It’s Christmas Eve and Stella Hansen is broke. She is so broke that despite working two jobs, she can’t even afford a present for her husband on their first Christmas as man and wife. But then a mysterious storekeeper at a pawn shop offers Stella an intriguing trade. Stella wants more than anything to buy her husband the Christmas gift of his dreams. But will it come at a terrible price?

Tis the season for trimming the tree, caroling, baking cookies, and curling up by the Yuletide waiting for Santa to drop down the chimney. But in this festive collection of holiday whodunits, murder is also paying a visit.

Overworked and underappreciated, single mom Amy Byler needs a break. So when the guilt-ridden husband who abandoned her shows up and offers to take care of their kids for the summer, she accepts his offer and escapes rural Pennsylvania for New York City. Usually grounded and mild mannered, Amy finally lets her hair down in the city that never sleeps. She discovers a life filled with culture, sophistication, and - with a little encouragement from her friends - a few blind dates.

A certain college girl who's loved books ever since she was a little girl dies in an accident and is reborn in another world she knows nothing about. She is now Myne, the sickly five-year-old daughter of a poor soldier. To make things worse, the world she's been reborn in has a very low literacy rate and books mostly don't exist. She'd have to pay an enormous amount of money to buy one.

大人の英語は、中学レベルの必須文法で差をつける！『究極の英会話（上）』に引き続き、「中学2年後半～3年に習う文法32項目×日常使いの単語だけ」で416表現をマスター。簡単な構文を賢く使い回す応用力とともに、素早く正確に話すための瞬発力が身に付きます。 本コンテンツは『究極の英会話（上）　中学1～2年レベル英文法100パーセント攻略』に引き続き、「もっと話せるようになりたい」方はもちろん、「今度こそ英会話を確実に身に付けたい」と再挑戦に燃える方にも最適！簡単な構文（中学2年後半～3年の文法32項目×日常で使える単語だけ）で、416表現をマスターします。 英語が話せない要因は2つ！文の作りと意味、すなわち文法がわかっていないこと。話すための練習量が圧倒的に足りないことです。本コンテンツでは、「頭で理解した文法知識」を「話せる力」に活性化すべく、トレーニングを徹底的に積み重ねます。 「クイック・レスポンス」（※）を軸に据え、英語の表現が口をついて出てくるようになるまで、シャッフル（順不同での出題）やロールプレイ（会話のせりふを言ってみる）で定着を図ります。 （※）クイック・レスポンス……日本語の音声を聞き、素早く口頭で英語に直して言う練習。 頭と口を休ませる暇を与えないトレーニングは、効果抜群。素早く正確に話す力が習得できるほか、シンプルな文をうまく使い回せるよ