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The path to success is rarely easy or direct, and good mentors are hard to find. In Getting There, thirty leaders in diverse fields share their secrets to navigating the rocky road to the top. In an honest, direct, and engaging way, these role models describe the obstacles they faced, the setbacks they endured, and the vital lessons they learned. They dispense not only essential and practical career advice, but also priceless wisdom applicable to life in general. Getting There is for everyone—from students contemplating their futures to the vast majority of us facing challenges or seeking to reach our potential.

Lucius Apuleius, a young man of good parentage, takes a trip to Thessaly. Along the way, amidst a series of bizarre adventures, he inadvertently offends a priestess of the White Goddess, who promptly turns him into an ass. How Lucius responds to his new misfortune, and ultimately finds a way to become human again, makes for a funny and fascinating tale.The Metamorphosis of Apuleius, referred to by St. Augustine as The Golden Ass, is the oldest novel written in Latin to survive in its entirety. Originally written by Lucius of Patrae, this translation by Robert Graves highlights the ribald humor and vivid sense of adventure present in the original. Providing a rare window in to the daily lives of regular people in ancient Greece, Robert Graves' translation of this classic tale is at once hilarious, informative, and captivating.

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.

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.

From Blake Pierce, bestselling author of ONCE GONE (a #1 bestseller with over 600 five star reviews), comes book #2 in a heart-pounding new mystery series.In BEFORE HE SEES (A Mackenzie White Mystery—Book 2), FBI agent-in-training Mackenzie White struggles to make her mark in the FBI Academy in Quantico, trying to prove herself as a woman and as a transplant from Nebraska. Hoping she has what it takes to become an FBI agent and leave her life in the Midwest behind for good, Mackenzie just wants to keep a low profile and impress her superiors.But all that changes when the body of a woman is found in a garbage dump. The murder bears shocking similarities to the Scarecrow Killer—the case that made Mackenzie famous in Nebraska—and in the frantic race against time to stop a new serial killer, the FBI decides to break protocol and give Mackenzie a chance on the case.

古老洪荒大陆，埋葬了多少秘密。曾经仙道的文明已经逝去，而如今是科技的横行时代！有强悍天穹战甲，动辄屠神灭魔；有憾世时空要塞，泯灭圣灵妖皇。人族，以科技的文明对抗洪荒大陆诸多强悍种族，无往不利。而他，就是出生在了一个没落的修仙世家之中…这一世，科技横行，神魔咆哮，而我，却要一己之力，重镇天地，证明昔日仙道的不朽荣耀！

她梁依依是个大龄剩女，26岁，喜欢自由，不喜欢被人管束，觉得爱情是个麻烦的东西，而且会让人失去自由，也是这个原因导致她至今还是单身也没谈过一次恋爱；喜欢把自己打扮成发育不良的学生妹，这样可以让自己挡住不少的桃花以及麻烦。他占城是S市的天骄之子之一，33岁，长得帅气冷酷，但他觉得女人是个麻烦的东西，所以他不相信爱情，更不想结婚。可命运就是那么不可思议的，缘分更是无处不在的……男的问：“咳咳，请问你是梁小姐吗？是来相亲的吗？”女孩直接奔主题：“这次相亲，实在不相满我是被逼着来参加的，我不喜欢被束缚的感觉，喜欢自由。若你不是被逼着来的话，那么我就很抱歉了。”“咳咳，既然这样，我觉得你应该考虑一下我，这样你再也不必要逼着来相亲了。一、我事情很忙，没有什么时间陪你呆在一起。二、我不会背叛你，同样只要你做出对婚姻不利的事，我都不会管你，你还是自由着。”眼前这个女孩给自己的感觉还不错，不像其他的女孩子。既然她不想被人管束，喜欢自由，而自己也需要个老婆，来塞住奶奶跟妈妈的唠叨，不妨试试对方是否有兴趣，两人合作下也挺好。“你真的不束缚我，不管我？”“恩，身份证带了没，我们去领证吧。”…….

【面对难以选择的问题，就用排除法，去掉坏的，但留下的未必是好的】-------在……

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命运的号角已经吹起，黑暗之门后面是什么样的世界？巫师的魔法，魔兽的怒吼。杀戮和吞噬，到底什么才是活下去的意义？

将莹从学校回来的时候，看到桌上有七颗樱桃，不禁一愣。樱桃红得让她觉得不正常，再者，她一直是一个人住在这个城市，就算是朋友也不可能进来。她小心翼翼地查看了衣柜、厨房、厕所都没有人，也就放下心来。可是，她看着七颗樱桃却不知怎么处理的好。好半天她才找了一块纸板，然后用纸板将之弄到塑料袋里，扔了出去。这事将莹也没怎么放在心上，第二天依然像往常一样去上班了。下班后，桌子上竟然又出现了樱桃，这次是三颗，依然是那么鲜红。将莹有些害怕了，她查看了门、窗户，没有被撬过的痕迹。她就奇怪了，这个人是怎么进来的呢？

书生徐渭于梅雨季节偶遇梅妖小梅，并与之相恋，但人妖殊途，家庭阻隔，两人无奈分离。岁月悠悠，二十年弹指一挥间，宦海沉浮半生的徐渭最终遭同僚算计，落魄返乡，心灰意冷，本以为人生从此云淡风轻，谁知梅山风云再起，他终难割舍和小梅的情缘而身陷其中，看一段人妖情如何穿越时空荡涤二十载，感一份真情难舍难分！

一个退役老刺客在深山里捡到了一个婴儿，随后将他领养，莱亚的故事开始了.......

方水清等主编的《国学经典导读》是一本关于中国文化经典的综合导读作品，分上、中、下三册，中册精选了《大学》、《中庸》、《论语》、《孟子》、《唐诗三百首》、《宋词》、《唐五代词》等著作，对每部作品都按“原文”、“译文”、“师说”、“知识卡片”、“故事链接”五部分进行详细解释，以便为读者深入了解传统文化经典，提供必要的阅读门径与学习指南。

本书为杨千紫作品集“相思传系列”之一，由十余篇风格空灵，文笔优美的短故事组成。武侠的世界里有刀光剑影，更有爱恨情仇。在这些精巧的短篇故事里，无论是风华绝代的佳人，还是快意情仇的剑客，都在这虚构的江湖中，淋漓尽致地展现着自己充满悲喜的人生。作者在她设置的小世界里，通过细腻的人物刻画与巧妙的情节设置，将读者带入了一个充满诗意、情感和侠义的武侠世界。作为一部短篇小说集，全书各篇各具特色且篇幅适中，适合喜爱此类虚构主题的读者阅读。作者文风老练、唯美，作品颇具散文般的赏读性。