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When a blizzard threatens to ruin Valentine's Day, three seventh-grade friends make and distribute fortune cookies to their lonely neighbors—and confront the secrets they've been keeping from one another. Confident Kate doesn't notice much but the latest gossip, and shy Georgia can't say out loud what's always on her mind. They're joined by observant, careful Olivia, whose epic, single-minded crush on PBJ (real name: Phillip Becker-Jacobs) is starting to frustrate them. Using fortune cookies that mysteriously always seem to speak directly to the person who opens them, the three girls try to work together to bring some love to their building while reminding each other why they're such good friends to begin with.

This is an important and illuminating collection of essays and lectures by the winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature. William Golding writes about places as diverse as Wiltshire, where he lived for over half a century, Dutch waterways, Delphi, Egypt ancient and modern, and planet Earth herself. Other essays discuss books and ideas, and provide a fascinating background to the appreciate Golding's own writing and imagination. It includes Golding's Nobel Speech. "e;Golding come through this collection as reserved and wary, but delightful...His writing is a joy"e;. (Sunday Times).

Trudchen grew up hearing Odette's stories of their monster-slaying mother and a magician's curse. But now that Tru's older, she's starting to wonder if her older sister's tales were just comforting lies, especially because there's nothing fantastic about her own life—permanently disabled and in constant pain from childhood polio. In 1909, after a two-year absence, Od reappears with a suitcase supposedly full of weapons and a promise to rescue Tru from the monsters on their way to attack her. But it's Od who seems haunted by something. And when the sisters' search for their mother leads them to a face-off with the Leeds Devil, a nightmarish beast that's wreaking havoc in the Mid-Atlantic states, Tru discovers the peculiar possibility that she and her sister—despite their dark pasts and ordinary appearances—might, indeed, have magic after all.

The Confidential Clerk was first produced at the Edinburgh Festival in the summer of 1953.'The dialogue of The Confidential Clerk has a precision and a lightly felt rhythm unmatched in the writing of any contemporary dramatist.' Times Literary Supplement'A triumph of dramatic skill: the handling of the two levels of the play is masterly and Eliot's verse registers its greatest achievement on the stage-passages of great lyrical beauty are incorporated into the dialogue.'

【同父异母的姐姐和她孩子父亲的大喜之日，她亲手为他们准备了一份大礼。】白色游艇，浪漫唯美的婚礼，随着一声婴儿的啼叫突然中断，侍者将一个襁褓中的男婴递到新郎怀中，“三少，这是一位女士送给您的新婚礼物。”他眯着眸子，眼中拢了一抹雾霭看向远方，慢条斯理地扔掉手中的戒指，“取消婚礼。”暗中的她，偷偷地看着这一幕，悄然离去。当她以为一切终于结束时，他竟然找上了门。她装作不认识他，慌乱地出声，“先生，您找错人了！”他一把扼住她手臂，将她桎梏在墙角，“破坏了我的婚礼，你以为我会轻易放过你？”她慌地心突突直跳，“不…不是我…”他却不依不饶，将她逼在死角，“那是谁？”为了她，他布下天罗地网，苦心算计，只等她跳入，整整三百六十五天的巨债，堆攒在一起，只等她慢慢清算，好不容易熬到了这一天，怎会轻易放开。————————————————————若干年后他望着她，将一枚钻戒强行套在她无名指上，“传说中，上天真有准备另一半给你。他是属于你的，你是属于他的，遇到时你便会知道。他与你一拍即合，心血相连，凹凸完美契合，直至终老。”她伸手摘下，放回他掌心，淡然一笑，“如果，上天准备的那一半根本不合意、不能相处，宁可不要。”

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。

本书是以1994年德国电视二台制作的“世纪见证”节目中的科斯托拉尼和约翰·格劳斯就其生平而作的访谈内容为基础创作而成的，科斯托拉尼以不可多得的宏大气魄讲述了自己始于1906年布达佩斯的遍及世界各地的生涯。当安德烈·科斯托拉尼作为世纪的见证者受邀接受采访时，所表现出来的不仅仅是一个成功的伟大市民的个人生活史，同时也是让人感动也确实感动了很多人的百年金融史。

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。

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。

阅读世界名家中短篇小说丛书，用宝贵的时间阅读最有价值的作品，在文字中体味文学世界里的人生百态，做有深度、有广度、有品位的阅读者。本书收录有《墙上的斑点》《雨》《乞力马扎罗的雪》《另外的两个人》《死者》《起风了》六篇小说。

“我用我的灵魂诅咒你们，不得好死！”前世被心爱的男人生生逼得跳楼，她带着不甘和怨恨在一个被人忽视的王朝公主的身体中活了过来。怎料，等待她的却是一场充满阴谋的联姻……【简介无能，请移步正文~】

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。

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。

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。