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Years after the events of Spencer's Mountain, Clay Spencer—Clay-Boy's father—fails to return home on Christmas Eve. Leaving his worried family to keep watch at the homestead, Clay-Boy takes to the snowy Virginia hills in search of his father. Along the way, he meets an irate deer, a threatening county sheriff, a congregation of African-American churchgoers, and two elderly women who happen to be bootleggers. The story of Clay-Boy's search for his father is told with warmth and intensity.Along with its prequel, Spencer's Mountain, The Homecoming was the inspiration for the popular television show The Waltons, which starred Richard Thomas, Andrew Duggan, and Patricia Neal, and ran for nine years between 1972 and 1981. Over fifty years after its publication, this novel still has the power to move and inspire.

Adapted into the classic 1993 film starring Johnny Depp as Gilbert and Leonardo DiCaprio in his Academy Award–nominated role as Arnie, What's Eating Gilbert Grape is the touching and entertaining story of an unusual family that rises up to do the astonishing…Gilbert Grape is a 24-year-old grocery store clerk stuck in Endora, Iowa, where the population is 1,091 and shrinking. After the suicide of Gilbert's father, his family never recovered. Once the town beauty queen, Gilbert's mother is morbidly obese after seven years of house-bound depression; his younger sister is boy-crazy and God-fearing, while his older sister sacrifices everything for her family. And then there's Arnie, Gilbert's younger brother with special needs. With no one else to care for Arnie, Gilbert becomes his brother's main parent, and all four siblings must tend to the needs of their helpless, grieving mother.

For as long as she can remember, Wren Gray's goal has been to please her parents. But as high school graduation nears, so does an uncomfortable realization: Pleasing her parents once overlapped with pleasing herself, but now … not so much. Wren needs to honor her own desires, but how can she if she doesn't even know what they are? Charlie Parker, on the other hand, is painfully aware of his heart's desire. A gentle boy with a troubled past, Charlie has loved Wren since the day he first saw her. But a girl like Wren would never fall for a guy like Charlie—at least not the sort of guy Charlie believes himself to be. And yet certain things are written in the stars. And in the summer after high school, Wren and Charlie’s souls will collide. But souls are complicated, as are the bodies that house them…

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她原本不属于这个世界，也无心闯入他们的世界。他是帝王，他必须守护他的国，但他却一次次以牺牲她为代价，直到最后他看到她望向他时眼神中诉不尽的凄凉，他明白他终会失去她。她，爱他爱得缓缓，终于决定做他的妃子，却换来一声“腰斩”，她知道他明知不是她投的毒，却无法改变他为了权利牺牲她的宿命。而他白衣胜雪是那万人敬仰的仙，因为她的贪玩，修为尽失，她不想欠他，终以牺牲自己助他成为上仙。两年后再相见，她已是南安王妃，爱与恨纠缠，至死方休。

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现代白骨精穿成将门嫡女，虽不能事事如意，却也绝对不惧怕任何挑衅。阴谋诡计，生死博弈，不过是见招拆招。对于自己追求的幸福，谁敢阻拦，谁敢觊觎，别怪她沈玉阑不讲情面，心狠手辣！

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