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在19世纪的纽约，成功的标志就是在华盛顿广场拥有一幢自己的房屋，奥斯汀·斯洛珀医生就是一个成功的人。他生活时尚，为人风趣，又聪明机智，很招人喜爱。这些特点在他女儿凯瑟琳身上却一个也看不到。她是一个善良单纯的姑娘，热爱并崇拜自己的父亲，一心一意想讨他的欢心，却令他非常失望。斯洛珀医生从不指望凯瑟琳身上会发生什么有趣或令人激动的事情。但是华盛顿广场的生活最终却变得很不平静。这里发生了一段罗曼史，一个相貌英俊的年轻人来到这里追求凯瑟琳。凯瑟琳的姑姑，头脑简单的彭尼曼夫人着实为此感到高兴；她觉得莫里斯·汤森非常迷人，凯瑟琳当然也是这么认为的。可是，斯洛珀医生对年轻的汤森先生却有着截然不同的看法。医生很有钱，也知道自己死后凯瑟琳会继承一笔每年3万美元的遗产。他想知道这样一个英俊潇洒的年轻人为什么会追求他那毫无趣致的女儿？

Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen (French: Cinq semaines en ballon) is an adventure novel by Jules Verne. It is the first Verne novel in which he perfected the "ingredients" of his later work, skillfully mixing a plot full of adventure and twists that hold the reader's interest with passages of technical, geographic, and historic description. The book gives readers a glimpse of the exploration of Africa, which was still not completely known to Europeans of the time, with explorers traveling all over the continent in search of its secrets. Public interest in fanciful tales of African exploration was at its height, and the book was an instant hit; it made Verne financially independent and got him a contract with Jules Hetzel's publishing house, which put out several dozen more works of his for over forty years afterward.

作者是著名传记作家沃尔特·艾萨克森。该书作者沃尔特·艾萨克森花费两年的时间，与乔布斯四十多次面对面的访谈，并对乔布斯一百多位家庭成员、朋友、竞争对手和同事的采访，写成这本传记。内容简介：1955年2月24日，史蒂夫·乔布斯出生在美国旧金山，生活在美国硅谷附近。邻居都是惠普公司的职员。在这些人的影响下，乔布斯从小迷恋电子学。一个惠普的工程师看他如此痴迷，就推荐他参加惠普公司的“发现者俱乐部“，这是个专门为年轻工程师举办的聚会，每星期二晚上在公司的餐厅中举行。在一次聚会中，乔布斯第一次见到了电脑，他开始对计算机有了一个朦胧的认识。

爱德华深深迷上贝拉，也喜欢上了她身上独特的香味。无奈欢乐时光总是短暂的，在她十八岁生日派对上，贝拉不慎割伤了胳膊，流淌的鲜血勾起了爱德华家人嗜血的本性。为了保护自己心爱的人，爱德华和他的家族离开了福克斯小镇。 爱德华走后，贝拉的世界彻底坍塌了，她开始尝试各种冒险的行径，因为她发现，只要她一做危险的事情，爱德华的声音就会出现在她的脑海里。贝拉自虐式的疯狂举动并没有让爱德华回心转意，这时，年少不羁的雅各布出现在她苍白的世界里，他虽知贝拉心中另有他人，还是深情地陪伴、保护着她。一个是坚如磐石的冰冷异类，一个是热情似火的炙热狼人，贝拉将如何抉择……爱德华误认为贝拉已跳海身亡，承受不了如此突如其来的巨大打击，他决定将一切作一个了断。暮色渐渐隐退，等待他们的是天边昭示着最漆黑的夜的一弯新月，贝拉和爱德华会坠入这万劫不复的黑暗世界吗？他们能够在生命终点前抢回比自己还珍贵的对方，一起拯救这世间最令人心动的爱情吗？

Botchan, like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or The Catcher in the Rye, is a classic of its kind, a sly, funny, poignant tale about a young mans rebellion against the system. Since its original publication 100 years ago, it has enjoyed a timeless popularity among Japanese readers both young and old, making it, according to Donald Keene, probably the most widely read novel in modern Japan. The setting is Japan's deep south, where the author himself spent four years teaching English in a middle school. Into this conservative world, with its social proprieties and established pecking order, breezes Botchan, down from the big city, with scant respect for either his elders or his noisy young charges; and the result is a chain of collisions large and small. Most of the story seems to occur in summer, against the drone of cicadas and the sting of mosquitoes. And in every way this is a summer book--light, sunny, and fun to read. Here, in a lively new translation much better suited to the American reader, Botchan should continue to entertain even those who have never been near the sunlit island on which these calamitous episodes take place.

《深渊居民》（ThePeopleoftheAbyss，1903）是杰克·伦敦描写1902年伦敦东区人民生活的一部著作。其内容都是他自己的亲身体验，数月里他一直呆在该地区的济贫院甚至露宿街头以体验生活。当时伦敦大约有50万有类似遭遇的人们。

EVERY art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit,  is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has  rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. But a  certain difference is found among ends; some are activities, others  are products apart from the activities that produce them.

这将是你遇见的前所未有的难读之书。此言貌似批评，实则褒扬，作者埃舍天赋过人，将一起自杀事件引起的痛苦余波刻画得丝丝入扣，哀婉动人。悬疑迭起，又伤到极致，更犹如一场虔敬回溯过往的仪式。内容简介：嗨，我是汉娜·贝克。接下来，我将告诉你，我所经历过的一切。如果你也听到了录音带，那么，你就是我结束生命的理由之一。名单上的某些人，或许你们根本不觉得自己做错了什么，因为你永远不知道，自己对别人做的事，将如何影响他的一生……中学生汉娜过世后，留下七盒磁带。分别寄给十三个同学，在录音中，她一一追诉往事，发出质询……随着一盒又一盒磁带的揭示，在悬念丛生中，反思了中学阶段时人文教育的缺失，发人深思。

魔鬼党是一个世界性的恐怖组织，专门从事毒品、抢劫、勒索等国际性案件。某日，魔鬼党拦截了美国运往英国的两枚原子弹，并向英国首相勒索1亿英镑，否则将于七天内炸毁英国各大城市。英方情急之下，派遣007前往魔鬼党总部，并同杜明娜内应终于拆除核弹引线，阻止了大灾难的发生。