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The Return of the King is the third and final volume of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, following The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers.

经历生死的凯特尼斯和皮塔得到了74届饥饿游戏冠军享有的一切待遇，但是两人的关系变得很尴尬，凯特尼斯无法放下昔日男友盖尔，甚至还想要跟他远走高飞。凯特尼斯和皮塔越来越受到人民的欢迎，加上他俩假扮情侣的事情激怒了斯诺总统，他联合新的游戏设计师开展了25年一届的“世界级限赛”，要求抽出12个区的历届男女冠军各一人参加，旨在杀死凯特尼斯。皮塔为了保护凯特尼斯，代替黑密曲参赛，一对“恋人”又踏上了征程。在赛事中二人结交了不同区的盟友，同时皮塔继续对凯特尼斯表露真情，而她对皮塔的态度也有所变化，可惜事情并不像他们想象的一样，等待他们的只有阴谋。

The Innocence of Father Brown is the first book of G.K. Chesterton's ingenious, thoughtful, and lyrically written mystery stories featuring the unassuming little priest who solves crimes by imagining himself inside the mind and soul of criminals, thus understanding their motives. The stories are full of paradox, spiritual insight, and "Chestertonian fantasy," or seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. In this sterling collection, widely considered the author’s best, the beloved detective solves twelve of his most puzzling cases, including The Blue Cross, The Hammer of God, The Eye of Apollo, and nine more. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

   　In the large room of a house in a certain quiet city in Flanders, a man was gilding a devil.      The chamber looked on to the quadrangle round which the house was built; and the sun, just overhead,blazed on the vine leaves clinging to the brick and sent a reflected glow into the sombre spaces of the room.      The devil, rudely cut out of wood, rested by his three tails and his curled-back horns against the wall, and the man sat before him on a low stool.......

童年是孤单的冒险。在我们生命中出现的人，一些给我们上课，一些让我们痊愈，有的用来分担分享，有的用来真爱。假如我又回到了童年，我会培养我的勇气和毅力，我会事事乐观，我会要求自己更礼貌地对待我的伙伴和那些陌生人，我会学着去为他人的幸福而努力。我会懂得，偶尔要回头看看，否则永远都在追寻，而不知道自己失去了什么。

特普洛擅长描写观察人生百态，这本小说描写了人性中的荣誉、腐败、正直、与贪婪，点出了十九世纪末期社会剧烈的变动中，人心道德也随之摇摆的局面。英国首席编剧Andrew Davis亲自操刀(他的作品包括了傲慢与偏见、爱玛、锦绣佳人)，将这部讽刺小说做了最佳的詮释。 故事由暴发户Melmotte带著家人从欧陆回到伦敦开始说起，这个在欧陆大发横财的家庭在伦敦的社交圈中引起了议论纷纷，贵族们对这样一个粗俗但又富可敌国的人不知道该奉承还是鄙视。年轻又风流的菲力一开始就打定主意追求Melmotte的千金玛丽，他需要玛丽雄厚的嫁妆支付赌债，菲力的妹妹爱上了美国回来的工程师保罗，但是一名由美国追来伦敦的神秘女子，似乎透露了保罗有一段不为人知的过去，这一些形形色色的人物构成的一幅社会的缩影。

Ten time-honored tales—brimming with enchantment, whimsy and sly humor—offer hours of reading pleasure: "The Birth of Bran," "The Little Brawl at Allen," "The Enchanted Cave of Cesh Corran," "Becuma of the White Skin," "Mongan’s Frenzy," and five others.

In my opinion- it is impossible to create characters until one has spent a long time in studying men- as it is impossible to speak a language until it has been seriously acquired.' (Excerpt)

Among the towering red cliffs of Petra sits the corpse of Mrs Boynton, a tiny puncture mark on her wrist the only sign of what has killed her. Hercule Poirot has only 24 hours to solve the mystery. A tyrannical old martinet, a mental sadist and the incarnation of evil. These were only three of the character descriptions levelled at Mrs. Boynton, the matriarch who kept her family totally dependent on her. But did she really deserve to die on the excursion to beautiful Petra? Hercule Poirot hears about the murder and feels compelled to investigate-despite the family's request not to do so. Do they have something to hide and, if so, can they keep it hidden from this master sleuth?