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For as long as Emmeline can remember, she's longed to leave the isolated world of the settlement and explore the wilderness that calls to her in her dreams. And now that the Council has fallen, she will finally, finally get that chance. With First Peoples guide Matisa at her side, Emmeline rallies a brave group to join her on her quest into the unknown, including her beloved Kane and his two younger brothers. But the journey soon proves far more dangerous than Emmeline anticipated—with warring clans, slavers, colonists, disease, and natural disasters seemingly at every turn. After putting so many lives in danger, she starts to doubt everything she once knew. Did she make the right choice to leave the settlement—and can her relationship with Kane survive the ordeal? Matisa insists that to set things right and to fight the evil that is bringing all this danger and turmoil to the forest, Emmeline must journey to Matisa's people—even if that means leaving Kane behind.

This short novel that is told with almost fable-like simplicity: Matt Harper is a first-time counselor at a boy's summer camp when he witnesses a casual brutality that leads to murder. The bullying, gluttonous headman Ed Nolan (who has "reduced Camp Pleasant to a microcosm of the Third Reich") is portrayed as one stereotype that the reader is not sorry to see killed off. Instead, all of our sympathy is reserved for the possible suspects: Merv Loomis, the homosexual counselor Nolan humiliates into quitting; the troubled ten-year-old Tony Rocca; Nolan's meek wife, Ellen; and several others. The setting and tone have the distinct feel of the early 1950s, but a casual reference to actress Catherine Deneuve places the action in the mid-60s or later.

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.

With stories by acclaimed and exciting new YA writers: Louise HawesJ. James Keels Ron Koertge Chris Lynch Norma Fox Mazer Lauren Myracle Jamie Pittel Anita Riggio Mary Ann Rodman Ellen Wittlinger Jacqueline Woodson Tim Wynne-Jones A stellar line-up of young adult writers examines our relationship with beauty in stories that haunt, amuse, stir, and fascinate. A beauty queen with a chin-hair problem, an aspiring model who would rather take pictures than be in them, a boy in love with the gorgeous nurse he's never seen, a girl named Beauty who feels like anything but—the teenagers in these dozen stories feel the power of beauty, whether it's to trap, save, torment, or comfort. In an era when image seems to have triumphed over virtue and reason, this timely, discussion-provoking collection asks young readers to think about what is truly beautiful.

Darkness Visible opens at the height of the London Blitz, when a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire. Miraculously saved but hideously scarred, soon tormented at school and at work, Matty becomes a wanderer, a seeker after some unknown redemption. Two more lost children await him, twins as exquisite as they are loveless. Toni dabbles in political violence; Sophy, in sexual tyranny. As Golding weaves their destinies together, his book reveals both the inner and outer darkness of our world. "An intensity of vision without parallel." (TLS). "A vision of elemental reality so vivid we seem to hallucinate the scenes…Magic." (New York Times Book Review).

出发的时间久了，走着走着以至于忘了当初为什么出发。“山倒寸土上，月斜三星旁”的谜底是什么？其中的真正含义有几人悟的通透……

据说联盟里辅助之神都是M字开头的。第一代M神是Madlife，第二代M神是Mata，那么下一代M神将会是哪一位呢?怀揣电竞梦想的徐望微因一次意外回到从前，这一次他不将是普通的电竞爱好者，他是接过M神传承的人，他能在职业赛场上如何叱咤风云，又将获得哪些荣耀。以辅助为第一视角的比赛究竟会怎么样呢，敬请期待一下吧。本故事纯属虚构，如有巧合那真的只是巧合。本人对每一位电竞人都是带着崇高的敬意和尊重的。作品讨论群：701558357

除了低调做人外，我们立身处世很重要的一点则是:博弈做事。“做事要博弈”听起来很玄乎，其实不难理解。那就是，我们在决定采取何种行动时，不但要根据自身的利益和目的行事，还要考虑到自身的决策会对其他人产生的影响，以及对其他人的行为可能产生的影响，通过选择最佳行动计划，寻求收益或效用的最大化的过程。也就是说，要在估计对方会采取什么策略的基础上选择自己的恰当策略。渴望成功的人，需要掌握一些人生的博弈智慧。洞悉人性。圆润通达，要善于用最能赢得人心以及最能提高效率的方式去应对人与事。唯有如此，才能在竞争中游刃有余，才能掌握主动，在人生的磨砺里挥洒自如。

当年，她爱他入骨却不得不选择离开。再见面，她是卑微到尘埃里的服务生，他是让人仰望的帝国总裁，他将她逼入墙角，怒声滔天，“莫言夕，你宁可在这里赔笑，也不愿意被我捧在手心！”她仓惶逃离，却被他追上，高调示爱，“莫言夕，跟我回家。”

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