Past Performance Handbook

The legendary writer Patricia Highsmith is best remembered today for her chilling psychological thrillers The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train. A critically acclaimed best seller in Europe, Highsmith has for too long been underappreciated in the United States. Starting in 2011, Grove Press will begin to reissue nine of Highsmith's works. Eleven is Highsmith's first collection of short stories, an arresting group of dark masterpieces of obsession and foreboding, violence and instability. Here naturalists meet gruesome ends and unhinged heroes disturb our sympathies. This is a captivating, important collection from one of the truly brilliant short-story writers of the twentieth century (Otto Penzler).

This is a dazzling collection of occasional writings by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist on subjects ranging from Thermopylae to the English Channel, and from Coral Island to Jules Verne. "e;A book of occasional essays which afford us many fascinating insights into Golding the man…It is highly individual yet profoundly modest; it has an unusual, slightly angular candour, full of painful knowledge and a beautiful humanity …event the slightest piece bears the mark of his rare, austere mind, his remarkable imagination…Even these occasional essays are enough to remind us that …there is not, at the moment, a writer to touch him"e;. (New Society).

Wives and Daughters is an emotional novel by Elizabeth Gaskell, first published in the Cornhill Magazine as a serial from August 1864 to January 1866. When Mrs Gaskell died suddenly in 1865, it was not quite complete, and the last section was written by Frederick Greenwood. The heroine of the novel is Molly, an attractive and rather unworldly young woman. Her father sends her to stay with the Hamleys of Hamley Hall, a gentry family. Molly forms a close attachment with Mrs. Hamley, who embraces her almost as a daughter. Molly also befriends the younger son, Roger. Molly is aware that she would not be considered a suitable match for the sons of Squire Hamley because of her status. However, she has always preferred Roger's good sense and honourable character and soon falls in love with him. Unfortunately, Roger falls in love with other girl. Molly is heartbroken, and struggles with her sorrow and her knowledge that the girl lacks affection for Roger.

This unique guide shows managers how to let this spirit blossom by adopting the informal leadership strategies women have used for ages - vision, storytelling, structure, comfort, and renewal.

The work The Link began as a 557-page outline that Richard Matheson wrote for a proposed twenty-hour ABC mini-series in the late 1970s. The ABC executives asked Matheson to shorten the series into seven hours but after Matheson had written three hours of the series, the two parted company. Matheson's original vision could not be condensed without destroying the essence of the plot and characters. Here in The Link is the original outline, in narrative form, in publication for the first time.The story follows Robert Allright as he explores his own demons as well as those of psychics past as he also struggles to decipher his father's dying wish to explore an archeological dig in Arizona. Allright's only clue is the mystifying crystal that his father believes is the key to a great discovery.

中国历史上最伟大的运动员正热火朝天地在烧烤架前忙活着，把烤好的东西分给客人。他光着膀子，肌肉还保持得不错，汗水沿着脊柱哗哗地流下来。他殷勤地照顾着每一个人，自己并没有吃什么，有人注意到他显得特别亢奋，只是谁也不知道为什么。这位中国最伟大的运动员，能否像福特、西门子、洛克菲勒一样，创造一家以创始人的名字命名的伟大公司？2008年8月3日夜，北京，李宁家里。

（1v1宠文）身为一方大世界的界灵千谙，这辈子最大心愿就是世界和平，成为界神，从此走上人生巅峰。然……喂喂喂，说你呢，哪跑出来的？乖，不要任性好不好？然……我擦，你给我住手……终于，某男把自己给搞死了，苦逼的她从此走上了寻找某人灵魂碎片的快穿之路……也就算了，关键是你能不能正常一点？让我好好的做个任务成么？

叶语穿越到了一个武道至上的世界，却发现他的金手指是一个（副）系统。好在系统真正的主人是他同门的师姐。这是一个和师姐一起在江湖上兴风作浪、双剑合璧的故事！-----------------书友群：281552830

穿越而来的她在大婚之日，遭遇他翻脸无情休妻；她发誓他敢做初一，她就做十五，一纸休书扔在他脸上，冷傲道，“王爷，你可以滚了！”谁知他竟然一把抓住她的手，笑得邪魅，“本王一个人滚多没意思，不如我们一起滚一滚吧……”什么情况？！想吃回头草么？！记住了！没那么容易！

这是一篇关于末日的小说，时间不知道，地点不知道，背景也不知道。大约末日来了，也不会问世人准备好了吗？我不相信有关末日的审判，也不相信各种阴谋论或者各派的学说。我只相信天地不仁以万物为刍狗。末日前王明是一个普普通通的上班族，末日里他又会成长成什么样呢？是救世英雄？还是灭世魔王？

“生存与生命……生存下去，就将重获生命……”对生活感到迷茫的大二学生林峰因某些“特殊”原因，在非正常死亡后进入了【绝地空间】，一场场的绝地求生，一次次的疯狂逃杀……“生命的意义到底是什么？”“先活下去再说吧！”书群8766635，本书正在从头修正……

本书以一种令人感到震惊的言语，客观的态度，极深刻地描述了人生的处世经验，为读者提供了如何战胜困境取得成功的种种妙策。相信通过这些至真的人生格言，每个人都能克服生活可能出现的逆境，更重要的是增强了对生活的理解和洞察力。

幸福是一件大事，但要从小事开始！很多人都告诉你不要做什么，不要这样做，但没有人对你说要做什么，应该怎么做。卡耐基通过对女人的人生愿望、生活烦恼以及女性生理、心理的深入研究，以自己睿智的见解和精辟的人生感悟指导女人如何让自己快乐起来，如何培养一个幸福的婚姻，如何与他人交往……聪明女人善于聆听智者之音，既然幸福是一辈子的事，那就从本书开始揭开幸福之课的扉页吧！

她为了家族，远赴边塞，不辞而别。他一气之下将她赠予玉佩丢弃，这却成为他这一辈子最后悔的事。傲娇一时爽，追妻火葬场。这是一个暖心的故事，没有狗血，没有误会。一对一，身心干净，欢迎入坑。

《神奇的小镇》收入了作者创作的多篇小小说。故事神奇有趣，引人深思。