The Shanghai Factor

In Portland in 1983, girls are disappearing. Noah, a teen punk with a dark past, becomes obsessed with finding out where they've gone —and he's convinced their disappearance has something to do with the creepy German owners of a local brewery, the PfefferBrau Haus. Noah worries about the missing girls as a way of avoiding the fact that something's seriously wrong with his best friend, Evan. Could it be the same dark force that's pulling them all down? When the PfefferBrau Haus opens its doors for a battle of the bands, Noah pulls his band, the Gallivanters, back together in order to get to the bottom of the mystery. But there's a new addition to the band: an enigmatic David Bowie look-alike named Ziggy. And secrets other than where the bodies are buried will be revealed. From Edgar-nominated author M. J. Beaufrand, this is a story that gets to the heart of grief and loss while also being hilarious, fast paced, and heartbreaking.

It was the time of the French Revolution — a time of great change and great pgsk.comy imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille, Dr. Alexandre Manette is reunited with his daughter, Lucie, and safely transported from France to England. It would seem that they could take up the threads of their lives in peace. As fate would have it though, the pair are summoned to the Old Bailey to testify against a young Frenchman — Charles Darnay — falsely accused of treason. Strangely enough, Darnay bears an uncanny resemblance to another man in the courtroom, the dissolute lawyer's clerk Sydney Carton. It is a coincidence that saves Darnay from certain doom more than once. Brilliantly plotted, the novel is rich in drama, romance, and heroics that culminate in a daring prison escape in the shadow of the guillotine.

This volume contains a selection of work from each of Seamus Heaney's published books of poetry up to and including the Whitbread prize-winning collection, "e;The Haw Lantern"e; (1987). 'His is 'close-up' poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse or fiction, can give the sense of rich, fecund, lived life that Heaney does' - John Banville. 'More than any other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world is not outside, but what we are made of' - John Carey.

Sylvia's Lovers is an 1863 novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell. The heroine, Sylvia Robson lives happily with her parents on a farm, and is passionately loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. She, however, falls in love with Charlie Kinraid, a dashing sailor on a whaling vessel, and they become secretly engaged. But Kinraid is forcibly enlisted in the Royal Navy by a press gang. Philip knows pgsk.com of kindness, he does not tell Sylvia of the incident nor deliver her Charlie's parting message. Believing her lover is dead, Sylvia eventually marries Philip. Later, Kinraid reappears, When Sylvia is informed by Kinraid that Philip knew everything, she is pgsk.com leaves her in despair and joins the army under a pseudonym, and ends up fighting in the Napoleonic wars, where he saves Kinraid's life. At last, when Sylvia realizes she is actually in love with Philip, he horribly disfigured by a shipboard explosion, then fatally injured while saving their daughter.

有励志渴望，就实现励志 人生总是充满着无穷的希望与无尽的挑战，有人能够勇于面对挑战、克服困难、为自己开创美好的未来、创造无穷尽的财富而有些人总是沉溺于幻想中，幻想着自己有着好的未来，而不知努力，到头来终是一场空！ 对于聪明人来说，每一天都是一个新的生命。

青涩蜕变，如今她是能独当一面的女boss，爱了冷泽聿七年，也同样花了七年时间去忘记他。以为是陌路，他突然向他表白，扬言要娶她，她只当他是脑子抽风，他的殷勤她也全都无视。他帮她查她父母的死因，赶走身边情敌，解释当初拒绝她的告别，和故意对她冷漠都是无奈之举。突然爆出她父母的死居然和冷家有丝毫联系，还莫名跳出个公爵未婚夫，扬言要与她履行婚约。峰回路转，破镜还能重圆吗？ PS:我又开新文了，每逢假期必书荒，新文《有你的世界遇到爱》，喜欢我的文的朋友可以来看看，这是重生类现言，对这个题材感兴趣的一定要收藏起来。

【火爆玄幻】史上最妖孽天才丹皇叶星辰，被他师父投入炼丹炉炼化，并被他师父夺取了【帝王级】丹火。五百年后，他重生于一名十四岁的少年身上，在机缘巧合之下，觉醒了传说中的【帝尊级】丹火，觉醒双生最强血脉。这一世，他要把失去的一切都夺回来，了断五百年的因果，证道丹武双修的帝尊之路。

每个人都有属于自己的人生，没有人生下来就会是平凡的，没有人比人差，人生在世，做自己便好！生命，有无数种活法别人看着自然自己活得别扭是一种自己活得自然别人看着别扭又是一种在这个世界上过自己喜欢过的日子就是最好的日子活自己喜欢的活法就是最好的活法不羡慕别人，不卑贱自己按自己的天性度完自己的时日就是天堂的日子在人生的道路上，学会享受生命避免拖着生命往前走是人生最好的选择人生没有固定的模式谁如果为了某种目的用某种模式来框定自己他迟早要留下遗憾……少年帝惺出生于一个贫寒家庭，但却依靠自己，走上了成神之路，且看他如何踏碎山海琼瑶……

你用橡胶和熊猫布偶进行结合，得到了一只会打橡胶拳的功夫熊猫你很开心，更好的脑洞让你拿出切肉刀，以及水灵灵的蓝色果冻。于是，一只形似史莱姆的可爱生物，便出现在你的眼前……秩序崩坏，超凡崛起！面对破坏地球文明的神秘生物，人类愤而反击，组建七盟。然而，在一家小小的杂货店当中。萧寥却打开了‘大合成怪物系统’，摸着下巴陷入沉思。“嗯，既然中级分解已经解锁完毕了，那距离合成哥斯拉还会远吗？”————新书起航《我能孕育万物》两书双开，多谢支持~

【这是本游戏文】好吧，我承认，这就是本日常文，挂在游戏区装逼的（狗头保命）。故事讲述的就是江某人的日常生活，很欢快，很有爱。以游戏为主线，但并不是以游戏为全部，来看一下，缓解生活中的不开心吧。【这是在书友的劝诫下改的简介，将就看看，毕竟书还是要以质量见真章的！】

本书从资格培训、职业中介、岗位招聘、签订合同、薪酬福利、管理手段、同事关系、社交应酬、离职跳槽9个环节出发，把隐藏在其中的鲜为人知的职场秘密一一摆到读者面前，并深入剖析其中的奥秘，以期为职场新人提供帮助。

文案~~这是一个很正经的故事，但是被我文案写废了。顾涟幼年相遇一个漂亮小姑娘，慌乱之下相赠项链，这么多年苦苦撑着活下去，你来是为了外公的公司不旁落，二来就是为了找那个姑娘。当那个姑娘再次出现的时候，顾涟有点兴奋，也有一点害怕。但是终究抵不过情深几许，命运相连。可是真正的祸事来临的时候，还是忍不住将她推开，生怕她受到伤害，希望她更加幸福，他知道她身边有更好的。可是……他是一个令她讨厌的上司，一天到晚没有一个表情。但是她却忘记了，往往越是讨厌，到最后反而会转换成爱情。当他以为他们可以执手的时候。却又遇到了冲击。当他们可以相守的时候，差一点经历生离死别。但是上天总是公平的，经历过风雨的洗礼，总会看到彩虹！原来……

章楠和秦丽本来是一对亲密的恋人，他们正在筹备着婚礼的时候，章楠突然病倒了，得了可怕的血液病，秦丽一直不离不弃地照顾着章楠，章母却听信了迷信，认为秦丽是要克死章楠的狐狸精，对她加以侮辱。秦丽全都忍下来了。章楠病逝，秦丽替他还债，幸运地梅开二度，成功和爱慕者于明帆牵手走向幸福大道。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。