<p>Murphy Blackwell hides inside her heavily warded Victorian home in quiet Gryphon Alabama to protect the world from her damage. Murphy is a gray witch-a chaos witch-the most unusual and hazardous type. Her only friends are also witches, two coven members who never left her side after the night the three of them lost their mothers during a deadly attack on their coven.</p> <p>Her life is turned upside down when a gunman enters her home, shattering Murphy's sense of safety. Then her high……続きを見る
<p>Sophia is sinking into a state of sad resignation when she receives a postcard offering hope. Without much thought, she seizes the opportunity to leave the dry heat of Arizona and settle into a spare cottage in the fog of Northern California. As she discovers a new landscape and pace of life, she questions her obligation to return home.</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。 ……続きを見る
<p>Inspired by Aesop's classic fables and Bill Martin Jr's friendship and books, Lyle Lee Jenkins wrote <strong>Sour Grapes: Aesop's Fooling Yourself Fable</strong>. Kitty Love's adorable fox makes numerous attempts to snatch and eat the luscious grapes with no success. Who would have thought a simple fable could create so much fun with art and words? Together, the vivid language and exciting art create an enjoyable book for beginning readers. These fortunate children will never forget l……続きを見る
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<p><em><strong>It was a wolf, rather than an ailing grandmother, that tempted Red into the woods.</strong></em></p> <p>Anything can happen when you stray from the path.</p> <p>These are not your mother’s fairy tales.</p> <p>Step into the world of sour magic. Duel with a scarred war prince, defeat a (dashing) bandit king with your own army of toads, venture into the depths of the forest for your heart’s desire.</p> <p>Forge a bond so strong it defies even death.</p> ……続きを見る
<p>Indulge your craving for flavor-filled short stories with Death & Peaches, a tantalizing fusion of thrills, chills and hand-picked, selective surprises. Painstakingly crafted over many years with the precision of a master chef, each story delivers a delectable blend of spicy suspense, juicy tenderness, and a heaping helping of humor. Haven't you waited long enough? Sink your teeth into the sinister sweetness that is Death & Peaches ー guaranteed to satisfy the most sophisticated literary ……続きを見る
<p><strong>The Instant #1 <em>New York Times</em> Bestseller!</strong></p> <p><strong>Don’t miss the sixth picture book in the #1 <em>New York Times</em> bestselling Food Group series that’s ripe with humor from Jory John and Pete Oswald!</strong></p> <p>The Sour Grape holds grudges for every reason under the sun. Lime never returned a scarf they borrowed? Grudge! Orange never called back? Grudge! But when a friend holds a grudge against the Sour Grape without listeni……続きを見る
<p>The body of a veteran is found floating on the river. Jonah was a troulbed vet and a writer of a book on he history of Indians, working on a fiction story set in the days before the massacre at Wounded Knee. Police think suicide but his best friend and ex loer think maybe murder and investigate. They make plenty of mistakes, wondering if they had let their friend down and along the way they fall in love. Yet the truth still comes out.</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ……続きを見る
<p>The Doctor Is In . . . Again!</p> <p>Did the mega-bestselling <em>Why Do Men Have Nipples?</em> exhaust your curiosity about stuff odd, icky, kinky, noxious, libidinous, or just plain embarrassing? No, you say? Well, good, because the doctor and his able-bodied buddy are in! Again! Mark Leyner and Billy Goldberg, M.D., now take on the differences between the sexesーthose burning questions like Why doesn’t my husband ever listen? or Why does my wife ALWAYS have to pee? And of cours……続きを見る
<p>Sal Maggione has been struggling to write the perfect song. A song that will help bring his band, So Say The King, to stardom. He's crumpled up more pieces of paper than he'd ever admit to.</p> <p>In the midst of his mundane job making coffee and fighting with himself over the song, he meets Samantha. His world is immediately turned on its side and he questions everything that he knows, wants and needs.</p> <p>Join Sal on his quest to complete the perfect the song, his band's rise……続きを見る
<p>About His Song</p> <p>Trials come for us all. No one is immune. Some times life trials can be permanently life-altering, sending us in directions we never anticipated. No matter how far down the rungs of sin you have gone, there is an almighty God who meets us where we are and seeks to raise us up out of the muck and mire of our own choices to a better place.</p> <p>This story begins with an embittered widow who struggles with the God she thinks she knows and the one who is I AM. ……続きを見る
<p>Two brothers, living in the Jazz Age, look forward to a life in music. Morey, a violinist, had mentored younger sibling, Charley, a brash and ambitious prodigy who flees his hometown to play banjo with Manhattan's leading orchestras. He encourages Morey to join him. Paternal but jealous and lacking his brother's talent, Morey reluctantly agrees. And together they pursue their dreams.</p> <p>The brothers' journey takes them from elegant ballrooms to Harlem speakeasies and from ocean li……続きを見る
<p>Drawing on philosophy, political and social theory, decision-theory, economics, psychology, history and literature, Jon Elster's classic book Sour Grapes continues and complements the arguments of his acclaimed earlier book, Ulysses and the Sirens. Elster begins with an analysis of the notation of rationality, before tackling the notions of irrational behavior, desires and belief with highly sophisticated arguments that subvert the orthodox theories of rational choice. Presented in a fres……続きを見る
<p>Set in the Syrian neighborhood of al-Qaweyq, <em>Sour Grapes</em> is a collection of fifty-nine wry, satirical short stories loosely connected by a cast of rotating characters living at society’s margins. Tamer captures their everyday lives, weaving the attendant cruelties and ironies of living under an oppressive regime with the residents’ irreverence and small acts of defiance. Inspired by the heroines of Arab mythology, the women of al-Qaweyq navigate the patriarchal community with……続きを見る
<p>In 1977, while studying journalism at the University of Iowa, Chris Baker gave his grandmother a notebook and asked her to write about her childhood. Years later, long after her death in 1990, he found the tattered yellow notebook. In twenty-nine handwritten pages, the woman he knew as Grandma Covert had recorded her younger life in rural Iowa between 1920 and 1929. Writing about herself from the ages of four to thirteen, Vetra Covert sent a simple message back to her grandson: “That’s ju……続きを見る
<p>In the summer of ’67, a body bobbed to the surface of Auke Bay. During the following days, the war bloodied the streets and hills of the city. Men died as far away as Skagway and Haines. Coincidental with the gruesome discovery north of Juneau, a new prosecutor named Brian Thomas arrived on the afternoon flight from Seattle. Coincidental? Many crime investigators do not believe in it.</p> <p>Do you?</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページか……続きを見る
<p>sour cream and vinegar is a collection of poems that take confessionalism into an unorthodox literary marriage with imagism. the deplorable poet brings a unique poetic format that allows the reader to set their own rhythm while being engaged with each poem. Realism takes the threshold over idealism, which in return unmasks the fa?ade of "milk and honey," and allows the audience to accept that, at times, life is truly more like "sour cream and vinegar."</p>画面が切り替わりますので、しば……続きを見る
<p><strong>A murder mystery surrounding a miniature dollhouse.</strong></p> <p>When Elise takes a position at spooky old Montgomery Manor as companion to her friend Lavina's great aunt, she's expecting an easy job for the holidays. What she doesn't expect are dead bodies, ghosts and a murderer who's picked her as the next target.</p> <p>Delving into the secrets and tragedies of the past, her only clue is a doll's house from which pieces keep mysteriously disappearing. But what is……続きを見る
<p>A crazy, provoking epic story full of interesting true stories of the hidden lives of the local residents of Caribbean town and the people who live in the surrounding villages, not excluding the dark and strange goings-on at the islands landmark between the twin Piton Mountains. Satirically funny, almost crazy, sometimes sad, a story based on the local history of the people.</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……続きを見る
<p>VL. Virgin Lips. Remember that girl? She was so certain that she was in control, that she was safe behind her rules. She was so determined to avoid heartbreak. She never stood a chance, did she?<br /> I’d been that girlーI’d started the year hopeful and na?ve, thinking that if I kept kissing out of the question, I could guard myself against pain and drama. I could hold onto the idea of a perfect kiss in the future, if I only protected myself from anything messy in the meantime. That was……続きを見る
<p>Danske virksomheder producerer, s?lger og udvikler allerede i Kina. Men hvad bliver det n?ste skridt? M?d nogle af de mest succesfulde danske erhvervsfolk i Kina, l?r af deres dyrt k?bte erfaringer og f? deres bud p? den n?ste b?lge, som allerede er i gang.</p> <p>Kina er en uundg?elig del af danske virksomheders fremtid. Verdensbilledet er ved at vende, og det er sandsynligt at flere danske virksomheder om f? ?r er ejet af kinesere. Men det skal ikke afholde danske virksomheder fra a……続きを見る
<p>Hating ones own mother was something Jonathan could never imagine in his wildest dreams. She was the one who raised him and taught him how to love, but as time went on, he grew to understand her true nature. She gave him the lessons in life that would change him as a man forever. Only if his mother would have told him the truth about the world instead of feeding him fantasies and lies, maybe he would have never lost his way. So what do you do when you feel like love is all you need but al……続きを見る
<p><strong>This collection of Zen essays by the author of <em>Zen Flesh, Zen Bones</em> offers an enlightening perspective on a variety of topics.</strong></p> <p><strong>From the introduction:</strong><br /> Not all of us can be exuberant travelers though we all dream of faraway places. Not all of us can sec the subliminal with a penetrating eye, though many of us yearn to shake off the philistine shells that restrict our lives to the prosaic.</p> <p>Here, then, is you……続きを見る
<p><strong>A heartwarming look at love, loss, and memorable objects through the eyes of a child by critically-acclaimed creators Naseem Hrab and Nahid Kazemi</strong></p> <p>"Deeply evocative ... A beautifully poignant celebration of memories of a loved one that live on in those that remain." ー <em>Kirkus Reviews ? STARRED REVIEW</em></p> <p>After her grandfather’s death, a young girl wanders through his house. As she tours each room, the objects she discovers stir memories ……続きを見る