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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！】Heir To The Glimmering World【電子書籍】[ Cynthia Ozick ]

＜p＞Cynthia Ozick is an American master at the height of her powers in ＜em＞Heir to the Glimmering World＜/em＞, a grand romantic novel of desire, fame, fanaticism, and unimaginable reversals of fortune. Ozick takes us to the outskirts of the Bronx in the 1930s, as New York fills with Europe’s ousted dreamers, turned overnight into refugees.＜br /＞ Rose Meadows unknowingly enters this world when she answers an ambiguous want ad for an "assistant" to a Herr Mitwisser, the patriarch of a large, chaotic household. Rosie, orphaned at eighteen, has been living with her distant relative Bertram, who sparks her first erotic desires. But just as he begins to return her affection, his lover, a radical socialist named Ninel (Lenin spelled backward), turns her out.＜/p＞ ＜p＞And so Rosie takes refuge from love among refugees of world upheaval. Cast out from Berlin’s elite, the Mitwissers live at the whim of a mysterious benefactor, James A'Bair. Professor Mitwisser is a terrifying figure, obsessed with his arcane research. His distraught wife, Elsa, once a prominent physicist, is becoming unhinged. Their willful sixteen-year-old daughter runs the household: the exquisite, enigmatic Anneliese. Rosie's place here is uncertain, and she finds her fate hanging on the arrival of James. Inspired by the real Christopher Robin, James is the Bear Boy, the son of a famous children's author who recreated James as the fanciful subject of his books. Also a kind of refugee, James runs from his own fame, a boy adored by the world but grown into a bitter man. It is Anneliese’s fierce longing that draws James back to this troubled house, and it is Rosie who must help them all resist James’s reckless orbit.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Ozick lovingly evokes these perpetual outsiders thrown together by surprising chance. The hard times they inherit still hold glimmers of past hopes and future dreams. ＜em＞Heir to the Glimmering World＜/em＞ is a generous delight.＜/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！】Imagine Love【電子書籍】[ Katherine Stone ]

＜p＞Imagine moonlight and roses. And London and Paris. And the intoxicating magic of a Louisiana bayou. Then journey with bestselling author Katherine Stone on this enthralling voyage of passion, of courage, of danger, and of love.＜/p＞ ＜p＞They met beside the brilliant blue bayou. She was an innocent girl, and he was a reckless and angry boy. Claire Chamberlain believed in dreams, and Cole Taylor believed in nothing at all. Cole had no reason to believeーuntil her. They pledged their love beneath the silver winter moon. But the hopes of Cole and Claire were shattered by violence and drowned in blood.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Now, twelve years later, Cole Taylor, singer of love songs, returns to the bayou. So muchーfor Claireーhas changed. Everything has changed. Yet she has found a private peace, such a fragile one that Cole's very presence shatters her precarious serenity. And now Cole is asking her to do the impossible, to come away with him, to London. Claire knows he will break her heart again. But she will be with him, she has to be, for as long as she can bear the pain.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Claire's is not the only endangered heart in London. A murderer has sent Lady Sarah Pembroke an engraved Valentine invitationーto her own death. And is Claire's girlhood friend afraid of the knife-wielding monster? Hardly. The Global News' star correspondent, the woman who feels oddly sane amid the madness of war, has her own private demons, memories far more fearsome than a murderer who chooses the most romantic day of the year to inflict his lethal terror.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But neither Sarah's past nor the killer stalking her are as terrifying as Jack Dalton, the FBI consultant determined to save Sarah's life. Jack needs Sarah's help in his exhaustive, careful search for clues. But remarkably, and infuriatingly, Sarah resists. Sarah will not tell Jack the intimate information he needs to know. She cannot. And yet it is as if he already knows her anguished secrets, cares for her more than he should, and wants more from Lady Sarah Pembroke than she can ever give.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Imagine Love is an enthralling read, a beautifully crafted tapestry of suspense and love, of surprises you won't imagine, and of men and women you will never forget.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Praise for IMAGINE LOVE and the novels of Katherine Stone:＜/p＞ ＜p＞“With this tightly woven, suspenseful plot, peopled with memorable characters, Stone has produced another surefire hit.”ーBooklist on Imagine Love＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Sweeping drama . . . Her most emotionally charged and intricate story of love yet.”ーRomantic Times on Imagine Love＜/p＞ ＜p＞“Alluring . . . Fascinating . . . Each page brings a new adventure, every plot twist another question begging to be answered.”ーRendezvous on Imagine Love＜/p＞ ＜p＞Katherine Stone writes “in the vein of Danielle Steel and Sandra Brown”ーLibrary Journal＜/p＞ ＜p＞Katherine Stone's "high quality romance ranks right up there with Nora Roberts."ーBooklist＜/p＞ ＜p＞Katherine Stone is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty-two novels, including ROOMMATES, PEARL MOON, LOVE SONGS, HAPPY ENDINGS, and THIEF OF HEARTS. Her books are sold worldwide and have been translated into twenty languages. A physician who now writes full time, she lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, physician-novelist Jack Chase (CRY CHAOS, MORTALITY RATE, FATAL ANALYSIS, THE MAGRUDER TRANSPLANT).＜/p＞ ＜p＞Please visit katherinestone.com for more information.＜/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！】With Sam Houston in Texas: A Boy Volunteer in the Texas Struggles for Independence, when in the Years 1835-1836 the Texas Colonists Threw off the Unjust Ru【電子書籍】[ Edwin Legrand Sabin ]

＜p＞The toiling little steamboat “Arkansas” was stuck harder than ever, as seemed, on a mud-bar far up the shallow Arkansas River, in the old “Indian Country,” which is present Oklahoma. “Back her! Back her!” were bawling a half-dozen voices, from her passengers. “Go ahead! Give her steam! Push her over!” were bawling a half-dozen others. “No! Swing her!” The paddle-wheel astern threshed vainly; the red-shirted pilot in the pilot-house continually jangled the engine-bell; from the upper deck the captain yelled himself hoarse; on the lower deck the mate stumped around in cowhide boots and swore horridly; the negro roustabouts, ranged along the flat open bows and the guard-rails, to shove with poles, grunted and panted, and now and then one fell overboard when his pole slipped; the passengers advised and criticized; the many dogs barked; and young Ernest Merrill, scampering upstairs and down, so as to be certain to see everything that happened, could not feel that the boat budged forward or backward an inch. “We’re rooted fast, this time,” spoke a pleasant voice in his ear, as from the forward rail of the upper deck he was sighting on the shore, to see whether they really did move. “There’s scarcely water enough under her here to float a peanut shell.” It was his friend Lieutenant Neal, in charge of the army recruits bound, like Ernest, for Fort Gibson of the Indian Country. A fine young man was Lieutenant Neal; not much more than a boy himself. Ever since he and Ernest had got acquainted, on the first day up the Arkansas from where it emptied into the Mississippi, he had rather taken Ernest under his wing. He and his recruits were from New Orleans; and Ernest was from Cincinnati, in the other direction. “She is stuck, isn’t she!” agreed Ernest. “But they’ll get her off, won’t they? They always have.” For the “Arkansas” to be aground was nothing new. Through almost two weeks she had been threshing and thumping and snorting on her noisy crooked way, stemming the tricky current and dodging (when she could) the numerous bars and snags half-exposed by the falling water. But every now and again she struck. Such was steamboat travel on the Arkansas River in this early fall of 1832. That was a long trip, anyway, 640 miles by steamboat up to Fort Gibson amidst the Cherokees in the Indian Country. The Arkansas River had proved to be a lonely stream, winding amidst cane brakes and bayous and timber and wide flowery prairies, peopled chiefly by bear and deer and horses and wild fowl. At Little Rock, the first town of any consequence, and the capital of Arkansas Territory, about half the passengers left, and a dozen others came aboard. At Fort Smith, 300 miles further, on the line between Arkansas Territory and the Indian Country, a half of the remaining passengers (including some Texas emigrants and the most of the army recruits) filed ashore. When Fort Smith was left behind, the passengers on board were, with the exception of Lieutenant Neal and Ernest, a rather tough set: reckless hunters and adventurers, each accompanied by several black-and-tan or yellow hounds, and all apparently bound as far as they could go into the Indian Country. But it did not look as though they were to get much farther, by steamboat! “By gracious!” fidgeted the lieutenant, mopping his brow under his stiff-visored forage-cap. “This is bad, to be held up so, when we’re almost there. I could better have gone overland from Smith. How far is it to Gibson now, captain?” The captain was tired and hot and cross. “Less’n fifty miles by land, if you know the trail. Those who are in a tearing hurry can get out and walk. I’d no business trying this end of the river. I told all you fellows I probably couldn’t make it. Little Rock is as high as a boat should go, after July; and here we are, 300 miles beyond. Pretty soon we’ll be navigating in dew.” And the captain stalked indignantly away.＜/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！】Traits of American Humour (Complete)【電子書籍】[ Various Authors ]

＜p＞Most Europeans speak of America as they do of England, France, or Prussia, as one of the great countries of the world, but without reference to the fact that it covers a larger portion of the globe than all of them collectively. In like manner as the New England confederacy originally comprised the most enlightened and most powerful transatlantic provinces, and the inhabitants accidentally acquired the appellation of Yankees, so this term is very generally applied to all Americans, and is too often used as a national, instead of a provincial or a sectional soubriquet. In order to form an accurate estimate of the national humour, it is necessary to bear these two great popular errors constantly in view. The Eastern and Western, Northern and Southern States, though settled by a population speaking the same language, and enjoying the same institutions, are so distant from each other, and differ so widely in climate, soil, and productions, that they have but few features in common; while the people, from the same causes, as well as from habits, tastes, necessities, the sparseness or density of population, free soil, or slave labour, the intensity, absence, or weakness of religious enthusiasm, and many other peculiarities, are equally dissimilar. Hence, humour has a character as local as the boundaries of these civil subdivisions. The same diversity is observable in that of the English, Irish and Scotch, and in their mirthful sallies, the character of each race is plainly discernible. That of the English is at once manly and hearty, and, though embellished by fancy, not exaggerated; that of the Irish, extravagant, reckless, rollicking, and kind-hearted; while that of the Scotch is sly, cold, quaint, practical, and sarcastic. The population of the Middle States, in this particular, reminds a stranger of the English, that of the West resembles the Irish, and the Yankees bear a still stronger affinity to the Scotch. Among the Americans themselves these distinctions are not only well understood and defined, but are again subdivided so as to apply more particularly to the individual States. Each has a droll appellation, by which the character of its yeomanry, as composed of their ability, generosity, or manliness on the one hand, and craft, economy, or ignorance of the world, on the other, is known and illustrated. Thus, there are the Hoosiers of Indiana, the Suckers of Illinois, the pukes of Missouri, the buck-eyes of Ohio, the red-horses of Kentucky, the mud-heads of Tenessee, the wolverines of Michigan, the eels of New England, and the corn-crackers of Virginia. For the purpose of this work, however, it is perhaps sufficient merely to keep in view the two grand divisions of East and West, which, to a certain extent, may be said to embrace those spread geographically North and South, with which they insensibly blend. Of the former, New England and its neighbours are pre-eminent. The rigid discipline and cold, gloomy tenets of the Puritans required and enforced a grave demeanour, and an absence from all public and private amusements, while a sterile and ungrateful soil demanded all the industry, and required all the energy of the people to ensure a comfortable support. Similar causes produce a like result in Scotland. Hence the striking resemblance in the humour of the two people. But though the non-conformist fathers controlled and modified the mirth of the heart, they could not repress it. Nature is more powerful than conventional regulations, and it soon indemnified itself in the indulgence of a smile for the prohibition of unseemly laughter.＜/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 Wild Man of the West: A Tale of the Rocky Mountains【電子書籍】[ Robert Michael Ballantyne ]

＜p＞In which the Reader is introduced to a Mad Hero, a Reckless Lover, and a Runaway HusbandーBackwoods Juvenile Training describedーThe Principles of Fighting fully discussed, and some valuable Hints thrown out. March Marston was mad! The exact state of madness to which March had attained at the age when we take up his personal historyーnamely, sixteenーis uncertain, for the people of the backwoods settlement in which he dwelt differed in their opinions on that point. The clergyman, who was a Wesleyan, said he was as wild as a young buffalo bull; but the manner in which he said so led his hearers to conclude that he did not think such a state of ungovernable madness to be a hopeless condition, by any means. The doctor said he was as mad as a hatter; but this was an indefinite remark, worthy of a doctor who had never obtained a diploma, and required explanation, inasmuch as it was impossible to know how mad he considered a hatter to be. Some of the trappers who came to the settlement for powder and lead, said he was as mad as a grisly bear with a whooping-coughーa remark which, if true, might tend to throw light on the diseases to which the grisly bear is liable, but which failed to indicate to any one, except perhaps trappers, the extent of young Marston’s madness. The carpenter and the blacksmith of the placeーwho were fast friends and had a pitched battle only once a month, or twice at mostーagreed in saying that he was as mad as a wild-cat. In short, every one asserted stoutly that the boy was mad, with the exception of the women of the settlement, who thought him a fine, bold, handsome fellow; and his own mOther, who thought him a paragon of perfection, and who held the opinion (privately) that, in the wide range of the habitable globe there was not another like himーand she was not far wrong! Now, the whole and sole reason why March Marston was thus deemed a madman, was that he displayed an insane tendency, at all times and in all manners, to break his own neck, or to make away with himself in some similarly violent and uncomfortable manner＜/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 Rival Trappers: Old Pegs, The Mountaineer【電子書籍】[ Albert W. Aiken ]

＜p＞Hush! Is that a footstep coming up the canon? It came nearer and nearer, and a man of strange appearance suddenly stepped into view, rounding a bend in the canon. At the first glance it seemed that he was a dwarf in stature, but as he advanced, it was plainly to be seen that this was a mistake, for those broad shoulders and herculean arms never belonged to a dwarf. In hight he would scarcely have reached five feet, but his girth of shoulder and hip was something wonderful. In short, he had the body of a giant, set upon a pair of legs so crooked and misshapen that it seemed as if he had borrowed those limbs from some one else. He came on with a peculiar, sidelong, hitching gait, swinging out his left leg and throwing forward the shoulder upon that side in an irresistibly ludicrous way, but getting over the ground at a very fair pace. His dress was that of the mountainman, of greasy buck-skin, yet showing the careful hand of woman in the manner in which it was made. He wore fringed leggins, moccasins of ponderous size, and a high bear-skin cap, which added considerably to his ludicrous “make-up.” His weapons were a carefully-polished rifle, a pair of splendid revolvers, a knife and a hatchet. His face was broad, ruddy and good-natured, fringed by a russet-brown hair and beard, slightly sprinkled with gray. A single look at the high forehead, merry brown eyes and smiling mouth, about which a whimsical look would linger in spite of himself, showed that he was a merry, reckless soul, but a man of undaunted courage. “Hyar we come and hyar we go, pegging along the canon,” he half-sung. “Thar was some mistake in my make-up, I reckon, or I’d be a different man. But who keers, ez long ez I am happy ez a buck Digger in grasshopper time? Oh, Lordy, yes.” He stopped and cast a penetrating glance about him, at the same time dropping one leg a little, showing that it was shorter than the other by some two inches. He seemed to listen, and his leonine head was thrown to one side in an attitude of profound attention. The next moment, by a movement of wonderful rapidity, he threw himself out of sight into one of the crevices with which the ravine abounded, and dropping to the earth behind a bowlder, awaited the event. To the casual observer there had been no break in the usual sounds in mountain and forest, but a moment more showed that the wanderer was not at fault, for the sound of hoofs could be plainly heard, coming up from the east. Nearer and nearer they came, and the rapidity of the hoof-beats showed that the horseman, whoever he might be, was coming at the top of his speed; and directly the head of a horse appeared, and a single rider came thundering down the pass, half-lying on the animal’s back, and urging him on with knife and spur, while behind him sounded other hoof-beats, showing that he was pursued.＜/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！】Secrets of a Midnight Moon【電子書籍】[ Jane Bonander ]

＜p＞＜strong＞For a young teacher in nineteenth century California, every road away from her past leads into the arms of a dangerous manーuntil she meets the right one.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞California, 1858＜/em＞. After being abandoned by her lover and shunned by her family, Anna Jenson decides to make a new start in the rugged wilderness of the California mountains. But before she can reach her destination and begin her new life as a humble schoolteacher, she's captured by a brooding warrior known only as "Bear."＜/p＞ ＜p＞Her kidnapping wasn't entirely random, though. Bear is actually Nicholas Gaspard, the half-Indian son of the rich rancher who hired Anna. He abducted her for what he believes to be a greater cause. Nicholas is a local hero, rescuing abandoned and abused local children, and he wants Anna to educate them. Furious at being tricked, Anna initially resists. But sparks fly between the reluctant teacher and the complex man, revealing a reckless desire that cannot be tamed.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Jane Bonander reaches to her readers' hearts." ー ＜em＞RT Book Reviews＜/em＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Paper Tiger An Obsessed Golfer's Quest to Play with the Pros【電子書籍】[ Tom Coyne ]

＜p＞＜em＞"Think country-club clinic meets Navy Seals training. I will pay any price, bear any burden, leave my home to follow the seasons, build my own swing studio in the basement, construct a practice green in my backyard. . . . Everything the big boys have access to, I want double."＜/em＞ Like most amateur golfers, Tom Coyne had often wondered whether the pros won because they were more talented or because they were more obsessed. Overweight and burdened by a 14 handicap, he decided to find out for himself what it takes to play like a pro.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Charting his journey, which included hiring top golf gurus such as Dr. Jim Suttieー＜em＞Paper Tiger＜/em＞ takes readers from the Michelob tournament (a win for Tom) to the Australian Tourーwhere forty-mile-per-hour winds and a driving rain scare off his Japanese partners. With each chapter, he tracks his weight alongside his handicap, pursuing his dream with a reckless abandon that comes to involve hardcore diets, pricey technology, even psychologists. With echoes of ＜em＞Dead Solid Perfect＜/em＞ and ＜em＞Who's Your Caddy?＜/em＞ Tom brings his uniquely edgy, deeply human perspective to a game that can simultaneously bring out the best and the worst in everyone who tries to master it.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Craved by her Cougar (Cougar Creek Mates Shifter Romance Series Book 4)【電子書籍】[ Felicity Heaton ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Sexy cougar shifter Cobalt aches with a need of his fated mate, craving the female he's watched for two decades... but now he's ready to claim her, she might slip through his fingers forever.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞For the last twenty years, Cobalt has burned with a need of one female, a beautiful raven-haired cougar who captured his heart the moment he set eyes on her. His position as pride protector has been a blessing at past mating gatherings, keeping females away, but this time it feels like the worst of curses, because the female who has bewitched him so thoroughly is taking part for the first time and all he can do is watch as males battle for her.＜/p＞ ＜p＞As much as she hates the way her mother controls everything in her life, Ember is thankful for it as she constantly turns away suitors, unaware of the pain she’s sparing Ember from with every male she rejects. Every male who isn’t the gorgeous blond with darkness in his eyes and an easy smile she burns for with an intensity that scares her, awakens feelings in her that have her verging on doing something reckless. Damaged goods he might be, dangerous and unpredictable, but with every contest over her that pulls her closer to her doom, she grows more determined to follow her heart, no matter the consequences.＜/p＞ ＜p＞With every fight over the right to Ember, the tethers on Cobalt’s feelings twist and threaten to snap, a torment he cannot bear and one that has him willing to risk it all, because a single kiss would make even the harshest punishment worth it. He would die for one moment with her… his fated mate.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Binge-read the complete Cougar Creek Mates shifter romance series now!＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Craved by her Cougar ＜em＞is the final book in the Cougar Creek Mates romance series. This fated mates shifter romance features a cougar shifter hero who has been craving his true mate for decades, a cougar shifter heroine who is determined to win his heart too, and a second chance romance that will warm your heart, all set in the stunning scenery of the Canadian Rockies. Plus, lots of action and adventure--and steamy scenes! All Cougar Creek Mates books have no cliffhangers, a guaranteed happily ever after, and some strong language. Enjoy!＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Discover four sexy cougar shifter brothers guaranteed to become your next book boyfriends in this hot new shapeshifter romance series from New York Times and USA Today international best-selling author Felicity Heaton, set in the same rich and addictive world as her Eternal Mates paranormal romance series.＜br /＞ Book 1: Claimed by her Cougar＜br /＞ Book 2: Captured by her Cougar＜br /＞ Book 3: Courted by her Cougar＜br /＞ Book 4: Craved by her Cougar＜/p＞ ＜p＞No cliffhangers. No cheating. Just passionate paranormal romance books with a guaranteed happily forever after!＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】One Nation Under Guns How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy【電子書籍】[ Dominic Erdozain ]

＜p＞＜strong＞This “brilliant and gut-wrenching” (＜em＞The New York Times Book Review,＜/em＞ Editors’ Choice)takedown of American gun culture argues that the nation’s founders did ＜em＞not＜/em＞ intend the Second Amendment to guarantee an individual right to bear armsーand that this distortion of the record is an urgent threat to democracy.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“At once eye-opening and enraging, ＜em＞One Nation Under Guns＜/em＞ is that rare book that can help change the way we live in this country.”ーEddie S. Glaude Jr., bestselling author of ＜em＞Begin Again＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞A ＜em＞KIRKUS REVIEWS＜/em＞ BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞More than a hundred lives are lost to firearms every day in America. The cost is more than the numbersーit is the fear, the anxiety, the dread of public spaces that an armed society has created under the tortured rubric of freedom. But the norms of today are not the norms of American history or the values of its founders. They are the product of a gun culture that has imposed its vision on a sleeping nation.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Historian Dominic Erdozain argues that we have wrongly ceded the big-picture argument on guns: As we parse legislation on background checks and automatic-weapons bans, we fail to ask what place guns should have in a functioning democracy. Taking readers on a brilliant historical journey, Erdozain shows how the founders feared the tyranny of individuals as much as the tyranny of kingsーthe idea that any person had a right to walk around armed was anathema to their notion of freedom and the peaceful republic they hoped to build. They wrote these ideas into the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, ideas that were subsequently affirmed by two centuries of jurisprudence.＜/p＞ ＜p＞And yet the twin scourges of racism and nationalism would combine to create a darker American visionーa rogue and reckless freedom based on birth and blood. It was this freedom, not the liberty promised by the Constitution, that generated our modern gun culture, with its mystic conceptions of good guys and bad guys, innocence and guilt. By the time the U.S. Supreme Court reinvented the Second Amendment in 2008’s ＜em＞District of Columbia v. Heller,＜/em＞ an opinion that Erdozain convincingly eviscerates, many Americans had already acceded to the fiction: the unfreedom of an armed society. To save our democracy, he argues, we must fight for the founders’ true idea of what it means to be free.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】One Night with an Earl【電子書籍】[ Jennifer Haymore ]

＜p＞"Sweep-you-off-your-feet historical romance! Jennifer Haymore sparkles!"＜br /＞ --- ＜strong＞Liz Carlyle＜/strong＞, ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling author＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Jennifer Haymore's books are sophisticated, deeply sensual, and emotionally complex."＜br /＞ --- ＜strong＞Elizabeth Hoyt＜/strong＞, ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling author＜/p＞ ＜p＞"For jaded romance readers, Jennifer Haymore is an author to watch!"＜br /＞ ---＜strong＞Nicole Jordan＜/strong＞, ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling author＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞USA Today＜/strong＞＜/em＞ ＜strong＞bestselling author Jennifer Haymore puts a sexy spin on Cinderella in . . .＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞ONE NIGHT WITH AN EARL＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Beatrice Reece, Lady Fenwick, has retired from polite society. Everyone knows her late husband treated her abominably, and she simply cannot bear the whispers of the ＜em＞ton＜/em＞. But it's the night of London's premier masquerade ball-and Beatrice's one chance to revel in anonymity. She hopes no one will recognize her beneath her mask, not even the sinfully sexy stranger across the room who holds her captive in his gaze . . .＜/p＞ ＜p＞Andrew Sinclair would know beautiful Beatrice anywhere from the gentle sway of her hips, the richness of her hair, and the lushness of her body. When he asks her to dance, the attraction is instant and all-consuming. The only woman he's ever truly wanted is finally in his arms. But when the clock strikes twelve, will this one reckless night fade into the morning light?＜/p＞ ＜p＞(30,000 words)＜/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！】Finder【電子書籍】[ Suzanne Palmer ]

＜p＞＜strong＞HUGO AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR: The first “wicked, fast-paced, and fun” sci-fi caper about an interstellar repo man and professional finder (Elizabeth Bear, author of ＜em＞Ancestral Night＜/em＞).＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“The zippier, zanier side of space opera.” ーB&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Fergus Ferguson has been called a lot of names: thief, con artist, repo man. He prefers the term ＜em＞finder＜/em＞. His latest job should be simple. Find the spacecraft ＜em＞Venetia's Sword＜/em＞ and steal it back from Arum Gilger, ex-nobleman turned power-hungry trade boss. He’ll slip in, decode the ship’s compromised AI security, and get out of town, ＜em＞Sword＜/em＞ in hand.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Fergus locates both Gilger and the ship in the farthest corner of human-inhabited space, a backwater deep space colony called Cernee. But Fergus’ arrival at the colony is anything but simple. A cable car explosion launches Cernee into civil war, and Fergus must ally with Gilger’s enemies to navigate a field of space mines and a small army of hostile mercenaries. What was supposed to be a routine job evolves into negotiating a power struggle between factions. Even worse, Fergus has become increasinglyーand inconvenientlyーinvested in the lives of the locals.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It doesn’t help that a dangerous alien species Fergus thought mythical prove unsettlingly real, and their ominous triangle ships keep following him around.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Foolhardy. Eccentric. Reckless. Whatever he’s called, Fergus will need all the help he can get to take back the ＜em＞Sword＜/em＞ and maybe save Cernee from destruction in the process.＜/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 Road Years A Memoir, Continued . . .【電子書籍】[ Rick Mercer ]

＜p＞＜strong＞THE INSTANT #1 BESTSELLER＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞At the end of his memoir ＜em＞Talking to Canadians＜/em＞, Rick Mercer was poised to make the biggest leap yet in his extraordinary career. Having overcome a serious lack of promise as a schoolboy and risen through the showbiz ranksーas an aspiring actor, star of a surprisingly successful one-man show about the Meech Lake Accord, co-founder of ＜em＞This Hour Has 22 Minutes＜/em＞, creator and star of the dark-comedy sitcom ＜em＞Made in Canada＜/em＞ーhe was about to tackle his biggest opportunity yet.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞The Road Years＜/em＞ picks up the story at that exciting point, with the greenlighting of what would become ＜em＞Rick Mercer Report＜/em＞. Plans for the show, of course, included political satire and Rick’s patented rants. But Rick and his partner, Gerald Lunz, were also determined to do something that comedy tends to avoid as too challenging: they would emphasize the positive. Rick would travel from coast to coast to coast in search of everything that’s best about Canada, especially its people. He found a lot to celebrate, naturally, and was rewarded with a huge audience and a run of 15 seasons.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞The Road Years＜/em＞ tells the inside story of that stupendous success. A time when Rick was heading to another townーor military base, sports centre, national parkーto try dogsledding, chainsaw carving, and bear tagging; hang from a harness (a lot); ride the “Train of Death;” plus countless other joyous and/or reckless assignments.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Added to the mix were encounters with the country’s great. Every living prime minister. Rock and roll royalty from Rush to Randy Bachman. Olympians and Paralympians. A skinny-dipping Bob Rae. And Jann Arden, of course, who gets a chapter to herself. Along the way he even found the time to visit several countries in Africa and co-found and champion the charity Spread the Net, which has gone on to protect the lives of millions.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Join the celebration, and revive a wealth of happy memories, with what is Rick Mercer’s funniest, most fascinating book yet.＜/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！】Gonna Lay Down My Burdens【電子書籍】[ Mary Monroe ]

＜p＞Bestselling author Mary Monroe won rave reviews from critics and readers alike with her first two novels, ＜em＞God Don't Like Ugly＜/em＞ and ＜em＞The Upper Room,＜/em＞ both Main Selections of the ＜em＞Black Expressions＜/em＞ Book Club. Now she returns with the masterful ＜em＞Gonna Lay Down My Burdens＜/em＞--that rare novel that inspires laughter, tears, and repeat readings.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the sweltering little town of Belle Helene, Alabama, Carmen Taylor keeps her weaknesses, her frustrations, and her tears to herself. She's too busy shouldering the burdens of her troubled friends, like Desiree Lucienne, the petite, pampered daughter of a doctor who tries to beat the wildness out of her. But it doesn't stop Desiree from trawling for men whenever she can, and trying to drag Carmen along with her.＜/p＞ ＜p＞It's not that Carmen hasn't had her share of boozy pick-ups. She has, but they just can't compare to the one steamy night she spent with the man she's loved since they were both kids. Now a local cop, Chester Sheffield, with his Barry White voice and his all-too-fine body, keeps showing up in Carmen's life, wanting to do something about the feelings they obviously have for each other. But that would mean abandoning her "boyfriend" Burl Tupper and that's something Carmen just can't do.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Ever since Burl ended up in a wheelchair because of a foolish teenage prank she played on him, Carmen's promised herself that she'd spend the rest of her life making it up to him. When Carmen doesn't take her chance with Chester, Desiree does, and when she learns that she's pregnant with Chester's child, it's almost more than Carmen can bear. Still, her loyalty to Desiree goes back a long way, and she's not about to let a man get in the way of their friendship--even when Desiree starts stepping out on Chester.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Then, on a sultry, reckless moonlit night, Carmen commits a desperate crime of passion, and, with Desiree, hits the road running. But she can't run from the truth she's avoided for years--and in a seedy hotel in the middle of nowhere, she confronts her demons head-on. Now Carmen has two choices--a life on the lam, or a full circle return to Belle Helene, the place where it all began. . .and the only place in the world she can lay down her burdens and seize her one true chance at love and redemption.＜/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！】Robins Sing at Dawn【電子書籍】[ Claude Dancourt ]

＜p＞Every Sunday, the good people of Esterelle dive into the ＜em＞Chronicle＜/em＞ to devour the next chapter of The Hummingbird's reckless adventures, courtesy of C. A. Pearsons. Who would suspect the mysterious author is a petite midwesterner, as reserved as her flamboyant heroine is bold?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Ann moved to California for its promise of better days. The serial is but a stepping stone in her dream of a writing career. Hollywood can worship its movie stars. Society can cherish its rich Lotharios. She'll stretch her pennies and make do until she succeeds by herself. Life, however, is never that simple. One ill-advised agreement and Ann gets tangled in the drama that sticks to eligible bachelor Quinn Forbes like glue.＜/p＞ ＜p＞All Quinn ever wanted was to make his family proud. He cleaned up his act after one hell of a wake-up call. Forbes Limited is thriving despite the Great Depression. Groundbreaking new technologies bear his mark. The last thing he needs is to get involved in his old friend's mess. But here he is, forced to rescue an adorable blonde from herself, time and again.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A monster haunts the former speakeasies of the Flower District, and they're both on the trail. If Passion forges brittle rings, what does Murder do?＜/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 MONK AND HIS MUSIC - SACHIN DEV BURMAN【電子書籍】[ Moti Lalwani;Richa Lakhanpal ]

＜p＞RD Burman on his late father:＜/p＞ ＜p＞Baba, my father, is gone. All that remains now are his songs and the memories. The memories keep coming back, and it’s those memories that I want to share with all of you.＜/p＞ ＜p＞His love for me was absolute and unconditional, so much so that he couldn’t bear the sight of me being even slightly upset or hurt, ever. There were numerous occasions growing up when I would do something wrong or reckless, or would simply disobey himーnever once did he lift a finger or get angry with me.＜/p＞ ＜p＞After I grew up, I came to Bombay (Mumbai) hoping to become his assistant. I loved fast cars and would zoom around town in them whenever I had a chance to. Baba would often have to listen to a litany of complaints from people who were disapproving of my gallivanting waysー“Burman sahab, he is a spoilt child!” they’d say.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Baba would say, “Yes, I knowーbut who isn’t at that age? Let him fool around as much as he wants to now. When he is older, he will surely learn to handle all the curveballs that life throws at him.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞Once, he was traveling out of Mumbai. I remember he had told me, “Pancham, I keep hearing a lot of things about you from people. I don’t believe a word of what they say. But I do want you to realize that I am not going to be around forever. And rememberーwhen I’m gone, it will be up to you to preserve my honor. Please do not ever do anything that would hurt my soul, my name.”＜/p＞ ＜p＞Gradually, I understood the full import of his words. I should always strive to live up to his expectations of me and never indulge in anything that could cause him heartburn or disappointment.＜/p＞ ＜p＞And now he is indeed gone forever, bequeathing his exalted legacy to meーa monumental responsibility that I shall try my best to fulfil.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Courtesy: Ameen Sayani＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞[Transliterated from Hindi by Anindya Roychowdhury]＜/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！】Master of the Opera, Act 5: A Haunting Duet【電子書籍】[ Jeffe Kennedy ]

＜p＞In the fifth erotically charged installment of Jeffe Kennedy's scorching ＜em＞Master of the Opera＜/em＞, a daring young woman follows her reckless desire for the perfect loverーto the point of no return. . .＜/p＞ ＜p＞He is more than just the man of her dreams. He is the master of her destiny. A mysterious masked stranger who haunts the darkened tunnels beneath the Sante Fe Opera House, the Master is like no other lover Christy has ever known. He has lured the beautiful intern to the very brink of ecstacyーand beyond. He has pushed the boundaries of her sensuality and tested the limits of her passion. But now the Master wants more. If Christy accepts his challenge, she must be willing to go further than she's ever gone. She must surrender to his every desire. She must submit to his every command. She must expose herself body and soulーor bear the scars of a broken heart forever. . .＜/p＞ ＜p＞Tonight is the night she must make a choice: to free herself from one man's obsession. . .or bind herself to him for life.＜/p＞ ＜p＞15,700 Words＜/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 Wedding Wager【電子書籍】[ Eva Devon ]

＜p＞All Lady Victoria Kirby wants is to dig in the dirt, take notations, and record history. What she ＜em＞doesn’t＜/em＞ desire is having to bumble through ballrooms and tolerate the ton’s sly insinuations about her less-than-acceptable appearance. Victoria wasn’t certain what her rather reckless father has in mind for her future. But she certainly isn’t expecting him to gamble her hand in marriageー＜em＞and lose＜/em＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞After all he witnessed as a child, the Duke of Chase cannot bear to see a woman misused. So when the marquess wagers away his daughter to a lecher of a man, he has no choice but to step in and rescue her. Lady Victoria has a reputation for being as tart as a lemon. He might just have found the perfect wife to keep his age-old promise to never sire an heir. Surely he’d never be tempted to take this lady to bed…＜/p＞ ＜p＞Then the duke meets the wild, witty, and intelligent young lady he’s bound to marry. Now trouble is certainly headed his way, and she won’t just threaten the very vow he swore to keep…she might just undo his heart, too.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Each book in The Wedding Wager series is STANDALONE:＜br /＞ * The Wedding Wager＜br /＞ * The Duke's Accidental Bride＜/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！】Terror in Brief: Volume II 200 Two-Sentence Horror Stories【電子書籍】[ D. T. Adams ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Another collection of frightening horror stories that are extremely short＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Terror in Brief: Volume II＜/em＞ contains 200 two-sentence horror stories. These alarming, bite-sized tales are grouped into four sections:＜/p＞ ＜p＞? ‘Wicked Weirdos and Crazy Creeps’. Stories about lunatics, sociopaths and psychos and the atrocious things they subject their victims to.＜/p＞ ＜p＞? ‘Senseless Murderers and Violent Brutes’. Bloodcurdling stories about those who commit gruesome acts and have no qualms about slaughtering others.＜/p＞ ＜p＞? ‘Fearful Beasts and Savage Non-Humans’. These stories look at hideous monsters, otherworldly spirits, reckless animals and made-up characters.＜/p＞ ＜p＞? ‘Strange and Deadly Incidents’. Shocking stories about devastating and disastrous events that happen to the vulnerable and unfortunate.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Meet the worst of humanity and witness their macabre and chilling acts. Encounter nightmarish creatures and bear witness to their ferocious doings. Behold bizarre happenings and unexplainable phenomena.＜/p＞ ＜p＞If you like the horror genre and have a passion for very short stories, you’re bound to enjoy ＜em＞Terror in Brief: Volume II＜/em＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Buy now and read some incredibly short horror stories.＜/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！】Wynde【電子書籍】[ Tricia Barr ]

＜p＞A bold flying maneuver won Vespa’s team the Airspar Championships during her first year at Kedu Academy. Two years later some, like her father, still say her choice was rash and reckless.＜br /＞ Celebrating her graduation, Vespa awakens amid an alien terrorist attack on the Kavil moon. With the entire human fleet pinned in the port by their own damaged warship, annihilation seems certain until Vespa aims her airblade at the doomed vessel. She intends to retrieve WISPERーa pilot assistance artificial intelligence she createdーbut its safety protocols, designed by Vespa’s father, eject her from the cockpit before she has the chance. While her impulsive decision helps thwart the Orkan assault and saves numerous lives, WISPER’s destruction strains the previously deep bond with her father.＜br /＞ Vespa must bear the consequences of her actions while the government of her home planet, Prime, struggles to comprehend the implications of the strike. Relations with their longtime trade partners are further challenged by the arrival of a military task force from the Protectorate, human colonists who had left Prime centuries ago and who bring a far different perspective on the Orkan’s intentions.＜br /＞ As the prospect of war grows, Vespa enlists into an elite military unit relying on Protectorate expertise to train spaceblade pilots. But she can’t defeat the invaders aloneーsuccess will take teamwork. With Vespa uncertain who she can trust and the lives of her family and friends at stake, she must sort allies from enemies and repair her relationship with her father before it is too late. When the Orkans launch an even more vicious attack to seize the Kavil moon, another fateful choice may be inevitable.＜br /＞ The novel blends contemporary themes, military science fiction, and romance into a sweeping saga that is sure to please broad audiences who enjoy the fantastical universes of Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, and Star Wars. Its diverse cast, filled with strong female characters, will challenge readers’ expectations and biases, while taking them through a rich, moving, and entertaining experience.＜/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！】Satan's Bears Saving Jasmine Satan's Bears【電子書籍】[ Rose Nickol ]

＜p＞Previously published. This edition has been re-edited and has a new cover. No new content has been added.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Maisy's sister Jasmine was young and wild. Maisy did the best she could for her, but that wasn't enough for Jasmine. She wanted fame and fortune. Maisy couldn't convince her there was no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Jasmine knew she was going to find what she was looking for. She was young and reckless.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When Jasmine didn't come home and didn't check in Maisy knew something was wrong. The only way to find her sister was to get close to the people Jasmine knew. That meant waiting tables at a strip bar.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Stud knew Maisy was his the first minute he saw her. Convincing her of that was the next step.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Razor was leader of the wolves and determined to take over the town. Stud's town. Stud was just as determined not to let it happen. Jasmine was caught in the middle. Could Stud convince Maisy that they belonged together and save her sister while defending his town?＜/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 Fae King’s Curse【電子書籍】[ Mickey Bolton ]

＜p＞〓 ＜strong＞A Cursed Throne. A Doomed Fate. A Love That Defies the Gods.＜/strong＞ 〓＜/p＞ ＜p＞For centuries, ＜strong＞the Night King has been bound to a throne of shadows＜/strong＞, cursed to bear the weight of magic that should have never been his. But when ＜strong＞Elyria of the Starborn＜/strong＞ arrivesーfierce, reckless, and dangerously powerfulーeverything changes.＜/p＞ ＜p＞She was never meant to survive the curse.＜/p＞ ＜p＞She was never meant to ＜strong＞take his place.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞And she was ＜strong＞never meant to fall for him.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞But fate has other plans.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When Elyria ＜strong＞defies destiny and sacrifices herself＜/strong＞, taking the curse upon her own soul, she believes she has freed Kaelith. That she has saved them both.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞She is wrong.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Now, the magic inside her is unraveling, ＜strong＞erasing her piece by piece, twisting her into something unrecognizable.＜/strong＞ And Kaelithー**the ruthless, cursed king who swore he would never loveー**will burn the world before he lets her slip away.＜/p＞ ＜p＞〓 ＜strong＞The gods have written their fates in blood.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞〓 ＜strong＞But Kaelith and Elyria? They are rewriting the rules.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Fans of ＜strong＞Sarah J. Maas, Jennifer L. Armentrout, and Carissa Broadbent＜/strong＞ will be ＜strong＞obsessed＜/strong＞ with this romantasy filled with:＜/p＞ ＜p＞?? ＜strong＞A dark, brooding fae king＜/strong＞ who will destroy the world for her＜/p＞ ＜p＞?? ＜strong＞A fierce heroine＜/strong＞ who refuses to be a pawn in fate's game＜/p＞ ＜p＞?? ＜strong＞Magic, war, and forbidden love＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞?? ＜strong＞Heart-stopping enemies-to-lovers tension＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞?? ＜strong＞An epic, high-stakes battle against destiny itself＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞?? ＜strong＞Perfect for readers who love slow-burn tension, angsty romance, and fantasy worlds dripping in danger and desire.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞? ＜strong＞Scroll up and grab your copy now!＜/strong＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy By Dominic Erdozain【電子書籍】[ David C. Morgan ]

＜p＞This critique of American gun culture contends that the Second Amendment was not intended to protect a person's right to keep and bear guns, and that this misrepresentation of history poses a serious danger to democracy.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"One Nation Under Guns is that rare book that can help change the way we live in this countryーit's both eye-opening and enraging at the same time."ーEddie S. Glaude Jr., author of the best-selling book Start Again＜/p＞ ＜p＞Every day in America, weapons claim the lives of over a hundred people. Beyond the numbers, the price lies in the worry, terror, and dread of public places that an armed society has instilled under the perverted banner of freedom. However, neither the founding fathers' ideals nor the conventions of today are the same as those of American history. They are the offspring of a gun culture that has forced its beliefs onto a country that is fast asleep.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dominic Erdozain, a historian, contends that we have mistakenly given up the larger debate over guns: We neglect to consider what role firearms should play in a healthy democracy when we analyze laws pertaining to background checks and the prohibition of automatic weapons. The concept that anybody had the right to carry a weapon was incompatible with the founders' vision of freedom and the peaceful republic they intended to establish. Erdozain takes readers on a fascinating historical trip to demonstrate how the founders dreaded the tyranny of people as much as the tyranny of monarchs. These concepts were later upheld by two centuries of legal precedent and included in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.＜/p＞ ＜p＞However, the combined evils of nationalism and racism would give rise to a more sinister conception of Americaーone of a reckless and renegade freedom founded only on bloodline. This freedomーrather than the liberty guaranteed by the Constitutionーis what gave rise to the myths about good and evil, innocence, and guilt that characterize our contemporary gun culture. Many Americans had already given in to the fantasy of the unfreedom of an armed society by the time the U.S. Supreme Court reinterpreted the Second Amendment in the 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller decision, which Erdozain persuasively dismantles. He contends that in order to preserve our democracy, we must defend the original meaning of freedom as defined by the founders.＜/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！】Song of the Fireflies【電子書籍】[ J. A. Redmerski ]

＜p＞"I ＜em＞loved＜/em＞ every last word! Beautiful, heartfelt, consuming -- I couldn't put it down. There's pure magic in J. A. Redmerski's pen." -- Katy Evans, ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling author of the REAL series＜br /＞ From the ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling author of ＜em＞The Edge of Never＜/em＞ and ＜em＞The Edge of Always＜/em＞＜br /＞ The Truth Will Set Them Free＜br /＞ Brayelle Bates has always been a force of nature. Even as a child, Bray's wild and carefree spirit intimidated everyone around her. The only person who's ever truly understood her is her best friend, Elias Kline. Though every fiber of her being wants to stay with Elias forever, Bray can't bear the thought of him discovering her agonizing history. She's done everything she can to keep him at arm's length, including moving away. But their undying bond was too strong a pull to deny, and Bray couldn't survive without him. Now she's back home with Elias, and things have never felt more right--until one night changes everything.＜br /＞ Elias vowed never to be separated from Bray again. So when she decides to flee in a desperate attempt to escape her fate, Elias knows he must go with her. As the two try to make the most of their circumstance, taking up with a reckless group of new friends, Elias soon realizes there's a darkness driving Bray he can't ignore. Now in order to save her, he'll have to convince Bray to accept the consequences of their reality--even if it means losing her.＜/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！】Black as Night【電子書籍】[ Anthea Sharp ]

＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞One princess. Two realms. And a reckless choice that could destroy kingdoms...＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Rose Valrois has escaped the sorcerous red priests and returned to the castle beside the enchanted Darkwood, but her troubles are far from over. Her stepsister, Princess Neeve, is more secretive than ever, and as war threatens, Rose's mother pushes her toward a political alliance, even as her heart is torn between a heroic prince and the Dark Elf guardian of the forest.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But when Neeve makes a terrible choice, the fate of two kingdoms hangs in the balance. Rose must risk her freedom, her world, and even her heart to save her sister. Can she bear to make that sacrifice? Does she even have the choice?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞A fantasy fairy-tale weaving elements of Snow White & Rose Red with romance, magic, and dangerous secrets that will change the fate of two worlds.＜/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！】Straight Flight A Team Colt Short Story【電子書籍】[ Arleigh Jacobs ]

＜p＞＜em＞When a girl is kidnapped, Colt has one path: Get her back.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Talia "Colt" Levin never expected a routine flight to turn into a high-stakes rescue mission. But when a scared little girl leaves behind a teddy bearーand her supposed father vanishes without a wordーColt's instincts scream that something is wrong. What starts as a gut feeling quickly escalates into a dangerous game of cat and mouse at a quiet airport, where a group of criminals have far bigger plans than just one kidnapped child. With time running out and no backup in sight, Colt will have to rely on her skills, her wits, and a whole lot of reckless determination to save an innocent life.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Fast-paced, tense, and deeply immersive, ＜em＞Straight Flight＜/em＞ is a heart-pounding thriller that tests the limits of courage, instinct, and the cost of doing the right thing.＜/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！】Reunion A Novel【電子書籍】[ Elise Juska ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ Editors' Choice ? A ＜em＞People＜/em＞ Best Book＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“Masterful storytelling and memorable characters. . . . Elise Juska's best book yet.”＜/strong＞ー＜em＞＜em＞Liz Moore＜/em＞, New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling author of ＜em＞Long Bright River＜/em＞ and ＜em＞The God of the Woods＜/em＞**＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“I loved this story about the importance of long friendships. . . . A perfectly crafted page-turner.”＜/strong＞ー＜strong＞Mary Beth Keane, ＜em＞New York Times＜/em＞ bestselling author of ＜em＞Ask Again, Yes＜/em＞ and ＜em＞The Half Moon＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞From the beloved author of the “uniquely poignant” (＜em＞Entertainment Weekly＜/em＞) novel ＜em＞The Blessings＜/em＞ comes a gripping story about three friends in their forties forced to reckon with their lives during a college reunion in coastal Maine.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞It’s June 2021, and three old college friends are heading to New England and the twenty-fifth reunion that was delayed the year before. Hope, a stay-at-home mom, is desperate for a return to her beloved campus, a reprieve from her tense marriage, and the stresses of pandemic parenting. Adam is hesitant to leave his bucolic but secluded life with his wife and their young sons. Single mother Polly hasn’t been back to campus in more than twenty years and has no interest in returningーbut changes her mind when her struggling teenage son suggests a road trip.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But the reunion isn’t what any of them had envisioned. Hope, always upbeat, is no longer able to downplay the pressures of life at home or the cracks in her longstanding friendships. Adam finds himself energized by the memory of his carefree, reckless younger selfーwhich only reminds him how much has changed since those halcyon days. Polly cannot ignore the ghosts of her college years, including a closely guarded secret. When the weekend takes a startling turn, all three find themselves reckoning with the pastーand how it will bear on the future.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Beautifully observed and insightful, ＜em＞Reunion＜/em＞ is a page-turning novel about the highs and lows of friendship from a writer at the height of her powers.＜/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！】Rising Blood【電子書籍】[ Bronwyn Green ]

＜p＞＜em＞She doesn't need a partner. She doesn't need him. She sure as hell doesn't need the problems he brings to her already complicated life.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Vampire hunter, Harper Yovanoff, is ＜em＞not＜/em＞ happy. Ever since her former partner vanished, she'd been content to work alone. Unfortunately, her boss doesn't feel the same way. Harper's been assigned a new partnerーa new partner who's an utter pain in her ass. Elliot Zielin is panty-meltingly gorgeous, but he's also reckless, not to mention, insufferably arrogant. If he's not careful, the vampires will be the least of his worries.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Elliot knows he should play nice with his new partner, but he can't resist poking the bearーthe tiny, angry bear who's so freaking beautiful, she makes him ache for things he shouldn't want. Despite the fact that Harper has a stake with his name on it, he keeps pushing.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When a powerful vampire begins actively stalking and turning hunters, Harper and Elliot are forced to work more closely together than ever in an effort to save their own. With tempers and adrenaline high, letting off a little steam goes way too far, and they both end up in a place they never expected. The threat against them increases and fighting their growing feelings for one another becomes impossible. But if they can't stop the sire hell-bent on their destruction, all the love in the world won't save them from becoming the very thing they hunt.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Please Note: Rising Blood was originally published in the Dark Pursuit anthology.＜/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 Mac Ti`re Clan series【電子書籍】[ Keely Tate ]

＜p＞Biting Obsession:＜br /＞ Beautiful, headstrong Annah Kavanagh was on the run from trouble. She ended up in a small town with a big secret. She was fierce about keeping her independence when she should have been watching out for her heart.＜/p＞ ＜p＞He was an alpha, dominate and stubborn, heir to a clan. Jarrott Mason fought as hard as he loved. He was happy with his life and didn’t want or need any changes. Until his wolf catches her scent.＜br /＞ One sniff was all it took to change two lives forever. She will fight him at every turn, but can’t fight the attraction between them. There isn’t anything he won’t do to get one bite of her sexy, curvy body. But one bite will never be enough.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Catching His Obsession:＜br /＞ Cailyn McNeil is a head-strong girl with a fiery temper and a soft heart. She ran from the very people who promised to protect her but set out to destroy her instead. When she sees her future in the eyes from her past she will fight with everything she has for her fated mate.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Uilliam Mason likes to play, takes nothing serious until fate puts his future in front of him in the girl from his past. He'll go through anyone, anything to keep his fated mate beside him.＜/p＞ ＜p＞.Reckless Obsession:＜br /＞ Saved from an abusive clan, Abby Jameson has lived the last two years with Dominic Mason as her shadow. She knows he is her mate, his wolf claimed her immediately, this much she knew for certain. But what about the man? Abby decides to see if Dominic can keep his cool when she defies her alpha mate.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dominic Mason knew she was his from the moment he set eyes on her. He and his wolf were waiting for the day they could make her theirs. As the time for the claiming draws near his mate decides to test the control of both man and beast, making her wonder if she bitten off more that she can chew.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Misunderstandings and miscommunication threated to tear them apart. Before they can work it out danger has come to their little town. Women are being attacked and now it seems that it has set its sights on Abby. Dominic has to protect his woman and claim his mate before time runs out for his reckless obsession.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Claiming His Obsession:＜br /＞ Daughllin Malachi has watched over Aisling Mason for years. He first saw her when she was fourteen years old. He knew she was his but he also knew she had some growing up to do.＜/p＞ ＜p＞When her sixteen-year-old self, pushed Daughllin to far he had her sent away. Now eighteen she's back and ready to give him hell. But she's going to make the big, bad Ceannair De Gach grovel first. It doesn't go as planned when Daughllin, a true alpha, puts her disobedience where it belongs, over his knees.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Daughllin is the Ceannair De Gach, strongest of all. He has a responsibility to all shifters, not just one clan, all clans. When he is unable to focus on his work he talks Aisling's father into sending her to live with some of her family in Ireland, though not unprotected. He knew she would know who was responsible for her being sent away, just as he knew her anger would have to be appeased when she returned.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Their battle of wills is put on hold when the troublesome, neighboring Bear clan is in need of the Ceannair De Gach. A rogue shifter goes on the hunt and his prey is Aisling. Daughllin get to show why he is the strongest of all when he goes on the hunt for his stolen mate.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Another Kind of Magic【電子書籍】[ Elizabeth Davies ]

＜p＞＜em＞“I am a cat. But I am no ordinary cat. I am a witch’s familiar. I am also a woman, with a woman’s heart and a woman’s frailty.”＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Nearly two hundred years have passed since Caitlyn was trapped by supernatural forces and black magic, and she has known many mistresses. This time, the witch she is enthralled to is Joan, wife of Llewelyn, Prince of Wales.＜/p＞ ＜p＞At first, this mistress appears no different to any of the others Caitlyn has served ? until Llewelyn captures William de Braose, and Joan falls in love, risking everything, including Caitlyn, to fulfil her desire.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Caitlyn, meanwhile, has her own cross to bear in the form of the gallant and reckless Hugh of Pembroke…＜/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。