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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！】Seth, The Boy Who Loved Christmas【電子書籍】[ Michael Smith ]

＜p＞Once upon a time, in a small, magical town called Anston, lived a boy named Seth. Anston was unlike any other town in the world. The streets sparkled with fairy dust, the houses were made of gingerbread and candy, and the trees glowed with tiny lights, even in the summer. But the most wonderful thing about Anston was how everyone loved Christmas.＜/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。

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Running with Scissors: A Memoir - Augusten Burroughs (Picador) 【紙書籍】 9780312425418

タイトル: Running with Scissors: A Memoir著者: Augusten Burroughs出版社: Picador出版日: 2006年09月05日古本非常に良い。端が少し摩耗しているが、汚れのないきれいな本。製本状態は良好。ダスト ジャケットが付属している場合は、それも含まれます。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。The #1 "New York Times "Bestseller An "Entertainment Weekly" Top Ten Book of the Year Now a Major Motion Picture"" "Running with Scissors" is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. At the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor, living with the doctor's bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard shed. The story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, and the Christmas tree stayed up all year-round, where Valium was consumed like candy, and if things got dull, an electroshock therapy machine could provide entertainment. The funny, harrowing, and bestselling account of an ordinary boy's survival under the most extraordinary circumstances. Running with Scissors AcknowledgmentsGratitude doesn't begin to describe it: Jennifer Enderlin, Christopher Schelling, John Murphy, Gregg Sullivan, Kim Cardascia, Michael Storrings, and everyone at St. Martin's Press. Thank you: Lawrence David, Suzanne Finnamore, Robert Rodi, Bret Easton Ellis, Jon Pepoon, Lee Lodes, Jeff Soares, Kevin Weidenbacher, Lynda Pearson, Lona Walburn, Lori Greenburg, John DePretis, and Sheila Cobb. I would also like to express my appreciation to my mother and father for, no matter how inadvertently, giving me such a memorable childhood. Additionally, I would like to thank the real-life members of the family portrayed in this book for taking me into their home and accepting me as one of their own. I recognize that their memories of the events described in this book are different than my own. They are each fine, decent, and hard-working people. The book was not intended to hurt the family. Both my publisher and I regret any unintentional harm resulting from the publishing and marketing of Running with Scissors. Most of all, I would like to thank my brother for demonstrating, by example, the importance of being wholly unique.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Running with Scissors: A Memoir - Augusten Burroughs (Picador) 【紙書籍】 9780312425418

タイトル: Running with Scissors: A Memoir著者: Augusten Burroughs出版社: Picador出版日: 2006年09月05日古本ほぼ新品。傷みが少なく、しっかりと製本された、優れた、マークのないコピーです。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。The #1 "New York Times "Bestseller An "Entertainment Weekly" Top Ten Book of the Year Now a Major Motion Picture"" "Running with Scissors" is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. At the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor, living with the doctor's bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard shed. The story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, and the Christmas tree stayed up all year-round, where Valium was consumed like candy, and if things got dull, an electroshock therapy machine could provide entertainment. The funny, harrowing, and bestselling account of an ordinary boy's survival under the most extraordinary circumstances. Running with Scissors AcknowledgmentsGratitude doesn't begin to describe it: Jennifer Enderlin, Christopher Schelling, John Murphy, Gregg Sullivan, Kim Cardascia, Michael Storrings, and everyone at St. Martin's Press. Thank you: Lawrence David, Suzanne Finnamore, Robert Rodi, Bret Easton Ellis, Jon Pepoon, Lee Lodes, Jeff Soares, Kevin Weidenbacher, Lynda Pearson, Lona Walburn, Lori Greenburg, John DePretis, and Sheila Cobb. I would also like to express my appreciation to my mother and father for, no matter how inadvertently, giving me such a memorable childhood. Additionally, I would like to thank the real-life members of the family portrayed in this book for taking me into their home and accepting me as one of their own. I recognize that their memories of the events described in this book are different than my own. They are each fine, decent, and hard-working people. The book was not intended to hurt the family. Both my publisher and I regret any unintentional harm resulting from the publishing and marketing of Running with Scissors. Most of all, I would like to thank my brother for demonstrating, by example, the importance of being wholly unique.

古本, ノンフィクション, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It - Lisa Bloom (Counterpoint) 【紙書籍】 9781619023277

タイトル: Suspicion Nation: The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It著者: Lisa Bloom出版社: Counterpoint出版日: 2014年02月25日古本ほぼ新品。傷みが少なく、しっかりと製本された、優れた、マークのないコピーです。リサイクル可能なアメリカ製の封筒で発送します。すべての注文に 100% 返金保証付き。Many thought the election of our first African American president put an end to the conversation about race in this country, and that America had moved into a post-racial era of equality and opportunity. Then, on the night of February 26, 2012, a black seventeen-year-old boy walking to a friend's home carrying only his cell phone, candy, and a fruit drink, was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch coordinator. And in July 2013, the trial of Zimmerman for murder captivated the public, as did his eventual acquittal. In her provocative and landmark book, Suspicion Nation, Lisa Bloom, who covered the trial from gavel to gavel, posits that none of this was a surprise: Our laws, culture, and blind spots created the conditions that led to Trayvon Martin's death, and made George Zimmerman's acquittal by far the most likely outcome. America today holds an unhealthy preoccupation with firearms that has led to the expansion of gun rights to surreal extremes. America now has not only the highest per capita gun ownership rate in the world (almost one gun per American), but the highest rate of gun deaths. Despite the strides America has made, fighting a bloody Civil War to end slavery, eradicating Jim Crow laws, teaching tolerance, and electing an African American president, racial inequality persists throughout our country, in employment, housing, education, the media, and most institutions. And perhaps most destructively of all, racial biases run deep in every level of our criminal justice system. Suspicion Nation captures a court system and a country conflicted and divided over issues of race, violence, and gun legislation.

【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 Scientist and the Serial Killer The Search for Houston's Lost Boys【電子書籍】[ Lise Olsen ]

＜p＞＜strong＞NATIONAL BESTSELLER ? The true story of how one dedicated forensic scientist restored the long-lost identities of the teenaged victims of the “Candy Man,” one of America’s most prolific serial killers＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“A masterwork of crime writing . . . Lise Olsen has taken a fifty-year-old story and made it new and fresh and terrifyingly real.”ーS. C. Gwynne, ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling author of ＜em＞Rebel Yell＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Houston, Texas, in the early 1970s was an exciting placeーthe home of NASA, the city of the future. But a string of more than two dozen missing teenage boys hinted at a dark undercurrent that would go ignored for too long. While their siblings and friends wondered where they had gone, the Houston police department dismissed them as runaways, fleeing the Vietnam draft or conservative parents, likely looking to get high and join the counterculture.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It was only after their killer, Dean Corll, was murdered by an accomplice that many of those boys’ bodies were discovered in mass graves. Corll, known as the “Candy Man,” was a local sweet-shop owner who had enlisted two teens to lure their friends to parties, where they would be tortured and killed.＜/p＞ ＜p＞All of Corll’s victims’ bodies were badly decomposed; some were only skeletal. Known collectively as the Lost Boys, many were never identified and some remained undiscovered. Decades later, when forensic anthropologist Sharon Derrick discovered a box of remains marked “1973 Murders” in the Harris County Medical Examiner’s office, she recalled the horrifying crime from her own childhood, and knew she had to act. It would take prison interviews with Corll’s accomplices, advanced scientific techniques, and years of tireless effort to identify these young men.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Investigative journalist Lise Olsen brings to life the teens who were hunted by a killer hiding in plain sight and the extraordinary woman who would finally give his unknown victims back their names and their dignity. With newly uncovered information about the case, ＜em＞The Scientist and the Serial Killer＜/em＞ immerses readers in an astonishing story and reveals why these horrific events remain relevant decades later.＜/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！】Hillary Rising The Politics, Persona and Policies of a New American Dynasty【電子書籍】[ James D. Boys ]

＜p＞On 12 April 2015, Hillary Clinton formally announced her intention to run for President in 2016, casting herself as the 'champion of everyday Americans'. With near-universal name recognition and the promise to make history as the first female occupant of the Oval Office, all seems set for Hillary to secure the one role that has eluded her to date, but what drives this most intriguing and polarising of political figures? Will she be able to shake off her past mistakes and finally secure the Democratic Party's nomination? What are her chances of winning the White House? And, perhaps more importantly, what kind of President would she make? Drawing on original interviews with close associates of both Bill and Hillary, as well as a wealth of recently declassified materials from the Clinton archive, James D. Boys offers a clear-sighted, non-partisan analysis of Hillary's rise to the pinnacle of American power, revealing the political ideology and core principles that have remained a constant throughout.＜/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！】Suspicion Nation The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It【電子書籍】[ Lisa Bloom ]

＜p＞Many thought the election of our first African American president put an end to the conversation about race in this country, and that America had moved into a post?racial era of equality and opportunity. Then, on the night of February 26, 2012, a black seventeen?year?old boy walking to a friend's home carrying only his cell phone, candy, and a fruit drink, was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch coordinator.＜/p＞ ＜p＞And in July 2013, the trial of Zimmerman for murder captivated the public, as did his eventual acquittal.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In her provocative and landmark book, Suspicion Nation, Lisa Bloom, who covered the trial from gavel to gavel, posits that none of this was a surprise: Our laws, culture, and blind spots created the conditions that led to Trayvon Martin's death, and made George Zimmerman's acquittal by far the most likely outcome.＜/p＞ ＜p＞America today holds an unhealthy preoccupation with firearms that has led to the expansion of gun rights to surreal extremes. America now has not only the highest per capita gun ownership rate in the world (almost one gun per American), but the highest rate of gun deaths. Despite the strides America has made, fighting a bloody Civil War to end slavery, eradicating Jim Crow laws, teaching tolerance, and electing an African American president, racial inequality persists throughout our country, in employment, housing, education, the media, and most institutions. And perhaps most destructively of all, racial biases run deep in every level of our criminal justice system. ＜em＞Suspicion Nation＜/em＞ captures a court system and a country conflicted and divided over issues of race, violence, and gun legislation.＜/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！】True Crime Confidential Volume 5 True Crime Confidential, #5【電子書籍】[ Robert Keller ]

＜p＞＜strong＞18 Truly Horrific Murder Cases, including＜/strong＞;＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Dinner is Served＜/strong＞: Katherine had been a slaughterhouse worker since the age of 17. Now she's putting her butchering skills to a more sinister purpose.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Written in Blood＜/strong＞: Two teenaged girls are murdered in an English village. The police have no clue who killed them. Perhaps a recent scientic breakthrough can help. It's called DNA fingerprinting.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞I Don't Like Mondays＜/strong＞: A teenager with a bad attitude and a rifle, living right across the street from an elementary school. This doesn't end well.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞High Road to Hell＜/strong＞: Two brothers embark on an unprecedented killing spree. Their mission? To prepare the world for Christ's triumphant return.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞The Man Who Killed Halloween＜/strong＞: A little boy dies in agony after eating poisoned Halloween candy. But who killed him? Surely it couldn't be his own father?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Lesbian Vampire Killers＜/strong＞: Four young women crusing the streets after dark, offering rides to random strangers. Don't get into their car. They want your blood.＜/p＞ ＜p＞???＜/p＞ ＜p＞???＜/p＞ ＜p＞???＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Plus 12 more riveting true crime cases. Scroll up to get your copy now＜/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！】Black America Will There Be Justice For Trayvon Martin?【電子書籍】[ Polly Ann Lewis ]

＜p＞On a rainy night in a little town in Sanford, Florida, a shot rang out that would soon be heard all over the world, and a young, black, teenage boy lay dead on the wet grass. His name was Trayvon Martin. He was only 17 years old. Trayvon Martin is dead. Never again will we hear his sweet laughter or see his sweet face. His parents are now in deep grief over their son's death. Come with me as we delve into this tragic shooting, and together we will look at the facts, rumors and speculation to find out if there will be justice for Trayvon Martin.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Mysterious! Awesome! Mindboggling! Tragic! Sad! Unbelievable! True facts about trayvon martin! A parent's worst nightmare comes true! Civil rights movement of 2012! And much much more! Get this book now!＜/p＞ ＜p＞It is 7:00 PM and it is raining in Sanford, Florida. George Zimmerman, the captain of his neighborhood watch program, was out in his vehicle doing his sweep of the neighborhood, as was his custom. Trayvon Martin, who was staying with his dad in the same neighborhood, left his home to get some candy and a drink all in this same time period. It seems that Trayvon was returning from the store because the candy, Skittles, and a bottle of Arizona Tea were the only things the police reported that they found on him. At some point, Zimmerman has Trayvon in his sights and calls 911. The very first thing he tells the 911 operator is that they have had burglaries and break-ins in his neighborhood, and that he sees a suspicious looking guy walking around in the rain looking at houses. The 911 operator then asks Zimmerman is he was white, black or Hispanic. Zimmerman answers back that the guy is black and wearing a hooded sweatshirt. What happened after that is a story that will shock the world and open your eyes into what is happening right here, right now, right before your very eyes! Are you ready to find out what really happened to Trayvon on that tragic night?＜br /＞ How could such a needless, tragic death have happened right in the backyard of a neighborhood that was filled with people? When the cries for “HELP! HELP! HELP!” were heard, why did no one come the rescue of this young man's life? Or, if it was their beloved captain of the Neighborhood Watch, George Zimmerman, who was being beaten to death, why did they not help him when they heard his cries for HELP?＜br /＞ Who was Trayvon Martin? Who was George Zimmerman? How many people were involved in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin? Why was George Zimmerman out that rainy night and what was his mission for the night? Why was Trayvon out walking on that fateful rainy night and how in the world did their paths cross that resulted in his terrible death?＜br /＞ Black America Will There Be Justice For Trayvon Martin? is a book that is a must read for all the blacks and whites out there who are searching for answers to these questions and much more. Do you think that this shooting was a white on black racist hate crime? Do you think our Black Americans are still being treated as slaves just as they were when they first came over in the horrible slave ships? Are you ready to be enlightened about our Black Americans and their role in our American society today? Do you think that whites on a regular basis kill blacks? In this amazing, true fact-filled book, Black America Will There Be Justice For Trayvon Martin?, you are going to find out who is killing who in America right here, right now!＜br /＞ Download this book to your e-Book library and read all about our "Black America" right NOW. Find out what really happened to Trayvon Martin and if There Will Be "Justice For Trayvon Martin" and what is being done at this very minute to bring about the "I Am Trayvon" Civil Rights Movement and keep it alive for as long it takes to get "Justice for Trayvon."＜/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！】American Yellow【電子書籍】[ George Omi ]

＜p＞The day Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Minoru Omi's whole life was turned upside down. Racial tensions ran high -- his father, a Japanese immigrant, is questioned by the FBI, and eventually his family is uprooted from their lives in San Francisco, and forcibly relocated to desolate Rohwer, Arkansas. He and his little sister leave behind their school and friends, while their immigrant parents give up their hard-won dry cleaning business. Still, though, their family resolve persists -- and even while facing tough times thousands of miles from the city he was born in, Minoru manages to get into trouble with snakes, bullies, and out-of-bounds candy shops, just like any other young boy. Interned or not, he finds a way to thrive. Follow the Omi family as they make their way through World War II -- from San Francisco to the internment camp in Arkansas and back again. Keywords - Japanese, Minoru, Pearl Harbor, War, Japan, Evacuation, Bombing, Internment Camps＜/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！】Carnival in the Countryside The History of the Iowa State Fair【電子書籍】[ Chris Rasmussen ]

＜p＞More than a century and a half after its founding, the Iowa State Fair is the state’s central institution, event, and symbol. New Jersey has the Shore; Kentucky has the Derby; Iowa has the Fair. The humble Iowa State Fairground ranks alongside the Great Pyramids at Giza and the Taj Mahal in the best-selling travel guide ＜em＞1,000 Places to See Before You Die＜/em＞. During its annual run each August, the fair attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors who make the pilgrimage to the fairground to see the iconic butter cow, to ride the Old Mill, to walk through the livestock barns, and to people-watch. At the same time that they enjoy fried candy bars and roller coasters, Iowans also compete to raise the best corn and zucchinis, to make the best jams and jellies, to rear the finest sheep and goats, the largest cattle and hogs, and the handsomest horses.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This tension between entertainment and agriculture goes back all the way to the fair’s founding in the mid-1800s, as historian Chris Rasmussen shows in this thought-provoking history. The fair’s founders had lofty aims: they sought to improve agriculture and foster a distinctively democratic American civilization. But from the start these noble intentions jostled up against people’s desire to have fun and make money, honestly or otherwiseーnot least because the fair had to pay for itself. In their effort to uplift rural life without going broke, the organizers of the Iowa State Fair debated the respectability of horse racing and gambling and struggled to find qualified livestock judges. Worried about the economic forces undermining rural families, they ran competitions to select the best babies and the “ideal” rural girl and boy while luring spectators with massive panoramas of earthquakes and fires, not to mention staged trainwrecks. In short, the Iowa State Fair has as much to tell us about human nature and American history as it does about growing corn.＜/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。