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John Wyndham's 1957 book The Midwich Cuckoos is better known by the more sensational title of its two film adaptations, Village of the Damned. The story begins with Richard and Janet Gayford who have spent the night of September 26 in London, returning to their home in Midwich the following day. Then, in ways that are difficult to pin down, the village seems changed--not quite the same place that it was before. The nightmare that descends on Midwich has dire implications for the rest of the world; whatever dwells there is sowing the seeds for a master race of ruthless and inhumane creatures who are bent on nothing less than absolute and total domination.

It's Boston, 1919, and the Cast Iron club is packed. On stage, hemopaths —whose "afflicted" blood gives them the ability to create illusions through art —Corinne and Ada have been best friends ever since infamous gangster Johnny Dervish recruited them into his circle. By night they perform for Johnny's crowds, and by day they con Boston's elite. When a job goes wrong and Ada is imprisoned, she realizes how precarious their position is. After she escapes, two of the Cast Iron's hires are shot, and Johnny disappears. With the law closing in, Corinne and Ada are forced to hunt for answers, even as betrayal faces them at every turn. An ideal next read for fans of Libba Bray's The Diviners.

Chris Beckett grew up in 1960s Ethiopia, a country he describes as a 'barefoot empire, home of black-maned lions… old priests decked out like butterflies and blazing young singers of Ethio-jazz'. Ethiopia Boy plunges the reader into praise poems that sing and boast and glory in the colours and textures of this extraordinary country. Here is a world of feasting on spicy kikwot and of famine sucking the water from rivers, of lion buses and a prayer child, where Earth sings greetings to the feet that walk on her. Haunted by the memory of his friend Abebe, the cook's son, Beckett celebrates and laments a lost boyhood in poems of vivid immediacy.

新书《我的诸天轮轮回者》：时空神教教主江胜，御使用无尽轮回者，猎夺诸天宝物。本书标签：仙侠版天才高富帅.浮世三千，道法无边，玄灵大世界，有九大仙庭威震天下。这一日，一座亘古流传的仙庭中，有着一位命中注定的天骄从灵晶之中解封，袖手天下，一幕繁华。

命运被摆布的少年，诸神创立的世界，远古龙凤的传承，是被囚禁的囚徒，还是一场惊天骗局？且看少年杨错，如何解命运残局，破迷浊世界！

本书梳理了社会性别、妇女体育与性别问题、性别平等与差异等问题，论述了传统社会时期、计划经济时期和社会转型时期三个时期妇女社会体育参与中存在的性别差异与平等问题。

姬清雅遇到他皇甫卓之前，她迷护卫，闯青楼，捉花贼，翻府墙……无忧无虑。遇到他之后就成了遭绑架，被调戏，受恐吓，斗亲王……惊险刺激。此人不祥！躲还躲不掉？那就交个朋友，寻求保护吧。可当一夕好友惨死，身世揭露，为报国仇家恨，她步入宫闱，与他从此陌路。处处陷阱，步步算计，他默默为她一一扫平，不惜冒死抗旨。至亲被杀，殷府被屠，记忆尘封，他带她远走，宠她入骨。陷害不断，记忆重现，女儿被杀，她跟随和亲队伍远赴异国。再见时，她是身披铠甲的赤狄王妃，而他是围城被困的大周罪臣……

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甄启明到乙城司法局报到的第一天，就得了一个外号“都市原始人”。那天晚上，甄启明被局长弄到红阳海鲜馆接风，半夜三更回到局里停车场取车子，他不知道梁大爷守门的规矩，这也是整个城市住宅小区的守门规矩，过了零点，开一次门收一块钱。他把梁大爷敲起来，让老头在春寒料峭的铁门旁站了几分钟，也没交钱，气得梁大爷说他是什么都不懂的都市原始人。这个外号传开后，局里人都掩嘴窃窃私笑，说这个外号起得很形象，很贴切。他们发现这位新来的律师管理处处长，不抽烟，不喝酒，不懂麻将，不打扑克，更不会唱歌跳舞，总之，都市人应该具有的一些应酬技能，他一样都不会。

秋气漫溢，秋凉了。对秋天的提醒，景绿叶和大家都加上了毛衫。任青的反映是，脑子里走过“自古逢秋悲寂寥，我言秋日胜春朝”，走过“老来识得愁滋味，却道天凉好个秋”……寒气侵入，寒气只认得血肉之躯，不认得任青。任青讲课时，不时蹦出一系列咳嗽。他临时决定，讲课本最后一单元里的《水调歌头·明月几时有》。他和数学老师调了课，两个班合到一个教室里讲。学生对他的此类举动已经有了免疫力。况且他认为，也在讲台上讲过：语文，说到底无非两个字：读、写。读是输入，读是突破时空及自我的限制，最大限度地吸收、体验古今中外积淀下来的文明；写是输出，将内心的思想情感表达出去。

批判性思维技能和气质是邓小平重要的品质之一。邓小平是运用批判性思维的典范。他之所以能取得非凡的成就，正在于他用批判性思维认识问题、分析问题和处理问题，批判性思维在其理论的形成和发展过程中起着至关重要的作用。邓小平理论的创立与发展是在批判性思维中实现的，可以说没有批判性思维，就不可能有邓小平理论。因此，对邓小平的批判性思维进行全面、系统的探讨，具有非常重要的理论价值和实践价值。

With The Low Road, Daniel Kirk has created a mystical world that will keep readers coming back for more. When Matt and his family move to a new neighborhood, they don't realize they've inadvertently stumbled into the middle of massive upheaval in the fairy world. With the elves' territory disintegrating and dark factions looking to seize control, apprentice mage Tuava-Li must defend her way of life—even when that means cooperating with Matt, a human and a natural enemy, as he may just hold the key to saving the Elf Realm from certain destruction.

四周的空气顿时炙热了起来，虽然她们早就把少儿不宜的事研究了个彻底，可每每他火热地靠上来的时候，她总是禁不住地颤抖。两颊通红，双腿乏力。郑权儿称此为尚力凡综合症。被誉为花瓶的新人郑权儿坐在从意大利空运买回来的红色真皮沙发上，如水般的荡漾的双眸紧盯着对面的电视墙，小脸上尽是紧张。时尚频道正在转播昨日对天王巨星尚力凡的采访。