Lord of the Flies

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.

Each of these chapters in this book of political counterfactuals describes a premiership that never happened, but might easily have done had the chips fallen slightly differently. The contributors, each of them experts in political history, have asked themselves questions like: what shape would the welfare state and the cold war have taken if the Prime Minister had been Herbert Morrison instead of Clement Attlee? What would have been consequences for Northern Ireland had Norman Tebbit succeeded Margaret Thatcher? How would our present life be different without New Labour - a name we would never have heard if either Kinnock or Smith had become Prime Minister and not Tony Blair? Each of the chapters in this book describes events that really might have happened. And almost did.

"Morgan Rice has come up with what promises to be another brilliant series, immersing us in a fantasy of valor, honor, courage, magic and faith in your destiny. Morgan has managed again to produce a strong set of characters that make us cheer for them on every page.…Recommended for the permanent library of all readers that love a well-written fantasy."--Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (regarding Rise of the Dragons)VICTOR, VANQUISHED, SON is book #8—and the final book—in Morgan Rice's bestselling epic fantasy series OF CROWNS AND GLORY, which begins with SLAVE, WARRIOR, QUEEN (Book #1), a free download.While Ceres battles in a mystical land to regain her lost powers—and to save her very life—Thanos, Akila, Lord West and the others dig in on the Isle of Haylon for their final stand against the might of Felldust's fleet. Jeva tries to rally her Bone Folk to come to Thanos' aid and join in the battle for Haylon.

From #1 bestselling author Blake Pierce comes a heart-pounding new mystery series.In the cornfields of Nebraska a woman is found murdered, strung up on a pole, the victim of a deranged killer. It doesn't take long for the police to realize a serial killer is on the loose—and that his spree has just begun.Detective Mackenzie White, young, tough, smarter than the aging, chauvinistic men on her local force, finds herself called in grudgingly to help solve it. As much as the other officers hate to admit it, they need her young, brilliant mind, which has already helped crack cold cases that had left them stumped. Yet even for Mackenzie this new case proves an impossible riddle, something the likes of which she—and the local force—have ever seen.

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这是个古代大侠重生在现代的生活故事。没有了古代江湖的快意恩仇、恣意洒脱。有的只有小时做不完的作业，大时做不完的工作。庞文汐泪目：“麻麻我要回古代。”

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【已完结】恋爱第二天，安以陌就后悔了，当着全校师生的面宣布，“宫冥夜，我不喜欢你了，我们分手！”他将她抵至墙角，眯眼轻笑，“说，你喜欢我！”“我不喜欢……”“嘘！”他食指封住她的唇，“乖，宝贝儿，要闹我们回家再闹，大庭广众之下秀恩爱多不好？”“……”都说宫冥夜把自己女朋友宠到了无法无天、令人发指的地步。安以陌表示，都是假象好吗？把她宠成这样，以后她还能离得开他吗？

《巷战之夜》写的是在日寇进攻面前，天津和潜山的人民与侵略者浴血奋战的故事。其中写到一位普通的教员，在与日军勇敢的斗争中，成长为游击队长，并率领民众狠狠打击来犯之敌。

作为一个失忆的穿越丑女，林小柔的八字真够点背的，什么倒霉来什么，偏偏某恶少还不怕死的招惹她：爷要有兴致，就是看头母猪都眉清目秀的。这倒霉催的生活啊，幸好药膳在手，治得了小三，整的了恶少，顺带治治老皇帝救救心上人。那些曾经嘲笑我的人啊，总有一天会让你们哭着来求我。书友催更交流群：310025354

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(新书已发《倾听时光说爱你》)电竞圈人尽皆知，乔西是时辰的！乔西泪奔:“假的假的都是假的！谣言谣言全是谣言！”想要征服乔西这个小财迷，只有和她谈生意。时辰:“咱们谈笔大生意怎么样。”乔西:“多大！”时辰闻言狡黠一笑“不大，也就几个亿而已。”

耿占春，80年代初以来主要从事诗学、叙事理论和当代文学批评。著有《隐喻》(1993)，《观察者的幻象》(1995)，《叙事美学——探索一种百科全书式的小说》(2002)，《失去象征的世界》(2008)。多种随笔著作《痛苦》(1993)，《话语和回忆之乡》(1995)，《沙上的卜辞》(2008)等。另有社会思想随笔和诗歌写作。曾获第七届华语文学传媒奖年度批评家奖。现为海南大学人文传播学院教授，河南大学特聘教授，博士生导师。