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This groundbreaking title is an insider's account of the 2008 financial crisis written specifically for Main Street.Stacy Carlson, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's speechwriter, takes you inside the Treasury Department and explains the events and issues in a wry, personal narrative. You want to understand what brought us to the brink of collapse? After reading You, Me & the U.S. Economy, you will.With clarity and humor, Stacy explains the multiple causes of our financial, housing and economic troubles and the multiple attempts to solve them. She isn't a financial wizard and writes so other non-wizards can understand, too. Wrapped within is her story of faith and persistence in a new, mid-life career and as a silent witness to tremendous turmoil, You, Me & the U.S. Economy tells Main Street what really happened and why. Finally.

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.

17岁的西瑞斯，来自帝国提洛斯城的一位美丽却可怜的姑娘。她从噩梦中醒来，发现自己无能为力。她被斯蒂芬尼娅囚禁了起来。魔法小瓶的毒药夺取了她的力气。西瑞斯的命运遇到了残酷的低点，并且她无法阻止命运的车轮碾过她。萨诺斯杀死路西斯后，踏上了回提洛斯城的旅程。他要拯救西瑞斯，拯救他的家乡。但是飞灰城的舰队已经起航了，裹挟着全世界的威力压向提洛斯城。可能为时已晚了，他无法挽回他所拥有的一切。随之而来的是一场史诗般的战争，决定着提洛斯城的命运。《英雄，叛军和女儿》讲述了一个悲剧性的爱情、复仇、背叛、野心和命运的史诗故事。充满了令人难忘的人物和令人心悸的动作情节，它将我们带入一个永远难忘的世界，让我们再次爱上幻想。

The Hothouse was first produced in 1980, though Harold Pinter wrote the play in 1958 just before commencing work on The Caretaker.'The Hothouse is one of Pinter's best plays: one that deals with the worm-eaten corruption of bureaucracy, the secrecy of government and the disjunction between language and experience.'Michael Billington.'The Hothouse is at once sinister and hilarious, suggesting an unholy alliance between Kafka and Fedyeau.'The National Theatre presented a major revival of The Hothouse in July 2007.'The foremost representative of British drama in the second half of the twentieth century.'Swedish Academy citation on awarding Harold Pinter the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2005

游龙城的云家，因为镇族之宝生死轮盘而引得燕天帝国之内的各方势力觊觎。生死轮盘，据说有起死回生之功效，晃生晃死皆在一念之间。云家族长之中云风天，亲眼看着家族被外来力量摧毁，自身被流浪在外。他要怎么才能够找出真凶复得大仇？

魔族的叛逆王子想要找到自己的母亲去到了人界，恰巧遇上人界的动乱之年，从此人界多了一个异族的身影，事情也变的更加有趣了起来

她，聪明灵慧，文武全才。身处谷中，悠闲度日，本无需涉入皇室争斗。却在机缘巧合下，谨守族规，出谷涉尘.他，野心勃勃，深沉而内敛。与她几翻暗斗中，渐生情愫。无奈佳人芳心早有所托，因此情深而生恨.他，潇洒飘逸，谋略过人。与她情深意厚，却为宿命所累，终其一生无缘私守.他，是她一生守护之人。倾心绝色而痛失至爱，翻然醒悟，痛心疾首.———————————————————————————————————————————————一段架空的历史，一场风花雪月交织着权力争斗的爱情，在邑昱国初建之际悄然上演.

When Miles tells his fiancée, Monique, that they must keep their engagement a secret if she comes with him to live on Grand Cayman Island, she has misgivings. Once they reach the island, she realizes all her fears were right--and Miles breaks her heart.But then she meets Dirk Anderson, Miles' new employer. Handsome and domineering, Dirk couldn't be more different from Miles, and Monique finds herself strangely drawn to him. But he may be involved with another woman--the same one who came between her and Miles. Can she trust his love--or will her heart be broken once more?

小说描写了一个关于梦想与现实纠缠的束缚与挣脱的故事。家庭破碎的夏宇，带着心中的无限阴霾与对幸福的渴望来到一所寄宿学校，结识对音乐执著追求的一直流浪的谭夕和玩世不恭的强子。爸爸的再婚使他与家庭的关系愈加恶化，后来与楼兰相爱，楼兰一直想把夏宇从黑梦中带出，但最后自己却深陷其中。直到晗的介入，使夏宇与楼兰的感情破碎。楼兰伤心，决定出走解脱这些痛苦，遇到了同样流浪的谭夕，这才发觉自己想要的竟然是爱。时过境迁，当那群少年逐渐长大时，经历了成长的阵痛与蜕变，再去回忆那些往事，就像一个已经过去的黑梦。而梦的前方，是对理想的不断追索。

丑聋人卡西莫多被巴黎圣母院的神父克洛德收养，做撞钟人，外貌正经的神父克洛德自从遇见美丽的吉普赛少女爱斯梅拉达后，被其美色所诱而神魂颠倒，指使卡西莫多强行掳走爱斯梅拉达，途中被弗比斯骑兵上尉队长所救，爱斯梅拉达因而爱上了弗比斯。

末世的地球，突然出现了一批外星人。为了世界和平，为了爱与正义，主角贪念一起，偷走了他们的飞碟……顺便又拐走了他们的人……当气势汹汹，铺垫了几十万字的外星大将抵达太阳系时，一脸懵逼：给老子铺垫了那么久，老子就是个打酱油的？所以，这其实就是一本脑残小白文，很白很白很脑残那种……

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比古老更加古老的尝试。生存的延续，种族的传承，文明的绝对对立，抗争里的一线生机，传承者与探索者的争斗，男子汉与漆黑意志的搏杀，疯狂骇人的伟大，含容世间的柔韧。一切与一切，皆是为了对抗那，公平的命运。