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A radio broadcaster and journalist for Edward R. Murrow at CBS, William Shirer was new to the world of broadcast journalism when he began keeping a diary while in Europe during the 1930s. It was in 1940, still a virtual unknown, that Shirer wondered whether his reminiscences of the collapse of the world around Nazi Germany could be of any interest or value as a book.

Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mason anxiously advises against it, for the old cathedral was built without foundations. Nevertheless, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, until the stone pillars shriek and the ground beneath it swims. Its shadow falls ever darker on the world below, and on Dean Jocelin in wkkk.net the author of Lord of the Flies, The Spire is a dark and powerful portrait of one man's will, and the folly that he creates.'A superb tragedy … the book should become a classic.' Sunday Telegraph'A marvel.' Frank Kermode, New York Review of Books.

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. ?

From the carcass of a Washington, D.C. car bomb explosion, the CIA launches an investigation into the mysterious events leading to the assassination of Chilean dissident and infamous casanova, Eduardo Allesandro Palmero. As CIA investigator Alfred Dobbs rummages through the evidence, Palmero's mysterious life, from heir to the Chilean oligarchy to a fist-raising Marxist and trickster in disguise, comes to light. But what Dobbs soon discovers soars beyond his wildest imagination.At the height of international terrorism, Eduardo fights his war with an unlikely weapon—seduction. From Marie DeFarge to Frederika Millspaugh to Penny Anne McCarthy, Eduardo orders his sex-craving subjects into battle, tearing them from a life of tranquility and into the passionate caress of a man who will stop at nothing for a cause, his cause. Soon enough, Marie, Frederika and Anne are making headline news as part of a South American terror squad.

那年我们还年轻，我们没有大的理想，也没有大的志向，只是想过安静平淡的生活，想在自己的世界里拥有生活，却一直无法摆脱世俗砝码的衡量，在这个我们的年华里演绎着平凡的生活，小人物的哀乐，你会理解吗？我们一直在想象着生活能够像电影一样，一转身，便是多年以后。我们挣扎在城市中，徘徊在爱恨得失中，却忘了自己的灵魂深处的东西。

新婚之日新郎逃婚，与自己的姐姐狼狈为奸，好很好，那就不要怪我以其人之道还治其人之身了。扫视一圈，看着人群里的那抹黑影，好，就你了，以后你就是我白沼泽的夫君了！

世人皆说三国好，可这是一个彻彻底底的乱世。乱世，人命贱如狗！什么西凉猛虎董仲颖，四世三公袁二子，八顾刘表定荆州，乱世枭雄曹孟德，民心所向刘玄德，孙家三代立江东……这些，都和方莫没有关系，他首先想到的是，怎么活下去！？慢慢的，他渐渐接受了身边的人。“桃园四结义？我看行！”——————————方莫！接下来事情好办了，大哥当领袖，二哥三哥万人敌，他则躲在背后出馊主意。大厨，也能无双！ps：已有百万字经验，不必担心太监！ps2：新书，《大汉第一狠人》

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。

宅，不仅是生活，更是一种境界！阴宅阳宅，青乌堪舆，上仰观天象，下俯察地理，中参人和，把握天地变化之玄奥至理，预知福祸吉凶。其中不仅有价值万金，常人梦寐以求的风水法器，另外还有可遇而不可求，神秘莫测，不可思议的风水格局。寻龙点穴，一指江山，寅葬卯发，催官显贵，化煞生旺。总而言之，这是一个家居设计师，无意中遭遇到天上掉下来的罗盘擦伤之后，懵懵懂懂成为了世人眼中的风水大师的传奇故事……

《宇宙尽头的眼睛》是未来事务管理局旗下新媒体平台《不存在日报》集齐国内顶尖科幻、科普作家，在春节期间接力完成的一个以节日为主题的故事，也是中国第一台科幻春晚，由刘慈欣领衔，宝树、陈楸帆、飞氘、江波、郝景芳、凌晨、七格、王立铭、万象峰年、杨平、张冉共同创作。12双眼睛的观察如何影响了两个文明乃至整个宇宙？观察报告现已全文上架，未来事务管理局诚邀您收藏阅读。

故乡与作家，游离胶着，剪不断，理还乱。然而，离开故乡，反观故乡，回归故乡，似乎又是文学创作所必取之径。黑马此书，以故乡为主题，收入其所作乡愁随笔及其所译劳伦斯有关其故乡诺丁汉的散文多篇；回忆保定老城里成长的人情世故，译介英伦小镇诺丁汉中的爱恨离愁，于宁静恬淡中寄寓深沉情思，在理智与感情之间寻觅自己的心灵故乡。在文化消费异军突起的当下，同质化现象日趋严重，相信唯有不忘初心，铭记自己方寸间最为瑰丽的风景，方能走得更远。

1968年，何享健带领23位居民集资5000元创办北滘公社塑料生产组，在计划经济的夹缝中顽强生存；1992年，他毅然推动美的进行股份制改造，并于1993年在深交所上市，成为中国第一家由乡镇企业上市公司；1997年，美的实行事业部制改造，他推动美的迅速成长为中国家电巨头企业；2001年，美的成功实施管理层回购（MBO），为进一步完善现代企业制度奠定了坚实的基础；2008年，何享健表示：美的计划在2010年实现1200亿元的销售目标，将跻身世界500强企业之列。何享健究竟是哪路神仙，能将5000元的街办企业做到1000亿？

她，现代神医，隐世家族少主，穿成个假孕太子妃？不行！必须跑路！太子：跑？她最多从榻上跑到榻下……“殿下这病甚是凶猛，无药可治，只能弃情断爱，远离女人方可保命。”话落，手一勾，她偷撒药粉，某太子瞬间上吐下泻。“你看，真不能靠近女人。”这下，该远离她了吧？哪知，太子大手一挥：“代价都付了，不尝点甜头太亏了。”“喂！干啥你！不要命了？”太子殿下笑得很贼：“横竖治不好，索性早点留个后……”

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