第1章 First Performance

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.

Fifteen-year-old Tomas Torres, the son of an immigrant family who are just barely making it, gets picked up by the police for doing some work for the local padrone (collector). For this work, Tomas has made $1000 a week, a lot of money by anyone's count. But what is the work? What is Tomas arrested for? Arson, but arson that cannot be explained. Tomas has a most unusual gift: he is a fire-starter--he can start fires with sheer force of will that flame from the tips of his fingers. More, he can will fireballs to hurl at his enemies or opponents, and he can incinerate any evidence. But the courts decide they have enough to convict young Tomas and send him off to a school (which Tomas believes to be a kind of jail): St. Rhiannon's School for the Gifted and Exceptional Student.

Old Times was first presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych Theatre, London, on 1 June 1971. It was revived at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in July 2004.'Old Times is a joyous, wonderful play that people will talk about as long as we have a theatre.' New York Times' What am I writing about? Not the weasel under the cocktail cabinet … I can sum up none of my plays. I can describe none of them, except to say: that is what happened. This is what they said. That is what they did.' Harold Pinter

It's Chad's first spring as a batboy, and the Pine City Porcupines are hot—until they come up against the league-leading Heron Lake Humdingers. Now Chad's got a whole lineup of problems: his favorite player, shortstop Mike Stammer, thinks he's jinxed; Dylan, the other batboy, doesn't even like baseball; there's a goofy new porcupine mascot on the field; plus, Chad has to fill in as batboy for the Herons. It's a good thing there's something in the cards—his baseball cards, that is—that can help Chad sort it all out.

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黎欢，单字一个欢，本来应是一世安欢，可是却偏偏姓了黎，变成“离欢”，远离一世安欢。黎欢觉得她这辈子最大的幸运应该就是：遇见了宋瑾阳。黎欢觉得她这辈子最大的不幸就是：取名叫了黎欢这个名字。黎欢这辈子最后悔的事就是：当初毫无顾忌的对宋瑾阳任性。黎欢这辈子最怨恨的事就是：在最无能为力的年纪遇到了像光一样温暖自己的宋瑾阳，明明想要和他相守一生，可却偏偏因为年幼失去了他。（前期会很甜，后期小虐）

故事的时间发生在1915年的仲春，将近一百年前的事了。那一年的圣诞节，辛亥革命的大将蔡锷宣布云南独立，组织了护国军发动了倒袁的护国战争。故事发生的地点是在云南的普洱城，这是一座又旧又破的老城，可是在那条最为热闹的东大街上，立着一座颇为新潮的大房子，有两扇黑漆大墙门。大门上钉着一块标牌，上面写着“镇南镖局”四个大字，甚是威风。此刻，正是午间时分，推开大门进入一个宽敞的院子，院子的两边列着几个兵器架，上面插满了十八般兵器，空无一人。

随着现代高新技术的迅猛发展和广泛应用，正在引发世界范围的军事变革，不断产生着前沿武器。前沿武器是指与传统武器相比，在基本原理、杀伤破坏力和作战方式上都有本质区别，是处于研制或探索之中的新型武器。

温亚军，现为北京武警总部某文学杂志主编。著有长篇小说伪生活等六部，小说集硬雪、驮水的日子等七部。获第三届鲁迅文学奖，第十一届庄重文文学奖，《小说选刊》《中国作家》和《上海文学》等刊物奖，入选中国小说学会排行榜。中国作家协会会员。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

一段爱情的重生是要等待一个人的死亡，同时也可能让死亡毁掉一切。以青春换明天的爱情，从来凄怆。爱是难分彼此——彼此的优点和缺点。我以为这是我的优点，你却说是缺点。你的缺点太多，我却喜欢你，这是我的优点。爱就是难分彼此。理想，在实现以前，有很多名字，它们是：幻想、妄想、白日梦，和不可能。可是，就是它，使得一个只能爬行的看鸭子的小男孩，变成了受众人崇敬的学者与勇者。

他，京九，作为除妖师的后代，他的资质逆天，领悟力也是惊人，九岁便甩了同龄一大圈，更是独自跑去妖物横行的西北捉回了一只作乱大妖，称之为天之骄子也不为过。但是，他从未想过，有一天他竟也会被一只大妖所救，他…不是应该对他恨之入骨才对吗？

2011年是新中国航空工业创建60周年。为弘扬“航空报国、强军富民”的集团宗旨和“敬业诚信、创新超越”的集团理念， 中国航空工业集团公司离退休人员管理局、中国航空报社、中航出版传媒有限责任公司联合举办了“辉煌60年”征文活动， 组织离退休老同志以著书立说的形式， 发掘航空工业的光荣历史。活动得到老同志积极响应， 收到来自集团总部及所属成员单位老同志撰写的征文320余篇。经过专家评审， 评选出一等奖、二等奖、三等奖、优秀奖共计100篇。

十六岁的高中女生许夏沫出生于占卜世家，自称菜鸟级的占卜少女。其父在一次事故中失踪，许夏沫被一名漂亮的男人苍术收养，并告诉她，父亲是被蓬莱门所吞噬。许夏沫决心要寻回父亲，从而与苍术踏上了漫长艰辛的寻父之路，最终来到了父亲的故乡——R市。但R市已经沦陷，妖异之物可以在白天公然袭击人类。她在开学途中，无意救下了可以驱使鸾鸟的少年宋华意、平凡的人类少年顾雪藏、搞笑却身份神秘的牙医师走等，他们和她一起去寻找父亲。然而寻父之路困难重重，她也慢慢发现这些伙伴有不为人知的身份……一场惊险曲折的少女心灵成长大戏，一部解读亲情、友情、正义的励志奇趣故事，不容错过。