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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！】Collected Stories【電子書籍】[ Rhoda Broughton ]

＜p＞My dearest Cecilia, Talk of the friendships of Orestes and Pylades, of Julie and Claire, what are they to ours? Did Pylades ever go ventre ? terre, half over London on a day more broiling than any but an ?ine damn?e could even imagine, in order that Orestes might be comfortably housed for the season?＜br /＞ Did Claire ever hold sweet converse with from fifty to one hundred house agents, in order that Julie might have three windows to her drawing-room and a pretty porti?re? You see I am determined not to be done out of my full meed of gratitude.＜br /＞ Well, my friend, I had no idea till yesterday how closely we were packed in this great smoky beehive, as tightly as herrings in a barrel. Don't be frightened, however. By dint of squeezing and crowding, we have managed to make room for two more herrings in our barrel, and those two are yourself and your other self, i.e. your husband. Let me begin at the beginning. After having looked over, I verily believe, every undesirable residence in West London; after having seen nothing intermediate between what was suited to the means of a duke, and what was suited to the needs of a chimney-sweep; after having felt bed-ticking, and explored kitchen-ranges till my brain reeled under my accumulated experience, I arrived at about half-past five yesterday afternoon at 32,--Street, May Fair.＜br /＞ 'Failure No. 253, I don't doubt,' I said to myself, as I toiled up the steps with my soul athirst for afternoon tea, and feeling as ill-tempered as you please. So much for my spirit of prophecy.＜br /＞ Fate, I have noticed, is often fond of contradicting us flat, and giving the lie to our little predictions. Once inside, I thought I had got into a small compartment of Heaven by mistake.＜br /＞ Fresh as a daisy, clean as a cherry, bright as a seraph's face, it is all these, and a hundred more, only that my limited stock of similes is exhausted. Two drawing-rooms as pretty as ever woman crammed with people she did not care two straws about; white curtains with rose-coloured ones underneath, festooned in the sweetest way; marvellously, immorally becoming, my dear, as I ascertained entirely for your benefit, in the mirrors, of which there are about a dozen and a half; Persian mats, easy chairs, and lounges suited to every possible physical conformation, from the Apollo Belvedere to Miss Biffin; and a thousand of the important little trivialities that make up the sum of a woman's life: peacock fans, Japanese screens, naked boys and d?collet?e shepherdesses; not to speak of a family of china pugs, with blue ribbons round their necks, which ought of themselves to have added fifty pounds a year to the rent. Apropos, I asked, in fear and trembling, what the rent might be--'Three hundred pounds a year.' A feather would have knocked me down. I could hardly believe my ears, and made the woman repeat it several times, that there might be no mistake. To this hour it is a mystery to me.＜/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。

新しい本, フィクション, 文学, 英語で予約する, 洋書Skunks - Fiona Warnick (Tin House Books) 【紙書籍】 9781959030614

タイトル: Skunks著者: Fiona Warnick出版社: Tin House Books出版日: 2024年05月07日新しい本新古品・未使用品。出版社からの新着。Dear Skunks, I wrote. Then I got stuck. What was there to say about the skunks? Of course there was the smell--the spraying. Everyone's mind jumped to the spraying. I often forgot about the spraying entirely, which was nice because it made me feel that I wasn't like other people.From the outside, Isabel doesn't seem to have much going on. It's the summer after college graduation and she's moved back to her hometown, where she spends her days house-sitting, babysitting, working the front desk at a yoga studio, and hanging out with her childhood friend Ellie. But on the inside, Isabel's mind is always running, always analyzing, and right now, she's trying hard to not let her thoughts give weight to boys. So when Isabel spots three baby skunks in the yard, their presence is not only a strangely thrilling break from the expected, it feels like a fortuitous sign from the universe. Skunks. That's what she should be thinking about. As the summer unfolds, Isabel becomes increasingly preoccupied with the skunks, while also navigating her various jobs and an ambiguous relationship with Eli, the son of the couple she's house-sitting for. In her own life and in the imagined inner lives of the skunks, Isabel ponders the nature of existence, love vs. infatuation, and the many small moments that make us animal, make us human. The Skunks is an unforgettable coming-of-age story about the complexities of crushes, desire, friendship, and modern life.

【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！】Touched By Angels a compelling wartime saga capturing the lives and loves of three young women by bestselling author Susan Sallis【電子書籍】[ Susan Sallis ]

＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞A story of the deep emotional bond among friends who were more like family and the threat to that bond posed by the war and all that it entailed... From the multi-million copy seller and Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Sallis. Readers of Rosamunde Pilcher, Maeve Binchy and Fiona Valpy will not be disappointed.＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞READERS ARE LOVING ＜em＞TOUCHED BY ANGELS!＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞***** - 'A captivating read, satisfyingly long, that will hold the reader's attention to the very last page!'＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞***** - 'The ending was perfect, and completely unexpected!'＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞***** - 'Fascinating characters and beautifully described settings.'＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞***** - 'A well-crafted book, with beautifully drawn characters.'＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞*********************************************************************＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞AS THE WAR CHANGES EVERYTHING, WILL THEIR BOND HOLD STRONG?＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞They were just schoolgirls - evacuees - when they first met the ＜strong＞Reid brothers.＜/strong＞＜br /＞ Berry was the one who dazzled them - handsome, funny, he symbolized that golden summer of the war working together on the farm. ＜strong＞Then their world collapsed around them.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Morag＜/strong＞, the strongest and quietest of the three girls, lost everything she held dear in one savage bombing. ＜strong＞Vallery's＜/strong＞ beloved brother was killed in the desert war, and ＜strong＞Jannie＜/strong＞ - well, Jannie had never had much to start with but a wayward father and a disinterested mother, but still, ＜strong＞she had Morag and Vallery.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞When the Reid boys returned from the war it was ＜strong＞Berry＜/strong＞ who had changed. ＜strong＞Damaged both in mind and body＜/strong＞, he held the dream of Morag in his mind, even though it was Vallery he married.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As they settled to a life in the remote cliff-side Abbey, away from everyone, so the old ties between the three girls and the Reid brothers grew more intense, more confused - and ＜strong＞Morag, Vallery and Jannie discovered that Berry still had the power to draw them all to him...＜/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！】Stop The Parish I Want to Get Off!【電子書籍】[ Audrey Carter ]

＜p＞Dear God,＜/p＞ ＜p＞My book is out and I'm in the dog box. Tom says I've ruined his authority at St Jude's with the bit about his Tom and Jerry underpants and his penchant for Sugar Puffs.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The boys say their girlfriends have dropped them like hot cakes and that they'll never leave home with a mother like me who reveals all.＜/p＞ ＜p＞And there's a deathly hush from St Jude's congregation who are slowly going into shock as a single copy does the rounds.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The only bright light is John Taylor, the Bishop of St Alban's, who thinks it's 'Brilliant ----amusing and moving'. There's a gift of discernment for you, God.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Wife of the Rector＜/p＞ ＜p＞PS. Mother doesn't like my photo. Says it makes me look like Auntie May who ran away with a Roman Catholic Jewish corset salesman.＜/p＞ ＜p＞With wit and warmth Audrey describes in her letters to God, life in the Grade 2 listed, crumbling, Georgian refrigerator, otherwise known as The Rectory. (The Church Times)＜/p＞ ＜p＞STOP THE PARISH, I WANT TO GET OFF ! was serialized on Radio One, Canberra, Australia, and on Premier Radio, London.＜/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！】Peter Pan adventures, James M. Barrie【電子書籍】[ James M. Barrie ]

＜p＞Sir James Matthew Barrie, (1860 ? 19 June 1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. The child of a family of small-town weavers, he was educated in Scotland. He moved to London, where he developed a career as a novelist and playwright. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him in writing about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about this ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. This play quickly overshadowed his previous work and although he continued to write successfully, it became his best-known work, credited with popularising the name Wendy, which was very uncommon previously. Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this ebook:＜/p＞ ＜p＞Peter Pan, 1904)＜/p＞ ＜p＞Peter and Wendy, 1904＜/p＞ ＜p＞Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, 1902＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Little White Bird, 1902＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Admirable Crichton, 1902＜/p＞ ＜p＞Courage, 1922＜/p＞ ＜p＞Echoes of the War, 1918＜/p＞ ＜p＞Quality Street, 1901＜/p＞ ＜p＞What Every Woman Knows, 1908＜/p＞ ＜p＞A Window in Thrums, 1889＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Little Minister, 1881＜/p＞ ＜p＞Sentimental Tommy, 1896＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dear Brutus, 1917＜/p＞ ＜p＞Alice Sit-By-The-Fire, 1905＜/p＞ ＜p＞Auld Licht Idylls, 1888＜/p＞ ＜p＞Tommy and Grizel, 1900＜/p＞ ＜p＞When a Man's Single, 1888＜/p＞ ＜p＞Better Dead, 1888＜/p＞ ＜p＞A Holiday in Bed and Other Sketches, 1882＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Der Tag", 1914＜/p＞ ＜p＞An Edinburgh Eleven, 1924＜/p＞ ＜p＞Neither Dorking Nor The Abbey, 1912＜/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！】Scorched Earth Book 7【電子書籍】[ Robert Muchamore ]

＜p＞Summer, 1944.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As Allied soldiers prepare to land in France, Marc and his friends must destroy a battalion of German tanks that could halt the invasion in its tracks.＜br /＞ The tide of war has turned against the Nazis, but desperation has made them more brutal than ever.＜br /＞ Henderson's Boys' final mission will be their most dangerous. With food and weapons in short supply, survival is the biggest challenge of all.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【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 Enchanted Castle - The Original Classic Edition【電子書籍】[ Nesbit E ]

＜p＞The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit - The Original Classic Edition＜/p＞ ＜p＞Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside:＜/p＞ ＜p＞There were three of them Jerry, Jimmy, and Kathleen. Of course, Jerrys name was Gerald, and not Jeremiah, whatever you may think; and Jimmys name was James; and Kathleen was never called by her name at all, but Cathy, or Catty, or Puss Cat, when her brothers were pleased with her, and Scratch Cat when they were not pleased. And they were at school in a little town in the West of England the boys at one school, of course, and the girl at another, because the sensible habit of having boys and girls at the same school is not yet as common as I hope it will be some day. They used to see each other on Saturdays and Sundays at the house of a kind maiden lady; but it was one of those houses where it is impossible to play. You know the kind of house, dont you? There is a sort of a something about that kind of house that makes you hardly able even to talk to each other when you are left alone, and playing seems unnatural and affected. So they looked forward to the holidays, when they should all go home and be together all day long, in a house where playing was natural and conversation possible, and where the Hampshire forests and fields were full of interesting things to do and see. Their Cousin Betty was to be there too, and there were plans. Bettys school broke up before theirs, and so she got to the Hampshire home first, and the moment she got there she began to have measles, so that my three couldnt go home at all. You may imagine their feelings. The thought of seven weeks at Miss Herveys was not to be borne, and all three wrote home and said so. This astonished their parents very much, because they had always thought it was so nice for the children to have dear Miss Herveys to go to. However, they were jolly decent about it , as Jerry said, and after a lot of letters and telegrams, it was arranged that the boys should go and stay at Kathleens school, where there were now no girls left and no mistresses except the French one.＜/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！】Boo【電子書籍】[ Neil Smith ]

＜p＞**An award-winning debut novel about the bonds of friendship and finding your place in the worldーbe it this one, or the nextーfrom the author of ＜em＞Bang Crunch＜/em＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Instantly charming, never predictable, quietly profound.” ーBryan Lee O’Malley, #1 ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ betselling author of ＜em＞Seconds＜/em＞ and the Scott Pilgrim series**＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Do you ever wonder, dear Mother and Father, what kind of toothpaste angels use in heaven? I will tell you. . . . This book I am writing to you about my afterlife will be your nitty-gritty. One day I hope to discover a way to deliver my story to you.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞It is the first week of school in 1979, and Oliver "Boo" Dalrympleーghostly pale eighth grader; aspiring scientist; social pariahーis standing next to his locker, reciting the periodic table. The next thing he knows, he finds himself lying in a strange bed in a strange land. He is a new resident of a place called Townーan afterlife exclusively for thirteen-year-olds. Soon Boo is joined by Johnny Henzel, a fellow classmate, who brings with him a piece of surprising news about the circumstances of the boys’ deaths.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In Town, there are no trees or animals, just endless rows of redbrick dormitories surrounded by unscalable walls. No one grows or ages, but everyone arrives just slightly altered from who he or she was before. To Boo’s great surprise, the qualities that made him an outcast at home win him friends; and he finds himself capable of a joy he has never experienced. But there is a darker side to life after deathーand as Boo and Johnny attempt to learn what happened that fateful day, they discover a disturbing truth that will have profound repercussions for both of them.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【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！】CIPHER : A Romance. “Like a 0, which means much or nothing, as you use it.”【電子書籍】[ JANE G. AUSTIN ]

＜p＞My Dear L:＜br /＞ Do you remember standing with me upon the bridge, and tossing chip boats into the river, and how eagerly we watched to see which should drift ashore, or wreck themselves against the stone pier, or remain idle and motionless in the eddy pool, and which should glide safely through the arch and down the smooth stream beyond?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Come, now, and help me launch another venture, the little craft＜br /＞ called “Cipher,” whose construction you have watched with such＜br /＞ ready sympathy and interest, and to whose freight you have so＜br /＞ largely contributed. What is to be its fate? Will it be stranded,＜br /＞ or shattered, or left idly in the pool, or run down by heavier craft,＜br /＞ or sunk by the missiles of those wicked boys upon the other bank?＜br /＞ Shall we call to the boys and deprecate their attack by a confession that our little boat is not an iron-clad war vessel, much less our final idea of an elegant yacht, and that even for a chip boat she has been almost spoiled by over-whittling? No, never mind the boys; let us say nothing at all to them, but, standing hand in hand, watch together the fortunes of our little craft, thanking God that, should she sink or should she swim, she does not carry our lives or our happiness with her.＜/p＞ ＜p＞J. G. A.＜/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 Brutus【電子書籍】[ J.M. Barrie ]

＜p＞Classic three-act play, first published in 1917. According to Wikipedia: "Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 19 June 1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. The child of a family of small-town weavers, he was educated in Scotland. He moved to London, where he developed a career as a novelist and playwright. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him in writing about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about this ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. This play quickly overshadowed his previous work and although he continued to write successfully, it became his best-known work, credited with popularising the name Wendy, which was very uncommon previously. Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents. Before his death, he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital, which continues to benefit from them."＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【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！】Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom: Ben Elf's Birthday Storybook【電子書籍】[ Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom ]

＜p＞This ebook has been optimised for viewing on colour devices. The creators of the number one preschool children's TV show Peppa Pig, bring you the magical award-winning world of Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom. Boys and girls will love this delightful little storybook . . .＜/p＞ ＜p＞Oh dear, it's Ben Elf's birthday and his best friend, Fairy Princess Holly has completely forgotten about it! Join Fairy Princess Holly in this exciting new adventure storybook, as she tries to make Ben a special birthday card using her fairy magic and also make it to his birthday party on time!＜/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 Adventures of Louis de Rougemont【電子書籍】[ Louis de Rougemont ]

＜p＞Early life--Leaving home--I meet Jensen--I go pearling--Daily＜/p＞ ＜p＞routine--Submarine beauties--A fortune in pearls--Seized by an＜/p＞ ＜p＞octopus--Shark-killing extraordinary--Trading with the natives--＜/p＞ ＜p＞Impending trouble--Preparing for the attack--Baffling the savages.＜/p＞ ＜p＞I was born in or near Paris, in the year 1844. My father was a＜/p＞ ＜p＞fairly prosperous man of business--a general merchant, to be＜/p＞ ＜p＞precise, who dealt largely in shoes; but when I was about ten years＜/p＞ ＜p＞old, my mother, in consequence of certain domestic differences,＜/p＞ ＜p＞took me to live with her at Montreux, and other places in＜/p＞ ＜p＞Switzerland, where I was educated. I visited many of the towns＜/p＞ ＜p＞near Montreux, including Lausanne, Geneva, Neufchatel, &c. The＜/p＞ ＜p＞whole of the time I was at school I mixed extensively with English＜/p＞ ＜p＞boys on account of their language and sports, both of which＜/p＞ ＜p＞attracted me.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Boys soon begin to display their bent, and mine, curiously enough,＜/p＞ ＜p＞was in the direction of geology. I was constantly bringing home＜/p＞ ＜p＞pieces of stone and minerals picked up in the streets and on the＜/p＞ ＜p＞mountains, and asking questions about their origin and history. My＜/p＞ ＜p＞dear mother encouraged me in this, and later on I frequently went＜/p＞ ＜p＞to Freiburg, in the Black Forest, to get a practical insight into＜/p＞ ＜p＞smelting. When I was about nineteen, however, a message arrived＜/p＞ ＜p＞from my father, directing me to return to France and report myself＜/p＞ ＜p＞as a conscript; but against this my mother resolutely set her face.＜/p＞ ＜p＞I fancy my father wanted me to take up the army as a career, but in＜/p＞ ＜p＞deference to my mother's wishes I remained with her in Switzerland＜/p＞ ＜p＞for some time longer. She and I had many talks about my future,＜/p＞ ＜p＞and she at length advised me to take a trip to the East, and see＜/p＞ ＜p＞what the experience of travel would do for me. Neither of us had＜/p＞ ＜p＞any definite project in view, but at length my mother gave me about＜/p＞ ＜p＞7000 francs and I set out for Cairo, intending eventually to visit＜/p＞ ＜p＞and make myself acquainted with the French possessions in the Far＜/p＞ ＜p＞East. My idea was to visit such places as Tonkin, Cochin-China,＜/p＞ ＜p＞Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, &c. My mother was of the＜/p＞ ＜p＞opinion that if I saw a bit of the world in this way I would be＜/p＞ ＜p＞more inclined to settle down at home with her at the end of my＜/p＞ ＜p＞wanderings. The primary cause of my going away was a little love＜/p＞ ＜p＞episode. Whilst at Montreux I fell in love with a charming young＜/p＞ ＜p＞lady at a boarding-school near my home. She was the daughter of＜/p＞ ＜p＞some high personage in the court of Russia--but exactly what＜/p＞ ＜p＞position he held I cannot say. My mother was quite charmed with＜/p＞ ＜p＞the young lady and viewed our attachment with delight. But when my＜/p＞ ＜p＞father heard of the matter he raised a decided objection to it, and＜/p＞ ＜p＞ordered me to return to France and join the army. He had, as I＜/p＞ ＜p＞have previously intimated, made his own plans for my future, even＜/p＞ ＜p＞to the point of deciding upon a future wife for me, as is customary＜/p＞ ＜p＞in France; but I resolutely declined to conform to his wishes in＜/p＞ ＜p＞this respect, and my mother quite sided with me. I never quite＜/p＞ ＜p＞knew how he got to hear of my love affair, but I conclude that my＜/p＞ ＜p＞mother must have mentioned it to him. I only stayed a few days in＜/p＞ ＜p＞the wonderful metropolis of Egypt; its noises, its cosmopolitanism,＜/p＞ ＜p＞its crowds--these, and many other considerations, drove me from the＜/p＞ ＜p＞city, and I set out for Singapore.＜/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 the Bible Really Says About Hell【電子書籍】[ John D. Clark, Sr. ]

＜p＞Introduction "The boys" and I had not long begun our study of early American history when we read the diary of Mary Rowlandson. She was a young frontier wife and mother taken captive from her Lancaster, Massachusetts home and held for ransom by Indians. Her devotion to God during the ensuing months and her prodigious knowledge of the Scriptures impressed us. And our admiration of her deepened as we read of her humble repentance for relatively minor offences of her former life (such as pipe smoking and ingratitude for friends and the ordinary comforts of home) and of how sincerely she dedicated herself anew to God. Mary was an exceptionally observant and perceptive young woman. Her diary, written after she was ransomed by her husband from the Indians, includes insightful and detailed descriptions of the Indians' way of life. One night, she recorded how her captors danced wildly in the camp: "There was [near] by a vacant house (deserted by the English before, for fear of the Indians). I asked them whether I might not lodge in the house that night, to which they answered, "What, will you love English men still?" This was the dolefulest night that ever my eyes saw. Oh the roaring, and singing and dancing, and yelling of those black creatures in the night, which made the place a lively resemblance of hell." As the boys and I were reading that section of Mary's diary, we fell into a discussion of how people in our culture typically imagine Hell. I pointed out to this small group of homeschoolers that, as a whole, Western society's concept of Hell from the time of the Middle Ages actually has its roots more in Christian myth than in biblical truth. It is still true, for example, that when provoked by doctrines that displease them, many Christians contemptuously scorn those teachings as "doctrines from Hell", or they may respond to an especially atrocious deed as having been inspired by "demons from Hell". And yet, the Bible clearly states that the Devil and his angels came to earth from heaven, not from Hell (Isa. 14:12; Rev. 12:7-12). The notion that anything on earth is from Hell is completely non-biblical. That idea originated in the mythology of ancient Classical culture and was infused into the Western psyche by Christian theology and poems, such as Dante Alighieri's masterful work, The Divine Comedy. When asked if they would like to read Dante's Divine Comedy, the boys eagerly accepted the offer. Afterward, however, I had second thoughts. How could I justify exposing their impressionable young spirits to such a powerful, godless myth-maker as Dante before they were established in the truth revealed in the Scriptures? I could not. I was loathe to renege on my offer to read Dante with them, but I also knew that I could not foist on them Dante's powerful, mythological vision of the underworld (and heaven) without first making certain that they possessed a steady plumb line by which to judge his work. They had to have a sure knowledge of what the Bible reveals about the places Dante would pretend to take them. That was the genesis of this study, and as it progressed, it proved to be more beneficial to us all than I expected; so, with good confidence in the benefit of the enterprise, we determined to pass along to you what we learned. It seems odd that the study of Hell and the other gruesome places of spiritual damnation could inspire a gentle and deep loving care for others, and yet, that is what we experienced. How could such a thing be? Holy love is perceived generally to be such a tender thing, and, by contrast, Hell is a place where tenderness can only be remembered, never experienced. Nevertheless, this study produced in us a sense of the love and goodness of God that is always directed toward men. In truth, and to our happy surprise, this work proved to be more a story of God than of Hell. This study had its roots in the love of God and a desire to attain to the knowledge of His truth, and we found that as we pursued it, the truth bore for us a fuller measure of the sweet, peaceful fruit of love and hope for those who will read what we have written. This book, dear Reader, is humbly offered to you in the love of Christ, as a service to your faith, which love always produces an earnest hope for others' eternal blessing and peace. The boys and I greet you and wish for you only the best in Christ Jesus, the Son of God and only Savior of mankind. John Clark, and "the boys": Elijah Clark, Aaron Nelson, Josiah Payne.＜/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 Cruise of the Snowbird - The Original Classic Edition【電子書籍】[ Stables Gordon ]

＜p＞William Gordon Stables was born in Aberchirder, in Banffshire (now part of Aberdeenshire). After studying medicine at the University of Aberdeen, he served as a surgeon in the Royal Navy. He came ashore in 1875, and settled in Twyford, Berkshire, in England.＜/p＞ ＜p＞He wrote over 130 books. The bulk of his large output is boys adventure fiction, often with a nautical or historical setting. He also wrote books on health, fitness and medical subjects, and the keeping of cats and dogs. He was a copious contributor of articles and stories to the Boys Own Paper.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Stables has been regarded as one of the most prominent of the English imitators of Jules Verne, especially in his novels of polar adventure, like The Cruise of the Snowbird (1882), Wild Adventures Round the Pole (1883), From Pole to Pole (1886), and his most ambitious novel, The Cruise of the Crystal Boat (1891).＜/p＞ ＜p＞He is also notable as the first person to order a gentleman's caravan from the Bristol Carriage Company, in which he travelled the length of Great Britain in 1885 (the subject of his book The Gentleman Gypsy).＜/p＞ ＜p＞This is a high quality book of the original classic edition.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This is a freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Enjoy this classic work. These few paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside:＜/p＞ ＜p＞McBain waited for a few minutes in the castle courtyard until Allan, who had hurried away, should have time to communicate with his mother and sister; then he struck a gong, and while yet its thunders were reverberating among the hills, he was surrounded by every servant in the place, old Janet, the cook, not excepted; then the orders that fell calmly and yet quickly from his lips showed at once that he was master of the situation.＜/p＞ ＜p＞...The little party who left the Castle of Arrandoon to go in search of Ralph and Rory did well to have Peter and his bagpipes included in their number, for, so long as they were within hearing distance of the castle, the music would give hope to those left behind; and when beyond that, it would not only serve to while away the time of the searchers, but even in the darkness it might perchance be heard by the sought.＜/p＞ ＜p＞...Old Janet averred that she had never seen such a boy in all her born days-that he turned the castle upside down, and kept all the "beasties" in an uproar; but at the same time she added that he was the prettiest boy ever she'd seen, and "Heaven bless his bonnie face," which put her in mind of her dear dead boy Donald, and she couldn't be angry with him, for even when he was doing mischief he made her laugh.＜/p＞ ＜p＞...Nearly all of these were on visiting terms with the McGregors, and many a beautifully-fitted sledge used to drive over the drawbridge of Arrandoon Castle during the winter months-wheels, of course, were out of the question when the snow lay thick on the ground-so that life in Allan's family, although it did not partake of the gaiety of the London season, was by no means a dull one, and both Ralph and Rory thought the evenings spent in the drawing-room were very enjoyable indeed.＜/p＞ ＜p＞..."Well," said McBain, after there had been a lull in the conversation for some little time, "we've been all so happy and jolly here for the last few days, that we haven't had time to think much or to look ahead either; but now, if you don't mind, young gentlemen, I will tell you what I should propose in the way of spending a few of the incoming spring and summer months, in what I should call a very pleasant 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！】A Humble Enterprise - The Original Classic Edition【電子書籍】[ Ada Cambridge ]

＜p＞This is a high quality book of the original classic edition.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This is a freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Enjoy this classic work. These few paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside:＜/p＞ ＜p＞Liddon, otherwise a comparatively uncultured person, was an accomplished cook and domestic administrator; Jenny, the eldest daughter, in whom the qualities of both parents blended, got up early in the morning to buy provisions at the market, and did all the dressmaking for the family; Joe, a junior in his fathers office, paid something for his board, and otherwise kept and clothed himself; and Sarah, the youngest, who had a bent spine, was literary, like her father, in whose intellectual pursuits she had had the largest share, and morally indispensable, though not practically supporting, in the economy of the household.＜/p＞ ＜p＞...It would have been nice, after a days work?she looked persuadingly at Sarah?to have had tea in our own back parlour, all alone by ourselves, free and comfortable; and in the evening to have totted up our takings for the day?all cash, of course?and seen them getting steadily bigger and bigger; and by-and-by?because I know that, with a good start, I should have succeeded?to have become well enough off to sell out, and go to travel in Europe, and do things.＜/p＞ ＜p＞...Joey thought of an elegant little cousin up country, the daughter of a bank manager, who naturally turned up her nose at retail trade; and he said that, as the present head of the family?he was afraid Jenny was over-looking the fact that he held this position by divine right of sex?he should certainly withhold his sanction from any such absurd project, risk or no risk.＜/p＞ ＜p＞...And dont forget that you are only nineteen, while I am twenty-four, and mother is just twice as old as that; and that what little we have is hers; and that women in these days are as good as men, and much better than boys; and that you are expected to allow us to know what is best for a few years more.＜/p＞ ＜p＞...It was taken with the idea of a girl who would not receive money, and dared to risk her little conventional title to be a lady for the sake of making an honest living; his own business rectitude and high-mindedness qualified him to appreciate a woman of that sort?so different from the swarm of idle damsels with whom he was in daily contact, who lived for nothing but their own pleasures, and on anybody who would keep them, with no sense whatever of any responsibility in life, whose frivolities he was always denouncing, more or less, in a good-natured way, though his own dear wife was one of them.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【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！】Viking Tales: The Battle for the Viking Gold【電子書籍】[ Terry Deary ]

＜p＞＜strong＞From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories, named 'the outstanding children's non-fiction author of the 20th century' by ＜em＞Books For Keeps＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞_______________＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Ideal for readers aged 7+＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Whitby, Northern England, 867. Edwin and Luke are young boys training to be monks. It's a quiet life, until one day the Vikings invade. The boys are terrified of the fearsome Danes, whose gods are even more terrifying warriors than they are. What will happen if the boys are caught?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Terry Deary's Viking Tales explore the world and mythology of the Vikings through the eyes of children who could have lived at the time. These stories feature real people from history and take place in some of the most recognisable Viking settings. This new edition features notes for the reader to help extend learning and exploration of the historical period.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Book band: Brown＜br /＞ Quizzed for Accelerated Reader＜br /＞ ＜strong＞_______________＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'Bubbling with wit, language play and robust dialogue....just the right mix of ingredients to trigger young readers' interest in all things historical' ＜em＞- Books For Keeps＜/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！】The Sunday School Teacher as a Soul Winner【電子書籍】[ Marion Lawrance ]

＜p＞I am very sure, dear friends, that with me you have been singing the doxology in your hearts as we have been listening to these wonderful testimonies of Mr. Hadley and Mr. Monroe and Mr. Reed, and I have a fear that what I shall say may sound somewhat tame after these words to-night; but it is just for the purpose of making that sort of testimony less frequent that we are so interested in the Sunday School.＜br /＞ The government has two ways of saving life on the ocean. It takes a number of men and plants them in this place and says: “You are to conduct a live-saving station.” They have all the apparatus for that sort of work, but they must wait until the ships are on the rocks, until the men are struggling in the water for their lives before they can send men out to save them. Then the government has another wayーthe lighthouse. It plants this house and says: “You live in this house, and before the ships get onto the rocks you warn them off, and show them from the place of danger into a place of safety.” The rescue-mission work that these dear brothers are giving their lives for is the life-saving station, but the Sunday School is trying to save life by the light-house plan rather than the life-boat plan. We are trying to keep these boys and girls off the rocks.＜/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 Windham Brides Box Set Books 1-3 Regency Romance【電子書籍】[ Grace Burrowes ]

＜p＞＜strong＞The first three books in this ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling Regency romance series are now in a special collection perfect for binging and hailed as "terrific" by Bridgerton author Julia Quinn.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞THE TROUBLE WITH DUKES:＜br /＞ They call him the Duke of Murder. The gossips whisper that the new Duke of Murdoch is a brute, a murderer, and even worse--a Scot. They say he should never be trusted alone with a woman. But Megan Windham sees in Hamish something different, someone different.＜/p＞ ＜p＞TOO SCOT TO HANDLE＜br /＞ As a captain in the army, Colin MacHugh led men, fixed what was broken, and fought hard. Now that he's a titled gentleman, he's still fighting -- this time to keep his bachelorhood safe from all the marriage-minded debutantes. Then he meets the intriguing Miss Anwen Windham. Anwen is amazed at how quickly Lord Colin takes in hand a pack of rambunctious orphan boys. Amazed at the thrill she gets from the rumble of his Scottish burr and the heat of his touch. But she doesn't know Colin has enemies who will stop at nothing to ruin him and anybody he holds dear.＜/p＞ ＜p＞NO OTHER DUKE WILL DO＜br /＞ Julian St. David, Duke of Haverford, has a long-term plan to restore the family finances, but his sister has a much faster solution: host a house party for London's single young ladies and find Julian a wealthy bride. Elizabeth Windham has no interest in marriage, but a recent scandal has forced her hand. As the two spend more time together, their attraction is overwhelming, unexpected... and absolutely impossible. With meddling siblings, the threat of financial ruin, and gossips lurking behind every potted palm, will they find true love or true disaster?＜/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！】Best Authors Best Stories - 8 A Father's Confession【電子書籍】[ Guy de Maupassant ]

＜p＞A Blunder＜br /＞ by Anton Chekhov＜br /＞ ILYA SERGEITCH PEPLOV and his wife Kleopatra Petrovna were standing at the door, listening greedily. On the other side in the little drawing-room a love scene was apparently taking place between two persons: their daughter Natashenka and a teacher of the district school, called Shchupkin.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"He's rising!" whispered Peplov, quivering with impatience and rubbing his hands. "Now, Kleopatra, mind; as soon as they begin talking of their feelings, take down the ikon from the wall and we'll go in and bless them. . . . We'll catch him. . . . A blessing with an ikon is sacred and binding. . . He couldn't get out of it, if he brought it into court."＜/p＞ ＜p＞On the other side of the door this was the conversation:＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Don't go on like that!" said Shchupkin, striking a match against his checked trousers. "I never wrote you any letters!"＜/p＞ ＜p＞"I like that! As though I didn't know your writing!" giggled the girl with an affected shriek, continually peeping at herself in the glass. "I knew it at once! And what a queer man you are! You are a writing master, and you write like a spider! How can you teach writing if you write so badly yourself?"＜/p＞ ＜p＞"H'm! . . . That means nothing. The great thing in writing lessons is not the hand one writes, but keeping the boys in order. You hit one on the head with a ruler, make another kneel down. . . . Besides, there's nothing in handwriting! Nekrassov was an author, but his handwriting's a disgrace, there's a specimen of it in his collected works."＜/p＞ ＜p＞"You are not Nekrassov. . . ." (A sigh). "I should love to marry an author. He'd always be writing poems to me."＜/p＞ ＜p＞"I can write you a poem, too, if you like."＜/p＞ ＜p＞"What can you write about?"＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Love -- passion -- your eyes. You'll be crazy when you read it. It would draw a tear from a stone! And if I write you a real poem, will you let me kiss your hand?"＜/p＞ ＜p＞"That's nothing much! You can kiss it now if you like."＜/p＞ ＜p＞Shchupkin jumped up, and making sheepish eyes, bent over the fat little hand that smelt of egg soap.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Take down the ikon," Peplov whispered in a fluster, pale with excitement, and buttoning his coat as he prodded his wife with his elbow. "Come along, now!"＜/p＞ ＜p＞And without a second's delay Peplov flung open the door.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Children," he muttered, lifting up his arms and blinking tearfully, "the Lord bless you, my children. May you live -- be fruitful -- and multiply."＜/p＞ ＜p＞"And -- and I bless you, too," the mamma brought out, crying with happiness. "May you be happy, my dear ones! Oh, you are taking from me my only treasure!" she said to Shchupkin. "Love my girl, be good to her. . . ."＜/p＞ ＜p＞Shchupkin's mouth fell open with amazement and alarm. The parents' attack was so bold and unexpected that he could not utter a single word.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"I'm in for it! I'm spliced!" he thought, going limp with horror. "It's all over with you now, my boy! There's no escape!"＜/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！】Best Day Ever【電子書籍】[ Kaira Rouda ]

＜p＞‘Compelling’ ＜em＞Hello!＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘[A] deliciously dark story shot through with black humour.’ ＜em＞Sunday Mirror＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞A loving husband. The perfect killer?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞‘I wonder if Mia thinks I have a dark side. Most likely as far as she knows, I am just her dear loving husband.’＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Paul Strom has spent years building his perfect life: glittering career, beautiful wife, two healthy boys and a big house in the suburbs.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But he also has his secrets. That’s why Paul has promised his wife a romantic weekend getaway. He proclaims this day, a warm Friday in May, will be the ＜em＞best day ever＜/em＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Paul loves his wife, really, he does. But he also wants to get rid of her. And with every hour that passes, Paul ticks off another stage in his elaborately laid plan…＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Creepy, fast-paced psychological thriller for fans of B A Paris and Shalini Boland!＜/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！】Lover Eternal【電子書籍】[ Idella Breen ]

＜p＞＜em＞When Integra offers＜/em＞ Snow a seat on the United Monster’s Council, she is eager to accept, but her mother will only allow it under one condition.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞“Make them love you.”＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Snow met her mother’s gaze with quiet determination. “And if I can’t?”＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Integra grinned, showing off white, shiny teeth. “Then strike the fear of the gods in them. They will regret not loving you.”＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Now tasked with＜/em＞ the mission of building up her notoriety, Snow must make a name for herself in the monster world. Too bad something or someone wants her dead. As Snow and Cait fall deeper into a world ruled by hidden kings and ancient creatures, governed by ambiguous laws, they will have to fight to keep what they hold most dear. A love most eternal will prevail, even on the darkest of nights.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Also contains the short novella called Adventures of Elena the Werewolf.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞While Elena’s parents＜/em＞ are away, she is having her own little adventure. Along with slaying imaginary dragons and beating up rude boys, Elena might just discover a little bit of puppy love.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【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 Cancer, Love Victoria A Mum's Diary of Hope【電子書籍】[ Victoria Derbyshire ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Fully updated to include a new introduction by Lynda Thomas, CEO of Macmillan Cancer Support.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞'I can't bear not to be with these three most important people in my life. I can't bear not to be there alongside Mark as my children grow up. My bright, funny, affectionate boys who are never embarrassed to say, "love you mummy", and say it ten times day.'＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Renowned as a much-loved and highly respected BBC journalist, Victoria Derbyshire has spent 20 years finding the human story behind the headlines. In 2015 she found herself at the heart of the news, with a devastating breast cancer diagnosis. With honesty and openness, she decided to live out her treatment and recovery in the spotlight in a series of video diaries that encouraged thousands to seek diagnosis and help.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Victoria has kept a diary since she was nine years old and in DEAR CANCER, LOVE VICTORIA she shares her day to day experiences of life following her diagnosis and coming to terms with a future that wasn't planned. From the moment she woke up to find her right breast had collapsed, to telling her partner and children, through to mastectomy and chemotherapy. From wearing a wig to work and hiding it from her colleagues, to the relief and joy of finishing treatment before immediately flying to Glasgow to present a debate on the European Referendum.＜/p＞ ＜p＞By sharing her story, she became the person that mums, daughters, sisters, husbands, boyfriends and family members contacted to thank as they tried to find ways to cope with their own and their loved ones' prognosis, and needed to know that they were not alone.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Victoria's story is an affecting and at times heart-breaking one but it is so often laugh-out-loud too. Moving, wonderfully heartwarming and ultimately uplifting, this is a powerful account of a brave struggle told with honesty, courage and emotion that gives strength to anyone touched by cancer.＜/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！】Eight Cousins【電子書籍】[ Louisa May Alcott ]

＜p＞＜em＞“If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman…”＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Eight Cousins＜/strong＞＜/em＞ reveals a very ambitious young Louisa May Alcott finding her voice as a writer and addressing difficult and taboo subjects in the 1860s.＜/p＞ ＜p＞After the death of her father, orphaned Rose Campbell is sent to live at ‘Aunt Hill’, so termed by the Campbell clan, with her great-aunts and to await the arrival of her new guardian, Uncle Alec.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Rose is a thirteen-year-old girl and at first looks and acts touchingly miserable.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Her Uncle Alec decides to conduct an experiment: he introduces her to seven rambunctious, messy, and reckless (but charming) male cousins.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Uncle Alec proves to be a most unconventional guardian for a young girl, disregarding most of the advice of Rose’s aunts and great-aunts as well as societal conventions. No corsets or hobble skirts for Rose, just exercise, fresh air, and high ideals!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Over time, Rose grows from a pale little shadow into a girl possessed of health, vitality.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Rose also makes friends with Phebe, her aunts' maid of her own age, whose cheerful attitude in the face of poverty helps to illustrate to Rose her own good fortune.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞LOUISA MAY ALCOTT＜/strong＞ (1832-1888) was a prolific and multi-talented American writer. Amongst her works are passionate, fiery novels, moralistic and wholesome stories for children, philosophical essays and letters. She is best known as the creator of the classic novel Little Women, and its sequels: Good Wives, Little Men, and Jo's Boys.＜/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！】Stone Age Tales: The Great Cave【電子書籍】[ Terry Deary ]

＜p＞＜strong＞From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories, named 'the outstanding children's non-fiction author of the 20th century' by ＜em＞Books For Keeps＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞_______________＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞A fast-paced Stone Age adventure ideal for readers aged 7+＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞17,300 years ago. Lascaux, France.＜/strong＞＜br /＞ Willow isn't the strongest or fastest in his tribe, he is careful and clever. But that's not what matters to the other boys. All they care about who is the best hunter, and who can provide meat for the tribe. So when the brawny and brash Bull takes over as the tribe's chief, it's going to take all of Willow's wits to survive.＜/p＞ ＜p＞An exciting tale based on real historical and archaeological evidence, this story is full of Terry Deary's imaginative style and dry wit. With helpful reading notes to extend learning, this book is the perfect springboard for further study of the Stone Age under the Key Stage 2 National Curriculum.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Book band: Brown＜br /＞ ＜strong＞_______________＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'Bubbling with wit, language play and robust dialogue....just the right mix of ingredients to trigger young readers' interest in all things historical' ＜em＞- Books For Keeps＜/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！】This Side of Paradise【電子書籍】[ F. Scott Fitzgerald ]

＜p＞Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while. His father, an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for Byron and a habit of drowsing over the Encyclopedia Britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful Chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar Harbor and met Beatrice O'Hara. In consequence, Stephen Blaine handed down to posterity his height of just under six feet and his tendency to waver at crucial moments, these two abstractions appearing in his son Amory. For many years he hovered in the background of his family's life, an unassertive figure with a face half?obliterated by lifeless, silky hair, continually occupied in "taking care" of his wife, continually harassed by the idea that he didn't and couldn't understand her.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But Beatrice Blaine! There was a woman! Early pictures taken on her father's estate at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, or in Rome at the Sacred Heart Conventーan educational extravagance that in her youth was only for the daughters of the exceptionally wealthyーshowed the exquisite delicacy of her features, the consummate art and simplicity of her clothes. A brilliant education she hadーher youth passed in renaissance glory, she was versed in the latest gossip of the Older Roman Families; known by name as a fabulously wealthy American girl to Cardinal Vitori and Queen Margherita and more subtle celebrities that one must have had some culture even to have heard of. She learned in England to prefer whiskey and soda to wine, and her small talk was broadened in two senses during a winter in Vienna. All in all Beatrice O'Hara absorbed the sort of education that will be quite impossible ever again; a tutelage measured by the number of things and people one could be contemptuous of and charming about; a culture rich in all arts and traditions, barren of all ideas, in the last of those days when the great gardener clipped the inferior roses to produce one perfect bud.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In her less important moments she returned to America, met Stephen Blaine and married himーthis almost entirely because she was a little bit weary, a little bit sad. Her only child was carried through a tiresome season and brought into the world on a spring day in ninety?six.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When Amory was five he was already a delightful companion for her. He was an auburn?haired boy, with great, handsome eyes which he would grow up to in time, a facile imaginative mind and a taste for fancy dress. From his fourth to his tenth year he did the country with his mother in her father's private car, from Coronado, where his mother became so bored that she had a nervous breakdown in a fashionable hotel, down to Mexico City, where she took a mild, almost epidemic consumption. This trouble pleased her, and later she made use of it as an intrinsic part of her atmosphereーespecially after several astounding bracers.＜/p＞ ＜p＞So, while more or less fortunate little rich boys were defying governesses on the beach at Newport, or being spanked or tutored or read to from "Do and Dare," or "Frank on the Mississippi," Amory was biting acquiescent bell?boys in the Waldorf, outgrowing a natural repugnance to chamber music and symphonies, and deriving a highly specialized education from his mother.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Amory."＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Yes, Beatrice." (Such a quaint name for his mother; she encouraged it.)＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous. Clothilde is having your breakfast brought up."＜/p＞ ＜p＞"All right."＜/p＞ ＜p＞"I am feeling very old to?day, Amory," she would sigh, her face a rare cameo of pathos, her voice exquisitely modulated, her hands as facile as Bernhardt's. "My nerves are on edgeーon edge. We must leave this terrifying place to?morrow and go searching for sunshine."＜/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！】Breaking Generational Curses【電子書籍】[ Vivian Murray ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Dear Lord be with my children. I wonder if the things that my children are going through now is because of my past. Father I don’t want my children to live the life that I lived.Lord be with my daughter Clair. She’s so troubled please help her to forgive me not just for me, but for herself,She blames me for everything that goes wrong in her life. Lordbe with my son Larry.He lives such a dangerous life, drugs has overtaken him. Lord be with my daughter Robin. she owns her own business, but after 10 years of marriageher husband walks out, leaving her with a heavy load. Now she’s working a job outside of her business to keep it above water. Lord keep my daughter Donna safe.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞She allowed her boyfriend to rape her daughter. She’s now waiting on a court hearing if found guilty she will go to prison for a very long time.my son Michael He’s your servant, he preach your word every Sunday, but there are so many rumors about him stealing money form the church and sleeping around with different women.Father please be with my baby boy Charles, when he was born he was such a joy to me, his father was the only man to love me. Before we could get married he was killed by two boys trying to rob him. Charles is now in prison for life, because he killed an old white couple in an attempt to rob them.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Now Lord I ask that you have mercy on my family. I always taught my children to P.U.S.H. no matter what they go through P.U.S.H. Pray Until Something Happens. So Father please remove the curse from my family.＜/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！】Jo's Boys【電子書籍】[ Louisa May Alcott ]

＜p＞'If anyone had told me what wonderful changes were to take place here in ten years, I wouldn't have believed it,' said Mrs Jo to Mrs Meg, as they sat on the piazza at Plumfield one summer day, looking about them with faces full of pride and pleasure.＜/p＞ ＜p＞'This is the sort of magic that money and kind hearts can work. I am sure Mr Laurence could have no nobler monument than the college he so generously endowed; and a home like this will keep Aunt March's memory green as long as it lasts,' answered Mrs Meg, always glad to praise the absent.＜/p＞ ＜p＞'We used to believe in fairies, you remember, and plan what we'd ask for if we could have three wishes. Doesn't it seem as if mine had been really granted at last? Money, fame, and plenty of the work I love,' said Mrs Jo, carelessly rumpling up her hair as she clasped her hands over her head just as she used to do when a girl.＜/p＞ ＜p＞'I have had mine, and Amy is enjoying hers to her heart's content. If dear Marmee, John, and Beth were here, it would be quite perfect,' added Meg, with a tender quiver in her voice; for Marmee's place was empty now.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jo put her hand on her sister's, and both sat silent for a little while, surveying the pleasant scene before them with mingled sad and happy thoughts.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It certainly did look as if magic had been at work, for quiet Plumfield was transformed into a busy little world. The house seemed more hospitable than ever, refreshed now with new paint, added wings, well?kept lawn and garden, and a prosperous air it had not worn when riotous boys swarmed everywhere and it was rather difficult for the Bhaers to make both ends meet. On the hill, where kites used to be flown, stood the fine college which Mr Laurence's munificent legacy had built. Busy students were going to and fro along the paths once trodden by childish feet, and many young men and women were enjoying all the advantages that wealth, wisdom, and benevolence could give them.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Just inside the gates of Plumfield a pretty brown cottage, very like the Dovecote, nestled among the trees, and on the green slope westward Laurie's white?pillared mansion glittered in the sunshine; for when the rapid growth of the city shut in the old house, spoilt Meg's nest, and dared to put a soap?factory under Mr Laurence's indignant nose, our friends emigrated to Plumfield, and the great changes began.＜/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 Love A True Story【電子書籍】[ Mary Angel ]

＜p＞Dear Readers,＜/p＞ ＜p＞This is a true story. Actually this is about my first love. Even though this is my story, there will be lots of victims like me in this world. So this will be a good example especially for girls. Most of the girls are very sensitive towards love affairs. They like to dedicate everything for their love. They are waiting endlessly and suffering endlessly. But girls should have courage to stand by their own feet without a man's help.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A girl's youth is for a small period but a boy's youth is continuing. A boy will never stop his life after his failure in love. But for a girl, it is different. We are getting tired in love and being living.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Each and every word in this story is true except names. So I hope my readers will enjoy my story. My expectation is to encourage those who are like me who are victims of love. First love yourself, then you will be able to take good decisions. That will never let you down.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This will be a nice experience not only for the girls but also for the boys. So I invite all of you to gather to share my story. Thank you for spending time to read this. God bless you all.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【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！】I Am Still a Woman My Journey【電子書籍】[ Jim Kilpatrick ]

＜p＞I am Nina-Ann McCurley.＜/p＞ ＜p＞I was born in a small town, an average woman living my life day to day. Twelve years ago, as I watched my mother waste away and die of ovarian cancer, I felt the pain of losing someone so dear and loving to me.＜/p＞ ＜p＞What I didnt know then was that I would have to face my own battle with cancer one daynot once, but twice. I love my life and my three sons, and I didnt want to leave them as my mother had left me.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This is my story, my battle.＜/p＞ ＜p＞I was forty-three years olda keen sailor and tennis player who ran my own marketing business from homewhen I got my diagnosis. I am fortunate to be surrounded by family and friends who stand beside me when I need a helping hand. With their love and support, I took on the battle with a heart filled with the desire to live and watch my boys grow into men. I know my journey has made a difference to my family and friends. Now I want to reach out to others who are facing the same terrible journey. I want to tell my story and inspire those women who are standing on the brink of their own battle with cancer.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Life is too precious to let a disease win. You have to battle it as you battle any other event trying to overpower you: with love.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【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！】Out on the Pampas【電子書籍】[ G. A. Henty ]

＜p＞'What are you thinking of, Frank?' Mrs. Hardy asked her husband one evening, after an unusually long silence on his part.＜/p＞ ＜p＞'Well, my dear, I was thinking of a good many things. In the first place, I think, I began with wondering what I should make of the boys; and that led to such a train of thoughts about ourselves and our circumstances, that I hardly knew where I was when you spoke to me.'＜/p＞ ＜p＞Mr. Hardy spoke cheerfully, but his wife saw at once that it was with an effort that he did so. She put down the work upon which she was engaged, and moved her chair nearer to his by the fire. 'It is a serious question, Frank, about the boys. Charley is fifteen now, and Hubert fourteen. I wonder myself sometimes what we shall do with them.'＜/p＞ ＜p＞'There seems no opening here in England for young fellows. The professions are crowded, even if they were not altogether beyond our means; and as to a clerkship, they had better have a trade, and stick to it: they would be far happier, and nearly as well paid. The fact is, Clara,' and here Mr. Hardy paused a little, as if to gain courage to say what he feared would be very disagreeable to his wife,ー'the fact is, we are altogether too crowded here. The best thing for the children, by far, and I think the best thing for ourselves, would be to emigrate.'＜/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。