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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！】Her Majesty's Will A Novel of Will & Kit【電子書籍】[ Blixt David ]

＜p＞＜strong＞"An intricate tour de force that conjures a new vision of the Bard's early days."＜/strong＞ - Kirkus Reviews＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞"Her Majesty's Will is a heady, silly romp that works!"＜/strong＞ - Chicago Tribune＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Editor's Choice - Historical Novel Society＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the ruffled collars and quill-wielding chaos of 1586 England, join the Bard himself, Will Shakespeare, as he stumbles headfirst into a side-splitting escapade that Shakespearean scholars conveniently forgot to mention! Swept up in the skirts of a mysterious stranger, Will unwittingly unveils the Babington Plot - a dastardly scheme to bump off Queen Elizabeth. Talk about a plot twist!＜/p＞ ＜p＞With the mercurial Kit Marlowe by his side, our intrepid wordsmith takes his debut stroll through London's chaotic streets, dodging rebels, spies, government goons, his own shady past, and yes, even a bear! Through the absurdity of this Elizabethan romp, Will Shakespeare proves his loyalty and unleashes his genius, showcasing himself as the unsung hero - or should we say, "Her Majesty's Will."＜/p＞ ＜p＞This cheeky comedy, a wild blend of William Goldman's quirkiness from ＜em＞The Princess Bride＜/em＞ and the swashbuckling flair of Rafael Sabatini, channels the spirit of those old Hope/Crosby Road Movies. Revel in the certainty that these events are as fictional as a Puck-induced dream, yet secretly wish they were true. After all, who wouldn't want to imagine Shakespeare juggling treachery, wit, and a bear in the name of Her Majesty? Brush up your Shakespeare and prepare for a riotous ride through the Elizabethan era!＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞"＜em＞Her Majesty's Will＜/em＞ has everything-swashbuckling sword fights, witty banter, a nefarious (and true!) plot, a dash of romance, narrow escapes, sudden reversals, and an incredibly plausible origin story for one of the greatest writers in history. It's huge fun-a summer blockbuster action-adventure combined with dazzling outdoor Shakespeare, all in handy-dandy book form."＜/strong＞ - Austin Tichenor, ＜em＞Pop-Up Shakespeare＜/em＞ and ＜em＞William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (abridged)＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞"I loved ＜em＞Her Majesty's Will＜/em＞, a delightful romp through Elizabethan England. The fun is non-stop, an irresistible mix of suspense, surprises, and humor. I just hope we get to see this zany team again!"＜/strong＞ - Sharon Kay Penman, ＜em＞The Sunne In Splendour＜/em＞ and ＜em＞Lionheart＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞"I LOVE this book. I'm laughing and on the edge of my seat and turning e-pages so fast, I'm gonna fry my iPad."＜/strong＞ - C.W. Gortner, ＜em＞The Tudor Conspiracy＜/em＞ and ＜em＞The Queen's Vow＜/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！】Meant to Be A Novel【電子書籍】[ Emily Giffin ]

＜p＞＜strong＞＜em＞NEW YORK TIMES＜/em＞ BESTSELLER ? He’s American royalty. She comes from a troubled past. Is their love story meant to be? This “lively page-turner” (＜em＞The New York Times＜/em＞) offers a nostalgic, hopelessly romantic escapeーfrom the author of ＜em＞Something Borrowed＜/em＞ and ＜em＞The Lies That Bind＜/em＞.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“I’m a sucker for an iconic, against-all-odds love story, and ＜em＞Meant to Be＜/em＞ truly delivers.”ーTia Williams, author of ＜em＞Seven Days in June＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“A chic, history-inspired summer read [that] strikes a careful balance between simply retelling the true story of JFK Jr. and his wife, Carolyn Bessette, and crafting an entirely new one.”ー＜em＞Bookreporter＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Kingsley family is American royalty, beloved for their military heroics, political service, and unmatched elegance. In 1967, after Joseph S. Kingsley, Jr. is killed in a tragic accident, his charismatic son inherits the weight of that legacy. But Joe III is a free spiritーand a little bit reckless. Despite his best intentions, he has trouble meeting the expectations of a nation, as well as those of his exacting mother, Dottie.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Meanwhile, no one ever expected anything of Cate Cooper. She, too, grew up fatherlessーand after her mother marries an abusive man, she is forced to fend for herself. After being discovered by a model scout at age sixteen, Cate decides that her looks may be her only ticket out of the cycle of disappointment that her mother has always inhabited. Before too long, Cate’s face is in magazines and on billboards. Yet she feels like a fraud, faking it in a world to which she’s never truly belonged.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When Joe and Cate unexpectedly cross paths one afternoon, their connection is instant and intense. But can their relationship survive the glare of the spotlight and the so-called Kingsley curse? In a beautifully written novel that captures a gilded moment in American history, Emily Giffin tells the story of two people searching for belonging and identity, as well as the answer to the question: Are certain love stories meant to be?＜/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！】In His Eyes【電子書籍】[ Kailey Walters ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Sometimes love shows up in different ways.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The summer after high school is what Emmy hopes for: a camp counselor gig, days at the pool, and weekend brunches-which only gets better when she unexpectedly falls for Deston, a former childhood friend. But when the secret Emmy's been keeping from her best friends eventually gets too big to handle, and Deston leaves her life as suddenly as he came into it, she's forced to grapple with her heartbreak and bring the broken pieces of herself to college.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Across the country, where she can be whoever she wants to be, Emmy stumbles upon a Christian fellowship. There, she faces hard questions that shape her in an uncomfortable yet beautiful process: What voices should she listen to in the process of staying true to herself? What does it mean to be loved unconditionally?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Embedded in Emmy's story is the truth that the challenges, doubts, and questions you face can ultimately lead to something more beautiful and fulfilling than you could ever imagine-the hope, light, and love found in Jesus Christ.＜/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！】In His Eyes【電子書籍】[ Kailey Walters ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Sometimes love shows up in different ways.＜/strong＞＜br＞＜br＞The summer after high school is what Emmy hopes for: a camp counselor gig, days at the pool, and weekend brunchesーwhich only gets better when she unexpectedly falls for Deston, a former childhood friend. But when the secret Emmy’s been keeping from her best friends eventually gets too big to handle, and Deston leaves her life as suddenly as he came into it, she’s forced to grapple with her heartbreak and bring the broken pieces of herself to college.＜br＞＜br＞Across the country, where she can be whoever she wants to be, Emmy stumbles upon a Christian fellowship. There, she faces hard questions that shape her in an uncomfortable yet beautiful process: What voices should she listen to in the process of staying true to herself? What does it mean to be loved unconditionally?＜br＞＜br＞Embedded in Emmy’s story is the truth that the challenges, doubts, and questions you face can ultimately lead to something more beautiful and fulfilling than you could ever imagineーthe hope, light, and love found in Jesus Christ.＜br＞＜br＞＜/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 Kind of Wonderful (Puffin Island trilogy, Book 2)【電子書籍】[ Sarah Morgan ]

＜p＞I absolutely loved following Zach and Brittany’s story, it was fun, sweet, sexy and moving, and impossible not to kept swept away with’ Reader review ?????＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘I loved this book so much’ ＜strong＞Reader review＜/strong＞ ?????＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘Another wonderful read by a very talented author . . . Sarah Morgan is certainly the new Queen of Romance!’ ＜strong＞Reader review＜/strong＞ ?????＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘This was such a beautiful story with a classic bad boy and good girl with a twist . . . Loved it’ ＜strong＞Reader review＜/strong＞ ?????＜/p＞ ＜p＞* * *＜/p＞ ＜p＞Her whole life, Puffin Islander Brittany Forrest has dreamed of adventure. And at the age of eighteen, she thought she’d found it in bad boy Zachary Flynn. But after just ten tempestuous, smouldering days, their whirlwind marriage went up in smoke, and Brittany resolved to put him out of her mind forever.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Zach knows he let Brittany down, but being back on Puffin Island and seeing Brittany again stirs up long-buried emotions. This daredevil pilot has never felt worthy of her, yet he can’t stay awayーeven when he knows the chemistry between them will only complicate his life.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As long, hot summer days on the beach dissolve into sultry, starry nights, Brittany and Zach find that the sparks between them are more powerful than ever. Could it be that the second time around, their dreams of a happy-ever-after will finally come true?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Fall in love with the Puffin Island series from the number one ＜em＞Sunday Times＜/em＞ bestselling author Sarah Morgan. Perfect if you love:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞??Small town romance＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞??Bad boy x good girl＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞??Second chance romance＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞* * *＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Praise for Sarah Morgan＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘Morgan excels in balancing the sweet and sexy to create the perfect blend’ ＜em＞＜strong＞Booklist＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞'Full of romance and sparkle' ＜em＞＜strong＞Lovereading＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘enjoyably escapist romance’ ＜em＞＜strong＞Sunday Mirror＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘Gloriously romantic’＜em＞＜strong＞Cathy Bramley＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Fifty Acres and a Poodle A Story of Love, Livestock, and Finding Myself on a Farm【電子書籍】[ Jeanne Marie Laskas ]

＜p＞Jeanne Marie Laskas had dreams of life on a farm that she couldn't get out of her head. A dream of fleeing her otherwise happy urban life for fresh air and open space. A dream she would discover was about something more profound than that. A dream she never ever expected to come true. Until a hot summer afternoon led to a drive in the country, where a place that had existed only in her fantasies turned out to be real--and for sale.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Fifty Acres And A Poodle＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The place is almost too perfect to be believed, but there it is: a pretty-as-a-picture-postcard farm, with an Amish barn, a chestnut grove, and vistas so beautiful, they take her breath away. And in that moment she knows that this is the spot where her future begins. So she drags her boyfriend Alex, a committed urban dweller with zero agricultural awareness who owns a poodle, into her scheme, hoping that love will somehow conquer all.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But buying a postcard--fifty acres of scenery--and living on it are two entirely different matters. The questions seem endless: How long before the barn roof collapses? Should they buy sheep? Will the place be good for her writing, and for her relationship with Alex? And is there any way to keep Betty the mutt and Marley the poodle from rolling in mud, leaves, and unidentified smelly remains?＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this funny yet tender tale, Laskas shares what happens when you follow your dream--and what happens when it's almost snatched away.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Fifty Acres and a Poodle＜/strong＞ is a charming and surprisingly poignant memoir of Jeanne Marie Laskas's first year on Sweetwater Farm. It is a journey peopled by unforgettable characters: Billy, the local contractor who bulldozes her briars, takes her shopping for tractors, and advises her on buying a mule; Tim, the FedEx driver whose truck becomes Marley's obsession and nearly his downfall; the local hunters who present her with an entire wardrobe of blaze-orange hats; and Bob the cat, whose valiant fight for life gives her the courage to love.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jeanne Marie Laskas writes with exhilarating wit and extraordinary wisdom about life, love, and finding your true self on a farm.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It's hard to say how a dream forms. Especially one like mine, which at first seemed so utterly random. It could have been a sailing-a-boat-to-Tahiti dream, a quit-your-job-and-hitchhike-to-Alaska dream. It was a fill-in-the-blank dream, born of an urge, not content. An urge for something new.＜/p＞ ＜p＞I was thirty-seven years old. I lived on Eleventh Street, the last house on the right,in South Side, a gentrified old mill town on the banks of the Monongahela River. I rented an office in downtown Pittsburgh, a fifteen-minute bike ride away, which is where I spent my days writing stories and magazine articles. I had a garden.＜br /＞ I had a cat. I had a dog.＜/p＞ ＜p＞And I had a farm dream, a fantasy swirling around in my head about moving to the country. Where in the world was this coming from? That's what I wondered. It might have made sense if I was a miserable person, sick of my life. But I was not.I had a good life; it had taken me a long time to get it that way.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A farm dream would have made sense, I supposed, if I was at least the farm dream type. A person with some deep personal longing to churn butter. A person who had had city life forced upon her and now was determined to go be true to herself and live among the haystacks. A person who wore her hair in long braids, used Ivory soap, and liked to stencil her walls with pictures of little chickens and cows. A person who, at minimum, had a compost pile in her yard where she diligently threw lawn clippings and coffee grounds and eggshells and earned the right to use the word organic a lot.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But I was not that person. I was not even sure what hay was, or why anyone would stack it. And if I composted anything, it was only by mistake.＜/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！】A Summer Love Affair【電子書籍】[ Holly Chamberlin ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Summer in Maine means breezy, sun-kissed beach days, golden evenings, and, in bestselling author Holly Chamberlin’s irresistible novels, a time for self-discovery and surprising connections . . .＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Sometimes you sense something, deep inside, long before it’s proven true. Thirty-year-old Petra Quirk has always felt as if a vital element of her life is missing. It’s not until she moves back to the small town of Eliot’s Corner for the summer that she learns why. Rummaging in the attic, Petra comes across a diary. The discovery prompts her mother, Elizabeth, to make a confession to her three daughters. Decades ago, she fell in love with her husband’s best friend, Chrisーand Petra is Chris’s child . . .＜/p＞ ＜p＞Elizabeth ended the affair before she learned she was pregnant, and Chris has no idea he’s a father. Hugh, who Petra believed to be her dad, was a good-natured but self-centered, blustering man. He and Chris seemed to have little in common, though their friendship was genuine. Elizabeth loved Chris deeply yet refused to tear her family apart. Even since Hugh’s death, she’s resisted contacting Chris. But Petra, floundering and unsure of her path, is compelled to search out her biological father, though she knows it will complicate her relationship with her family.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Over the course of two summers, decades apart, romance will be kindled and rekindled, life-altering decisions made, and secrets of the heart will come to light at last.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Praise for the novels of Holly Chamberlin＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“A great summer read but with substance. It will find a wide audience in its exploration of sisterhood, family, and loss.”＜br /＞ ー＜em＞Library Journal＜/em＞ on ＜em＞Summer with My Sisters＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“Nostalgia over real-life friendships lost and regained pulls readers＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞into the story.”＜/strong＞＜br /＞ **ー**＜strong＞＜em＞USA Today＜/em＞ on ＜em＞Summer Friends＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Gigi, Listening A Witty and Heartfelt Love Story【電子書籍】[ Chantel Guertin ]

＜p＞＜strong＞“Completely charming!” ーCarley Fortune, ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling author of ＜em＞Every Summer After＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Fans of Sophie Kinsella and Christina Lauren will adore this touching and witty novel about a woman who takes an impulsive trip to England to meet the man behind the audiobook narrator she’s fallen for.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Gigi Rutherford loves love stories. She reads them, she sells them at her romance bookstore, and she could spend hours imagining the meet-cutes of every couple she encounters. But when it comes to her own love interests, Gigi is out of stock. Instead of enduring bad date after bad date, these days she’d rather curl up with her favorite audiobook and the only man who makes her heart skip a beat: Zane Wilkenson, the smooth-voiced narrator Gigi is convinced is her soulmate.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Then, she’s presented with the chance of a lifetime: a ten-day bus tour through the English countryside, an ocean away from her bookstoreーall in the presence of Zane, in person, as he leads the tour.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But when Gigi arrives at the bus terminal in London, Zane is nowhere to be found. Until he shows up, she’s stuck with an eclectic group of fellow travelers: recently widowed and chatty Charlotte;＜br /＞ trivia-obsessed Francis; Jenny, a true-crime-makeup YouTuber documenting every detail for her subscribers; and Sindhi and Roshi, a long-married couple who can’t stop bickering. Then there’s the brooding bus driver, Taj, who Gigi finds infuriating yet also incredibly alluring . . .＜/p＞ ＜p＞With heart and charm, warmth and humor, Chantel Guertin explores the meaning of love and familyーand how, sometimes, the journey to yourself is where you’ll find everything you’ve been searching for.＜/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！】Oliver Ellis: The Fusiliers【電子書籍】[ James Grant ]

＜p＞When is a man the arbiter of his own destiny? for he is like the leaf which is torn from a tree, and which the wind of heaven blows about. This fate has been my own, as peculiarly as it has been that of other military wanderers in life; for your soldier is a great traveller both by sea and land, an errant and a restless spirit; yet his travels and his restlessness are involuntary; for the moment he dons the red coat he ceases to be the master of "his own proper person," or (like the leaf torn from the tree) to be the arbiter of his own destiny; but must march, sail, or fight wheresoever he may be ordered, obedience being the first word in his vocabulary. He becomes a machine in some sort, yet not a machine according to the degrading idea of his sapient majesty of Prussia; for the history of mankind will prove that the most brilliant achievements in war, and the most happy results in peace, like those efforts by which thrones have been won and nations freed, had their origin in the influence of the human heart, and in the mastery of the human passions, when hope, religion, or love of country, fired the soldier's spirit! Who, then, will dare to say that the poor private soldier who mounts a deadly breach, or rushes on a hedge of steel, risking mutilation, wounds, and death, without the hope of future fame if he falls, or the chance of sharing in the glory of the victory his valour wins if he survive,ーis the mere automaton, the cold in blood and basely utilitarian would have him to be? Love of country, a noble sentiment, is ever strong in the heart of a true soldier. When the 67th, or South Hampshire regiment, commanded by Callender of Craigforth, landed at Portsmouth in 1772, after a long career of dangerous foreign service, with one accord and impulse the whole of the men threw themselves on the beach and kissed the pebbles. The reader will pardon the professional vanity, or esprit de corps, which makes me thus prelude the plain unvarnished story of a soldier's career,ーa description of some of the adventures I have passed through, the persons I have met, and the scenes I have witnessed on my march through life. I was born in the camp of Burgoyne's army when it was on the borders of Lake Champlain: thus, the first sounds to which my infant ears became accustomed were the rattle of the drum, the notes of the Kentish bugle, the tread of marching feet, and the thoughtless hilarity of my father's comrades. I remember myself first as a little boy, the pet and plaything of the soldiers, who made bats and balls, tops and toys for me; who allowed me to ride on their backs, and to hold on by their queues, whenever I had a mind to do so; who told me old stories of Wolfe's days, of the siege of Belleisle, and of wild adventures in West Florida. I remember of marches from town to town, from camp to barrack, and from fort to fortーall of which seem like dreams to me now; while the troops trod on, through clouds of summer dust or the deep snows of an American winter, and I with other regimental imps, sat merrily and cosily perched on the summit of a baggage-waggon, among trunks, arm-chests, knapsacks, pots, kettles, and soldiers' wives, who smoked, sung, and swore occasionally, and bantered the escort who marched on each side, with bayonets fixed. A thousand childish incidents of the soldiers' kindness to me when a boy (because they loved my father well), are lingering in my memory, while many a more important event of the days and years between that time and this, is forgotten for ever.＜/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！】Chasing Sunsets The Gabby Petito Story【電子書籍】[ W.G. Davis ]

＜p＞In the summer of 2021, Gabby Petito and her fianc?, Brian Laundrie, embarked on a cross-country adventure in a converted van, documenting their journey on social media with breathtaking landscapes and promises of a free-spirited life. But behind the idyllic photos and cheerful captions, a darker reality unfoldedーone of escalating tensions, hidden turmoil, and a love story that ended in tragedy.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Chasing Sunsets The Gabby Petito Story＜/em＞ delves deep into Gabby's final days, piecing together witness accounts, police bodycam footage, social media posts, and the frantic search that captivated the nation. This gripping narrative explores not just the events leading to her disappearance, but also the systemic failures that allowed her cries for help to go unheard.＜/p＞ ＜p＞From her youth as a child full of dreams, to the initial traffic stop in Moab, Utahーwhere Gabby's distress was visible yet dismissedーto the desperate pleas of her family as Brian returned home without her, this book uncovers the haunting questions that remain: ＜em＞What really happened in those remote wilderness areas? Why did the system fail her? And how did a journey meant to be the adventure of a lifetime become a nightmare?＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞More than just a true crime account, ＜em＞The Unfinished Journey＜/em＞ examines the broader issues of intimate partner violence, the dangers of idealized social media personas, and the relentless pursuit of justice by those who refused to let Gabby's story end in silence.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A heartbreaking, meticulously researched portrait of a young woman whose light was extinguished too soon, this book ensures Gabby Petito's name is rememberedーnot just as a headline, but as a call for 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。

【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 Elopement【電子書籍】[ Compton MacKenzie ]

＜p＞THE meagre sun that for thirteen pallid February days had shone with no more brilliance than a rushlight stuck amid the cobwebs of a garret, poured down at last his profuse glories, and Curtain Wells woke up to a fine morning and the burden of conscious existence, with an effort all the more completely unanimous on account of its reputation as an inland Spa. Residence there implied an almost monastick ideal of regularity. Other shrines of ?sculapius, falling from their primitive purity of worship, might set up for adoration a hooped Venus or bag-wigged Cupid, but Curtain Wells would never admit so naked and misleading a pair of Immortals. Her fountains ministered to bodily ailmentsーVapours, Winds, Gouts, Quinsies, Consumptions, Fevers quartan and tertianーwithout pretending to the power of love-philtres or the sparkle of the Castalian Spring. 'Tis true, romantick dusk or sunset candlelight might consecrate the vows of many a shepherd and shepherdess, but those stretched hours of dalliance were always understood to be the sensuous reward of a strict matutinal discipline. Consequently Curtain Wells woke up as to a bugle-call. Casement-hangings were flung back, shutters unbarred and, wonderful to relate, an occasional window-sash creaked and subsided. A simultaneous toilet would be followed by a simultaneous visit to the cleansing springs. Drums, routs, auctions, ridottos, and masquerades did not avail to keep their votaries abed. Perchance a velvet patch would hide the wearer's secret blemish less artfully; beneath young Miss Kitcat's eyes there might be a deeper violet than the state of her health warranted; my lady Bunbutter newly arrived from scurrilous Bath might see her nose sharpen to a richer carmine point; but half-past eight o'clock would behold them all bound for the Pump Room, somewhat reticent perhaps, a little fretful even, yet completely subjugated by their self-imposed renunciation. St. Simon's clock struck the half-hour of seven, and the birds who live tropick days in the eternal summer of chintz curtains seemed to crow remorsefully at any sluggard who was inclined longer to indulge his laziness. The sun spangled their plumage with innumerable pin-points of light until they began to glow with all the astonishing dyes of printed fabricks. They glowed and ruffled until the sluggard forsook his couch and, creeping over the chilly floor, flung them back into a day-long folded tranquillity. Here, then, is an excellent opportunity to catch a few of our fine characters unaware. Follow the guidance of my Muses and you will see hero and heroine, comedian, villain, and chorus stripped of all outward aids to beauty. You may trust the modesty of Clio and Melpomene who will certainly treat their own sex with discretion and admit you to the keyhole not a moment before it becomes your disposition of mind. Pray do not expect a wanton exhibition because you are holding on to the draperies of two pagan young women. See that fine house in the middle of the Crescent. Mark the flambeaux guttering and sputtering into an odorous death. Note the flattened Ionick columns which lend it such an air of superiority, and the extra story, and the fat bow-windows on either side of the door. Look well at the door with its cornice of airy Cupids for ever playing Hide and Seek behind solemn urns and festoons of carven flowers. That is the Great House where Beau Ripple lives. Do you wonder at the early hour of rising when you know that his decree was responsible for the united achievement? I cannot think you do; especially if you have read his Epigrams published by Mr. Scratch at the Sign of the Claw in Paul's Churchyardーthose epigrams with razor-keen edge translated into Latin by Doctor Fumble and into Greek by the Reverend Mr. Tootell.＜/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！】Journey Within【電子書籍】[ Robert Ross ]

＜p＞“Journey Within is a novel that’s worth the trip. Past and present collide in this introspective, first novel, JOURNEY WITHIN, by Robert Ross. Surely a romantic himself, Ross takes his readers on an astral voyage through the eyes of his main character.＜br /＞ As the book opens, we find Mike riding an emotional roller coaster as he struggles to make sense of his overwhelming desire to rekindle a love affair of nearly twenty years ago. During a summer in Europe with his college buddies, Mike met Dierry. After a whirlwind romance, their bittersweet departures left a void for Mike. Just as in real life, time slipped away, as the two of them drifted into the confines of an ordinary world: careers, lovers, marriage, children, and divorce. So why now, does he feel that he must see Dierry again? As the sweet memories continue to haunt him, he acts on his emotions. As if it were meant to happen, Mike finds himself in the arms of Dierry in the sensual environs of the Caribbean. But afterward, as he wrestles with these re-ignited feelings, the book catapults the reader into a series of complex and fascinating adventures in time travel.＜br /＞ Ross hits the mark as he capably describes the evolution of Mike's pursuit of self-discovery. Not so much a historical voyage, though the periods described are lush in detail, instead the underlying thread of reincarnation lets the reader explore a more subconscious and ethereal kind of journey through time.＜br /＞ As Ross juxtaposes the past with the present, the reader is offered the rare opportunity to investigate what drives his main character and even us to search for our true identity. After a final encounter with his astral mother, our character's spiritual transformation comes to an end, and a newly rejuvenated Mike feels better equipped to meet the future, happier and more content than ever before in his life.＜br /＞ With a pizzazz for historical accuracy, a gentle and respectful treatment of women, and the imaginative and dreamy prose, Ross has succeeded in weaving a sometimes unsettling, but thought-provoking and intriguing first novel.”＜br /＞ ??Patti Pocsik＜br /＞ Green Meadows Reviews＜/p＞ ＜p＞“In his middle age, Mike wonders if life is just too long for permanent relationships...＜br /＞ He divorced when his children were four and two respectively. Now teens, they seem adjusted, but he questions what is happening in his love life. He sees Carole, much younger than he is, but she wants more than he can give. Mike’s thoughts wander back to Dierry, his "dream girl" from his salad days when he believed that there was more to life than his experiences have since found.＜br /＞ A weary Mike recalls the memory of an elderly woman who insisted he had an old soul filled with past lives. That elderly woman “escorts” Mike on a journey along an astral plane into the past lives he lived and the women he loved crossing the ocean to Ancient Gaul and later existence.＜br /＞ However, these flawed relationships seem to reverberate the problems of present day Mike. This is a great look at human relationships including harmony within oneself via superb vignettes that are part of a powerful story line that takes the reader on a journey of the mind. Robert Ross allows the audience to believe what we want as he never sets in concrete whether the astral trip is a genuine time travel trek or whether Mike even lived those previous lives.＜br /＞ Regardless of which theory the reader accepts, fans will agree that JOURNEY WITHIN: A TALE OF ASTRAL TRAVEL is a triumphant one sitting reading experience along the cerebral yet entertaining plane.”＜br /＞ ??Harriet Klausner＜br /＞ Blether Book Review＜/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 Acorn People【電子書籍】[ Ron Jones ]

＜b＞This true story of a boy who must overcome prejudice and weakness to treat a group of special needs children with the respectーand loveーthey deserve “will give your innards a bear hug. . . . You will read this book with a lump in your throat.” (＜i＞Lincoln Journal＜/i＞)＜/b＞＜br＞ ?＜br＞ From Ron Jones, a teacher who started the classroom program that inspired the movie ＜i＞The Wave＜/i＞, comes a memoir about a life-changing summer. ＜br＞ ?＜br＞ Ron expected that his time as a counselor at Camp Wiggin would be filled with sunny days spent hiking, swimming, and boating. But when he arrives on day one, his illusions are quickly shattered. He knew that the kids would be “handicapped,” but he didn’t anticipate having to care for children who can barely walk or see or retain the use of their limbs. At first, the severity of the campers’ disabilities seems too much to bear. But everything changes once Ron gets to know his groupーkids who call themselves “the Acorn People” because of the acorn necklaces they wear around their necks. The campers teach him that, inside, they are the same as any average kid, and with encouragement, determination, and friendship, nothing is impossible. ＜br＞ ?＜br＞ “＜b＞A fantastic and beautiful story.＜/b＞”ー＜i＞Seattle Times＜/i＞＜br＞＜br＞ “Uncomfortably moving, yet told in surprisingly unsentimental terms. . . . Succinct and tender, it＜b＞ will haunt the reader long after＜/b＞ the brief passages have been read.”ー＜i＞Houston Chronicle＜br＞＜/i＞＜br＞"Ron Jones' true story of a group of handicapped children at summer camp is one of the most ＜b＞poignant, beautiful and eloquent＜/b＞ tales to come this way in a long time."ー＜i＞＜i＞Flint Journal＜/i＞＜/i＞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。