are a lot of twists to this roller coaster ride of a story... A scorcher of a read, I was unable to put this one down."＜br /＞ Sensual Reads＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞4.5 Kisses!＜/strong＞＜br /＞ "another blazing hot romance not to be missed by erotic author Opal Carew. Once I started this book, I just couldn’t put it down... [her] erotic story-writing talent shines through... one wild ride of a book that just whets my appetite for more erotic romance by Opal Carew!"＜br /＞ Victoria, TwoLips Reviews＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞4.5 Blue Ribbons!＜/strong＞＜br /＞ "a blazing hot erotic romp... A fabulously fun and stupendously steamy read for a cold winter's night. This one's so hot, you might need to wear oven mitts while you're reading it!"＜br /＞ Romance Junkies＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞4 Cups!＜/strong＞＜br /＞ "There is little chance of reading anything more sexually stimulating than a book by Opal Carew."＜br /＞ Lototy, Coffee Time Romance & More＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Opal Carew is a genius at spinning the most erotic stories by tapping into forbidden fantasies and visiting emotions that bring the characters literally to their knees. A steamy-hot read! WOW!"＜br /＞ Mandy Burns, Fresh Fiction＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Be prepared for an all out sensual feast.... The sex is creative, detailed, and sizzling.... Step outside of the ordinary for something adventuresome…."＜br /＞ Romance Reviews Today＜/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！】Heartsick【電子書籍】[ Caitlin Sinead ]

＜p＞Quinn is looking forward to her senior year at Poe University. She has big plans to hang out with her best friend, flirt with a certain boy genius, party at her favorite dive bar and figure out what she's going to do after graduation with her not-so-useful art major. But that's before she meets Luke, a hot townie who's moved back home to help take care of his dying sister. And it's before a weird epidemic sweeps across campus, mysteriously turning people's eyes purple.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Is it an odd side effect from a new party drug?＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Is it a rogue virus developed in a campus lab?＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Is it the mark of the devil?＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Soon the town starts blaming the university and the student religious group becomes frighteningly aggressive in their on-campus accusations. Quinn and Luke are caught in the middleーuntil a tragic accident forces Luke to reveal the one part of himself he's kept carefully hidden. That he's so much more than the happy-go-lucky boy next door Quinn had believed him to be isn't a surprise…but this truth might be too dangerous for her to handle.＜/p＞ ＜p＞81,000 words＜/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！】Churchill Plays: 2 Softcops; Top Girls; Fen; Serious Money【電子書籍】[ Caryl Churchill ]

＜p＞Softcops renders the philosophy of Foucault as a music-hall turn and Victorian freakshow "theatre and history combine to give such intelligent fun" (TLS); Top Girls brings five great and less-than-great women from history together for a dinner party and "has a combination of directness and complexity which keeps you both emotionally and intellectually alert" (Sunday Times); Fen scrutinises the lives of the low-paid women potato pickers of the fens (in Eastern England) and "the playwright pins down her poetic subject matter in dialogue of impressive vigour and economy" (Financial Times) while Serious Money is a satirical study of the effects of the Big Bang - "Pure genius...the first play about the city to capture the authentic atmosphere of the place." (Daily Telegraph)＜/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！】Noodle Kids Around the World in 50 Fun, Healthy, Creative Recipes the Whole Family Can Cook Together【電子書籍】[ Jonathon Sawyer ]

＜p＞Oodles and oodles of noodles! Get your kids in the kitchen with ＜em＞Noodle Kids＜/em＞. Packed with recipes, tips, suggestions, and inspiration to introduce children to, and get them involved in, making noodles like Japanese ramen, Italian spaghetti, Southeast Asian stir-fries, and classic American mac and cheese. James Beard Award winner, Chef Jonathon Sawyer provides recipes that are simple and will take you on a journey around the world. The tips provided can help you choose the perfect topping and even help you set up your very own noodle bar dinner party! So go ahead, see where these worldly noodle recipes will take you!＜/p＞ ＜p＞"There is nothing that sings in the key of joy like a happy child and almost nothing that brings me to a higher plane than a delicious plate of pasta. Chef/dad/genius Jonathon Sawyer has combined the two to create this handbook of tasty euphoria that makes the celebration of the creation and sharing of simple and delightful noodle-bound happiness as a family the ultimate expression of love and collaboration. This book will make you, your kids and their pals, (and your childish friends) a happy, jubilant choir of yum." - Mario Batali, chef, restaurateur, writer, and media personality＜/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！】Bismarck: Some Secret Pages of His History (Complete)【電子書籍】[ Moritz Busch ]

＜p＞The work which I now present to the German people contains a complete account of all the events of which I was a witness during my intercourse of over twenty years with Prince Bismarck and his entourage. Part of it is not entirely new, as I have embodied in it portions of the book published by me in 1878, under the title: Prince Bismarck and his People during the Franco-German War. I have, however, restored the numerous passages which it was then deemed expedient to omit, and I have also dispensed with the many modifications by which, at that time, certain asperities of language had to be toned down. The bulk of the present work consists of a detailed narrative of the whole period of my intercourse with the Prince both before and after the French campaign. I collected and noted down all these particulars respecting Prince Bismarck and his immediate supporters and assistants, in the first place for my own use, and secondly as a contribution to the character and history of the Political Regenerator of Germany. The sole object of the diary which forms the basis of this work was to serve as a record of the whole truth so far as I had been able to ascertain it with my own eyes and ears. Any other object was out of the question, as it was impossible that I could desire to deceive myself. Subsequently, when I thought of publishing my notes, I was fully conscious of my responsibility towards history, the interests of which could not be promoted by material that had been coloured or garbled for party purposes. I wished neither to be an eulogist nor a censor. To my mind, panegyric was superfluous, and fault-finding was for me an impossibility. A tendency to the sensational is foreign to my nature, and I leave the pleasure to be derived from grand spectacular shows to lovers of the theatre. I desired to record the mental and other characteristics which our first Chancellor presented to me under such and such circumstances, thus helping to complete, and at times to rectify, the conception of his whole nature that has been formed in the public mind from his political activity. The profound reverence which I feel for the genius of the hero, and my patriotic gratitude for his achievements, have not deterred me from communicating numerous details which will be displeasing to many persons. These particulars, however, are part of the historic character of the personality whom I am describing. The gods alone are free from error, passion, and changes of disposition. They alone have no seamy side and no contradictions. Even the sun and moon show spots and blemishes, but notwithstanding these they remain magnificent celestial orbs. The picture produced out of the materials which I have here brought together may present harsh and rough features, but it has hardly a single ignoble trait. Its crudeness only adds to its truth to nature, its individuality, and its clearness of outline. This figure does not float in an ethereal atmosphere, it is firmly rooted in earth and breathes of real life, yet it conveys a sense of something superhuman. It must furthermore be remembered that many of the bitter remarks, such as those made previous to March, 1890, were the result of temporary irritation, while others were perfectly justified. The strong self-confidence manifested in some of these utterances, and the angry expression of that need for greater power and more liberty of action, common to all men of genius and energetic character, arose from the consciousness that, while he alone knew the true object to be pursued and the fitting means for its achievement, his knowledge could not be applied because the right of final decision on all occasions belonged by hereditary privilege to more or less mediocre and narrow minds.＜/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。