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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！】Of Angels and Demons Pandemonium College Knights, #3【電子書籍】[ Mona Black ]

＜p＞The factions in the College have split, some siding with the four Houses and some with Frankie and Heaven who wants her alive.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Turning the College into a veritable war zone.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Good news is, the boys have shown their true colors and have Frankie's back, protecting her against assassins and attacks, fighting at her side.＜/p＞ ＜p＞And sleeping at her side, which is… a bonus.＜/p＞ ＜p＞How can she resist them anyway?＜/p＞ ＜p＞When they are opening up to her.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Taking care of her.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Putting their lives on the line for her.＜/p＞ ＜p＞They still have the potential of breaking her heart but by now that's a given. Too late to back away now. Too late to run.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Things take a turn for the worse when dear old dad's name is revealed and the angels come down to get her ? but Frankie may have a plan…＜/p＞ ＜p＞* Look inside for author notes and information as well as warnings on the books! *＜br /＞ * This series can be read on its own but you will have a much better reader experience if you read the Pandemonium Academy Royals series first! *＜/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！】Another Dead Teenager A Paul Turner Mystery【電子書籍】[ Mark Richard Zubro ]

＜p＞When two suburban high-school students are found murdered--both boys who were well respected and liked, with solid family lives and no apparent enemies--Detected Paul Turner is assigned the case. However as a gay father with two teenage sons and a new lover in his life, Paul Turner has trouble bringing his full attention to bear on the case. But as details slowly emergy, he begins to suspect that he is investigating something more deadly and horrifying than a pair of senseless killings, something that could threaten the lives of the people he holds most dear.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Booklist＜/em＞ gives ＜em＞Another Dead Teenager＜/em＞ a rave review: "As in Zubro's previous books, readers have both campy humor and an action filled plot to keep them entertained. Highly recommended--this one's a good read in every sense of the term!"＜/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 Rover Boys Shipwrecked: A Thrilling Hunt for Pirates' Gold【電子書籍】[ Edward Stratemeyer ]

＜p＞My Dear Boys: This book is a complete story in itself, but forms the eighth volume in a line issued under the general title, “The Second Rover Boys Series for Young Americans.” As related in the First Series, this line of books was started with the publication of “The Rover Boys at School,” in which I introduced my readers to Dick, Tom and Sam Rover and their friends and relatives. This First Series, consisting of twenty volumes, told of what happened to these three Rover boys while attending Putnam Hall Military Academy, Brill College, and while on outings in this country and abroad. When the boys became married Dick Rover was blessed with a son and a daughter, as was also his brother Sam, while Tom became the parent of a lively pair of twin boys. From their homes in New York City the four younger Rovers went to boarding school, as related in the first volume of the Second Series, entitled “The Rover Boys at Colby Hall.” From that school the scene was shifted to “Snowshoe Island” and then to doings while “Under Canvas.” Then the boys went “On a Hunt,” and, later, to “The Land of Luck.” Then came exciting days at “Big Horn Ranch” and at “Big Bear Lake,” where we last met them. In the present volume the scene is shifted to the Atlantic Ocean. The boys were shipwrecked and had many thrilling adventures. As many of my readers know, the sale of this series of books is now well past the three million mark. To me, this seems truly wonderful. My only hope is that the reading of these books will do all of the boys and girls good.＜/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！】Aunt Milly's Diamonds【電子書籍】[ Ruth Lamb ]

＜p＞Yes, children, I will tell you the story of Aunt Milly's diamonds; and in telling about them, you must hear the tale of my own life almost, because one is so mixed up with the other that they can scarcely be separated. The speaker, an old lady, looked pleasantly at a group of grandchildren, her Christmas visitors; who, tired with many a merry game, were clustering round her and asking for the story. It was Christmas Eve, and they had been making the old hall at Denesfield Manor ring with happy voices. And now, in the dim twilight hour, they came into the drawing-room, and begged that before the gas was lighted, Grandmamma would tell them all about "those diamonds." A charming group they made. The girls with their young, fair faces, and streaming curls, the boys full of life and strength and fun; yet all so loving to the silver-haired lady who delighted to see them round her at happy Christmastide. Picture them for yourselves; some, the elder girls, demurely seated, ready to listen; two little ones on footstools by Grandmamma's knees, each holding a hand tenderly imprisoned; the lads just stretched here and there upon the rug, while on their upturned faces the blaze of a Christmas fire shone and danced merrily. But listen. Grandmamma is beginning her story: Aunt Milly and my own dear mother were sisters; but there was a great difference in their ages, and still more in their worldly positions. My aunt married, while very young, the owner of Denesfield Manor, where we are now gathered to spend our Christmas, you know, children. Her husband, Squire Dene, was a very rich man, and the diamonds you have heard so much about were his wedding-gift to Aunt Milly. They were worth many thousands of pounds, and were talked about all over the county. But though they were so much admired, both for their cost and beauty, I do not think anybody envied Aunt Milly the possession of them. You know, dears, there is a great difference in the way persons use jewels. If people think themselves the better for possessing them, and look down upon their neighbours because they cannot have such costly things, they show a foolish pride and a wrong spirit. But if they look upon them as beautiful things that God has created, and to which He has been pleased to compare His own beloved servants and children in Christ, just using them in a spirit of thankfulness to their Maker, they will stir up no envy amongst those who do not possess jewels themselves.＜/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！】Jack Mason, the Old Sailor【電子書籍】[ Theodore Thinker ]

＜p＞Jack Mason had been to sea a great many times when I first knew him, and he has been a great many times since. He has sailed in a ship almost all over the world. Such a host of stories as he can tell! Why, I do believe if he could find little boys and girls to talk to, he would begin in the morning as soon as he had got through his breakfast, and do nothing but tell stories about what he has seen, until it was time to go to bed at night. I don't know but he would want to stop once or twice to eat. Jack loves a good dinner as well as anybody. Jack is the one that you see in the picture, with his pea-jacket on, and a book in his hand. He is in a ship, telling his stories now to that boy sitting on a coil of rope. See, the boy is looking right at the old man, hearing all he says. I wonder what Jack is talking about now. He must be telling one of his best stories, I guess; for the boy lifts his head up, as much as to say, "Dear me! who ever heard of such a thing!" Jack is a good man. He is not like a great many sailors that I have seen. He does not use bad words. He never drinks rum, or any thing of the kind. Sailors are apt to swear; but Jack Mason never swears. He is a Christian: he loves to pray and read his Bible. The book which he holds in his hand, as he is talking to that boy, is a Bible. He often has a Bible in his jacket pocket, when he is on board of his ship; and once in a while he stops telling stories about what he has seen, and reads some of the stories in that good book. When I was a little boy, Jack fell from the high mast of the ship, and hurt himself so badly that he had to stay at home a long time after that. Poor fellow! he did not like to be shut up in the house. It was hard work for him. But he could not go out, until his hip got well. When he was able to sit up in a chair, I used to go and see him, and hear him tell his stories. I did not go every day, because my mother thought I had better not go every day. But I went as often as she would let me go, and staid as long as she would let me stay. Jack was always glad to see me, and glad to tell me stories. I was always glad to hear his stories. Some sailors, who have spent a great deal of time on board of a ship, and have seen a great many places, are not good men. They do not always tell the truth. So, when they tell stories about what they saw where they went, we do not know whether to believe them or not. But Jack Mason was a good man, and I knew he would not tell me what was not true.＜/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 Law of the Trigger【電子書籍】[ Clifton Adams ]

＜p＞HOther had heard the children go upstairs some time ago. They had been very quiet ever since. "I wonder what they are doing," She thought. "Layton is so good to his little sister. Very few boys of thirteen would pay attention he does to a little sister of eleven. I suppose he is amusing her now, the dear little chap. I think I will just step up and see what they are doing. The mOther went up quietly and opened the door of the boy's room. The children knew nothing of her entrance, and no wonder. The sight that met her gaze almost took her breath away. The boy was indeed amusing his sister. Both children were naked. Their clothes were thrown carelessly in heaps on the floor; a mass of white ruffles and lace which belonged to the girl lay under the short blue pants of the boy. Four long black stockings and two pairs of shoes, one con- siderably smaller than the Other were strewn about where they had been heedlessly drawn from the children's legs and feet＜/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！】Dear Boys in Service【電子書籍】[ Frank Skidmore ]

＜p＞To our servicemen and servicewomen, there is one big event in the daymail call. Watch an old episode of MASH, and see the reaction of the members of the 4077th when Radar or Klinger announces, Mail call. It was outside the Old Stone Fort that I saw the memorial to the Schoharie men who had made the supreme sacrifice during WWIright there was the name of Carl Beard Skidmore. Of course I had to ask who he was and found out he was my uncle, my fathers half brother that I never knew about. He died on November 1, 1918, in France, a year after my father was born. What are they, we and these honored dead, looking for in the mail? If they were like me, they were looking for news about home. It didnt matter who or what news was in the letter. Even if it was just gossip, it was a connection to someone at home.＜/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 Swan and Her Crew; or the Adventures of Three Young Naturalists and Sportsmen on the Broads and Rivers of Norfolk【電子書籍】[ George Christopher Davies ]

＜p＞Greeting.ーThe Broad District.ーHickling Broad.ーFelling a Tree.ーDodging the Swallows.ーShooting the Crossbills.ーThe Boat-house. With the same feeling of pleasure which one experiences when one writes to an old friend, I commence to write this new book, which I hope will be read by many a boy friend. It is very pleasant to an author to feel that he has a large circle of acquaintances whom he has never seen, and who know him only through his books. It should be his aim and endeavour to extend that circle of friends, and to increase the good feeling which they bear towards him. Therefore, my dear boys, I hope that after reading this book which I now submit to your approval, you will conceive as affectionate a regard for me as I have for you. This is a story of sport and adventure, natural history and science, and the movers in it are three boys just like yourselves; and that you may understand the better what they did, I shall first describe the scene of their exploits. It is the eastern part of Norfolk, and no better place could be found as a field for the doings of three enterprising young naturalists and sportsmen. It is known as the "Broad District," and it consists almost entirely of lake, river, and marsh. If we take Yarmouth on the sea-coast as the starting-point, and look inland, we shall see first of all a large tidal lake known as Breydon Water. From this radiate three rivers going north-west, west, and south-west. The chief of them is the Yare, which winds for thirty miles inward to the old city of Norwich. On our right is the river Bure, or North River, which after a very long and winding course leaves the marsh, and enters a richly-wooded country. To the south is the Waveney, a clear and beautiful stream, which flows past Beccles and Bungay, two towns in Suffolk. All these rivers are slow of current, wide and navigable not only for yachts, but for vessels of large burden, such as wherries, billy-boys, and small steamers. The banks of the rivers are fringed with tall reeds, and they flow through miles of level marsh, where, as far as the eye can reach, there is nothing to be seen but the white sails of the yachts and the dark sails of the wherries, and occasional windmills which are used for pumping the water out of the drains into the rivers. In order to deepen the channel of the river for the purposes of navigation, the embankments have been raised so high that the surface of the water is much above the level of the drains which carry the water off the surrounding marshes, and so the water has to be pumped into the river out of the drains by means of pumps set in action by windmills＜/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！】Too Dearly Bought: Town Strike【電子書籍】[ Agnes Giberne ]

＜p＞A great number of noisy little boys came trooping on ahead, with shrill cries, to announce this important fact. Hardly one among them understood exactly what the procession was about; but flags and banners are the delight of a boy's heart. Not seldom this particular form of affection for coloured bunting lasts on into manhood. The wives and mothers, who turned out of their doorways to enjoy the sight, were, however, more learned than their little boys as to the cause of the stir. And everybody was aware that Peter Pope was to be at its head. Peter Pope, a smooth-tongued and comfortably-dressed individual, had been very busy lately in the town. Most of his business had been in the way of talk; but what of that? There was a committee, of course, behind him, which did a good deal of work while Pope did the talk. He had been sent down, as a delegate from London, for the express purpose of teaching the inhabitants of the town; and teaching commonly means a certain amount of talk. Peter Pope had come to teach the men of the town to appreciate their degraded and enslaved condition. With this object in view he had talked vigorously for many weeks; and the men were becoming fast convinced of the truth of his words. They had not dreamt before what a melancholy thing it was to be a British working-man; but now their eyes were opened. If you want to convince the British Public about anything,ーespecially that part of the British Public which reads very few books, and knows very little of history, and never goes out of England, just remember this! There is not the least need that you should be clever or learned yourself, or even powerful in speech. You only have to go on saying the same thing over and over and over again, with dogged pertinacity; and in time you are sure to be believed. The British Public is wonderfully easy of belief, and will swallow anything,ーif only you give it time! Peter Pope had done this. He had talked on, with a resolute and dogged pertinacity; he had given his hearers plenty of time; and now he was rewarded by seeing the biggest boluses he could offer, meekly gulped down. It was a dingy and smoky town enough to which he had come; one of the crowded manufacturing towns, of which England owns so many. Not a clean or pretty town, but a prosperous one hitherto, with a fair abundance of work for willing toilers. Those who were unwilling to toil did badly there as elsewhere; and these were the men who first swallowed Peter Pope's bait. Pleasant Lane was not the least narrow and dingy of many narrow dingy streets. The houses on either side were small, and for the most part not over clean. One little home near the centre formed a marked exception as to this last point; boasting dainty muslin blinds, windows filled with plants, and a spotless front doorstep. On that step stood Sarah Holdfast, in her clean print gown, watching like others for the coming procession. Not that she had the least idea of seeing her husband figure in it. She was only dandling her baby, and lifting it up to be amused with the stir.＜/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！】Fire and Desire (Tackling the Bad Boys of Football)【電子書籍】[ Gloria F. Perry ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Fire and Desire (Tackling the Bad Boys of Football) A Grumpy billionaire second chance at Romance＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞It was fight-night in Vegas and the freaks were out. I met Goldie in a bar and asked her if she was a hooker. She chuckled and said no, but if you want to hang out with me tonight, I promise you we will have the best night of our lives.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞One kiss and she ignited my fire and my desire.＜br /＞ There is no shortage of beautiful women climbing over each other to get a taste of a billionaire pro baller like me.＜/p＞ ＜p＞I couldn't shake how badly Goldie dumping me with a smiley-face thank note while I slept got to me.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As a reclusive single dad, I was content with quick romps between the sheets with beautiful women after my wife betrayed me until I met Goldie.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It pissed me off when I couldn't get Goldie out of my freaking head and I couldn't find her to even the score.＜br /＞ Last year, my boy described his beautiful, sexy mechanic in Mississippi named Lola who tricked out his classic Impala. She turned out to be my Goldie.＜/p＞ ＜p＞She is a liar and a damn good enchantress, but she holds the keys to open my cold-blooded heart and the business merger my mother is pursuing to help other single mothers.＜/p＞ ＜p＞I knocked on her red door.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Lola stood there with a sexy smile on her face wearing a silky dress that left nothing to my imagination.＜/p＞ ＜p＞My body responded instantly. But tonight, I need to set my ego aside and see if we can work together to close a business merger that is dear to both of us.＜/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！】Hills I'll Probably Lie Down On Crash Test Parents, #4【電子書籍】[ Rachel Toalson ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Choose your battles.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞It's sage advice. But most parents, before becoming parents, don't have a clue just how many battles kids will place in front of them with seemingly endless energy to engage. Choose your battles becomes a life-saving measure when one has kids. Knowing when to stand your ground and when to lie down is imperative in the face of such admirable yet aggravating persistence.＜/p＞ ＜p＞From the voice behind the popular Crash Test Parents blog comes a brand new collection of comical essays about the challenges and joys of parenting. With measured wit and eloquence, Rachel exposes the universal challenges of leaving the house with kids, traveling with kids, putting kids to bed, eating with kids, and, largely, daily life lived with kids.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Hills I'll Probably Lie Down On＜/em＞ includes hilarious and entertaining essays like:＜/p＞ ＜p＞10 Things You'll Give Up When You Become a Parent＜br /＞ Surprise! We're Doing the Same Thing We Did Last Night!＜br /＞ Why I'm a Parent Who Doesn't Care＜br /＞ Hoarders: Kids Edition＜br /＞ This is Every Family Dinner You've Ever Had＜br /＞ Why Does My Towel Smell Like Butt?＜br /＞ How to Parent: In 39 Confusing Steps＜br /＞ Dear Concerned Reader: Wouldn't You Like to Know＜/p＞ ＜p＞and many more.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Hailed as "The Erma Bombeck of a new generation of parents," Rachel's fourth full-length book of humor essays in the Crash Test Parents series will cure every parent's reluctance to say: These are the hills we won't die on.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Rachel is the wife of one man and the mother of six young boys who daily give her inspiration for comical essays. Her work can often be seen on Huff Post Parents, Scary Mommy, Babble, and Motherly. She lives with all her males in San Antonio, Texas.＜/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！】Fairyland【電子書籍】[ Rita Michaels ]

＜p＞What if you realize that your life has been a lie and everything you hold dear could easily slip from your fingers?＜br /＞ Aurora Scea, having lost an only sister, believes she’s seen it all until she returns to school and series of events begins to occur.＜br /＞ Two mysterious boys enroll in her school and vie for her friendship. She’s smitten by both, but she soon finds that they aren’t strangers; her life is woven around theirs, and she isn’t what she thought she was. They are determined to win her over; each having his agenda.＜br /＞ Curious to know the full mystery behind her existence, she ventures into the unknown and finds that everything isn’t what it seems.＜/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！】What Dreams Are Made On【電子書籍】[ Helen Fischer ]

＜p＞SUMMARY:＜br /＞ Lillian, an Australian lady, impulsively packs her bags and takes a trip on the QEII, where she meets Winston, an Englishman who sweeps her off her feet.＜/p＞ ＜p＞After spending time together on the cruise, they decide to stay a further two months decorating Winston's recently purchased property on the island St Maartins in the Caribbean where they stopped off during the cruise.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It is not long before they both realise their love for one another, which goes far beyond a great sexual relationship. Having to say their goodbyes in New York, Winston returns home to his stately mansion in Suffolk, where he learns his housekeeper has mysteriously disappeared.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Later, he asks Lillian to fly over for a visit. She is surprised by his extraordinary wealth and although she knew of his title, she didn't know＜br /＞ that he was exceptionally well known as Lord Bramble throughout England.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Lillian adores Winston's teenage daughter Louise, and immediately they form a bond. Lillian meets Winston's younger and disturbed brother Claude. She has an eerie feeling in his presence. Cocaine is then found on Winston's＜br /＞ property and Lillian learns that Claude is a member of the underworld, trafficking drugs to and from Hong Kong and has been charged with＜br /＞ possession of narcotics. While Lillian is there, Claude is being harassed by notorious criminals; the Boston Boys. At Louise's birthday party, an intruder disguised as a policeman shoots both Claude and Winston.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Winston, after recovering from the shooting, marries Lillian. Later to her great surprise finds out she is pregnant, and has been since St Maartins. Lillian, who is not sure how Winston will react, hides this secret from him. During her pregnancy, she suffers nausea especially＜br /＞ near the lily pond. Eventually, exploration of the lily pond reveals human bones proven to be those of the missing housekeeper.＜/p＞ ＜p＞After months of extraordinary behaviour, Claude overdoses on sleeping pills, almost ending his life. He admits to murdering the housekeeper and he is sent to prison, where pressure sets in and he hangs himself.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As the Bramble family start to move on from the incident, Lillian gives birth. Soon after,＜br /＞ Winston is killed in a plane crash on a business trip.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Lillian and Winston's daughter Louise inherit the Bramble Estate.Devastated from their loss, Lillian and the children, plan to go to the Island home, 'Butterfly Chimes' in St Maartins.＜/p＞ ＜p＞She's surprised when their dear friend from Suffolk, who had been a close family friend for the last 18 months and whose wife died suddenly 9 months before Winston, arrives on her private plane, and proposes to her on the plane. Lillian hesitates, knowing her heart belongs to Winston; and that her dream of spending her life with Winston is shattered.＜/p＞ ＜p＞She politely declines the proposal, assuring her supportive friend that no isn't forever but at this moment in her life, the answer must be no. However, her dream of a family is still alive, with her dearly loved children, and that is＜br /＞ what's important for Lillian to maintain. And for her future; miracles can happen.＜/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！】Dombey and Son : [Illustrations and Free Audio Book Link]【電子書籍】[ Charles Dickens ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Summary＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The story concerns Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company of the book's title, whose dream is to have a son to continue his business. The book begins when his son is born, and Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth. Following the advice of Mrs Louisa Chick, his sister, Dombey employs a wet nurse named Mrs Richards (Toodle). Dombey already has a daughter, Florence, whom he neglects. One day, Mrs Richards, Florence and her maid, Susan Nipper, secretly pay a visit to Mrs Richard's house in Staggs's Gardens so that she can see her children. During this trip, Florence becomes separated and is kidnapped for a short time by Good Mrs Brown before being returned to the streets. She makes her way to Dombey and Son's offices in the City and is guided there by Walter Gay, an employee, who first introduces her to his uncle, the navigation instrument maker Solomon Gills, at his shop the Wooden Midshipman.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The child, also named Paul, is weak and often ill, and does not socialize normally with others; adults call him "old fashioned". He is intensely fond of his elder sister, Florence, who is deliberately neglected by her father as irrelevant and a distraction. He is sent away to Brighton, first for his health, where he and Florence lodge with the ancient and acidic Mrs Pipchin, and then for his education to Dr and Mrs Blimber's school, where he and the other boys undergo both an intense and arduous education under the tutelage of Mr Feeder, B.A. and Cornelia Blimber. It is here that Paul is befriended by a fellow pupil, the amiable Mr Toots.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Here, Paul's health declines even further in this 'great hothouse' and he finally dies, still only six years old. Dombey pushes his daughter away from him after the death of his son, while she futilely tries to earn his love. In the meantime, Walter, who works for Dombey and Son, is sent off to work in Barbados through the manipulations of the firm's manager, Mr James Carker, 'with his white teeth', who sees him as a potential rival through his association with Florence. His boat is reported lost and he is presumed drowned. Walter's uncle leaves to go in search of Walter, leaving his great friend Captain Edward Cuttle in charge of the Midshipman. Meanwhile, Florence is now left alone with few friends to keep her company.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dombey goes to Leamington Spa with a new friend, Major Joseph B. Bagstock. The Major deliberately sets out to befriend Dombey in order to spite his neighbour in Princess's Place, Miss Tox, who has turned cold towards him owing to her hopes - through her close friendship with Mrs Chick - of marrying Mr Dombey. At the spa, Dombey is introduced via the Major to Mrs Skewton and her widowed daughter, Mrs Edith Granger. It is here that he develops an affection for Edith, encouraged by both the Major and the avaricious mother. After they return to London, Dombey remarries, effectively 'buying' the beautiful but haughty Edith as she and her mother are in a poor financial state. The marriage is loveless; his wife despises Dombey for his overbearing pride and herself for being shallow and worthless. Her love for Florence initially prevents her from leaving, but finally she conspires with Mr Carker to ruin Dombey's public image by running away together to Dijon. They do so after her last final argument with Dombey in which he once again attempts to subdue her to his will. When he discovers that she has left him, he blames Florence for siding with her stepmother, striking her on the breast in his anger, and she is forced to run away from home. Highly distraught, she finally makes her way to The Midshipman where she lodges with Captain Cuttle as he attempts to restore her to health. They are visited frequently by Mr Toots and his prizefighter companion, the Chicken, since Mr Toots has been desperately in love with Florence since their time together in Brighton.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dombey sets out to find his wife. He is helped by Mrs Brown and her daughter, Alice, who, as it turns out, was a former lover of Mr Carker. After being transported as a convict for criminal activities, which Mr. Carker had involved her in, she is seeking her revenge against him now that she has returned to England. Going to Mrs Brown's house, Dombey overhears the conversation between Rob the Grinder - who is in the employment of Mr Carker - and the old woman as to the couple's whereabouts and sets off in pursuit. In the meantime, in Dijon, Mrs Dombey informs Carker that she sees him in no better a light than she sees Dombey, that she will not stay with him and she flees their apartment. Distraught, with both his financial and personal hopes lost, Carker flees from his former employer's pursuit. He seeks refuge back in England, but being greatly overwrought, accidentally falls under a train and is killed.＜/p＞ ＜p＞After Carker's death, it is discovered that he had been running the firm far beyond its means. This information is gleaned by Carker's brother and sister, John and Harriet, from Mr Morfin, the assistant manager at Dombey and Son, who sets out to help John Carker. He often overheard the conversations between the two brothers in which James, the younger, often abused John, the older, who was just a lowly clerk and who is sacked by Dombey because of his filial relationship to the former manager. Meanwhile, back at the Midshipman, Walter reappears, having been saved by a passing ship after floating adrift with two other sailors on some wreckage. After some time, he and Florence are finally reunited - not as 'brother' and 'sister' but as lovers, and they marry prior to sailing for China on Walter's new ship. This is also the time when Sol Gills returns to the Midshipman. As he relates to his friends, he received news whilst in Barbados that a homeward-bound China trader had picked up Walter and so had returned to England immediately. He said he had sent letters whilst in the Caribbean to his friend Ned Cuttle c/o Mrs MacStinger at Cuttle's former lodgings, and the bemused Captain recounts how he fled the place, thus never receiving them.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Florence and Walter depart and Sol Gills is entrusted with a letter, written by Walter to her father, pleading for him to be reconciled towards them both. A year passes and Alice Brown has slowly been dying despite the tender care of Harriet Carker. One night Alice's mother reveals that Alice herself is the illegitimate cousin of Edith Dombey (which accounts for their similarity in appearance when they both meet). In a chapter entitled 'Retribution', Dombey and Son goes bankrupt. Dombey retires to two rooms in his house and all its contents are put up for sale. Mrs Pipchin, for some time the housekeeper, dismisses all the servants and she herself returns to Brighton, to be replaced by Mrs Richards. Dombey spends his days sunk in gloom, seeing no-one and thinking only of his daughter:＜/p＞ ＜p＞He thought of her as she had been that night when he and his bride came home. He thought of her as she had been in all the home events of the abandoned house. He thought, now, that of all around him, she alone had never changed. His boy had faded into dust, his proud wife had sunk into a polluted creature, his flatterer and friend had been transformed into the worst of villains, his riches had melted away, the very walls that sheltered him looked on him as a stranger; she alone had turned the same, mild gentle look upon him always. Yes, to the latest and the last. She had never changed to him - nor had he ever changed to her - and she was lost.＜/p＞ ＜p＞However, one day Florence returns to the house with her son, Paul, and is lovingly reunited with her father.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dombey accompanies his daughter to her and Walter's house where he slowly starts to decline, cared for by Florence and also Susan Nipper, now Mrs Toots. They receive a visit from Edth's Cousin Feenix who takes Florence to Edith for one final time - Feenix sought Edith out in France and she returned to England under his protection. Edith gives Florence a letter, asking Dombey to forgive her her crime before her departure to the South of Italy with her elderly relative. As she says to Florence, 'I will try, then to forgive him his share of the blame. Let him try to forgive me mine!'＜/p＞ ＜p＞The final chapter (LXII) sees Dombey now a white-haired old man, 'whose face bears heavy marks of care and suffering; but they are traces of a storm that has passed on for ever, and left a clear evening in its track'.Sol Gills and Ned Cuttle are now partners at the Midshipman, a source of great pride to the latter, and Mr and Mrs Toots announce the birth of their third daughter. Walter is doing well in business, having been appointed to a position of great confidence and trust, and Dombey is the proud grandfather of both a grandson and granddaughter whom he dotes on, and the book ends with the highly moving lines:＜/p＞ ＜p＞'Dear grandpapa, why do you cry when you kiss me?'＜br /＞ He only answers, 'Little Florence! Little Florence!' and smooths away the curls that shade her earnest eyes.＜/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！】Travels in Western Australia: Being a Description of the Various Cities and Towns, Goldfields, and Agricultural Districts of that State【電子書籍】[ May Vivienne ]

＜p＞Having travelled all over Tasmania, Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia (now United Australia), I one day made up my mind to set out for the land of gold, Western Australia, that has created such afurore in these last few years. Accordingly I took my passage from Sydney in the mail-steamer Omrah and, after a very charming voyage on board that splendid vessel, landed at Albany. It was a lovely day, and the first things that pleasantly greeted the passengers on stepping from the tug-boat to the wharf were various small boys with huge bunches of the exquisite-smelling boronia, of which I had often heard. Pretty little Albany looked charming. The day was really perfect in its loveliness; the country round looked like an exquisite emerald robe fringed with pearl and sapphire, the grand blue mountains in the distance, the opal sea, with its white-winged yachts and various sailing vessels lying at anchor in beautiful Princess Royal Harbour; the blue sky above, with here and there a tiny white cloud like a dove carrying a message to heaven; the matchless wild flowers springing around in profusion, and the scent of the sweet boronia wafting on the breeze from the gullies, where it grows in such luxuriance that one wonders no scent farm has been started to distil the exquisite perfume, made the drive taken by most of us before lunch most delightful. The peacefulness of this charming place was broken only by the arrival of the great steamers, with their crowds of passengers, who always went ashore for an hour or so, some of them to take the train en route to Perth, Fremantle, or the goldfields; the others, after driving, lunching, or dining, as time will allow, at the Freemasons’ Hotel (where I put up for a week), returning to the steamer to continue their passage “home,” as all we Australians call dear mother England. After an excellent lunch at the above-named hotel we set out to view the surroundings of Albany. On that day everything really looked so beautiful that one might believe Nature to have put on her most attractive garb for us, as if to say, “Why go from here?” Driving round the Marine Drive to Middleton Beach, we thought nothing could be lovelier than the view to which no attraction seemed wanting. The calm and stillness were broken only by a few other tourists, also feasting their eyes on this scene of beauty. It is a five-mile drive to Middleton Beach. The beach forms a circle of some three miles. Mount Clarence is in the background; in front is the land-locked Princess Royal Harbour, with its narrow gateway for the passage of ships; tiny bays surround it, and the picturesque islands look like so many lions guarding the portal. This is a favourite place for picnics; family parties are often here in numbers; the water is so limpid and shallow that children can dabble about to their hearts’ content; the sand is beautifully white and firm, and many little spades and buckets are employed in making sandhouses. Afternoon tea-parties are also quite an institution; it is considered quite “the thing” to bring a party of friends to tea, and, if you do not wish to have it al fresco, there is the pretty Esplanade Hotel, where everything, from afternoon teas to wedding breakfasts, is served up in most excellent fashion.＜/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！】Dear Santa Claus "Charming Holiday Stories for Boys and Girls"【電子書籍】[ Various ]

＜p＞'TWAS the night before Christmas, and all through the house,Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,In the hope that St. Nicholas soon would be there.The children were nestled all snug in their beds,While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.'＜/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！】We and the World: A Book for Boys (Complete)【電子書籍】[ Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing ]

＜p＞“All these common features of English landscape evince a calm and settled security, and hereditary transmission of home-bred virtues and local attachments, that speak deeply and touchingly for the moral character of the nation.”ーWashington Irving’s Sketch Book. It was a great saying of my poor mOther’s, especially if my father had been out of spirits about the crops, or the rise in wages, or our prospects, and had thought better of it again, and showed her the bright side of things, “Well, my dear, I’m sure we’ve much to be thankful for.” Which they had, and especially, I often think, for the fact that I was not the eldest son. I gave them more trouble than I can think of with a comfortable conscience as it was; but they had Jem to tread in my father’s shoes, and he was a good son to themーGod bless him for 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！】Kick Kennedy The Charmed Life and Tragic Death of the Favorite Kennedy Daughter【電子書籍】[ Barbara Leaming ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞?bestselling biographer “evokes the luminous spirit of Kick Kennedy” in this account of the beloved socialite and sister of JFK (＜em＞Vanity Fair＜/em＞).＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy was the incandescent life-force of the fabled Kennedy family, her father’s acknowledged “favorite of all the children” and her brother Jack’s “psychological twin.” She was the Kennedy of Kennedys, sure of her privilege, magnetically charming and somehow not quite like anyone else on whatever stage she happened to grace.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The daughter of the American ambassador to the Court of St James’s, Kick swept into Britain’s aristocracy like a fresh wind on a sweltering summer day. Kick was the girl whom all the boys fell in love with, the girl who remained painfully out of reach for most of them.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This is also a story of how a girl like Kick, a girl who had everything, a girl who seemed made for happiness, confronted crushing sadness. Willing to pay the price for choosing the love she wanted, she would face the consequences of forsaking much that was dear to her.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Bestselling and award-winning biographer Barbara Leaming draws on her unique access to firsthand accounts, extensive conversations with many of the key players, and previously-unseen sources to transport us to another world, one of immense wealth, arcane rituals and rules, glamour and tragedy.＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Strikingly original.” ー＜em＞The Wall Street Journal＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Candidly demystifies the life of one of the least-known Kennedys and vividly illuminates the complex world of British aristocracy.” ー＜em＞Booklist＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“The age of Downton Abbey offers fresh context for this story of American royalty and its more tradition-minded British counterpart.” ー＜em＞Kirkus Reviews＜/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！】Desire : BWWM Romance Collection【電子書籍】[ Nia Shaw ]

＜p＞＜strong＞STEAMY HOT BWWM ROMANCE COLLECTION : 3 STANDALONE BOOKS IN ONE.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞No cliffhanger. Guaranteed HEA.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞The Live-Ins＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞With her new billionaire lover missing, Tara must work with Denver's Live-Ins to figure out where he is. It takes a dark, investigative journey before Tara learns what happened to him, and in the process she also gets a taste of what it is like to be one of his live-in employees.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When it seems like all hope is lost to find Denver, Tara gets a call from him telling her to follow his directions. He guides her to a secret location where they rejoice in their love, and she comes to understand why Denver disappeared.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As more mysteries unfold about the previous chef before Tara, Denver's secret getaway is accosted by two people who want his money. Denver must protect Tara and disclose the truth about his life in order to save them both. In a near-death experience, Tara and Denver develop a bond that can only grow from an experience so traumatic.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞The Seal's Undivorce＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jacob Sanders arrives home from a heartbreaking deployment to find a love letter from his estranged wife. A package of divorce papers in his in box. Clearly the mother of his five children has decided to move on.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Danika Sanders has gotten her groove back. After a long bout of postpartum depression that started somewhere between the birth of her now three year twins and her new four month old daughter, she has picked herself up and thinks herself ready to finally deal with her alpha SEAL husband.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Wrong and wrong.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jacob and Danika have a lot to learn about themselves and each other before they can either reunite or release each other. A secret baby, five boys, Jacob's raw jealousy and Danika's hot gay maid all conspire against the thinning threads of their passionate marriage. Will an unexpected shooter put an end to all they hold dear, or tie those threads together so they have a saving knot to hold onto?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Love off the Court＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Tiffany is head of the New York Reds public relations team and Anthony Rhodes is the team's star point guard. Usually Tiffany never has time to attend any of the actual games and the two never meet. That is, until the Christmas basketball game, where Anthony notices Tiffany, and cannot look away.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Instantly, he knows he has to have her, but Tiffany proves a little hard to get. But at every turn Anthony surprises her, and finally sweeps her off her feet. The two fall into a passionate affair and everything is perfect. Until Tiffany misses her period; that's when things get a little complicated.＜/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！】My Hero SEAL : Navy Seal Romance Collection【電子書籍】[ Nia Shaw ]

＜p＞＜strong＞STEAMY HOT NAVY SEAL ROMANCE COLLECTION: 3 STANDALONE BOOKS IN ONE.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞No cliffhanger. Guaranteed HEA.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Mari Me＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jake Langdon comes home from his last SEAL mission for some rest and relaxation with his long time girl, Marianne Kent. Only what he finds sends him into a jealous rage.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Marianne is in a cheap motel room, in bed with his brother, Henry. Without really knowing what's going on, basic instinct drives Jake with the need to dominate and reconfirm Marianne is still his. He seduces her into having hot sex in the same bed where he found her, his brother sleeping beside them.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Marianne is shocked to see Jake, and confused by his attitude as she had turned down his marriage proposal before he left on deployment. However, right now she needs his help as she is in hot water thanks to Henry and his mother…＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞The Seal's Undivorce＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jacob Sanders arrives home from a heartbreaking deployment to find a love letter from his estranged wife. A package of divorce papers in his in box. Clearly the mother of his five children has decided to move on.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Danika Sanders has gotten her groove back. After a long bout of postpartum depression that started somewhere between the birth of her now three year twins and her new four month old daughter, she has picked herself up and thinks herself ready to finally deal with her alpha SEAL husband.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Wrong and wrong.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jacob and Danika have a lot to learn about themselves and each other before they can either reunite or release each other. A secret baby, five boys, Jacob's raw jealousy and Danika's hot gay maid all conspire against the thinning threads of their passionate marriage. Will an unexpected shooter put an end to all they hold dear, or tie those threads together so they have a saving knot to hold onto?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Her.Pregnant＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞"I'm pregnant."＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Thyssen Skalas, a Navy SEAL in his prime, responds to his childhood love, Charlotte's announcement with a foolish question, "Is it mine?" which lands him thrown out on his ass.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Three years later, after an out of control downward spiral in the SEALs, he hits rock bottom. Discharged from the Navy he becomes a contract killer for the Greek mob before he washes back up on Charlotte's doorstep with a vengeful target on his tail.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Charlotte Jones is stunned to find that the filthy vagabond lying sick with fever in her shed is Thyssen, the father of her toddler and the man who broke her heart three years ago. Even more shocking is that he's no longer a SEAL and involved with a mob family his father cut ties with years ago. Oh and he also led an insane professional killer to her door.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Thank you Thyssen Skalas.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When bullets start to fly and Charlotte and his son are in danger, Thyssen hides his family so he can sort things out. There he'll have a chance to redeem himself to Charlotte, and hopefully have his one true love fall back in love with him all over again.＜/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 Motor Boys on the Atlantic The Mystery of the Lighthouse (Volume 6 of 22)【電子書籍】[ Clarence Young ]

＜p＞The popular adventure story in 20th century.This is one of the Motor Boy series.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Example in this ebook＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞CHAPTER I＜br /＞ LIFE ON THE OCEAN WAVE＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Oh! It’s yo heave ho! and never let go, while the stormy winds do blow! blow! blow!”＜br /＞ “Is that you, Jerry Hopkins?” asked a youth, without looking up from a box he was hammering, in the yard back of his home.＜br /＞ “Aye, aye, my hearty! Shiver my timbers messmate, but we’re in for a spell of bad weather!” and Jerry walked up to where Bob Baker was trying to drive a nail straight into a piece of board.＜br /＞ “Why this sudden nautical turn?” asked Bob, aiming a hard blow, in hope of correcting a certain wobbly tendency on the part of the nail. “Is thereーWow! Jimminy crickets!” and Bob began dancing about on one foot, while his thumb was stuck in his mouth.＜br /＞ “What’s the matter, Chunky?” asked Jerry, giving Bob the nickname he sometimes was called because of his general fleshiness. “Did you hit your finger?”＜br /＞ “No, I’m doing this for amusement,” replied Bob, taking his injured thumb from his mouth and gazing critically at the wounded member. “Um, it’s going to swell,” he added.＜br /＞ “Put cold water on it,” Jerry advised. “That’s a good thing. Then wrap it up in arnica.”＜br /＞ “Come on into the house,” Bob mumbled. “You can tell me the news there, while I’m doctoring up.”＜br /＞ “What news?” asked Jerry.＜br /＞ “Why there must be something in the wind when you come around this way, singing sea songs and walking like a sailor on a pitching deck.”＜br /＞ “Oh, yes, of course there’s some news,” Jerry went on. “I forgot about it in the excitement of seeing you do that war dance. Well, it’s just as I was singing. It’s going to be a life on the ocean wave for me this summer vacation.”＜br /＞ “How’s that?”＜br /＞ “Mother is going to take a cottage on the Atlantic coast. Maybe I’ll not have swell times! I’m going in bathing every day, and I can learn all about a sail boat.”＜br /＞ Bob had been so busy looking for the arnica bottle, and a rag in which to wrap his thumb, that he paid little attention to what Jerry was saying, save in a vague sort of way. He caught the last reference to a boat, however, and asked:＜br /＞ “You’re not going back on our motor boat, are you, when you say you’re going to take up with a sail boat? Jerry I’m ashamed of you!”＜br /＞ “Go back on the dear Dartaway? I guess not much,” Jerry answered. “But we can’t take her down with us, very well. The cottage is too small.”＜br /＞ “I don’t know about that,” Bob said, in rather muffled tones, for he held one end of a string in his mouth and was wrapping the other about the rag on his thumb. “I wish we were going to the shore. The folks don’t know yet what they will do. There, that feels better. When I turn carpenter again you’ll know it.”＜br /＞ “What were you making?”＜br /＞ “Oh, the cook wanted something to keep the stove blacking in, and I said I’d make it. Glad it’s finished though. Maybe she’ll give me something to eat before dinner’s ready.”＜br /＞ “You don’t mean to say you’re going to eat again, and breakfast not over more than two hours?”＜br /＞ “There you go, poking fun at my appetite as usual,” Bob complained.＜br /＞ “Well, it’s hard to forget it, since you always seem to have it with you,” Jerry commented, referring to Bob’s one failing, if it could be so called.＜br /＞ The Baker family’s cook entered the dining room at this point and Bob mentioned that the box she had asked for was finished. Then, while the woman was expressing her thanks, Bob added:＜br /＞ “You haven’t got any bread and butter and jam you could spare, have you, Mary?”＜br /＞ “Sure there’s lots of it,” was the answer. “Though it’s not long since I cleared off the breakfast things. Will I bring two plates?”＜br /＞ “Have some, Jerry?”＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞To be continue in this ebook...............................................................................................................＜/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！】Little Men Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys【電子書籍】[ Louisa May Alcott ]

＜p＞"Dear Jo," wrote an old protege of Mr. and Mrs. Bhaer's, "here is a case after your own heart. This poor lad is an orphan, sick and friendless. He has been a street musician .... I think there is something in him. Give him a trial." Readers of "Little Women" will re member Jo and his model school at Plumfield, where poor children are taught, not only how to read and to write, but how to amuse and humanize themselves. In this establishment, where each boy has a little garden of his own, a share in a menagerie of small pets, and various privileges not to be found in ordinary schools, poor Nat Wake soon makes himself quite at home ; and in the course of time becomes a great favorite with Aunt Jo and her family of odd boys. Very delightful and very natural is the way in which the social characteristics of these boys is described. We see them at school, at church, in the garden, in the fields ー learning, praying, working, playing, but always improving from rude, uncared-for waifs into useful and respectable members of society. The object of the book is evidently not so much to show what is, but what might be, done in school-reformatories, orphan asylums, &c. ; and though written especially for American readers, all the suggestions are applicable to parents, guardians, and teachers on every side of the Atlantic ; and if they would just try the experiment supposed to be carried out successfully at Plumfield, they might, after a while, exclaim with motherly Mrs. Jo: "Dear me! If men and women would only trust, help and understand one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!" 'Little Men' is one of the very few stories about children that children can really understand and admire, and thar adults can read with both pleasure and profit.＜/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！】Dear Canada: Hoping for Home【電子書籍】[ Kit Pearson ]

＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞In these eleven original stories, characters bravely face the challenges of settling into a new life.＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this wonderful new short story anthology, eleven of Canada's top children's authors contribute stories of immigration, displacement and change, exploring the frustration and uncertainty those changes can bring. Told in first-person narratives, this collection features a diverse cast of boys and girls, each one living at a different point in Canada's vast landscape and history.＜/p＞ ＜p＞With unforgettable protagonists ー such as Miriam, a Warsaw-ghetto survivor, now reunited with her family in Montreal; Wong Joe-on, a young Chinese immigrant who faces racism in a small Saskatchewan town; and Insy, an Ojibwe girl who makes her first trip to a "white" town in Northern Ontario ー young readers will be moved by the opportunities and difficulties that these characters face, as each one ponders what it means to be Canadian, and struggles to fit in.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Hoping for Home＜/em＞ includes stories by Jean Little, Kit Pearson, Brian Dowle, Paul Yee, Irene N. Watts, Ruby Slipperjack, Afua Cooper, Rukhsana Khan, MarieーAndr?e Clermont, Lillian BoraksーNemetz and Shelley Tanaka.＜/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 Magic City (Illustrated)【電子書籍】[ Edith Nesbit ]

＜p＞Philip Haldane and his sister lived in a little red-roofed house in a little redroofed town. They had a little garden and a little balcony, and a little stable with a little pony in itーand a little cart for the pony to draw; a little canary hung in a little cage in the little bow-window, and the neat little servant kept everything as bright and clean as a little new pin.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Philip had no one but his sister, and she had no one but Philip. Their parents were dead, and Helen, who was twenty years older than Philip and was really his half-sister, was all the mother he had ever known. And he had never envied other boys their mothers, because Helen was so kind and clever and dear. She gave up almost all her time to him; she taught him all the lessons he learned; she played with him, inventing the most wonderful new games and adventures.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞ABOUT AUTHOR:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 1858 ? 1924) was an English author and poet; she published her books for children under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of fiction for children, several of which have been adapted for film and television. She was also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later connected to the Labour Party.＜/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！】Happy in Forests The Happy Journey, #2【電子書籍】[ Guardians of the Earth tribe ]

＜p＞＜strong＞The Happy Journey - a book series for parents and kids alike＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dear parents, Welcome to the Happy Journey, the very first paw by paw guide through amazing nature in many countries.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this guide, Happy - a real doggie - will teach your kids to observe and respect nature and honour and protect all animals alike. He will also teach them about the never-ending circle of life.＜/p＞ ＜p＞While joining Happy on his journey, your kids will learn about forests, trees and flowers, rivers, sea, lakes and wetlands, caves, mountains and natural monuments. They will learn about seasons, meet other doggies and animals, kids and humans and, above all, learn about friendship and love.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A book series that grandparents will buy - to educate their kids - to properly educate their grandchildren.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞OUR GOALS＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜ol＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞To reconnect children and parents with nature＜/p＞ ＜/li＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞To get your kids actively back outdoors＜/p＞ ＜/li＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞To teach them modesty and the importance of protecting nature, introduce them to the diversity of the world and improve their observation.＜/p＞ ＜/li＞ ＜/ol＞ ＜p＞That was Happy's only condition before he started posing for the book series. We gave him our word. And a cookie :)＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞AUTHORS＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞This book series is produced by 'Guardians of the Earth', an international movement for protecting nature. The authors mainly come from the Kladnik pack from Slovenia. Three boys, a girl and a doggie, all outdoor enthusiasts.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Bogdan (father) is a photographer and writer, author of 90+ books and founder of the Guardians. Pan (eldest son) is a writer and co-author of the first two official books about the renowned Shaolin Temple in China. ?an (younger son) is a designer and computer wizard & Nika (our friend) is a writer and trained expert for animals.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞And Happy, the White Swiss shepherd, our furry brother and best friend - is the boss.＜/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！】Collin: Episodes 7-9 An MMM+ BDSM Romance【電子書籍】[ Ciara Darren ]

＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Collin pulled away, staying on his knees. “Please, sir. I need to know. I thought, perhaps, I was wrong, but I thought…” He reached for words, but how did one put into words looks, gestures, touches, the ways their bodies had moved together in the kitchen, how one had snuggled in a bed, or accepted another’s humiliation?＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞＜em＞“I don’t know all the rules yet, sir. But I want what we had. I don’t know how to separate you and Mr.＜/em＞ ＜em＞Reevesworth in my head or my heart. And if I can’t please you both…then… It’s cold, sir. Around you, it’s been cold. And I can’t take it. I’m sorry, but please…” His voice truly cracked then. “Please, Sir. Tell me how to fix this.”＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Being on his knees is not always safe. Sometimes, Collin learns, it is the place from which he will risk it all. It is where he will go to preserve that which he holds dear. Falling in love is not for the faint of heart.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Falling in love twice requires twice the courage. Especially as Collin’s newly chosen family is encircled by enemies stalking them from the shadows. But inside the storm, Mr. Reevesworth is determined to show Collin a better way to thrive. And he is not alone.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As their enemies make themselves known, everyone within The Residency will need each other. Do they have the resources to protect those who matter to them most? And will they unravel the threats in time? Find out in this third volume of Collin’s arc in the Residency Boys universe. Grab your copy today.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞This series is a modern MMM+ BDSM billionaire romance intended for mature audiences only. If you like your romance kinky and spicy, then this story is for you.＜/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 Flying Boys to the Rescue【電子書籍】[ Edward Sylvester Ellis ]

＜p＞HARVEY HAMILTON, the young aviator, found himself in the most distressful dilemma of his life. He and his devoted friend, the colored youth Bohunkus Johnson, had left their homes near the New Jersey village of Mootsport, and sailing away in the former’s aeroplane had run into a series of adventures in eastern Pennsylvania, which have been related in “The Flying Boys in the Sky.” It was the good fortune of Harvey to help in the recovery of the little girl who was kidnapped from her home in Philadelphia some weeks before. All having gone well down to the time of her rescue, he was awaiting the return of “Bunk” to continue their outing, when to his consternation he learned that his dusky comrade had gone off with Professor Milo Morgan in his unique monoplane, which bore the fantastic name “The Dragon of the Skies.” To add to the annoyance of the situation, the couple had started on the maddest enterprise of which a mortal has ever been guilty,ーa trip across the Atlantic Ocean to the continent of Africa. That fact of itself would have stamped the gaunt, grizzled aviator as the veriest lunatic outside of a hospital for the insane. Two remembrances caused Harvey Hamilton keen regret: one was his hasty words to Bunk, which were the indirect cause of this astounding venture, and the other his failure to warn him of the mental weakness of Professor Morgan. Had he done as he ought to have done, in either instance, the lad would have been saved from the terrifying peril into which he had rushed. But while our young friend condemned himself without stint, it was now too late for mere grief. The momentous question was whether he could do anything to save Bunk, and if so, how should he go about it? The Dragon of the Skies was not only much swifter than his biplane, but it had a start of at least two days. If the owner had headed for the Dark Continent, he was already well advanced upon the fateful journey. In that event Harvey could do nothing but wait through the long days and weeks for the news that might never come to him. The more he strode up and down the hotel porch and thought of the matter, the more he was puzzled. He must attempt nothing without good counsel and the best man to give it was Simmons Pendar, the detective, who had been the means of rescuing little Grace Hastings from the band of kidnappers. Although inaction was torture, he stayed in Chesterton, with his aeroplane in the primitive hangar, until Pendar, having finished the rush of business, found time to greet him. When Harvey asked him for a few minutes, the officer, who naturally was in high spirits, replied in his hearty manner: “My dear boy, you shall have all the time you want; I can never forget the obligations under which you have placed the Hastings and me; let me know how I can serve you.” They seated themselves at the farther end of the porch, beyond earshot of eavesdroppers and talked in low tones. It took Harvey only a short time to tell his story. The detective whistled softly when he finished.＜/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！】Happy in Rivers The Happy Journey, #5【電子書籍】[ Guardians of the Earth tribe ]

＜p＞＜strong＞The Happy Journey - a book series for parents and kids alike＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dear parents, Welcome to the Happy Journey, the very first paw by paw guide through amazing nature in many countries.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this guide, Happy - a real doggie - will teach your kids to observe and respect nature and honour and protect all animals alike. He will also teach them about the never-ending circle of life.＜/p＞ ＜p＞While joining Happy on his journey, your kids will learn about forests, trees and flowers, rivers, sea, lakes and wetlands, caves, mountains and natural monuments. They will learn about seasons, meet other doggies and animals, kids and humans and, above all, learn about friendship and love.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A book series that grandparents will buy - to educate their kids - to properly educate their grandchildren.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞OUR GOALS＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜ol＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞To reconnect children and parents with nature＜/p＞ ＜/li＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞To get your kids actively back outdoors＜/p＞ ＜/li＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞To teach them modesty and the importance of protecting nature, introduce them to the diversity of the world and improve their observation.＜/p＞ ＜/li＞ ＜/ol＞ ＜p＞That was Happy's only condition before he started posing for the book series. We gave him our word. And a cookie :)＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞AUTHORS＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞This book series is produced by 'Guardians of the Earth', an international movement for protecting nature. The authors mainly come from the Kladnik pack from Slovenia. Three boys, a girl and a doggie, all outdoor enthusiasts.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Bogdan (father) is a photographer and writer, author of 90+ books and founder of the Guardians. Pan (eldest son) is a writer and co-author of the first two official books about the renowned Shaolin Temple in China. ?an (younger son) is a designer and computer wizard & Nika (our friend) is a writer and trained expert for animals.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞And Happy, the White Swiss shepherd, our furry brother and best friend - is the boss.＜/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！】Sorceress Resurrected【電子書籍】[ Evan Martin ]

＜p＞With their only hope in a coma, John and Roger must save the town from an evil force, but can they stop it without the assistance of Clio’s natural gifts?＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the small, quiet town of Lake Melts, Wisconsin, three friends suffer a tragedy when Clio Boru is hospitalized and is comatose after a terrible accident.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As Clio lies powerless in a hospital bed, her mind in another realm, Old Native American superstitions arise in Lake Melts. Deputy John Slocum, beside himself with worry over Clio’s condition, has to find a murderer when two boys turn up dead. But, his inner fears surfaceーJohn’s depression and being heartbroken, hoping for a miracle for Clio makes it difficult to cope.＜/p＞ ＜p＞That leaves Roger Marquette as Lake Melts’ only hope of finding the truth. While Roger Marquette researches and attempts to fill the void created by Clio’s absence, he is limited by what he can do.＜br /＞ Meanwhile, Ancient Rites, complete with an influential family history of heroes from another time, force Clio to travel to different places far beyond her unconscious imagination.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Clio lingers far away, as Roger tries to figure out exactly what this unseen otherworldly danger is and how to keep it from the town. But lurking in the dark, a more horrific, sinister evil waits its chance to finally destroy Clio and all she and her friends hold dear. Will Clio be strong enough to resurrect herself before all is lost?＜/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 Wit and Humor of America (Complete)【電子書籍】[ Marshall P. Wilder ]

＜p＞Then can we say too much in praise of the men who make us laugh? God never gave a man a greater gift than the power to make others laugh, unless it is the privilege of laughing himself. We honor, revere, admire our great soldiers, statesmen, and men of letters, but we love the man who makes us laugh. No other man to-day enjoys to such an extent the close personal affection, individual yet national, that is given to Mr. Samuel L. Clemens. He is ours, he is one of us, we have a personal pride in himーdear “Mark Twain,” the beloved child of the American nation. And it was through our laughter that he won our love. He is the exponent of the typically American style of fun-making, the humorous story. I asked Mr. Clemens one day if he could remember the first money he ever earned. With his inimitable drawl he said: “Yes, Marsh, it was at school. All boys had the habit of going to school in those days, and they hadn’t any more respect for the desks than they had for the teachers. There was a rule in our school that any boy marring his desk, either with pencil or knife, would be chastised publicly before the whole school, or pay a fine of five dollars. Besides the rule, there was a ruler; I knew it because I had felt it; it was a darned hard one, too. One day I had to tell my father that I had broken the rule, and had to pay a fine or take a public whipping; and he said: “’Sam, it would be too bad to have the name of Clemens disgraced before the whole school, so I’ll pay the fine. But I don’t want you to lose anything, so come upstairs＜/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。