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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！】Broken Bodies【電子書籍】[ June Hampson ]

＜p＞＜strong＞'A great alternative to Martina Cole' - Amazon review＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞A WIDOW RETURNS HOME INTENT ON REVENGE . . .＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Daisy Lane is back home after a short spell abroad, having lost both her husband Kenny and her lover Eddie to violent deaths.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But in the months away from home Daisy has not been idle. Not only has she given birth to a baby boy, she's also been plotting her revenge on Roy Kemp, the man who killed her lover.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Roy's dealings are not confined to London - his reach extends south, right down to the coast. And as well as murdering Daisy's man, is he also behind the recent slaying of prostitutes?＜/p＞ ＜p＞The man responsible for finding out is policeman DS Vinnie Endersby, pulled back to Gosport from London. But is he there to investigate the grisly crimes, or to get closer to Daisy?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞If you like crime thrillers by Jessie Keane, Kimberley Chambers and Martina Cole, you'll love Broken Bodies, the second novel in the Daisy Lane thriller series.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Why readers love June Hampson's thrillers:＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'A cracking story'＜/strong＞ - THE BOOKSELLER＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'As good as Martina Cole and Jessie Keane' -＜/strong＞ Amazon review＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'If you like gritty, hard hitting drama then I would highly recommend this'＜/strong＞ - Amazon reviewer＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'This book is an emotional rollercoaster＜/strong＞ full of grit, violence, sadness, warmth, emotion and love' - Goodreads reviewer＜/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！】Lassiter The thrilling new novel in the epic series is the story of everyone's favourite fallen angel . . .【電子書籍】[ J. R. Ward ]

＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞Destiny, duty . . . and desire.＜/strong＞＜/em＞ ＜strong＞In the next epic instalment in J. R. Ward's No. 1 ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling Black Dagger Brotherhood series, a fallen angel finds love with a mysterious female - who could be his destiny . . . or the embodiment of his utter destruction.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Lassiter, the fallen angel, is too good at the saviour business. In his new role overseeing the fates of all vampires, he's influenced outcomes he shouldn't have - so the Creator is calling him home. But the angel has a reason to stay in Caldwell. He's bonded with a mysterious female who seemed to appear from out of nowhere . . . and has powers that defy all reason.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Rahvyn is well aware that she doesn't belong in the present. And she never intended to stay, for her true place is in the past. Lassiter proves to be undeniable, however, and she lets herself fall for the angel - until a secret he's been keeping comes out and she fears that for him, it's not about love, but duty.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As the Omega's son re-establishes the Lessening Society, and the Brotherhood must resume the deadly war, an unfathomable tragedy occurs. In the aftermath, Rahvyn has to decide whether to stay and help - or save herself from an immortal heartbreak she knows will crush her very soul . . .＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Find out why readers are OBSESSED with the Black Dagger Brotherhood . . .＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞**'Insanely good! . . . Intensely romantic and straight up flipping steamy, violent and gruesome, heartbreaking and deep. Her addictive writing tells a story like none other' Goodreads reviewer＜/p＞ ＜p＞''I can't get enough of these sexy, tough, intriguing vampires' Amazon reviewer＜/p＞ ＜p＞'Emotional by epic proportions' Kobo reviewer＜/p＞ ＜p＞'The Black Dagger Brotherhood is a twisting, often surprising, but always awesome read' Amazon reviewer＜/p＞ ＜p＞'A must read' Goodreads reviewer＜/p＞ ＜p＞'The story had me captivated the whole way' Kobo reviewer＜/p＞ ＜p＞'Each and every character is compelling' Amazon reviewer**＜/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！】Heaven is for Real Movie Edition A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back【電子書籍】[ Todd Burpo ]

＜p＞＜strong＞#1 ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ best-seller with more than 11 million copies sold and Amazon’s #17 best-selling book of all time. ＜em＞Heaven Is for Real＜/em＞ was the best-selling non-fiction book of 2011 as reported by Nielsen’s Bookscan, and it was made in to a major motion picture by Sony in 2014.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Do you remember the hospital, Colton?” Sonja said. “Yes, mommy, I remember,” he said. “That’s where the angels sang to me.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞When Colton Burpo made it through an emergency appendectomy, his family was overjoyed at his miraculous survival. What they weren’t expecting, though, was the story that emerged in the months that followedーa story as beautiful as it was extraordinary, detailing their little boy’s trip to heaven and back.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Colton, not yet four years old, told his parents he left his body during the surgery?and authenticated that claim by describing exactly what his parents were doing in another part of the hospital while he was being operated on. He talked of visiting heaven and relayed stories told to him by people he met there whom he had never met in life, sharing events that happened even before he was born. He also astonished his parents with descriptions and obscure details about heaven that matched the Bible exactly, though he had not yet learned to read.＜/p＞ ＜p＞With disarming innocence and the plainspoken boldness of a child, Colton tells of meeting long-departed family members. He describes Jesus, the angels, how “really, really big” God is, and how much God loves us. Retold by his father, but using Colton’s uniquely simple words, ＜em＞Heaven Is for Real＜/em＞ offers a glimpse of the world that awaits us, where as Colton says, “Nobody is old and nobody wears glasses.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Heaven Is for Real＜/em＞ will forever change the way you think of eternity, offering the chance to see, and believe, like a child.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Continue the Burpos story in ＜em＞Heaven Changes Everything: The Rest of Our Story＜/em＞. ＜em＞Heaven Is for Real＜/em＞ also is available in Spanish, ＜em＞El cielo es real＜/em＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Bonus material in this special movie edition includes:＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞Photos from the movie set＜/li＞ ＜li＞Updates from father, Todd, and son, Colton, on recent events including the making-of-the-movie experience＜/li＞ ＜li＞“From the Set” Q&A’s with the movie’s filmmakers and actors＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞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！】Mon insupportable coloc Ennemis jur?s, T1【電子書籍】[ Anyta Sunday ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Trey, le nouveau colocataire de Shane ? la fac, est un cr?tin, mais il faut reconna?tre qu’il est sacr?ment sexy. Le probl?me ? C’est aussi le petit copain tr?s h?t?ro de sa s?ur...＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Le moins qu’on puisse dire, c’est que Shane est dans un sacr? merdier. Il vient juste d’entrer ? l’universit?, et n’a pas d’autre choix que de partager sa chambre avec cet enfoir? de Trey, le petit ami de sa s?ur. Le petit ami vraiment tr?s canon de sa s?ur.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Oh, oh...＜/p＞ ＜p＞Pas moyen qu’il se laisse aller ? son attirance pour Trey, ?a briserait le c?ur de sa jumelle. Et puis, non seulement Trey est h?t?ro, mais en plus, ce n’est pas comme si lui et Shane s’appr?ciaient, leur relation a toujours ?t? tendue.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Seulement, alors que les deux jeunes hommes se voient forc?s de cohabiter, ils apprennent ? se conna?tre et ? voir au-del? des apparences et des malentendus.＜br /＞ Shane et Trey parviendront-ils ? mettre de c?t? leurs sentiments naissants et ? ne pas succomber ? cette attirance ind?niable entre eux ?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Cette colocation promet de ne pas ?tre de tout repos...＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞#MM #RomanceContemporaine #Fac #AmourInterdit #EnemiesToLovers #SlowBurn #Secret＜/p＞ ＜p＞≪ ＜em＞＜strong＞Mon insupportable coloc＜/strong＞＜/em＞ est une histoire sur le pouvoir de gu?rison de l’amour, mais aussi sur son pouvoir de destruction, ainsi que sur la famille et l’amiti?. C’est une histoire sur l’acceptation et la confiance ? travers l’incertitude d’un futur qui ne peut nous promettre le ≪ pour toujours ≫, et sur le fait d’accepter chaque moment comme un cadeau. ≫ - ＜em＞＜strong＞Novel Approach Reviews＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞≪ Un r?cit vraiment adorable. Des personnages bien construits, agr?ables et bien d?velopp?s. Si vous aimez les romances de fac, celle-ci est super. ≫ - ＜strong＞Stacey, lectrice Goodreads＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞≪ ＜strong＞Anyta Sunday＜/strong＞ a le don d’attirer votre attention d?s la premi?re page de chacun de ses romans, vous happant jusqu’? ce que le mot ≪ fin ≫ apparaisse. Que ce soit le sc?nario, les personnages ou les dialogues, tout fonctionne incroyablement bien dans cette s?rie. ≫ - ＜strong＞Scott, lecteur Amazon＜/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！】Underground Airlines【電子書籍】[ Ben H. Winters ]

＜p＞＜strong＞The bestselling book that asks the question: what would present-day America look like if the Civil War never happened?＜/strong＞＜br /＞ A ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestseller; a Goodreads Choice finalist; named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, ＜em＞Slate＜/em＞, ＜em＞Publishers Weekly＜/em＞, Hudson Bookseller, ＜em＞St. Louis Post-Dispatch＜/em＞, ＜em＞Kirkus Reviews＜/em＞, ＜em＞AudioFile Magazine＜/em＞, and Amazon＜br /＞ A young black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working as a bounty hunter for the US Marshall Service in exchange for his freedom. He's got plenty of work. In this version of America, slavery continues in four states called "the Hard Four." On the trail of a runaway known as Jackdaw, Victor arrives in Indianapolis knowing that something isn't right -- with the case file, with his work, and with the country itself.＜br /＞ As he works to infiltrate the local cell of a abolitionist movement called the Underground Airlines, tracking Jackdaw through the back rooms of churches, empty parking garages, hotels, and medical offices, Victor believes he's hot on the trail. But his strange, increasingly uncanny pursuit is complicated by a boss who won't reveal the extraordinary stakes of Jackdaw's case, as well as by a heartbreaking young woman and her child -- who may be Victor's salvation.＜br /＞ Victor believes himself to be a good man doing bad work, unwilling to give up the freedom he has worked so hard to earn. But in pursuing Jackdaw, Victor discovers secrets at the core of the country's arrangement with the Hard Four, secrets the government will preserve at any cost.＜br /＞ ＜em＞Underground Airlines＜/em＞ is a ground-breaking novel, a wickedly imaginative thriller, and a story of an America that is more like our own than we'd like to believe.＜/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！】Gal?pagos Regained A Novel【電子書籍】[ James Morrow ]

＜p＞James Morrow's ＜em＞Gal?pagos Regained＜/em＞ centers on the fictional Chloe Bathurst, an unemployed Victorian actress who finds work on Charles Darwin's estate, nurturing the strange birds, exotic lizards, and giant tortoises he brought back from his trip around the world. When Chloe gets wind of the Great God Contest, sponsored by the Percy Bysshe Shelley Societyー〓10,000 to the first petitioner who can prove or disprove the existence of a Supreme Beingーshe decides that Mr. Darwin's materialist theory of speciation might just turn the trick. (If Nature gave God nothing to do, maybe He was never around in the first place.) Before she knows it, her ambitions send her off on a wild adventureーa voyage by brigantine to Brazil, a steamboat trip up the Amazon, a hot-air balloon flight across the Andesーbound for the Gal?pagos archipelago, where she intends to collect the live specimens through which she might demonstrate evolutionary theory to the contest judges.＜/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 Incredible Voyage【電子書籍】[ Tristan Jones ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A Welshman's witty and gritty sailing adventure memoir with "the bite of fine sea salt and a whiplike delivery" ( ＜em＞Kirkus Reviews＜/em＞).＜/strong＞＜br /＞ Follow the supreme adventurer, Tristan Jones, as he takes a solitary and intrepid six-year voyage on his small craft, ＜em＞The Sea Dart＜/em＞. Covering a distance twice the circumference of the globe, from the lowest body of water in the worldーthe Dead Seaーto the highestーLake Titicaca in the AndesーJones finds himself "a thousand times beyond the limit of endurance." With tenacity stronger than any obstacle, Jones refuses to give up his adventure, even after falling prey to several disasters that could have killed him. Struggling against the mighty current of the Amazon, hauling his boat over the Andes Mountains and capsizing off the Cape of Good Hope do not discourage him.＜br /＞ This gripping story is a testament to his indomitable spirit and thirst for danger.＜/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！】Legend【電子書籍】[ David Lynn Golemon ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A secret agency must face an ancient beast deep within the Amazonーand powerful forces out to profit from its legendーin this supernatural thriller.＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜em＞Brazil, 1533＜/em＞: A Spanish expedition finds the legendary El Dorado, the largest gold deposit in the world. But in the lost valley hidden from the march of time, the explorers also awakened a devil. A beast of the Amazon rises to destroy any who threaten the secret of the Incas. But one soldier survives long enough to share his story: a secret the Vatican quickly buried away.＜br /＞ ＜em＞Present Day＜/em＞: Professor Helen Zachary and her team are searching for a legend buried deep within the Amazon Basin when they suddenly vanish. Now the top secret Event Group, led by Major Jack Collins, must find them. Using cutting-edge military technology, they travel from Brazil to the Little Bighorn, from Columbia to the hallowed grounds of Arlington National Cemetery. As they do, the Event Group faces mounting opposition from multiple adversaries bent on either discovering the whereabouts of El Dorado . . . or trying to bury the legend forever.＜/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！】Dark Intercept【電子書籍】[ Brian Andrews ]

＜p＞＜strong＞2022 Carol Award Winner!＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞2022 Christy Award Finalist!＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞From the＜/strong＞ ＜em＞＜strong＞Wall Street Journal＜/strong＞＜/em＞**, Amazon, and** ＜em＞＜strong＞USA Today＜/strong＞＜/em＞ ＜strong＞bestselling authors of the Tier One series and W.E.B. Griffin’s＜/strong＞ ＜em＞＜strong＞Rogue Asset＜/strong＞＜/em＞ ＜strong＞comes a unique military thriller with a supernatural twist.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞When dark forces rise, are faith and firepower enough?＜/p＞ ＜p＞On the eve of his medical retirement, Navy SEAL Jedidiah Johnson receives a frantic call from his estranged childhood best friend David Yarnell. David’s daughter has been kidnapped off the streets of Nashville in broad daylight. The police have no suspects and no leads. The only clue: the body of a dead priest left behind at the scene. With the clock ticking, David is growing desperate, as is his wife, Rachel . . . Jed’s first love.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Despite his painful history with David and Rachel, Jed agrees to help solve the crime. But he’s spent his career as a door-kicking Navy SEAL, not an investigator. His presence immediately draws unwanted attention, creates friction with the local police, and triggers a mysterious attempt on his life. Just when he thinks things can’t get worse, it starts to happen againーthe voices in his head, the nightmares, the visions. Dark memories and strange abilities, things he believed he’d left behind when he fled Nashville for the Navy at eighteen, begin to resurface.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Jed realizes that to save the missing girl, he must take a leap of faith and embrace the gifts he’s denied for all these years. To foil this dark intercept, he’ll need more than just his years as a SEAL operator, because he has no choice now but to take up arms and join the battle in the unseen spiritual warfare raging all around him. And there is far more at stake than just a missing girl: the world is not the place he thought it wasーand he is not alone.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Follow the military heroes of The Shepherds series as they bring the power of light into the dark mystery of Sara Beth’s abduction.＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞A gritty Christian thriller with action, suspense, and a dash of the paranormal＜/li＞ ＜li＞Perfect for fans of Jack Carr and Ryan Steck＜/li＞ ＜li＞Authentic combat scenes written by military veterans＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞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！】Punch Me Up To The Gods A Memoir【電子書籍】[ Brian Broome ]

＜p＞＜strong＞WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE ? A ＜em＞NEW YORK TIMES＜/em＞ NOTABLE BOOK ?＜/strong＞ ＜strong＞A ＜em＞NEW YORK TIMES＜/em＞ EDITORS' PICK ? NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ＜em＞PUBLISHERS WEEKLY＜/em＞, ＜em＞KIRKUS REVIEWS＜/em＞, ＜em＞LIBRARY JOURNAL＜/em＞, AMAZON AND APPLE BOOKS ? A ＜em＞TODAY＜/em＞ SUMMER READING LIST PICK ? AN ＜em＞ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY＜/em＞ BEST DEBUT OF SUMMER PICK ? A ＜em＞PEOPLE＜/em＞ BEST BOOK OF SUMMER PICK＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞A raw, poetic, coming-of-age “masterwork” (＜em＞The New York Times＜/em＞) about Blackness, masculinity and addiction＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“＜em＞Punch Me Up to the Gods＜/em＞ obliterates what we thought were the limitations of not just the American memoir, but the possibilities of the American paragraph. I’m not sure a book has ever had me sobbing, punching the air, dying of laughter, and needing to write as much as Brian Broome’s staggering debut. This sh*t is special.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞ーKiese Laymon, ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling author of ＜em＞Heavy＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“＜em＞Punch Me Up to the Gods＜/em＞ is some of the finest writing I have ever encountered and one of the most electrifying, powerful, simply spectacular memoirs Iーor youーhave ever read. And you ＜em＞will＜/em＞ read it; you ＜em＞must＜/em＞ read it. It contains everything we all crave so deeply: truth, soul, brilliance, grace. It is a masterpiece of a memoir and Brian Broome should win the Pulitzer Prize for writing it. I am in absolute awe and you will be, too.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞ーAugusten Burroughs, ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling author of ＜em＞Running with Scissors＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Punch Me Up to the Gods＜/em＞ introduces a powerful new talent in Brian Broome, whose early years growing up in Ohio as a dark-skinned Black boy harboring crushes on other boys propel forward this gorgeous, aching, and unforgettable debut. Brian’s recounting of his experiencesーin all their cringe-worthy, hilarious, and heartbreaking gloryーreveal a perpetual outsider awkwardly squirming to find his way in. Indiscriminate sex and escalating drug use help to soothe his hurt, young psyche, usually to uproarious and devastating effect. A no-nonsense mother and broken father play crucial roles in our misfit’s origin story. But it is Brian’s voice in the retelling that shows the true depth of vulnerability for young Black boys that is often quietly near to bursting at the seams.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Cleverly framed around Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem “We Real Cool,” the iconic and loving ode to Black boyhood, ＜em＞Punch Me Up to the Gods＜/em＞ is at once playful, poignant, and wholly original. Broome’s writing brims with swagger and sensitivity, bringing an exquisite and fresh voice to ongoing cultural conversations about Blackness in America.＜/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！】Blood of the Old Kings【電子書籍】[ Sung-il Kim ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Named a Best Fantasy Book of the Year by NPR, Amazon, Paste, and Book Riot!＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞From award-winning Korean author Sung-il Kim & translated by the world-renowned Anton Hur, ＜em＞Blood of the Old Kings＜/em＞ begins an epic journey unlike any other.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞There is no escaping the Empire.＜br /＞ Even in death, you will serve.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞In an Empire run on necromancy, dead sorcerers are the lifeblood. Their corpses are wrapped in chains and drained of magic to feed the unquenchable hunger for imperial conquest.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Born with magic, Arienne has become resigned to her dark fate. But when the voice of a long-dead sorcerer begins to speak inside her head, she listens. There may be another future for her, if she’s willing to fight for it.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Miles away, beneath a volcano, a seven-eyed dragon also wears the Empire’s chains. Before the imperial fist closed around their lands, it was the people’s sacred guardian.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Loran, a widowed swordswoman, is the first to kneel before the dragon in decades. She comes with a desperate plea, and will leave with a sword of dragon-fang in hand and a great purpose before her.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the heart of the Imperial capital, Cain is known as a man who gets things done. When his best friend and mentor is found murdered, he will leave no stone unturned to find those responsible, even if it means starting a war.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Step into a world of necromancy, murder, and twisted magic. A world in need of a hero.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】A Marvellous Light【電子書籍】[ Freya Marske ]

＜p＞＜strong＞An International Bestseller!＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞Winner of the 2022 Romantic Novel Award in Fantasy!＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞Locus Award Finalist!＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞An Indie Next pick and LibraryReads pickーwith four starred reviews!＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞A Best of 2021 Pick for NPR | Amazon | Kobo | Barnes & Noble | Book Riot＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞＜em＞Red, White & Royal Blue＜/em＞ meets ＜em＞Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell＜/em＞ in debut author Freya Marske’s ＜em＞A Marvellous Light＜/em＞, featuring an Edwardian England full of magic, contracts, and conspiracies.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Robin Blyth has more than enough bother in his life. He’s struggling to be a good older brother, a responsible employer, and the harried baronet of a seat gutted by his late parents’ excesses. When an administrative mistake sees him named the civil service liaison to a hidden magical society, he discovers what’s been operating beneath the unextraordinary reality he’s always known.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Now Robin must contend with the beauty and danger of magic, an excruciating deadly curse, and the alarming visions of the future that come with itーnot to mention Edwin Courcey, his cold and prickly counterpart in the magical bureaucracy, who clearly wishes Robin were anyone and anywhere else.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Robin’s predecessor has disappeared, and the mystery of what happened to him reveals unsettling truths about the very oldest stories they’ve been told about the land they live on and what binds it. Thrown together and facing unexpected dangers, Robin and Edwin discover a plot that threatens every magician in the British Islesーand a secret that more than one person has already died to keep.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞The Last Binding Trilogy:＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞A Marvellous Light＜br /＞ A Restless Truth＜br /＞ A Power Unbound＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.＜/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！】Things You Save in a Fire A Novel【電子書籍】[ Katherine Center ]

＜p＞＜strong＞**INDIE NEXT PICK FOR AUGUST**＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞**AN AUGUST 2019 LIBRARYREADS SELECTION**＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞**BOOK OF THE MONTH PICK FOR JULY**＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞**AN AMAZON EDITOR’S PICK FOR AUGUST**＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Center gives readers a sharp and witty exploration of love and forgiveness that is at once insightful, entertaining, and thoroughly addictive.”＜br /＞ ー＜strong＞＜em＞KIRKUS＜/em＞, STARRED REVIEW＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“An appealing heroine, a compelling love story, a tearjerking twist, and a thoroughly absorbing story. Another winner from Center.”＜br /＞ ー＜strong＞＜em＞BOOKLIST,＜/em＞ STARRED REVIEW＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞**“**A spirited, independent heroine meets a smoking-hot fireman in Center’s smart romance… If you enjoyed ‘The Kiss Quotient,’ by Helen Hoang, read ＜em＞Things You Save in a Fire＜/em＞”’＜br /＞ ? ＜em＞＜strong＞THE WASHINGTON POST＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞From the ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling author of ＜em＞How to Walk Away＜/em＞ comes a stunning new novel about courage, hope, and learning to love against all odds.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Cassie Hanwell was born for emergencies. As one of the only female firefighters in her Texas firehouse, she's seen her fair share of them, and she's a total pro at other people's tragedies. But when her estranged and ailing mother asks her to give up her whole life and move to Boston, Cassie suddenly has an emergency of her own.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The tough, old-school Boston firehouse is as different from Cassie's old job as it could possibly be. Hazing, a lack of funding, and poor facilities mean that the firemen aren't exactly thrilled to have a "lady" on the crewーeven one as competent and smart as Cassie. Except for the infatuation-inspiring rookie, who doesn't seem to mind having Cassie around. But she can't think about that. Because love is girly, and it’s not her thing. And don’t forget the advice her old captain gave her: ＜em＞Never date firefighters.＜/em＞ Cassie can feel her resolve slipping...and it means risking it allーthe only job she’s ever loved, and the hero she’s worked like hell to become.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Katherine Center's ＜em＞Things You Save in a Fire＜/em＞ is a heartfelt and healing tour-de-force about the strength of vulnerability, the nourishing magic of forgiveness, and the life-changing power of defining courage, at last, 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！】The Girlfriend The Gripping Psychological Thriller from the Number One Bestseller【電子書籍】[ Michelle Frances ]

＜p＞**NOW AN AMAZON PRIME TV SERIES STARRING ROBIN WRIGHT, OLIVIA COOKE AND LAURIE DAVIDSON＜/p＞ ＜p＞She loves your son. She wants your life. How far would you go to protect your son?**＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘I was blown away’ ? **Jilly Cooper, author of ＜em＞Rivals＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞* * ***＜/p＞ ＜p＞A gripping and chilling debut psychological thriller, ＜em＞The Girlfriend＜/em＞ by Michelle Frances is the story of a mother, a son, his girlfriend and an unforgivable lie.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Laura has it all. A successful career, a long marriage to a rich husband, and a twenty-three year-old son, Daniel, who is kind, handsome, and talented. Then Daniel meets Cherry. Cherry is young, beautiful and smart ? but hasn’t led Laura’s golden life. And she wants it.＜/p＞ ＜p＞**When tragedy strikes, a decision is made and a lie is told. A lie so terrible it changes their lives forever . . .＜/p＞ ＜p＞* * ***＜/p＞ ＜p＞'The mother-son psychological drama that'll have you racing to the end' ? ＜em＞＜strong＞Good Housekeeping＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞'Sharp, sinister and addictive' ? ＜em＞＜strong＞Sunday Mirror＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞'A wildly delicious psychological thriller' ? ＜em＞＜strong＞Red 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。

【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 the Amazon 860 Days. One Step at a Time.【電子書籍】[ Ed Stafford ]

＜p＞As seen on ＜em＞Discovery Channel＜/em＞ and for readers of Cheryl Strayed's ＜em＞Wild＜/em＞, Bill Bryson, Jon Krakauer, and David Grann, a riveting, adventurous account of one man’s history-making journey along the entire length of the Amazonーand through the most bio-diverse habitat on Earth. Fans of ＜em＞Turn Right at Machu Piccu＜/em＞ will revel in Ed Stafford's extraordinary prose and lush descriptions.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In April 2008, Ed Stafford set off to become the first man ever to walk the entire length of the Amazon. He started on the Pacific coast of Peru, crossed the Andes Mountain range to find the official source of the river. His journey lead on through parts of Colombia and right across Brazil; all while outwitting dangerous animals, machete wielding indigenous people as well as negotiating injuries, weather and his own fears and doubts. Yet, Stafford was undeterred. On his grueling 860-day, 4,000-plus mile journey, Stafford witnessed the devastation of deforestation firsthand, the pressure on tribes due to loss of habitats as well as nature in its true-raw form. Jaw-dropping from start to finish, ＜em＞Walking the Amazon＜/em＞ is the unforgettable and gripping story of an unprecedented adventure.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Walking the Amazon＜/em＞ is also available in a Spanish edition entitled ＜em＞Caminado El Amazonas＜/em＞.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Vox【電子書籍】[ Christina Dalcher ]

＜p＞**THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER ? ONE OF ＜em＞ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY＜/em＞'S AND SHEREADS' BOOKS TO READ AFTER ＜em＞THE HANDMAID'S TALE＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞“[An] electrifying debut.”ー＜em＞O, The Oprah Magazine＜/em＞＜br /＞ “The real-life parallels will make you shiver.”ー＜em＞Cosmopolitan＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Set in a United States in which half the population has been silenced, ＜em＞Vox＜/em＞ is the harrowing, unforgettable story of what one woman will do to protect herself and her daughter.**＜/p＞ ＜p＞On the day the government decrees that women are no longer allowed more than one hundred words per day, Dr. Jean McClellan is in denial. This can't happen here. Not in America. Not to her.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Soon women are not permitted to hold jobs. Girls are not taught to read or write. Females no longer have a voice. Before, the average person spoke sixteen thousand words each day, but now women have only one hundred to make themselves heard.＜/p＞ ＜p＞For herself, her daughter, and every woman silenced, Jean will reclaim her voice.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞This is just the beginning...not the end.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞One of ＜em＞Good Morning America＜/em＞'s “Best Books to Bring to the Beach This Summer”＜/strong＞＜br /＞ ＜strong＞One of PopSugar, Refinery29, ＜em＞Entertainment Weekly＜/em＞, Bustle, ＜em＞Real Simple＜/em＞, i09, and Amazon's Best Books to Read in August 2018＜/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 Ministry of Utmost Happiness A novel【電子書籍】[ Arundhati Roy ]

＜p＞**＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ Best Seller＜br /＞ Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize＜br /＞ Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Amazon, ＜em＞Kirkus, The Washington Post, Newsday＜/em＞, and the Hudson Group＜/p＞ ＜p＞A dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of ＜em＞The God of Small Things＜/em＞**＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞The Ministry of Utmost Happiness＜/em＞ takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinentーfrom the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond, where war is peace and peace is war.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It is an aching love story and a decisive remonstration, a story told in a whisper, in a shout, through unsentimental tears and sometimes with a bitter laugh. Each of its characters is indelibly, tenderly rendered. Its heroes are people who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, patched together by acts of loveーand by hope.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The tale begins with Anjumーwho used to be Aftabーunrolling a threadbare Persian carpet in a city graveyard she calls home. We encounter the odd, unforgettable Tilo and the men who loved herーincluding Musa, sweetheart and ex-sweetheart, lover and ex-lover; their fates are as entwined as their arms used to be and always will be. We meet Tilo’s landlord, a former suitor, now an intelligence officer posted to Kabul. And then we meet the two Miss Jebeens: the first a child born in Srinagar and buried in its overcrowded Martyrs’ Graveyard; the second found at midnight, abandoned on a concrete sidewalk in the heart of New Delhi.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As this ravishing, deeply humane novel braids these lives together, it reinvents what a novel can do and can be. ＜em＞The Ministry of Utmost Happiness＜/em＞ demonstrates on every page the miracle of Arundhati Roy’s storytelling gifts.＜/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！】Temple of Swoon【電子書籍】[ Jo Segura ]

＜p＞**An instant ＜em＞USA Today＜/em＞ Bestseller!＜/p＞ ＜p＞A LibraryReads Pick!＜/p＞ ＜p＞Her mission: find the Lost City of the Moon in the Amazon rainforest.**＜br /＞ ＜strong＞His mission: protect the holy temple . . . and his heart.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞While her mentor may be the world’s most badass archaeologist, the only thing bad about Dr. Miriam Jacobs are her corny jokes. But when Miri is charged with leading an unmapped expedition through the Amazon for the fabled Lost City of the Moon, she finally has her chance to prove to her colleagues that she’s capableーand hopefully prove it to herself, too.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Journalist Rafael Monfils has joined the archaeological team to chronicle their search for the lost city. Or at least, that’s what they think he’s doing. Rafa’s real goal? Make sure the team does not reach the Cidade da Lua, stopping the desecration of the holy city and protecting his mother’s legacy. All he needs to do is keep them on the wrong path.＜/p＞ ＜p＞If only the endearingly quirky Dr. Jacobs wasn’t so damn tenaciousーeach of Rafa’s tricks and purposeful wrong turns only seem to fuel her determination. Even worse, he’s charmed by her goofy attempts to channel Lara Croft as they traverse the dangerous Brazilian rainforest. But they’re not the only crew hunting for the lost city, and soon the untamed jungleーand their untamed heartsーmight be the least of their worries...＜/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 Absolute Darling A Novel【電子書籍】[ Gabriel Tallent ]

＜p＞**INSTANT ＜em＞NEW YORK TIMES＜/em＞ BESTSELLER＜br /＞ ＜em＞LA TIMES＜/em＞ BOOK PRIZE FINALIST＜br /＞ NBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FINALIST＜br /＞ ONE OF THE ＜em＞NEW YORK TIMES'S＜/em＞ MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017＜br /＞ ONE OF THE ＜em＞WASHINGTON POST’S＜/em＞ MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017＜br /＞ ONE OF NPR’S ‘GREAT READS’ OF 2017＜br /＞ A ＜em＞USA TODAY＜/em＞ BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR＜br /＞ AN AMAZON.COM BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR＜br /＞ A ＜em＞BUSINESS INSIDER＜/em＞ BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Impossible to put down." *ー*NPR＜/p＞ ＜p＞"A novel that readers will gulp down, gasping.” ー＜em＞The Washington Post＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞"The word 'masterpiece' has been cheapened by too many blurbs, but ＜em＞My Absolute Darling＜/em＞ absolutely is one." ーStephen King＜/p＞ ＜p＞A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul.**＜/p＞ ＜p＞Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone, student or teacher, who might penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Then Turtle meets Jacob, a high-school boy who tells jokes, lives in a big clean house, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And for the first time, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. Motivated by her first experience with real friendship and a teenage crush, Turtle starts to imagine escape, using the very survival skills her father devoted himself to teaching her. What follows is a harrowing story of bravery and redemption. With Turtle's escalating acts of physical and emotional courage, the reader watches, heart in throat, as this teenage girl struggles to become her own heroーand in the process, becomes ours as well.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Shot through with striking language in a fierce natural setting, ＜em＞My Absolute Darling＜/em＞ is an urgently told, profoundly moving read that marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer.＜/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！】Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Forest【電子書籍】[ Mark J. Plotkin ]

＜p＞＜strong＞The fascinating account of a pioneering ethnobotanist’s travels in the Amazonーat once a gripping adventure story, a passionate argument for conservationism, and an investigation into the healing power of plants, by the author of ＜em＞The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞For thousands of years, healers have used plants to cure illness. Aspirin, the world's most widely used drug, is based on compounds originally extracted from the bark of a willow tree, and more than a quarter of medicines found on pharmacy shelves contain plant compounds. Now Western medicine, faced with health crises such as AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer, has begun to look to the healing plants used by indigenous peoples to develop powerful new medicines. Nowhere is the search more promising than in the Amazon, the world's largest tropical forest, home to a quarter of all botanical species on this planetーas well as hundreds of Indian tribes whose medicinal plants have never been studied by Western scientists. In ＜em＞Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice＜/em＞, ethnobotanist Mark J. Plotkin recounts his travels and studies with some of the most powerful Amazonian shamans, who taught him the plant lore their tribes have spent thousands of years gleaning from the rain forest.＜/p＞ ＜p＞For more than a decade, Dr. Plotkin raced against time to harvest and record new plants before the rain forests' fragile ecosystems succumb to overdevelopmentーand before the Indians abandon their own culture and learning for the seductive appeal of Western material culture. ＜em＞Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice＜/em＞ relates nine of the author's quests, taking the reader along on a wild odyssey as he participates in healing rituals; discovers the secret of curare, the lethal arrow poison that kills in minutes; tries the hallucinogenic snuff epena that enables the Indians to speak with their spirit world; and earns the respect and fellowship of the mysterious shamans as he proves that he shares both their endurance and their reverence for the rain forest.＜/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 Baby Dragon Cafe【電子書籍】[ A. T. Qureshi ]

＜p＞"IF I COULD GIVE 6 STARS I WOULD" ?????＜/p＞ ＜p＞〓〓???〓〓???〓〓???〓〓???〓〓???〓〓???〓〓???＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞The perfect cozy, romantic fantasy and USA TODAY BESTSELLER for fans of ＜em＞Gilmore Girls＜/em＞ and dragons!＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞When ＜strong＞Saphira＜/strong＞ opens her cafe welcoming pet baby dragons, she isn’t expecting it to be quite so hard to keep the fires burning. But her young dragon patrons keep incinerating her furniture, which means selling coffee isn’t covering all her costs.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Local heart-throb ＜strong＞Aiden＜/strong＞ is a gardener, though his disobedient baby dragon is a major distraction from his beloved plants. However, Saphira’s caf? gives him an idea ? he’ll ask Saphira to train his dragon, and pay her enough to keep the cafe afloat.＜/p＞ ＜p＞They know they’re the answer to each other’s problems, but happy-go-lucky Saphira and gorgeous-but-grumpy Aiden couldn’t be more different. Can they find a way to work together ? and maybe even ignite some fire of their own?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞The perfect dual POV, grumpy sunshine cozy fantasy, with HEA guaranteed!＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Tropes:＜/p＞ ＜ul＞ ＜li＞Grumpy x Sunshine 〓＜/li＞ ＜li＞We pretend we're married! 〓＜/li＞ ＜li＞Small town 〓＜/li＞ ＜li＞Low spice ?＜/li＞ ＜/ul＞ ＜p＞**＜em＞The Baby Dragon Cafe＜/em＞ was a ＜em＞Times＜/em＞ top 10 bestselling paperback and an Amazon top 10 bestselling ebook on Feb 1 2025, and a USA Today bestseller on Jul 9 2025***＜/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！】Yermah the Dorado: The Story of a Lost Race【電子書籍】[ Frona Eunice Wait ]

＜p＞Yermah, the Dorado, was refreshed and invigorated by his early morning ride. It had been a voluntary gallop, and it would have been hard to say which found the keenest enjoyment in it; he, his horse Cibolo, or Oghi the ocelot, which ran beside them in long, slow leaps, covering much ground yet always alighting noiselessly and as softly as a cat. It was a beautiful morning, one that would correspond to the first of June nowーbut this was in the long ago, when days and months were reckoned differently. The tall grass and wild oats left ample proof of close proximity along the roadside by the fragments secreted in the clothing of Yermah and in the trappings of Cibolo. Oghi, too, could have been convicted on the evidence his formidable toes presented. Added to this was the indescribable scent of dew, of the first hours of day and the springtime of nature. It was the first time since his arrival from Atlantis that Yermah had ventured alone outside the city limits. When once the temples, and marketplaces of Tlamco were left behind him, he had given Cibolo the rein and abandoned himself to the exhilaration of going like the wind. Tlamco, the Llama city, the name of which was unknown to the men who sought the mythical Kingdom of Quiveraーthat will-o’-the wisp landーsupposed to be the center of the Amazon inhabited island of California of the very remote past. Tlamco vanished so completely that there were no traces perceptible to the men who founded Yerba Buena on the same peninsula ages after. Its existence would be laughed at by present day inhabitants of San Francisco were it not true that the hills in and around Golden Gate Park are living witnesses of great mathematical skill. The first denizens built some of these hills and shaped others to give the diameters and distances of all the planets. Who of to-day will believe that Las Papas, or Twin Peaks, show the eccentricities of the earth’s orbit to one fifty-millionths of its full size? At present early morning milk-trains, and trucks loaded with vegetables from the outlying gardens intercept and mingle with the heavy wagons laden with meat from South City. In short, the modern city’s food supply comes from the same direction in which Yermah rode. Conditions and people have changed since then, and so have many of the features of the locality itself. South of what is known as the Potrero was a bay. Now it is a swamp, and the north and south points there are the remains of forts, although they appear to be nothing more than hillocks blown into shape by merest chance. To the west is a hill on which dwelt Hanabusa, the captain of the three-decked war-galleys, or balsas. Nearby was the signal tower which could be seen from every eminence in the city. It guarded the western side of the sanded causeway leading from the marketplace in the center of Tlamco to the water’s edge. Hanabusa’s house afforded protection to the north side.＜/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！】Danny Boy【電子書籍】[ Barry Walsh ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Danny Boy is ‘gloriously nostalgic’ My Weekly Books of 2023 choice＜/strong＞ ＜strong＞‘A terrific, edge-of-the-seat story … whose ending had me in the right kind of tears’ Maggie Gee＜/strong＞ ＜strong＞‘As evocative as Graham Green's iconic Brighton Rock ***** Amazon reviewer＜/strong＞ ＜strong＞‘Fantastic storytelling’ ***** Amazon reviewer＜/strong＞ ＜strong＞‘Gripping story ? engaging, entertaining and moving. A terrific read’ ***** Amazon reviewer＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Danny Byrne has grown up on a sprawling council estate in Pimlico. He knows every stone of it, and until now, his life has followed the same pattern as all his friends.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Danny is heading for A-levels and then university. Dodds is following his dad into the family butcher’s business, Crockett will sail on opportunity’s wings as it comes his way, and Nobby is flirting with drugs, and disaster.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As the long summer unfolds, the boys focus on girls, trade banter and test their friendships to the limit. When things take a darker turn, Danny must wrestle with his conscience and is pushed to breaking point. Can Danny find love and work out what is important to become the kind of man he wants to be?＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Wife Who Got a Life【電子書籍】[ Tracy Bloom ]

＜p＞＜strong＞‘Feisty and fabulous. Love it. Love Tracy Bloom!’ Milly Johnson＜/strong＞ ＜strong＞‘Pure Joy!’ Katie Fforde＜/strong＞ ＜strong＞‘Love this ? just the pick me up I needed!’ Jo Thomas＜/strong＞ ＜strong＞'Guaranteed to put a smile on your face.' Debbie Johnson＜/strong＞ ＜strong＞‘It's laugh out loud!’ Adele Parks＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Cathy Collins is a mum on a mission ? to change her life.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When her husband drops a midlife-crisis bombshell,＜br /＞ Cathy decides it’s time to take control.＜/p＞ ＜p＞No more laundry, teenage tantrums or housework.＜br /＞ After years of putting herself last, she’s going to be first for a change.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Cathy Collins is carving a new path, and nothing is going to get in her way…＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞From No.1 bestselling author Tracy Bloom, The Wife Who Got a Life＜br /＞ perfectly captures the joyous chaos of family life.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Readers love ＜em＞The Wife Who Got a Life＜/em＞!＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘This is the ＜strong＞literary equivalent of meeting your closest girlfriends＜/strong＞ for a coffee and a gossip… So, so, so funny, I genuinely laughed out loud for the majority of this ＜strong＞blooming marvellous, inspirational＜/strong＞ diary’, Amazon reviewer, 5 stars＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘I ＜strong＞absolutely loved＜/strong＞ this book. No doubt about it… at least a 6 out of 5!’ Amazon reviewer, 5 stars＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘Peppered with ＜strong＞fantastically humorous＜/strong＞ episodes, as well as much more serious issues, The Wife Who Got a Life is a brilliant read, and the cast of characters are a joy too’ Amazon reviewer, 5 stars＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘It wasn’t long before I was so engrossed in it that I couldn’t put it down… ＜strong＞I loved this book＜/strong＞’ Amazon reviewer, 5 stars＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘This book is ＜strong＞funny, totally relatable and made me laugh out loud＜/strong＞, shed a tear in parts as well as the “yes I can identify with that” moments.’ Amazon reviewer, 5 stars＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘A ＜strong＞five star read＜/strong＞ that I absolutely loved.’＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘Tracy Bloom has the ＜strong＞lightest of touches with the deepest of understanding＜/strong＞.’ Amazon reviewer, 5 stars＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘＜strong＞Where has [Tracy Bloom] been all my life＜/strong＞, another author to add to my growing list of authors to keep an eye out for.’ Amazon reviewer, 5 stars＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘I really loved this book, ＜strong＞so funny and life affirming＜/strong＞.’ Amazon reviewer, 5 stars＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘＜strong＞Very funny＜/strong＞, with a few tears, thoroughly recommended.’ Amazon reviewer, 5 stars＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘＜strong＞Hilarious, touching＜/strong＞ and really laugh out loud!!’ Amazon reviewer, 5 stars＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘A fab read which ＜strong＞you don't want to put down＜/strong＞.’ Amazon reviewer, 5 stars＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘＜strong＞Just like catching up with a good friend＜/strong＞ that you want to catch up with.’ Amazon reviewer, 5 stars＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘What a ＜strong＞fantastic＜/strong＞ story! I absolutely loved the characters but especially Cathy ? I empathised and rooted for her all through the book.’ Amazon reviewer, 5 stars＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘What is ＜strong＞utterly brilliant＜/strong＞ about this book is that the story is real… the things that happen are the things that happen to all of us. Like arguing with siblings (in your head) and facing the reality of ageing parents.’ Amazon reviewer, 5 stars＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘Great story not least because ＜strong＞it made me realize I’m not alone＜/strong＞.’ Amazon reviewer, 5 stars＜/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 Liar’s Daughter【電子書籍】[ Claire Allan ]

＜p＞＜strong＞**The thriller from the Amazon bestseller**＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞‘AMAZING!’ Marian Keyes＜/strong＞ ＜strong＞‘Powerful’ C.L. Taylor＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Every family has it’s secrets…＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Joe McKee ? pillar of the Derry community ? is dead. As arrangements are made for the traditional Irish wake, friends and family are left reeling at how cancer could have taken this much-loved man so soon.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But grief is the last thing that Joe’s daughter Ciara and step-daughter Heidi feel. For they knew the real Joe ? the man who was supposed to protect them and did anything but.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As the mourners gather, the police do too, with doubt being cast over whether Joe’s death was due to natural causes. Because the lies that Joe told won’t be taken to the grave after all ? and the truth gives his daughters the best possible motive for killing him…＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞A gripping suspense novel about deadly secrets and lies. The perfect read for fans of Clare Mackintosh.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞What others are saying about ＜em＞The Liar’s Daughter＜/em＞:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘＜strong＞Powerful＜/strong＞’ C.L. Taylor, The Sunday Times best selling author of ＜em＞Sleep＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘Immensely gripping and ＜strong＞I flew through the pages as if my life depended on it＜/strong＞. ＜em＞The Liar’s Daughter＜/em＞ is a dark, powerful and twisty psychological thriller that will keep you glued to the pages.’ Reader review＜/p＞ ＜p＞'Full of secrets and lies. ＜strong＞Loved it＜/strong＞.' Reader review＜/p＞ ＜p＞'＜strong＞Atmospheric, claustrophobic and intense＜/strong＞… So cleverly compelling I had to rush through to find out what happened!' Reader review＜/p＞ ＜p＞'I ＜strong＞absolutely adored every chapter of this pacey novel＜/strong＞ and I would certainly recommend it.' Reader review＜/p＞ ＜p＞'I read this book in a single day. ＜strong＞I absolutely could not tear myself away from it＜/strong＞… One for people who likes their thrillers with some bite.' Reader review＜/p＞ ＜p＞'＜strong＞A breathtaking and remarkable book＜/strong＞ from Claire Allan.' Reader review＜/p＞ ＜p＞'This is ＜strong＞a gripping story that will keep you guessing up until the final pages＜/strong＞.' Reader review＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Homecoming【電子書籍】[ Luan Goldie ]

＜p＞＜strong＞THE BEAUTIFUL NEW NOVEL FROM THE COSTA SHORT STORY AWARD WINNER AND AUTHOR OF WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION LONGLISTED AND BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK ＜em＞NIGHTINGALE POINT＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞‘A sharp, funny, wonderful writer’＜/strong＞ Diana Evans, bestselling author of ＜em＞Ordinary People＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞‘A beautiful novel. It was a real pleasure to read’＜/strong＞ Jing-Jing Lee, author of ＜em＞How We Disappeared＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞‘Every character in the novel is observed with such incisive precision that they all feel entirely real to me now … Masterfully written’＜/strong＞ Beth O’Leary, ＜em＞Sunday Times＜/em＞ bestselling author of ＜em＞The Flatshare＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞‘This emotionally charged story highlights the complexities of love, grief and forgiveness . . . ＜em＞Homecoming＜/em＞ will have you racing to join the dots from start to finish’＜/strong＞ ＜em＞Heat＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞* * *＜/p＞ ＜p＞For years ＜strong＞Yvonne＜/strong＞ has tried to keep her demons buried and focus on moving forward. But her guilt is always with her and weighs heavily on her heart.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Kiama＜/strong＞ has had to grow up without a mother, and while there is so much he remembers about her, there is still plenty he doesn't know. And there's only one person who can fill in the gaps.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Lewis＜/strong＞ wants nothing more than to keep Kiama, his son, safe, but the thought of Kiama dredging up the past worries Lewis deeply. And Lewis doesn’t know if he’s ready to let the only woman he's ever loved back into his life.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When Kiama seeks Yvonne out and asks her to come with him to Kenya, the place that holds the answers to his questions, she knows she can't refuse. And this one act sets in motion an unravelling of the past that no one is ready for.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Moving between London and Kenya, and spanning almost two decades, ＜em＞Homecoming＜/em＞ is a profound story of love, family and friendship. It’s about coming to terms with your past, and about what happens when we finally share our truths.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞* * *＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞What readers are saying about ＜em＞Homecoming＜/em＞:＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘I ＜strong＞couldn’t put this book down＜/strong＞ . . . An enjoyable read, I really recommend it’ Amazon, 5*＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘This is a ＜strong＞compelling read which I devoured＜/strong＞. I loved the characters and the story, and it’s a book that will be ＜strong＞on the top of my recommends＜/strong＞ when people say, “Have you read anything good recently?”’ NetGalley, 5*＜/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 Map of Us【電子書籍】[ Jules Preston ]

＜p＞＜strong＞*Short-listed for Best Short Romance at the Romantic Novelists’ Association ＜em＞Romance of the Year＜/em＞ Awards 2019*＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞One of the most original and charming books you will ever read, this is perfect for all those who love ＜em＞Eleanor Oliphant＜/em＞ and ＜em＞The Keeper of Lost Things＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Readers love ＜em＞The Map of Us＜/em＞:＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘＜strong＞A story that will melt even the most hardened soul＜/strong＞ … ＜strong＞utterly charming＜/strong＞’ ＜em＞Irish Times＜/em＞ bestseller Carmel Harrington＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘Quirky, ＜strong＞original and humorous＜/strong＞’ USA Today ＜em＞bestselling author Sue Fortin＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘＜strong＞Totally addictive＜/strong＞’ Joe Heap＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘Beautiful, funny, warm and clever’ ＜em＞Darcie Boleyn＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘An unexpected ＜strong＞gem of a book＜/strong＞’ Rachel Oakes, ＜em＞Litsy＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘A very ＜strong＞fresh, imaginative＜/strong＞ approach to a love story’ ＜em＞Kraftireader＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘＜strong＞One to keep forever＜/strong＞’ ＜em＞Celia J Anderson＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘The ＜strong＞best book I have read＜/strong＞ in many years’ ＜em＞Martin 6654, Amazon reviewer＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘Without doubt ＜strong＞one of the very best books I have ever read＜/strong＞’ ＜em＞TAW, Amazon reviewer＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘Buy it because ＜strong＞every page is a treasure＜/strong＞. Buy it because you'll love it … over and over again!’ ＜em＞Mart, Amazon reviewer＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘＜strong＞So very worthy of five stars＜/strong＞. Full of humour with touches of sadness. A true wordsmith’ ＜em＞Phil M, Amazon reviewer＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘I don't usually write book reviews at 2.30 in the morning but I loved this book so much that I HAD to write my review as soon as I finished it…The characters in this book ＜strong＞will stay with me for a long time＜/strong＞’ ＜em＞Annalisa999, Amazon reviewer＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘A ＜strong＞beautiful＜/strong＞ sigh of a book’ ＜em＞Mees, Amazon reviewer＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞***＜br /＞ ＜em＞＜strong＞A story of love and lost directions＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Violet North is wonderfully inconvenient. Abandoned by her family and lost in an imagined world of moors and adventure, her life changes in the space of just 37 words exchanged with a stranger at her front door.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Decades later, Daniel Bearing has inherited his father's multi-million pound business, and is utterly lost. He has no idea who he is or where his life is headed.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When Violet’s granddaughter’s marriage falls apart, Tilly, always adept with numbers, compiles a detailed statistical report to pinpoint why. But the Compatibility Index Tilly creates has unforeseen consequences for everyone in her world.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Tilly and Daniel share a secret too. 10.37am, April 22nd.＜br /＞ Soon, a complex web of secrets and lies is exposed and an adventure begins with a blue typewriter…＜/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！】Meet Me at Fir Tree Lodge【電子書籍】[ Rachel Dove ]

＜p＞＜strong＞‘Rachel has done it again!!! This book has given me all the feels. I absolutely loved it!’ ＜em＞5 stars, Netgalley reviewer＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Escape to Fir Tree Lodge, where new beginnings come with a fresh blanket of snow…＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Rebecca Atkins＜/strong＞ has everything she could hope for ? the perfect fianc?, fabulous friends and a career as a professional skier. But when an accident on the slopes brings her crashing down in the snow with a catastrophic thud, everything changes. Her career is over, and her fianc? turns out to be, well, not so perfect.＜/p＞ ＜p＞With the chance to start afresh, Rebecca does what anyone else in her position would do… She turns to baking and manages the Alpine Bites caf?, nestled in the French Alps.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But when handsome stranger ＜strong＞Luke Sommersby＜/strong＞ becomes Rebecca’s unexpected lodger, her plan to completely forget about love is thrown into jeopardy. Guarding her heart since the accident, Fir Tree Lodge is strictly a man-free-zone.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Luke is kind, caring and gorgeous, but the emotional scars from her fall still run deep, and she fights to keep the sparks catching her heart at bay.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Will Rebecca be able to find a second chance in the snow and step into a bright new future with Luke by her side?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Fans of Jenny Colgan, Emma Davies and Debbie Johnson will love Rachel Dove!＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Readers LOVE ＜em＞Meet Me at Fir Tree Lodge＜/em＞!＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘The snowy setting, the gorgeous roaring fires and the sparkling romance made this a book I was keen to get back to, ＜strong＞5/5 festive stars＜/strong＞!’ ? ＜em＞NetGalley Reviewer, 5 Stars＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘A ＜strong＞wonderful read＜/strong＞ that made me laugh and cry at the same time, ＜strong＞totally brilliant＜/strong＞!’ ? ＜em＞NetGalley Reviewer, 5 Stars＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘Perfect sat wrapped in a blanket with a hot chocolate. A cosy read. ＜strong＞Just loved it＜/strong＞.’ ? ＜em＞NetGalley Reviewer, 5 Stars＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘A really enjoyable read, with a little ＜strong＞added sparkle perfect for the season＜/strong＞.’ ? ＜em＞NetGalley Reviewer, 5 Stars＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘Romantic, funny and ＜strong＞warmer than a roaring fire apres ski.＜/strong＞’ ? ＜em＞Amazon Reviewer, 5 Stars＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞‘Rachel pulled me in from very early on, and kept my attention and the book has been ＜strong＞completely impossible to put down＜/strong＞.’ ? ＜em＞Amazon Reviewer, 5 Stars＜/em＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Tom Swift and His Flying Boat【電子書籍】[ Victor Appleton ]

＜p＞“I am sure we can build such a flying boat, father.” “Humph! I wish I had your confidence, Tom,” chuckled Mr. Barton Swift, the old inventor. His son laughed, too. “It isn’t confidence you lack,” he said. “It is just that you are too cautious to seem optimistic.” “Have it your own way,” rejoined his father. “Just the same, a speed boat for the air, land, and sea that will do all you suggest is something to consider fearfully. Nothing to compare to it has ever yet been launched.” “But it will be launched,” cried Tom Swift eagerly. “Somebody will put it into the air before we know it. Why not get ahead of the rest of the smart folks? Why not put out a flying boat that will make all their eyes bug out?” “Even your slang gets ahead of me, Tom,” said his father mildly. “Just why do you wish to strain the optic nerves of your competitors?” But Tom Swift only laughed. He knew just how young his father’s mind remained, even if he was a semi-invalid at times and his body was weakened by age and hard work. “There is a bunch of rich men, I understand, who mean to build a flying boat to go hunting in up toward the Arctic Circle next summer. There are others that believe the mystery of the Antarctic can only be revealed through the use of such a craft. The interior of Africa, around Lake Tanganyika and the other great lakes can be properly explored only by the use of some such machine. Central South America can be reached more easily from the Amazon and its great branches than by any other means. Without a flying boat, how may one fly over the falls and escape the dangers of the rapids?” “Good! Good!” exclaimed Mr. Barton Swift. “I see you have been thinking this thing out, at least. A great many people have excuses for what they want to do; but you, Tom, have a reason. What else?” Tom Swift laughed again. He was a boyish fellow, in spite of all his experiences of the past few years; and a boy finds it difficult at most times to take older people into his confidence, especially about his dreams and hopes. “I do not know that my suggestion should seem an impossibility,” Tom said, soberly. “See what the Swift Construction Company has done in the past. Of course, I am counting on your help, father, to carry such a thing to a successful conclusion.” “You actually talk as though you had conceived a plan and would put it into effect, Tom!” cried his father. “I don’t know but I haveーand will,” said Tom, smiling once more. “At any rate, I have been revolving the scheme in my head for a long time. I admit it. A flying boat, as the storybook fellows write now, has ‘intrigued’ my interest. I’m coocoo about it, to use Ned Newton’s slang.” “So you lay your knowledge of the argot to Ned?” laughed Mr. Swift. “But this flying boat?” “A lot has been accomplished by other people. We would not be the first in the field, by any means. But I believe I have some ideas about such an invention that would put us ahead of everybody else. And that is the main thing.” “The main thing, I should say, would be to have a working hypothesis of the idea in question,”observed Barton Swift dryly. “What would you build a flying boat for? To what particular use is it to be put? Therefore, in making plans for the boat, they must fit the needs of the craft as devised. “In other words, Tom, what in the world do you want a flying boat for? You have your air scout, your aerial warship that you sold to the Government during the war, your air glider which as yet has not been equaled, your sky racer, and your old Red Cloud which scarcely any newer airship marvel has surpassed. You have been up in the air enough, it seems to me. Why not tackle the practical inventions of peace, as I pointed out in your last marvel, the electric locomotive?”＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Travels on the Amazon【電子書籍】[ Alfred Russel Wallace ]

＜p＞IT was on the morning of the 26th of May, 1848, that after a short passage of twenty-nine days from Liverpool, we came to anchor opposite the southern entrance to the River Amazon, and obtained our first view of South America. In the afternoon the pilot came on board, and the next morning we sailed with a fair wind up the river, which for fifty miles could only be distinguished from the ocean by its calmness and discoloured water, the northern shore being invisible, and the southern at a distance of ten or twelve miles. Early on the morning of the 28th we again anchored; and when the sun rose in a cloudless sky, the city of Par?, surrounded by the dense forest, and overtopped by palms and plantains, greeted our sight, appearing doubly beautiful from the presence of those luxuriant tropical productions in a state of nature, which we had so often admired in the conservatories of Kew and Chatsworth. The canoes passing with their motley crews of Negroes and Indians, the vultures soaring overhead or walking lazily about the beach, and the crowds of swallows on the churches and house-tops, all served to occupy our attention till the Custom-house officers visited us, and we were allowed to go on shore. Par? contains about 15,000 inhabitants, and does not cover a great extent of ground; yet it is the largest city on the greatest river in the world, the Amazon, and is the capital of a province equal in extent to all Western Europe. It is the residence of a President appointed by the Emperor of Brazil, and of a Bishop whose see extends two thousand miles into the interior, over a country peopled by countless tribes of unconverted Indians. The province of Par? is the most northern portion of Brazil, and though it is naturally the richest part of that vast empire, it is the least known, and at present of the least commercial importance. The appearance of the city from the river, which is the best view that can be obtained of it, is not more foreign than that of Calais or Boulogne. The houses are generally white, and several handsome churches and public buildings raise their towers and domes above them. The vigour of vegetation is everywhere apparent. The ledges and mouldings support a growth of small plants, and from the wall-tops and window-openings of the churches often spring luxuriant weeds and sometimes small trees. Above and below and behind the city, as far as the eye can reach, extends the unbroken forest; all the small islands in the river are wooded to the water's edge, and many sandbanks flooded at high-water are covered with shrubs and small trees, whose tops only now appeared above the surface. The general aspect of the trees was not different from those of Europe, except where the "feathery palm-trees" raised their graceful forms; but our imaginations were busy picturing the wonderful scenes to be beheld in their dark recesses, and we longed for the time when we should be at liberty to explore them.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。