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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！】100 Cities, 5,000 Ideas Where to Go, When to Go, What to See, What to Do【電子書籍】[ Joe Yogerst ]

＜p＞Grab your passport and get ready to explore 100 cities around the world. This informative travel guide--the next in National Geographic's blockbuster 5,000 Ideas series--takes you from skyscraper-filled concrete jungles to coastal urban oases. You'll find hot tips for the best sights, bites, museums, and more for each location, as well as practical planning advice for when to go and what to expect when you arrive. And there's something in these pages for every traveler: history buff, art lover, foodie, beach bum, or anyone in between. Take a dim sum tour through San Francisco's Chinatown; hop a bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto to capture two of Japan's best cities in one vacation; discover the hidden historical gems in bustling Mumbai; bathe in the sun on Sydney's beaches; temple hop your way through Bangkok and shop its floating markets; stand on the edge of the world in Ushuaia, Argentina, the world's southernmost city; take a walk through art history in Florence; or go on an urban safari in Nairobi. Filled with expert tips, bonus side trip suggestions, and tons of innovative activities, this is an inspirational and practical keepsake for any kind of globetrotter.＜/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！】Stalking the Angel An Elvis Cole and Joe Pike Novel【電子書籍】[ Robert Crais ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Meet Elvis Cole, L.A. private eye . . . he quotes Jiminy Cricket and carries a .38. He’s a literate, wisecreacking Vietnam vet who is determined never to grow up.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The blonde who walked into Cole’s office was the bestlooking woman he’d seen in weeks. The only thing that kept her from rating a perfect “10” was the briefcase on one arm and the uptight hotel magnate on the other. Bradley Warren had lost something very valuableーsomething that belonged to someone else: a rare thirteenth-century Japanese manuscript called the Hagakure.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Just about all Cole knew about Japanese culture he’d learned from reading ＜em＞Shogun＜/em＞, but he knew a lot about crooksーand what he didn’t know his sociopathic sidekick, Joe Pike, did. Together their search begins in L.A.’s Little Tokyo and the nest of notorious Japanese mafia, the yakuza, and leads to a white-knuckled adventure filled with madness, murder, sexual obsession, and a stunning double-whammy ending. For Elvis Cole, it’s just another day’s work.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Praise for ＜em＞Stalking the Angel＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“＜em＞Stalking the Angel＜/em＞ is a righteous California book: intelligent, perceptive, hard, clean.”＜strong＞ーJames Ellroy＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Out on the West Coast, where private eyes thrive like avocado trees, Robert Crais has created an interesting and amusing hero in Elvis Cole.”＜strong＞ー＜em＞The Wall Street Journal＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Devotees of the rock ‘em, sock ‘em school should find [＜em＞Stalking the Angel＜/em＞] tasty.”＜strong＞ー＜em＞The San Diego Union＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Tokyo Joe【電子書籍】[ Christopher G. Moore ]

＜p＞ A powerful, evocative novel of international betrayal, Tokyo Joe tells a story of Major Julian Bonner, a retired US soldier, confidante of General MacArthur, zen master, and yakuza boss, who is deported after forty-two years in Japan.＜/p＞ ＜p＞ The Japanese say he fixed a baseball game. Julian Bonner says the Japanese wanted to silence him, and he knows why. As a young officer in World War II, Julian Bonner has first hand knowledge about the secret activities of the 731-Corpsーthe hidden story of medical experiments carried out on Allied prisoners of war and Chinese civilians.＜/p＞ ＜p＞ Praise＜/p＞ ＜p＞ “The best book on the 731-Corps I’ve read.”＜br /＞ ーBernard Trink, Bangkok Post＜/p＞ ＜p＞ “Moore has constructed what is becoming increasingly rare: a novel that combines meaningful ideas with deep emotion, a novel in which social, political and personal themes all intermingle . . . and it can only be hoped that the novel will achieve the international recognition it deserves.”＜br /＞ ーThe Daily Yomiuri＜/p＞ ＜p＞ “Moore is also a playwright and this shines through in his fiercely dramatic prose reminiscent of Samuel Beckett’s style.”＜br /＞ ーThe Nation＜/p＞ ＜p＞ “Insight into the underbellies of Japan and the USA… incredibly intriguing…a book to savour, like a good port after dinner. Most enjoyable.”＜br /＞ ーChiang Mai 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。

【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！】Condition Green Tokyo 1970【電子書籍】[ Neil Goble ]

＜p＞＜em＞Condition Green: Tokyo＜/em＞ was the warning posted almost daily at the gates of U.S. bases in Japan during May, 1960, when the US-Japan Security Treaty was revised and extended. Communist-led riots and demonstrations opposed to the treaty made it unsafe for Americans on the streets of Tokyo. Homes were burned, autos overturned, government offices ransacked. Americans were attacked, a leading politician assassinated, hundreds injured, and many killed. The revised treaty passed the Diet, but Leftist discontent forded the Prime Minister to resign.＜/p＞ ＜p＞U.S. Intelligence learns that Japanese Communists plan to seize control of the government on May Day 1970, but due to a rising tide of anti-American feelings and bloody anti-government rioting, is powerless to act. Only by dramatic and positive proof of a Red betrayal could the U.S. hope to turn the tide of popular sentiment against the Communists. Capt. Joe Holiday is sent on an 11th-hour reconnaissance flight over Communist China and Russia in hope of obtaining such proofーand obtain it he does. But to get the evidence into the proper hands, he must evade a swarm of Soviet fighters with his unarmed aircraft, and run a last deadly gauntlet of Soviet Surface-to-Air Missile sites.＜/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！】Occupation of Joe【電子書籍】[ Bill Baynes ]

＜p＞Tokyo, 1945. A Japanese boy too old for his years, a survivor of the American firebombing, dares to cross the wasteland where he saw thousands burn to death, and approach the occupying forces to get food for his family. A young Navy lieutenant, proud of the Allied victory but appalled by the devastation he sees across the city, cares enough to help. As post-war pressures mount between the two cultures, he becomes entangled in the lives of the boy, his infant sister and his beautiful mother. The Occupation of Joe is an emotionally powerful, gripping post-war tragedy from Top Hat Books, publisher of quality historical fiction.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【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！】Run With It A True Story of Parkinson's, Marathons, the Pandemic, and Love【電子書籍】[ Joe Drake ]

＜p＞COVID-19 disrupted the premier road races known as the World Marathon Majors (WMM) that take place annually in Berlin, London, Chicago, Boston, Tokyo, and New York City. Normally spanning the calendar from March to November, the pandemic forced a rescheduling of the 2021 WMM such that all the races would take place during a six week stretch in the fall. At age 60, with only a single previous marathon under his belt and recently diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, Joe Drake decided to run all six of these races on the compressed schedule.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞Run With It＜/em＞, writing in a style that is charmingly humorous and informative, Joe marks his debut as an author. He tells of his transformation into a marathoner, the physical and logistical challenges of running these races amid a world eager to emerge from a global catastrophe, and how this quest with the help of friends, family, and the running community allowed him to devise a strategy for coping with Parkinson's.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Lost Destiny Joe Kennedy Jr. and the Doomed WWII Mission to Save London【電子書籍】[ Alan Axelrod ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Alan Axelrod's ＜em＞Lost Destiny＜/em＞ is a rare exploration of the origin of today's controversial military drones as well as a searing and unforgettable story of heroism, WWII, and the Kennedy dynasty that might have been.＜/strong＞＜br /＞ On August 12, 1944, Lieutenant Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., heir to one of America's most glamorous fortunes, son of the disgraced former ambassador to Great Britain, and big brother to freshly minted PT-109 hero JFK, hoisted himself up into a highly modified B-24 Liberator bomber. The munitions he was carrying that day were fifty percent more powerful than TNT.＜br /＞ Kennedy's mission was part of Operation Aphrodite/Project Anvil, a desperate American effort to rescue London from a rain of German V-1 and V-2 missiles. The decision to use these bold but crude precursors to modern-day drones against German V-weapon launch sites came from Air Corps high command. Lieutenant General Jimmy Doolittle, daring leader of the spectacular 1942 Tokyo Raid, and others concocted a plan to install radio control equipment in "war-weary" bombers, pack them with a dozen tons of high explosives, and fly them by remote control directly into the concrete German launch sitesーtargets too hard to be destroyed by conventional bombs.＜br /＞ The catch was that live pilots were needed to get these flying bombs off the ground and headed toward their targets. Joe Jr. was the first naval aviator to fly such a mission. Andーin the biggest manmade explosion before Hiroshimaーit killed 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！】The Last Great Fight The Extraordinary Tale of Two Men and How One Fight Changed Their Lives Forever【電子書籍】[ Joe Layden ]

＜p＞＜strong＞"Layden restores the [Mike Tyson-Buster Douglas] fight to its rightful place in sports legend . . . This is the best boxing book in the last 25 years." ーAllen Barra, sports columnist,＜/strong＞ ＜em＞＜strong＞The Wall Street Journal＜/strong＞＜/em＞ ＜strong＞, and author of＜/strong＞ ＜em＞＜strong＞Mickey and Willie＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞It is considered by many to be the biggest upset in the history of boxing: James "Buster" Douglas knocked out then-undefeated Heavyweight Champion Mike Tyson in the 10th round in 1990 when the dominating and intimidating Tyson was considered invincible.＜br /＞ ＜em＞The Last Great Fight＜/em＞ takes readers not only behind the scenes of this epic battle, but inside the lives of two men, their ambitions, their dreams, the downfall of one and the rise of another.＜br /＞ Using his exclusive interviews with both boxers Tyson and Douglas, family members, the referee, the cutmen, trainers and managers to the commentators and HBO staff covering the fight in Tokyo, Joe Layden has crafted a human drama played out on a large stage. This is a compelling tale of shattered dreams and, ultimately, redemption.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞"Boxing fans will want to add＜/strong＞ ＜em＞＜strong＞The Last Great Fight＜/strong＞＜/em＞ ＜strong＞to the vast collection of great books on the Sweet Science, from Hemingway to A. J. Liebling to Norman Mailer." ー＜/strong＞ ＜em＞＜strong＞Los Angeles Times＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞"With rich detail and robust prose, Joe Layden's account of Tyson-Douglas doesn't merely re-create the most unthinkable upset in boxing annals. It takes you into the corners, the locker rooms, the minds of the two protagonists, producing revelations that arrive in combinations and a story that packs a heavyweight punch." ーWayne Coffey,＜/strong＞ ＜em＞＜strong＞New York Times＜/strong＞＜/em＞ ＜strong＞-bestselling author of＜/strong＞ ＜em＞＜strong＞The Boys of Winter＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞"Prose as crisp as a Sugar Ray Robinson jab." ー＜/strong＞ ＜em＞＜strong＞The Denver Post＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

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

＜p＞“Takes Michael Crichton’s Rising Sun a step further . . . brisk and exciting.”ー＜em＞Publishers Weekly＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The beautiful tranquility of the Hawaiian afternoon is shattered when a cruise ship filled with Japanese tourists is comes under fire. Unbelievably, a civilian helicopter is strafing the ship with automatic weapons.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The shock waves from the tragic attack reach all the way to Washington and Tokyo. In retaliation for the attack, a group of American tourists is ambushed in Osaka, and then Japanese-Americans become targets across the United States. Relations between the U.S. and Japan rapidly deteriorate.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The only way to restore order and prevent a greater conflict is to find out who is responsible for the initial attackーand why. This task is assigned to senior CIA operations officer Stephen Wickham and a Japanese-American FBI agent, Susan Nakamura. Their search leads them to a deadly conspiracy of enormous proportions . . . and reaching all the way to the highest levels of the U.S. and Japanese governments.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In ＜em＞Honorable Enemies＜/em＞, Joe Weber has formulated a chilling post-Cold War scenario, once again proving himself a master at portraying a frighteningly real near-future confrontation with our most powerful rivalーJapan.＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Some writers get better with age: Weber is among them.”ー＜em＞Library Journal＜/em＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Reconstruction of Urban Forests Post World War II and the Bosnian War【電子書籍】[ Joe R. McBride ]

＜p＞This book will address the destruction of urban forest in nine cities by bombing during World War II and the Bosnian War and their reconstruction in the post-war years. After reviewing the general objectives and results of aerial bombing, the book explores the effects of bombing and the reconstruction of urban forest in London, Coventry, Hamburg, Dresden, St. Petersburg, Stalingrad, Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Sarajevo. Sarajevo stands out among these cities because the destruction of its urban forest was the result of citizens cutting down trees for firewood during the siege of the city. Most of the cities studied developed plans for reconstruction either during or after the war. These plans often addressed the planning and re-establishment of the urban forest that had been destroyed. Urban planners often planned for infrastructure improvements such as new boulevards and parks where trees would be planted. After the war many of these plans were abandonedor significantly modified. Cost, resistance by property owners, control of reconstruction by authorities outside of the cities, and the lack of planting stock were factors contributing to the failure of many of the plans. Exceptions occurred in Hiroshima and Coventry where the destroyed cities became symbols of national reconstruction and every effort was made to redesign the destroyed portions of these cities as memorials to those who lost their lives and to demonstrate the rebirth of the cities. In several of the cities studied individual citizens undertook on their own the replanting of street and park trees. Their ingenuity, hard work, and dedication to trees in their cities was remarkable. A common factor limiting efforts to replant street and park trees was the lack of nursery stock. During and immediately after the wars nearly all nurseries that had supplied trees for city planting had been converted to vegetable gardens to produce food for the urban populations. The slow return to the production of trees for urban planting was a common factor in the time required in many cities to restore their street and park trees. There are lessons to be learned by urban planner, urban forester, and landscape architects from this book that will be useful in the future destruction of urban forest either by natural or man-made causes.＜/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！】Essential Japan 2024:A Traveler's Guide Discover Culture, Cuisine, and Adventure in the Land of the Rising Sun【電子書籍】[ Melody joe ]

＜p＞Calling all travelers with a thirst for adventure!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Japan beckons with a kaleidoscope of experiences, from the neon-soaked streets of Tokyo to serene temple gardens veiled in mist. This comprehensive guidebook is your passport to unlocking the Land of the Rising Sun.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Wander through ancient shrines and marvel at the delicate beauty of a geisha dance. Indulge in the freshest sushi at a local market or savor steaming ramen in a cozy eatery. Explore bustling metropolises teeming with cutting-edge technology and serene mountain villages steeped in tradition.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Whether you're a seasoned explorer or a wide-eyed adventurer, this guide will be your companion every step of the way.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Inside you'll find:＜/p＞ ＜p＞Tailor-made itineraries for different travel styles and interests, from history buffs to foodies.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Invaluable tips on navigating transportation, etiquette, and communication.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Must-see sights and hidden gems, from iconic landmarks to off-the-beaten-path experiences.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Detailed information on accommodation, dining, shopping, and cultural activities with photos.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Cultural insights to help you connect with the heart and soul of Japan.＜/p＞ ＜p＞More than just a travel guide, this book is an invitation to an unforgettable journey. Embark on an adventure that will leave you with memories that last a lifetime.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Ps: Free intinerary traval guide＜/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！】Chillin' in the Stroma【電子書籍】[ Joe Rue ]

＜p＞About the Book＜br /＞ This book is dedicated to my students who over the years inspired me and instilled in me a greater love of this profession. ?Joseph Rue＜/p＞ ＜p＞About the Author＜br /＞ Joseph Rue (Joe) was born and grew up in Brooklyn. This is where his story began. As a youth, his family moved from New York to Madrid, Spain. A love of traveling and a wanderlust were an integral part of his life. He experienced different cultures having lived in Spain for ten years and having spent time in Ireland and China. Furthermore, he visited countless other countries.＜br /＞ This book consists of a compilation of stories which he experienced over the course of his lifetime. Hopefully, you will find these to be interesting, fun, and in some cases, funny. His first love was teaching which he cultivated for close to 40 years and which plays a major role in these stories. Joe had the privilege of teaching one year at St. John's Prep, one year at Fordham Prep, and 37 years at Rye Country Day School. He received great pleasure teaching Biology and Forensic Science, and thoroughly enjoyed working with his talented and enthusiastic students. Along with being a science teacher, Joe has been a fencing coach since 1987 when he started the fencing program at Rye Country Day School.＜br /＞ Joe is currently retired and lives in Hartsdale, NY. He is married to his wife who he met in Tokyo, Japan. Joe continues his travels and still visits his family in Madrid usually twice a year.＜/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！】Ordinary Monsters A Novel【電子書籍】[ J. M. Miro ]

＜p＞＜strong＞NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "Charles Dickens meets Joss Whedon in Miro’s otherworldly Netflix-binge-like novel."＜/strong＞ ＜strong＞ー＜em＞The Washington Post＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞MOST ANTICIPATED SFF BOOK of 2022 by ＜em＞Tor, The Nerd Daily, BookBub, Philadelphia Inquirer, Goodreads, CrimeReads, Buzzfeed, Professional Book Nerds＜/em＞, and more!＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞BEST BOOK OF SUMMER 2022 by ＜em＞SheReads, Book Riot, Goodreads, Gizmodo, Daily Beast, Paste Magazine,＜/em＞ and more!＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞＜em＞IN THIS STUNNING HISTORICAL FANTASY＜/em＞, journey to the Victorian era, as children with mysterious powers are hunted by a figure of darkness in a battle of good vs. evil...＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞"＜em＞Ordinary Monsters＜/em＞ is a towering achievement: a dazzling mountain of wild invention, Dickensian eccentrics, supernatural horrors, and gripping suspense. Be warned... once you step into this penny dreadful to end all penny dreadfuls, you'll never want to leave." ーJoe Hill, #1 ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling author of ＜em＞The Fireman＜/em＞ and ＜em＞Heart-Shaped Box＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Charlie Ovid, despite surviving a brutal childhood in Mississippi, doesn't have a scar on him. His body heals itself, whether he wants it to or not. Marlowe, a foundling from a railway freight car, shines with a strange bluish light. He can melt or mend flesh. When Alice Quicke, a jaded detective with her own troubled past, is recruited to escort them to safety, all three begin a journey into the nature of difference and belonging, and the shadowy edges of the monstrous.＜/p＞ ＜p＞What follows is a story of wonder and betrayal, from the gaslit streets of London, and the wooden theaters of Meiji-era Tokyo, to an eerie estate outside Edinburgh where other children with giftsーlike Komako, a witch-child and twister of dust, and Ribs, a girl who cloaks herself in invisibilityーare forced to combat the forces that threaten their safety. There, the world of the dead and the world of the living threaten to collide. With this new found family, Komako, Marlowe, Charlie, Ribs, and the rest of the Talents discover the truth about their abilities. And as secrets within the Institute unfurl, a new question arises: ＜em＞What truly defines a monster?＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Riveting in its scope, exquisitely written, ＜em＞Ordinary Monsters＜/em＞ presents a catastrophic vision of the Victorian worldーand of the gifted, broken children who must save it.＜/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！】Aria The Scarlet Ammo Novel Vol. 1【電子書籍】[ Chugaku Akamatsu ]

＜p＞Tokyo Butei High School--- A special school where armed detectives, also known as "Butei", receive education as well as training. Kinji Tohyama, a sophomore, has a unique body that can initiate an ability called "hysteria mode" when it is stimulated a certain way. He tries to keep it a secret but all his dreams of living the life of an Average Joe get shattered when he becomes a victim of a bombing incident and meets Butei High "Assault" department elite, Aria H. Kanzaki.＜/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！】One Damned Island After Another (Illustrated) The Saga of the Seventh【電子書籍】[ Clive Howard ]

＜p＞Clive Howard and Joe Whitley were both sergeants and served as correspondents for the Seventh Air Force during World War 2. The men of the Seventh were forced to fly the longest missions in any theater of war, entirely over water and, at first, without fighter escort. They fought at Midway, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Truk, Saipan, Palau, the Philippines, Iwo Jima, and finally Tokyo.＜/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。

新しい本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書Ordinary Monsters - J M Miro (Flatiron Books) 【紙書籍】 9781250833679

タイトル: Ordinary Monsters著者: J M Miro出版社: Flatiron Books出版日: 2023年07月11日新しい本新古品・未使用品。出版社からの新着。NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "Charles Dickens meets Joss Whedon in Miro's otherworldly Netflix-binge-like novel." --The Washington Post MOST ANTICIPATED SFF BOOK of 2022 by Tor, The Nerd Daily, BookBub, Philadelphia Inquirer, Goodreads, CrimeReads, Buzzfeed, Professional Book Nerds, and more! BEST BOOK OF SUMMER 2022 by SheReads, Book Riot, Goodreads, Gizmodo, Daily Beast, Paste Magazine, and more! IN THIS STUNNING HISTORICAL FANTASY, journey to the Victorian era, as children with mysterious powers are hunted by a figure of darkness in a battle of good vs. evil... "Ordinary Monsters is a towering achievement: a dazzling mountain of wild invention, Dickensian eccentrics, supernatural horrors, and gripping suspense. Be warned... once you step into this penny dreadful to end all penny dreadfuls, you'll never want to leave." --Joe Hill, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman and Heart-Shaped Box Charlie Ovid, despite surviving a brutal childhood in Mississippi, doesn't have a scar on him. His body heals itself, whether he wants it to or not. Marlowe, a foundling from a railway freight car, shines with a strange bluish light. He can melt or mend flesh. When Alice Quicke, a jaded detective with her own troubled past, is recruited to escort them to safety, all three begin a journey into the nature of difference and belonging, and the shadowy edges of the monstrous. What follows is a story of wonder and betrayal, from the gaslit streets of London, and the wooden theaters of Meiji-era Tokyo, to an eerie estate outside Edinburgh where other children with gifts--like Komako, a witch-child and twister of dust, and Ribs, a girl who cloaks herself in invisibility--are forced to combat the forces that threaten their safety. There, the world of the dead and the world of the living threaten to collide. With this new found family, Komako, Marlowe, Charlie, Ribs, and the rest of the Talents discover the truth about their abilities. And as secrets within the Institute unfurl, a new question arises: What truly defines a monster? Riveting in its scope, exquisitely written, Ordinary Monsters presents a catastrophic vision of the Victorian world--and of the gifted, broken children who must save it.

【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！】Grope【電子書籍】[ Razz ]

＜p＞Moriko rides the Tokyo Metro at night, hoping to find strangers grope her. When she encounters a Salaryman from the suburbs, she starts a chain of events that leads to revenge.＜/p＞ ＜p＞She rides the same train for a regular hook-up with an average joe office worker. As their lust grows he becomes more aggressive with her until her takes her in a station toilet.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Only the Chikan has a wife. As Moriko embarks on an unexpected affair with her, she discovers a darker secret, one that leads to him being exposed and shamed so her lover can be free.＜/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！】Mocking Bird Technologies The Poetics of Parroting, Mimicry, and Other Starling Tropes【電子書籍】

＜p＞＜strong＞Contributors:＜/strong＞ Madeleine Brainerd, Joe Conway, Fraser Easton, Christopher GoGwilt, Shari Goldberg, Melanie D. Holm, Sarah Kay, Kaori T. Kitao, Holt V. Meyer, Isabel A. Moore, Fawzia Mustafa, Gavin Sourgen.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Mocking Bird Technologies＜/em＞ brings together a range of perspectives to offer an extended meditation on bird mimicry in literature: the way birds mimic humans, the way humans mimic birds, and the way mimicry of any kind involves technologies that extend across as well as beyond languages and species. The essays examine the historical, poetic, and semiotic problem of mimesis exemplified both by the imitative behavior of parrots, starlings, and other mocking birds, and by the poetic trope of such birds in a range of literary and philological traditions.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Drawing from a cross-section of traditional periods and fields in literary studies (18th-century studies, romantic studies, early American studies, 20th-century studies, and postcolonial studies), the collection offers new models for combining comparative and global studies of literature and culture.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Editors＜/strong＞＜br /＞ Christopher GoGwilt is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Fordham University. He is the author of ＜em＞The Passage of Literature: Genealogies of Modernism in Conrad, Rhys, and Pramoedya＜/em＞ (Oxford, 2011), ＜em＞The Fiction of Geopolitics: Afterimages of Culture from Wilkie Collins to Alfred Hitchcock＜/em＞ (Stanford, 2000), and ＜em＞The Invention of the West: Joseph Conrad and the Double-Mapping of Europe and Empire＜/em＞ (Stanford, 1995).＜/p＞ ＜p＞Melanie D. Holm is Assistant Professor of the English Department and Graduate Program of Literature and Criticism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She also teaches in the university’s Women’s and Gender Studies program. Her scholarly focus is on eighteenth-century literature and skepticism.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Contributors＜/strong＞＜br /＞ Madeleine Brainerd taught at Washington University in St. Louis and at Excelsior College. Since 2004 she has taught therapeutic yoga and medical qi gong in New York City, at the Integral Yoga Institute, Kenshikai Dojo, Gouverneur Hospital, and other venues. She studies histories of yoga’s intersections with ecological in/justice, animality, and affect theory.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Joe Conway is an Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. His articles have appeared or are scheduled to appear in the journals ＜em＞Women’s Studies＜/em＞, ＜em＞Early American Literature＜/em＞, and ＜em＞Nineteenth-Century Contexts＜/em＞. He is currently at work on a monograph about the social life of antebellum money that charts how discourses of noneconomic phenomena such as medicine, race, nationalism, and aesthetics informed nineteenth-century debates about what constitutes good money.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Fraser Easton is Associate Professor of English, University of Waterloo, Canada. A specialist in eighteenth-century literature, he has published on Jane Austen, Daniel Defoe, Maria Edgeworth, and Christopher Smart, as well as on newspaper records and historical accounts of passing women in the eighteenth century.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Shari Goldberg is Assistant Professor of English at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She is the author of ＜em＞Quiet Testimony: A Theory of Witnessing from Nineteenth-Century American Literature＜/em＞ (Fordham, 2013). She has also published essays on silence, politics, and personhood in American literature. Her current research focuses on late-nineteenth-century models of mind and person in narrative and psychological writing.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Sarah Kay teaches French and Medieval Studies at New York University. She has written widely on medieval literature across languages, genres, and periods; her work combines the study of medieval texts, especially troubadour songs, with philosophical and theoretical inquiry. Her two most recent books are ＜em＞Parrots and Nightingales: Troubadour Quotations and the Development of European Poetry＜/em＞ (2013) and ＜em＞Animal Skins and the Reading Self in Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries＜/em＞ (2017).＜/p＞ ＜p＞Kaori Kitao (William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Art History, Emerita, Swarthmore College) taught art history at Swarthmore College from 1966 to 2001. She was born in Tokyo and studied architecture at UC Berkeley and art history at Harvard. Her main specialization is Italian renaissance and baroque art; she has also taught courses in cinema history, material culture, urban studies, and Japanese architecture.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Holt V. Meyer is Professor of Slavic Studies at Erfurt University. He is the author of ＜em＞Romantische Orientierung＜/em＞ (1995) and numerous articles and has co-edited the collections ＜em＞Juden und Judentum in Literatur und Film des slavischen Sprachraumes. Die geniale Epoche＜/em＞ (1999), ＜em＞Inventing Slavia＜/em＞ (2005), ＜em＞Schiller: GedenkenーVergessenー＜em＞＜em＞Lesen＜/em＞ (2010), and *Gagarin als Archivk＜/em＞＜em＞?＜/em＞*rper und Erinnerungsfigur＜/em＞ (2014). He is co-editor of the new book series Spatio-Temporality. PracticesーConceptsー Media (De Gruyter). He is currently working on a book about the official Stalinist Pushkin celebrations of 1949.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Isabel (Annie) Moore completed her Ph.D. in comparative literature at the University of California?Irvine. From 2011 to 2013, she held a postdoctoral fellowship in English at the University of Victoria. She has published on Contemporary Irish and Canadian poetry, and her book project is titled ＜em＞The Ends of Lyric Life: A Theory of Biopoetics＜/em＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Fawzia Mustafa is Professor of English and African and African American Studies at Fordham University. She also teaches in the university’s Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Programs. The author of ＜em＞V. S. Naipaul＜/em＞ (1995), she has published numerous articles on postcolonial literature and development.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Gavin Sourgen is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University. He completed his D.Phil. at Balliol College (Oxford) in 2013, concentrating on the transitional poetics of Lord Byron’s verse, and has published on Byron, Coleridge, and romantic aesthetics in general.＜/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！】PEREMOHA: Victory for Ukraine【電子書籍】[ TOKYOPOP ]

＜p＞＜strong＞IF YOU WERE ATTACKED, WOULD YOU FIGHT BACK?＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞What if your family, your hometown, your entire way of living were threatened by force? That’s what the people of Ukraine faced when Putin’s Russian army invaded their sovereign land, displacing millions of refugees and causing an international crisis threatening democracy across the globe. But the Ukrainian people refused to cave ー and these 9 stories weave the greater tale of their resistance ー and fight for Victory!＜/p＞ ＜p＞This anthology is a collection created by Ukrainian artists during the first weeks of the Russian invasion, channeling all their emotions ー their anger, courage, dreams, and despair into one goal, one manifestation of their nation’s fight for survival!＜/p＞ ＜p＞**A portion of the proceeds for the paperback will be donated to Razom for Ukraine (“Razom” meaning “together” in Ukrainian), a non-profit Ukrainian-American human rights organization established to give direct support to the people of Ukraine in their pursuit of a democratic society with dignity, justice, and human and civil rights for all.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Part of the digital proceeds from this comic book will be donated via the UNITED24 platform. Launched by President Zelenskyy, the platform is the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Please join Mark Hamill and the Army of Drones to strengthen Ukraine and protect its people.**＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞"For anyone looking for an engrossing learning experience in hopes of understanding what Ukraine is currently going through, along with a history lesson in the nation's past, this graphic novel is a must-buy."＜/em＞ ＜strong＞ー Joe Anthony Myrick, Screen Rant＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞"Written and illustrated by Ukrainian creators, PEREMOHA doesn't just chronicle recent events during Russia's invasion. Instead, it turns some of these now more well known circumstances on their head. From a witch enacting her own vengeance on intruders to a slightly retold version of the Russian attack on Snake Island, PEREMOHA sucked me right in from the first page. This is a phenomenal way for folks to connect emotionally with what all is happening in Ukraine, what has happened in the past, and what will happen in the future."＜/em＞ ＜strong＞ー Kvothe Harris, Rediscovered Books＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞"But there is no room to debate the merits of PEREMOHA: Victory for Ukraine, since it is ultimately the artistic embodiment of a nation’s desire to maintain its sovereignty and protect its people. [...] All of us who desire a democratic world free from senseless war and violence should read this graphic novel, and understand the Ukrainian fight for freedom."＜/em＞ ＜strong＞ー Brett Michael Orr, Honey's Anime＜/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！】Midnight In Hell【電子書籍】[ Victor Malone ]

＜p＞"You cannot separate the dirty air from the wings which beat upon it…"＜/p＞ ＜p＞Birds are dying in Joe's home town. Far too many birds.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But how does this relate to a mysterious investment website located in Tokyo? And what of a misanthropic social-worker, a prisoner in an unspecified compound and two young boys, living in a twilight land of talking spiders and magical plants...＜/p＞ ＜p＞Midnight In Hell is novel masquerading as sort story collection, and short stories hiding inside a novel.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Allow Malone to take you on an unsettling journey, as he juxtaposes the deep web with cannibalism, the mundane with the absurd, and genre fiction with literary experimentation.＜/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 Traitor’s Gold【電子書籍】[ David Leadbeater ]

＜p＞The gripping new action thriller novel from the million-copy bestselling author of the Matt Drake series＜/p＞ ＜p＞Ex-MI5 operative Joe Mason is on a mission to rescue a friend who has been kidnapped. Meanwhile, ancient coins ? remnants of a Chinese casino buried for six hundred years ? are starting to surface in Japan's clandestine underworld.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Mason knows the coins and kidnapping are linked. Someone has finally unearthed the long-buried ancient casino, and its riches ? both financial and archaeological ? are now up for grabs. But hidden forces are desperate to conceal the discovery and take it for themselves, kidnapping and killing to silence anyone in their path.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In a high-stakes battle to reveal the casino to the world, Joe and his team race across the region, from high-rise Hong Kong to Tokyo's bustling markets to the covert gambling rings of Osaka. But they are being hunted by elite forces ? and it’s only a matter of time before the target on their back catches up with them.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this perilous quest for the world’s oldest casino, Mason must find the site before his enemies find him. But can he unearth the secrets of the gold in 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！】Urban Energy and Climate Prospects for a Sustainable Transition【電子書籍】[ Peter J Marcotullio ]

＜p＞With the continuous migration of people towards metropolitan areas in search of employment, the demands for core services and energy, coupled with an increasing awareness of the impact of climate change, have placed the management and planning of global urban energy under a lot of pressure. Trends toward urban energy service transformations that offer greater affordability, reliability, efficiency and adaptability provide hope for a global sustainable future. At the same time, there are also limits to these transitions, as well as risks involved. For example, on one end of the spectrum, our urban energy future includes land use sprawl, high fossil fuel use, pollution, and unhealthy urban conditions. On the other side of this transition spectrum is more energy choices, and healthier, more livable cities, along with less energy use and fewer greenhouse gas emissions. What the future might hold for transforming the world's cities depends upon an understanding of the risks of current trajectories and the opportunities for and limitations to developing sustainable urban energy systems.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This edited volume brings together leading experts on the prospects and challenges of urban energy innovation and on related-economic, social and environmental sustainability transitions. The focus of the volume is on multidisciplinary reviews, research informing technologies and policies for sustainability, and analytical insights addressing rapid urbanization and changes across a diverse typology of global cities. The volume will include an overview of the current state of urban energy systems. It will also document and evaluate urban energy prospects for a sustainable, resilient future.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Contents:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞Introduction ＜em＞(Andrea Pierce, Joshua Sperling and Peter J Marcotullio)＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜/li＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Trends and Drivers:＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞Past Trends and Future Prospects for a Sustainable Urban Energy Transition ＜em＞(Andrea Pierce, Peter J Marcotullio and Joshua Sperling)＜/em＞＜/li＞ ＜li＞Individual Behaviors as Drivers of Energy Usage ＜em＞(Rae Zimmerman)＜/em＞＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞ ＜/li＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Urban Energy Transitions in Developed Nation Cities:＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞Co-Evolution of Energy and Climate Change Mitigation Polices in Japan and Tokyo ＜em＞(Jelena Aleksejeva, Gerasimos Voulgaris, Yin Long and Alexandros Gasparatos)＜/em＞＜/li＞ ＜li＞California Embraces Carbon Neutrality: Does This Mean Change in Business as Usual? ＜em＞(Stephanie Pincetl)＜/em＞＜/li＞ ＜li＞Powering the City at the Speed of Thought: Toward a Collective Urban-Energy Intelligence ＜em＞(Joe Ravetz)＜/em＞＜/li＞ ＜li＞Geography of Residential Energy Use in the New York City Metropolitan Region, 1993?2009 ＜em＞(Nicholas Rio, Allan Lu and Peter J Marcotullio)＜/em＞＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞ ＜/li＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Urban Energy Transitions in Developing Nation Cities:＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞An Assessment of Brazilian Urban Actions for Climate Change ＜em＞(Gustavo de Melo Ribeiro, Andr? Felipe Sim?es and Hirdan Katarina de Medeiros Costa)＜/em＞＜/li＞ ＜li＞Industrial Transformation and Residential Sustainable Consumption for the Promotion of Low-Carbon Urbanization in the Beijing?Tianjin?Hebei ＜em＞(Zhihui Li, Xiangzheng Deng, Chao Wang and Lu Peng)＜/em＞＜/li＞ ＜li＞On-Road Energy Efficiency and CO? Reduction Strategies in a Small Island State: Grenada ＜em＞(Peter Marcotullio Shelby Smith, Patrick Lamson-Hall and Solly Angel)＜/em＞＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞ ＜/li＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Considerations for Social Justice:＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞The Social Justice Implications of Energy Transitions ＜em＞(Michael Dorsch)＜/em＞＜/li＞ ＜li＞Learning from Energy and Basic Service Dynamics in Accra and Delhi: Urban Poor Neighborhoods and Integrated Transitions Toward Equity, Sustainability and Resilience ＜em＞(Anni Beukes, Frederick Agyemang and Josh Sperling)＜/em＞＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞ ＜/li＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Conclusions:＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞Conclusions ＜em＞(Peter J Marcotullio, Joshua Sperling and Andrea Pierce)＜/em＞＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞ ＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Readership:＜/strong＞ Professionals, researchers and informed readers interested in understanding urban energy prospects for a sustainable, resilient future.＜br /＞ ＜strong＞Key Features:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞Wide geographic variety of case studies＜/li＞ ＜li＞Case study chapters include urban energy challenges in the developed and developing world＜/li＞ ＜li＞The case studies examine a variety of energy system issues including social, technological, and justice challenges＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】World's Scariest Places 1【電子書籍】[ Jeremy Bates ]

＜p＞＜strong＞This omnibus edition includes books one and two in the bestselling World's Scariest Places series.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Suicide Forest＜/strong＞ - Just outside of Tokyo lies Aokigahara, a vast forest and one of the most beautiful wilderness areas in Japan...and also the most infamous spot to commit suicide in the world. Legend has it that the spirits of those many suicides are still roaming, haunting deep in the ancient woods.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When bad weather prevents a group of friends from climbing neighboring Mt. Fuji, they decide to spend the night camping in Aokigahara. But they get more than they bargained for when one of them is found hanged in the morning-and they realize there might be some truth to the legends after all.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞The Catacombs＜/strong＞ - Paris, France, is known as the City of Lights, a metropolis renowned for romance and beauty. Beneath the bustling streets and caf?s, however, exists The Catacombs, a labyrinth of crumbling tunnels home to six million dead.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When a video camera containing mysterious footage is discovered deep within their depths, a group of friends venture into the tunnels to investigate. But what starts out as a lighthearted adventure takes a turn for the worse when they reach their destination-and stumble upon the evil lurking there.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Praise for Jeremy Bates:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Old-school horror story reminiscent of ＜strong＞Stephen King＜/strong＞" ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Best book I've read to date" ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Perfect for ＜strong＞Laymon＜/strong＞ fans!" ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Definitely recommend to all fans of modern horror" ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞"A master storyteller!" ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞"I sort of fell into Jeremy Bates by accident, and I'm so glad I did. He's one of my new favorite writers, and I urge everyone to check him out" ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞"The most chilling book I've ever read!" ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Absolutely loved this book" ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Non-stop adrenaline rush from beginning to end" ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Any ＜strong＞Stephen King＜/strong＞ or ＜strong＞Dean Koontz＜/strong＞ fan will love it" ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞"I was hooked from the first page!" ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Binge worthy!" ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞"This is one of the best books I have ever read!" ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞"A very juicy, scary ride" ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞"＜em＞Suicide Forest＜/em＞ is up there with ＜strong＞Joe Hill's＜/strong＞ ＜em＞Heart Shaped Box＜/em＞" ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Scariest book I've ever read" ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Huge fan of Mr Bates! You won't be disappointed" ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Edge-of-my-seat experience! I felt I was indeed living the horror" ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Page-turner with a twist! I was hanging on to every word!" ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞"One of the greatest suspense-filled books I have ever read" ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞"If you enjoy ＜strong＞Richard Laymon＜/strong＞, you'll love reading Jeremy Bates" ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞"A true edge-of-your-seat thriller...I couldn't put it down!" ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Startlingly Spooky!" ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞"A non-stop page-turner!" ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Early ＜strong＞Stephen King＜/strong＞, ＜strong＞Robert McCammon＜/strong＞, Jeremy Bates is a must read!" ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞"As usual Jeremy Bates has done it again... Give him a try, you'll not regret it" ★★★★★＜/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 Things Our Fathers Saw-The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation from Hometown, USA-Voices of the Pacific Theater【電子書籍】[ Matthew Rozell ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Over thirty survivors who fought from Pearl Harbor to the surrender at Tokyo Bay give firsthand accounts of combat and brotherhood, of captivity and redemption, and the aftermath of a war that left no American community unscathed. Includes maps, photos, and never-before-seen portraits. Here are the real stories that LOOK Magazine could not tell.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞292 PAGES.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Volume 1 of The Things Our Fathers Saw? series begins in an upstate NY community, which LOOK Magazine designated as Hometown, USA for a 6-issue patriotic spread in 1944, a microcosm of every other small-town community in the country.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It starts with my quest for a young sailor's body, killed at Pearl Harbor, and follows our young men and women across the Pacific.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞From the book:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The telephone rings on the hospital floor, and they tell you it is your mother, the phone call you have been dreading. You've lost part of your face to a Japanese sniper on Okinawa, and after many surgeries, the doctor has finally told you that at 19, you will never see again. The pain and shock is one thing. But now you have to tell her, from 5000 miles away.＜/p＞ ＜p＞ー 'So I had a hard two months, I guess. I kept mostly to myself. I wouldn't talk to people. I tried to figure out what the hell I was going to do when I got home. How was I going to tell my mother this? You know what I mean?' ~Jimmy Butterfield, WWII Marine veteran＜/p＞ ＜p＞ー 'I was talking to a shipmate of mine waiting for the motor launch, and all at once I saw a plane go over our ship. I did not know what it was, but the fellow with me said, 'That's a Jap plane, Jesus!' It went down and dropped a torpedo. Then I saw the Utah turn over.' ~Barney Ross, U.S. Navy seaman, Pearl Harbor＜/p＞ ＜p＞ー 'Rage is instantaneous. He's looking at me from a crawling position. I didn't shoot him; I went and kicked him in the head. Rage does funny things. After I kicked him, I shot and killed him.' ~Thomas Jones, Marine veteran, Battle of Guadalcanal＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞These are the stories that the magazine could not tell to the American public.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞ー 'I remember it rained like hell that night, and the water was running down the slope into our foxholes. I had to use my helmet to keep bailing out, you know. Lt. Gower called us together. He said, 'I think we're getting hit with a banzai. We're going to have to pull back. 'Holy God, there was howling and screaming! They had naked women, with spears, stark naked!' ~Nick Grinaldo, U.S. Army veteran, Saipan＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞By the end of 2020, fewer than 300,000 WW II veterans will still be with us, out of the over 16 million who put on a uniform. But why is it that today, nobody seems to know these stories? Maybe our veterans did not volunteer; maybe we were too busy with our own lives to ask. But they opened up to the younger generation, when a history teacher told their grandchildren to ask.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞This book brings you the previously untold firsthand accounts of combat and brotherhood, of captivity and redemption, and the aftermath of a war that left no American community unscathed.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞ー 'After 3? years of starvation and brutal treatment, that beautiful symbol of freedom once more flies over our head! Our POW camp tailor worked all night and finished our first American flag! The blue came from a GI barracks bag, red from a Jap comforter and the white from an Australian bed sheet. When I came out of the barracks and saw those beautiful colors for the first time, I felt like crying!'~Joe Minder, U.S. Army POW, Japan,1945＜/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 Generation Killer【電子書籍】[ Adam Simcox ]

＜p＞＜strong＞The second thrilling instalment of Adam Simcox's 'wildly entertaining' (Adam Hamdy) THE DYING SQUAD series.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞There's a new serial killer on the streets of Manchester - and only a dead cop can stop them.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Detective Joe Lazarus works for the Dying Squad, solving crimes the living police can't. When the Generation Killer starts wiping out Manchester's innocents, Joe and his new partner Bits have mere hours to catch the murderer. A young woman's life depends on it.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Joe's former partner Daisy-May has her own problems. Children are going missing in the afterlife, and she's the only one who seems to care. Her investigation uncovers a conspiracy so vast, it threatens both the living and the dead.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Her predecessor the Duchess can't help this time; she's tracked her treacherous sister, Hanna, to Tokyo, where she's been recruiting the dead. The Duchess must enlist the help of a local detective if she's to have any choice of stopping her.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Time is running out for the Dying Squad. And if they can't crack their cases, it's the living that will pay...＜/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！】Come l'alta marea【電子書籍】[ Clive Cussler ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Una nuova, inedita corsa della NUMA contro il tempo dalla penna del re incontrastato dell’avventura＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Ovunque nel mondo, il livello dei mari si sta alzando in modo anomalo e allarmante e lo scioglimento dei ghiacciai provocato dal surriscaldamento globale non pu? esserne l’unica causa. Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala e il resto del team scientifico della NUMA sospettano che qualcuno stia cercando di manipolare le forze della natura per il proprio tornaconto personale e quindi decidono di setacciare il globo in cerca di risposte. Sul fondo del Mar Cinese orientale scoprono che la situazione ? molto pi? critica di quanto immaginassero: l’innalzamento delle acque fa parte di un diabolico piano architettato per sconvolgere gli equilibri di potere tra le nazioni.＜br /＞ I pericolosi mari dell’Asia, le strade high-tech di Tokyo e un’isola segreta fanno da sfondo a una missione ad alto rischio. La Numa dovr? trovare il modo di scongiurare l’imminente catastrofe, evitando gli attacchi di un assassino cos? violento che persino la potente Yakuza lo ha rinnegato e, come se non bastasse, recuperare una lega metallica rara e sconosciuta insieme a una coppia di leggendarie e antichissime spade giapponesi…＜/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！】One Damned Island After Another【電子書籍】[ Clive Howard ]

＜p＞＜strong＞One Damned Island After Another＜/strong＞, first published in 1946, opens in "Paradise"ーthe island of Oahuーin the early morning of December 7, 1941, when Technician Third Class Joe Lockard and Private George Elliott, in their radar truck, tried desperately to tell the Information Center at Fort Shafter that the pips on their oscilloscope meant something big and dangerous. That was the beginning of the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor. From the old Hawaiian Air Department, and from the chaos and ruin of Hickam and Wheeler and Bellows airfields, the Seventh Air Force came into being. It faced, in the central Pacific, the largest water theater in the world - sixteen million square miles, five times the size of the United States. The Americans patched up their planes as best they could and began to fly the "Atoll Circuit," the low-lying, white sand atolls and the first stepping stones on the long road to Tokyo. In this huge area and against a fearsome opponent, the men of the Seventh were forced to fly the longest missions in any theater of war, entirely over water and, at first, without fighter escort. They fought at Midway, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Truk, Saipan, Palau, the Philippines, Iwo Jima, and finally Tokyo. ＜em＞One Damned Island After Another＜/em＞ is the story of the fighting men who contributed to the eventual winning of the war in the Pacific.＜/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！】One Damned Island After Another The Saga of the Seventh【電子書籍】[ Clive Howard ]

＜p＞Clive Howard and Joe Whitley were both sergeants and served as correspondents for the Seventh Air Force during World War 2. The men of the Seventh were forced to fly the longest missions in any theater of war, entirely over water and, at first, without fighter escort. They fought at Midway, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Truk, Saipan, Palau, the Philippines, Iwo Jima, and finally Tokyo.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞One Damned Island After Another＜/em＞ covers the history of this remarkable air force from the events at Pearl Harbor through to V-J Day, detailing events on every single island that the force landed on in between.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This new 2019 edition of ＜em＞One Damned Island After Another＜/em＞ includes annotations and photographs from the Pacific campaigns.＜/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！】John Curtin's War The coming of war in the Pacific, and reinventing Australia【電子書籍】[ John Edwards ]

＜p＞＜strong＞John Curtin became Australia’s Prime Minister eight weeks before Japan launched war in the Pacific.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Curtin’s struggle for power against Joe Lyons and Bob Menzies, his dramatic use of it when he took office in October 1941, and his determination to be heard in Washington and London as Japan advanced, is a political epic unmatched in Australian experience. As Japan sank much of the Allied navy, advanced on the great British naval base at Singapore, and seized Australian territories in New Guinea, Curtin remade Australia.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Using much new material John Edwards’ vivid, landmark biography places Curtin as a man of his times, puzzling through the immense changes in Australia and its region released by the mighty shock of the Pacific War.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It shows Curtin not as a hero and certainly not as a villain but as the pivotal figure making his uncertain way between what Australia was, and what it would become. It locates the turning point in Australian history not at Gallipoli or the Western Front or even Federation but in the Pacific War and in Curtin’s Prime Ministership.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This two volume work is a major contribution to Australian biography, and to how we understand our history. In this first part, Edwards takes Curtin’s story from the late nineteenth century socialist ferment in Melbourne through to his appointment as prime minister and a Japanese onslaught so complete and successful that within a few months of launching it military leaders in Tokyo debated between the options of invading Australia, or sealing it off from Allied help.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

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

＜p＞Retired New York City police detective Joe Brady is invited to Tokyo by global super-brand ＜em＞The Oshiro Corporation＜/em＞, wanting to commend him for bravery and his saving of over a hundred ＜em＞Oshiro＜/em＞ employees in a hostage crisis thirty years ago. Accompanied by a loyal, yet angry, friend, a reluctant Brady accepts the invitation only for a violent past to catch up with him and the truth behind The Oshiro Corporation being revealed.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Wiry hands mixed soot and burnt tree roots in a chipped bowl. The hands belonged to a fifty-five year-old Japanese man. Wearing an olive-green uniform and a white headband pressed tightly around his forehead, he sat, calmly, on a tatami mat. Around him were several other Japanese men, each of similar age as well as wearing the same olive-green clothing. The men didn’t look healthy at all, but were thankful to be alive at least, sitting in the dark, damp, underground cell. A six-foot two European looking man was suddenly shoved inside the cell by four Japanese guards. He, too, wore the same olive-green uniform. His, however, was in a much healthier condition than those worn by the Japanese occupants of the cell. The European was a muscular man. Well built and sturdy, like an oak tree. He was fifty years old back then, when he was snatched outside the Volksb?hne cinema in East Berlin, as he held the hand of his five-year old grandson. He he would remain at that Black Site, in North East Japan for the next thirty years, until it was infiltrated.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Joe Brady was cynical, exhausted-of-life and of people. He sat, bare-chested, on the edge of the bed, in his boxers. His body was a road map of scars and burns. He was worn from bullets, cuts, scrapes and old stitches. He was unshaven and his hairline was heavily receded and what was left was gray and patchy. He didn’t care and why should he? He didn’t care too much about anything, especially fashion. Brady appeared trance-like. His eyes were glassy as he stared at the X-ray while the doctor informed him of his condition. He had metal pins in his elbow so the bones healed in alignment. They stuck out so the surgeon could remove them easily. Both his knees had depleted cartilage layers between the joints causing his bones to rub together. Osteoarthritis was a common condition for cartilage failure. Brady's left shoulder had previously shattered and he was experiencing Avascular Necrosis. Pain would become more and more severe. It would lead to a limited range of motion and invariably further pain and chronic fatigue. Getting on a plane bound for Tokyo was the last thing on his mind.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In just a short space of time, Joe would find himself in Tokyo and framed for murder. When a familiar name from a violent past resurfaces, the body count rises fast. Trapped inside a smart building. Besieged by tha Yakuza, bullets fly and swords slice, leaving just two words for survival: Old Habits.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Trebilcook's 'Old Habits' novel formed the basis for his acclaimed speculative script for a potential sixth and final '＜em＞Die Hard＜/em＞' movie, entitled 'Old Habits Die Hard'. Trebilcook can be followed on Twitter via the handle @BenTrebilcook＜/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。