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The Three Eyes
Maurice Leblanc 试读
Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsene Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes.
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The Island of Doctor Moreau
赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯 试读
Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo: a menagerie of savage animals. Tended to recovery by their keeper Montgomery, who gives him dark medicine that tastes of blood, Prendick soon finds himself stranded upon an uncharted island in the Pacific with his rescuer and the beasts.Here, he meets Montgomery's master, the sinister Dr. Moreau a brilliant scientist whose notorious experiments in vivisection have caused him to abandon the civilised world. It soon becomes clear he has been developing these experiments with truly horrific results.
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Glenloch Girls
Grace M. Remick 试读
You haven’t lost all your money, have you? That would be so romantic and interesting. I think I should go out as a cook, and perhaps you could get a place as butler in the same house.
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Happiness and Marriage
Elizabeth Towne 试读
Elizabeth Towne was one of the most important figures in the New Thought movement. In this book she gives her views of how to have a happy marriage. This book is full of wisdom that any one looking to get married or stay married will appreciate. Chapters include To Be Happy Though Married, To Be Loved, Marriage Contracts, Some Hints and a Kick, The Heart of Woman, The Law of Individuality, Harmony at Home, The Truth about Divorce.
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Lady Mary and her Nurse
Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 试读
The nurse smiled, and said, "It is not a fish at all, my dear;it is a dried beaver's tail. I brought it from the back lakes whenI was at home, that you might see it. See, my lady, how curiouslythe beaver's tail is covered with scales; it looks like some sortof black leather, stamped in a diaper pattern. Before it is dried,it is very heavy, weighing three or four pounds. I have heard mybrothers and some of the Indian trappers say, that the animal makesuse of its tail to beat the sides of the dams and smoothe the mudand clay, as a plasterer uses a trowel.
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Mrs. Warrens Profession
George Bernard Shaw 试读
Written in 1893, Mrs. Warren's Profession skewers the hypocrisy of British society. The wealthy, respectable title character's "profession" is the world's oldest, but Mrs. Warren is unprepared for the reaction of her daughter Vivie when she discovers her mother's occupation. Shaw brings new life to the woman-with-a-past theme with wit and a defense of his heroine.
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The Black Tulip
Alexandre Dumas 试读
A deceptively simple story and the shortest of Dumas's most famous novels, The Black Tulip (1850) weaves historical events surrounding a brutal murder into a tale of romantic love. Set in Holland in 1672, this timeless political allegory draws on the violence and crimes of history, making a case against tyranny and creating a symbol of justice and tolerance: the fateful tulipa negra.
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Romola
Edward Dicey 试读
George Eliot, the pen named used by Mary Anne Evans, wrote popular works that mirrored the settings and ideology of contemporary Victorian England. She was brought up in the Church of England, where she developed strong moral convictions that carried over into her fiction. During a visit to Florence in 1860 it was suggested to Eliot that the historical Fra Girolamo Savonarola would make a good subject for a novel, so Eliot spent her visit, and many months after, exhaustively researching Florentine history and culture. Her effort is undeniably evident within the pages of "Romola," however Eliot has been criticized for using a 15th Century setting to deal with the 19th Century issues of Victorian England. Romola is the female protagonist through which the story is rendered; her intellectual and religious growth, often painful, reflects the religious and cultural transitions of the Italian Renaissance in Florence.
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The Actress Daughter A Novel
May Agnes Fleming 试读
or! Lor! what a night it is any way. Since I was first born, and that's thirty-five—no, forty-five years come next June, I never heern sich win' as that there, fit to tear the roof off! Well, this is Christmas Eve, and we ginerally do hev a spell o' weather 'bout this time. Here you Fly! Fly!(This paragraph from the first chapter)
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Vanguards of the Plains A Romance of the Old Santa Fe Trail
Margaret Hill McCarter 试读
This story of the old Santa Fé Trail would do honor to the memory of those stalwart men who defied the desert, who walked the prairies boldly, and who died bravely--vanguards in the building of a firm highway for the commerce of a westward-moving Empire.
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Criticism and Fiction
William Dean Howells 试读
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885 novel The Rise of Silas Lapham is perhaps his best known, describing the rise and fall of an American entrepreneur in the paint business. His social views were also strongly reflected in the novels Annie Kilburn (1888) and A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890). While known primarily as a novelist, his short story "Editha" (1905) - included in the collection Between the Dark and the Daylight (1907) - appears in many anthologies of American literature. Howells also wrote plays, criticism, and essays about contemporary literary figures such as Ibsen, Zola, Verga, and, especially, Tolstoy, which helped establish their reputations in the United States. He also wrote critically in support of many American writers. It is perhaps in this role that he had his greatest influence.
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A Daughter of the Snows
Jack London 试读
"A Daughter of the Snows" by Jack London is the story about a rebellious girl who is not afraid to challenge a traditional society where females are expected to be obedient.
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A Fairy Tale in Two Acts Taken from Shakespeare(1763)
William Shakespeare 试读
Quince, a Carpenter, Mr. Love.Bottom, the Weaver, Mr. Baddely.Snug, the Joiner, Mr. Clough.Flute, the Bellows-mender, Mr. Castle.Snout, the Tinker, Mr. Ackman.Starveling, the Taylor, Mr. Parsons.(This paragraph from the first chapter)
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A Hoosier Chronicle
Meredith Nicholson 试读
Meredith Nicholson (1866-1947) was a best-selling Indiana author, and later a politician. Three of his books were yearly national best sellers: "The House of a Thousand Candles," "The Port of Missing Men," and "A Hoosier Chronicle."
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A Prisoner in Fairyland
Algernon Blackwood 试读
Minks—Herbert Montmorency—was now something more than secretary, even than private secretary: he was confidential-private-secretary, adviser, friend; and this, more because he was a safe receptacle for his employer's enthusiasms than because his advice or judgment had any exceptional value. So many men need an audience. Herbert Minks was a fine audience, attentive, delicately responsive, sympathetic, understanding, and above all—silent. He did not leak. Also, his applause was wise without being noisy. Another rare quality he possessed was that he was honest as the sun. To prevaricate, even by gesture, or by saying nothing, which is the commonest form of untruth, was impossible to his transparent nature. He might hedge, but he could never lie. And he was 'friend,' so far as this was possible between employer and employed, because a pleasant relationship of years' standing had established a bond of mutual respect under conditions of business intimacy which often tend to destroy it.
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The Penalty
Gouverneur Morris 试读
If I should lose from my life that part of it of which you are a part, there would be but a skeleton left. Yet if you had played a larger part in my life I should have been so spoiled that there would be no living with me. And I'm spoiled enough, God knows!
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Jessamine A Novel
Marion Harland 试读
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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Harry Potter: A Journey Through A History of Magic[
British Library 试读
The perfect gift for aspiring witches and wizards and any Harry Potter fan. Celebrating twenty years of Harry Potter magic, and produced in association with the British Library to support their major exhibition, Harry Potter: A History of Magic.
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Far from the Madding Crowd远离尘嚣(英文原版)
托马斯·哈代 试读
美丽、高傲的芭丝谢芭来到威瑟伯里继承她叔叔的农场。忠诚能干的盖伯瑞尔.奥克对她一见钟情,但遭到了拒绝。家境殷实的农场主伯德伍德因为一次误会不断地向芭思希芭求爱。而芭思希芭却与英俊的中上特洛伊结了婚。然而,浪漫的爱情到结婚后便告终结。几番风波之后,伯德伍德开枪打死了特洛伊,自己则向警方自首。失去了丈夫的芭丝谢芭同时又面临着失去农场的可能。这时盖伯瑞尔.奥克来到她的身边,给故事一个皆大欢喜的结局。
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Reality Is Broken
Jane McGonigal 试读
In this groundbreaking book, she shows how we can leverage the power of games to fix what is wrong with the real world-from social problems like depression and obesity to global issues like poverty and climate change-and introduces us to cutting-edge games that are already changing the business, education, and nonprofit worlds. Written for gamers and non-gamers alike, Reality Is Broken shows that the future will belong to those who can understand, design, and play games.
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WATER VILLAGE(漫水--英文版)
王跃文 试读
The book is a collection of six novellas by Wang Yuewen which revolves around the theme of rural life. Water Village creates a utopia—the kind of classic village scene that was often evoked in Classical Chinese pastoral poetry. In this utopia live two lifelong friends—the wise and beautiful Grandma Hui, as generous as she is kind; and her close friend, the fair and tough Grandpa Yu, upstanding pillar of local society.
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英国金融时报原文阅读精选集(套1+套2+套3 共30册)
英国《金融时报》 试读
编者按:本套系所选的全部文章,均来自英国《金融时报》的原文,是一套针对英语考试阅读部分进行提高训练的书。众所周知,英国《金融时报》的文章,经常出现在各类英语考试的阅读类题目中,题材多为西方国家广泛关注的话题。本套系文章涵盖经济、环境、社会生活、文化教育、科技等话题,帮助读者全面提升阅读能力、阅读速读、语感。本套系的2大特点:1. 每篇原文后,有4道单选题,并提供答案解析,帮助您提升阅读理解水平;2. 每篇文章都提供,阅读速读对比表,读者可根据自己的阅读时间,了解自己的阅读速读水平。
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“活在当下”指南
萨姆·哈里斯 试读
在《“活在当下”指南》中,国际当红学者萨姆·哈里斯一针见血地指出,趋乐避苦是人类的本能,而快乐本质上稍纵即逝,所以人们天生受困于循环往复的追求,不少人甚至终其一生都在这无形的牢笼中度过。要打破与生俱来的困境,成为自己人生的主人,就一定要升级心智模式,摆脱原始状态。如何做到这一点?身为哲学神经学双料博士的哈里斯独辟蹊径。书中,他将经典的哲学理论、前沿的科学发现、丰富的切身体验巧妙结合,理性睿智、亦庄亦谐地引导读者探寻关乎个体存在之根本的三大问题——意识是什么,自我究竟为何物,以及人生应该以什么为重要追求,从而一步步瓦解顽固的“常识性”认知,实现心智的提升,收获自在的高层级人生。
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A New Earth
Eckhart Tolle 试读
In A New Earth, Tolle expands on these powerful ideas to show how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness, but also the key to ending conflict and suffering throughout the world. Tolle describes how our attachment to the ego creates the dysfunction that leads to anger, jealousy, and unhappiness, and shows readers how to awaken to a new state of consciousness and follow the path to a truly fulfilling existence.
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Normal People
Sally Rooney 试读
Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation - awkward but electrifying - something life-changing begins.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon 试读
The novel is narrated in the first-person perspective by Christopher John Francis Boone, a 15-year-old boy who describes himself as “a mathematician with some behavioural difficulties” living in Swindon, Wiltshire.
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The Surrender Experiment
Michael A. Singer 试读
A thriving spiritual community on over six hundred acres of pristine forest and meadows in Florida, a cutting-edge software package that transformed the medical practice management industry, a billion-dollar public company whose achievements are archived in the Smithsonian Institution, a book that became a New York Times bestseller and an Oprah favorite, and a massive raid by the FBI that would lead to unfounded accusations by the U.S. government.
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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
比尔·盖茨 试读
plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide to certain environmental disaster.
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Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe 试读
This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history.
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The Annotated Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov 试读
The annotated text of this modern classic. It assiduously illuminates the extravagant wordplay and the frequent literary allusions, parodies, and cross-references. Edited with a preface, introduction and notes by Alfred Appel, Jr.
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Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Gilbert 试读
NATIONAL BESTSELLER; Bringing to life scientific research in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, philosophy, and behavioral economics, this witty, accessible book reveals what scientists have discovered about the uniquely human ability to imagine the future, and about our capacity to predict how much we will like it when we get there.
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Feeling Good Together
David D. Burns 试读
We all have someone we can’t get along with—whether it’s a friend or colleague who complains constantly; a relentlessly critical boss; an obnoxious neighbor; a teenager who pouts and slams doors, all the while insisting she’s not upset; or a loving, but irritating spouse. In Feeling Good Together, Dr. David Burns presents Cognitive Interpersonal Therapy, a radical new approach that will help you transform troubled, conflicted relationships into successful, happy ones.
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Emotional First Aid
Guy Winch, Ph.D. 试读
We all sustain emotional wounds. Failure, guilt, rejection, and loss are as much a part of life as the occasional scraped elbow. But while we typically bandage a cut or ice a sprained ankle, our first aid kit for emotional injuries is not just understocked it's nonexistent. Fortunately, there is such a thing as mental first aid for battered emotions. Drawing on the latest scientific research and using real-life examples, practicing psychologist Guy Winch, Ph.D. offers specific step-by-step treat
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The Road to Reality
Roger Penrose 试读
From the very first attempts by the Greeks to grapple with the complexities of our known world to the latest application of infinity in physics, The Road to Reality carefully explores the movement of the smallest atomic particles and reaches into the vastness of intergalactic space.
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Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson 试读
Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn’t commit.
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The Music Lesson
Victor L. Wooten 试读
The Music Lesson is the story of a struggling young musician who wanted music to be his life, and who wanted his life to be great. Then, from nowhere it seemed, a teacher arrived. Part musical genius, part philosopher, part eccentric wise man, the teacher would guide the young musician on a spiritual journey, and teach him that the gifts we get from music mirror those from life, and every movement, phrase, and chord has its own meaning...All you have to do is find the song inside.
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This Is My Life
Meg Wolitzer 试读
The third book by New York Times-bestselling author Meg Wolitzer (originally published as This Is Your Life), a smart, witty and perceptive novel about the daughters of a female stand-up comic who watch as their mother struggles to balance her career with the needs of her children.
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Travels with Charley in Search of America
John Steinbeck 试读
To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the trees, to see the colors and the light—these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years.
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The Help
Kathryn Stockett 试读
Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who’s always taken orders quietly, but lately she’s unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She’s full of ambition, but without a husband, she’s considered a failure.
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An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Hank Green 试读
Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship—like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor—April and her best friend, Andy, make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next day, April wakes up to a viral video and a new life.
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福尔摩斯探案全集之巴斯克维尔的猎犬(英文)
阿瑟·柯南·道尔 试读
《福尔摩斯探案全集之巴斯克维尔的猎犬》是英国推理小说家阿瑟·柯南·道尔创作的中篇小说,故事发生地点为英国西南部德文郡的达特穆尔。作品讲述了一桩困扰巴斯克维尔庄园一百多年的疑案,福尔摩斯和华生负责调查此案。所有人都以为罪魁祸首是传说中的可怕巨兽,但福尔摩斯经过严谨思考和科学处理,找到案件的突破口,打破巴斯克维尔家族代代相传的诅咒。
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One of Us Is Lying
Karen M. McManus 试读
The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars, One of Us Is Lying is the story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive. Everyone is a suspect, and everyone has something to hide.
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The Rainbow 虹(英文版)
D·H·劳伦斯 试读
《虹》是英国作家D·H·劳伦斯创作的长篇小说。《虹》通过一家三代人的遭遇,描述了工业革命给传统的乡村带来的巨大变化,同时以巨大的热情和深度,探索有关性的心理问题。 第一代人的生活带有田园诗的色彩,同时也预示古老文明即将结束。第二代人精神的苦闷和呆滞的目光,是令人窒息的工业化社会的最好注解。第三代人的探索具有积极的社会意义,表达了人们要冲破狭窄的生活圈子,渴望一种自然和谐的生活。
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Light in August 八月之光(英文版)
威廉·福克纳 试读
《八月之光》是美国作家威廉·福克纳创作的长篇小说,也是其代表作之一。在作家营造的“约克纳帕塔法世系”中占有重要位置。小说通过杰弗生镇十天的社会生活的描述,揭示了几个主要人特的一生及其三代家史,体现了人类“心灵深处的亘古至今的真实情感、爱情、同情,自豪、怜悯之心和牺牲精神”,表明了作家反对种族偏见和宗教偏见的态度。
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Kim 基姆(英文版)
鲁德亚德·吉卜林 试读
在这部小说中,吉卜林借由基姆这个人物写出了自己对于大英帝国与印度之间的矛盾情感。基姆是印度教圣人的门徒,同时又是英国政府的间谍。他既是土著,又是殖民者;他是爱尔兰人、英格兰人、同时也是印度人。他的身份不断变换。通过刻画人世的无常和基姆多变的性格,吉卜林鲜明地描绘出了大英帝国和印度之间历史文化与政治信仰交缠的复杂性。此电子书版本为全英文版。
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison 试读
He describes growing up in a Black community in the South, attending a Negro college from which he is expelled, moving to New York and becoming the chief spokesman of the Harlem branch of "the Brotherhood," before retreating amid violence and confusion.
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Project Hail Mary
安迪·威尔 试读
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science—in development as a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling.
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Armada
Ernest Cline 试读
Zack Lightman has never much cared for reality. He vastly prefers the countless science-fiction movies, books, and videogames he's spent his life consuming. And too often, he catches himself wishing that some fantastic, impossible, world-altering event could arrive to whisk him off on a grand spacefaring adventure.
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy 试读
“The greatest of all novelists...what else can we call the author of War and Peace?” asked Virginia Woolf rhetorically—and literary luminaries the world over have agreed with her. The saga stands alone in its vast scope and minute detail, its immense diversity and final unity.
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The Birth of Classical Europe
Simon Price 试读
The influence of ancient Greece and Rome can be seen in every aspect of our lives. From calendars to democracy to the very languages we speak, Western civilization owes a debt to these classical societies. Yet the Greeks and Romans did not emerge fully formed; their culture grew from an active engagement with a deeper past, drawing on ancient myths and figures to shape vibrant civilizations.
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迪士尼英文原版·小美人鱼 The Little Mermaid
青橙英语 试读
本书为2023年迪士尼真人电影《小美人鱼 The Little Mermaid》同名英文小说,故事主人公爱丽儿是一条坚强有主见的小美人鱼,她对海洋以外的世界充满了好奇。当她遇见陆地上的英俊王子后,内心充满了激动。在红蟹赛巴斯丁、比目鱼小胖这些朋友的帮助之下,爱丽儿勇敢冲出海底世界,战胜魔咒,终于追寻到自己想拥有的感情。
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High School Biology Unlocked
The Princeton Review 试读
High School Biology Unlocked focuses on giving you a wide range of lessons to help increase your understanding of biology. With this book, you'll move from foundational concepts to a look at the way biology affects your life every day. End-of-chapter drills will help test your comprehension of each facet of biology, from molecules to mammals. Don't feel locked out!
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The Cay
Theodore Taylor 试读
Phillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Curaçao. War has always been a game to him, and he’s eager to glimpse it firsthand–until the freighter he and his mother are traveling to the United States on is torpedoed. When Phillip comes to, he is on a small raft in the middle of the sea. Besides Stew Cat, his only companion is an old West Indian, Timothy. Phillip remembers his mother’s warning about black people: “They are different, and they live differently.”
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1491 (Second Edition)
Charles C. Mann 试读
Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus' landing had crossed the Bering Strait 12,000 years ago; existed mainly in small nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas were, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness.
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What to Say Next
Julie Buxbaum 试读
From the New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things comes a story about two struggling teenagers who find an unexpected connection just when they need it most. Nicola Yoon, the bestselling author of Everything, Everything, calls it "charming, funny, and deeply affecting."
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Deconstructing Penguins
Lawrence Goldstone 试读
“Books are like puzzles,” write Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone. “The author’s ideas are hidden, and it is up to all of us to figure them out.” In this indispensable reading companion, the Goldstones–noted parent-child book club experts–encourage grownups and young readers alike to adopt an approach that will unlock the magic and power of reading.