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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！】29 1/2 Years of Marriage I Was Married to a Preacher Who Was a Pimp/Conartist/Player【電子書籍】[ Ruth J. Webb ]

＜p＞Surviving the Unimaginable By Ruth Janie Webb He beat me with a hammer. He beat me with a bat. He strangled me until all of my breath had gone and I was left for dead. He shoved the barrel of a 22 riffle in my mouth and told me hed blow my brains out and kill the children too. So when he spit on me, bit me, slapped me or kicked me, it didnt seem so bad. Self-esteem? What self-esteem! As bad as the physical abuse was, the mental abuse seemed almost worse. My husband would brag tome that he had other women that were prettier, smarter and more desirable. I was left alone with the children for days at a time. He would leave because the house was too noisy. Hed leave when the bills were due. Hed leave to visit those other women. If I dared ask where hed been, hed beat me yet again. Women who stay in abusive relationships are afraid. Only God can deliver. It takes God to give a woman the strength and ability she needs to step away from this type of demonic, controlling relationship. I know the excuses. I used them myself. I dont have any where to go. There is always somewhere to go. I dont want to leave my stuff. Baby, when youre really ready and you have had enough, you will leave everything. When I left my first husband, I left everything in that house. I went to work and never returned. I only had the clothes on my back. My babies need their daddy. If you dont seek help and leave that abusive relationship, you and your babies will end up dead. He will kill me if I leave. He will kill you if you stay. He will change. No, he wont! Not without Gods help. He has to want Gods help for himself, not because you want him to want God. He said he was sorry. He is sorry if he put his hands on you. He is a coward living in the shell of a man. He loves me. Love is not abusive. He only does it when hes drunk. Then he needs to stop drinking. These are just a few of our excuses. No one deserves to be beaten, no one. Not for any reason. Stop blaming yourself. I thank God that He was with me and allowed me to make it out alive. It was only His divine protection and love that allowed us to make it out alive. You must stop endangering and damaging yourself and your children. Once I gave my life to God, I no longer had low self esteem. I picked up my head and walked in who God said I was. I survived the unimaginable and you can too. Now instead of dwelling on the pain and regret of 29 1/2 years of marriage that nearly killed me and my children, I am using the experience to help others. God is using me to encourage and minister to both men and women who are in abusive relationships. My life is a miracle. My mess had been turned into a message of hope and healing. I pray you allow God to do the same for you.＜/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！】Why Does Love Hurt so Good? The Things We Allow and Put up with and Go Through to Have Someone to Love Us【電子書籍】[ Ondray Pearson ]

＜p＞Why Does Love Hurt So Good? It’s hard to explain why we stay with someone who isn’t treating or loving them the way they should. Staying, some would say is foolish, unhealthy and not normal, and they’re right, but for you to understand the why, you must experience loving someone first hand because until you do, you have no idea the power that love has over many of us. Within these stories, you will read and experience what people will do to have someone love them. Sex, lies, deception, betrayal, abuse, and infidelity were just a few of the traits used to obtain what they thought would make them happy in their relationship. As you read, you will, at some point, have to rethink what you thought you knew about love because, contrary to what many think and believe, not all love is good love that we receive from those we love. Readers are talking: Avis Parter, from Fayetteville, North Carolina, says, “It truly touched my soul, I saw myself in it. I loved it; I cried because it was so my life. I needed this book three years ago.” Deborah Antrum, St. Louis, Missouri, says, “I read your book, and I love it! I let my daughter read also. I am looking forward to what you have in the making; you have my FULL support.” Pastor Ricardo Manuel, from Savannah, Georgia, says, “The book is a great read. I recommend that you get a copy and read it for yourself!”＜/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！】Walking Home to Myself【電子書籍】[ Werner Stejskal ]

＜p＞＜strong＞One woman. One trail. One truth she can no longer ignore.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Erika has always lived cautiously, hiding behind expectations and silence. But when her world begins to unravel, she does the unthinkableーshe straps on a backpack and sets out to walk the 1000-kilometre Bibbulmun Track across Western Australia. Alone.＜/p＞ ＜p＞What begins as a physical challenge soon becomes a spiritual and emotional awakening. Through dense forests, coastal winds, and lonely campsites, Erika confronts her inner turmoil, childhood pain, and the haunting questions she's avoided for too long. Each step takes her closer to self-acceptanceーand to a truth about her identity she can no longer hide.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Walking Home to Myself＜/em＞ is a raw, introspective, and empowering journey of transformation. With moments of quiet beauty and hard-won strength, this novel explores what it truly means to find your place in the worldーand within yourself.＜/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！】Love Is Life MANUSCRIPT BOOK of Poems An Unexpected Journey【電子書籍】[ Fred Bear ]

＜p＞A life's journey＜/p＞ ＜p＞To the center of the heart＜/p＞ ＜p＞Done through poetry＜/p＞ ＜p＞A story of adventure＜/p＞ ＜p＞Through the chapters of my life＜/p＞ ＜p＞And the unexpected journey＜/p＞ ＜p＞I now find myself on＜/p＞ ＜p＞Guided by the evolution＜/p＞ ＜p＞Of my dreams＜/p＞ ＜p＞The first eleven poems of this book were written in my youth to my love in life. We spent fifty-seven wonderful years together living and loving so many adventures in our life. We began this adventure on the first day we met and continued it throughout our lifetime together. The eighty-nine poems that have followed since her passing have been given to me to share with family, friends, and all souls wishing to feel the beauty of love and faith. They are truly an unexpected journey in finding myself and sharing this purpose with others who have experienced loss. I have been blessed with the words and thoughts to inspire me and others to live in the now. For there is a purpose for all in life to continue one's journey and share peace and joy with all we meet. My dear friend, Faye, sent me a note that read, "Keep busy, my friend, don't let your mind go there and give yourself a break. I know you are struggling today, try to keep your mind busy. The sun will come out. "I promise." These words have evolved into an unexpected journey to create a lasting act of love that shows grace, warmth, and kindness to share with all who dare to dream.＜/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！】CRAZY or NOT My journey through pharma drugs, psychotic side effects, and a vile mental health system【電子書籍】[ Dawn Jeronowitz ]

＜p＞A psychopharmacology memoir. ＜em＞Crazy or Not＜/em＞ is a fully forthcoming account spanning over two decades of a life entrapped in the mental health system. Medications, involuntary commitments, police and medical transgressions filled with psychosis, diagnosis and madness are described in harrowing detail; bolstered by medical records, police reports and full color photo images.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Clarity comes in the form of education, connection that leads toward a path of political activism, meetings with elected representatives, plus a testimony to the FDA. A well-documented timeline of violence, tragedies, weaponizations and warnings are substantiated by resources and pictures.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The power of unconditional love, humanity, empathy, and will-to-live is driving throughout with clear purpose: to help generate a safer, healthier, more stable society. ＜em＞Crazy or Not＜/em＞ is a story that will open your eyes, break your heart, lift your soul and make you think. And it just may inspire you to believe in yourself too.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞"I would like to thank myself for the miracle of my being here today."＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞These are the words Dawn spoke before members of the FDA Psychopharmacologic Drug Advisory Committee hearing in 2006, before she described her prescription drug related experience - an alarming ordeal that began five years earlier...＜/p＞ ＜p＞With a successful and coveted career in the music touring industry, a blossoming new relationship, and her beloved dog Simon by her side, Dawn sets off for a sunny vacation in Florida between tours. But when she is prescribed an anti-anxiety pill for a minor problem, her charmed life quickly spirals into mania, insomnia, religious preoccupations, impulsive actions, grandiose behaviors, suicidal ideation, and psychosis. The world altering events of September 11 further propel a delusional Dawn into a full-blown paranoid, psychotic war - and she is brutally taken into custody, involuntarily committed to a mental crisis institution, and pharmaceutically drugged even more.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In riveting detail, Dawn takes the reader on a wild and terrifying ride of insanity. As the drugs are flushed from her system, she begins to regain control over her life and flourish. Despite all challenges that present, Dawn shares her harrowing story to shed light on the dark epidemic of pharmaceutical drug-generated violence, suicide, homicide, and terror in the name of mental health.＜/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！】Think About It Tomorrow: A Memoir【電子書籍】[ Evelyn Crow ]

＜p＞Sometimes the only person you have to talk to is yourself. I don't know about you, but I hate myself... These are the thoughts of Evelyn Crow, a young mother who has experienced abuse, torture, humiliation, loss of loved ones and self worth, but fights to maintain a facade of happiness for her children. Sometimes all you can do to survive is hide.＜/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 Remember...【電子書籍】[ Philip Foo ]

＜p＞Unless you write yourself, you cant know how wonderful it is; I always used to bemoan the fact that I couldnt draw, but now Im overjoyed that at least I can write. And if I dont have the talent to write books or newspaper articles, I can always write for myself.ANN FRANK, A Diary of a Young Girl. And that was what I did, sitting at the kitchen table, pencil in hand, Oxford Dictionary of Current English and a pencil sharpener beside me. It was daunting at the beginning, putting pencil to paper, and I could not remember the number of times I stared blankly at the refrigerator facing me in the kitchen, scouring my mind to recollect memories of past events. Somehow, the encouraging words from the books I had read to prepare me for this journey seemed to lubricate the long stagnant gears of my mind and I just do itthe way I wanted it to be done.＜/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！】SIMON’S JOURNAL【電子書籍】[ Simon K. ]

＜p＞＜strong＞"I don't build engines instead of friends.＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞I build them to stay myselfーwhen the whole world demands that I disappear."＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞This is not a victim's diary. It's a survivor's manifesto.＜br /＞ ＜em＞Simon's Journal＜/em＞ is an honest, technically precise, and poetically piercing account by an autistic engineer on how to live in a world designed for the "normal."＜/p＞ ＜p＞There are no inspirational clich?s here about "overcoming" autism. Only truth:＜br /＞ ー about how rituals prevent collapse,＜br /＞ ー how "maybe" destroys trust,＜br /＞ ー how sex without a clear "yes" becomes violence,＜br /＞ ー how schoolyard bullying leaves scars on the nervous system,＜br /＞ ー and how love is possibleーbut only if it begins with the question: "May I?"＜/p＞ ＜p＞Simon doesn't ask you to "understand" him. He demands one thing:＜br /＞ ＜strong＞respect for his right to be himselfーwithout a mask, without apologies, without compromising his nervous system.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Every entry is like a turbine part: calibrated, essential, load-bearing.＜br /＞ Every sentence is both a distress signal and a beacon:＜br /＞ ＜em＞"You're not alone. You're not broken. You have the right to silence."＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞For autistic readersーit's a mirror.＜br /＞ For neurotypicalsーit's a guide to respect.＜br /＞ For everyone elseーit's a reminder:＜br /＞ ＜strong＞humanity isn't measured by how much you resemble others,＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞but by how fiercely you remain yourselfーeven when the world demands otherwise.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞"My 'yes' is real only if I say it myselfー＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞not if I echo yours."＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ー Simon K.＜/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！】Weekend Submissive 2【電子書籍】[ Erika Masten ]

＜p＞＜strong＞From Bestselling Erotic Romance and Erotica Author Erika Masten＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞**Part 2 of the Much Anticipated 3-Part Erotica Novelette Series＜/p＞ ＜p＞Weekend Submissive 2＜br /＞ An Erotica Novelette**＜/p＞ ＜p＞From helpful girl next door to willing sex slave…. Brisa Martin’s brave experiment spending a single weekend as the sexual submissive for sexy police officer Wayne Fulton is teaching her that she knows nothing about the true nature of domination and submission. The hulking Dom can be tender and coaxing one moment, commanding and forceful the next, as Brisa’s first full day in Wayne’s care turns into a lesson in trust as well as lust and ends with the hard use she’s been craving.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞EXCERPT:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“It’s okay, Brisa,” he breathes with those full lips into the mussed waves of my sun-streaked brown hair, just a shade lighter than his. I can feel the curl of his soft, effortless smile against the curve of my ear, and it sends a thrill through me that threatens to tighten all those abused muscles again.＜/p＞ ＜p＞His fingertips gingerly trace their way along the supple, oiled leather straps to the metal buckle over my hip. I gasp as his fingers, working the buckle, tug the harness taut and jar the sex toys piercing my most private channels.＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Sorry. Sorry, baby,” he coos to me, and I turn my face to catch a glimpse of sincere concern in those gleaming silver-gray eyes, his teeth sunken into the plump, rosy pad of his bottom lip. The little scar above one corner of his mouth is a tiny imperfection that I want to kiss, to trace with the tip of my tongue. It only makes him more handsome.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Blinking hard, I feel like I’m looking at Wayne, at the whole room, past a soft focus lens or the haze of a lingering dream. After eighteen months of lusting after my sexy neighbor, and after spending all day yesterday at the height of arousal from his forthright confession that he knew I’d been spying on him whenever he left his bedroom blinds open, I thought I knew emotional exhaustion, sexual enervation. A night of fitful sleep at the mercy of erotic dreams and repeated climaxes has left me stunned, drained, but strangely unsatisfied. Maybe because I have yet to feel Wayne take me, f*** me, lay his body against mine and ride me.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Serving as the sexual submissive for the six-foot-four police lieutenant for a weekend is already more than I bargained for, nothing like what I expected. So much more intense, sitting in his lap and eating from his fingers, baring myself to him and hanging on his next command, starving for the feeling of his member in my aching p****. Itーsex, pure hard sexーpales in comparison to the intensity and duration of the arousal he has exacted upon me in the last twelve hours, and most of those occupied by sleep.＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Can you take it?” he asked me last night, just before we fell asleep. Could I take being pushed even harder? I wonder, but I know I couldn’t take walking away from Wayne now, not until he sends me away. Will he, at the end of our weekend, at the expiration of our agreement? I shove the worry away like I push back the downy covers of his bed. This…this trial period was my idea, after all. No fretting, I tell myself. Stay with it, with the experience. Give yourself to it. That was what he said to me last night.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Weekend Submissive 2 is a 14,800+ word novelette, Part 2 of the 3-Part Weekend Submissive series of domination and submission erotic shorts.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Bonus Material: Includes excerpts from The Ringmaster: Cirque de Plaisir (a domination and submission romance novel) and At His Whim: His #1 (first in the bestselling His Series) by Erika Masten.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Warning: Strong sexual content and themes of domination and submission. Intended for mature readers only. All characters depicted in this story are 18 years of age or older, and all sexual activities are of a consensual nature.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Oliver: A Short Story【電子書籍】[ Richard Norway ]

＜p＞What happens to you when you're forced to face your fears? What happens to you when that person forcing you to face your fears is yourself? Jonas has a decision to make. He's 16 years old and must face himself to make the right decision which will affect the rest of his life. But he has help from an unexpected source.＜br /＞ DesDownunder at awesomedude.com has awarded this short story his Appreciation award. Here are his words:＜br /＞ "Oliver...is a stand out for me because it touches on the human condition in a most universal way with profound meaning for life itself.＜br /＞ Warning: Spoiler ahead＜br /＞ Richard, there is no need to apologize for using Dicken's template of A Christmas Carol, you aren't the first and you won't be the last. (I confess to doing it myself in my A Christmas for Carol story.)＜br /＞ The sheer creativity in Oliver displaces any idea that it is merely an adaptation of Dicken's work. It is so much more. Oliver is not just a 'coming out' tale. It is a 'coming together' story; the unification of youth's evolving potential, and the discovery of what it means to let ourselves and each other be who we are. The way that Richard exposes the cultural pressures on Jonas to be other than who he is, is done with superb restraint and subtlety, relegating the drama to creating the atmosphere of a storm that was never as bad as it might have been. The anticipation of the human drama is never less, or more, than it should be, but it manages to suggest the value of confrontation with self-discovery.＜br /＞ I cannot allow Richard's work to go unpunished, so I am awarding him my appreciation award for writing a story that contributes to our understanding of the human condition in life, love and coming out. Well done, Richard!＜br /＞ Awarded to Richard Norway for his outstanding revelation of the mysteries and evolution of sanity in Coming Out in his story, Oliver＜/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 Heart Speaks in Stories【電子書籍】[ Lesley Bunn ]

＜p＞I wrote this collection of essays, poems and stories, all short reads, to encourage myself and people of all ages to find a way through life's challenges! So sit back and let these words whimsically weave courage, forgiveness, gratitude, caring, kindness and self-love into a cozy cushion for your heart. Read them yourself, to your aging parents or grandchildren. We all need help to offset yearning, doubt, injustice, loneliness, fear, and all the dark emotions that haunt us when life goes wrong. Reread as needed, so you can gracefully navigate your perfectly imperfect life, because the world loves and needs you??＜/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！】Luka (Book 3) Steel Gods MC, #3【電子書籍】[ Zoey Parker ]

＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞This is book 3 and the finale of the Steel Gods MC series!＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞He hunted me down and made me his toy.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞NICOLETTE＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞It took me seven years to escape my abusive relationship.＜/p＞ ＜p＞My ex was a ruthless biker with a nasty mean streak.＜/p＞ ＜p＞And his final cruelty was putting a baby in my belly.＜/p＞ ＜p＞I took his unborn child and ran from him.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But I know he won't let me get away that easy.＜/p＞ ＜p＞And out here on my own, there's no one I can trust to protect me.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Then Luka appears.＜/p＞ ＜p＞He's a biker, just like the man I ran away from, but there's something different about him.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Tall, bearded, with piercing eyes that strip me naked, I want his touch so bad I can barely take it.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But Luka has secrets he's hiding from me.＜/p＞ ＜p＞And when I find out who sent him, I realize just how badly I messed up.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞LUKA＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞She's innocent, beautiful, and utterly off limits.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Most of all, she's just a job.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Bring home the goods."＜/p＞ ＜p＞That's what I do for the club.＜/p＞ ＜p＞That's what I'm best at.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But this time is different.＜/p＞ ＜p＞My prez sent me to reclaim his runaway ex.＜/p＞ ＜p＞I'm supposed to drag her back to the club, kicking and screaming.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But I just can't bring myself to do it.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This time and this time only…＜/p＞ ＜p＞I'm keeping the goods for myself.＜/p＞ ＜p＞***＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞He had a job to doーand falling in love with the runaway bride with a secret surprise baby was not in the job description. But the chemistry between this alpha male biker bad boy and his innocent woman is impossible to ignore. Take a glimpse inside this thrilling suspense MC motorcycle club romance series and see for yourself why thousands of fans are falling in love with LUKA.＜/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 Loss of The Fire【電子書籍】[ Kleo ]

＜p＞This book has been 12 years in the making, yet it is challenging for me to succinctly convey how I wish it to be perceived. In general, it is a story of transformation. Growing up as a Black girl in the southern suburbs, I often felt out of place and bewildered about my role in society. My mother noticed my need for an outlet and handed me my first journal. As I filled its pages with my emotions in ink, iPhones were invented, and I found myself using my note app for poems that explored my journey of self-perception, identity formation, love, and community. However, for those readers who only skim the first and last sentence of a paragraph, this book is about learning to embrace all aspects of yourself, including those that may be difficult to 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！】Lord Stranleigh Abroad【電子書籍】[ Robert Barr ]

＜p＞A few minutes before noon on a hot summer day, Edmund Trevelyan walked up the gang-plank of the steamship, at that moment the largest Atlantic liner afloat. Exactly at the stroke of twelve she would leave Southampton for Cherbourg, then proceed across to Queenstown, and finally would make a bee-line west for New York. Trevelyan was costumed in rough tweed of subdued hue, set off by a cut so well-fitting and distinguished that it seemed likely the young man would be looked upon by connoisseurs of tailoring as the best-dressed passenger aboard. He was followed by Ponderby, his valet, whose usually expressionless face bore a look of dissatisfaction with his lot, as though he had been accustomed to wait upon the nobility, and was now doomed to service with a mere commoner. His lack of content, however, was caused by a dislike to ocean travel in the first place, and his general disapproval of America in the second. A country where all men are free and equal possessed no charms for Ponderby, who knew he had no equal, and was not going to demean himself by acknowledging the possibility of such. Once on deck, his master turned to him and saidー“You will go, Ponderby, to my suite of rooms, and see that my luggage is placed where it should be, and also kindly satisfy yourself that none of it is missing.” Ponderby bowed in a dignified manner, and obeyed without a word, while Trevelyan mounted the grand staircase, moving with an easy nonchalance suited to a day so inordinately hot. The prospect of an ocean voyage in such weather was in itself refreshing, and so prone is mankind to live in the present, and take no thought of the morrow, that Trevelyan had quite forgotten the cablegrams he read in the papers on his way down from London, to the effect that New York was on the grill, its inhabitants swelteringーsleeping on the house-tops, in the parks, on the beach at Coney Island, or wherever a breath of air could be had. On the upper deck his slow steps were arrested by an exclamationー “Isn’t this Mr. Trevelyan?” The man who made the enquiry wore the uniform of the ship’s company. “Ah, doctor, I was thinking of you at this moment. I read in the papers that you had been promoted, and I said to myself: ‘After all, this is not an ungrateful world, when the most skilful and most popular medical officer on the Atlantic is thus appreciated.’” “Ah, you put it delightfully, Trevelyan, but I confess I hesitated about adding, at my time of life, to the burden I carry.” “Your time of life, doctor! Why you always make me feel an old man by comparison with yourself; yet you’ll find me skipping about the decks like a boy.” “If you’ll take the right-hand seat at my table, I’ll keep an eye on you, and prevent you from skipping overboard,” laughed the doctor. “Indeed, that was the boon I intended to crave.” “Then the seat is yours, Trevelyan. By the way, I read in the newspapers that Evelyn Trevelyan is none other than Lord Stranleigh; but then, of course, you can never believe what you see in the press, can you?” “Personally, I make no effort to do so. I get my news of the day from Ponderby, who is an inveterate reader of the principal journals favoured by what he calls the ‘upper classes.’ But I assure you that Evelyn Trevelyan is a name that belongs to me, and I wear it occasionally like an old, comfortable-fitting coat.”＜/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！】Echoes of My Heart Journey of finding home, love, and myself again【電子書籍】[ Jaya Bhardwaj ]

＜p＞Echoes of My Heart is a deeply personal and emotional collection of poetry and prose that＜br /＞ traces the journey from childhood innocence to the healing that follows self-doubt, and＜br /＞ life’s many learnings. Through raw honesty, Jaya Bhardwaj opens the door to the corners of＜br /＞ her soul from the memories of home and the ache of leaving it behind, to the storms of＜br /＞ loneliness, growth, and rediscovered dreams.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But through it all, this is a book about hope. About finding the pieces of yourself again.＜br /＞ About love in people, in God, and most importantly, in yourself.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Whether you’ve struggled silently or felt everything too deeply, Echoes of My Heart will sit＜br /＞ beside you like a friend who just gets it. This book is for anyone who’s ever felt too much,＜br /＞ loved too deeply, or dreamed of starting over.＜/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 McBride Series 6-9 Compilation【電子書籍】[ cLasP ]

＜p＞For this family's story is worth reading for over and over. Now comes in Great Compilation!!!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Book 6 - Digging for Gold＜br /＞ I was brought up in a straight lace family with money where people expected me to behave with poise and bearing. They just didn't know I wanted to unleash my wild and wanton side. And I did, with the help of my mystery lover. We meet up for hot, unadulterated steamy Friday nights. But when my heart decided to get involved, I cancelled our contract. Just in time I discovered he got me pregnant!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Book 7 - Red's Memoir＜br /＞ When all my life all I ever knew about emotion was hate but love suddenly attacked me in a form of a young innocent girl with long curly hair, brown eyes and naked hotness. All I could think of since was redemption. Maybe I'm being forgiven by heaven when they sent me an angel to hold, protect and love with all my heart and soul.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Book 8 - Serendipity＜br /＞ Scarlet let her hair down and partied the entire night. Tried out some nasty pill, booze, weed and coke. Even before the party ended, she was swept away by a stranger and culminated her night by losing her v-card. It was hot, no barred hold sex until the breaking of dawn. When they parted away, what actually broke her heart was what she discovered in her purse!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Book 9 (Finale) - Shades of Violet＜br /＞ How can you claim loving someone when you can't even love yourself wholly, flaws and all? I can't. That's why I said goodbye. That's why I left my husband because I can't accept myself who I am and I'm afraid he'd feel the same way with me. But all the years we're apart, it's him who'd lingered in my head, my heart. But I'm a coward. I'm not complete. Not at all.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Bonus Story! - Reese's Out of the Closet＜br /＞ [From the McBride Series 9: Shades of Violet, here's Therese Collins or "Reese" daughter of Edward Collins. Join her funny and steamy journey towards finding true love] How to conquer fear? How to conquer love? How will you tell the world that you're gay without being judged? How did I freaking get myself into a mess I didn't remember doing? How will I know this is my happily ever ending?＜/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！】Trilogy-Married Guys Who ‘Stray to Gay’【電子書籍】[ Henry Pepper ]

＜p＞Normally, I would have gone to a friend's house and crashed on his couch, drank a few beers and ranted about how complicated women could be, but my best friend just happened to be out of town that weekend, of all weekend's to be gone, so I was left with nowhere to go and no one to moan at. That's probably how I ended up sitting in that dirty little bar down on Second Street, surrounded by people who had nothing better to do on a Friday than booze their cares away.＜br /＞ I took a seat near the end of the bar, away from the crowds, wanting to drink myself into a stupor, ignore everyone around me and be ignored except for the bartender who occasionally swung my way to give me another drink.＜br /＞ Back in college, when I'd been much more of a drinker, during those rough patches with my wife who was just my girlfriend back then, I would sometimes find myself in a dump like this filled with people looking for a quick hookup; I was the same, and I wasn't too choosy who I ended up with either. A guy was as good as a girl, and my wife never got to know. I never felt guilty about it either. But since then, since my college days, I hadn't repeated any of that stuff again, the one night pickups, I mean.＜br /＞ I didn't have any intention to that night either until a guy slid onto the stool next to mine and ordered a drink from the bartender. I ignored him for a few minutes, crunching peanuts in my hands and sweeping the crumbs into a neat pile on the bar top. I would have been happy enough to ignore him all night and just get slowly drunk if he hadn't looked at me making a mess with the nuts and said, "You're supposed to eat those, not play with them."＜br /＞ It was a simple enough thing to say, just pleasant bar talk, something anyone probably would have said to get a conversation going, but considering my wife had just kicked me out and my only plan for the night was to sleep on the street or in the park, I wasn't in the mood to joke around＜br /＞ "Go ahead and eat them then," I replied without even glancing his way, "Help yourself."＜br /＞ He paused, probably thinking I was just another morbid Friday night drunk, but then I saw his hand sneak over and grab a peanut from the pile. He had a tattoo circling round his middle finger, tiny words that I couldn't make out. That was enough to grab my attention and bring my face up to look at him, at his boyish face, his dark hair framing his brown eyes as he returned my look. He had more tattoos on his neck, disappearing under the collar of his shirt. I was staring.＜br /＞ "What's wrong?" he asked, throwing the peanut up in the air and catching it in his mouth, cool and easy, as if he did this all the time, and maybe he did. Maybe it was his party trick. "Like it?"＜br /＞ "No." I shook my head and looked away. I wasn't impressed with his tricks.＜br /＞ "Bad night?" he asked, reaching for another peanut from the pile. Fine. I wasn't going to eat them anyway. Someone might as well.＜/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！】Salvation Bleeding: Forge of the Soul Stone The Utopia Falling Saga, #3【電子書籍】[ R.C. Vielee ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Accolades for the award-winning Utopia Falling Saga＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞"… a really fun read. I just lost myself in this story and I didn't want to put it down." ー＜/em＞ NetGalley Reviewer＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞"…immerse yourself in the magic, mystery, and mayhem of Utopia's unraveling, and prepare to be utterly spellbound."＜/em＞ ー Goodreads Reviewer＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞"Can't wait to read the next book and see what kind of chaos we'll be thrown into!"＜/em＞ ー Booksprout Reviewer＜/p＞ ＜p＞***＜/p＞ ＜p＞Peace is dead… War is coming… And the Devil's Blacksmith's plan to annihilate Tartica is speeding headlong to fruition. With Utopia facing devastation on two fronts, Reyne is its last hope. He thinks he's passed through the Void into Evidar with Gina, a trained killer at his side. They fight for their lives across the brutal realm hunting for the elusive Devil's Blacksmith… only to discover… they never reached Evidar!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Reyne must face the Void once more. But he knows an evil malevolence awaits him there, and it craves to devour his soul. If Reyne can survive the Void, if he can fend off his own inner demon, if he can kill the Devil's Blacksmith, he will deliver Utopia its salvation, and return to Mithany, the woman he loves. … If he only had the Soul Stone! …or is it already too late?＜/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！】Rediscover the Power Within【電子書籍】[ Ruchi ]

＜p＞You are not living the life you wanted to live? Do you often feel “stuck” in your life? Are you unable to make changes in your life? We often look outside ourselves for the solutions to these problems. But the solutions lie within us. This book on positive thinking teaches us to believe in ourselves and to take control of our lives by changing our attitude. It describes how each of us shape the events around us and create our own lives of abundance.＜br /＞ Break old patterns and destroy limiting beliefs＜br /＞ Condition yourself mentally, emotionally, and physically to create staggering results＜br /＞ Have more confidence and self-esteem＜br /＞ Develop new communication skills＜br /＞ Generate more passion and enthusiasm＜br /＞ Become aware of the higher purpose of your life＜br /＞ Discover what drives you and what holdsyou back＜br /＞ With this book, I would like to convey my thoughts and emotions. As a common individual who has certain desires and keeps on struggling with life to fulfill those desires, I have recently gained the courage to write my book which has helped me analyse the power within myself and the universe. I want to thank God and my family who have always been beside me, encouraged me to step forward even if I fall.＜/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 Gable House A totally addictive feel-good romance【電子書籍】[ Ellyn Oaksmith ]

＜p＞＜b＞Two old rivals. One dream job. And a summer they’ll never forget. ＜/b＞＜/p＞ ＜br＞ ＜p＞＜b＞Freya Johanssen ＜/b＞needs a fresh start. A recently heartbroken and newly-qualified veterinarian, she will take any job that gets her away from Seattleーfor now. Her plan is to spend two years in the small town of Whisper Falls, and then head back to the city and civilisation.＜/p＞ ＜br＞ ＜p＞And then ＜b＞Trent Crossley ＜/b＞shows up, and her carefully laid plans are blown to pieces. He’s the last person she expectedーor wantedーever to see again. This is the guy who thinks he’s God’s gift to women; who breezed through vet school without studying and who betrayed her in a way she’ll never forgive. She thinks he’s an arrogant party boy; he thinks she’s an uptight perfectionist. Now he’s in her clinic, and the fluttering in her stomach must mean she’s still mad at him.＜/p＞ ＜br＞ ＜p＞It seems they have both been hired for the same jobーand now neither is backing down. But as Freya works to outdo Trent at every turn, she starts to see a different side to the man she thought she knew. Falling in love was never part of her plan. And if she wants the new beginning she’s worked so hard for, can she afford to give away her heart?＜/p＞ ＜br＞ ＜p＞＜b＞A totally unputdownable feel-good read about finding yourself, and love, in the most unexpected places. Fans of ＜/b＞＜b＞＜i＞Virgin River＜/i＞＜/b＞＜b＞, Debbie Macomber, Jill Shalvis and Carolyn Brown will love ＜/b＞＜b＞＜i＞The Gable House＜/i＞＜/b＞＜b＞.＜/b＞＜/p＞ ＜br＞ ＜h2＞Readers can’t get enough of Ellyn Oaksmith:＜/h2＞ ＜p＞“Kept me ＜b＞hooked from start to end＜/b＞, I ＜b＞read it in one sitting＜/b＞… ＜b＞heart-warming＜/b＞.” ＜i＞Bookworm 86＜/i＞, 5 stars＜/p＞ ＜br＞ ＜p＞“A ＜b＞delightful＜/b＞ story… ＜b＞warmed my heart＜/b＞ and made the book ＜b＞impossible to put down＜/b＞… the ＜b＞perfect＜/b＞ read.” ＜i＞Tessa Talks Books＜/i＞＜/p＞ ＜br＞ ＜p＞“＜b＞A perfect summer vacation must-read＜/b＞…＜b＞ A well-deserved five stars＜/b＞.” ＜i＞Fiction Flock＜/i＞, 5 stars＜/p＞ ＜br＞ ＜p＞“I ＜b＞found myself staying up through the night＜/b＞ swooning and sniffling in this ＜b＞heart-wrenchingly amazing ＜/b＞romance… I ＜b＞was hooked from the very first page＜/b＞.” ＜i＞Nurse Bookie＜/i＞, 5 stars＜/p＞ ＜br＞ ＜p＞“This ＜b＞engaging and heart-warming story is so inspiring＜/b＞… ＜b＞a must read.＜/b＞ It ＜b＞will have you flipping through the pages＜/b＞ so fast, ＜b＞you will find yourself experiencing all the emotions＜/b＞ with this one.” ＜i＞Page Turners＜/i＞, 5 stars＜/p＞ ＜br＞ ＜p＞“＜b＞I adored it＜/b＞… Some funny little things that＜b＞ made me smirk ＜/b＞and some sad ones that＜b＞ broke my heart ＜/b＞AND a scene that＜b＞ made my eyes well up and my heart melt＜/b＞.＜b＞ Great ingredients mixed into a wonderful story＜/b＞.” ＜i＞B for Bookreview＜/i＞, 5 stars＜/p＞ ＜br＞ ＜p＞“A book that ＜b＞I adored and perfect for reading on a lovely sunny day＜/b＞… ＜b＞absorbed me immediately＜/b＞… feels real and as authentic as they come… full of ＜b＞heart-warming＜/b＞ moments… ＜b＞Every emotion is brought to the fore＜/b＞.” ＜i＞Sharon Beyond the Books＜/i＞＜/p＞ ＜br＞ ＜p＞“＜b＞Rich in friendship, family, and especially love＜/b＞. Add the ＜b＞many LOL moments＜/b＞… and you get ＜b＞a truly superb feel-good love story＜/b＞.” ＜i＞The Eclectic Review＜/i＞＜/p＞ ＜br＞ ＜p＞“An ＜b＞irresistible＜/b＞ blend of ＜b＞laidback charm＜/b＞, ＜b＞intense emotion＜/b＞, ＜b＞rib-tickling＜/b＞ ＜b＞humor＜/b＞ and ＜b＞uplifting romance＜/b＞.” ＜i＞Bookish Jottings＜/i＞＜/p＞ ＜br＞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 Lone Ranch【電子書籍】[ Captain Mayne Reid ]

＜p＞Excerpt＜/p＞ ＜p＞ave spoilt his physiognomy for life; and, depend upon it, as long as life lasts, he will neither forget nor forgive that. I shall also come in for a share of his spite, and it behoves both of us to beware of him."＜/p＞ ＜p＞"But what can he do to us?"＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Caballero, that question shows you have not been very long in this country, and are yet ignorant of its customs. In Mexico we have some callings not congenial to your people. Know that stilettoes can here be purchased cheaply, with the arms of assassins to use them. Do you understand me?"＜/p＞ ＜p＞"I do. But how do you counsel me to act?"＜/p＞ ＜p＞"As I intend acting myself--take departure from Chihuahua this very day. Our roads are the same as far as Albuquerque, where you will be out of reach of this little danger. I am returning thither from the city of Mexico, where I've had business with the Government. I have an escort; and if you choose to avail yourself of it you'll be welcome to its protection."＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Colonel Miranda, again I know not how to thank yo＜/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！】Scars to Pearls A Medical Healing and Spiritual Journey Through the Phases of Malignant Melanoma Stage IIIA Skin Cancer with Micro-Metastasis.【電子書籍】[ Lita M. Worthington ]

＜p＞So when facing a life threatening trial, how do you refuel the transformation needed to replenish the balance in life itself? What do you lean on, trust on, or hope on? I am a recently retired OB-GYN-Infertility nurse practitioner of almost thirty years in the field, and I experienced delivering a spectrum of diagnoses in my area of expertise. There were the ‘good news’ moments with joy, success, and cure. But there will be moments we witness overwhelming pain and the devastating news of death. The shoe is on the other foot now for me. I am the patient with metastatic melanoma skin cancer and not the provider, a very uncomfortable and humbling place for me. Sometimes the biggest battle fought isn’t the cancer, but the emotional battle we suddenly find ourselves in. We are not prepared for this emotional turmoil or how to deal with it. The journey I experienced and now share with you had its difficulties, filled with approximately fifty appointments, two surgeries, hospitalization and therapies, but life continues. If you have recently been diagnosed with cancer, I know you are scared; I certainly was. Because in the beginning when you first hear the news, you immediately wonder: ‘How is this all going to end?’ The journey has only just begun and we are already wondering: ‘How it’s all going to play out?’ I know all the questions you are asking yourself, for I am the patient now and my perspective has changed. I can feel the uncertainty of your courage and strength to proceed through the demands of appointments, diagnostic testing, surgeries, pain, and treatments. I know the tears you will wipe quietly away from your cheek in the middle of the night when you can’t sleep or when you are simply all alone, afraid, in pain, or discouraged. I can feel your heart pounding so loud that certainly anyone standing next to you must hear it also. Your mind is spinning with worry from all the ‘what ifs.’ What will help me ‘succeed’ at alleviating the fear that is ever present and now sprinkled into my daily life?As a lifelong believer in Christ, a foundation of faith was laid long ago. I was just a believer, as some years were more inclusive of Christ Jesus than others. But I never doubted there was a God. I would learn how to respect, love and nurture this new found relationship in the months ahead. I chose to lean on, trust on, and hope on my faith and I began introducing a spiritual element into my new daily routine. In the months of pain and challenges, reaching for spiritual encouragement and journaling as the days, weeks, and months would pass, I found myself in a relationship with my Creator. He sat with me, walked with me and became my companion when I was alone and tired. Experiencing the joy with this new relationship was a gift to me, from God. But, of course, the medical provider in me led me to bring an educational element to my book. It is not the number one cancer killer, but it is the universally number one diagnosed cancer. I had recognized the lack of awareness amongst my friends and family, in regards to skin cancers and the serious threat they pose. So I include many Medical Pearls, which may be facts, or a helpful hint to pay additional attention to. For those who want to read about an amazing spiritual journey I include several Holy Spirit Moments which could be visions or occurrences in which only God could provide and explain. And, I share Spiritual Pearls which are my spiritual thoughts on scripture, visions or dreams that occurred both past and present, as it contributes to who I am. In my most vulnerable moments, my trust needed to lie somewhere other than myself. I am very good at taking care of myself, thank you very much. Suddenly my life takes a turn, and I better get ready for the unchartered course it will take. One day at a time. We all have a story within us. This shall be my 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！】LOL @ Myself【電子書籍】[ Lee G. Harvey ]

＜p＞Follow this mountain girl from the Smokey Mountains across the United States in a hilarious self reflection of her naive background facing a new world of experiences along the way. Easy fun read. Laugh at yourself through these pages.＜/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 Ignominious Love-Child A Fortunate Love Child【電子書籍】[ C.E. Butch Thurman ]

＜p＞The following story is a fact-based account of my life. The title of this writing was intentional owing the stigma often placed upon children conceived and born out of wedlock and marked by the label of “Illegitimate”. The term Love-Child is a substitute for the original word (Bastard), which could be thought of as profane. The first word in the title of this essay, Ignominious: refers to the shame, dishonor or disgrace often felt by people born under these conditions. Bastard: references the illegitimacy of the child’s birth and the absence of matrimonially linked parents. Both words, which offer a rather uncomfortable air, only offer a descriptive reference to the first phase of an individual’s life. They, in no way, represent an actual person’s attitude, temperament or social presence. It is my hope that you enjoy what I have written and that when you have had time to review what you have read a tiny light will appear giving you a better understanding of yourself your family and humanity. As for me, putting my thoughts, memories and feelings down on paper was rewarding, relaxing and educational, because with each word, sentence, paragraph and page, I gained just a little more insight into myself.＜/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！】At the Mercy of Tiberius【電子書籍】[ Augusta Jane Evans ]

＜p＞You are obstinate and ungrateful. You would rather see me suffer and die, than bend your stubborn pride in the effort to obtain relief for me. You will not try to save me. The thin, hysterically unsteady voice ended in a sob, and the frail wasted form of the speaker leaned forward, as if the issue of life or death hung upon an answer. The tower clock of a neighboring church began to strike the hour of noon, and not until the echo of the last stroke had died away, was there a reply to the appeal. "Mother, try to be just to me. My pride is for you, not for myself. I shrink from seeing my mother crawl to the feet of a man, who has disowned and spurned her; I cannot consent that she should humbly beg for rights, so unnaturally withheld. Every instinct of my nature revolts from the step you require of me, and I feel as if you held a hot iron in your hand, waiting to brand me." "Your proud sensitiveness runs in a strange groove, and it seems you would prefer to see me a pauper in a Hospital, rather than go to your grandfather and ask for help. Beryl, time presses, and if I die for want of aid, you will be responsible; when it is too late, you will reproach yourself. If I only knew where and how to reach my dear boy, I should not importune you. Bertie would not refuse obedience to say wishes." The silence which followed was so prolonged that a mouse crept from its covert in some corner of the comfortless garret room, and nibbled at the fragments of bread scattered on the table. Beryl stood at the dormer window, holding aside the faded blue cotton curtain, and the mid-day glare falling upon her, showed every curve of her tall full form; every line in the calm, pale Sibylline face. The large steel gray eyes were shaded by drooping lids, heavily fringed with black lashes, but when raised in a steady gaze the pupils appeared abnormally dilated; and the delicately traced black brows that overarched them, contrasted conspicuously with the wealth of deep auburn hair darkened by mahogany tints, which rolled back in shining waves from her blue veined temples. While moulding the figure and features upon a scale almost heroic, nature had jealously guarded the symmetry of her work, and in addition to the perfect proportion of the statuesque outlines, had bestowed upon the firm white flesh a gleaming smoothness, suggestive of fine grained marble highly polished. Majesty of mien implies much, which the comparatively short period of eighteen years rarely confers, yet majestic most properly describes this girl, whose archetype Veleda read runic myths to the Bructeri in the twilight of history. Beryl crossed the room, and with her hands folded tightly together, came to the low bed, on which lay the wreck of a once beautiful woman, and stood for a moment silent and pre-occupied. With a sudden gesture of surrender, she stooped her noble head, as if assuming a yoke, and drew one long deep breath. Did some prophetic intuition show her at that instant the Phicean Hill and its dread tenant, which sooner or later we must all confront? "Dear mother, I submit. Obedience to your commands certainly ought not to lead me astray; yet I feel that I stand at the cross-roads, longing to turn and flee from the way whither your finger points. I have no hope of accomplishing any good, and nothing but humiliation can result from the experiment; but I will go. Sometimes I believe; that fate maliciously hunts up the things we most bitterly abhor, and one by one sets them down before usーlabelled Duty. When do you wish me to start?"＜/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！】Reverence For Life【電子書籍】[ Nancy Tate ]

＜p＞Greetings Dear Wonderful Souls of Humanity! I welcome you with great expectation and excitement of your involvement and appreciation for all that life has to offer. It is with great pleasure that I come before you today to bring you the news of the reverence for life! You will be the story that is being written and each of you that participate will tell the story before it is written! Prepare to go on a journey of your choosing that will be embraced with love and truth that will support you and hold you firm in your commitment to self-discovery.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The reverence for life is a journey of self-discovery, because if you do not have a reverence for life, life will always elude your greatest dreams and desires. Many of you have forgotten how to revere life itself. This has caused more issues than you care to face. The way to move beyond the issues of life is to revere life at it's fullest!＜/p＞ ＜p＞As you all know there is no chance that you can get up in the morning and find that there is nothing to do. There is always something to do and someone to do it with, even if it is your cat, dog, bird or your other self. Yes, your other self is as willing, or possibly even more so, to do something with you.＜/p＞ ＜p＞So as you arise and face the day, do so with a smile and a sense of adventure, for that is what this all is, my dears, this is one big adventure that can bring about a reverence for life as solid and fragile as anything that can come into your life. This is what I was told and I am going to stay around until I can prove it to myself on a level that manifests itself in my life. Heaven knows I can work on that.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Together we will weave a wonderful journey that will take you to the discovery of yourself!＜/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 Cost of Respect K-9 Protection Romance, #7【電子書籍】[ Lexy Parker ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Seems like everyone is a gold digger.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞I might be a K-9 cop, but I have a secret I've kept for yearsーI'm also a billionaire.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When everyone is after your money and you don't know who to trust, it's easier to live a lie than remain yourself.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When I meet a beautiful woman with a past, all that matters is protecting her.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But when my secret comes out and she finds out I lied to her, I realize I've been protecting myself from the wrong thing.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Love isn't the enemy. Not anymore at least.＜/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！】Your Inner Strength【電子書籍】[ Elizabeth burke ]

＜p＞My Grandma once told me a story of how we prevent growth if we are not grounded and willing to turn inward in demanding situations. She explained this concept with flora and fauna, the environment that surrounded us while planting a Yellowwood tree.＜/p＞ ＜p＞She told me that our growth could be compared to the growth of trees. They go through many seasons, some more pleasant than others, but each time-frame serves a purpose. For example, we must go through winter and shed our leaves. This may be painful and look beyond repair, but this is how we allow ourselves to turn inward to grow. She said that some of us are so scared to go through a winter that we try to uproot ourselves in the hopes of finding more summer. In doing this, you deprive yourself of growing into a tall majestic tree that lasts a lifetime.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Looking back, I can remember the times I felt removed from the cycles of life. I felt overwhelmed by my environment and that any moment the winds of change were going to take me down. Only until I discovered I could create one, much like a tree, where I could turn to my inner strength and ground myself, no matter the demands of the outside world.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In Your Inner Strength, I invite you along a journey of cultivating mindfulness through being present in the space you’re planted. What does this journey look like?＜/p＞ ＜p＞● We look at the impact of social media and how it is stealing our happiness and hurting mental health. While bringing out empowering ways to manage social media and its effects on your life.＜/p＞ ＜p＞● We discuss the many benefits of mindfulness and take a peek into the neuroscience behind its practice.＜/p＞ ＜p＞● Though it may look easy on the surface, we check out how to train our minds to think because it's harder than we expect.＜/p＞ ＜p＞● Self-knowledge. A common term, but what does it take to know ‘self’ and what does that mean?＜/p＞ ＜p＞● Meditation is an amazing and versatile tool to practice mindful living and connect to inner strength. We look at the why and how of meditation.＜/p＞ ＜p＞● You will discover the benefits of 5-minute meditation practice and step-by-step instructions. I have included daily mindfulness practices to ease you into more advanced meditation practices.＜/p＞ ＜p＞● We look at the concept of self-love and how to add more love into your every day to truly live happily ever after.＜/p＞ ＜p＞No seed asks why they are planted in their spot. They do not ask if they are worthy of growing or compare themselves to the next. No, it taps into its natural intelligence, its essence, inner strength, and then? It grows. Are you ready to join me in the exploration of your innate intelligence and how to harness your inner power to grow into that untapped potential? Click Buy Now to get started!＜/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！】God's Love Inspirational Poems and Life Stories【電子書籍】[ Linda C. Masibay ]

＜p＞One Great Person came down on Earth to show us how to live and love unconditionally. This Great Person is my inspiration in writing poems. Therefore all my poems have tints of spirituality and sense of caring. Poetry serves as inspiration for me. I love to write poems, inspire myself and share with others. I am a native of the Philippines. While doing graduate study at the University of the Philippines, Los Banos, Laguna I had the opportunity to be a part of a team that trained Peace Corp Volunteers assigned in the Philippines in 1961-1962. I left the Philippines in 1967 to live and work as Nutritionist in several Royal Lao Government Hospitals in Laos during the Vietnam war for six years from 1967 to 1973 when I migrated to the U.S. and became a U.S. Citizen in 1979. The Citizenship Council of Metropolitan Chicago honored me as Outstanding New Citizen of 1979-1980 for her deep concern for her fellow citizens and her belief that there is always a place for those willing to care and share. Presented September 17, 1980 observing Citizenship Day and Constitution Week as Proclaimed by the President of the United States. I hold a B.S. Degree in Home Economics. I am a License Dietitian Nutritionist in Illinois, a Certified Dietary Manager and Dietetic Technician Registered. I work as an Associate with Cynthia Chow and Associates, a Dietary Consulting Group based in Chicago, Illinois. Writing poems is one of my hobbies that include photography, taking videos, gardening, cooking and needlecrafts. My personal philosophy: Success is how much of yourself have you given for others in need. My Economic Philosophy: Buy what you need and not what you want, this I copied from my brother Orlando. My Faith Journey: Be Faithful, remain attached to the Vine, and be a fruitful branch.＜/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！】When Your Faith Choices Are Unclear Responding to God's Call【電子書籍】[ Dr. Clara J. Ushman ]

＜p＞Have you ever wondered, "Who do I believe?" "What is truth?" "How do I know what I am doing is right?" I have asked these exact questions many times. We all have. For me, growing up and learning from two different Christian denominations early on made my spiritual journey a crazy ride, as seen in this book. Many of us are not certain about a variety of our own faith questions. So what do we do about this? How are these questions to be answered? Is it simply reading more scripture? More prayers? More life experiences? Or maybe, have I already got the answers but have not recognized them in myself? Not easy questions to answer. This book will guide you, along with my experiences, to ask these exact questions. Maybe your own answers will come from this book, or you could be asking even deeper questions about yourself. Join me as we walk through several spiritual excursions.＜/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。