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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！】Traits of American Humour (Complete)【電子書籍】[ Various Authors ]

＜p＞Most Europeans speak of America as they do of England, France, or Prussia, as one of the great countries of the world, but without reference to the fact that it covers a larger portion of the globe than all of them collectively. In like manner as the New England confederacy originally comprised the most enlightened and most powerful transatlantic provinces, and the inhabitants accidentally acquired the appellation of Yankees, so this term is very generally applied to all Americans, and is too often used as a national, instead of a provincial or a sectional soubriquet. In order to form an accurate estimate of the national humour, it is necessary to bear these two great popular errors constantly in view. The Eastern and Western, Northern and Southern States, though settled by a population speaking the same language, and enjoying the same institutions, are so distant from each other, and differ so widely in climate, soil, and productions, that they have but few features in common; while the people, from the same causes, as well as from habits, tastes, necessities, the sparseness or density of population, free soil, or slave labour, the intensity, absence, or weakness of religious enthusiasm, and many other peculiarities, are equally dissimilar. Hence, humour has a character as local as the boundaries of these civil subdivisions. The same diversity is observable in that of the English, Irish and Scotch, and in their mirthful sallies, the character of each race is plainly discernible. That of the English is at once manly and hearty, and, though embellished by fancy, not exaggerated; that of the Irish, extravagant, reckless, rollicking, and kind-hearted; while that of the Scotch is sly, cold, quaint, practical, and sarcastic. The population of the Middle States, in this particular, reminds a stranger of the English, that of the West resembles the Irish, and the Yankees bear a still stronger affinity to the Scotch. Among the Americans themselves these distinctions are not only well understood and defined, but are again subdivided so as to apply more particularly to the individual States. Each has a droll appellation, by which the character of its yeomanry, as composed of their ability, generosity, or manliness on the one hand, and craft, economy, or ignorance of the world, on the other, is known and illustrated. Thus, there are the Hoosiers of Indiana, the Suckers of Illinois, the pukes of Missouri, the buck-eyes of Ohio, the red-horses of Kentucky, the mud-heads of Tenessee, the wolverines of Michigan, the eels of New England, and the corn-crackers of Virginia. For the purpose of this work, however, it is perhaps sufficient merely to keep in view the two grand divisions of East and West, which, to a certain extent, may be said to embrace those spread geographically North and South, with which they insensibly blend. Of the former, New England and its neighbours are pre-eminent. The rigid discipline and cold, gloomy tenets of the Puritans required and enforced a grave demeanour, and an absence from all public and private amusements, while a sterile and ungrateful soil demanded all the industry, and required all the energy of the people to ensure a comfortable support. Similar causes produce a like result in Scotland. Hence the striking resemblance in the humour of the two people. But though the non-conformist fathers controlled and modified the mirth of the heart, they could not repress it. Nature is more powerful than conventional regulations, and it soon indemnified itself in the indulgence of a smile for the prohibition of unseemly laughter.＜/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！】Gonna Lay Down My Burdens【電子書籍】[ Mary Monroe ]

＜p＞Bestselling author Mary Monroe won rave reviews from critics and readers alike with her first two novels, ＜em＞God Don't Like Ugly＜/em＞ and ＜em＞The Upper Room,＜/em＞ both Main Selections of the ＜em＞Black Expressions＜/em＞ Book Club. Now she returns with the masterful ＜em＞Gonna Lay Down My Burdens＜/em＞--that rare novel that inspires laughter, tears, and repeat readings.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the sweltering little town of Belle Helene, Alabama, Carmen Taylor keeps her weaknesses, her frustrations, and her tears to herself. She's too busy shouldering the burdens of her troubled friends, like Desiree Lucienne, the petite, pampered daughter of a doctor who tries to beat the wildness out of her. But it doesn't stop Desiree from trawling for men whenever she can, and trying to drag Carmen along with her.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It's not that Carmen hasn't had her share of boozy pick-ups. She has, but they just can't compare to the one steamy night she spent with the man she's loved since they were both kids. Now a local cop, Chester Sheffield, with his Barry White voice and his all-too-fine body, keeps showing up in Carmen's life, wanting to do something about the feelings they obviously have for each other. But that would mean abandoning her "boyfriend" Burl Tupper and that's something Carmen just can't do.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Ever since Burl ended up in a wheelchair because of a foolish teenage prank she played on him, Carmen's promised herself that she'd spend the rest of her life making it up to him. When Carmen doesn't take her chance with Chester, Desiree does, and when she learns that she's pregnant with Chester's child, it's almost more than Carmen can bear. Still, her loyalty to Desiree goes back a long way, and she's not about to let a man get in the way of their friendship--even when Desiree starts stepping out on Chester.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Then, on a sultry, reckless moonlit night, Carmen commits a desperate crime of passion, and, with Desiree, hits the road running. But she can't run from the truth she's avoided for years--and in a seedy hotel in the middle of nowhere, she confronts her demons head-on. Now Carmen has two choices--a life on the lam, or a full circle return to Belle Helene, the place where it all began. . .and the only place in the world she can lay down her burdens and seize her one true chance at love and redemption.＜/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！】Master of the Opera, Act 5: A Haunting Duet【電子書籍】[ Jeffe Kennedy ]

＜p＞In the fifth erotically charged installment of Jeffe Kennedy's scorching ＜em＞Master of the Opera＜/em＞, a daring young woman follows her reckless desire for the perfect loverーto the point of no return. . .＜/p＞ ＜p＞He is more than just the man of her dreams. He is the master of her destiny. A mysterious masked stranger who haunts the darkened tunnels beneath the Sante Fe Opera House, the Master is like no other lover Christy has ever known. He has lured the beautiful intern to the very brink of ecstacyーand beyond. He has pushed the boundaries of her sensuality and tested the limits of her passion. But now the Master wants more. If Christy accepts his challenge, she must be willing to go further than she's ever gone. She must surrender to his every desire. She must submit to his every command. She must expose herself body and soulーor bear the scars of a broken heart forever. . .＜/p＞ ＜p＞Tonight is the night she must make a choice: to free herself from one man's obsession. . .or bind herself to him for life.＜/p＞ ＜p＞15,700 Words＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Craved by her Cougar (Cougar Creek Mates Shifter Romance Series Book 4)【電子書籍】[ Felicity Heaton ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Sexy cougar shifter Cobalt aches with a need of his fated mate, craving the female he's watched for two decades... but now he's ready to claim her, she might slip through his fingers forever.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞For the last twenty years, Cobalt has burned with a need of one female, a beautiful raven-haired cougar who captured his heart the moment he set eyes on her. His position as pride protector has been a blessing at past mating gatherings, keeping females away, but this time it feels like the worst of curses, because the female who has bewitched him so thoroughly is taking part for the first time and all he can do is watch as males battle for her.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As much as she hates the way her mother controls everything in her life, Ember is thankful for it as she constantly turns away suitors, unaware of the pain she’s sparing Ember from with every male she rejects. Every male who isn’t the gorgeous blond with darkness in his eyes and an easy smile she burns for with an intensity that scares her, awakens feelings in her that have her verging on doing something reckless. Damaged goods he might be, dangerous and unpredictable, but with every contest over her that pulls her closer to her doom, she grows more determined to follow her heart, no matter the consequences.＜/p＞ ＜p＞With every fight over the right to Ember, the tethers on Cobalt’s feelings twist and threaten to snap, a torment he cannot bear and one that has him willing to risk it all, because a single kiss would make even the harshest punishment worth it. He would die for one moment with her… his fated mate.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Binge-read the complete Cougar Creek Mates shifter romance series now!＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Craved by her Cougar ＜em＞is the final book in the Cougar Creek Mates romance series. This fated mates shifter romance features a cougar shifter hero who has been craving his true mate for decades, a cougar shifter heroine who is determined to win his heart too, and a second chance romance that will warm your heart, all set in the stunning scenery of the Canadian Rockies. Plus, lots of action and adventure--and steamy scenes! All Cougar Creek Mates books have no cliffhangers, a guaranteed happily ever after, and some strong language. Enjoy!＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Discover four sexy cougar shifter brothers guaranteed to become your next book boyfriends in this hot new shapeshifter romance series from New York Times and USA Today international best-selling author Felicity Heaton, set in the same rich and addictive world as her Eternal Mates paranormal romance series.＜br /＞ Book 1: Claimed by her Cougar＜br /＞ Book 2: Captured by her Cougar＜br /＞ Book 3: Courted by her Cougar＜br /＞ Book 4: Craved by her Cougar＜/p＞ ＜p＞No cliffhangers. No cheating. Just passionate paranormal romance books with a guaranteed happily forever after!＜/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！】Beard【電子書籍】[ Molly Joseph ]

＜p＞Jenna entered a fake marriage ten years ago when she was young and reckless, in hopes it might advance her failing Hollywood career. Ten years later, she can’t undo her mistake. Her A-list husband is too famousーand too cowardlyーto admit he’s in a long-time gay relationship with a fellow actor, and at thirty-four, Jenna’s dreams have faded to dust.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Then Caleb Winchell enters her life. The taciturn, Texas-bred bodyguard is as handsome as he is capable, and Jenna’s lonely world is rocked. He’s a true and honest force in her dishonest existence, standing by her side as she fake smiles her way through the smothering farce of her life. Caleb helps her breathe again, but she can’t act on her deepening feelings toward her bodyguard. He’s a professional, and he never breaks the rules.＜/p＞ ＜p＞And she’s a married woman…even if it’s all a sham.＜/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 Silver Caves: A Mining Story【電子書籍】[ Ernest Ingersoll ]

＜p＞Matters had come to a crisis with Len and Max, when Sandy McKinnon arrived at the camp, with a letter of introduction from a friend in Denver. These two young men had not been at all fortunate, so far, and, like the rest of the community, were sorely discouraged. They had wavered for some days between deserting the place and another alternative, the nature of which they kept to themselves, for they knew that they might not only be laughed at, but perhaps prevented from carrying out their plan, were it announced. The camp I refer to is now a flourishing town, the center of many small side-villages on the northern slope of Sierra San Juan; but twenty-five years ago, when my story occurred, it was at the point of collapse, and perhaps would never have recovered had not what I am about to relate occurred; and you must bear with me while I explain the circumstances that led up to its revival. The beginnings of the town had been made half a dozen miles higher up Panther Creek, almost at its source, in fact; but after digging numberless prospect-holes and driving three fairly long tunnels, everybody voted that locality a failure, and came down to the present town-site where paying mines had since been worked for two or three years. The two young men had become the owners, some time before, of one of these early tunnels (that one nearest the source of the Creek), through taking it as payment of a joint debt because nothing better was to be had. It was called the Last Chance, and the boys accepted the name as significant, and proposed to risk what means they had left in giving the mine a new trial. About 200 feet down stream was a second tunnel, the Aurora, owned by two men who were friendly to our heroes, one of whom, named Bowen, was famous for his reckless yet good-natured exploits of bravado. Some distance still farther down the ca?on, on the same side (the right-hand wall of the narrow gulch, looking down stream), was the third old tunnel, the Cardinal. This last was the property of a thorough scallawag, despised and avoided by all respectable citizens, and only kept from being a positive criminal by his natural cowardice. The enmity of this man, whose real name was lost in the nick-names “Old Bob” and “Squint-eye,” had been incurred by the boys through their exposing a fraud by which he had once proposed to sell to a stranger named Anderson, as a productive mine, this very propertyーthe Last Chanceーalthough he neither owned it nor believed it worth anything.＜/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 Shattering of Loneliness On Christian Remembrance【電子書籍】[ Fr Erik Varden ]

＜p＞＜strong＞The experience of loneliness is as universal as hunger or thirst. Because it affects us more intimately, we are less inclined to speak of it. But who has not known its gnawing ache?＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The fear of loneliness causes anguish. It prompts reckless deeds. To this, every age has borne witness. No voice is more insidious than the one that whispers in our ear: 'You are irredeemably alone, no light will pierce your darkness.' The fundamental statement of Christianity is to convict that voice of lying.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Christian condition unfolds within the certainty that ultimate reality, the source of all that is, is a personal reality of communion, no metaphysical abstraction. Men and women, made 'in the image and likeness' of God, bear the mark of that original communion stamped on their being. When our souls and bodies cry out for Another, it is not a sign of sickness, but of health.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A labour of potential joy is announced. We are reminded of what we have it in us to become. That our labour may be fruitful, Scripture repeatedly exhorts us to 'remember'. The remembrance enjoined is partly introspective and existential, partly historical, for the God who took flesh to redeem our loneliness leaves traces in history.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This book examines six facets of Christian remembrance, complementing biblical exegesis with readings from literature, ancient and modern. It aims to be an essay in theology. At the same time, it proposes a grounded reflection on what it means to be a human being.＜/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 Wilding A Novel【電子書籍】[ Benjamin Percy ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A powerful debut novel set in a threatened western landscape, from the award-winning author of ＜em＞Refresh, Refresh＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Echo Canyon is a disappearing pocket of wilderness outside of Bend, Oregon, and the site of conflicting memories for Justin Caves and his father, Paul. It's now slated for redevelopment as a golfing resort. When Paul suggests one last hunting trip, Justin accepts, hoping to get things right with his father this time, and agrees to bring his son, Graham, along.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As the weekend unfolds, Justin is pushed to the limit by the reckless taunting of his father, the physical demands of the terrain, and the menacing evidence of the hovering presence of bear. All the while, he remembers the promise he made to his skeptical wife: to keep their son safe.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Benjamin Percy, a writer whose work Dan Chaon called "bighearted and drunk and dangerous," shows his mastery of narrative suspense as the novel builds to its surprising climax. ＜em＞The Wilding＜/em＞ shines unexpected light on our shifting relationship with nature and family in contemporary society.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

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

＜p＞The discovery of tens of billions of barrels of oil in fields far off the coast of Rio de Janeiro was billed as one of the biggest finds of this century when it was announced in 2006. Many hoped it would deliver a bonanza for education and health and make Brazil one of the worlds major economies. What happened? On February, 14, 2014, at 5: 30 AM during the final phases of drilling the exploratory well at Foz do Amazonas (Mouth of Amazon River), Poseidon, a $ 400 million oil rig suffered a catastrophic blowout, a geyser of seawater erupted from the marine riser onto the rig, shooting 480 ft into the air. This was soon followed by the eruption of a slushy combination of drilling mud, methane gas, and water. All 110 workers were presumed killed in the initial explosion. After approximately 5 hours, Poseidon sank. Was it a sabotage? Or, an accident? What began as an investigation into the causes of the destruction of Poseidon, quickly turned into something much greater, bribery, kickbacks and money laundering involving staggering sums of money, uncovering a vast and intricate web of political and corporate racketeering. The case would go on to discover illegal payments of more than $20bn to company executives and political parties, put billionaires in jail, drag a president into court and cause irreparable damage to the finances and reputations of some of the worlds biggest companies. It would also expose a culture of systemic graft in Brazilian politics, and provoke a backlash from the establishment fierce enough to impeach one president and convict another for organized crime. At the center of the bribery, kickbacks and money laundering criminal is a cartel operated by two passionate uninhibited Brazilian women, a Wall Street High-Frequency Trader, an Environment Protection Agency Administrator, and a reckless thrill-seeker young American offshore oil rig engineer, in a torrid love triangle. Action filled romance, intrigue, and betrayal of two women by a thrill-seeking man. Sex does not happen in a tranquil world. Love, sex, money and betrayal make for excellent storytelling. Who won? On September 6, Its 5 AM in Rio de Janeiro. A salmon pink dawn draped the horizon, and the police helicopter hovered under patches of pale blue sky. There appeared to be police activity bear a villa in Avenida Visconde de Albuquerque, Leblon, Rio de Janeiro. Motorcycle officers, followed by police cars with sirens blaring and lights flashing, rushed to a big villa in Leblon, where they found a mans body floating face down in an infinity edge swimming pool. Who killed him and why? A murder has been reported from one of those big houses in the three hundred blocks. A financial superstar master of the universe is involvedone of the biggest. The body of a young man was found floating in the pool of his mansionwith bullet holes in his back and one in his stomach. Close to the swimming pool, there is the dried carcass of an exotic multicolored lizard. No one has explained what the lizard was seeking at that pool deck. The multi-colored lesbian lizard is a native of Sonora Desert in Mexico. The story reveals all, eventually. The story will eventually end with us getting all answers to why this guy ended up dead in the pool, and what the lizard was looking for at the pool deck＜/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 Mac Ti`re Clan series【電子書籍】[ Keely Tate ]

＜p＞Biting Obsession:＜br /＞ Beautiful, headstrong Annah Kavanagh was on the run from trouble. She ended up in a small town with a big secret. She was fierce about keeping her independence when she should have been watching out for her heart.＜/p＞ ＜p＞He was an alpha, dominate and stubborn, heir to a clan. Jarrott Mason fought as hard as he loved. He was happy with his life and didn’t want or need any changes. Until his wolf catches her scent.＜br /＞ One sniff was all it took to change two lives forever. She will fight him at every turn, but can’t fight the attraction between them. There isn’t anything he won’t do to get one bite of her sexy, curvy body. But one bite will never be enough.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Catching His Obsession:＜br /＞ Cailyn McNeil is a head-strong girl with a fiery temper and a soft heart. She ran from the very people who promised to protect her but set out to destroy her instead. When she sees her future in the eyes from her past she will fight with everything she has for her fated mate.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Uilliam Mason likes to play, takes nothing serious until fate puts his future in front of him in the girl from his past. He'll go through anyone, anything to keep his fated mate beside him.＜/p＞ ＜p＞.Reckless Obsession:＜br /＞ Saved from an abusive clan, Abby Jameson has lived the last two years with Dominic Mason as her shadow. She knows he is her mate, his wolf claimed her immediately, this much she knew for certain. But what about the man? Abby decides to see if Dominic can keep his cool when she defies her alpha mate.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dominic Mason knew she was his from the moment he set eyes on her. He and his wolf were waiting for the day they could make her theirs. As the time for the claiming draws near his mate decides to test the control of both man and beast, making her wonder if she bitten off more that she can chew.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Misunderstandings and miscommunication threated to tear them apart. Before they can work it out danger has come to their little town. Women are being attacked and now it seems that it has set its sights on Abby. Dominic has to protect his woman and claim his mate before time runs out for his reckless obsession.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Claiming His Obsession:＜br /＞ Daughllin Malachi has watched over Aisling Mason for years. He first saw her when she was fourteen years old. He knew she was his but he also knew she had some growing up to do.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When her sixteen-year-old self, pushed Daughllin to far he had her sent away. Now eighteen she's back and ready to give him hell. But she's going to make the big, bad Ceannair De Gach grovel first. It doesn't go as planned when Daughllin, a true alpha, puts her disobedience where it belongs, over his knees.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Daughllin is the Ceannair De Gach, strongest of all. He has a responsibility to all shifters, not just one clan, all clans. When he is unable to focus on his work he talks Aisling's father into sending her to live with some of her family in Ireland, though not unprotected. He knew she would know who was responsible for her being sent away, just as he knew her anger would have to be appeased when she returned.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Their battle of wills is put on hold when the troublesome, neighboring Bear clan is in need of the Ceannair De Gach. A rogue shifter goes on the hunt and his prey is Aisling. Daughllin get to show why he is the strongest of all when he goes on the hunt for his stolen mate.＜/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 Strange Bird A Borne Story【電子書籍】[ Jeff VanderMeer ]

＜p＞＜strong＞＜em＞The Strange Bird＜/em＞ーfrom ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeerーis a novella-length digital original that expands and weaves deeply into the world of his “thorough marvel”* of a novel, ＜em＞Borne＜/em＞.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Strange Bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratoryーshe is part bird, part human, part many other things. But now the lab in which she was created is under siege and the scientists have turned on their animal creations. Flying through tunnels, dodging bullets, and changing her colors and patterning to avoid capture, the Strange Bird manages to escape.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But she cannot just soar in peace above the earth. The sky itself is full of wildlife that rejects her as one of their own, and also full of technologyーsatellites and drones and other detritus of the human civilization below that has all but destroyed itself. And the farther she flies, the deeper she finds herself in the orbit of the Company, a collapsed biotech firm that has populated the world with experiments both failed and successful that have outlived the corporation itself: a pack of networked foxes, a giant predatory bear. But of the many creatures she encounters with whom she bears some kind of kinship, it is the humansーall of them now simply scrambling to surviveーwho are the most insidious, who still see her as simply something to possess, to capture, to trade, to exploit. Never to understand, never to welcome home.＜/p＞ ＜p＞With ＜em＞The Strange Bird,＜/em＞ Jeff VanderMeer has done more than add another layer, a new chapter, to his celebrated novel ＜em＞Borne＜/em＞. He has created a whole new perspective on the world inhabited by Rachel and Wick, the Magician, Mord, and Borneーa view from above, of course, but also a view from deep inside the mind of a new kind of creature who will fight and suffer and live for the tenuous future of this world.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Praise for ＜em＞Borne＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞*＜/em＞“Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy was an ever-creeping map of the apocalypse; with ＜em＞Borne＜/em＞ he continues his investigation into the malevolent grace of the world, and it's a thorough marvel.” ーColson Whitehead＜/p＞ ＜p＞“VanderMeer is that rare novelist who turns to nonhumans not to make them approximate us as much as possible but to make such approximation impossible. All of this is magnified a hundredfold in ＜em＞Borne＜/em＞ . . . Here is the story about biotech that VanderMeer wants to tell, a vision of the nonhuman not as one fixed thing, one fixed destiny, but as either peaceful or catastrophic, by our side or out on a rampage as our behavior dictatesーfor these are our children, born of us and now to be borne in whatever shape or mess we have created. This coming-of-age story signals that eco-fiction has come of age as well: wilder, more reckless and more breathtaking than previously thought, a wager and a promise that what emerges from the twenty-first century will be as good as any from the twentieth, or the nineteenth.” ーWai Chee Dimock, ＜em＞The New York Times Book Review＜/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！】Cleopatra【電子書籍】[ Jacob Abbott ]

＜p＞THE story of Cleopatra is a story of crime. It is a narrative of the course and the consequences of unlawful love. In her strange and romantic history we see this passion portrayed with the most complete and graphic fidelity in all its influences and effects; its uncontrollable impulses, its intoxicating joys, its reckless and mad career, and the dreadful remorse and ultimate despair and ruin in which it always and inevitably ends.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Cleopatra was by birth an Egyptian; by ancestry and descent she was a Greek. Thus, while Alexandria and the delta of the Nile formed the scene of the most im-portant events and incidents of her history, it was the blood of Macedon which flowed in her veins. Her character and action are marked by the genius, the courage, the originality, and the impulsiveness pertaining to the stock from which she sprung. The events of her history, on the other hand, and the peculiar character of her adventures, her sufferings, and her sins, were determined by the circumstances with which she was surrounded, and the influences which were brought to bear upon her in the soft and voluptuous clime where the scenes of her early life were laid..＜/p＞ ＜p＞Egypt has always been considered as physically the most remarkable country on the globe. It is a long and narrow valley of verdure and fruitfulness, completely insulated from the rest of the habitable world. It is more completely insulated, in fact, than any literal island could be, inasmuch as deserts are more impassable than seas. The very existence of Egypt is a most extraordinary phenomenon. If we could but soar with the wings of an eagle into the air, and look down upon the scene, so as to observe the operation of that grand and yet simple process by which this long and wonderful valley, teeming so profusely with animal and vegetable life, has been formed, and is annually revivified and renewed, in the midst of surrounding wastes of silence, desolation, and death, we should gaze upon it with never-ceasing admiration and pleasure. We have not the wings of the eagle, but the generalizations of science furnish us with a sort of substitute for them. The long series of patient, careful, and sagacious observations, which have been continued now for two thousand years, bring us results, by means of which, through our powers of mental conception, we may take a comprehensive survey of the whole scene, analo-gous, in some respects, to that which direct and actual vision would afford us, if we could look down upon it from the eagle's point of view. It is, however, so-mewhat humiliating to our pride of intellect to reflect that long-continued philosophical investigations and learned scientific research are, in such a case as this, after all, in some sense, only a sort of substitute for wings. A human mind connected with a pair of eagle's wings would have solved the mystery of Egypt in a week; whereas science, philosophy, and research, confined to the surface of the ground, have been occupied for twenty centuries in accomplishing the undertaking.＜/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！】James Dean Tomorrow Never Comes【電子書籍】[ Darwin Porter ]

＜p＞America’s most enduring and legendary symbol of young rebellion, James Dean continues into the 21st Century to capture the imagination of the world. In recognition of his enduring appeal as Hollywood's most visible symbol of unrequited male rage, bars from California to Nigeria and Patagonia are named in his honor.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dean, a strikingly handsome heart-throb, is a study in contrasts: Tough but tender; brutal at times but remarkably sensitive; a reckless hellraiser badass who could revert to a little boy in bed. From his climb from the dusty backroads of Indiana to the most formidable boudoirs of Hollywood, his saga is electrifying.＜/p＞ ＜p＞He claimed that sexually, he didn’t want to go through life with one hand tied behind his back. He corroborated his identity as a rampant bisexual through sexual interludes with Marilyn Monroe, Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Natalie Wood, Shelley Winters, Marlon Brando, Steve McQueen, Ursula Andress, Montgomery Clift, Pier Angeli, Tennessee Williams, Susan Strasberg, and (are you sitting down?) both Tallulah Bankhead and (as a male prostitute) FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton wanted to make him her toy boy.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Tomorrow Never Comes, the newest in Blood Moon’s critically acclaimed Babylon Series, is the most penetrating look at James Dean to have emerged from the wreckage of his Porsche Spyder in 1955. He flirted with Death until it caught him. Ironically, he said, "If a man can live after he dies, then maybe he’s a great man."＜/p＞ ＜p＞Before setting out on his last ride, he also said, "I feel life too intensely to bear living it."＜/p＞ ＜p＞Tomorrow Never Comes is published in recognition of the 60th anniversary of his early death. It presents a damaged but beautiful soul, and the embarrassing and sometimes lurid compromises James Dean made on his road to "success" before his demons grabbed 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！】Devil May Care【電子書籍】[ Jenika Snow ]

＜p＞Jakob, a bear shifter and member of the Grizzly MC, is at a point where his life has no meaning. The darkness and loneliness slowly consume every part of him. In order to find that spark again, he became reckless, acting out and being even more dangerous than ever before.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Saya is instantly drawn to the bear shifter she sees fighting bare-knuckled and dirty. He’s handsome in a brutal way, but also seems angry at the world. But the attraction between them is undeniable.＜/p＞ ＜p＞She sees the aggressive, possessive side of Jakob, the side that will take down anyone that tries to hurt her. He’s deadly and menacing, and is power all wrapped in one dangerous grizzly shifter.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When Jakob is with Saya he feels there is meaning to his life. Looking at her, being with her, gives him that high he desires. He can’t let her walk away, no matter what. Making her see that she is meant for him, that she is his in all ways, is Jakob’s main goal now. He won’t fail at 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！】Rising Blood【電子書籍】[ Bronwyn Green ]

＜p＞＜em＞She doesn't need a partner. She doesn't need him. She sure as hell doesn't need the problems he brings to her already complicated life.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Vampire hunter, Harper Yovanoff, is ＜em＞not＜/em＞ happy. Ever since her former partner vanished, she'd been content to work alone. Unfortunately, her boss doesn't feel the same way. Harper's been assigned a new partnerーa new partner who's an utter pain in her ass. Elliot Zielin is panty-meltingly gorgeous, but he's also reckless, not to mention, insufferably arrogant. If he's not careful, the vampires will be the least of his worries.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Elliot knows he should play nice with his new partner, but he can't resist poking the bearーthe tiny, angry bear who's so freaking beautiful, she makes him ache for things he shouldn't want. Despite the fact that Harper has a stake with his name on it, he keeps pushing.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When a powerful vampire begins actively stalking and turning hunters, Harper and Elliot are forced to work more closely together than ever in an effort to save their own. With tempers and adrenaline high, letting off a little steam goes way too far, and they both end up in a place they never expected. The threat against them increases and fighting their growing feelings for one another becomes impossible. But if they can't stop the sire hell-bent on their destruction, all the love in the world won't save them from becoming the very thing they hunt.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Please Note: Rising Blood was originally published in the Dark Pursuit anthology.＜/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！】Some Like It Scot【電子書籍】[ Suzanne Enoch ]

＜p＞CAN A CLASH OF WILLS＜/p＞ ＜p＞Nineteenth-century, Scotland:＜/p＞ ＜p＞When a mad lass in trousers shoots at him, Munro "Bear" MacLawry isn't sure what impresses him more-the girl's sure aim or her irresistibly tempting curves. Catriona MacColl has fled to the Highlands with her half-sister to escape an unwanted wedding, and wants no part of him, nor any man. But he can't abandon the flame-haired, sharp-tongued wildcat now that he's discovered her-not when she fits so perfectly in his arms...＜/p＞ ＜p＞LEAD TO A LOVE FOR ALL TIME?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Munro has more than earned his nickname-he's a well-muscled, well-favored mountain of a man with an engaging bad-boy grin and a string of well-satisfied lasses behind him. Bringing Catriona food, blankets, candles, everything she needs to survive a winter in an abandoned abbey, Munro is an unexpected gift in her reckless bid for freedom-and an unexpected complication. Clan MacDonald has plans for her, and they don't include her falling for a MacLawry. But this man makes her feel like a woman-and he may be her one chance to live a life about which she's only dared dream...in ＜em＞Some Like It Scot＜/em＞ by ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling author Suzanne Enoch.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞"One of my very favorite authors." -Julia Quinn＜/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！】Watch the Lady【電子書籍】[ Elizabeth Fremantle ]

＜p＞＜strong＞THE QUEEN'S GODDAUGHTER.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞HER MOST TRUSTED MAID.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞ADULTRESS.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞ENEMY OF THE STATE.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞WHO IS THE REAL PENELOPE DEVEREUX?＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Penelope Devereux is a legendary beauty in the court of Elizabeth I, with a smile that would light up the shadows of hell. But it's not just her looks which have won her favour with the Queen wing; her canny instinct for being in the right place at the right time, and her skilled political manoeuvrings under the guise of diplomacy, have rendered her a formidable adversary to anyone who stands in her path.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Including Elizabeth.＜/p＞ ＜p＞For Penelope must secure the future of the Devereux dynasty at whatever cost. Even treason. And the Queen, a woman she holds responsible for the death of her father, the exile of her mother and her failure to marry the one man she ever truly loved, is just one more pawn in a deadly game. Walking the knife-edge of court, whilst ensuring that her reckless brother Essex remains the only star in the Queen's firmament - and out of the Tower - Penelope must plan for the inevitable succession of an ailing monarch.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But her secret letters of friendship to a foreign King - one who has a strong claim to the English throne - could see her illustrious family in the gutter and her own head on the block. It would only take a single mistake, a slip of the tongue, an intercepted message for Penelope to become the architect of her downfall.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In a world where sister is turned against brother, husband against wife, courtier against queen, the rules of the game are forever changing.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Praise for ＜em＞Watch the Lady＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜br /＞ 'The research and historical detail are ＜strong＞impeccable＜/strong＞ . . . and fans will enjoy this evocation of Elizabeth's tumultuous court' ＜em＞Times＜/em＞＜br /＞ 'A ＜strong＞glamourous＜/strong＞ tale peopled by warrior poets, flamboyant courtiers and shameless loves, it is also ＜strong＞sharp, perceptive＜/strong＞ and ＜strong＞dramatic＜/strong＞' ＜em＞Sunday Express＜/em＞＜br /＞ 'Be ＜strong＞transported＜/strong＞ to the court of Elizabeth I, where Penelope Devereux is prepared to do anything in the scramble for power. ＜em＞Watch The Lady＜/em＞ by Elizabeth Fremantle combines ＜strong＞fast-paced storytelling＜/strong＞ with ＜strong＞rich＜/strong＞ period detail' ＜em＞Good Housekeeping＜/em＞＜br /＞ 'If you want an ＜strong＞immersive＜/strong＞ read then this is it. The remarkable story of the beautiful Penelope Devereux comes vividly alive, ＜strong＞bursting with colour and detail＜/strong＞. The reader is transported to the perilous Elizabethan court, with all its plots, treachery and heartbreak, and gains fascinating insights into some of the most important figures of the time. Yet again Elizabeth Fremantle has produced a pacey, powerful narrative that kept this reader ＜strong＞riveted＜/strong＞ throughout' Jane Thynne＜br /＞ 'Penelope Devereux, perspicacious, beautiful and muse of Sir Philip Sidney, will stop at nothing for the sake of her family. I was ＜strong＞gripped＜/strong＞ by the tale of risky political and sexual shenanigans in the court of Elizabeth l' ＜em＞Woman and Home＜/em＞＜br /＞ 'Penelope is a fascinating character and beautifully drawn in this ＜strong＞enthralling＜/strong＞, ＜strong＞moving＜/strong＞ and ＜strong＞immaculately written novel＜/strong＞... Fremantle handles the intriguing with aplomb and it's impossible to read the books without feeling you are living events alongside the characters' Imogen Robertson, ＜em＞Historia＜/em＞＜br /＞ '＜strong＞Fascinating＜/strong＞ . . . it's a delight to keep Penelope company as she plunges into the intrigues of Elizabeth's court' ＜em＞The History Girls＜/em＞＜br /＞ 'Ever since ＜em＞Queen's Gambit＜/em＞ took the world of historical fiction by storm 3 years ago, Liz Fremantle's books have been the ones to watch in the world of Tudor fiction. The ＜strong＞combination of depth＜/strong＞, ＜strong＞intelligence and real historical imagination＜/strong＞ that she brings to bear on the lesser-known (but immensely powerful) women of the Tudor era is ＜strong＞unmatched＜/strong＞ in contemporary writing and gets better with each book. Not that either of the previous ones were sub par - far from it, they were ＜strong＞exceptional＜/strong＞ - but, as with all good writers, the apprenticeship of each book sees its realisation in the one that comes after it and there's a steady rise in the textures and depths and many-layered plot threads. The Lady we watch here is Penelope, sister of the notorious Essex, wife of a man who doesn't want to bed her, lover of those who do - though never the most important one: that love is unrequited and all the more powerful for it. The machinations of Elizabeth's court were never easy, but became positively frenetic as she edged towards death and refused to name a successor and the way the ageing monarch plays Cecil against Essex, as seen through the eyes of the woman who has to navigate a clear path through the chaos is ＜strong＞brilliant＜/strong＞. In fact, the shift of viewpoint from Penelope to Cecil and back again is the core strength of this book. Neither is an entirely reliable narrator, even to themselves, but taken together, they mesh to make a hologram of a time in history that is endlessly fascinating, but never fully understood. ＜strong＞This book is glorious＜/strong＞. It will delight fans of Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory alike, but will also ＜strong＞garner a whole new audience from those who just love good writing, whatever the genre, whatever the era＜/strong＞' Manda Scott＜br /＞ '＜strong＞A wonderful, totally transporting novel＜/strong＞ that folds you into its world, word by word, page by page, and remains with you long after the last. ＜strong＞I absolutely loved this book＜/strong＞. Fremantle is a brilliant novelist' Eve Chase, author of ＜em＞Black Rabbit Hall＜/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！】The Earl Claims a Bride The Heirs' Club of Scoundrels【電子書籍】[ Amelia Grey ]

＜p＞＜em＞Bestselling author Amelia Grey is back with a brand-new tale of daring, desire, and a delightfully scandalous bargain in her newest, sexy Regency-set historical romance, The Earl Claims a Bride.＜/em＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞CAN A HASTILY ARRANGED MATCH＜/strong＞＜br /＞ Harrison Thornwick is the Heirs' Club's newest member. His carefree days as a reckless rogue carousing around London are suddenly behind him after the tragic death of his brother leaves him in charge of the family estate. What's more, the Prince himself has offered to secure his marital prospects. Now Harrison has no choice but to grin and bear his noble fate-and the woman who's been chosen for him.＜br /＞ **BECOME A LOVE FOR ALL TIME?**Miss Angelina Rule is a spectacular beauty, a dream match for any man. But she is fiercely independent-and full of passion-and is all set to rebel against her royal order of marriage...until she meets the devilishly charming Harrison. With him by her side, Angelina devises a scheme that will teach her meddlesome relatives a lesson, once and for all. But little did she and Harrison expect to fall into a tempestuous attraction-and a powerful desire that neither of them can deny...＜/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！】Wynde【電子書籍】[ Tricia Barr ]

＜p＞A bold flying maneuver won Vespa’s team the Airspar Championships during her first year at Kedu Academy. Two years later some, like her father, still say her choice was rash and reckless.＜br /＞ Celebrating her graduation, Vespa awakens amid an alien terrorist attack on the Kavil moon. With the entire human fleet pinned in the port by their own damaged warship, annihilation seems certain until Vespa aims her airblade at the doomed vessel. She intends to retrieve WISPERーa pilot assistance artificial intelligence she createdーbut its safety protocols, designed by Vespa’s father, eject her from the cockpit before she has the chance. While her impulsive decision helps thwart the Orkan assault and saves numerous lives, WISPER’s destruction strains the previously deep bond with her father.＜br /＞ Vespa must bear the consequences of her actions while the government of her home planet, Prime, struggles to comprehend the implications of the strike. Relations with their longtime trade partners are further challenged by the arrival of a military task force from the Protectorate, human colonists who had left Prime centuries ago and who bring a far different perspective on the Orkan’s intentions.＜br /＞ As the prospect of war grows, Vespa enlists into an elite military unit relying on Protectorate expertise to train spaceblade pilots. But she can’t defeat the invaders aloneーsuccess will take teamwork. With Vespa uncertain who she can trust and the lives of her family and friends at stake, she must sort allies from enemies and repair her relationship with her father before it is too late. When the Orkans launch an even more vicious attack to seize the Kavil moon, another fateful choice may be inevitable.＜br /＞ The novel blends contemporary themes, military science fiction, and romance into a sweeping saga that is sure to please broad audiences who enjoy the fantastical universes of Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, and Star Wars. Its diverse cast, filled with strong female characters, will challenge readers’ expectations and biases, while taking them through a rich, moving, and entertaining experience.＜/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！】Paper Tiger An Obsessed Golfer's Quest to Play with the Pros【電子書籍】[ Tom Coyne ]

＜p＞＜em＞"Think country-club clinic meets Navy Seals training. I will pay any price, bear any burden, leave my home to follow the seasons, build my own swing studio in the basement, construct a practice green in my backyard. . . . Everything the big boys have access to, I want double."＜/em＞ Like most amateur golfers, Tom Coyne had often wondered whether the pros won because they were more talented or because they were more obsessed. Overweight and burdened by a 14 handicap, he decided to find out for himself what it takes to play like a pro.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Charting his journey, which included hiring top golf gurus such as Dr. Jim Suttieー＜em＞Paper Tiger＜/em＞ takes readers from the Michelob tournament (a win for Tom) to the Australian Tourーwhere forty-mile-per-hour winds and a driving rain scare off his Japanese partners. With each chapter, he tracks his weight alongside his handicap, pursuing his dream with a reckless abandon that comes to involve hardcore diets, pricey technology, even psychologists. With echoes of ＜em＞Dead Solid Perfect＜/em＞ and ＜em＞Who's Your Caddy?＜/em＞ Tom brings his uniquely edgy, deeply human perspective to a game that can simultaneously bring out the best and the worst in everyone who tries to master 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！】Fraud in the Markets Why It Happens and How to Fight It【電子書籍】[ Peter Goldmann ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A dramatic look at fraud's role in our financial markets-and how you can protect yourself＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Fraud In the Markets＜/em＞ reveals the critical role fraud played in the global financial crisis-even as many of the perpetrators continue to go unpunished. Shedding light on the reckless conduct of the former senior executives at major Wall Street firms such as Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch and others just before their collapse, this timely book shows how the culture of "anything goes" on Wall Street fueled the innovation of exotic but deadly asset-backed securities.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A frank insider look at the most dramatic economic and business headlines in recent memory, you will find revealing discussion of＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞The egregiously fraudulent lending practices that engulfed the entire US mortgage industry＜/li＞ ＜li＞The brazenly deceptive marketing of asset-backed securities＜/li＞ ＜li＞A road map to prevent similar disasters from recurring＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Fraud in the Markets＜/em＞ offers forward-looking advice, with practical guidelines for protecting yourself and your company from various forms of fraud that were found to have played a role in the current economic and financial crisis.＜/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 Wild Man of the West: A Tale of the Rocky Mountains【電子書籍】[ Robert Michael Ballantyne ]

＜p＞In which the Reader is introduced to a Mad Hero, a Reckless Lover, and a Runaway HusbandーBackwoods Juvenile Training describedーThe Principles of Fighting fully discussed, and some valuable Hints thrown out. March Marston was mad! The exact state of madness to which March had attained at the age when we take up his personal historyーnamely, sixteenーis uncertain, for the people of the backwoods settlement in which he dwelt differed in their opinions on that point. The clergyman, who was a Wesleyan, said he was as wild as a young buffalo bull; but the manner in which he said so led his hearers to conclude that he did not think such a state of ungovernable madness to be a hopeless condition, by any means. The doctor said he was as mad as a hatter; but this was an indefinite remark, worthy of a doctor who had never obtained a diploma, and required explanation, inasmuch as it was impossible to know how mad he considered a hatter to be. Some of the trappers who came to the settlement for powder and lead, said he was as mad as a grisly bear with a whooping-coughーa remark which, if true, might tend to throw light on the diseases to which the grisly bear is liable, but which failed to indicate to any one, except perhaps trappers, the extent of young Marston’s madness. The carpenter and the blacksmith of the placeーwho were fast friends and had a pitched battle only once a month, or twice at mostーagreed in saying that he was as mad as a wild-cat. In short, every one asserted stoutly that the boy was mad, with the exception of the women of the settlement, who thought him a fine, bold, handsome fellow; and his own mOther, who thought him a paragon of perfection, and who held the opinion (privately) that, in the wide range of the habitable globe there was not another like himーand she was not far wrong! Now, the whole and sole reason why March Marston was thus deemed a madman, was that he displayed an insane tendency, at all times and in all manners, to break his own neck, or to make away with himself in some similarly violent and uncomfortable manner＜/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！】Gay for Cowboy【電子書籍】[ Jade Buchanan ]

＜p＞Peter has only been in Calgary for a single month and he’s desperate to make some new friends. A trip to the gay rodeo opens his mind and introduces him to out and proud ? not to mention burly and bondage-loving ? Mitch. He’s never been with anyone like Mitch, but he’s enthralled by the huggable bear, and the attraction is certainly mutual. Can a playful drag queen find love when he goes gay for cowboy?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Look for other titles in this series:＜br /＞ HOT FOR COWBOY by Steena Holmes＜br /＞ CRAZY FOR COWBOY by Roxy Boroughs＜br /＞ RECKLESS FOR COWBOY by Daire St. Denis＜/p＞ ＜p＞Coming Soon:＜br /＞ BURN FOR COWBOY by Jenna Howard＜br /＞ WILD FOR COWBOY by Kymber Morgan＜/p＞ ＜p＞About the author:＜br /＞ Jade Buchanan is a multi-published erotic romance author with over thirty stories published. For more information, or to see what kind of hijinks Jade is up to, check out her website.＜/p＞ ＜p＞PRAISE FOR JADE BUCHANAN:＜/p＞ ＜p＞"The talented Jade Buchanan delivers yet another laugh out loud funny and very sensual story." ? Rosemary, Joyfully Reviewed＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Jade Buchanan is a natural at creating believable characters and stories that reach out to the reader." ? Scandalous Minx, Literary Nymphs＜/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！】Hung Lou Meng: The Dream of the Red Chamber, A Chinese Novel (Complete)【電子書籍】[ Xueqin Cao ]

＜p＞This is the opening section; this the first chapter. Subsequent to the visions of a dream which he had, on some previous occasion, experienced, the writer personally relates, he designedly concealed the true circumstances, and borrowed the attributes of perception and spirituality to relate this story of the Record of the Stone. With this purpose, he made use of such designations as Chen Shih-yin (truth under the garb of fiction) and the like. What are, however, the events recorded in this work? Who are the dramatis personae? Wearied with the drudgery experienced of late in the world, the author speaking for himself, goes on to explain, with the lack of success which attended every single concern, I suddenly bethought myself of the womankind of past ages. Passing one by one under a minute scrutiny, I felt that in action and in lore, one and all were far above me; that in spite of the majesty of my manliness, I could not, in point of fact, compare with these characters of the gentle sex. And my shame forsooth then knew no bounds; while regret, on the other hand, was of no avail, as there was not even a remote possibility of a day of remedy. On this very day it was that I became desirous to compile, in a connected form, for publication throughout the world, with a view to (universal) information, how that I bear inexorable and manifold retribution; inasmuch as what time, by the sustenance of the benevolence of Heaven, and the virtue of my ancestors, my apparel was rich and fine, and as what days my fare was savory and sumptuous, I disregarded the bounty of education and nurture of father and mother, and paid no heed to the virtue of precept and injunction of teachers and friends, with the result that I incurred the punishment, of failure recently in the least trifle, and the reckless waste of half my lifetime. There have been meanwhile, generation after generation, those in the inner chambers, the whole mass of whom could not, on any account, be, through my influence, allowed to fall into extinction, in order that I, unfilial as I have been, may have the means to screen my own shortcomings. Hence it is that the thatched shed, with bamboo mat windows, the bed of tow and the stove of brick, which are at present my share, are not sufficient to deter me from carrying out the fixed purpose of my mind. And could I, furthermore, confront the morning breeze, the evening moon, the willows by the steps and the flowers in the courtyard, methinks these would moisten to a greater degree my mortal pen with ink; but though I lack culture and erudition, what harm is there, however, in employing fiction and unrecondite language to give utterance to the merits of these characters? And were I also able to induce the inmates of the inner chamber to understand and diffuse them, could I besides break the weariness of even so much as a single moment, or could I open the eyes of my contemporaries, will it not forsooth prove a boon? This consideration has led to the usage of such names as Chia Y?-ts'un and other similar appellations. More than any in these pages have been employed such words as dreams and visions; but these dreams constitute the main argument of this work, and combine, furthermore, the design of giving a word of warning to my readers. Reader, can you suggest whence the story begins? The narration may border on the limits of incoherency and triviality, but it possesses considerable zest. But to begin. The Empress N? Wo, (the goddess of works,) in fashioning blocks of stones, for the repair of the heavens, prepared, at the Ta Huang Hills and Wu Ch'i cave, 36,501 blocks of rough stone, each twelve chang in height, and twenty-four chang square. Of these stones, the Empress Wo only used 36,500; so that one single block remained over and above, without being turned to any account. This was cast down the Ch'ing Keng peak.＜/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。