Cubs and Other Stories

Picking up after the dramatic cliffhanger that ended Book Six, Sabrina and Daphne's prayers are finally answered when their parents awake from their sleeping spell. But their happy reunion is short-lived, as they are caught in the middle of a war between the Scarlet Hand and Prince Charming's Everafter army. As the family works to help the prince's ragtag group of rebels and protect their friends, Sabrina comes face-to-face with the family's deadliest enemy—the mysterious Master—who reveals a secret so shocking it will rock the entire family to its core.

Human beings have always been mythmakers. So begins best-selling writer Karen Armstrong's concise yet compelling investigation into myth: what it is, how it has evolved, and why we still so desperately need it. She takes us from the Paleolithic period and the myths of the hunters right up to the Great Western Transformation of the last five hundred years and the discrediting of myth by science. The history of myth is the history of humanity, our stories and beliefs, our curiosity and attempts to understand the world, which link us to our ancestors and each other. Heralding a major series of retellings of international myths by authors from around the world, Armstrong's characteristically insightful and eloquent book serves as a brilliant and thought-provoking introduction to myth in the broadest senseand explains why if we dismiss it, we do so at our peril.

The eight tales in this collection by Nancy Etchemendy weave great suspense with interesting plots and unusual characters. "Lunch at Etienne's" is a story narrated by a woman who is surrounded by death but doesn't seem to realize it. "Cat in Glass" is about a mysterious, malevolent sculpted cat that commits gruesome murders and is told from the point of view of the sculpture's frightened and bewildered owner. There is also "The Sailor's Bargain", a captivating story about an orphan whose haunting dreams lead to a stark revelation of another life, and "The Lily and the Weaver's Heart", in which a one-eyed Jacinth dares to take her place in a cruel world by risking a journey that is usually reserved for the most able-bodied men of the culture.

A Radiant Life presents the unequivocal voice of Nuala O'Faolain tackling a vast range of subjects from Catholicism to feminism, from Sinatra to Africa, and from Irish American culture to Islam and the West. Curious and funny, tender and scathing, O'Faolain's columns were never less than trenchant and were always passionate. "I was blinded by the habit of translating everything into personal terms," she writes apologetically, but this is the power of her journalism. Through the prism of casual, everyday encounters, O'Faolain presses her subject, reaching beyond the prompting of the moment to transcend topicality. The result is a cumulative historical narrative, an inadvertent chronicle of a transformed Ireland by one of its sharpest observers and canniest wkkk.net for A Radiant Life:"This book is a gift." -The Boston Globe

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叶悠然上辈子太过于傻白甜，不懂身边人和眼前人皆是狼柴虎豹，害的自己惨死。这辈子重新来过回到高考前一个月，看她如何手刃白莲花手撕渣男。只不过，嘶，你这个大boos哪儿来的？

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迟薇没想到，自己身为顶级白富美，竟然连着三次被人嫌弃退婚，沦为名媛圈中笑话！一怒之下，她养个小白脸，开始另一种人生。小白脸温柔，长得美，独一无二……只可惜，他是个病秧子，随时可能死去！为此，迟薇整日忧心忡忡，对着男人一遍遍咬耳朵：“不准死，永远陪着我，知道吗？”……人人都说，小白脸没有真心，贪图她的财势，迟薇也曾这么想。直至那一日，家中出事落魄，她受尽委屈欺凌。绝望之际，她的小白脸强大如同帝王，护在她的身前。他把她捧在手心，重新送回云端：“我的宝贝，她是女王殿下……一日是女王，终生是女王！”……本书又名《我曾深情嫁给你》《你是人间第三种绝色》《每天都在害怕老公挂掉》

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