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"A dynamic story line that grips from the first chapter and doesn't let go."--Midwest Book Review, Diane Donovan (regarding Once Gone)From #1 bestselling mystery author Blake Pierce comes a new masterpiece of psychological suspense.In CAUSE TO RUN (An Avery Black Mystery—Book 2), a new serial killer is stalking Boston, killing his victims in bizarre ways, taunting the police with mysterious puzzles that reference the stars. As the stakes are upped and the pressure is on, the Boston Police Department is forced to call in its most brilliant—and most controversial—homicide detective: Avery Black.

A Radiant Life presents the unequivocal voice of Nuala O'Faolain tackling a vast range of subjects from Catholicism to feminism, from Sinatra to Africa, and from Irish American culture to Islam and the West. Curious and funny, tender and scathing, O'Faolain's columns were never less than trenchant and were always passionate. "I was blinded by the habit of translating everything into personal terms," she writes apologetically, but this is the power of her journalism. Through the prism of casual, everyday encounters, O'Faolain presses her subject, reaching beyond the prompting of the moment to transcend topicality. The result is a cumulative historical narrative, an inadvertent chronicle of a transformed Ireland by one of its sharpest observers and canniest wkkk.net for A Radiant Life:"This book is a gift." -The Boston Globe

Years after the events of Spencer's Mountain, Clay Spencer—Clay-Boy's father—fails to return home on Christmas Eve. Leaving his worried family to keep watch at the homestead, Clay-Boy takes to the snowy Virginia hills in search of his father. Along the way, he meets an irate deer, a threatening county sheriff, a congregation of African-American churchgoers, and two elderly women who happen to be bootleggers. The story of Clay-Boy's search for his father is told with warmth and intensity.Along with its prequel, Spencer's Mountain, The Homecoming was the inspiration for the popular television show The Waltons, which starred Richard Thomas, Andrew Duggan, and Patricia Neal, and ran for nine years between 1972 and 1981. Over fifty years after its publication, this novel still has the power to move and inspire.

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Young novelist Dave Newton is instantly smitten when he meets blonde, beautiful Peggy. But Peggy has a past full of abuse and terror—and she's involved with Jerry, a lawyer with mob connections and an old rival from Dave's college days. Soon, Dave finds himself caught in a love triangle with Peggy and Jerry, desperate to win her affections. But when corpses begin to pile up in Peggy's wake, Dave must face the truth that either Jerry is a mass murderer—or Peggy is.

被算计丢了清白身的盛晚星，连着经历男友的出轨，闺蜜的背叛。历经沧桑后，她转身发现，陆慎行一直默默守护在她身边。“你为什么对我这么好。”男人神色温柔，“我的小娘子，你忘了我们早就定过终身了吗？”

她是集万千宠爱于一身将军府上天才大小姐，一夕之间，身份被夺，修为被毁，沦落三流低等武者！八年后，她携带傲娇仙宠，逆天来袭，拳打渣爹恶姨，脚踩白莲花！强势夺回原来的一切！顺便拐带霸气傻王一枚！可是……一朝傻王变魔王！成了香饽饽？！管她狂蜂浪蝶，敢抢本小姐的男人，本小姐揍的你亲妈都不认识！

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一个强大的国家是其内部力量积蓄的外延，根本之处不在于一成不变地沿着一条路走下去，而是在每一个旭日东升、夕阳西下，依然步履匆匆的时候，都留有思索未来的空间。不让繁琐的过程缠住灵动的思想，不因肉体的歇息而冷落了精神无止境的耕耘。行于路，当思于路。

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这是一部随笔集，分为暗自成长、狮子的心、无限之路、演讲与对话四个部分，基本可以视为作者从童年到成人之后的心路历程。作者童年时是一个顽皮、聪慧的乡野少年。在红色年代的大环境下，崇尚军队和武力，喜欢在山野间自在地玩耍。儿时的记忆影响着作者一生的行为模式，大学时期的自我、拘谨，成年之后对人性的基本信任，对时代、历史的深刻认识，都表现出作者细腻、理性不失赤子之心的性格。

苏星，一个普普通通的学生。偶然一次修了下手机，搞出个万界app，从此生活天翻地覆，普通的他再也普通不起来。医术相术琴棋书画、十八般武艺也不过是基础中的基础而已……手握万界，看他如何笑看风云，登顶巅峰！

将军府的嫡女喜欢上了初来京城的他，为了让他跟她一起，她开始去接近他。可是，他却一直无动于衷。最后两国交战，她潜入敌方，竟然发现他是敌国派去自己国的奸细。后来她战胜回国后，下定决心忘记他，但他却早已经视她为唯一了。两人最终走到一起，一起走天涯。

古罗马著名政治家、演说家、和哲学家马尔库斯·图利乌斯·西塞罗的传世名作。此书详细阐述了友谊与义务、善良与社会、利益与责任之间的关系——“友谊来不得半点虚假”、“任公职者要信守规则”、“只要能坚持，老年亦健康”，这样的语段让我们在觥筹交错、霓灯闪烁间坚定地认清自己而不至误入歧途。