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Thanks to advancing technology and shifting mores, the amount of change we experience in our lifetimes is truly exceptional. Objects and practices that are commonplace can very quickly become outmoded. In this witty and informative collection of short essays, journalist and social commentator Anna Jane Grossman takes a thoughtful look at what everyday apparatuses, ideas, and behaviors are quickly disappearingor else have already left the wkkk.nete contains essays and entries on more than 100 alphabetized fading subjects, including Blind Dates, Mix Tapes, Getting Lost, Porn Magazines, Looking Old, Operators, Camera Film, Hitchhiking, Body Hair, Writing Letters, Basketball Players in Short Shorts, Privacy, Cash, and, yes, Books. This ode to obsolescence also includes 25 quirky pen-and-ink line illustrations to further help us remember exactly what we’re missing.

Darkness Visible opens at the height of the London Blitz, when a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire. Miraculously saved but hideously scarred, soon tormented at school and at work, Matty becomes a wanderer, a seeker after some unknown redemption. Two more lost children await him, twins as exquisite as they are loveless. Toni dabbles in political violence; Sophy, in sexual tyranny. As Golding weaves their destinies together, his book reveals both the inner and outer darkness of our world. "An intensity of vision without parallel." (TLS). "A vision of elemental reality so vivid we seem to hallucinate the scenes…Magic." (New York Times Book Review).

President Timothy Kegan is assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Philadelphia; a single shooter is caught and convicted. Fourteen years later, the slain President's brother, Nick, hears a deathbed confession that upends everything he thought he knew about his brother's death. In a desperate rush to find the real killer, Nick must navigate the murky waters of a conspiracy that involves the CIA, oil barons, the police force, movie stars, and people at the highest level of government.A gripping political thriller, this book contains disturbing echoes of the Kennedy Assassination. Rife with political intrigue, it addresses many mysteries that remain unsolved in the real life JFK case--and it's sure to keep you turning pages.

Our Lady of the Flowers', which is often considered to be Genet's masterpiece, was written entirely in the solitude of a prison cell. the exceptional value of the work lies in its ambiguity.

在上海市中心，有一幢欧洲建筑风格的大楼，二三层墙上，悬挂着一排醒目而苍劲的金字招牌：宏光证券公司。底层大厅的墙幕显示屏上闪烁着红绿色的光芒，行情不断变动，指数曲线像蛇似地蜿蜒蠕动，紧紧缠住股民亢奋焦虑的心绪。大户室里，众多的大户，目光都被代码为666的股票的走势紧紧吸引，围绕该股票的议论使大户室异常热闹。大户室里的大户，也分成技术派和基本面派两个阵营。技术派认为，该股票今日放量但股价未上却下行，可能是庄家在出货，但也不排除蓄势整理的可能。

人类文明高度发展，也促进了各种生命的进化，成为了“神兽”。这是一个训练师的时代，这是天晶国与魔法岛的一次次较量，这是各个神兽与人类的前生今世，这是一曲生死离歌，如同幻想一般迷离恍惚。

属于一个真正骑士的传记，凯西斯----战争世界里的孤独者。故事........

熟读兵书三百部，不会领兵也会打。南翼国镇国大将军府的大小姐，诗书不成，兵法不行，武功不济，刁蛮任性，人人摇头。现代某高校国文老师的顾青禾，聪慧狡黠，一朝穿越，她成为了她。什么？老爹是个功高震主的草包？什么？姨娘老是背着使坏？什么？七皇子没事找茬？什么？贴身侍卫身份不明？这些统统不是问题，作为新时代五好青年，她顾青禾，端的是出得了厅堂，入得了厨房，上的了战场，斗得了姨娘，打得了皇子，勾得了侍卫。切看她如何在南翼国翻云覆雨，成就一代女战神。

这是一个AI引发的血案……咳咳，这是自负轻狂，性格不定的主角进入自己设计的全息网游里狗血的失去记忆的故事，这是死而复生却懵逼的发现自己成了自己的AI影帝的追妻之路。一个是把游戏当人生玩的内部人员，一个是不受限制可以充当BUG的AI大神……在这个以玩家梦境为基础建立起的游戏世界，大杀四方。众玩家表示累觉不爱……还能不能让人家好好做个梦了啊！新作一篇，作者没有玩过网游(*/ω＼*)，想想有点羞涩~不会弃坑，1v1。结尾大揭秘，主角们实则来自大界面。这是一篇假未来架空文，真仙界玄幻文。打算按系列文写。

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。

我有两个妈妈，一个是我的亲生母亲柳燕，另一个我叫她埃娃妈妈，是一位居住在哈尔滨松花江太阳岛上的俄国侨民。其实，埃娃妈妈的名字很长，叫作埃莲娜·伊凡诺耶娃。但在我这样一个地道的中国男孩口中，卷着舌头，叫这么长一串音节，实在太难，就留头留尾，省去中间，名字就变成了埃娃，加上我的习惯称呼“妈妈”，就是埃娃妈妈。我的名字叫覃三九，因为恰好出生在最寒冷的三九天，爸妈就给我取了这样一个名儿。虽然我称呼埃娃为妈妈，但是，她和我并没有任何血缘关系，这其中的缘故，与一座神秘的玻璃屋有关。我小的时候，家就住在太阳岛上。

夫妻间的性困扰，有个性，也有共性。《健康性知识答问》源于我多年性咨询的个案，几乎包罗了婚姻中可能遇到的各种性困扰。即使你当前正处于性生活的美满阶段，《健康性知识答问》中的个案也可以让你防患于未然。毕竟，性生活的美满境界，只有更好，没有最好。

(女主女扮男装)初见时，她在小巷子里被迫救了他，再见时她又救了他。他为报答把她认为弟弟，一心想把她拉进自己的队中，途中但却渐渐爱上了她……他是神秘的君二少，是狐狼队伍中的队长，是……她是网络作者大神，是娱乐圈的新星，是……当两个人碰上时，会擦出怎样的火花？#"听说队长找了个弟弟，还特别纵容他。″"怎么可能，纵容？″就他那冻死人的性格还会纵容？#"啊啊啊男神好帅，我要嫁给你！！″某个男人"这是我的，你们想都别想"说完后黑着脸拉走一旁看戏的某人回到家里证明一下，某个人全身都是他的。

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。