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When Rosalind is banished by her uncle, who has usurped her father's throne, she flees to the forest of Arden where her exiled father holds court. There, dressed as a boy to avoid discovery, she encounters the man she loves - now a fellow exile - and resolves to remain in disguise to test his feelings for her. A gloriously sunny comedy, "As You Like It" is an exuberant combination of concealed identities and verbal jousting, reconciliations and multiple weddings.

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The author of Damaged tells the story of the Dawn, a sweet and seemingly well-balanced girl whose outward appearance masks a traumatic childhood of suffering at the hands of the very people who should have cared for her. Dawn was the first girl Cathy Glass ever fostered. Sweet and seemingly well balanced girl, Dawn's outward appearance masked a traumatic childhood so awful, that even she could not remember it. During the first night, Cathy awoke to see Dawn looming above Cathy's baby's cot, her eyes staring and blank. She sleepwalks—which Cathy learns is often a manifestation in disturbed children. It becomes a regular and frightening occurrence, and Cathy is horrified to find Dawn lighting a match while mumbling it's not my fault in her sleep one night. Cathy discovers Dawn is playing truant from school, and struggling to make friends. More worryingly she finds her room empty one night, and her pillow covered in blood. Dawn has been self-harming in order to release the pain of her past. When Dawn attempts

The recent Strigoi attack at St. Vladimir’s Academy was the deadliest ever in the school’s history, claiming the lives of Moroi students, teachers, and guardians alike. Even worse, the Strigoi took some of their victims with them . . . including Dimitri. He’d rather die than be one of them, and now Rose must abandon her best friend, Lissa—the one she has sworn to protect no matter what—and keep the promise Dimitri begged her to make long ago. But with everything at stake, how can she possibly destroy the person she loves most?

When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty fa?ade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…. Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town’s council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations? Blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling’s first novel for adults. 英国作家、“哈利·波特之母”J.K.罗琳第一本为成人创作的小说《偶发空缺》将于9月27日在全球发售。这部黑色幽默小说的将背景设在一座看似诗情画意实则暗藏争斗的英国小镇，它讲述了

For every young Chinese woman in 1930s Shanghai, following thepath of duty takes precedence over personal desires For Feng, that means becoming the bride of a wealthy businessmanin a marriage arranged by her parents. In the enclosed world of theSang household—a place of public ceremony and privatecruelty—fulfilling her duty means bearing a male heir. The life that has been forced on her makes Feng bitter andresentful, and she plots a terrible revenge. But with the passingyears comes a reckoning, and Feng must reconcile herself with thesacrifices and terrible choices she has made in order to assure herplace in the family and society—even as the violent, relentlesstide of revolution engulfs her country. Both a sweeping historical novel and an intimate portrait of onewoman’s struggle against tradition, All the Flowers in Shanghaimarks the debut of a sensitive and revelatory writer. Show More Show Less

Thisisarecordingof"TheLittlePrincess",byFrancesHodgsonBurnett,andisoneinaseriesofchildren'sclassicsselectedinconjunctionwith"SHE"magazine. --Thistextreferstoanoutofprintorunavailableeditionofthistitle.

Sheldon's sweeping saga of greed and betrayal, sabotage and danger, and the ties that can kill... Roffe and Sons is a family firm, an international empire filled with desperate, cash-hungry family members. At its head was one of the wealthiest men in the world, a man who has just died in a mysterious accident and left his only daughter, Elizabeth, in control of the company. Now as this intelligent, tough, and beautiful young woman dares to save -- not sell -- Roffe and Sons, she will have to outwit those who secretly want her power, and the unknown assassin who wants her life.

It’s1988andDexterMayhewandEmmaMorleyhaveonlyjustmet.Butafteronlyonedaytogether,theycannotstopthinkingaboutoneanother.Overtwentyyears,snapshotsofthatrelationshiparerevealedonthesameday—July15th—ofeachyear.DexandEmfacesquabblesandfights,hopesandmissedopportunities,laughterandtears.Andasthetruemeaningofthisonecrucialdayisrevealed,theymustcometogripswiththenatureofloveandlifeitself. 出身平凡的爱玛与俊美自恋的花花公子德克斯特原本像两道平行线，不会有任何交集。大学毕业前夕的一天，两人短暂邂逅，称不上甜蜜，却深深印入彼此心中柔软的部分。此后每年同一天，伦敦、罗马、巴黎、爱丁堡，时空变换，他们焦灼、倾诉、挂念、幻想、安慰、伤害，总是在需要彼此的时刻，一再错过。二十年追逐的尽头，是甘美的琼浆，还是苦涩的酸汁？如果早点懂得，幸福会不会更久一些？

Two minutes it says to wait, two minutes and bam！Your life changed forever. Imagine that. No God, on second thoughts, let's not. Let's just calm down, breathe deeply and concentrate. I take off my watch. It's one of those underwater sports ones. Great for boiling eggs and ideal for timing how long my mother can monologue on the phone whilst I am doing something else.