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   MISS BILLY- MARRIED The final entry in Porter’s charming Miss Billy Trilogy about a young orphan who finds love and acceptance in the family of her late father’s college friend, Miss Billy Married concludes the trilogy with an account of the heroine’s first few years as a newlywed. 

随着五王之战告一段落，太后瑟曦·兰尼斯特很快就和年轻的新王后玛格丽·提利尔发生权利暗斗，兰尼斯特和提利尔的联盟开始瓦解，铁王座的负债累累也使得瑟曦做出了放任教会势力扩张的武断决定。与此同时，塔斯的布蕾妮受詹姆·兰尼斯特之托开始寻找失踪的史塔克女儿，而“小指头”培提尔·贝里席则在谷地开始他的一系列阴谋。五王之战中一直置身事外的多恩启动了潜伏多年的复仇计划，铁群岛的权力形势也发生了决定性的变化。在北方，新当重任的琼恩·雪诺则强行派遣自己的好友山姆威尔·塔利陪同伊蒙·坦格利安学士去进修，而山姆路上的听闻则向学城的马尔温博士证明了魔法的归来……

Part science fiction, part dystopian fantasy, part radical socialist tract, Jack London’s The Iron Heel offers a grim depiction of warfare between the classes in America and around the globe. Originally published nearly a hundred years ago, it anticipated many features of the past century, including the rise of fascism, the emergence of domestic terrorism, and the growth of centralized government surveillance and authority. What begins as a war of words ends in scenes of harrowing violence as the state oligarchy, known as "the Iron Heel," moves to crush all opposition to its power.

Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,  Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.

几十年来，沃尔玛公司在沃尔顿家族的经营下蒸蒸日上，其连锁店已达4150家，遍布全球。2001年度公司收入达2189亿美元，超越美国石油巨头埃克森公司，跃升“全球500强”第一位。这的确是一个非凡的奇迹，因为在1995年之前，世界500强里根本没有服务业公司的影子。而据英美媒体公布的2001 年全球大富豪排行榜，经营沃尔玛公司的沃尔顿家族以超出650亿美元的身价名列全球富豪的榜首。 像许多美国著名的企业家一样，沃尔玛公司创始人萨姆·活尔顿是白手起家的典范。本书以独特的生动笔触介绍了沃尔玛百华公司创始人萨姆·沃尔顿传奇的一生。萨姆·沃尔顿出身贫寒之家，在他求学期间，学费与生活费用大部分全靠自己打工筹措。1945年退伍后，他从小市镇本顿维尔经营零售业开始，展开其创业生涯。经过几十年锲而不舍的奋斗，他终于建立起全球最大的零售业王国——沃尔玛百货公司。萨姆·沃尔顿被1985年10月出版的《福布斯》杂志列为全美第一富豪。 那么，在这40年的时间内，沃尔顿家族从美国经济并不发达的阿肯色州小城镇本顿维尔的一家廉价商店发展成销售量最高居全球首位的零售帝国，究竟是靠怎样的生意经获得如此成功的？ 一个重要因素是利用创新，牢牢把握生产率优势。沃尔玛的许多创新（如条形码、无线扫描枪、计算机跟踪存货等），不论大小，如今均已成为行业标准。 沃尔玛公司成功的另一个重要因素是顾客至上的服务原则。“要做得比顾客所期望的更好”，这是萨姆·沃尔顿总结的沃尔玛十大经营规则之一。这或许正是沃尔玛能在今天赢得全世界客户信赖的奥秘所在。 沃尔玛公司以人为本的管理理念，以及由此形成的强大凝聚力也是其成功的保障之一。在公司的用语中，员工不被称为员工，而被称为合伙人。公司给予员工分离企业经营信息的权利和共同承担企业经营的责任。 如今，沃尔玛公司这一全球零售业的超级巨人已经在中国扎根落户，对于我国零售业，乃至其他行业来说，这既是一个重大的挑战，也更是一个难得的学习机遇。 本书叙述生动，内容动人，尤其是萨姆·沃尔顿的创业精神和沃尔玛的经营经验和管理方法（特点是十大经营规则）值得广大企业领导人借鉴。

A Bend in the Road tells the story of Miles Ryan and Sarah Andrews. It is written in both first and third-person, the primary third-person narrative emphasis is equally split between Miles's and Sarah's stories. The first person narrator remains unknown through the majority of the novel; however, the first person narrator is somehow stated in the story to be the one who was the driver who killed Miles' wife, Missy Ryan. The majority of the story takes place in 1988. Miles Ryan, a deputy sheriff in the North Carolina town of New Bern, loses his wife Missy in a hit-and-run accident. He wants to bring the driver that killed his wife to justice. Miles meets his son's teacher Sarah Andrews, who moved to his town from Baltimore after a difficult divorce. Drawn together by Jonah's school troubles, the two start to date and eventually fall in love. The most significant date is when they go on the town's Ghost Walk and listen to a ghost story about a couple who lived in war times. The couple were forbidden to see each other, however, they communicated through the use of candles, which signified that they missed and loved each other. The man is killed by an order of the girl's father, sending the girl into depression. The night before, he had sent her a letter, asking her to marry him. Her response would be two candles for yes or one candle for no. She lights two candles and commits suicide over grief of her lost love. Everything is going perfect between the two. Miles and Jonah meets Sarah's entire family and is somewhat sure of his future with her.

The shortest and probably earliest of Shakespeare's comedies, The Comedy of Errors is the story of identical twin brothers who are raised apart-and then mistaken for each other.

There was a ripple of chimes through the frosty air as Catherine Murchison turned from King’s Walk into Lombard Street, and saw the moon shining white and clear between the black parapets and chimney-stacks of the old houses. St. Antonia’s steeple was giving the hour of three, and a babel of lesser tongues answered from the silence of the sleeping town. Hoar-frost glittered on the cypresses that stood in a garden bounding the road, and the roofs were like silver under the hard, moonlit sky.