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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！】The Object Parade Essays【電子書籍】[ Dinah Lenney ]

＜p＞＜strong＞This new collection of interconnected essays marches to a provocative premise: what if one way to understand your life was to examine the objects within it? Which objects would you choose? What memories do they hold? And lined up in a row, what stories do they have to tell?＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In recalling her experience, Dinah's essays each begin with one thing ー real or imaginary, lost or found, rare or ordinary, animal, vegetable, mineral, edible. Each object comes with a memory or a story, and so sparks an opportunity for rue or reflection or confession or revelation, having to do with her coming of age as a daughter, mother, actor, and writer: the piano that holds secrets to family history and inheritance; the gifted watches that tell so much more than time; the little black dress that carries all of youth's love and longing; the purple scarf that stands in for her journey from New York to Los Angeles, across stage and screen, to pursue her acting dream.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Read together or apart, the essays project the bountiful mosaic of life and love, of moving to Los Angeles and raising a family; of coming to terms with place, relationship, failures, and success; of dealing with up?ended notions about home and family and career and aging, too. Taken together, they add up to a pastiche of an artful and quirky life, lovingly remembered, compellingly told, wrapped up in the ties that bind the passage of 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！】Jarulan by the River【電子書籍】[ Lily Woodhouse ]

＜p＞＜strong＞'A sprawling and surprising story of love, grief, loss and change that crosses generations and continents' - Kate Forsyth＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Matthew Fenchurch, patriarch and landowner of the northern NSW property Jarulan, lives in a grand decaying folly, invaded by ghosts and the local fauna. His wife is dead, one son has fallen on a battlefield in France, and another lives in exile as a remittance man on a marae in New Zealand. His only company are the farmhands, an old family servant and a part-time laundry maid with dreams above her station.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When Matthew builds a memorial above the river for his brave lost son ? and all the boys of the district who have died fighting for King and Country ? his daughters and grandchildren return for the unveiling. They bring with them someone who will change life at Jarulan forever, who will fight the ghosts of the past and the claimants of the present, and ensure a dynasty, though not as anyone expected.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Epic, sensuous, brimming with wildlife, love, beauty, babies, ill deeds, revenge, and unions ? illicit and condoned ? ＜em＞Jarulan by the River＜/em＞ is a glorious story of passion and homecoming. A novel with the magic of Colleen McCullough, Bryce Courtenay and ＜em＞Cloudstreet＜/em＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Author's note: 'Jarulan' is an Alawa (Roper River, Northern Territory) word for fires started by raptors. These large birds have been observed for hundreds of years dropping burning sticks in grassland and then waiting for the fire to take hold to drive out prey, which they then swoop upon. This description is inspired by a passage in the 1962 book, ＜em＞I, the Aboriginal＜/em＞, by Australian journalist Douglas Lockwood and Waipuldanya (Phillip Roberts), an Alawa language group man from the Roper River country in the Northern Territory. In it, Waipuldanya recalls his own observations of a fire hawk:＜/p＞ ＜p＞'I have seen a hawk pick up a smouldering stick in its claws and drop it in a fresh patch of dry grass half a mile away, then wait with its mates for the mad exodus of scorched and frightened rodents and reptiles. When that area was burnt out, the process was repeated elsewhere. We call these fires Jarulan.'＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞PRAISE＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞'Jarulan by the River＜/em＞ is lushly detailed. The settings are varied from New Zealand to Australia and this makes for an interesting and multilayered kind of narrative. The characters are believable and well created. So too are the family dramas that will have most readers nodding in agreement. A good read for saga lovers' Christopher Bantick, Weekly Times＜/p＞ ＜p＞'＜em＞Jarulan by the River＜/em＞ with its mysteries, obscured parentage, black-sheep sons, inheritances, mixed-race relationships, and exotic landscapes is very definitely story-rich' David Herkt, Stuff NZ＜/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 Weaver of Rainbows A Walk down Many Roads【電子書籍】[ Sneha Susan Shibu ]

＜p＞Death brings to life the once spooky and desolate household of Ebenezer. As Melita dwells on the irony of life, she takes readers through a poignant journey of hope, faith, fear and love.＜br /＞ Melita’s recollections of life in the quaint village of Merapara in Kerala; her first meeting with her cousins and the adventures that follow; the harsh realities of life ; and the sights, sounds and smells of a time gone by are so vivid and forthright that one feels an instant connection with every character, which grows deeper and stronger through the passage of time.＜br /＞ Melita also recounts the special bond she once shared with Manna, her cousin, hoping it has the strength to fight all odds and work a miracle.＜br /＞ When K walks into her life, Melita sets out on a journey of self-discovery and realisation. Fighting the turmoil and conflicts within, she gradually understands that life throws more questions than answers.＜br /＞ Can she make peace with herself and accept life as it is, warts and all?＜br /＞ Can she weave a colourful rainbow that defies the many challenges?＜br /＞ Myriad emotions, feelings and hues are beautifully woven together in this wonderful tapestry of love and longing.＜br /＞ Lucid… poignant… Some of the pages hold the subtle fragrance of things thought lost, strange yet familiar, making one cling on to the feelings of being unsettled.＜br /＞ - Dr. Swetha Antony, University of Delhi.＜/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 Land That Time Forgot A Thrilling Adventure in a Lost World【電子書籍】[ Edgar Rice Burroughs ]

＜p＞The acclaimed author of the Tarzan series brings another fantastic world to life in The Land that Time Forgot. The story begins in the midst of World War 1, in the middle of naval attacks between the armies of various nations. On a submarine that had been captured in English Channel, the combatants from several countries fight for the ownership of the vessel. After a series of unfortunate circumstances, the submarine is sent off-course into the South Pacific, and then is even further rerouted to Antarctica. When the vessel runs out of fuel, the submarine makes its way into a strange passage under a mysterious island. The island is full of primitive creatures and plants that are evolving rapidly. As the submarine’s passengers begin exploring their whereabouts, they realize that this island is a glimpse into the past. The fully evolved humans have to navigate their surroundings and use what they can find to create the technology that will get their ship back on course. The World that Time Forgot is an adventurous and fantastical science fiction story and is a staple of the lost world genre. Burrough’s detailed creation of this world is immersive and will leave readers’ imaginations spinning.＜/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！】Free Thinker: The Extraordinary Life of the Fallen Woman Who Won the Vote【電子書籍】[ Kimberly A. Hamlin ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A story of transgression in the face of religious ideology, a sexist scientific establishment, and political resistance to securing women’s right to vote.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞When Ohio newspapers published the story of Alice Chenoweth’s affair with a married man, she changed her name to Helen Hamilton Gardener, moved to New York, and devoted her life to championing women’s rights and decrying the sexual double standard. She published seven books and countless essays, hobnobbed with the most interesting thinkers of her era, and was celebrated for her audacious ideas and keen wit. Opposed to piety, temperance, and conventional thinking, Gardener eventually settled in Washington, D.C., where her tireless work proved, according to her colleague Maud Wood Park, "the most potent factor" in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Free Thinker＜/em＞ is the first biography of Helen Hamilton Gardener, who died as the highest-ranking woman in federal government and a national symbol of female citizenship. Hamlin exposes the racism that underpinned the women’s suffrage movement and the contradictions of Gardener’s politics. Her life sheds new light on why it was not until the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that the Nineteenth Amendment became a reality for all women.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Celebrated in her own time but lost to history in ours, Gardener was hailed as the "Harriet Beecher Stowe of Fallen Women." ＜em＞Free Thinker＜/em＞ is the story of a woman whose struggles, both personal and political, resound in today’s fight for gender and sexual equity.＜/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！】Resin Poems【電子書籍】[ Geri Doran ]

＜p＞In poems of quiet force, Geri Doran maps the fragility of human connection and the irreducible fact of grief. From the communal ruptures of Chechnya and Rwanda to the personal dislocations that attend great loss, Resin weighs frailty against responsibility, damage against the desires of the heart. For the poet, a factory fire in late-nineteenth-century Portland becomes a tool for precise knowing: "The phases of wood are a means / of dead reckoning: burn what is built / and gauge your passage / by what is lost." Even in so quotidian an act as the planting of potatoes, Doran's sure, meticulous, and carefully calibrated lines reveal the intensity of our yearnings: "What carried us from year to year was yield: / potatoes in, potatoes out, like rowing." Variously plaintive, passionate, intuitive, and serious, the voice in Resin tells how the natural world, in both its wildness and regularity, expresses and mediates human longing.You entered me like migraine, left＜br /＞ like migraine a private vacancy.＜br /＞ The darkness outside is great and wild.＜br /＞ Blue plums falling from an old tree＜br /＞ demand we believe in wildness,＜br /＞ fallingness. What's the matter is memory,＜br /＞ shrivel and tart. How in this sweet＜br /＞ aftermath of everything the mind＜br /＞ should settle on plums (blue plums!)＜br /＞ is one of the mysteries. That God＜br /＞ and my window-blinds should conspire＜br /＞ to refract the light to look like plums.＜br /＞ Out in the wild nothing.＜br /＞ -- from "Blue Plums"＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【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！】Not Till We Are Lost Poems【電子書籍】[ William Wenthe ]

＜p＞William Wenthe's second collection of poetry is a personal amplification of a passage from Henry Thoreau's Walden, "Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations." Beginning with the necessary dislocation and loss that accompany adulthood, these strong and moving poems tell a story of a man's losing his way in the midst of personal tragedies -- the death of his parents and the end of a marriage -- only to discover the true depth of his connection with others and ultimately with the divine. In a variety of free verse, traditional forms, and sonnets, the poet begins to reassess his life and his art and considers the possibility that language may distance us from the real as much as bind us to it.＜br /＞ Both deeply personal and powerfully spiritual, Not Till We Are Lost strives toward the rediscovery of relations -- to family and lover, to culture, to environment. Whether in a desert canyon or a high-rise hotel or wading waist-deep in a river, the poet, solid and honest, is always aware of his ties to history and its artistic representations. The destination, as well as the difficult means of arrival, is love, no mere word but a pain and sweetness in which loss and celebration converge.＜/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！】Franklin's Fate an investigation into what happened to the lost 1845 expedition of Sir John Franklin【電子書籍】[ John Roobol ]

＜p＞The 1845 North-West Passage expedition of Sir John Franklin in the ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, with a full company of 129 officers and men, none of whom ever saw England again, was one of the most heroic and courageous, maritime expeditions in history.＜br /＞ This enthralling book is the result of seven years of arduous research by retired geologist Dr. John Roobol, who weighs evidence gathered over more than 170 years, and offers a highly convincing interpretation of what really happened to the lost, heroic, expedition.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Silver Branch【電子書籍】[ Dayle Carnahan McKinney ]

＜p＞On a strange night of falling stars, Aria is called to learn who she is and why. Coerced by a grandmother to leave her desert home in California, Aria embarks on an adventure of discovery.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Guided and transported by the most colorful of curiosities, back (and back) in time she travels, and along the way, comes face to face with those who forged her family.＜/p＞ ＜p＞She goes to the Beginning of Thingsーnot the Beginning of Time, but the Beginning of Things, as they exist in Aria’s world. Her beliefs and assumptions are crushed beneath her wandering pilgrim feet as she leaves the modern era behind in search of something she didn’t even know she needed.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Escorted and cajoled by kings, outlaws, druids, and damsels, Aria is made aware of truths long hidden. Lost in a land of myth, she is made fully dependent on a long line of grandparents, both kind and diabolical, who ensure her safe passage back to California after sojourns in France, Scotland, England, and Ireland, where the Beginning of Things takes place. People who share Aria’s rare Rh-negative blood populate these ancient lands. These are people who the Watchers watch.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞“The Silver Branch is an imaginative ride through history written with engaging wit. Aria is an enchanting character that takes us on an exciting journey through many different modes of travel to a magical, satisfying end, which is really the beginning.”＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞ーCarla Harrower＜/p＞ ＜p＞Landscape Contractor＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞“In the Silver Branch, Aria is called to learn who she is...and why. And on a strange night of falling stars, her journey begins. Guided and transported by the most colorful of curiosities, back (and back) in time she travels and along the way comes face to face with those who forged her family...and herself. Historical and mythical, Aria’s story will compel readers to want to hear the tales and see the faces etched along the branches of their own family tree.”＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞ーMaria Pritchard＜/p＞ ＜p＞Author and Retired Educator＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞The story is a journey through intimate glimpses painting a history of cultures subtly told in generational sequences and family tales. It never lets go of being in the present, skeptical while knowing that reality and magic might both exist. The reader is taken along it all, as if told a magical story, which despite historical connections between the mysteries, it really is. The Silver Branch tells a story in changing layers more parallel than mixing, and as far-away magical as the nearness of home.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞ーJonathan Beck M.D.＜/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！】Tree of Death A metaphysical, rite of passage fantasy【電子書籍】[ Dawn Blair ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Spencer walked through the night as if he were death itself.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Some souls get tangled and lost. they need to be gathered and the energy gently released back into the ether of the All.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Spencer collects the souls of the dead who have not yet crossed over. That mission brought him to the cemetery tonight.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Most people can’t contemplate this task, let alone do it. Yet Spencer enjoys being a soulcolist.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But tonight, no souls wait for him. Unnatural and unkind, this absence of death leaves Spencer to uncover the reason why.＜/p＞ ＜p＞If you enjoy endearing characters and fateful twists, you’ll love this metaphysical fantasy about life, death, and rites of passage.＜/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 Legend of Lost Brides Cove Legendary Creatures, #2【電子書籍】[ Jo Carey ]

＜p＞Visitors to Lost Brides Cove keep the legend alive by reporting pale beings glimpsed in the sea caves or on the beach when the fog rolls in. Tulane Morris doesn't believe in legends, but she does believe an undiscovered passage might link Lost Brides Cove with the Devil's Whirlpool and her ex-boyfriend, Sam, challenges her to a competition to find it. When Sam goes missing, Tulane reluctantly takes up the search.＜/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！】150. The Goddess Of Love【電子書籍】[ Barbara Cartland ]

＜p＞The beautiful young Corena Melville is horrified when a sinister Greek man with the name of Mr. Thespidos calls on her at her home to announce that he is holding as his prisoner her beloved father, Sir Priam, a prominent archaeologist and an expert on Ancient Greek antiquities. Without Corena to help him, Sir Priam is presently in Greece excavating around the Temple of Athena where he is confident of finding a long lost statue of the Goddess Aphrodite, which is obviously coveted by Mr. Thespidos, who will sell it to the highest bidder on world markets. What is worse is that the only way that she can save him from torture and death is by travelling to Greece with the wealthy Lord Warburton, an avid collector of Greek treasures, from whom they aim to extract the whereabouts of other ancient statues they want to steal and then sell. In effect she is to be the bait in the wicked trap set for Lord Warburton. When Lord Warburton refuses her request for passage to Greece on his yacht to go to her father, the kidnapper smuggles her secretly on board. She is discovered and, initially angry, his Lordship is soon utterly bewitched by her and sees as the Aphrodite he has sought all his life. For what the evil kidnapper does not reckon with are Corena’s knowledge, beauty and intelligence and indeed the all-conquering power of 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 of Time's Abyss【電子書籍】[ Edgar Rice Burroughs ]

＜p＞Out of Time’s Abyss is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the third of his Caspak trilogy. The sequence was first published in Blue Book Magazine as a three-part serial in the issues for September, October and November 1918, with Out of Time's Abyss forming the third installment. The complete trilogy was later combined for publication in book form under the title of The Land That Time Forgot (the title of the first part) by A. C. McClurg in June 1924. Beginning with the Ace Books editions of the 1960s, the three segments have usually been issued as separate short novels.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Out of Time's Abyss is a direct sequel to The Land That Time Forgot and The People That Time Forgot, continuing the lost world saga begun in the earlier stories. It connects the previous two installments, bringing in characters introduced in each. Burroughs completes the revelation of his lost world's unique biological system, only hinted at in the previous installment, in which the slow progress of evolution in the world outside is recapitulated as a matter of individual metamorphosis. This system forms a thematic element serving to unite the three otherwise rather loosely linked Caspak stories.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The book begins with Bradley, who had left Fort Dinosaur on an expedition in the first novel and never returned. Bradley and his party are attempting to return to Fort Dinosaur. Along the way, they encounter a creature which appears to be a flying dead man. Some of the members of the party consider it to be a ghost or banshee. Tippet is convinced that he is soon to die, and the next day he is killed by a Tyrannosaurus. The ghost-like creature is seen again, and James is killed by a Smilodon. Bradley disappears during the night, and the remaining members of the party make it safely to Fort Dinosaur.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Bradley had been captured by the ghost-like creature, which is soon revealed to be a naturally winged human being, belonging to a subgroup of humanity known as the Wieroo. The Wieroo takes Bradley to the island of Oo-oh, set in Caspak's inland sea. It attempts to keep Bradley in a prison, but he escapes through a secret passage. He meets Co-Tan, a girl of the highest human race of mainland Caspak, the Galu, fully human and of a neolithic cultural level. They enter the chamber of the Wieroo king, a huge member of the race, and Bradley kills the creature with its own sword.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Co-Tan and Bradley escape the city of the Wieroo and live for several months on the forested coast of Oo-oh. Finally, though, they are discovered by Wieroo. They succeed in capturing two of the Wieroo and forcing them to fly to the mainland, one bearing each of the humans.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Read the complete novel for further story....＜/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！】Golden Summer in Beachside【電子書籍】[ Piper Malone ]

＜p＞Ester Cusano is happy to support her grandsons’ culinary adventures, enjoy time with her feisty best friends, and savor the attention of handsome college dudes visiting Beachside. Even if sassy flirtations boost her confidence, Ester leaves genuine romance to her grandsons and their partners. Plus, her book club’s selections provide enough steamy encounters to last a lifetime. But when she meets an unconventional college coed, Ester experiences her own romantic plot twist.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Silas Galani’s terminally-ill wife had one last request: Live the life you’ve always wanted. Returning to college as a non-traditional student and earning a place on the recreational water polo team is a dream come true for Silas. When given the chance to take part in the ultimate collegiate rite of passage?spring break at the beach with his teammates?Silas doesn’t hesitate. After a chance encounter with Ester (over pizza, of course), Silas is determined to learn more about the vivacious woman everyone calls Nana.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Even if their chemistry is undeniable, Silas must leave Beachside to pursue his goals and compete with his team. As Ester prepares to say goodbye and endure another love lost, Silas confronts her willingness to let their newfound romance perish. Ester has designed a life defying the status quo, but will her fears of suffering another broken heart thwart her own happily ever after?＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Land That Time Forgot【電子書籍】[ Edgar Rice Burroughs ]

＜p＞The Land That Time Forgot is a fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Caspak trilogy. His working title for the story was "The Lost U-Boat." The sequence was first published in Blue Book Magazine as a three-part serial in the issues for September, October and November 1918. The complete trilogy was later combined for publication in book form under the title of the first part by A. C. McClurg in June 1924. Beginning with the Ace Books editions of the 1960s, the three segments have usually been issued as separate short novels.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Starting out as a harrowing wartime sea adventure, Burroughs’s story ultimately develops into a lost world story reminiscent of such novels as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World (1912) and Jules Verne’s The Mysterious Island (1874) and Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864). Burroughs adds his own twist by postulating a unique biological system for his lost world, in which the slow progress of evolution in the world outside is recapitulated as a matter of individual metamorphosis. This system is only hinted at in The Land That Time Forgot; presented as a mystery whose explication is gradually worked out over the course of the next two novels, it forms a thematic element serving to unite three otherwise rather loosely linked stories.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The novel is set in World War I and opens with a framing story in which a manuscript relating the main story is recovered from a thermos off the coast of Greenland. It purports to be the narrative of Bowen J. Tyler, an American passenger sunk in the English Channel by a German U-boat, U-33, in 1916. He and a woman named Lys La Rue are rescued by a British tugboat. The tug is also sunk, but its crew manages to capture the submarine when it surfaces. Unfortunately, all other British craft continue to regard the sub as an enemy, and they are unable to bring it to port. Sabotage to the navigation equipment sends the U-33 astray into the South Pacific. The imprisoned German crew retakes the sub and begins a raiding cruise, only to be overcome again by the British. A saboteur continues to guide the sub off course, and by the time he is found out it is in Antarctic waters.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The U-33 is now low on fuel, with its provisions poisoned by the saboteur Benson. A large island ringed by cliffs is encountered, and identified as Caprona, a land mass first reported by the fictitious Italian explorer Caproni in 1721 whose location was subsequently lost. A freshwater current guides the sub to a stream issuing from a subterranean passage, which is entered on the hope of replenishing the water supply. The U-boat surfaces into a tropical river teeming with primitive creatures extinct elsewhere; attacked, it submerges again and travels upstream in search of a safe harbor. It enters a thermal inland sea, essentially a huge crater lake, whose heat sustains Caprona’s tropical climate. As the sub travels north along the island’s waterways the climate moderates and wildlife undergoes an apparent evolutionary progression.＜/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！】Greenhorns stories【電子書籍】[ Richard Slotkin ]

＜p＞Key Selling Points＜/p＞ ＜ol＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞Audience＜br /＞ ? Will appeal to readers interested in immigration, in fact and literature: “Greenhorns” opens a window into the historical experience of Jewish immigration in the 20th Century, and the problematic process of assimilation. As such it connects to the current public and political interest in immigrants and immigration, with parallels between the successful integration of past immigrants and current patterns of Americanization. Immigration and assimilation has also been a major theme in contemporary fiction, in the works of Gish Jen, Amy Tan, David Bezmozgis, Jumpa Lahiri, and many others.＜br /＞ ? Jewish readers: The book deals with the experience of three generations of Jewish immigrants, people of the author's generation but also the parents, grandparents and great-grandparents of American Jews now in their 30s and 40s.＜br /＞ ? Author has a reputation as a historian and historical novelist, and readers will be interested in the connection of this book to his earlier work.＜/p＞ ＜/li＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞Notable Author＜br /＞ ? recently cited in New York Times www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/movies/hostiles-review-christian-bale.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0 ? best known for an award-winning trilogy of scholarly books on the myth of the frontier in American cultural history. Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860 (Wesleyan University Press; was a finalist for a National Book Award, and received the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association, which cited it as “a turning point in the study of American intellectual history.” The second volume received the Little Big Horn Associates Literary Award. George Frederickson, writing in the ＜em＞New York Review of Books＜/em＞, called Fatal Environment “Without question . . . the most ambitious and provocative work in American studies to appear in recent years.” Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth Century America (Atheneum, 1992) was a Finalist for the 1993 National Book Award. The citation praised it as the culmination of a “magisterial multi-volume study of the myth of the frontier . . . cultural history at its best ? well argued, richly supported, critically astute, and written with genuine craft.”＜br /＞ ? Other work links cultural history with military history: Lost Battalions: The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality (Holt, 2005); No Quarter: The Battle of the Petersburg Crater, 1864 (Random House, 2009); Long Road to Antietam: How the Civil War Became a Revolution (Norton, 2012), etc.＜br /＞ ? Three historical novels. Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln (Holt, 2000) was a New York Times Notable Book and won the Michael Shaara Award for Civil War Fiction (2001) and the Salon.com Book Award (2000). The Return of Henry Starr (Atheneum, 1988); The Crater (Atheneum, 1980) was the first work of fiction to be adopted as a selection by the History Book Club.＜br /＞ ? Author has been awarded fellowships from the NEH and Rockefeller Foundation; was elected a Fellow of the Society of American Historians in 1986, and elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.＜br /＞ ? Serves as consultant and on-screen interviewee for media projects on violence, racism, popular culture, the Civil War, World War I and the American West. A 2013 episode of “Moyers & Company” was devoted to the author's book Gunfighter Nation. Recent projects include “The Great War” (PBS, 2017), “Clint Eastwood” (American Masters, 2000), “Colt: Legend and Legacy” (PBS/1998), "Big Guns Talk" (TNT, 1997), “Gunpower: One Nation Under Fire” (Discovery Channel, 1996), “Guns” (ABC Turning Point, 1994), “Last Stand at Little Big Horn,” (American Experience/ PBS, 1992).＜/p＞ ＜/li＞ ＜li＞ ＜p＞The Competition＜br /＞ Unlike the work of other writers of new-immigrant fiction (David Bezmozgis, Gary Shteyngart), or Jewish-American writers like Philip Roth, “Greenhorns” roots the story of Jewish Americans in the primal experience of Jewish emigration, the passage from the Pale of Settlement ー the bloody and impoverished Polish/Russian borderland &mdahs; to America in the early 20th Century. It sets the immigrant experience against the specifics of historical events, specifically the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, and the Russian Civil War of 1919-23. It traces the effects of that heritage of trauma on later generations, again through particular historical moments ー army life in WW2, and school and college life in the 1950s and early 1960s.＜/p＞ ＜/li＞ ＜/ol＞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 Women【電子書籍】[ Louisa May Alcott ]

＜p＞Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832?1888), which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books over several months at the request of her publisher. Following the lives of the four March sistersーMeg, Jo, Beth and Amyーthe novel details their passage from childhood to womanhood and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters. Scholars classify Little Women as an autobiographical or semi-autobiographical novel.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Four teenaged sisters and their mother, Marmee, live in a new neighborhood (loosely based on Concord) in Massachusetts in genteel poverty. Having lost all his money, their father is acting as a pastor, miles from home, involved in the American Civil War. The women face their first Christmas without him.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Meg and Jo March, the elder two, have to work in order to support the family: Meg teaches a nearby family of four children; Jo assists her aged great-aunt March, a wealthy widow living in a mansion, Plumfield. Beth, too timid for school is content to stay at home and help with housework; Amy is still at school. Meg is beautiful and traditional, Jo is a tomboy who writes; Beth is a peacemaker and a pianist; Amy is an artist who longs for elegance and fine society.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jo is impulsive and quick to anger. One of her challenges is trying to control her anger, a challenge that her mother experiences. She advises Jo to speak with forethought before leaving to travel to Washington, where her husband has pneumonia.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Their neighbour, Mr. Laurence, who is charmed by Beth, gives her a piano. Beth contracts scarlet fever after spending time with a poor family where three children die. Jo tends Beth in her illness. Beth recovers, but never fully. As a precaution, Amy is sent to live with Aunt March, replacing Jo, while Beth was ill and still infectious.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jo has success earning money with her writing. Meg spends two weeks with friends, where there are parties for the girls to dance with boys and improve social skills. Theodore 'Laurie' Laurence, Mr. Laurence's grandson, is invited to one of the dances, as her friends incorrectly think Meg is in love with him. Meg is more interested in John Brooke, Laurie's young tutor. Brooke goes to Washington to help Mr. March. While with the March parents, Brooke confesses his love for Meg. They are pleased but consider Meg too young to be married. Brooke agrees to wait but enlists and serves a year or so in the war. After he is wounded, he returns to find work so he can buy a house ready for when he marries Meg. Laurie goes off to college, having become smitten by Jo. On Christmas Day, a year after the book's opening, the girls' father returns from the war.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Read the complete novel for further story....＜/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 Poison Belt【電子書籍】[ Arthur Conan Doyle ]

＜p＞*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS***＜/p＞ ＜p＞Synopsis:＜/p＞ ＜p＞Three years after the events that took place in The Lost World, Professor Challenger urgently summons his fellow explorers (Professor Summerlee, Lord John Roxton, and reporter E.D. Malone) to a meeting. Oddly, he requires each to bring an oxygen cylinder with him.What he soon informs them is that from astronomical data and just-received telegraphs of strange accidents on the other side of the world, he has deduced that the Earth is starting to move through a region of space containing something poisonous to humankind.THE SECRET PASSAGE＜/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！】Red Wizard of Atlantis An action and adventure, epic fantasy fiction!【電子書籍】[ Ravek Hunter ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Dark clouds gather on the horizon threatening the very fabric of civilization. Lurking unseen, an evil vile and treacherous spreads silently across the land. The peril is urgent and only living legends, and those who will become legends, have a chance to change the shadowy fate of what is to come.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Akakios, a High Priest serving the Fire God Kronus, embarks on an expedition to rescue a beautiful demi-goddess from unspeakable evil and the promise of true love. Known to his people as the “Fire-Bringer”, Akakios is secure in his faith, wielding the power of flame imbued by his god. But is he up to the challenge? The consequences of his actions will test his convictions and release upon the world a sinister plague that could shroud entire nations in eternal darkness.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Meanwhile, the “Mad Bard’ has awakened from his long slumber by troubling visions, and he gathers the Assembly of Nine to tell them what he has seen. Will they heed the unnatural chill in the air that forebodes terrible events yet to unfold?＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Among the first to experience these dark truths are Qel and his friend Havacian, two young Atlanteans only recently graduated from the Wizards Enclave. The friends travel out of Atlantis on a journey of ‘Discovery’ ? a rite of passage for young wizards to test themselves outside of the sterile confines of the Enclave. They must learn to survive on their own and develop their skills under real-life conditions.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞And life gets very real for the adventurous duo, very fast.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞The inexperienced wizards will need to use every talent they have at their disposal and those they pick up along the way if they are to endure the storm that is gathering.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Explore the origins of Greek mythology and Plato’s ‘Lost Empire of Atlantis’ like never before in this new fantasy adventure series!＜/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 Wisdom of Father Brown【電子書籍】[ G. K. Chesterton ]

＜p＞*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS***＜/p＞ ＜p＞Synopsis:＜/p＞ ＜p＞The Wisdom of Father Brown explores many characters and fascinating themes such as the following. An eminent criminologist is persuaded by the mild yet persistent Father Brown to sort out a family matter. Also, a Tuscan poet fancies himself as the King of Thieves. A famous French philosopher and atheist holds the key to a new invention called “Noiseless Powder.” A corpse is discovered in a dark passage backstage at London's Adelphi Theater. Finally there is Psychometric testing of criminals in Chicago.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Featuring twelve delightful stories about the short and stumpy Roman Catholic priest who finds himself thrown willy-nilly into the role of a sleuth, this book is the second in the series. Written in Chesterton's inimitable, poetic style, full of movement and color, some with an interesting twist in the tail, and all of them packed with memorable characters, the Father Brown stories have never lost their charm. The kindly but shrewd priest who sees much more than he lets on, is based on a real priest, Father John O'Connor of Bradford, who brought Chesterton into the Catholic faith. This lovable cleric, perennially dressed in a shabby habit, carrying an ancient umbrella and peering around short-sighted, has an astonishing ability to spot evil in the world and in mankind.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Father Brown first made his appearance in the short story, The Blue Cross, published in 1910. This story also featured other Father Brown staples, the arch-criminal Flambeau and Inspector Valentin, head of the Paris Police. Father Brown's methods are intuitive rather than deductive. Unlike Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown has a fundamental awareness of evil, which he attributes to the fact that as a priest, he gets to hear plenty of nefarious stories in the confession box. Also unlike the London detective, Father Brown counts humility among one of his virtues which is something that Holmes certainly doesn't do.＜/p＞ ＜p＞However, Father Brown's methods are also strictly rational. The final explanation he gives at the end of each story traces the exact route he takes to arrive at the solution. He tends, nevertheless, to use philosophic and spiritual angles to unravel the mystery rather than rely on purely scientific data. Father Brown has been extensively played on stage, radio, television and film by a host of actors. The latest television series commissioned by the BBC has gone on air in 2014.＜/p＞ ＜p＞For enthusiasts of the lovable, bumbling priest, The Wisdom of Father Brown is indeed a great addition to their collection.＜/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！】Aviaries【電子書籍】[ Zuzana Brabcov? ]

＜p＞＜em＞Aviaries＜/em＞ is a novella composed of random diary entries, vignettes, dreams, observations, interior monologues, meditations, short anecdotes, newspaper headlines, and excerpts from poetry and prose, central among which is a passage from C.G. Jung's essay on the Kore. All these elements meld together in a collapse of time to create, similar to the work of Unica Z?rn and Leonora Carrington, a phantasmagoria of the life of a woman navigating a city indifferent to those living on the margins. Interactions with other residents of Prague’s Sm?chov district, characters who might be figments of her imagination, and the other women in her life ? infirm mother, artsy sister, absent, dumpster-diving daughter ? have reached a point where fantasy and reality seamlessly merge. The death of V?clav Havel in 2011 provides the opening, and from there the prose throbs in a kaleidoscope of contemporary news reports, flights of hallucination, wordplay, and metaphoric association to testify to what it is like to be alone and lost and indigent in a world that has stopped making sense. It is an unsparing vision of present-day Prague where life has become a morass of the bizarre and the grotesque.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Brabcov?’s final book before her unexpected death, ＜em＞Aviaries＜/em＞ received the Josef ?kvoreck? Award in 2016 for best prose of the year and was shortlisted for the Magnesia Litera Book of the Year Award in 2017.＜/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！】Sir John Franklin’s Erebus and Terror Expedition Lost and Found【電子書籍】[ Gillian Hutchinson ]

＜p＞In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin set out on a voyage to find the North-West Passage ? the sea route linking the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. The expedition was expected to complete its mission within three years and return home in triumph but the two ships, HMS ＜em＞Erebus＜/em＞ and HMS ＜em＞Terror＜/em＞, and the 129 men aboard them disappeared in the Arctic. The last Europeans to see them alive were the crews of two whaling ships in Baffin Bay in July 1845, just before they entered the labyrinth of the Arctic Archipelago.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The loss of this British hero and his crew, and the many rescue expeditions and searches that followed, captured the public imagination, but the mystery surrounding the expedition's fate only deepened as more clues were found. How did Franklin's final expedition end in tragedy? What happened to the crew?＜/p＞ ＜p＞The thrilling discoveries in the Arctic of the wrecks of ＜em＞Erebus＜/em＞ in 2014 and ＜em＞Terror＜/em＞ in 2016 have brought the events of 170 years ago into sharp focus and excited new interest in the Franklin expedition. This richly illustrated book is an essential guide to this story of heroism, endurance, tragedy and dark desperation.＜/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 Mutiny of the Elsinore【電子書籍】[ Jack London ]

＜p＞*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.***＜/p＞ ＜p＞Synopsis:＜br /＞ Life has lost its savor for Mr. Pathurst. New York, fame, women, and the arts have all become tedious. Searching for excitement, he books passage on a cargo vessel sailing from Baltimore to Seattle on a route that travels around the treacherous Cape Horn. Pathurst encounters more than he ever expected in rough seas, turbulent storms, and a mutinous crew. His epic struggles aboard the sailing ship Elsinore have given him a new love for life, but will he survive to profit from it?＜br /＞ You can find the complete list of CLASSIC COLLECTION 600 at the end of this ebook.＜br /＞ FIND AND ENJOY!＜/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！】Great Expectations【電子書籍】[ Charles Dickens ]

＜p＞*** Original and Unabridged Content. Included biography, quotes, review…＜br /＞ Made available by 3N CLASSIC BOOKCASE.***＜br /＞ This ebook includes:＜br /＞ - Great Expectations - Original and complete content with classic illustration pictures＜br /＞ - Charles Dickens Biography＜br /＞ - Charles Dickens quotes＜br /＞ - Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Review＜br /＞ - Great Expectations - Top Ten Quotes＜br /＞ - Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Study Guide＜br /＞ Synopsis:＜br /＞ From the opening passage itself of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the reader is drawn into the world of the hero, Pip, who is at that time, seven years old. The author creates an unforgettable atmosphere: the gloom of the graveyard, the melancholy of the orphan boy, the mists rising over the marshes and the terrifying appearance of an escaped convict in chains.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Told in first person (one of the only two books that Dickens used this form for, the other being David Copperfield) Great Expectations is a classic coming of age novel, in which we trace the growth and evolution of Pip or Philip Pirrip to give his full name. Pip has lost his parents very early in life and is being brought up by his much older sister and brother-in-law Joe Gargery. His sister is a dominating and shrewish woman, while Joe is an affectionate man. Joe's uncle Mr Pumblechook (another of Dickens' delightfully evocative names) asks Joe to send Pip to the stately mansion Statis House ostensibly to play with the owner Miss Havisham's adopted daughter Estella. This marks the beginning of a life-changing experience for Pip.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Miss Havisham is a wealthy eccentric whose twisted agenda is that of taking revenge on the man who jilted her at the altar. Pip is unwittingly drawn into her malevolent schemes. When Pip grows older, Miss Havisham's lawyer Mr Jaggers informs Pip that he has come into a large fortune from an unknown benefactor and that he must move to London and learn to become a “gentleman.” What follows is a strange and labyrinthine tale of Pip's journey into adulthood.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dickens' wonderful gift for characterization peoples the book with a host of memorable characters and sub-plots. The novel also explores the fears and anxieties of childhood and traces Pip's moral and emotional development and his ambitions as he matures. Estella as the warped creation of a vengeful mind has her own route to traverse.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Great Expectations finds Charles Dickens at the peak of his creative powers. The Victorian preoccupation with wealth and social ambition, personal ambition, class distinctions, crime and punishment and how they looked at education and self improvement as a means to rise in society are all vividly portrayed here. There are some delightfully humorous passages throughout the book which add to its flavor and authenticity. As with most of Dickens' work, this is a book to be savored by young and old alike and preferably to be read aloud, as Dickens himself did in his wildly popular public readings.＜br /＞ ENJOY THE FULL STORY!＜/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！】On Thin Ice An Anthology【電子書籍】[ Loreth Anne White ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Two undercover agents take the greatest risk of their careersーand livesーin these thrilling first two books in Loreth Anne White’s Bellona Channel series!＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞MELTING THE ICE＜/p＞ ＜p＞Hannah McGuire’s resort-town life had been quiet, happy and safe. Until her best friend was murdered and the investigation forced her into a partnership with Dr. Rex Loganーthe man she’d loved, lost and been hiding from for six years.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Rex had put Hannah’s life in danger once before. Now he had to face her again. And this time, to protect her, he was staying closeーvery close. Working to expose a terrorist who possessed a weapon that could threaten global security, Rex was defenseless in the face of the powerful passion that still simmered between them. But was passion enough? And when Hannah told Rex her own secretーthat she’d borne him a sonーwould she put all their lives in grave danger?＜/p＞ ＜p＞SAFE PASSAGE＜/p＞ ＜p＞Wounded government agent Scott Armstrong hated his newest assignmentーbaby-sitting scientist Dr. Skye Van Rijn. He missed the excitement of working in the field, his only salvation from the tragedy that haunted his dreams. But the mission turned dangerous when he discovered an evil terrorist was also after the mysteriousーand beautifulーdoctor.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Skye was a genius at developing biological antidotes to new diseases. Her tender touch and warm body soon began to heal Scott’s battered heart, but the deadly secrets she hid put both their lives at risk, sending them on the run, into the harsh wilderness. As their enemy closed in, Scott was forced to choose between his loyalties to his jobーand his passion for the woman who might just be able to save his soul . . .＜/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！】Lost Child The True Story of a Girl who Couldn't Ask for Help【電子書籍】[ Torey Hayden ]

＜p＞＜strong＞From Torey Hayden, the number one ＜em＞Sunday Times＜/em＞ bestselling author of ＜em＞One Child＜/em＞ comes ＜em＞Lost Girl＜/em＞, a poignant and deeply moving account of a lost little girl and an extraordinary educational psychologist's courage and determination.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jessie is nine years old and looks like the perfect little girl, with red hair, green eyes and a beguiling smile. She even has a talent for drawing gorgeous and intricate pictures. But Jessie also knows how to get her own way and will lie, scream, shout and hurt to get just exactly what she wants.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Her parents say they can't take her back, and her social workers struggle to deal with her destructive behaviour and wild mood swings. After her chaotic passage through numerous foster placements, Jessie has finally received a diagnosis of an attachment disorder. Attachment disorders arise when children are deprived of the all-important close bonds with trustworthy adults that allow them to develop emotionally and thrive.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Finally educational psychologist Torey Hayden is called in to help. Torey agrees to weekly meetings with Jessie to try and uncover why she is acting out. Torey's gentle care and attention reveal shocking truths behind Jessie's lies. Can Torey and the other social workers help to provide the consistent loving care that has so far been missing in Jessie’s life, or will she push them away too?＜/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！】Under The Golden Sun 'Jenny Ashcroft's best yet' Dinah Jeffries【電子書籍】[ Jenny Ashcroft ]

＜p＞＜strong＞'A deeply touching, delicious, slow burn of a love affair. A really excellent book and Jenny Ashcroft's best yet.' Dinah Jeffries＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'The perfect way to lose myself, escaping from the every day to travel around the world.' Louise Douglas＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞What if all you needed to do to find home, was leave?＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Wanted: companion to escort a young, orphaned child home to Australia.＜/em＞＜br /＞ ＜em＞All expenses as well as passage covered.＜/em＞＜br /＞ ＜em＞Interested parties to apply without delay to 32 Williams Street, Belgravia.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Rose Hamilton is in desperate need of a fresh start. There are so many reasons she should ignore the advertisement: the war, those treacherous seas, her family, her fianc?... but she cannot help herself. Within weeks, she is boarding an enormous convoy, already too attached to five-year-old Walter Lucknow.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But rural Queensland, and the cattle station home of Walter's parents, is not as either of them were told to expect. Rose cannot leave this little boy she's grown to love until he is happy, and she knows the key to this is Walter's wounded fighter pilot uncle Max. But how will she ever part with Walter? And what if he isn't the only reason she wants to stay?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Authors love ＜em＞Under the Golden Sun:＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞**'An epic story of hope and heartbreak.' Iona Grey, author of ＜em＞Letters to the Lost＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞'Utterly emotive and beautiful.' Lorna Cook, author of ＜em＞The Forbidden Promise＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞'A sumptuous story of love and belonging.' Tracy Rees****, author of ＜em＞The House at Silvermoor＜/em＞**＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'Ashcroft fans are in for a real treat.' Emma Rous＜/strong＞**, author of ＜em＞The Perfect Guests＜/em＞**＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'＜em＞Under the Golden Sun＜/em＞ transported me to exciting, sun-filled places.' Liz Trenow＜/strong＞**, author of ＜em＞The Forgotten Seamstress＜/em＞**＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'Ashcroft writes with the perfect blend of elegance and emotional punch.' Hazel Gaynor＜/strong＞**, author of ＜em＞The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter＜/em＞**＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'Will grab your heart, squeeze it and won't let it go until the poignant and emotional end.' Louise Fein＜/strong＞**, author of ＜em＞People Like Us＜/em＞**＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'A story of love in its various forms, with the powerful pull of promises made, trust broken and well-kept secrets.' Glynis Peters, author of ＜em＞The Secret Orphan＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'This is a novel to lose yourself in.' Gill Paul＜/strong＞**, author of ＜em＞The Lost Daughter＜/em＞**＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'Keeps you guessing till the end.' Adrienne Chin＜/strong＞**, author of ＜em＞The English Wife＜/em＞**＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'A beautiful and sumptuous story that tugs on your heartstrings in all the right ways.' Nikola Scott, author of ＜em＞My Mother's Shadow＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'Vivid and lyrical, this epic love story completely enchanted and transported me. Unforgettably poignant, Rose's story is spellbinding yet utterly real.' Holly Miller, author of ＜em＞The Sight of You＜/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！】One-Way Ticket Nine Lives on Two Wheels【電子書籍】[ Jonathan Vaughters ]

＜p＞＜strong＞The new memoir tracing story of cycling since the 1980s, through the eyes of Jonathan Vaughters, founder of team Education First and one of the sport's most towering figures.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jonathan Vaughters' story is the story of modern cycling. From his early years as a keen cyclist in his hometown in Colorado to his unflinching rite of passage as a professional rider with US Postal to his elevation as one of cycling's most resilient, ethical and intelligent team bosses, the highs and lows of his career have mirrored those of the sport itself. Vaughters has had a front-row seat for most of the major events in cycling over the past three decades. He was both a former teammate of Lance and a leading witness against him. And he went on to renounce doping and start the first pro cycling team to dedicate itself to clean riding, which has grown into one of the most successful teams competing today and started a movement that has swept across the sport.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This is also not simply a story of races won and lost: Vaughters shows readers how he navigated the complex, international business of building Slipstream into a world-class cycling team. Over the past decade, he has led the sport out of the scandal-plagued Armstrong era. By presenting the world with a team made of talented racers built around a rigorous approach to clean racing, he set a new standard within cycling that has since spread across the peloton. Written from the unique perspective of both a racer and a team manager, ＜em＞One-Way Ticket＜/em＞ gives the complete story of what it takes to build a winning team and repair the reputation of a sport.＜/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！】Beat the Border An Insider's Guide to How the U.S. Border Works & How to Beat It【電子書籍】[ Ned Beaumont ]

＜p＞Make no mistake about it, ＜em＞Beat the Border＜/em＞ was, is, and is likely to remain a classic for anyone interested in how to cross the U.S. border with as few hassles as possible.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It was used by admissions officers at U.S. colleges as a manual for their foreign exchange students.＜br /＞ It was consulted by Hollywood filmmakers to lend verisimilitude to their movies.＜br /＞ It was cited by privacy experts in their best books.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Beat the Border: An Insider’s Guide to How the U.S. Border Works and How to Beat It＜/em＞ was published first by Paladin Press in 1995.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In this day of more restrictions at the border, of closer inspections there, and of more coordinated computerized records on everyone, what then, can a book about the ways of the border in times of more freedom do for you?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Try these three:＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Beat the Border＜/em＞ offers you unparalleled PSYCHOLOGICAL INSIGHT into how inspectors at the border think and act.＜br /＞ ＜em＞Beat the Border＜/em＞ gives you unmatched HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE on how, why, and in what ways things have changed--and how Americans lost some of their freedoms.＜br /＞ Beat the Border provides you with PRACTICAL TIPS that will ease you passage across any border now or in the future.＜/p＞ ＜p＞If all that doesn’t make for a “classic,” then what does?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Besides the nuts-and-bolts information, Beat the Border, remains a ＜em＞fun＜/em＞ and ＜em＞entertaining＜/em＞ read.＜/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！】P.S. I Hate It Here Kids' Letters from Camp【電子書籍】[ Diane Falanga ]

＜p＞For every parent who’s ever received a letter from a homesick child or anybody who’s ever written their parents with crazy requests from their bunk*, P.S. I Hate It Here: Kids’ Letters From Camp* will delight with hilarious and heartwarming real-life letters.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the bestselling tradition of nostalgic looks at classic rites of passage, such as ＜em＞Camp Camp＜/em＞ and ＜em＞Bar Mitzvah Disco＜/em＞, ＜em＞P.S. I Hate It Here＜/em＞: ＜em＞Kids’ Letters from Camp＜/em＞ captures a childhood experience shared by millions. This collection of real letters written by children ages eight to sixteen to their parents about their adventures at summer camp are laugh-out-loud funny and will have readers reminiscing about their own camp days.＜/p＞ ＜p＞More than 150 letters cover all the imaginable scenarios of sleep away camp, from acing the cabin lice inspection, to rowing in the “ricotta” race, to breaking the bad news about a retainer lost in the wilderness. These letters reveal that kids are wittier and more sophisticated than we might assume, and that the experience of being away from home for the first time creates hilarious and lasting memories.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Inspired by her daughter's "melodramatic rants" from camp, Diane Falanga collected 150 hilarious, poignant letters from kids 8-16 ... Read it and remember.＜/em＞＜br /＞ ＜em＞＜strong＞- People Magazine＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Whether your kid is in camp or you cherish your own memories of s'mores and Color Wars, you'll get a kick out of P.S. I Hate It Here! , a book of real-life, laugh-out-loud letters from camp.＜br /＞ ＜strong＞- Redbook Magazine＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Kids just left for sleepaway camp? See how their letters from home measure up to the humorous missives in the new book "P.S. I Hate It Here: Kids' Letters From Camp" by Diane Falanga, a collection of more than 150 real letters.＜br /＞ ＜strong＞- Newsday＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞'P.S. I Hate It Here' compiles notes home from camp with love - a handsome, actually quite beautiful, little book.＜br /＞ ＜strong＞- Chicago Tribune＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Trust me when I tell you that not only will your kids get a kick out of the amazingly funny letters contained in this book, you and your friends will too.＜br /＞ ＜strong＞- Chicago Parent Magazine＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞This collection of kids' actual letters home brings back all the hilarity and homesickness of sleepaway camp. Each image displays children's creative spelling, their pleading to be picked up or for permission to stay "just two more weeks." Parents and seasoned campers will enjoy reading this collection and laughing at (or commiserating with) these familiar dilemnas: "I hate it here! The letter before this about me starting to have fun was not true ..."＜br /＞ ＜strong＞- San Diego Family Magazine＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。