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The Slipthk War: Pleroma The Slipthk War【電子書籍】[ D?v?n ]

【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 Slipthk War: Pleroma The Slipthk War【電子書籍】[ D?v?n ]

<p>The war has become more than war.</p> <p>It is no longer a clash of forcesーbut a collision of truths, a convergence of archetypes, a reawakening of memories buried beneath the bones of time. The cataclysm unleashed by the Ash'Ara has peeled back the final veil, revealing what has always lingered behind the dream of existence: the Pleroma.</p> <p>Here, at the threshold of form and formlessness, the illusion of separation begins to dissolve.</p> <p>Elo-D?v?nーonce merely D?v?n, now fused with Elo-Ravin, the divine spark of remembrance, and Naviel, the echo of cosmic thoughtーhas become the axis of a deeper unraveling. His body, mind, and soul are no longer distinct. He is dreamt by the cosmos even as he dreams it. Every step he takes echoes across the lattice of being, stirring gods, guardians, and forgotten sentience from their long silence.</p> <p>The companions that journey with him are no longer what they were.</p> <p>Alind, bearer of compassion and conduit of grace, now resonates with the pulse of the Pleroma, her presence bending reality to the shape of empathy.</p> <p>Divinity, the formless, who was once a whisper, has become a force of harmonic disruptionーa daughter of the void who sings to awaken truth from its prison of certainty.</p> <p>E?χa, cloaked in paradox, holds the mirror to all things and reveals the nature of choice through her very breath.</p> <p>Even the once-exiled ?????ーthe fallen sentinel of the Eastーmust confront the core of his undoing as the ancient Elders reemerge to reclaim dominion over what was never theirs to begin with.</p> <p>Together, they pass through realms of myth and memory, across the Threshold of the Echoed Self, through the Spheres of the Forgotten Ones, and into the Chamber of Infinite Conjunctions, where identity is not static but fluidーtranscendent, recursive, and always in the act of becoming.</p> <p>But not all forces wish for healing.</p> <p>Beneath the shimmering membrane of the Pleroma stirs Ravhel-Suun, the great betrayer, the wound given voice. He is not merely an antagonist, but a living symptom of the cosmic splitーthe dissonance between knowing and being. He seeks not destruction, but correction. Not vengeance, but integration on his terms. His design is not chaos, but symmetry. Perfect, soulless, silent.</p> <p>As the group reaches the Heart of the Pleroma, they are each shown what was lost: their true names, their divine echoes, the original threads that once wove them into the great harmonic whole. It is there they confront the being older than Sophia, bearing both the fracture and the seed. And it is there that the first breath ever spoken speaks again.</p> <p>What is the Slipthk but the consequence of forgetting?</p> <p>What is the war but a plea for remembrance?</p> <p>In the final arc of this installment, reality itself bends under the weight of their choices. The fabric of time strains as timelines collapse, reweave, and echo into eternity. And from the soul of Ravhel-Suun, a hidden corridor opensーThe Wound, a living passage through the very origin of division.</p> <p>To pass through is to lose everything. To remember what lies beyond is to die and become something entirely new.</p> <p>The Slipthk War: Pleroma is not a continuationーit is an ascension. A metaphysical climax of symbol, silence, and soul. It invites the reader into a realm where philosophy becomes flesh, where myth births consequence, and where the truest battle is fought not between good and evil, but between dissonance and harmony, between forgetting and remembering, between exile… and return.</p> <p>This is where the gods bleed.</p> <p>Where the self shatters.</p> <p>Where the truth is whole, and the whole is broken.</p> <p>And from that brokenness, a new dawn waits to be born.</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。

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Accelerating the Clock【電子書籍】[ Astern Blatt ]

【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!】Accelerating the Clock【電子書籍】[ Astern Blatt ]

<p><em>"Accelerating the Clock"</em> is a poignant exploration of love and loss, told through the symbolism of clocks and the relentless march of time. It follows Noah and Emilia, whose relationship gradually unravels as they become prisoners of their perceptions of time slipping away. From hopeful beginnings, they drift into silence, broken gears, and frozen moments, ultimately accepting that some love cannot be rewound. Their actionsーsilent gestures, futile repairs, and silent goodbyesーhighlight the inevitable decay of what once was. As their internal clocks stop ticking, they retreat into solitude, haunted by memories and the weight of lost moments. The story culminates in a bleak acknowledgment: some clocks are meant to be stopped forever, and some love stories are destined to fade into silence, leaving behind only the echoes of what once was. A haunting meditation on the passage of time, regret, and the impossibility of reclaiming what has slipped beyond reach.</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。

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The Passionate Year A Tale of Love and Discovery in a Post-War Era【電子書籍】[ James Hilton ]

【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 Passionate Year A Tale of Love and Discovery in a Post-War Era【電子書籍】[ James Hilton ]

<p>In "The Passionate Year," James Hilton crafts a poignant narrative that delves into the complexity of human emotions through the lens of love, nostalgia, and the bittersweet passage of time. Set against the backdrop of the English countryside, Hilton employs a lyrical, reflective prose that captures the nuances of intimacy and longing. The novel is framed by a delicate exploration of the protagonist'??s memories, evoking a rich tapestry of emotion that resonates deeply within readers, showcasing Hilton's adeptness in blending realism with a romantic idealism prevalent in early 20th-century literature. James Hilton, a distinguished British novelist and screenwriter, is best known for his works such as "Lost Horizon" and "Goodbye, Mr. Chips." His keen observations of society, coupled with a personal experience of love and loss, inform the emotional depth found in "The Passionate Year." Hilton'??s background in the tumultuous interwar period and his reflections on the changing social landscape of post-World War I Britain profoundly influence this novel, as he navigates the delicate interplay between personal aspiration and societal expectation. This novel is highly recommended for readers seeking an evocative journey through the intricacies of love and memory. Hilton'??s insightful prose invites readers to reflect upon their own experiences, making it a timeless exploration of the human heart. A must-read for fans of literary fiction, "The Passionate Year" promises to leave a lasting impression and provoke thoughtful contemplation.</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。

300 円 (税込 / 送料込)

Splashing the memories【電子書籍】[ Astern Blatt ]

【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!】Splashing the memories【電子書籍】[ Astern Blatt ]

<p><em>"Splashing the Memories"</em> is a poetic exploration of love and loss, set against the vivid symbolism of water's constant flow and change. The story follows Noah and Emilia as their once-hopeful relationship gradually dissolves into emotional turbulence, trust erodes, and memories fragment like broken reflections. Through a series of vivid, action-driven scenes, the narrative depicts their struggle to hold onto love amid doubt, regret, and inevitable separation. As their connection ebbs and their worlds drift apart, they become trapped in a cycle of longing, silence, and despair, culminating in a profound ending where hope is drowned, and the story fades into emotional oblivion. Ultimately, the novel captures the relentless, unstoppable passage of time and the tragic beauty of love lost to the inexorable currents of change.</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。

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【古本】 Kingdom Keepers VII (Kingdom Keepers, Book VII): The Insider - Ridley Pearson (Disney-Hyperion) 【紙書籍】 9781423165248

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Kingdom Keepers VII (Kingdom Keepers, Book VII): The Insider - Ridley Pearson (Disney-Hyperion) 【紙書籍】 9781423165248

タイトル: Kingdom Keepers VII (Kingdom Keepers, Book VII): The Insider著者: Ridley Pearson出版社: Disney-Hyperion出版日: 2015年03月31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。In the epic series finale of New York Times Best-Selling series, The Kingdom Keepers, an ultimate challenge takes the Keepers to the West Coast to battle the Overtakers at the Disneyland and at the Walt Disney StudiosThe Kingdom Keepers' senior year in high school is almost over. For more than three years, things have been quiet. Their battles are long behind them, they agree, the threat to the Disney realm silenced-albeit at great cost. But inside the catacombs of the Aztec temple where Finn Whitman faced down his nemesis, the monstrous Chernabog, a new threat brews. Deception and betrayal rock the Kingdom Keepers as the merciless group of Disney villains known as the Overtakers stage an unexpected comeback. But a discovery by the Keepers provides them with one hope of victory--a lost icon. It was believed to be gone forever. The Keepers have one last chance to preserve the heart of the Kingdom--Disneyland--from a terrifying destruction decades in the making.Read the entire Kingdom Keepers series from award wining author, Ridley Pearson!Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark (book 1)Kingdom Keepers: Disney at Dawn (book 2)Kingdom Keepers: Disney in Shadow (book3)Kingdom Keepers: Power Play (book 4)Kingdom Keepers: Shell Game (book 5)Kingdom Keepers: Dark Passage (book 6)Kingdom Keepers: The Insider (book 7)

3887 円 (税込 / 送料込)

【古本】 Door Behind a Door - Yelena Moskovich (Two Dollar Radio) 【紙書籍】 9781953387028

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Door Behind a Door - Yelena Moskovich (Two Dollar Radio) 【紙書籍】 9781953387028

タイトル: Door Behind a Door著者: Yelena Moskovich出版社: Two Dollar Radio出版日: 2021年05月18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。"A Door Behind a Door is loose, dreamy, and symbol-packed... The resurfacing of characters from Olga's past in her new city speaks to the theme of immigration in the novel, of new homes and the passage from old to new--a passage that is perhaps not ever fully complete in the sense that the past cannot be shaken." --Marta Balcewicz, PloughsharesIn Yelena Moskovich's spellbinding new novel, A Door Behind A Door, we meet Olga, who immigrates as part of the Soviet diaspora of '91 to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There she grows up and meets a girl and falls in love, beginning to believe that she can settle down. But a phone call from a bad man from her past brings to life a haunted childhood in an apartment building in the Soviet Union: an unexplained murder in her block, a supernatural stray dog, and the mystery of her beloved brother Moshe, who lost an eye and later vanished. We get pulled into Olga's past as she puzzles her way through an underground Midwestern Russian mafia, in pursuit of a string of mathematical stabbings.

2968 円 (税込 / 送料込)

【古本】 Month in the Country - J L Carr (NYRB Classics) 【紙書籍】 9780940322479

古本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書【古本】 Month in the Country - J L Carr (NYRB Classics) 【紙書籍】 9780940322479

タイトル: Month in the Country著者: J L Carr出版社: NYRB Classics出版日: 2000年10月31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。A short, spellbinding novel about a WWI veteran finding a way to re-enter--and fully embrace--normal life while spending the summer in an idyllic English village. In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summer, and laboring each day to uncover an anonymous painter's depiction of the apocalypse, Birkin finds that he himself has been restored to a new, and hopeful, attachment to life. But summer ends, and with the work done, Birkin must leave. Now, long after, as he reflects on the passage of time and the power of art, he finds in his memories some consolation for all that has been lost.

5532 円 (税込 / 送料込)

The Captive【電子書籍】[ Marcel Proust ]

【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 Captive【電子書籍】[ Marcel Proust ]

<p><em><strong>The Captive</strong></em>, the fifth volume of Marcel Proust's monumental work <em>In Search of Lost Time</em>, is a profound exploration of love, obsession, and the psychological intricacies of desire. The novel follows the narrator's relationship with Albertine, whom he keeps confined in his Paris apartment in a desperate attempt to possess and control her. Through this dynamic, Proust delves into the themes of jealousy, memory, and the illusions that shape emotional attachment.</p> <p>Published posthumously, <em>The Captive</em> is marked by its introspective depth and lyrical prose, continuing Proust's investigation into the workings of consciousness and the passage of time. The novel reflects the narrator's inner turmoil, as he oscillates between affection and suspicion, revealing how love can become entangled with fear and domination.</p> <p>The enduring significance of <em>The Captive</em> lies in its unflinching portrayal of the fragility of human relationships and the limitations of understanding another person's inner world. As part of Proust's larger masterpiece, it offers an intimate and haunting meditation on the nature of possession, loss, and the relentless search for meaning in love.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

250 円 (税込 / 送料込)

Time Regained【電子書籍】[ Marcel Proust ]

【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!】Time Regained【電子書籍】[ Marcel Proust ]

<p><em><strong>Time Regained</strong></em>, the final volume of Marcel Proust's monumental work <em>In Search of Lost Time</em>, serves as both a culmination and a revelation. In this last installment, Proust's narrator confronts the passage of time, the frailty of memory, and the possibility of artistic redemption. Through a return to familiar places and faces now transformed by age and war, he discovers that time, once perceived as a source of loss, can also be the wellspring of meaning and artistic creation.</p> <p>The novel deepens Proust's exploration of involuntary memory, most famously illustrated through sensory experiences that awaken buried impressions of the past. These moments reveal a hidden continuity beneath the apparent fragmentation of life. As the narrator comes to understand his vocation as a writer, <em>Time Regained</em> becomes a profound meditation on the role of art in transcending time and restoring coherence to lived experience.</p> <p>The enduring significance of <em>Time Regained</em> lies in its philosophical depth and literary innovation. It closes the narrative with the insight that true understanding is not found in escaping time but in embracing it ー recognizing the patterns that link past, present, and future. In doing so, Proust affirms that through memory and art, the ephemeral can become eternal.</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。

250 円 (税込 / 送料込)

Swann's Way【電子書籍】[ Marcel Proust ]

【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!】Swann's Way【電子書籍】[ Marcel Proust ]

<p><em><strong>Swann's Way</strong></em>, the first volume of <strong>Marcel Proust's</strong> monumental work <em><strong>In Search of Lost Time</strong></em>, is a profound meditation on memory, time, and desire. Through richly detailed narration and introspective reflection, Proust introduces the narrator's recollections of childhood in Combray and recounts the story of Charles Swann's obsessive love for Odette de Cr?cy. The novel unfolds through involuntary memoryーmost famously triggered by the taste of a madeleineーrevealing how past experiences shape identity and perception.</p> <p>Celebrated for its lyrical prose and psychological depth, <em>Swann's Way</em> has become a cornerstone of modernist literature. Proust's innovative narrative style, characterized by long, intricate sentences and a fluid treatment of time, revolutionized the novel form and influenced generations of writers. His ability to capture fleeting emotions and the subtleties of inner life makes the work both intellectually rich and emotionally resonant.</p> <p>The enduring significance of <em>Swann's Way</em> lies in its exploration of how memory and consciousness interact with the passage of time. By delving into the intricacies of human thought and the beauty of everyday moments, Proust offers readers a timeless reflection on love, art, and the persistence of the past in shaping the present.</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。

250 円 (税込 / 送料込)

Lady in Lace【電子書籍】[ Joanna Maitland ]

【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!】Lady in Lace【電子書籍】[ Joanna Maitland ]

<p><strong>LADY IN LACE Regency Timeslip</strong></p> <p><em><strong>A shredded gold lace ballgown. The greatest rake in Regency London. And the modern woman who links them both.</strong></em></p> <p>When costume curator Emma Stanley meets a frock-coated phantom in an endless museum passage, her body takes fire at his touch. But he melts away, leaving her lost, and clutching the shredded wreck of a Regency ballgown.</p> <p>The magic of the gold lace gown transports Emma across centuries. When is she? Where is she? Most importantly, WHO is she in this alien time?</p> <p>In front of her, a naked man rises from his bath. He welcomes her. He knows her name. He wants her. But he's dangerous ? the greatest rake in London, the stud that every woman desires.</p> <p>Should Emma respond to him? Will she get back to her own time if she does? And, given the threatening shadows swirling round in her modern world, is it safe for her to return?</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。

150 円 (税込 / 送料込)

The House of Armour【電子書籍】[ Marshall Saunders ]

【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 House of Armour【電子書籍】[ Marshall Saunders ]

<p>Enter the world of Marshall Saunders' ""<strong>The House of Armour</strong>,"" a captivating tale set in the rugged landscapes of Nova Scotia. This novel combines heartwarming family drama, vivid scenery, and deep-rooted traditions, painting a picture of life in a proud, tight-knit community.</p> <p><strong>Saunders weaves a story that explores the bonds of family, the weight of legacy, and the struggle between old-world values and the call of the modern age. At the heart of it all lies the House of Armour, a symbol of strength, history, and unspoken secrets.</strong></p> <p>But here's the question that will captivate your heart: What sacrifices must be made to preserve a family’s honor? Can the next generation hold on to their roots, or will they be lost to the passage of time?</p> <p>Through richly developed characters and engaging storytelling, Saunders creates a vivid world where tradition battles with change, and personal desires are often at odds with family duty. The emotional complexity of the characters will draw you into their lives and make you reflect on your own values and choices.</p> <p><strong>Are you ready to uncover the secrets hidden within the walls of ""The House of Armour""?</strong></p> <p>This timeless novel offers a glimpse into a world where every decision can change the course of a family’s future. Saunders’ masterful writing invites you to ponder the meaning of home, heritage, and the lasting impact of the choices we make.</p> <p><strong>Don't miss your chance to explore this powerful family saga. Purchase ""The House of Armour"" today, and immerse yourself in a story of love, tradition, and the ties that bind us all.</strong></p> <p>Seize the opportunity to experience Marshall Saunders' unforgettable novel. Buy ""<strong>The House of Armour</strong>"" now, and let its timeless message of family and honor resonate with you long after the last page is turned.</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。

167 円 (税込 / 送料込)

Claimed by the Alien Enforcer Portals to Chavirlea, #1【電子書籍】[ Christa Ann ]

【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!】Claimed by the Alien Enforcer Portals to Chavirlea, #1【電子書籍】[ Christa Ann ]

<p><strong>Some Secrets refuse to remain hidden...</strong></p> <p>Talis' job as Lead Enforcer of the planet Chavirlea's northern ruling family is to protect his people. Sent to investigate an inter-parallel portal activation, he soon discovers that someone not only activated the doorway but has passed through the once dormant passage. His continued investigation leads him to an unexpected discoveryーan injured human woman.</p> <p>Carly Williams's vacation to a remote cabin becomes a science fiction nightmare when she stumbles across a portal, gets too close, and falls through it. No longer on Earth, she is lost, alone, and terrified after being attacked by an alien-looking wolf fox. Carly quickly decides wild alien animals are the least of her worries when she is captured by Talis, the handsome alien who finds her.</p> <p>Now, they are on the run. Talis knows whoever is tracking them wants to ensure their secrets remain hidden. Can he and Carly put their differences aside and work together to uncover the truth, or will the ancient secrets they have discovered die with them?</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。

600 円 (税込 / 送料込)

Foretokens【電子書籍】[ Sarah Howe ]

【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!】Foretokens【電子書籍】[ Sarah Howe ]

<p><em>Unearthed in a clear-out, a picture calendar she’s kept</em><br /> <em>? hoarding, I’ve learnt, is a mark of the emigrant ?</em><br /> <em>across continents and time.</em></p> <p>So begins Sarah Howe’s extraordinary new collection, returning to the riddle of belonging she explored in her award-winning debut, <em>Loop of Jade.</em> At the heart is her own mother’s clouded past: abandoned as a baby and taken in, at the turbulent dawn of Communist China, by a woman with her own hidden motives. Now a mother herself, Howe finds herself re-examining this unreliable narrative with fresh sight. Sifting through her own history, the poet asks, how can a new generation transform a shattered inheritance? And what is lost and gained in the pursuit?</p> <p>What unfolds is a personal Babel of voices and identities, and an examination of the contradictory legacies of colonialism, where poems ? past and present ? act as ‘foretokens’, omens of what lies ahead. A central spine of poems takes the molecular structure of DNA as its template: a ‘ladder of atoms beginning to twist’, down which the poet steps into the darkness of time. Objects of witness resurface to tell their own stories: fragile porcelains of past centuries transiting across continents; a picture calendar of old postcards from another world.</p> <p>‘From the other side of ruin / we found safe passage’, Howe writes in these spectacular poems of emotional heft and quickening wit, their voice salvaged from the fragments of a former self. <em>Foretokens</em> is a monumental work of survival and creation, turning over what is left behind as it strikes out towards astonishing new vistas.</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。

1994 円 (税込 / 送料込)

Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos - Patrick Leigh Fermor (NYRB Classics) 【紙書籍】 9781590177792

新しい本, 英語で予約する, 洋書Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos - Patrick Leigh Fermor (NYRB Classics) 【紙書籍】 9781590177792

タイトル: Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos著者: Patrick Leigh Fermor出版社: NYRB Classics出版日: 2015年01月20日新しい本新古品・未使用品。出版社からの新着。Patrick Leigh Fermor recounts the last leg of his epic walk across Europe as he makes his way through Bulgaria, Romania, and finally Greece. In the winter of 1933, eighteen-year-old Patrick ("Paddy") Leigh Fermor set out on a walk across Europe, starting in Holland and ending in Constantinople. Decades later, Leigh Fermor told the story of that life-changing journey in A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water, works now celebrated as among the most vivid, absorbing, and beautifully written travel books of all time. The Broken Road is the account of the final leg of his journey, catching up with Paddy in the fall of 1934, following him through Bulgaria and Romania and ending in Greece. Days and nights on the road, spectacular landscapes and uncanny cities, friendships lost and found, leading the high life in Bucharest or camping out with fishermen and shepherds--such incidents and escapades are described with all the linguistic bravura and astonishing learning that Leigh Fermor is famous for, but also with a melancholy awareness of the passage of time. Throughout it we can hear the still-ringing voice of an irrepressible young man embarking on a life of adventure.

4534 円 (税込 / 送料込)

Accidentally Royal【電子書籍】[ Malinda Martin ]

【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!】Accidentally Royal【電子書籍】[ Malinda Martin ]

<p><strong>Every woman deserves to be a princess . . . even if it's accidentally.</strong><br /> <strong>From the author of the bestselling Christmas story Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inn.</strong></p> <p>Lillian Bell was minding her own business, waiting tables in Portsmouth, England, saving up to take a ferry to the island country of Kimbledon, as her late mother requested her to do.</p> <p>When he comes into the pub. Cultured, polite, and gorgeous, he takes an interest in her and her quest to visit his country, offering her passage on the next ferry.</p> <p>The only catch? She must pretend to be the long-lost princess and heir to the prince for four months, until Prince Victor is rededicated as sovereign monarch. Then she can be on her way with a healthy purse included. Simple enough.</p> <p>William (Jamie) Jamison hates to deceive the pretty woman with the big brown eyes. But if they don't provide an heir to the throne, someone to be trained to take Prince Victor's place, Kimbledon as they know it will cease to exist. So, they'll fake the DNA testing and get to work training Lillian to be royal. Simple enough.</p> <p>But they're not prepared for the complications to come:</p> <p>Her quirky friends (a rock band!) that have invaded the palace.</p> <p>Factions working within the country to thwart her ascension.</p> <p>The unwanted attraction developing between Lillian and Jamie.</p> <p>And when the unthinkable happens, it will test everything Lillian and Jamie know about their past and their future.</p> <p><strong>Could this accidental plan work out in the end? Get your copy today!</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。

750 円 (税込 / 送料込)

Memories In An Empty Gaze【電子書籍】[ Dar?o Pa?l D?vila Hasing ]

【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!】Memories In An Empty Gaze【電子書籍】[ Dar?o Pa?l D?vila Hasing ]

<p>In "Memories In An Empty Gaze", time and identity blur, merging into a space where the shadows of what has been lived intertwine with the traces of what remains to be discovered. This book is an introspective journey, a passage through memories that, like echoes of a distant past, resonate in the mind but never become entirely clear. They are fragmented recollections, absent faces, and places that, though familiar, seem to drift into the fog of oblivion.</p> <p>The empty gaze is not just a metaphor but a gateway to the incompleteness of human experience. It is the gaze that observes without seeing, that searches for meaning amid confusion, that finds answers in the void.</p> <p>This book is not merely a narration of memories but a reflection on how human beings confront the emptiness that surrounds them: the emptiness of broken relationships, of moments that fade away, of lost identities. "Memories In An Empty Gaze" seeks to uncover what lies beyond what is no longer there, to find meaning in what dissolves, and perhaps to accept that, in absence, truth may also be found.</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。

800 円 (税込 / 送料込)

16 Short Stories... Explorers Who Opened Doors They Shouldn't Have【電子書籍】[ Felix Fairfax ]

【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!】16 Short Stories... Explorers Who Opened Doors They Shouldn't Have【電子書籍】[ Felix Fairfax ]

<p>curiosity collides with consequence in a thrilling anthology of dark adventure and eerie discovery. From lost temples and sealed crypts to forgotten laboratories and alien vaults, each tale unveils what happens when brave-or reckless-souls cross the threshold into places long abandoned, deeply buried, or purposefully hidden.</p> <p>These are not stories of treasure. They are stories of warnings ignored, maps misunderstood, and instincts betrayed. Stories where the door is not just a passage-but a sentence.</p> <p>With rich world-building, deeply human protagonists, and an undercurrent of existential dread, this collection blends suspense, psychological horror, and speculative fiction into tightly-woven narratives that grip from the first line and haunt long after the last.</p> <p>For readers who loved the tension of <em>Annihilation</em>, the mystery of <em>House of Leaves</em>, or the creeping dread of Lovecraft's forgotten ruins, this anthology delivers high-stakes adventure and haunting revelation in equal measure.</p> <p>Dare to turn the page-if you believe every door should be opened.</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。

428 円 (税込 / 送料込)

The Wild Road【電子書籍】[ Michelle West ]

【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 Wild Road【電子書籍】[ Michelle West ]

<p>The second novel in Michelle West's The Burning Crown.</p> <p>THE WILDERNESS IS WAKING</p> <p>Stephen has never left the kingdom of his birth. But the possible cure for his huntbrother’s shattered memories cannot be found in Breodanir. It might be found in the distant South. If Nenyane’s road leads to the South, Stephen will follow.</p> <p>The lord of the golden fox wishes to speak with Stephen before he travels South. She dwells in the heart of the empire, home to Meralonne APhaniel and Kallandras of Senniel, and it is through Averalaan that safe passage to the Dominion of Annagar can be found.</p> <p>The road to the empire passes through towns that have existed for longer than Breodanir itself: the Free Towns. The Free Towns have never fallen, although they are possessed of no armies, no walls.</p> <p>Stephen and his party arrive in Hansleigh to festivities and carnival performers in the streets: the circus is coming to town. Theirs is a command performance. Every living person in the town is expected to attend, as if attendance is a matter of life and death.</p> <p>It is.</p> <p>To survive, the hunters must find a missing person before the circusーand all of the townspeopleーare lost forever to the forces of the Lord of the Hells.</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。

836 円 (税込 / 送料込)

The End of the River【電子書籍】[ Simon Winchester ]

【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 End of the River【電子書籍】[ Simon Winchester ]

<p>When it comes to climate-change-inspired threats, it is rising sea levels we hear most about. But if the oceans are, as Herman Melville put it, “the tide-beating heart of the earth,” rivers are its circulatory system. In the United States, there is no river more storied, symbolic, and vital than the Mississippi, and none, to use Mark Twain’s word, more lawless. The struggle to control it has been going on nearly as long as there has been human civilization on its banks, and the attendant drama and dangers have been memorialized by many writers, among them Twain and, in his seminal 1987 <em>New Yorker</em> account, John McPhee. Now Simon Winchester, the consummate, critically acclaimed storyteller and bestselling author of <em>Atlantic</em> and <em>The Professor and the Madman</em>, turns his eye to what could well be the height of the battle, one increasingly doomed by man’s interference.</p> <p>The most fateful instance of this interference was accomplished by an inventor and steamboat captain, Henry Miller Shreve, in the nineteenth century. In vivid detail, Winchester re-creates the smashing and digging and the great man- and steam power that Shreve wielded to clear the river of snags and logjams and, in order to shorten the passage to New Orleans, carve an entirely new channel for it. What no one foresaw was that his celebrated shortcut, Shreve’s Cut, would form a sloping chute to an adjacent river, the Atchafalaya, and, aided by gravity and shifting weather patterns, increasingly tempt the waters of the Mississippi in its direction. Resisting this trend with ever more ingenious methods (and ever more expense) began just after, first with a system of levees, then with added spillways, and, finally, with the conception and construction of a floodgate system, the Old River Control Structure, still in place today. And the stakes are high: Ifーmany say <em>when</em>ーthe Atchafalaya captures the Mississippi’s stream, it will be the end of life as it’s currently known in the American South. The great cities of LouisianaーNew Orleans and Baton Rougeーwould be rendered fetid swamps; entire sections of the American infrastructure, from pipelines to electricity and water supply, would collapse. Homes would be displaced and livelihoods, if not lives, would be lost.</p> <p>Deftly combining the hydrological and the historical, Winchester tours the challenges that upped the ante on the Mississippi River Commission’s duty to protect the watershed and its inhabitants: the upheavals that came in the form of the Great Flood of 1927, one of the most destructive natural disasters of all time, displacing more people than almost any event in American history, and the record-breaking inundations of 1937 and 1973. He pays tribute to the Army Corps of Engineers, for their Herculean efforts to keep the river on its current track, and to one civilian, Albert Einstein’s son Hans Albert Einstein, a hydraulic engineer and one of the main architects of the mighty control structure that continues to divide the Mississippi from the Atchafalaya. But how long can it hold in a time when extremes of weather are the norm, when storms come faster and more furiously, sending sediment-loaded water pounding against the floodgatesーevents that not only pit man against nature but, given that we cannot always agree which causes and correctives to pursue, man against man?</p> <p>In this elegant synthesis of past and present, the exigencies of the natural world and the human, Winchester offers an engrossing cautionary tale that readers cannot afford to ignore. It is a call to arms that asks whether accepting defeatーletting nature take its courseーmay be the only way to win.</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。

428 円 (税込 / 送料込)

Nostalgia in the Early Modern World Memory, Temporality, and Emotion【電子書籍】[ Hannah Skoda ]

【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!】Nostalgia in the Early Modern World Memory, Temporality, and Emotion【電子書籍】[ Hannah Skoda ]

<p><strong>How can the concept of nostalgia illuminate the culturally specific ways in which societies understand the contested relationship between the past, present, and future?</strong></p> <p>The word nostalgia was invented in the late seventeenth century to describe the debilitating effects of homesickness. Now widely defined as a sense of longing for a lost past, initially it was more closely linked with dislocation in space. By exploring some of its many textual, visual and musical manifestations in the tumultuous period between c. 1350 and 1800, this volume resists the assumption that nostalgia is a distinctive by-product of modernity. It also forges a fruitful link between three lively areas of current scholarly enquiry: memory, temporality, and emotion.</p> <p>The contributors deploy nostalgia as a tool for investigating perceptions of the passage of time and historical change, unsettling experiences of migration and geographical displacement, and the connections between remembering and forgetting, affect and imagination. Ranging across Europe and the Atlantic world, they examine the moments, sites and communities in which it arose, alongside how it was used to express both criticism and regret about the religious, political, social and cultural upheavals that shaped the early modern world. They approach it as a complex mixed feeling that opens a new window into individual subjectivities and collective mentalities.</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。

4289 円 (税込 / 送料込)

Strong Inside Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South【電子書籍】[ Andrew Maraniss ]

【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!】Strong Inside Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South【電子書籍】[ Andrew Maraniss ]

<p><strong><em>New York Times</em> Best Seller</strong><br /> <strong>2015 RFK Book Awards Special Recognition</strong><br /> <strong>2015 Lillian Smith Book Award</strong><br /> <strong>2015 AAUP Books Committee "Outstanding" Title</strong></p> <p>Based on more than eighty interviews, this fast-paced, richly detailed biography of Perry Wallace, the first African American basketball player in the SEC, digs deep beneath the surface to reveal a more complicated and profound story of sports pioneering than we've come to expect from the genre. Perry Wallace's unusually insightful and honest introspection reveals his inner thoughts throughout his journey.</p> <p>Wallace entered kindergarten the year that <em>Brown v. Board of Education</em> upended "separate but equal." As a 12-year-old, he sneaked downtown to watch the sit-ins at Nashville's lunch counters. A week after Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, Wallace entered high school, and later saw the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts. On March 16, 1966, his Pearl High School basketball team won Tennessee's first integrated state tournament--the same day Adolph Rupp's all-white Kentucky Wildcats lost to the all-black Texas Western Miners in an iconic NCAA title game.</p> <p>The world seemed to be opening up at just the right time, and when Vanderbilt recruited him, Wallace courageously accepted the assignment to desegregate the SEC. His experiences on campus and in the hostile gymnasiums of the Deep South turned out to be nothing like he ever imagined.</p> <p>On campus, he encountered the leading civil rights figures of the day, including Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, and Robert Kennedy--and he led Vanderbilt's small group of black students to a meeting with the university chancellor to push for better treatment.</p> <p>On the basketball court, he experienced an Ole Miss boycott and the rabid hate of the Mississippi State fans in Starkville. Following his freshman year, the NCAA instituted "the Lew Alcindor rule," which deprived Wallace of his signature move, the slam dunk.</p> <p>Despite this attempt to limit the influence of a rising tide of black stars, the final basket of Wallace's college career was a cathartic and defiant dunk, and the story Wallace told to the Vanderbilt Human Relations Committee and later <em>The Tennessean</em> was not the simple story of a triumphant trailblazer that many people wanted to hear. Yes, he had gone from hearing racial epithets when he appeared in his dormitory to being voted as the university's most popular student, but, at the risk of being labeled "ungrateful," he spoke truth to power in describing the daily slights and abuses he had overcome and what Martin Luther King had called "the agonizing loneliness of a pioneer."</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。

1001 円 (税込 / 送料込)

Crossing Broadway Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City【電子書籍】[ Robert W. Snyder ]

【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!】Crossing Broadway Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City【電子書籍】[ Robert W. Snyder ]

<p><strong>Robert W. Snyder's</strong> <em><strong>Crossing Broadway</strong></em> <strong>tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restore parks, and work with the police to bring safety to streets racked by crime and fear.</strong> It shows how a neighborhood once nicknamed "Frankfurt on the Hudson" for its large population of German Jews became "Quisqueya Heights"ーthe home of the nation's largest Dominican community.</p> <p>The story of Washington Heights illuminates New York City's long passage from the Great Depression and World War II through the urban crisis to the globalization and economic inequality of the twenty-first century. Washington Heights residents played crucial roles in saving their neighborhood, but its future as a home for working-class and middle-class people is by no means assured. The growing gap between rich and poor in contemporary New York puts new pressure on the Heights as more affluent newcomers move into buildings that once sustained generations of wage earners and the owners of small businesses.</p> <p><em>Crossing Broadway</em> is based on historical research, reporting, and oral histories. Its narrative is powered by the stories of real people whose lives illuminate what was won and lost in northern Manhattan's journey from the past to the present. A tribute to a great American neighborhood, this book shows how residents learned to cross Broadwayーover the decades a boundary that has separated black and white, Jews and Irish, Dominican-born and American-bornーand make common cause in pursuit of one of the most precious rights: the right to make a home and build a better life in New York City.</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。

1232 円 (税込 / 送料込)

Resin Poems【電子書籍】[ Geri Doran ]

【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!】Resin Poems【電子書籍】[ Geri Doran ]

<p>In poems of quiet force, Geri Doran maps the fragility of human connection and the irreducible fact of grief. From the communal ruptures of Chechnya and Rwanda to the personal dislocations that attend great loss, Resin weighs frailty against responsibility, damage against the desires of the heart. For the poet, a factory fire in late-nineteenth-century Portland becomes a tool for precise knowing: "The phases of wood are a means / of dead reckoning: burn what is built / and gauge your passage / by what is lost." Even in so quotidian an act as the planting of potatoes, Doran's sure, meticulous, and carefully calibrated lines reveal the intensity of our yearnings: "What carried us from year to year was yield: / potatoes in, potatoes out, like rowing." Variously plaintive, passionate, intuitive, and serious, the voice in Resin tells how the natural world, in both its wildness and regularity, expresses and mediates human longing.You entered me like migraine, left<br /> like migraine a private vacancy.<br /> The darkness outside is great and wild.<br /> Blue plums falling from an old tree<br /> demand we believe in wildness,<br /> fallingness. What's the matter is memory,<br /> shrivel and tart. How in this sweet<br /> aftermath of everything the mind<br /> should settle on plums (blue plums!)<br /> is one of the mysteries. That God<br /> and my window-blinds should conspire<br /> to refract the light to look like plums.<br /> Out in the wild nothing.<br /> -- from "Blue Plums"</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。

1425 円 (税込 / 送料込)

The Motherless Child in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins【電子書籍】[ Jill Bergman ]

【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 Motherless Child in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins【電子書籍】[ Jill Bergman ]

<p>Well known in her day as a singer, playwright, author, and editor of the Colored American Magazine, Pauline Hopkins (1859--1930) has been the subject of considerable scholarly attention over the last twenty years. Academic review of her many accomplishments, however, largely overlooks Hopkins's contributions as novelist. The Motherless Child in the Novels of Pauline Hopkins, the first book-length study of Hopkins's major fiction, fills this gap, offering a sustained analysis of motherlessness in Contending Forces, Hagar's Daughter, Winona, and Of One Blood.<br /> Motherlessness appears in all of Hopkins's novels. The motif, Jill Bergman asserts, resonated profoundly for African Americans living with the legacy of abduction from a motherland and familial fragmentation under slavery. In her novels, motherlessness serves as a trope for the national alienation of post-Reconstruction African Americans. The longing and search for a maternal figure, then, represents an effort to reconnect with the absent mother -- a missing parent and a lost African history and heritage. In Hopkins's oeuvre, the image of the mother of African heritage -- a source of both identity and persecution -- becomes a source of power and possibility.<br /> Bergman shows how historical events -- such as Bleeding Kansas, the execution of John Brown, and the Middle Passage -- gave rise to a sense of motherlessness and how Hopkins's work engages with that of other contemporaneous race activists. This illuminating study opens new terrain not only in Hopkins scholarship, but also in the complex interchanges between literary, African American, psychoanalytic, feminist, and postcolonial studies.</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。

2858 円 (税込 / 送料込)

Phone Booth at the Edge of the World - Laura Imai Messina (Harry N. Abrams) 【紙書籍】 9781419754319

新しい本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書Phone Booth at the Edge of the World - Laura Imai Messina (Harry N. Abrams) 【紙書籍】 9781419754319

タイトル: Phone Booth at the Edge of the World著者: Laura Imai Messina出版社: Harry N. Abrams出版日: 2022年10月04日新しい本新古品・未使用品。出版社からの新着。Laura Imai Messina's international bestselling novel is a story about grief, mourning, and the joy of survival, inspired by a real phone booth in Japan with its disconnected "wind" phone, a place of pilgrimage and solace since the 2011 tsunami. Simultaneously heartbreaking and heartwarming, The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World is the signpost pointing to the healing that can come after. When Yui loses both her mother and her daughter in the tsunami, she begins to mark the passage of time from that date onward: Everything is relative to March 11, 2011, the day the tsunami tore Japan apart and when grief took hold of her life. Yui struggles to continue on, alone with her pain. Then one day she hears about a man who has an old disused telephone booth in his garden. There, those who have lost loved ones find the strength to speak to them and begin to come to terms with their grief. As news of the phone booth spreads, people travel to it from miles around. Soon Yui makes her own pilgrimage to the phone booth. But once there she cannot bring herself to speak into the receiver. Instead she finds Takeshi, a bereaved husband whose own daughter has stopped talking in the wake of her mother's death.

4244 円 (税込 / 送料込)

Frequency of Magic - Anthony Joseph (Peepal Tree Press Ltd.) 【紙書籍】 9781845234553

新しい本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書Frequency of Magic - Anthony Joseph (Peepal Tree Press Ltd.) 【紙書籍】 9781845234553

タイトル: Frequency of Magic著者: Anthony Joseph出版社: Peepal Tree Press Ltd.出版日: 2020年03月12日新しい本新古品・未使用品。出版社からの新着。Raphael is a would-be author, but there have been so many distractions to the novel he has been writing for forty-one years that many of the characters have lost patience and gone off to do their own thing...but somehow, miraculously, the novel seems to write itself. The Frequency of Magic traverses an array of lives connected to the village of Million Hills. There's the speculative imagination of Luke's travels through mythic landscapes pursued by his nemesis, the carnival figure of the Great Bandit. There's the psychological odysseys of the musician, a jazz saxophonist, and Ella, an actor, both long separated from Million Hills, working their ways across the USA and Europe. When the paths of these exiles cross, a love affair begins. Time in this richly ambitious novel is both circular and simultaneous, but moving, as Raphael ages, towards a sense of dissolution both of persons and of the culture of the village. Above all, there is Raphael's belief that in the making of his fiction, however messy and disobedient its materials, art can both challenge the destructive passage of time and make us see reality afresh.

4373 円 (税込 / 送料込)

American Legends The Life of George Washington【電子書籍】

【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 Legends The Life of George Washington【電子書籍】

<p>A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors’ American Legends series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of America’s most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known.</p> <p>Every American is taught a pristine narrative of the life and legacy of George Washington and can easily recite the highlights of the “Father of Our Country”. The remarkable Virginian led an under-resourced rag-tag army to ultimate victory in the American Revolution before becoming the nation’s first president, setting it on its path toward superpower status. He may not have actually chopped down a cherry tree or tossed a silver dollar across the Potomac, but his contemporaries considered his character above reproach. When Washington voluntary resigned as commander of the armies, he stunned the world. Everyone in the colonies and the world realized that Washington, at the head of the last army standing in the colonies, could have made himself king of the new United States on the spot, and it would have been a move supported by his rank and file soldiers. Instead, Washington became the first Westerner to voluntarily demobilize his army, ensuring civilian control of the new nation. King George III called Washington "the greatest character of the age" for making that decision.</p> <p>As President from 1788-1796, Washington set every precedent for the executive branch of the new government, from forming a “Cabinet” to limiting himself to two terms. He even set precedents with his farewell address, which helped guide the policies of subsequent presidents.</p> <p>Washington did more than any other man to ensure the success of the American Revolution and the safe passage of the new United States from fledgling nation to budding power, but what actually made the man tick? Underneath his steel surface burned an almost insatiable political ambition, and a man who was acutely self-conscious of himself. In addition to highlighting his life and legacy, <em>American Legends: The Life of George Washington</em> humanizes the leader who is now remembered more like a flawless demigod than a man. Along with pictures of the Father of Our Country and other important people and events in his life, you will learn about Washington like you never have before, in no time at 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。

430 円 (税込 / 送料込)

Legendary Commanders Who Challenged Ancient Rome The Lives and Legacies of Hannibal, Spartacus, and Attila the Hun【電子書籍】

【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!】Legendary Commanders Who Challenged Ancient Rome The Lives and Legacies of Hannibal, Spartacus, and Attila the Hun【電子書籍】

<p>In the history of war, only a select few men always make the list of greatest generals. Napoleon. Caesar. Alexander. They are always joined by Hannibal, who has the distinction of being the only man who nearly brought Rome to its knees before its decline almost 700 years later. Rome never suffered a more horrifying defeat in its history than at Cannae, and indeed, Hannibal nearly rewrote the course of Western history during the Second Punic War. Even today there remains great debate on just how he accomplished his masterful invasion of Italy across the Alps. Since his army included war elephants, historians still argue over exactly where and how he crossed over 2,000 years after he managed that incredible feat.</p> <p>Hannibal will always be listed among history’s greatest generals, and his military campaign in Italy during the Second Punic War will always be studied, but part of the aura and mystique surrounding the Carthaginian legend is that there is still a lot of mystery. Since Carthage was destroyed by Rome a generation after Hannibal, most of what is known about Hannibal came from the very people he tormented in the late 2nd century B.C., and thus much of his background and life story is unknown. Moreover, while military historians are still amazed that he was able to maintain his army in Italy near Rome for nearly 15 years, scholars are still puzzled over some of his decisions, including why he never attempted to march on Rome in the first place.</p> <p>Spartacus is the world’s most famous slave, and one of the most notorious figures of Ancient Rome. A slave enamored of freedom and willing to fight and die for it, he became especially popular in the years following the Enlightenment, after which he was widely viewed as a poignant champion of liberty in the 18th and 19th centuries. As a result, he became a symbol during struggles like the French Revolution, the American Revolution, the American Civil War and the struggle for emancipation.</p> <p>Today, his dual life as a gladiator and a “freedom fighter” makes him fascinating to audiences around the world. His tale, a blend of violent spectacle and civil rights, has been adapted for film (Stanley Kubrick’s memorable <em>Spartacus</em>), television (Starz’s popular television series), and in literature (appearing in everything from historical novels to comics). To this day, Spartacus (Spartaco) is a popular first name in central and southern Italy, and his name has been adopted by sports teams like FC Spartak Moscow and FC Spartak Plovdiv. The Soviet Union’s internal version of the Olympics, the Spartakiad, also derived its name from Spartacus.</p> <p>Attila, Emperor of the Hunnic Empire and thus most commonly known as Attila the Hun, is an idiosyncratic figure who has become more myth than man, not least because much of his life is shrouded in mystery. Perhaps the most famous “barbarian” in history, Attila was the lord of a vast empire spanning two continents, but he is best remembered for what he did not conquer. Though he seemingly had Rome at his mercy in 452, he ultimately decided not to sack the Eternal City, and a year later he had suffered a mysterious death.</p> <p>What is known about Attila came mostly from Priscus, a guest of his court who wrote several books about Attila’s life in Greek. Unfortunately, much of that work was lost to history, but not before the ancient writer Jordanes relied on it to write his own overexaggerated account of Attila’s life. And like their leader, the Huns themselves are an instantly recognizable name with mysterious origins; most of what is known about the Huns came from Chinese sources thousands of miles and an entire continent away from Italy. Naturally, the dearth of information and the passage of time have allowed myths and legends to fill in the most important details of Attila’s life.</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。

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Paused Hearts【電子書籍】[ Jessica Hintz ]

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<p><em>Paused Hearts</em> by Jessica Hintz is a heartfelt second-chance romance that will tug at your heartstrings. In this emotionally charged story, follow Aarav and Meera, two young souls who, after a sudden separation during high school, are reunited years later in college. Their journey is filled with misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and undeniable chemistry, making for a deeply moving narrative about love lost and found.</p> <p>Aarav, a quiet artist with a passion for sketching, and Meera, a bubbly and quick-witted girl, had an undeniable connection in high school. But when fate pulls them apart due to a sudden family move, both are left with unanswered questions and unspoken words. Years later, they find themselves in the same college, but the old sparks are buried under layers of confusion and hurt.</p> <p>Forced to work together on a college fest, their story unfolds through hilarious banter, emotional confessions, and moments of vulnerability. Will they overcome their past? Can they finally admit the feelings they've been hiding for years?</p> <p>With themes of love, forgiveness, and the passage of time, <em>Paused Hearts</em> explores the power of second chances, the complexity of relationships, and the beauty of rediscovered love. If you're a fan of sweet romance, college love stories, and coming-of-age tales that make you believe in love again, <em>Paused Hearts</em> is the book for you.</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。

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