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At the beginning of the story, a young man named Weirich was kidnapped from the hotel by three mysterious men (Zastroch and his two servants) for no reason and taken to a cave. From then on there was no happiness in his life. He was locked in a room with an iron door and his limbs were tied with iron chains. Tortured...

The latest bestseller from Anthony Horowitz, author of "The Magpie Murders"! An exquisite and elegant private residence, a confusing serial murder case, and a shocking secret that has been buried for many years! This time, the writer and detective acted separately for the first time to explore the truth in different time and space. Are these happy enemies finally breaking up? In the Richmond district on the banks of the Thames, Riverview Court is a model of urban life with six tightly gated mansions and exquisite gardens. However, the arrival of the Kenworthy family changed everything - four luxury cars with roaring engines and noisy children soon broke the tranquility of the community. Loud late-night parties, blaring pop music, and a swimming pool construction plan that was opposed by everyone reduced the idyll of Riverview Garden to ashes... When Kenworthy died unexpectedly, all the neighbors became suspects. This murder opened a door, and lies and deception followed, and more deaths followed. The police were helpless. In desperation, former police detective Daniel Hawthorne was invited to take action. However, even he is faced with a seemingly unsolvable puzzle: when everyone has a motive for murder, how to solve the murder case? "The Hawthorne Detectives" Book Five. A feast of classic detective novels. Double puzzle, triple reversal.

"Confession" is a long mystery novel that explores the issue of juvenile delinquency. It mainly revolves around the unreasonableness of the minor protection law, and through the interrogation of the reasons for the crimes of two juveniles, it questions the shortcomings of education in Japan today, the adverse social environment factors for the growth of teenagers, etc. Among the shocking campus crimes, who is the culprit among teachers, parents, and students? Is using violence to fight violence a defense of good, or a promotion of evil? As a single mother, a female middle school teacher raised her daughter alone, but her four-year-old daughter accidentally drowned in the school swimming pool. She did not choose to call the police. After private investigation, she found that her daughter was killed by two students in her class. Why do students murder classmates? What action will the female teacher take?

At the beginning of the story, four detectives appear together (the four famous detectives - this is a subversion in itself) - they are all fans of reasoning and believers of Sherlock Holmes - one of the most prominent features is that they are all incompetent people! In the eyes of these four gentlemen, they just lacked an opportunity. If a corpse appeared in front of them, any one of them would do better than Holmes. Opportunities are always for those who are prepared. One day, a body fell from the railway bridge next to the golf course, and the four Holmes rushed to the scene...

Facing his ugly body and boring soul, he remained silent and laughed endlessly. Is what I do an act of kindness to help others, or is it my own salvation? I no longer recognize myself. Emil, a middle school teacher, and his wife Juliet, in order to get away from ordinary life, moved to a riverside cabin to live in seclusion after retirement. As soon as I moved in, my only neighbor, Bernardin, knocked on the door. From then on, he came on time at four o'clock every afternoon, sat there for two hours, and then left on time. Emil tried to escape and asked his wife to pretend to be sick, but the neighbors kept coming. Emil finally couldn't bear it anymore and kicked Bernardin out of the house. But late one night two days later, he heard the sound of machinery at Bernardin's house. Curious, he went over to take a look and found that Bernardin was lying on the floor of the garage, running the car engine and trying to commit suicide...

"Footprints by the Gate" is the author's third full-length mystery novel, and it is also a typical representative product of classical character reasoning. The story begins with a property will. Derek and Nigel are cousins ​​and the first and second heirs to this inheritance. During a boating trip on the Thames, the first heir Derek disappeared, and then the second heir also disappeared. What happened to the two of them? Missing or murdered? Or is there something else going on? Miles Brydon, a special agent of the insurance company, was ordered to investigate and gradually solved the mystery on the beautiful Thames River.

After leaving Los Angeles, Detective Boss came to the San Fernando Police Department. Two pharmacists at a pharmacy were killed while working and the entire local police force was called in. Bose assisted local police in their investigation. He followed the clues and unexpectedly came across a dangerous and huge drug abuse trading network. Boss infiltrated the organization and tried to uncover the shocking truth about the black kingdom. At the same time, a murderer captured by Bosch many years ago suddenly claimed in prison that he was framed and imprisoned by Bosch. He provided shocking and conclusive evidence. Bosch was unable to defend himself. Colleagues who used to get along with him suddenly became strangers, and no one was willing to stand up to defend his reputation. And once his authority is questioned, other cases he has handled before will become full of doubts. Boss must fight for himself, both to prove his innocence and to ensure that the clever killer remains behind bars. The two cases were intertwined like barbed wire. Along the way, Bosch discovers that there are two kinds of truths in the world: one that sets you free, and one that buries you in darkness forever.

The book "Wisdom Tank" contains a total of more than a thousand stories about characters who coexisted wisdom and talent in the past dynasties from the pre-Qin Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, divided into ten parts with a total of 28 sub-categories. The book includes the politicians' strategies for governing the country, the military strategies of military strategists, the household management methods of ordinary people, and the foresight of women and children. It shows the intelligence and wit of the ancients and is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese nation.

At the isolated crime scene, the suspects continued to make deductions and overturned each other. Who can become the famous detective to crack the truth, and who is the hidden murderer? There is a lady with drug delusions, a mysterious call at midnight, a strange death message on a luxury cruise ship... The diary of the father of the young child in the kidnapping case contains anomalies that are thought-provoking and chilling! A museum that collects unsolved cases, and a pair of partners who solve murder plots. The president who disappeared into an abandoned villa, the female student who mysteriously fell from the building, the 5-year-old suspect... The victim who came back from the dead, the murder in his sleep, the three lines of footprints in the snow... The murderer used the loopholes in time to create almost perfect alibis one after another! There is a mysterious man who will appear quietly whenever a secret room murder occurs. In a locked classroom, a music teacher was shot and killed; in a sealed room, a dead body mysteriously fell from the building...

The unactivated secret room device, the blurry notice letter with a vague time, and the clear comparison of murder, are three shoddy cases. Cang Zhichun, the author of "The Murder at Xingjiang Villa", challenges "imperfect crime". Sosuke Kijima yearned for a stable civilian career, so he passed the highly competitive civil service examination and joined the National Police Agency. However, on the first day he was sent to the peculiar "Special Case Investigation Section of the National Police Agency" as an accompanying officer. The "Special Case Investigation Division of the National Police Agency" is composed of famous detectives with eccentric personalities. Once a case occurs, the famous detective will show up at the crime scene accompanied by the police and solve the puzzle with ease, and the reward will be paid on a daily basis. The anticlimactic secret room crime, the vague Phantom Thief trailer, the nondescript murder simulation... Kijima thought he was not suitable for this job, but he had no choice but to bite the bullet and partner with famous detectives with strong personalities to solve "imperfect" crimes one after another.

The original novel of the movie "Ready Player One" directed by Spielberg is a science fiction classic known as the "Geek Bible". In 2045, the real world is ugly. There's only one place where Wade Watts comes to life: the Oasis. This is a virtual universe that you can fully immerse yourself in. Most of humanity spends its time here. The eccentric creator of the Oasis is dead. He left the world with a series of tricky puzzles, the clues to which are hidden in pop culture elements from decades ago. The music, movies and games of that era were the loves of his life. The first person to solve these mysteries will become the heir to his vast fortune - the one who rules the oasis. Wade solved the first mystery. In the blink of an eye, he became the target of all forces. In order to win the ultimate prize, these forces will do whatever it takes. Don't hesitate to commit murder. The game begins. The only way to survive is to become a winner. It has profoundly affected the outlook on virtual reality and even the entire technology industry in the United States. Palmer Luckey, the founder of the legendary VR company Oculus and a Forbes young entrepreneur in the United States, requires every employee to read this book. It is a famous work by the American pop culture genius Ernst Klein. It has a new translation and 243 color illustrations and text annotations.

The movie of the same name has a Douban score of 8.0, Starring Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin. Lou Clark knows her life very well: she knows how many steps it takes to walk home from the bus stop, she admits that she loves working at the Bread and Butter tea shop, she knows that people are always making fun of her for her dressing sense, and she is actually very sure that she is not very attracted to her current boyfriend. As for this daily routine that had always been a bit confusing and embarrassing, she never thought much about it. What Lu didn't expect was that she was about to lose her beloved job, and what was about to happen would catch her off guard. Will Traynor knew his car accident ended what could have been a promising future for him. He understands that his lover turns away, his friends move away, and he can no longer touch the vividness and brilliance of the past. As for this life that suddenly became calm and cold, he knew it better than anyone else. What Will doesn't know is that Lou will bravely break into his world wearing her colorful clothes; then their lives will change forever...

The twentieth century brought the greatest hope imaginable to mankind, but it was also an era of extremes that destroyed all ideals. Hobsbawm remembers the century from which we come with the incisive insights of a professional historian and the passionate care of active participants. From the catastrophic 1914, to the golden 1960s, and even the devastating 1991, this is a short history of the 20th century, the life of a macro-historian, and a story of a world in which you and I have lived for a long or short time, in a deep or shallow way.

From "Lutetia" in the Roman era to "Grand Paris" in the 21st century, as the capital city, the history of Paris is closely related to the history of France. During the long Middle Ages, Paris witnessed the rise and fall of dynasties. During the magnificent Revolution, Paris was always at the center of the whirlpool, controlling the direction of France. At the turn of the romantic and legendary century, Paris also left a mark as an important cultural and artistic center. This book is a general history of Paris that is both comprehensive and interesting. The construction of the city, the struggle of the people, the derivation of culture... Colin Jones presents the historical process of Paris for more than a thousand years in a vivid and humorous way, and outlines charming pictures of urban life.

Within 24 hours, the bounty hunter Deckard has to make these choices: 1. Continue to stay on the earth after the nuclear war and endure the radiation, or go to colonize the planet and start a new life? 2. Do you want to buy a real sheep to replace the electronic sheep on the roof? There is a certain respectability associated with owning an expensive animal, but it is indeed a significant expense. 3. Do you want to kill that beautiful android? She had a face that he liked. What was important was that the constant killings made him tired and shaken. 4. Is he really a "human"? Can humans kill androids without restraint? Doing wrong things, things you shouldn't do, things that betray your identity - this is the curse of life, the shortcomings of creation, and the inescapable law of the universe. Fortunately, you can still choose what to do and who to be.

The sequel to the novel "Summer Finale" based on the global hit Oscar-winning film "Call Me By Your Name"! The moving follow-up to the phenomenal best-selling book! The movie adaptation of this book is in preparation, and the original cast of Call Me by Your Name is on board, and the popularity of "Sweet Tea" Timothée Chalamet continues...

This compact and well-structured novella tells the story of a has-been novelist and a college classmate who is now a successful screenwriter, risking the leakage of family privacy and bent on revenge against a female journalist with a harsh writing style. Through relaxed yet contemporary language and a gripping plot, the novel satirizes the greedy relationship between the media and celebrity culture, and also examines a writer's responsibility for his or her talent.

"The Story of My Teeth" tells the story of Gustavo Speedway, a unique auctioneer in the world, and his teeth. A work about "my" collections, their unique names and their rebirth after recycling. I gushed out pearls and gave my collection new value with stories that were both true and false. Until one day, my son took away my cherished Monroe teeth and imprisoned me in an art museum exhibition hall. Then one day I met Fragin and asked him to write my biography. And we started stealing small items from art museums. I learned and sold them now, and used the stories behind those items to teach him about art collection...

In 1917, Thorne Smith followed his father's will and joined the U. S. Navy as a member. In 1918, he published a book based on the daily life of the navy, which was very popular. The protagonist of the novel, Oswald, narrates the daily life of sailors in the form of a diary. The language is humorous and the jokes come out of his mouth, which is really hilarious. This is a work written during the First World War. It is a story about conscription and the army, but there is no fire or smoke. A group of young recruits, looking forward to the unknown new world, boarded the ship of the U. S. Navy, and with their ambitions to travel all over the world, they started their own ridiculous military careers. Pelham ushered in the most troublesome recruit kid...

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"A Dream of Red Mansions" is one of the four great classics in ancient China and the pinnacle of ancient Chinese novels. The whole book is centered on the daily life of Rongguo Mansion, with the love and marriage tragedies of Baoyu, Daiyu, and Baochai as well as the trivial matters in the Grand View Garden as the main line. It also uses the history of the four famous aristocratic families of Jinling, Jia, Shi, Wang, and Xue, from their peak to decline as a hidden line, showing the decline of families and society in the feudal era.

She is a legendary concubine envied by women all over the world. She is favored by the kings of two countries and respected as the queen of both countries. The Emperor of the Great Xia dispersed all the harems for her and favored only one person; the Emperor of the Northern Han Dynasty collected all the treasures from the world for her and built a magnificent phoenix. However, of the two men who gave her the honor and favor throughout her life, one ruined her family and the other imprisoned her in the palace for many years. A promise of life and death, endless tenderness, but ultimately no match for the hatred of the family, the country, and the hegemony of the emperor.

From 770 BC to 221 BC, during this 550-year period known as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, unprecedented great figures and handed down classics emerged like a spurt: Confucius wrote "The Analects", Mencius wrote "Mencius", Laozi wrote "Tao Te Ching", Mozi wrote "Mozi", Sun Tzu wrote "Sun Tzu's Art of War", Guiguzi wrote "Guiguzi", Han Fei wrote "Han Feizi"... The contention of a hundred schools of thought laid the cornerstone of Chinese civilization, the Four Books and the Five Classics forged the values of later generations of Chinese people, the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period created a model of strategy, and the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period constructed the framework of today's Chinese territory.

Since the 18th century, Westerners have been observing China very carefully. They drew a lot of images, took a lot of photos, and brought them back to the West to let Westerners see what China was like. Alexander, the painter who accompanied the Cannes mission, created a large number of paintings reflecting the customs and customs of China at that time during his round trip from Macau to Beijing, which later caused a sensation in Europe. This was the first time that Western painters observed and depicted China in such detail, and it was also the last period in which China was depicted as so magically romantic and exotic. The manuscript collects Alexander's only two works, "Chinese Clothing", "Chinese Clothing and Customs Illustrated Book" and some rare single prints. The two books are published together, which is the first time both at home and abroad.

The Chu people had Zhu Rong as their ancestor, and the starting point of their history was originally found in myths and legends. After going through many troubled times, Chu State was able to rise in the south. The people of Chu had the ambition to "reach the sky" and "to be astonishing", and had the courage to "pacify the barbarians" and "belong to the Xia". They finally became one of the five hegemons in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period. However, after achieving such achievements, coups and civil strife caused the Chu State to incur huge foreign troubles when Wu's army entered Ying, and its strength was greatly damaged. During the Warring States Period, the State of Chu used Wu Qi's reforms to break out of its predicament and bring improvement to the country. The State of Chu once reached the pinnacle of strength and prosperity. However, during the era of King Huai, he suffered successive setbacks and his power suddenly declined. After that, the capital of Ying fell, and half of the rivers and mountains were occupied by the Qin people. Although the people of Chu tried to make up for the situation, they could no longer change the trend of "six kings, one in the world". During the uprising at the end of the Qin Dynasty, "Although Chu has three households, Chu will definitely destroy Qin", which left a long coda to the more than 800 years of Chu history.

This book is a collection of notes and manuscript fragments written by Burckhardt for his lectures at the University of Basel from 1865 to 1885. As an outstanding cultural and art historian in the 19th century, Burckhardt presented and described Western history from ancient times to the Revolutionary era in a highly personal style and aesthetic sense in the form of notes based on his own cultural vision and value standpoint. By deeply reflecting on and criticizing the axioms that pervaded the entire political field in the 19th century - egalitarian mass democracy, unfettered capitalism and its consumerism, materialism, and the welfare state - Burckhardt challenged and even subverted the linear view of historical progress dominated by Enlightenment and rationalism, advocating finding the spiritual strength to deal with the crisis of modern Western culture from the history of Greece, Rome, the Renaissance, and its humanist tradition.

In the form of a novel, this book reveals the development process of Western philosophy through the process of a philosophy tutor imparting philosophical knowledge to a girl named Sophie. From the Pre-Socratic era to Sartre, as well as the thoughts of Aristotle, Descartes, Hegel and others, the author's vivid writing style is vividly displayed on the page, and is explained with the historical background of the time, which is fascinating. Critics believe that this book is the most suitable introductory book for those who have never taken a philosophy course, and it can also serve as a refresher for those who have read some philosophy in the past but have forgotten all about it. Sophie, a 14-year-old girl, keeps receiving some extremely unusual letters, and the world unfolds before her eyes like a mystery. Under the guidance of a mysterious mentor, Sophie began to think. She used the girl's natural understanding and acquired knowledge to try to solve these mysteries. However, the truth is far weirder and more bizarre than she imagined...

Puppetry, which has been passed down since ancient times, is a mysterious and powerful thaumaturgy that can be used not only to manipulate living things, but even non-living things. Li Ran, the inheritor of this thaumaturgy, relied on this thaumaturgy to constantly solve puzzles in the campus where strange cases occurred constantly, and exposed the murderer behind the murder to the sun.

That was the beginning of everything, Enoch thought to himself, it was already a hundred years ago... The fantasy around the campfire has become a reality. The earth has been included in the territory of the galaxy and has become a stop for many races during interstellar travel, and Enoch has become the administrator of the stop. The human asked him why he did not grow old. Everyone is getting older, why can he stay young forever? But he couldn't tell them that time stood still in the inn. Only when he leaves the station does he begin to grow old. Living away from the crowd, the dual tasks of maintaining the inn and keeping secrets made him fall into endless coldness and loneliness. The death of an extraterrestrial stranger caused ripples, and the intricate alien forces officially requested the closure of the earth station. Without the inn, the earth will once again fall into isolation, with no hope of salvation and no chance of recognition. The human race will walk naked and alone, in the dark, towards a crazy future...

With the help of robots, humans quickly mastered the technology to transform alien planets and started a magnificent interstellar colonization movement. Human beings multiplied and expanded like locusts in the Milky Way. With their eternal ignorance and wisdom, greed and conscience, they landed on desolate planets, and involved the Milky Way in the long interstellar Warring States era.

Millions of readers are reading "Mars Rising" with excitement, lighting up the lights and staying up late! The film of the same name is about to start shooting, produced by Universal Pictures ("Fast and Furious" series) and directed by the director of "World War Z". No one can change the past, but the strong can write the future. For seven hundred years, the moon ruled the entire solar system. The rulers divided human beings into different classes according to their colors, with the golden race being supreme and enslaving other races. After graduating from the academy, Dairo joined the service of Augustus, the chief consul of Mars, and became a rising star. However, he was defeated by Canus of the Bellona family in a military mock battle and his reputation was ruined. As the major houses gathered on the moon for a summit, Dairo challenged the Bellonas, causing the Augustus and other houses to unite against the Lunar Federation.

"Ring World": Louis Wu celebrated his 200th birthday. He walked into the transfer booth and was all over the world in the blink of an eye. He wanted to have a day of partying, but by accident, he bumped into the most mysterious alien - the Puppet Master. The puppet masters have superb skills, but they are all as timid as mice. Unexpectedly, the puppet master Wu bumped into even kindly invited him to join the most daring interstellar adventure in history. His traveling companions were the always lucky Earth girl Tila and the hot-tempered Kizi star. Two humans and two aliens boarded a super-light spacecraft together and flew towards the Puppet Master's terrifying new discovery - a ring-shaped artificial celestial body orbiting a star. The expedition team members looked closer, but were unexpectedly hit by an unknown weapon and fell into the huge ring. In the ring, which is equivalent to the total area of ​​three million earths, they must find the only way to survive... "Ring World Engineer": It has been 20 years since Louis Wu returned from the ring world. He remains anonymous, hiding in a corner of the universe, trying to get rid of the shadows brought to him by his last adventure. However, a puppet master found him and forced him onto the spacecraft. Their goal was still the ring world. When they arrived at their destination, Louis Wu discovered that the world was no longer stable and that the entire ring world was on the verge of self-destruction. In order to survive, Louis Wu must find the legendary engineer who built this world and the control center of the entire world. Their exploration gradually turns into a thrilling adventure, and the secrets of the Ring World will slowly be revealed.

"Water Margin" is my country's first chapter-length novel with the theme of peasant uprising. It is a model work of ancient heroic romance novels. For hundreds of years, it has been deeply loved by the people of our country and even the world.

In a light and humorous tone, the author presents the image of a father from an upper-class American family. He is strong yet tender; he is domineering yet fair; he is somewhat selfish yet lovely; at the same time, readers can also get a glimpse of New York in the United States at the end of the 19th century from the book. The film based on the memoir stars Irene Dunne, William Powell and Elizabeth Taylor. The film received multiple Academy Award nominations.

What this book reveals to you is a shocking criminal network in today's society. From pickpockets among the crowd, to gangsters hiding in deep mountains and old forests, from gangsters running rampant on the streets, to drug lords patrolling the edge of the coastline; they seem far away from us, yet very close, seemingly silent, but they follow us everywhere. It is this bizarre but real underground world that the author describes. Police academy student Yu Zui was thrown into a cell full of vicious criminals after passing an unexpected selection. He quickly discovered that to survive in this dangerous environment, he must be more cunning than drug dealers, more cunning than thieves, and more cruel than gangsters. He not only needs to use criminals' thinking to understand crime, but also uses criminals' methods to fight crime, and he also needs to break through various bottom lines like criminals.

The TV series will start filming in 2017! Fenghuo Opera Princes creates a new world of fantasy martial arts, continues to sell well, and reaches new heights! Xu Fengnian, the idiot prince of Beiliang in the Demon Cave, suddenly awakened, gradually matured, and embarked on the road of counterattack. He stabbed Jianghu completely with one knife! Yao Dao Feng Huo subverts tradition and creates a strange and mysterious world with ghostly words. There is Lao Huang, who leads a skinny horse but lacks front teeth. He sees the gangsters running faster than his master but is a legendary master. There is a young Taoist priest who staggers around all day without seeking the truth but can open the gate of heaven with a sword and rides a green bull upside down.