第4章 Friar's Cap

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.

The most popular work from provocative Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher is a searing portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires. Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. Her life appears boring, but Erika, a quiet thirty-eight-year-old, secretly visits Turkish peep shows at night and watched sadomasochistic films. Meanwhile, a handsome, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old student has become enamored with Erika and sets out to seduce her. She resists him at firstbut then the dark passions roiling under the piano teacher's subdued exterior explode in a release of perversity, violence, and degradation.

With echoes of such classic wish-gone-wrong books as Freaky Friday, Half Magic, and Coraline, this terrific novel has the potential to become a middle-grade wkkk.net-year-old Ruth Craze is pretty sure she's stuck in the wrong life. With an absentminded inventor for a father and a flighty artist for a mother, it's always reliable Ruth who ends up doing the dishes, paying the bills, and finding lost socks. Her brothers are no help (they're too busy teasing her), and her friends have just decided she's not cool enough to be a part of their group anymore. So when Rodney the Rat —a slightly sinister stuffed animal that was a gift from her favorite aunt —suggests a way out, Ruth is ready to risk everything. Three wishes. Three chances to create her perfect life. A million ways to get it wkkk.net for When You Wish Upon a Rat"Winning, original moments." —Kirkus Reviews"An engaging look at friendship and family." —Booklist

Rap songs are famous for their double entendres, clever turns of phrase, and general ingenuity, but that doesn't mean things always make sense the first time around. Enter Understand Rap, a very funny pop-cultural reference book based on the website of the same name, which precisely explains the confusing lyrics and terms used in rap songs using language that even the most un-hip person can understand. The juxtaposition of a dry, academic tone with hip-hop terminology results in a book that's as entertaining as it is informative.

他对她说，“数年之后，我会给你一个不一样的人生。”17岁的大一女生段紫苏，因为一段走秀事故，莫名其妙的来到了大清朝。他为她，终于龙登九五，成为权倾天下的一代君王；他为她，却流落到了注定悲惨的命运，无奈的被人安排自己的人生所属，却终究无言的看到她幸福的笑容。段紫苏，年妃娘娘传奇的一生。饼干开新坑了，是个系列哦！我们不会乞求男人怜悯，我们不会仰望帝君将臣尊权，在这男尊女卑的世界，我们偏要打造出属于女人的最绚烂天空：

《徒然草》是一部内容广博的散文随笔。作者吉田兼好将一生的丰富阅历和明达见识融入到简短随性的文字中，既有处事警语、经验感悟，又不乏奇闻逸事、四时风物。当这幅由243段短文构成的长卷缓缓展开时，日本镰仓末期的社会风貌以及吉田兼好汰尽浮华的禅悟之心跃然纸上。《方丈记》成书于1212年，被誉为日本隐士文学的巅峰之作。是作者鸭长明回忆生平际遇、叙述天地巨变、感慨人世无常的随笔集。这部作品对日本的文学、历史、思想等各方面都产生了极为深远的影响，被日本珍视为文化瑰宝。

《中国文化知识读本：古代水利工程》水利是中国古代农业社会的命脉。几千年来，勤劳勇敢、自强不息、智慧善良的中国人民同江河湖海进行了艰苦卓绝的斗争，修建了无数个大大小小的水利工程，如都江堰、郑国渠、京抗大运河等。这些水利工程不仅规模巨大，而且设计水平也非常高，有力地促进了农业生产，不仅给当时的人们带来益处，而且泽被后世，影响深远。

在一个遥远而又神秘的地方，这里连时间都被冻住，这里便是地球上最强的种族魔族的栖息地，因为魔族做了一次差点毁灭地球的行动，故被冰冻在此，万年不得解冻。魔族之王焚天的冰像也伫立在这里，显得格外悲凉。

本书介绍了开启3-4岁幼儿智商和潜能开发的方法，包括：让孩子拥有演说家的口才、让孩子拥有科学家的逻辑、让孩子拥有艺术家的气质、让孩子拥有交际家的手腕、让孩子拥有道德家的品性、做好孩子的营养师、让孩子在游戏和玩具中激发智慧。

血腥与权力，荣耀与自由。从囚禁之地逃生的血裔犹戈·索罗斯，在旧神的指引下踏上信仰之战的征途。世俗的枪炮下，神秘的居民们如影随形。繁华都市中，血腥战争间，犹戈如同厄运的象征，为他的敌人带去死亡。

本书精选作者近年发表在《今古传奇故事版》、《山海经》、《百花故事》等刊物上的故事作品，作品针砭时弊、抨击邪恶，讴歌真善美，题材、类型多样，或轻松幽默，或辛酸感人。

这是关于一个灰姑娘与一个大叔热恋的爱情故事。摘录：“兰若，如果真到无法挽回的地步，请考虑一下我。方俊给不了你的，我可以给你，只要你愿意，我的怀抱随时随地都为你张开。”——刘哲源本人文案无能，直接看正文吧。本文保证每天至少一更，更新约在晚上八点左右，亲们记得多多支持。

现世死亡，灵魂被引，原主还是一个自小被称作傻子，不但娘过世，爹不疼，家中的妾室，庶姐更是视她为眼中钉肉中刺。。。当然这些在她所谓的回归之后将会被重现刷写，看她如何出招拿回自己的一切，更是一步步傲立强者的世界。。。。

虽无量圣人，寿元之多，万载不灭。然天地重开，纵有数之不尽的寿元，也终将化为那重演混沌中的尘埃。天地之道——众多，可有永世不灭之圣途！