Before He Feels (A Mackenzie White Mystery—Book 6)

The Masque of the Red Death, originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death", is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842. The story follows the "happy and dauntless and sagacious" Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by hiding in his castellated abbey. He, along with many other wealthy nobles, has a masquerade ball within seven rooms of his abbey, each decorated with a different color. In the midst of their revelry, a mysterious figure enters and makes his way through each of the rooms. When Prospero confronts this stranger, he falls dead. The story follows many traditions of Gothic fiction and is often analyzed as an allegory about the inevitability of death, though some critics advise against an allegorical reading. Many different interpretations have been presented, as well as attempts to identify the true nature of the disease of the "Red Death."

Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens, published in 1848. Its full title is Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation. The story concerns of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall, showcases the author's gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. As Jonathan Lethem contends in his Introduction, Dickens's "genius … is at one with the genius of the form of the novel itself: Dickens willed into existence the most capacious and elastic and versatile kind of novel that could be, one big enough for his vast sentimental yearnings and for every impulse and fear and hesitation in him that countervailed those yearnings too. Never parsimonious and frequently contradictory, he always gives us everything he can, everything he's planned to give, and then more."

Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne. The Bront? siblings find escape from their constrained lives via their rich imaginations. The glittering world of Verdopolis and the romantic and melancholy world of Gondal literally come to life under their pens, offering the sort of romance and intrigue missing from their isolated parsonage home. But at what price? As Branwell begins to slip into madness and the sisters feel their real lives slipping away, they must weigh the cost of their powerful imaginations, even as the characters they have created—the brooding Rogue and dashing Duke of Zamorna—refuse to let them go. Gorgeously written and based on the Bront?s'juvenilia, Worlds of Ink and Shadow brings to life one of history's most celebrated literary families in a thrilling, suspenseful fantasy.

Government mathematician Chris Barton lives a routine life—until, at the end of an ordinary workday, he finds his car missing from the employee parking lot. When he finally arrives home, there is a stranger living in his house—a man who claims to be him. Thrust suddenly into a surreal world where the evidence of his senses cannot be trusted and strangers are trying to kill him, Chris must avoid violent assassins while following a trail of cryptic clues to regain his life.

我叶锦一，被别人贴上了优秀少年的标签，从没打过架，学校里老师都喜欢我，吃饭也从不挑食。是！即便是这样的我，也能分辨出那些令人作呕的邪恶！所谓邪恶，就是你这样为了自己而利用弱者并践踏他们的家伙！你这样的家伙…就由我来制裁！

触动全球亿万读者的热销小说、布克奖入围作品《一个人的朝圣》相伴之作。在《一个人的朝圣》里，65岁的哈罗德，87天行走627英里，只为了一个信念：只要他在走，奎妮就会活下来。这是故事的另一面，这是奎妮，这里有一个埋藏了20年的秘密，有生命中无数的微小瞬间，有温暖的大手，坐在车里的对话，海上的花园。如何处理痛苦，如何爱，如何休息和放松，如何相处，“因为同一样东西发笑也可以是另一种在一起的方式”。当哈罗德开始旅程的同时，奎妮的旅程也开始了。他们因此各自变得完整。“跟哈罗德一样，奎妮有其阳光和黑暗的一面，但当故事结束，合上书本，作者巧妙地让黑暗消失了，挥之不去的是奎妮坚定的爱的光芒。”没错，奎妮的情歌是来帮助我们的。

小说，最先是一段武侠。然后，随着主人公强大一定程度后，接触到修炼。他不断唤醒自己前世记忆与能力并继承。最后，成为战神级别人物，解救众生于战乱中，重建安定的世界。小说，有三大看点，分别是：守护、强心、爱情。8年前，小说就有了构思，就开始写作。小说是我人生与心灵旅程的一种诠释。主要以强大自己的内心为主。也是我精神财富的一种分享。希望各位看官，把技能，力量，等等一些身外之物，都看淡些，去仔细品味，小说中的三大看点。因为，身外之物，你是带不走的，只有你的心强了，才是所得。希望各位有缘的朋友，看了此小说后，能让自己的内心强大起来。树立正确的人生观，价值观，爱情观，将来做一个有责任心，有大爱的人。

宣统三年十二月二十五日，也就是史称民国元年的1912年2月12日，北京城的天气异常寒冷。午后时分，雪花开始从阴云四合的半空飘落下来。身穿了素缎箭衣外加库灰马褂、头戴如同斗笠那般的金顶无眼花翎暖纬帽的贺墩敏连跑带颠地来到六爷纳巴赫宅门外时，已是气喘吁吁，乃至额头上沁出了细微的汗珠。他抹了一下额头，脚步却迟疑起来。他已经很长时间没到这位和硕亲王后代的三进四合院来了——自打光绪爷被囚禁在瀛台以后，为了避嫌，他就很少和纳巴赫家走动。若不是有天大的事，他也不会贸然来找这位不怎么待见他的爷。

废柴特工领养了亲戚家的孩子，从此开始了不一样的人生……原来谁都不愿领养的孩子是……这是废柴特工和“吃货”女孩的逆袭日常

原来我竟是花界之公主，要嫁给天界二皇子，后遇上大魔之子，生活的虚假被揭开。为爱坠入爱河，无法自拔，来到异世界从新开始。

那天真的很闷热，整个车箱里散发着浓浓的脚臭味和汗臭味。我被那气味熏得晕车。我跟我哥说，我要呕。我哥让我坚持，他说，你再忍忍，快到了，下了车透透气就好了。我说我真的不行，那汽油味我闻不得，还有那刹车时我心就要从心窝子里蹦出来。我哥说，你就想想那梅子的酸味吧，那梅子酸酸的味治晕车。我就想那梅子的味，还真有一股酸水从牙周涌出来。我便把这口水吞下去，把那些差点呕出来的东西也吞了回去。

彼得原理由管理学家劳伦斯·彼得提出：在一个层级组织中，每个职工趋向于上升到他所不能胜任的职位。每一个职工由于在原有职位上工作成绩出色（胜任），就将被提升到更高一级职位；其后，如果继续胜任则将进一步被提升，直至到达他所不能胜任的职位。彼得由此导出的结论是，每一个职位最终都将被一个不能胜任其工作的职工所占据。彼得原理揭开了层级组织和公司中人员任用的弊端和由此引发的一系列隐患，由此可以解释：为什么做领导的不做事，做具体事情的又不是领导？为什么组织中总是存在人浮于事、效率低下的通病？等等。本书以翔实的资料、严谨的论述、犀利的观点对彼得原理进行了系统深入的解读，同时对彼得原理的各种变体、衍生定律以及与彼得原理有内在联系的其他重要定律、法则等也予以收录并进行解析和点评。本书为在不胜任职位上迷茫烦恼的人们开出了获得快乐的处方，为滞留在层级组织底层郁郁不得志的人们指点了顺利晋升的捷径，为高层管理者提供了知人善任、用好人才、管好人才、突破管理瓶颈、大幅提供效率的方法和途径。

本诗集分为三部分：第一部分为普希金传略，介绍普希金的生平事迹；第二部分为普希金的抒情诗，共50首；第三部分为童话故事诗，共5首，都是普希金的名作。本诗集译文准确，图文并茂，别具匠心。

《两个版本》是从豆瓣红人李婧过去三年中创作的诸多文学作品中精挑细选出的18篇文章，包篇短篇小说和叙事散文。其中公开发表的9篇文章中，《顶楼停车场》《邻居》《论一种野蛮生长的能力》《37｜27》等6篇文章登上豆瓣首页。书名《两个版本》，是收录书中之前作者未公开发表的一篇文章的标题。李婧的作品文字质朴，不露声色的叙述下夹杂着聚德金斯的天才构思和青山七惠的清淡细节，情感磅礴而表达节制，生动处通俗风趣，深刻处发人幽思。她笔下的女性独立、睿智、果敢，她们渴望爱情，然而从不将就，一旦发现对方不忠，立刻不再往来。