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Ismail Kadare's The Siege dramatizes a relentless fictional assault on a Christian fortress in the Albanian mountains by the Ottoman Army in the fifteenth century. As the bloody and psychologically crushing struggle for control over the citadel unfolds, Kadare's newest work opens a window onto the eternal clash between religions and empires as well as the exhilaration, despair, and immediacy of the wkkk.net is a hugely respected novelist and a hero to his people, as well as an outspoken critic of all forms of totalitarianism. The Siege is a powerfully atmospheric … and vividly rendered (The Telegraph) novel of considerable cumulative power and resonance for our own times.

The third in a three-volume series, this edition chronicles the life of noted journalist, historian, and author William Shirer-a witness to the rise of the Third Reich. Here, Shirer recounts his return to Berlin after its defeat, his shocking firing by CBS News, and his final visit to Paris sixty years after he first lived there as a cub reporter in the 1920s. It paints a bittersweet picture of his final decades, friends lost to old age, and a changing world.More personal than the first two volumes, this final installment takes an unflinching look at the author's own struggles after World War II-and his vindication after the publication of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, his most acclaimed work. It also provides intimate details of his often-troubled marriage. This book gives readers a surprising and moving account of the last years of a true historian-and an important witness to history.

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Few of Richard Matheson's readers know that he had hopes for writing popular music. At a very early age, Matheson taught himself how to write sheet music, but his family could not afford art supplies and so he had to give up composition. But music never left his mind and when Matheson found a creative new outlet through his writing (cheaper than music, requiring only a pencil and paper), he quickly began composing both prose stories as well as poetry. He picked up music composition again at the age of seventeen, adding music to his poems. Here in Lyrics are the compositions that Matheson created, in publication for the very first time.

A Skinful of Shadows is a dark YA historical fantasy set in the early part of the English Civil War. Makepeace is an illegitimate daughter of the aristocratic Fellmotte family, and as such, she shares their unique hereditary gift: the capacity to be possessed by ghosts. Reluctant to accept her appointed destiny as vessel for a coterie of her ancestors, she escapes. As she flees the pursuing Fellmottes across war-torn England, she accumulates a motley crew of her own allies, including outcasts, misfits, criminals, and one extremely angry dead bear. From Costa Book of the Year winner Frances Hardinge comes a new dark historical fantasy that's sure to satisfy her leagues of fans who are eager for more. ?

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洛家富可敌国，滔天权势。唯有一女，名唤微凉。初次的相遇，豆蔻霜华，她婉转的唇角，他肆意的笑容。微微有些迷茫了她的双眼。是谁说这个世界什么你都能够争到，除了死去的人。他的双眼藏着另外一个人得影子再见时那个爱笑的少年神情冰冷“我娶你。”甚至不曾问过她的意愿她对他的恋眷显露太过所以她连拒绝的权利都没有“我知道你喜欢我，甚至是爱我，但是我的妻子永远都只会留给她。”一个人的爱情到底能够付出到什么时候你要你的滔天权势，恋着一个逝去的身影微凉成全你，微凉要的只是一点点的眷恋当那双手选择了握住灵位，选择放弃了她的手的时候这个世界已经没有洛微凉。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。。还想说句就是，文的风格，毕竟不可能每个人都喜欢，喜欢的朋友，我也很开心，能够一起慢慢的延续故事。如果不喜欢的朋友，我并不勉强，毕竟不可能每个人都满意，也请表拍砖，直接可以点右上方的小叉，谢谢，我辛苦写文并不是让人没事来喷的。

苏起的人生信条向来只有一点，只要是认准了，就一定要抢到手。地盘是这样，叶迷棠也是这样。自从知道叶迷棠是女扮男装后，这个男人，心心念念的就是把这个女人变成他的所有物。哪怕是强取豪夺，不择手段，也在所不惜。因为他认准了，就是他的。不管他的情敌是谁，也不管叶迷棠愿意与否，只要他想要就行了。去他的‘青青子衿，悠悠我心’。在他这里，就是个屁！‘我是你的苏起，你是我的叶迷棠。’不用华丽的辞藻，却是最永恒的誓言。

林墨睁开九勾玉轮回写轮眼俯视着诸天万界，望着一个个繁华的世界，励志要将神树种植在每个角落………… 火影，漫威等。群：650171673 新书：末世之巅峰剑神，已签约。 本书预计月底左右完结……

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《总有一处风景始终难忘：越老柬缅四国行》是一本旅游书，是关于越南、老挝、柬埔寨、缅甸，这四个中南半岛上国家的。这四个国家在文化上近似，在地理上相连，已成为旅行者流连忘返的青睐之地。《总有一处风景始终难忘：越老柬缅四国行》的写作风格是以发现和欣赏的心态去看这四个国家，观察到了一个陌生且充满生趣的世界。老挝北部原生态的万荣风情；不被人遗忘的废墟，被称作越南小吴哥窟的美森谷地；缅甸的第二大湖茵莱湖；柬埔寨的金边和吴哥窟等等，让读者看到了不只是旅游宣传册上美丽的风光，还能感知到生命的分量和生活的气息。