第2章 Epigraph

"Sophie Love's ability to impart magic to her readers is exquisitely wrought in powerfully evocative phrases and descriptions….This is the perfect romance or beach read, with a difference: its enthusiasm and beautiful descriptions offer an unexpected attention to the complexity of not just evolving love, but evolving psyches. It's a delightful recommendation for romance readers looking for a touch more complexity from their romance reads."--Midwest Book Review (Diane Donovan re For Now and Forever)"A very well written novel, describing the struggle of a woman (Emily) to find her true identity. The author did an amazing job with the creation of the characters and her description of the environment. The romance is there, but not overdosed. Kudos to the author for this amazing start of a series that promises to be very entertaining."--Books and Movies Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re For Now and Forever)

The most popular work from provocative Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher is a searing portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires. Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. Her life appears boring, but Erika, a quiet thirty-eight-year-old, secretly visits Turkish peep shows at night and watched sadomasochistic films. Meanwhile, a handsome, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old student has become enamored with Erika and sets out to seduce her. She resists him at firstbut then the dark passions roiling under the piano teacher's subdued exterior explode in a release of perversity, violence, and degradation.

In this dramatic conclusion to the Grasslands Trilogy, Corki, Pippa, and all their friends are reunited for a final fight to determine the future of Grassland. After escaping the mountains of Grassland, where Corki and Pippa and their friends were slaves and soldiers, the fugitives finally found a new life, and are seemingly safe at last. But as the former slaves explore new lands to the north, they discover that cruelty and injustice are not only found in Grassland, and that the people they visit may need their help. Grassland, too, may need assistance. When an appeal from an old friend reaches Corki and Pippa in their travels, will they have the courage to do what's right for their old land, despite its cruel history? What will it cost them to change Grassland for the better?

在这个世界上，有很多人意识到自己因这样或那样的缺陷和不足导致无法成功，比如有人承认自己智商不高，有人认为自己情商不够，有人确定自己能力不行，还有人觉得自己运气不佳……但是却很少有人承认自己不会说话，更难以相信自己不成功或实现不了梦想的原因之一就是——“不会在公众面前说话”……有美国著名评论家在描述《演说的艺术》一书作者时，这样描述过一番令人震撼的场景：虽然美国大城市有四成多人处于失业状态，需要靠救济生活，可当晚仍有两千多人被一份广告所吸引，涌向宾夕法尼亚饭店。原来，他们是来听一场戴尔·卡耐基作家所做的最现代、最实用的“为人处世技巧”的讲座。这一讲座每个季度都在纽约举办，而且是场场爆满，人数多得数不过来，其中很多人都是商界和技术领域的专业人士。原因在哪里呢？读读这本读起来一点都不难的书吧。答案就在眼前。

The ghost story "The Signal-Man" is written in 1866, which concerns a spectre seen beside a tunnel entrance. The signal-man of the title tells the narrator of a ghost that has been haunting him. Each spectral appearance precedes, and is a harbinger of, a tragic event on the railway on which the signalman works. The signalman's work is at a signalbox in a deep cutting near a tunnel entrance on a lonely stretch of the line, and he controls the movements of passing trains. When there is danger, his fellow signalmen alert him via telegraph and alarms. Three times, he receives phantom warnings of danger when his bell rings in a fashion that only he can hear. Each warning is followed by the appearance of the spectre, and then by a terrible accident. The first accident involves a terrible collision between two trains in the tunnel. Dickens may have based this incident on the Clayton Tunnel rail crash that occurred in 1861.

青涩蜕变，如今她是能独当一面的女boss，爱了冷泽聿七年，也同样花了七年时间去忘记他。以为是陌路，他突然向他表白，扬言要娶她，她只当他是脑子抽风，他的殷勤她也全都无视。他帮她查她父母的死因，赶走身边情敌，解释当初拒绝她的告别，和故意对她冷漠都是无奈之举。突然爆出她父母的死居然和冷家有丝毫联系，还莫名跳出个公爵未婚夫，扬言要与她履行婚约。峰回路转，破镜还能重圆吗？ PS:我又开新文了，每逢假期必书荒，新文《有你的世界遇到爱》，喜欢我的文的朋友可以来看看，这是重生类现言，对这个题材感兴趣的一定要收藏起来。

年少时，我们，似乎成为了世界的主角，遗憾过，苦恼过，伤心心过，但庆幸的是在那个即将逝去的青春里，你世界的男主随着四季辗转在你身旁，陪你笑，陪你哭……终有一天，你发现他只是喜欢你身边的那个人而已…“你知道的，我喜欢她哎。”“没事…”至少我的青春，你来过就好。

下午，平静的山岗下发出一声惨叫。叫声撕心裂胆，如果人们听到，会因恐惧而被震慑。可惜那时没人听到。声音落去，一切又平静了。惨案过去半天，镇上人都不知道有人死了。在这个下午，镇上静得很。绝不像是发生了大事的样子。这是个温暖无风的秋日，散碎的阳光在空气里像五彩的蝴蝶纷纷扬扬。抬头去望，空气里有些亮亮闪闪的东西。这情景使人有些疑惑，一镇的人都奇怪这天气怎么会这样的好。天空纯而蓝，而且十分的高远透明，水一样一望无际，就像一个美丽的淡蓝色大湖。湖水静静的。

她是草原汗国的嫡出公主，金尊玉贵，弓马娴熟。一场百年不遇的风雪灾害让她的国家岌岌可危,为解万民之忧，她入关和亲，嫁给大燕帝国的摄政王为正妃。摄政王权倾朝野，后院充盈，来历众多，心思各异,与异族身份最尊贵的公主联姻引来各方猜测，朝堂风云变幻，王府风波迭起。公主本想安静度日，却总有明枪暗箭，风霜雨雪。看着满院子背景不凡、居心叵测的莺莺燕燕，她撕下淑女面具，恢复剽悍本色，宣布后院铁律，“想侍寝，先赢我。”

前世她活的憋屈，做了一辈子的小白鼠，重活一世，有仇报仇！有怨报怨！弃之不肖！她是前世至尊，素手墨笔轻轻一挥，翻手为云覆手为雨，天下万物皆在手中画。纳尼？负心汉爱上她，要再求娶？当她什么？昨日弃我，他日在回，我亦不肖！花痴废物？经脉尽断武功全无？却不知她一只画笔便虐你成渣……王府下人表示王妃很闹腾，“王爷王妃进宫偷墨宝，打伤了贵妃娘娘…”“王爷王妃看重了，学仁堂的墨宝当场抢了起来，打伤了太子……”“爱妃若想抢随她去，旁边递刀可别打伤了手……”“……”夫妻搭档，她杀人他挖坑，她抢物他递刀，她打太子他后面撑腰……双重性格男主萌萌哒

一位太极武道宗师，穿越到斗罗大陆，主角唐三是他的偶像，妖孽般的天赋，血海般的深仇，生命之神与毁灭之神的青睐，双神位加身，终会摩擦出怎样的火花？一切尽在《斗罗之主宰生死》

一场预谋，她落入地狱，无法翻身。重逢之后，一场场无法侦破的案件，一条条冤死的生命，一具具腐烂的尸体，成了肉眼看不见的谜局。他是顶尖知名破案专家却破不了这命局，她是处在两个世界缝隙之人，却逃不过这因果。一只只不愿离去的鬼，徘徊在他们爱情的坟墓前。望着他们其中一人，尸骨未寒便坠入其中。因果循环，有因必有果，你造的孽，总要偿还。小心，这场婚礼是我的坟墓，也有可能是你的。小心，也许你的身后此刻正站着你的劫，和你的果。

新文，重生复仇之蒙面千金 作为从修真界穿越而来的养花人，慕紫烟的目标很简单，用自己前世的本事打造出一条康庄大道！只是……那个呼唤她的人是谁？亲舅舅一家算计？先好好的收拾你们一家，再让你们一家坐牢！作为男主的阎奕辰算计……慕紫烟觉得，这个问题有点儿难，不太好下手。下手轻了，不算教训。下手重了，一个不小心把病怏怏的阎奕辰给弄没了，她这辈子都是单身贵族了！小剧情：阎奕辰第一次来到慕紫烟家的后院，就被她所养的那些花草所吸引。他看中了一株品相奇特的墨菊，很是感兴趣的打量着。然而——墨菊突然变大，一口把阎奕辰吞了下去。慕紫烟，“别什么乱七八糟的垃圾都吞，会吃坏肚子的！”阎奕辰，“……”他是垃圾吗？他是男主好不？

这是一本短篇小说集。1985年黄河在河南兰考铜瓦厢改道东流后，留下的黄河故道，飞沙走石，稼穑不立。一百多年来，故道两岸的人们几乎伴随着泪水和汗水苦熬岁月。《黄河故道人家》虽然是萌生在这片灾难的土地上，但作者却不是悲悲切切地抚摸伤疤，不是泪痕满面地诉说痛苦，而是用一种萌发于心底最深处的情感，以故黄河为背景，对生活在故黄河两岸的一群小人物进行描摹、刻画，用质朴的语言叙述展现黄河故道发生、发展和丰富了的民族乡土文化，勾勒出黄河故道两岸的世俗风情画卷。

（原名《焚尽七神：狂傲女帝》）前世，她贵为巅峰女帝，一夕之间局势逆转，沦为废材之质。魂灵双修，医毒无双，血脉觉醒，一御万兽。天现异象，凰命之女，自此归来，天下乱之。这一次，所有欺她辱她之人必杀之！他自上界而来，怀有目的，却因她动摇内心深处坚定的道义。“你曾说，你向仰我，你想像我一样，步入光明，是我对不起你，又让你重新回到黑暗。”“你都不在了，你让我一个人，怎么像向仰你？！”爱与不爱，从来都是我们自己的事，与他人无关。带走了所有的光明与信仰。