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Tom Swift, in his first adventure, has purchased a motorcycle and immediately gets busy modifying it. Eager to test his enhancements, Tom volunteers to transport his father's revolutionary turbine design plans across the country roads to Albany. Unaware of the evil corporate investors who want to steal the invention for themselves, Tom falls into their trap and finds himself facing the greatest peril of his young life. It is up to Tom not only to retrieve the blueprints and turbine prototype, but also to bring a gang of hired thugs to justice.

“秋之柱号”巡洋舰在与圣约人的战争中逃出来后，降落到了神秘的巨大环状天体“光晕”上。圣约人的追兵紧跟着奔袭而来，俘获了“秋之柱号”巡洋舰的舰长。“秋之柱号”巡洋舰上惟一的一名超级生化战士约翰在105空降师伞兵们的协助下，左冲右突，四处游击，伺机从圣约人手中救回舰长。双方杀得难解难分，却全然不知可称“生命公敌”的洪魔同样沉睡在这个不祥世界中。洪魔是一种寄生生物，它能通过感染，控制任何满足其寄宿条件的智慧生物。一旦它从禁锢中获得解放，可怕的浩劫将在全宇宙肆虐。这个巨大的光晕就是一个先进外星种族专为禁锢洪魔所建造的。为使宇宙苍生免遭洪魔荼毒，约翰只身杀向光晕的“心脏”……

如果你是一名不错的侦探的话，那你得比沃尔什探长先找出凶手。沃尔什探长是名警探，他工作虽说慢了点，可十分细心。你是位“快手”吗？侦探就是寻找线索的人。而线索就是告诉你谁是凶手的重要但又细小的事物。发现线索不容易，但本故事中有许多线索。有些线索有用---它们能帮助你，可有些线索却不利---它们会妨碍你找到凶手。

你可以把生活变成故事，但你想不到故事的结局。露·克拉克知道很多事情。她知道从公共汽车站走回家有多少步。她知道她喜欢在“黄油面包”茶馆工作，喜欢这有点迷糊又有点窘迫的生活。她其实清楚地知道自己或许不喜欢男朋友帕特里克。露不知道的是她马上要失去她的工作，即将发生的事情会让她猝不及防。威尔·特雷纳知道摩托车事故带走了本可以波澜壮阔的人生。他现在觉得每件事情都毫无意义，了无生趣。他确切地知道该怎样结束这一切。威尔不知道的是露将穿着她五颜六色的衣服，闯进他的世界，而彼此的生活将彻底改变……

The narrator of this novel is Bucky Wunderlick, a Dylan-Jagger amalgam who finds he's gone as far as he knows how. Mid tour he leaves his rock band and holes up in a dingy East Village apartment, in Great Jones Street. The plot revolves around his retreat and a drug designed to silence dissidents.

 “In the Carquinez Woods, in the arms of the man you were just defending—Low, the half-breed.” The room had become so dark that from the road nothing could be distinguished. Only the momentary sound of struggling feet was heard. “Sit down,” said Brace's voice, “and don't be a fool.

The Amber Spyglass brings the intrigue of The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife to a heartstopping close, marking the third volume as the most powerful of the trilogy. Along with the return of Lyra, Will, Mrs. Coulter, Lord Asriel, Dr. Mary Malone, and lorek Byrnison the armored bear, The Amber Spyglass introduces a host of new characters: the Mulefa, mysterious wheeled creatures with the power to see Dust; Gallivespian Lord Roke, a hand-high spy-master to Lord Asriel; and Metatron, a fierce and mighty angel. And this final volume brings startling revelations, too: the painful price Lyra must pay to walk through the land of the dead, the haunting power of Dr. Malone's amber spyglass, and the names of who will live-and who will die-for love. And all the while, war rages with the Kingdom of Heaven, a brutal battle that-in its shocking outcome- will reveal the secret of Dust. In The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman deftly weaves the cliffhangers and mysteries of The Golden Compass and The Subtle. Knife into an earth-shattering conclusion- and confirms his fantasy trilogy as an undoubted and enduring classic.

The Hound of the Baskervilles is one of the four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound.

Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, ... one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present ... Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu. A master criminal, Fu Manchu's murderous plots are marked by the extensive use of arcane methods; he disdains guns or explosives, preferring dacoits, Thuggee, and members of other secret societies as his agents armed with knives, or using "pythons and hamadryads... fungi and my tiny allies, the bacilli... my black spiders" and other peculiar animals or natural chemical weapons.