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在上一次的探险中，杰克和安妮知道摩根被施了咒语，必须找到四个特别的东西，才能救出摩根。在古代日本，他们找到了第一样，现在，为了寻找第二样，两兄妹随着神奇树屋来到了南美洲的亚马逊雨林。神秘的雨林中，等着他们的是：吸血蝙蝠、美洲豹、大蟒蛇、鳄鱼，还有安妮最害怕的大虫子和大蜘蛛，他们该如何应付这次的挑战？兄妹俩能平安脱困吗？

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective and illustrated by Sidney Paget. These are the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, originally published as single stories in the Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The book was published in England on 14 October 1892 by George Newnes Ltd and in a US Edition on 15 October by Harper. The initial combined print run was 14,500 copies. The book was banned in the Soviet Union in 1929 for the occultism[citation needed] of its author, although the book shows few to no signs of such material. Later, the embargo was lifted.

《灿烂千阳》再次以阿富汗战乱为背景，时空跨越三十年，用细腻感人的笔触描绘了阿富汗旧家族制度下苦苦挣扎的妇女，她们所怀抱的希望、爱情、梦想与所有的失落。《灿烂千阳》一书的主人公玛丽雅姆在阿富汗一个偏远贫穷的地方长大，她想上学，母亲却告诫她：“学校怎么会教你这样的人？一个女人只要学一样本领，那就是忍耐。”“忍耐什么？”“不用操心，”她母亲娜娜说，“需要你忍耐的东西绝不会少。”

The Autobiography of Malcolm X was the result of a collaboration between Malcolm X and journalist Alex Haley, who wrote the autobiography based on a series of in-depth interviews he conducted with Malcolm X between 1963 and 1965. After Malcolm X's death Haley authored the book's epilogue, which describes their collaboration and summarizes the end of Malcolm X's life. While Malcolm X and contemporary scholars may have regarded Haley as the book's ghostwriter, modern scholarship tends to regard him as an essential collaborator who intentionally subsumed his authorial voice to allow readers to feel as though Malcolm X were speaking directly to them. Haley also influenced some of Malcolm X's literary choices; for example, when Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam during the composition of the book, Haley persuaded him to favor a style of "suspense and drama" rather than rewriting earlier chapters into a polemic against the Nation. Further, Haley's proactive censorship of the manuscript's antisemitic material significantly influenced the ideological tone of the Autobiography, increasing its commercial success and popularity although distorting Malcolm X's public persona. Eliot Fremont-Smith, reviewing the book for The New York Times in 1965, called it "extraordinary" and a "brilliant, painful, important book". Two years later, historian John William Ward said the book "will surely become one of the classics in American autobiography". In 1998, Time named The Autobiography of Malcolm X one of the ten most influential nonfiction books of the 20th century. A screenplay adaptation of the Autobiography by William Baldwin and Arnold Perl provided the source material for Spike Lee's 1992 film Malcolm X.

The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce, is a satirical book published in 1911. It offers reinterpretations of terms in the English language which lampoon cant and political double-talk. The Devil's Dictionary has inspired many imitations both in its day and more recently. Recent examples include The Computer Contradictionary, The Devil's Dictionary X and Lucifer's Lexicon. The origins of the Devil's Dictionary can be traced to when Ambrose Bierce was a columnist in the San Francisco-based News Letter, a small weekly financial magazine which had been founded by Frederick Marriott in the late 1850s. The News Letter, although a serious magazine aimed at businessmen, contained a page set aside for informal satirical content, entitled The Town Crier. Bierce was hired as this page's editor in December 1868, writing with satire, irreverence and a lack of inhibition, thus becoming known as the 'laughing devil' of San Francisco. Although the origins of the Devil's Dictionary are normally placed in 1881 (the point at which Bierce himself said it began) the idea started in August 1869 when Bierce, short of topics to write about and having recently bought a new copy of Webster's Unabridged dictionary, suggested the possibility of writing a "Comic Dictionary". He quoted the entry from Webster's for Viceregent and italicised the section, Kings are sometimes called God's viceregents. It is to be wished they would always deserve the appellation He then suggested how Noah Webster might have used his talent in a comic form and it was here that the idea of a Comic Dictionary was born. The idea manifested itself in 1875 when Bierce, who had resigned as the Town Crier and had spent 3 years in London, returned to San Francisco in the hope of regaining his earlier journalistic post in the News Letter. He sent two submissions to the editor of the News Letter, both written under aliases, one of which was entitled The Demon's Dictionary and contained 48 words with new definitions in Bierce's trademark style of acerbic wit. Although forgotten by Ambrose Bierce in his compiling of the Devil's Dictionary, these entries were made available in the Enlarged Devil's Dictionary, which was first published in 1967.　　Bierce,Ambrose，1842/1914，是一位美国记者和作家，他的短篇小说最为著名，这些小说为人们展示了一个刻薄、残酷和可怕世界。他的后半生是在无聊和悲伤中度过的，这在他的最著名的《魔鬼辞典》中有所验证。这本书在那些对世界拥有玩世不恭态度的人中相当流行。 　　《魔鬼辞典》里许多简明的定义都充满着智慧而又幽默的语调。该书最早是以《讽刺家词典》(The Cynic's Word Book)(1906)名称出版，并于1991年改为现名出版。使得词语的定义令人快愉的原因是它们反映了比尔斯那怀疑、悲观和幽默的深沉感情。苦涩的比尔斯，就象人们称呼他那样，写了许多作品，其中包括名为《战士与平民的故事》(1891)的故事精选集。在1913年，比尔斯声明说，他已经厌恶美国式的文明。他已经购置了一套马车，并驱车前往饱经战争创伤的墨西哥心脏，去寻找“真、善、美”。但没有人知道他的未来怎样。

In the small breakfast parlour of Oulton, a pretty girl, Miss Alice Maybell, with her furs and wrappers about her, and a journey of forty miles before her—not by rail—to Wyvern, had stood up to hug and kiss her old aunt, and bid her good-bye.

《深渊居民》（ThePeopleoftheAbyss，1903）是杰克·伦敦描写1902年伦敦东区人民生活的一部著作。其内容都是他自己的亲身体验，数月里他一直呆在该地区的济贫院甚至露宿街头以体验生活。当时伦敦大约有50万有类似遭遇的人们。