Before he Kills (A Mackenzie White Mystery—Book 1)

This is an important and illuminating collection of essays and lectures by the winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature. William Golding writes about places as diverse as Wiltshire, where he lived for over half a century, Dutch waterways, Delphi, Egypt ancient and modern, and planet Earth herself. Other essays discuss books and ideas, and provide a fascinating background to the appreciate Golding's own writing and imagination. It includes Golding's Nobel Speech. "e;Golding come through this collection as reserved and wary, but delightful...His writing is a joy"e;. (Sunday Times).

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Here's a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers. It's Philosophy 101 for everyone who knows not to take all this heavy stuff too seriously. Some of the Big Ideas are Existentialism (what do Hegel and Bette Midler have in common?), Philosophy of Language (how to express what it's like being stranded on a desert island with Halle Berry), Feminist Philosophy (why, in the end, a man is always a man), and much more. Finally—it all makes sense!

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The first in a two-book series, Sergeant Lamb's America tells the story Sergeant Roger Lamb, an Irish soldier who served on the British side during the American War of Independence. Based on real historical events and people, Sergeant Lamb recounts the British defeat and the capture of his unit at the Battle of Saratoga in a voice that's both funny, insightful, and wise.This fictionalized account is based on the journals of the historical Sergeant Roger Lamb, and is largely faithful to the true eyewitness account of the American Revolution told from the loser's perspective. With his engaging, personable voice and basic decency of character, Sergeant Lamb reminds us that regardless of how history casts the British side, there were good men on both sides of this important conflict.

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依天无意中触发了神剑中的机关，被传送到星球大战前星际联盟政府开发的第五行星。星球大战之后，此星球被四大星球的人所遗忘，因为犯罪而被遣送至此的罪民们不得已只能从文明的最低端开始逐渐发展。这是一颗高温的星球，遍布各种强悍的生物，在这里人类并不占据食物链的顶端……依天在和第五行星的独特食肉植物鞭树搏斗的时候，遇到了石氏部落的石凤和石龙姐弟，被邀请至石氏部落暂时定居下来。这个星球的一切都让依天感到惊奇，依天一边在石氏部落中的鹰巢打工养活自己，一边积极寻找联盟政府遗留在第五行星的遗迹，希望能找到回地球的方法……

作为穿越人，从一开始她就告诉自己<br/>珍爱生命，远离宫廷，玩不起的就不要玩<br/>可是她忘了墨菲定律说<br/>如果你担心某种情况发生，那么它就更有可能发生。<br/>其实墨菲还告诉我们，你往往找到的，并不是你正想找的东西。&nbsp;&nbsp;

书总是一大摞一大摞地往家里搬，培训班、辅导班总是不停地报，这些虽然不是育儿高招，但却对孩子的成长环境和读书习惯起到了决定性作用，高知妈妈是一群热衷于孩子教育投资的人，高知妈妈如何培养孩子的旨在揭开高知育儿的神秘面纱，邀请大家走入高知育儿的神秘世界。

龙套甲：“无耻小儿，可敢与我一战?”纪尘：“谈不上战，你太弱了，单方面虐杀而已。看剑。”“噗。”纪尘一剑挥出，直接斩杀龙套甲。对方众人吓破了胆：“你你你，是什么人?为什么这么厉害?”“不强不强，虚空第一而已。”纪尘再次挥剑，而后对方众人皆卒。现在已经写到南朝鲜篇章。男主角随军队去打南朝鲜了。有逻辑，主角不圣母，杀伐果断，绝不拖泥带水。实乃天下少见的好男主。留下的悬念也很多哦。

努力只是一部分，有些人从出生起就注定不凡。你们生而为人，而我从来到这个世界的那一刻起，我就注定是这片天地中的……王。

《生活，是第一位的》是汪曾祺的文学创作谈，篇目不仅包括《自报家门》《关于〈受戒〉》《〈大淖记事〉是怎样写出来的》这样自白式的对自己创作初心与创作历程的阐述，也有《沈从文和他的〈边城〉》《读〈萧萧〉》这样对老师沈从文其人及其作品的剖析，更有《小说创作随谈》《小说技巧常谈》《关于小说的语言》《文学语言杂谈》这样关于小说创作的真知灼见……个中所述，皆是汪曾祺自己多年摸索的“甘苦之言”，绝非“零批转贩”。除小说外，本书中选编的文章还论及散文、戏剧等，汪曾祺对生活、对文学的思考、经验、心得，都在这些文章里毫无保留地分享出来。

白乔意从来没见过像许南风这样令她心动的男生，她下定决心，一定要拿下他！长路漫漫，在自己希望将破灭之时，他回头了。

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。