Secrets of the Cicada Summer

This dark and thrilling adventure, with an unforgettable heroine, will captivate fans of steampunk, fantasy, and romance. On her 18th birthday, Lena Mattacascar decides to search for her father, who disappeared into the northern wilderness of Scree when Lena was young. Scree is inhabited by Peculiars, people whose unusual characteristics make them unacceptable to modern society. Lena wonders if her father is the source of her own extraordinary characteristics and if she, too, is Peculiar. On the train she meets a young librarian, Jimson Quiggley, who is traveling to a town on the edge of Scree to work in the home and library of the inventor Mr. Beasley. The train is stopped by men being chased by the handsome young marshal Thomas Saltre. When Saltre learns who Lena's father is, he convinces her to spy on Mr. Beasley and the strange folk who disappear into his home, Zephyr House. A daring escape in an aerocopter leads Lena into the wilds of Scree to confront her deepest fears.

A new generation of urban bootleggers is distilling whiskey at home, and cocktail enthusiasts have embraced the nuances of brown liquors. Written by the founders of Kings County Distillery, New York City's first distillery since Prohibition, this spirited illustrated book explores America's age-old love affair with whiskey. It begins with chapters on whiskey's history and culture from 1640 to today, when the DIY trend and the classic cocktail craze have conspired to make it the next big thing. For those thirsty for practical information, the book next provides a detailed, easy-to-follow guide to safe home distilling, complete with a list of supplies, step-by-step instructions, and helpful pictures, anecdotes, and tips. The final section focuses on the contemporary whiskey scene, featuring a list of microdistillers, cocktail and food recipes from the country's hottest mixologists and chefs, and an opinionated guide to building your own whiskey collection.

From Blake Pierce, bestselling author of ONCE GONE (a #1 bestseller with over 600 five star reviews), comes book #3 in the heart-pounding Mackenzie White mystery series.In BEFORE HE COVETS (A Mackenzie White Mystery—Book 3), newly minted FBI agent Mackenzie White graduates the FBI Academy in Quantico only to find herself thrown into an urgent serial killer case. Women are turning up dead while camping in a remote national park in West Virginia. Yet the park is vast, and no connection can be found between them.At the same time, Mackenzie receives a call from Nebraska urging her to come home. After many years, a new clue has surfaced about her father's murder. The case no longer cold, Mackenzie desperately needs to help solve it.

Molloy is Samuel Beckett's best-known novel, and his first published work to be written in French, ushering in a period of concentrated creativity in the late 1940s which included the companion novels Malone Dies and The Unnamable. The narrative of Molloy, old and ill, remembering and forgetting, scarcely human, begets a parallel tale of the spinsterish Moran, a private detective sent in search of him, whose own deterioration during the quest joins in with the catalogue of Molloy's woes. Molloy brings a world into existence with finicking certainties, at the tip of whoever is holding the pencil, and trades larger uncertainties with the reader. Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.

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.

一个是仙界仙尊，一个是末世少女，当机缘巧合，让他们相遇，穿梭于不同的时空位面之中，会经历些什么呢？这是一对绑定人生的主人公穿梭位面，成长修炼的故事；这也是两个人从相伴到相知相恋的故事

爱因斯坦曾说：知识是有限的，而未知却是无限的。今天，随着科学的飞速发展，人们不但不断走向微观领域，而且还更深入地走向了宏观领域——地面物体的运动规律，以及宇观领域——宇宙的边界、起源和演化等等，沿着这条道路，人们不断从已知走向未知。本书集中了近年来，科学界对地外智能生命进行研究的资料和成果，数字准确，语言详实活泼，特别适合青少年朋友们阅读。从月球、火星、金星等宇宙天体到我们生活的地球上发生的一系列神秘莫测的飞碟与外星人事件，为你尽情展示地外生命的神奇与宇宙的奥妙，相信一定会给大家带来无穷的回味和思索。

万奇雯：我很早就认识老板了，他人真的很好。古天乐：发达哥是我认识的最天才的人了。金庸：武侠的未来，我看还得交给那个不务正业的周兴盛手上。李嘉诚：周生很厉害，我不如他。？？？？？？？？现代宅男重生1985大香港，玩转都市，华丽变身！自己建的一个普通群：189053351，各位有兴趣的都可以加入。

作为没有行医执照的黑市医生，黑间羽悲催地穿越了。穿越就算了，却把未来世纪最恶毒的系统——病毒系统带来了，每天被欺压着去收集各种病毒。养父不屑，继母捧杀，庶妹装可怜，一个一个将她往死里逼，真以为她好欺负是吧，病毒系统出手，让你们要脸没脸，想活难死。喂，那个王爷，你是娶我还是不娶啊？

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。

本书着重研究新中国成立以来从传统道德生活向社会主义道德生活转变的历史过程和历史必然性，主要论述社会主义社会道德生活的发展、演变——新的道德观念的产生，新的道德关系的形成，新的道德生活风俗的兴起等等。

《故事会》是中国最通俗的民间文学小本杂志，由上海文艺出版社编辑出版。《故事会》创刊于1963年，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。本书包括：【我要转学】“这几天，妈妈每天都到校门口等我，见了我，妈妈就抱着我使劲地哭。爸，我怕看见妈妈哭，我要转学！县一中妈妈认识，我要转到妈妈找不到的学校……”【一笔善款】听老王如此一说，那个劫匪“扑通”跪在地上，连扇嘴巴，哭着说：“大叔，我错了，我也是为了孩子想不到其他办法，听大夫说你家得到了善款，这才起了异心，我这就去自首。”……等等内容。

公元前770年，周平王将都城从镐京迁到了洛邑。因为镐京在西边，所以历史上就把周朝京都在镐京的时期称为西周；洛邑在东边，就把平王东迁以后到秦统一中国前这一时期叫做东周。

孔子是一位智慧的长者，浑身散发着人性的光辉，由其弟子及后学编集的《论语》，是一部记载孔子言语行事的重要儒家经典。其影响遍及政治、思想、文化、教育、伦理道德等各个领域，是中国传统文化的一大标识。本书将南怀瑾先生解读《论语》的智慧与一个个历史故事相融合，向读者展示《论语》的思想精髓和其中包含的深刻道理，让我们重温儒家经典。作者的讲述既贯通包括佛教、道教在内的中国传统文化，又贴近生活实际，引导内心彷徨不安的现代人积极思考，提高生命智慧，追求至善的人生境界，实现人生价值。

如果明智光秀没有谋反，那么织田信长的天下布武会走到哪里？如果明智光秀没有谋反，那么丰臣秀吉的聚乐第会建在哪里？如果明智光秀没有谋反，那么德川家康开府的地点会在哪里。。。。。。穿越变身为明智光秀的儿子，见证战国第一叛徒的传奇人生吧。