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清涼飲料水の工場で働いていたときに事故で薬指の先を失ってしまった「わたし」は、工場を辞め、街に出て探しあてた旧下宿屋を改造した「標本室」で働くことになった。そこは、封じ込めたい思い出にまつわる品々が持ち込まれ、経営者である標本技術者によって「標本」にされ保管される場所であった。

In Before He Covets, newly minted FBI agent Mackenzie White graduates the FBI Academy in Quantico only to find herself thrown into an urgent serial killer case. Women are turning up dead while camping in a remote national park in West Virginia. Yet the park is vast, and no connection can be found between them. At the same time, Mackenzie receives a call from Nebraska urging her to come home. After many years, a new clue has surfaced about her father's murder. The case no longer cold, Mackenzie desperately needs to help solve it.

In ONCE GONE, women are turning up dead in the rural outskirts of Virginia, killed in grotesque ways, and when the FBI is called in, they are stumped. A serial killer is out there, his frequency increasing, and they know there is only one agent good enough to crack this case: Special Agent Riley Paige. Riley is on paid leave herself, recovering from her encounter with her last serial killer, and, fragile as she is, the FBI is reluctant to tap her brilliant mind. Yet Riley, needing to battle her own demons, comes on board, and her hunt leads her through the disturbing subculture of doll collectors, into the homes of broken families, and into the darkest canals of the killer’s mind. As Riley peels back the layers, she realizes she is up against a killer more twisted than she could have imagined.

Oscar Wilde's enduring masterpiece, this fable of innocence and corruption, purity and decay has become a true classic. The beautiful, narcissistic Dorian Gray, torn between the influence of cynical hedonist Lord Henry Wotton and tortured artist Basil Hallward, sells the beauty of his soul in exchange for external perfection. Ultimately, he cannot escape the disfigurement of sin. Wilde's remarkable wit and memorable, epigrammatic lines dazzle in audiobook form!

Twenty-two-year old psychology major - and aspiring FBI agent - Riley Paige finds herself in a battle for her life as her closest friends on campus are abducted and killed by a serial killer. She senses she, too, is being targeted - and that she must apply her brilliant mind to stop the killer herself. When the FBI hits a dead end, they are impressed enough by Riley’s keen insight into the killer’s mind to allow her to help. Yet the killer’s mind is a dark, twisted place, one too diabolical to make sense of, and one that threatens to bring Riley’s fragile psyche crashing down.

FBI agent-in-training Mackenzie White struggles to make her mark in the FBI Academy in Quantico, trying to prove herself as a woman and as a transplant from Nebraska. Hoping she has what it takes to become an FBI agent and leave her life in the Midwest behind for good, Mackenzie just wants to keep a low profile and impress her superiors.

From Blake Pierce, best-selling author of Once Gone (a number-one best seller with over 600 five-star reviews), comes a heart-pounding new mystery series. A bundle of books: Book one (Before He Kills) and book two (Before He Sees) in Blake Pierce’s Mackenzie White mystery series....

Children will love this original collection of Bedtime Stories including: “I Love You More,” “Sleep, My Little One,” and “The Night-Night Song.” With a gentle kiss, Mama Bear puts Little Bear to bed. “I love you” turns into a sweet game between Mama Bear and Little Bear as they come up with many “I love you more” ideas. Make this tender game part of your bedtime routine, and create your own “I love you more” examples with your child. Then, snuggle close and listen to a rhyming story of a mommy and her toddler preparing for bed.

Bram Stoker's masterpiece is at the same time intensely romantic and very modern. It unfolds the story of a Transylvanian Don Juan, the aristocratic Count Dracula who preys on desirous damsels.

Marriage is not for Margaret Dashwood. Where others see duty, Margaret sees entrapment. And rage.But when an invitation from family friend Mrs Jennings hurls her into the chaotic heart of Covent Garden, Margaret discovers an intoxicating world beyond afternoon tea and polite society. Here she meets three women who live unapologetically: Nelly, an impulsive actress; Hester, a witch who works in the textile factory; and Inge, a sex worker who loves money and knows exactly how to get it.

FBI agent Mackenzie White is reluctant to return to the Midwest, this time to a starkly rural setting that reminds her too much of her upbringing, of her own ghosts in her closet. She also seeks her own father's murderer, with darkness haunting her at every turn of her trip. Plunged deep into the world of farms, of silos, of slaughterhouses, of long stretches on empty highways, Mackenzie feels as if she's falling back into the depths of her psyche, and into the nightmares she always feared to face.

“Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world. Red, brown, yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world.” Sing along to the classic story! Young listeners will celebrate Jesus’ kindness and love! Then follow along with the song “Jesus Loves Me!” “Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so! Little ones to Him belong. They are weak but He is strong. Yes, Jesus loves me. The Bible tells me so.”

Once Stalked is book #9 in the bestselling Riley Paige mystery series, which begins with the #1 bestseller Once Gone (Book #1). When two soldiers are found dead on a huge military base in California, apparently killed by gunshot, military investigators are stumped. Who is killing its soldiers inside the secure confines of its own base? The FBI is called in, and Riley Paige is summoned to take the lead. As Riley finds herself immersed in the military culture, she is amazed to realize that serial killers can strike even here, in the midst of the most secure location on earth.

In the British state, intelligence does not begin with a single founding moment or a clearly defined institution. It begins instead as a tension, a contradiction embedded within the machinery of government itself. Public money is quietly allocated for secret purposes, debated in open parliamentary chambers where the very act of discussion risks undermining the thing being funded. Ministers stand to justify expenditure that cannot be fully explained, offering assurances that the work is necessary while acknowledging, sometimes indirectly, that its details must remain concealed.

Fifty years ago, the glorious Honeychurch Hall estate made headlines as the scene of a botched train heist that left two men dead and the whereabouts of a chest of diamonds unknown. So when the daughter of the signalman on duty that night asks antiques dealer Kat Stanford to value her father's railway memorabilia, Kat jumps at the chance. But the collection contains more surprises than Kat could've imagined, and soon it's full steam ahead on a very modern-day murder investigation.

A picture book for children aged 3-6 featuring a character named Zoe who explores numbers 1-10 through encounters with animal friends. The story uses rhythmic, musical verse to introduce counting concepts in a playful, engaging narrative. Themes include numeracy, friendship, and celebration. Suitable for early years settings, home reading, and classroom storytimes. Supports early mathematics and literacy development. Join Zoe as she wakes with a song in her heart and embarks on a joyful counting journey through a world filled with animal friends!

【解説】 古井由吉は、1937年生まれで、「内向の世代」の代表的作家と言われている。「杳子」は、1971年の第64回芥川賞を受賞した独特の文体の作品。 登山が趣味の「私」は、山深い谷底で、心に病を持つ若い女性・杳子と出会う。

【解説】 古井由吉は、1937年生まれで、「内向の世代」の代表的作家と言われている。「杳子」は、1971年の第64回芥川賞を受賞した独特の文体の作品。 登山が趣味の「私」は、山深い谷底で、心に病を持つ若い女性・杳子と出会う。

A serial killer, suspected to be using an RV camper, lures and kills women across the country - and the FBI turns to its youngest and most brilliant agent: 22-year-old Riley Paige. Riley has managed to graduate the FBI academy, determined to make it as an FBI agent. But when she is assigned her first official case with her new partner - Jake - she wonders if she is cut out for the task. Riley and Jake, immersed in the RV subculture - and into the depths of the killer’s mind - soon realize that nothing is what it seems.

The most joyful emanation produced by a colony of bees is known as the “song of increase”—declaring that the hive is flourishing and the bees are happy in its abundance. Song of Increase takes us inside the world of the honeybee to glean the wisdom of these fascinating creatures with whom...