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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 author Blake Pierce comes a new masterpiece of psychological suspense: CAUSE TO SAVE (An Avery Black Mystery—Book 5)—the final installment in the Avery Black series.In the epic finale of the Avery Black series, serial killer Howard Randall has escaped, and the entire city of Boston is on edge. Women are turning up gruesomely murdered, and everyone suspects Howard is at it again.When Boston's most brilliant and controversial homicide detective—Avery Black—is herself stalked—and when people close to her are brutally killed, one by one—it seems the city's worst fears are confirmed.But Avery is not so sure. The murders remind her of something she once saw in her past. They remind her of something too close to her heart—something that had to do with a secret she thought she had buried long ago….

From #1 bestselling author Blake Pierce comes a heart-pounding new mystery series.In the cornfields of Nebraska a woman is found murdered, strung up on a pole, the victim of a deranged killer. It doesn't take long for the police to realize a serial killer is on the loose—and that his spree has just begun.Detective Mackenzie White, young, tough, smarter than the aging, chauvinistic men on her local force, finds herself called in grudgingly to help solve it. As much as the other officers hate to admit it, they need her young, brilliant mind, which has already helped crack cold cases that had left them stumped. Yet even for Mackenzie this new case proves an impossible riddle, something the likes of which she—and the local force—have ever seen.

The first in a two-book series, Sergeant Lamb's America tells the story Sergeant Roger Lamb, an Irish soldier who served on the British side during the American War of Independence. Based on real historical events and people, Sergeant Lamb recounts the British defeat and the capture of his unit at the Battle of Saratoga in a voice that's both funny, insightful, and wise.This fictionalized account is based on the journals of the historical Sergeant Roger Lamb, and is largely faithful to the true eyewitness account of the American Revolution told from the loser's perspective. With his engaging, personable voice and basic decency of character, Sergeant Lamb reminds us that regardless of how history casts the British side, there were good men on both sides of this important conflict.

An aged prophetess at Delphi, the most sacred oracle in ancient Greece, looks back over her strange life as the Pythia, the First Lady and voice of the god Apollo. As a young virgin with disturbing psychic powers, Arieka was handed over to the service of the shrine by her parents. She has now spent sixty years as the very medium, the torn mouthpiece, of equivocal mantic utterances from the bronze tripod in the sanctuary beneath the temple. Over a lifetime at the mercy of god and priest and people she has watched the decay of Delphi's fortunes and its influence in the world. Her reflections on the mysteries of the oracle, which her own weird gifts have embodied, are matched by her feminine insight into the human frailties of the High Priest himself, a true Athenian, whose intriguing against the Romans brings about humiliation and disaster. This extraordinary short novel was left in draft at Golding's sudden death in 1993 but it is a psychological and historical triumph.

A distant, remote scientific expedition taking place at the North Pole is invaded by a space alien who has reawakened after lying dormant for centuries after a crash landing. A cunning, intelligent alien who can shape-shift, thereby assuming the personality and form of anything and anyone it destroys. Soon, it is among the men of the expedition, killing each in turn and replacing them by assuming their shape, lulling the scientists one by one into inattention (and trust) and eventually, their destruction. The shape-shifting, transformed alien can pass every effort at detection, and the expedition seems doomed until the scientists discover the secret vulnerability of the alien and are able to destroy it.

北方某大城市三个大学毕业生陪聊的故事。理医学系毕业的何婷婷、幼教系毕业的水莲、工程物理系毕业的程皓。这三个陪聊者，陪聊的心态悬殊，目的不一。对情感、对生活的态度迥异。现代生活最终以一种特别的方式全面袭击了他们。陪聊生活中，真实的情感受到极端的考验，美丽的爱情被摧毁……一环一环的欺骗，一幕一幕的表演，却都是一点一滴的真实。

《故事会》是中国最通俗的民间文学小本杂志，是中国的老牌刊物之一。先后获得两届中国期刊的最高奖——国家期刊奖。1998年，它在世界综合类期刊中发行量排名第5。从1984年开始，《故事会》由双月刊改为月刊，2003年11月份开始试行半月刊，2004年正式改为半月刊。现分为红、绿两版，其中红版为上半月刊，绿版为下半月刊。

在江湖他是侠，在庙堂他为皇。从侠客到皇者，那些他爱的和爱他的，他是得到了更多，还是失去了更多？为侠抑或为皇，依旧等待着他的选择。

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。

随着社会生活节奏逐渐加快，当加班熬夜成为工作常态，当失眠多梦成为困扰人们的常见疾病，人们开始去思考怎样才能让压力消失，让心灵恢复简单纯净。冥想并非是如今才有的心灵修养方式，它有着悠久的历史，长期以来，被一些社会顶尖人才所使用。1973年诺贝尔物理学奖获得者、英国物理学家约瑟夫森说：“以冥想开启直觉，可获得发明的启示。”美国前副总统科尔、苹果“教父”乔布斯、好莱坞知名演员兼导演克林特?伊斯特伍德以及日本松下电器创始人松下幸之助等，都是冥想的受益者和拥护者。

一场神秘试验，导致地球环境突变，萧枫在寻找类地星球的路上却被外星生物击杀，重生于另一个宇宙。“是巧合？还是天意？什么才算是真正的世界？怎样才能做到真正的新生？”没有丝毫犹豫，少年只为追寻无上武途！

你别不信，你也别嘲笑，真的有很多夫妻为了年幼的孩子而不敢轻易离婚。孩子小不敢离，只能寄希望于孩子长大。于是，就有很多夫妻趁孩子高考结束，马上去办离婚，这是社会上兴起的一种新现象。肖纯也想离，每天都想离。在她看来，苏新身上问题太多，他们俩简直是错误的结合。可是她的孩子还小，怎么办呢？她只能看着孩子，心里默念，“等你18岁，爸妈要离婚。“这句话，大概是许多为人父母压在心底的一句话。故事里的她、她、她，还有他、他、他，且看他们在自己的家庭里，都有怎样的情绪交织。这婚到底是要怎么离，什么时候离？

“因你成疾，药石无医”__不是所有的喜欢都有始有终，不是所有的对你好都是有所需求。_可他偏要胜天半子，偏要有始有终。_但愿你会懂，该何去何从。_似水流年，我们回得了过去，回不了当初。［这是属于苏嚯林姝的故事］［首先说明这是虐文，不喜勿喷］

一次偶然的相遇，是命运的有意安排，还是人性的艰难抉择？本拥有可爱的女儿、甜蜜的爱情、成功的事业，姚其顺却一直暗中从事着贩卖毒品的买卖。命运的玩笑终在他身上上演：女儿被人陷害染上毒瘾，朋友与其合作终进监狱，美丽的爱情不得不在幸福面前止步……天堂之前终得灵魂的忏悔。千万个被毒害的生命编成他命运的毒锁，逃不开，挣不破。

本系列图书精选“海峡两岸网络原创文学大赛”入围作品，分类集结成书。本书为第5册，收录第一届大赛3部小说，包括讲述梦想陷入庸常那种绝望而又心有不甘的情感故事“声声慢”，回忆生命中带来悲伤与喜悦过客的“穿过漫长岁月的遗忘”，呈现如风而行走不到最初的澄澈的往事“温暖不过是迷蒙”。