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Within four years, five of the author's relatives and friends died unexpectedly one after another. Their deaths seemed unrelated, but were intertwined by their identity and location. These young black men live in the Deep South, where intergenerational poverty looms over their lives. In remembrance of the past, the author shows how today, more than a century and a half after the end of the Civil War, racism is deeply institutionalized through economic and educational disparities, plaguing generations of black youth. With the warmth of nostalgia mixed with the guilt of the living, the author finally returned to his hometown and wrote down their and his own stories, allowing those fresh faces obscured by cold statistics to resurface.

5 families of different social classes × 1 King's game that is popular on campus × 1 kidnapping case that turned out to be true. After school, five second-year students from Nanjue Middle School disappeared collectively. Also missing was the mother of one of the students, Leng Chunlai. That night, the female criminal police captain received a report and based on clues, initially determined that this was a collective kidnapping case, and the missing single mother Leng Chunlai was suspected of being involved in the case. It's just that her entire action was too blatant and her motives were a mystery. After all, what mother would kidnap her own child? Immediately afterwards, four families received blackmail messages one after another: If they want a child, they must pay 2 million! It is not difficult to collect 8 million ransoms, but what is unexpected is that all the ransoms mysteriously disappeared during delivery. Among the five teenagers, only the richest and most powerful child returned home, but he became dull and timid, and did not want to mention the disappearance experience... Among the remaining three families, some were anxious and in despair; some pretended to observe secretly; some were broken and passive... Good and evil, debt and repayment, we spend our entire lives seeking recognition and protection from the family. Five missing teenagers, under different growth trajectories, made surprisingly similar choices.

One is a poor orphan girl, who is beautiful and cunning, and is regarded as a "gold digger" because she wants to join the upper class society; the other is a young lady from a rich family, who is gentle and kind but has no ambition, and is a "love brain" who gave up a good life for a heartless man. A red rose and a white lotus float up and down in the vanity fair of overt and covert struggles. Behind the glitz of chasing fame and fortune, what kind of price is waiting for people... Open this book and be a sober person who will not lose your way in the ubiquitous vanity fair!

"Night of the Wolf" + "Dance of the Dead"! Collects 25 mystery short stories written by Paul Holt so far, delving into each strange legend and revealing the truth behind the case. When evil dogs transform into werewolves in the middle of the night and start hunting humans; when the undead in the tomb dance crazily at midnight; when the banshee that lures sailors to the rocks sings ominous songs; when the snowman is possessed by evil spirits and takes revenge; when the cursed ancient gong rings again, summoning death; when the escalator is possessed by evil spirits and shoots and kills repeatedly... 25 Ghostly folklores, 25 complex and strange mysteries. Open this book and see the truth behind the strange legend!

At the collector's funeral, the will disappeared. The police immediately sealed off the scene and searched every corner, but found nothing. Detective Ellery Queen intervenes in the case and points out that there is only one part of the scene that has not yet been searched - the inside of a newly buried Greek coffin! The cemetery was dug up and the coffin was taken out. Instead of a will, there was an extra corpse in the coffin. The body was unidentified and covered in body spots. It was obvious that he had been murdered! Who is the other body? Why did he suddenly appear in the coffin? Where does the missing will go? Suspicions abounded for a while, but Quinn didn't know yet that the murderer had already arranged everything. It was just waiting for the detective to use his proud logical reasoning to take the initiative to go down the completely wrong path step by step...

A human orphan raised by Martians returned to Earth, but everything on Earth made him feel strange, ridiculous, and even absurd. He does not understand the existence of wealth, marriage, morality, and faith, and repeatedly thinks about the meaning of "being a human being." When human beings were still addicted to the disciplines of civilized society, this visitor from Mars finally realized that every step of earth's civilization was wrong. He is determined to lead mankind into the universe with a new life form. Some people believed that "Stranger in a Strange Land" was a true blueprint for an ideal society. In the 1960s, these people tried to build a utopia based on the description in the book. Heinlein protested and replied: ""Stranger in a Strange Land" invites you to think, not to believe."

Her name is Mia, she is from the UK and a popular actress, but she just wants to stay away from the bleak London and listen to touching and laughing words. His name is Paul, from the United States. He was a former architectural designer. He became famous because of a book, but he could not adapt to the pursuit of others. He hides in Paris and can only become close friends with the characters in his novels. Mia's career is very successful, but Paul has been depressed. Paul is humorous, but Mia is not sociable. She was lonely, and so had he always been. Due to a friend's well-intentioned prank, Mia and Paul met on social networks but did not become lovers. They developed a good friendship and tried to maintain it. However, something unexpected happened...

This is a wonderful psychological mystery novel. A murder case occurred in Xijiang. The deceased was a young woman, Xia Bingqing, and policewoman Ran Dongdong was responsible for the investigation. Through a thorough investigation, Xia Bingqing turned out to be the lover of businessman Xu Shanchuan. Xu Shanchuan conquered Xia Bingqing through force. Xia Bingqing experienced a process from resistance to acceptance to desire for possession. There were many people involved behind their entanglement. Who was Xia Bingqing killed? During the investigation of the case, Ran Dongdong, a female police officer suffering from depression, suspected that her husband Mu Dafu was having an extramarital affair and discovered that he had many ulterior secrets in his heart, so she filed for divorce from him. When investigating the case, Ran Dongdong had to face the complicated case, gradually solve the doubts and discover the truth behind the appearance. On the other hand, he connected the psychology of the people involved in the case with his own real life, and had doubts about love and marriage. Ran Dongdong detects love like a case, and detects a case like a love. The two lines are intertwined and influence each other. In the end, Ran Dongdong overcame his depression and caught the murderer. The writing of this novel incorporates many elements such as psychology and criminal investigation. The story has ups and downs and is full of suspense.

[Suspense crime + good and evil + self-redemption] Fourteen years after the big case of family annihilation came to light, the lawless gang went on a desperate rampage. The original novel of Cao Baoping's movie "Heart of the Burning Sun" is Xu Yigua's classic masterpiece of suspense crime and a masterpiece of atonement for death! The self-redemption of three men. Taxi driver Yang Zidao and police officer Xin Xiaofeng rented a remote stone house, and together with fisherman Chen Bijue, they raised an abandoned baby named Weiwei. The gloomy and silent landlord of the stone house installed a bug in the tenant's room to eavesdrop on the secrets of the three people. The masculine and righteous police officer Xin Xiaofeng habitually puts out burning cigarette butts with his left hand. He is the most capable assistant of police officer Iguchun. He works hard but keeps secret about his life; Yang Zidao is the driver who receives the most praise calls in the company, but he dare not have a love of his own; Chen Bijue does the hardest and most tiring job. Underneath the vulgar appearance, there is a wealth of astronomical knowledge... Three mysterious men are trying their best to raise a beautiful girl, and the girl's birthday is the beginning of the confession that gnawed at their hearts fourteen years ago... As the story unfolds, a major murder case that has been silent for more than ten years comes to light... The novel is confusing, tense and ups and downs. Xu Yigua uses compassionate feelings and rich novel elements to face crime and punishment, redemption and love under the background of the corrupt human heart.

[Heroine + Strategy + Powerful Alliance] The beautiful and sassy married princess competes in the desert to strategize the world! The most resourceful beauty VS the sinister and mysterious spy leader VS the arrogant and willful desert gangster VS the tolerant and ambitious Yunpei City Lord. In a devastated and troubled world, the three pillars stand together; when they meet their opponents, they join forces! Open this book and take a look at the troubled times, the family, the country, the world, beauties playing chess, and heroes vying for hegemony! On the way to marry Huang Beishuang, a princess from a declining ethnic group, her team was robbed by the desert bandit Ruowen. Huo Qingyun, the intelligence chief, rescued Huang Beishuang, and the two gradually fell in love. But Huang Beishang, who was responsible for the life of his family, could only bear the pain to say goodbye and go to Yunpei to get married. Huang Beishuang reached a gentleman's agreement with Na Zhan, the leader of Yun Pei, to advise Na Zhan, and Na Zhan provided shelter for his people. Under that war, Yunpei became stronger and stronger; Qingyun had another identity and planned to spread across the desert; Ruowen established the Huangsha Kuang Corps to devour small tribes. The war in the desert is about to break out. Huang Beishang, who is unwilling to be teased by fate, is also involved in the struggle to unify the desert, falling in love with and killing the three strongest men in the desert...

A dusty past involving the sale of a house, a shocking scam woven by love and lies! Luojia's latest urban suspense masterpiece, the film and television adaptation is in progress. "Love is the best disguise and the most difficult scam." A beautiful writer returned to her hometown to sell a house, but fell into a scam, thus uncovering a dusty past. What's the secret behind what happened back then? How should he choose now? Is it deception or redemption? Is it a lie or love? When the truth emerged and everything settled, he finally understood the path he should take in life. The setting sun reflected the red sky, just like the evening when he first saw her when he was a boy...

Alan Twist, a doctor of criminology, specializes in solving strange cases that seem impossible to do manually. He goes deep into the strange legends and uncovers the truth behind the cases. When the undead in the tomb dance crazily at midnight; when the succubus who lures sailors to the rocks sings ominous songs; when the soul comes to reveal the murder in the secret room, and the only clue is the damaged "The King in Yellow"; when the cursed ancient gong vibrates again, summoning death; when the escalator is possessed by evil spirits and shoots and kills repeatedly... This book contains 14 ghostly short stories by Paul Holt. Open this book and see the truth behind the strange legend!

What is talent? Do you feel deeply inferior because you feel you have no talent? This book is told in the form of two timelines intertwining the past and the present, divided into the "past" in 1999 when the protagonist Minori went to college and the "present" from 2019 to 2020. Through Minori's perspective, he tells various stories about what happened to his nephew, grandfather, and friends in the university club, and explores what "talent" really is. Minori has been stuck in a whirlpool of self-doubt for the first half of her life. She envied her friends who had meaningful and challenging jobs, but she was frustrated and unable to recover. Minori has always been overwhelmed by the talents of others, and has come to the conclusion that she has no talents, and has a very low self-esteem. But after learning about her grandfather's story, Minori finally discovered that the so-called talent is something that varies from person to person. It is ever-changing and has no fixed form. It requires everyone to actively search and explore throughout their lives, rather than simply defining it as having or not having it.

"Light and Dark" is a long masterpiece by the great Japanese writer Natsume Seseki. The story is set in Tokyo in the Meiji Era of civilized Japan, and uses the life experiences and emotional entanglements of the newly married Tsuda couple for six months as clues. It mainly depicts the kinship relationships, human relationships, and intergenerational conflicts among Japan's middle and upper classes. It also reflects the almost irreconcilable gap and contradiction between them and the people at the bottom. With its endless character activities, facial expression dialogues and psychological descriptions, the novel creates multiple characters with distinct personalities and different stances. Through wonderful dialogues between the characters, it presents scenes of intense, verbal and secret struggles.

"First Man" is a collection of literary works by Nobel Prize winner Camus, which includes two works. One is the autobiographical novel "The First Man", and the other is the monologue novel "The Fall". "The First Man" tells the story of Jacques Cormery, who grew up in a slum and embarked on a journey to find his roots after becoming famous. He visited people who had interacted with his father, but no one could provide him with complete information. In the process of searching for his father, he also recovered every bit of his own growth. Another monologue novel "Fall" is a first-person self-narration and self-reflection to explore the meaning of life. Both works truly reproduce the author's mental journey of exploring human existence and the meaning of life.

The members of the fallen landowner Compson family - the sensitive and desperate eldest son Quentin, the cold and cunning second son Jason, the mentally retarded youngest son Benjamin, and the family slave Dilcey, each use different perspectives to tell the same family tragedy around the fall of the second daughter Katie Compson, like the four movements of a symphony, using exquisite time and space structure to show a sinking American southern society.

At the end of 2019, the writer GMB was intensively researching the "most dangerous person" in Britain in the 1960s - psychiatrist Braithwaite. At this time, he received a package containing 5 notebooks, which recorded the story of a young woman: In London in 1965, she suspected that Braithwaite had killed her. Her sister, Veronica, pretended to be a mental patient and went to his consulting room under the pseudonym "Rebecca" to find out what was going on. However, she soon realized that the development of the situation was gradually beyond her control... After some thought, GMB decided to publish the contents of the notebook and its own research on Braithwaite as a book to faithfully present it to readers. In 2021, the sender of the package offered to meet with him, but he discovered that the truth of all this was far beyond his expectation... In this book within a book, real characters and fictional characters appear in turns, historical events and imaginary plots are intertwined. We cannot trust anyone or anything, including our own judgment.

This Marcovaldo has a pair of eyes that are not very suitable for urban life: signs, traffic lights, shop windows, wide rainbow lights, propaganda posters, those things that are designed to attract attention, have never been able to retain Marcovaldo's eyes. He looks at these things as if he were scanning the sand in the desert. As the seasons pass, Marcovaldo uses his ingenuity to make wonderful observations about the world. He can interact and play with mushrooms and migratory birds, and he can also take his children to get lost and sigh in the consumerist supermarket. "It was the silence that woke him up that morning when it snowed." This is Calvino's last love poem dedicated to the city. In the lightness and color, we find more things to look forward to.

How do we prove our existence? Agilulfo, a walking armor, a non-existent knight. Composed of the spirit and the proud soul of a knight, he is loyal to Charlemagne by the force of his will, and he alone gives meaning to his armor. When his world-famous achievements are challenged, questioned, and about to be obliterated, can his existence still be established? Includes Calvino's own postscript, telling the creation process of the "Our Ancestors" trilogy: "The Non-Existent Knight" is far from an epilogue, but a prologue.

On the battlefield in the Middle Ages, Viscount Medardo leaped on his horse and drew his sword, but was blasted in half by a Turkish cannon. A complete man is thus divided into half a villain and half a saint. The Viscount said: "Not only am I torn and incomplete, but you are too, and everyone is." Every encounter between two creatures in the world is a fight between each other, and people experience the "complete" world in the fierce battle with themselves. Although the two-half Viscount Medardo eventually returned to being a whole person, it was clear that without that split, just one whole Viscount was not enough to make the world whole. On the battlefield in the Middle Ages, Viscount Medardo leaped on his horse and drew his sword, but was blasted in half by a Turkish cannon. A complete man is thus divided into half a villain and half a saint. The Viscount said: "Not only am I torn and incomplete, but you are too, and everyone is." Every encounter between two creatures in the world is a fight between each other, and people experience the "complete" world in the fierce battle with themselves. Although the two-half Viscount Medardo eventually returned to being a whole person, it was clear that without that split, just one whole Viscount was not enough to make the world whole.

Twelve-year-old Cosimo angrily left home and lived in a tree because he couldn't stand the snail meal cooked by his sister. From then on, his feet never set foot on the ground again: he read, hunted, put out fires, fought against pirates, and even fell in love and wrote in the trees. His tombstone is inscribed: "Living in the trees - always loving the earth - rising into the sky." Part one of the trilogy "Our Ancestors", including Calvino's own postscript: In "The Baron in the Trees" there is a path to wholeness - a non-individualistic wholeness achieved through unswerving efforts to make one's own choices.

"I am a little willing to leave the lives of contemporary people in detail, so that future generations can know how their ancestors lived on this land." "Hua Taiping Family Biography" is the posthumous novel of Taiwanese writer Zhu Xining, and it is also the most important work in his creative career. The book was originally planned to be three million words. The author devoted his life's work, revised the manuscript seven times, and started writing eight times. After completing 550,000 words, he died due to illness, leaving it as an unfinished symphonic epic. The book is divided into thirty-five chapters. The story begins in the 26th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1900). It is a harkening back to a prosperous "peaceful" era that was not peaceful. It takes the century-old family history of the Hua family as the main axis and details the various changes in the countryside of Shandong Province when the new and old, Chinese and Western eras collided. Returning to the origin of modernization, where family history and national history are intertwined, personal destiny, loss of love, and the turmoil of the times, "Hua Taiping Family Biography" is an unfinished book of the century, and an epic symphony of classics and modernity. The author's language is highly sophisticated and smooth, and his narration is meticulous. The stories of the four seasons, folk customs and etiquette, details of the common people, and dialects are like a long scroll of the hometown slowly unfolding in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, which is full of local color and folk customs. Just like a picture of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival", as the scroll slowly unfolds, scenes of full and interesting scenes of common people flow between the lines. Attached are Zhu Xining's precious manuscripts and photos, as well as special introductions by Liu Musa, Zhu Tianwen and Zhu Tianxin.

[Such as the background settings of "Westworld" and "Black Mirror"! A love story in a sci-fi worldview, a near-future virtual reality + cybercrime theme, adrenaline surges, and the reading comprehension difficulty is about S level. ]The Cyber ​​Security Bureau's "Operation Fox Hunt" against the neurodrug company "NeuroRose" suffered a major failure, and police officer Sheng Yan died. Undercover policewoman Medusa was seriously injured. The Cybersecurity Bureau judged that Medusa was no longer qualified for the job and declared her dead. They arranged for her to return to normal life under her real name. Because of the death of her boyfriend Sheng Yan and physical trauma, Fang Chi became addicted to the virtual reality world "Mandala" and became disheartened. However, she accidentally discovered that Sheng Yan's account was online in "Mandala", and she began to pursue the secret behind it. She discovered that Sheng Yan turned out to be "T. N. T.", One of the former top hackers "The Three Musketeers", and the person who hacked into Sheng Yan's account was his former friend, Guest, who was also one of the Three Musketeers. Guest and Sheng Yan once had ideological differences due to the death of the blind monk, who was also a member of the Three Musketeers, and eventually parted ways. Guest tries to investigate the true cause of Sheng Yan's death and avenge him. In reality, a series of murder cases have occurred one after another, all related to cybercrime. The mysterious hacker Meijianchi in "Mandala" announced that he was responsible for the murder, and his purpose was to carry out justice on behalf of the Cybersecurity Bureau. The public cheered for the behavior of the eyebrow ruler, but rational people realized the huge danger lurking behind the eyebrow ruler. Fang Chi met Xie Weishi, who claimed to be entrusted with investigating the eyebrow ruler case. Because the case involving the eyebrow ruler was related to the "nervous rose", Fang Chi and Xie Weishi launched a joint investigation. The two fell in love with each other as they got along, but Xie Weishi realized that Fang Chi was Sheng Yan's girlfriend...

A legendary Irish female writer who has been dormant for many years has been reborn, reviving the great tradition of Irish short stories. An Irish feminist literary pioneer praised by Alice Munro and Edna O'Brien. This book contains a total of 21 short stories, which follow the lives of several middle-class families in a small street in Dublin, describing secular scenes and family relationships with a strong Irish flavor, sometimes intertextualizing and complementing each other. The author uses the most turbulent depression and the most silent passion to connect the life story of a submissive woman, but the wild horse cannot pull anything out of her body. These stories that reflect the author's childhood and even coincide with the lives of her parents are full of miracles; she penetrates into every hidden corner of the relationship between husband and wife, dissects the emotional dust, and forces the secrets out of hiding, while some of the most touching stories are so miraculous that almost nothing happens at all. Its imagery is profound, and its prose is as plain as water but cruelly poignant enough to "prun the hedges." In the words of the New York Times Book Review, it is "enough to bring Brennan back to the world-class banquet of fiction that she has been absent from for so long."

This true story took place in British Virginia in 1755. At that time, the Seven Years' War between England and France was tearing apart the North American continent, but this peaceful river valley did not seem to be disturbed by war drums and wolf smoke. However, one bright afternoon, a group of Shawnee Indian warriors allied with the French army suddenly attacked an unsuspecting British settlement in the river valley, and what followed was a bloody massacre. When all was said and done, the Shawnee warriors finally sheathed their swords and captured the few remaining survivors, along with the trophies loaded with packhorses, and marched them to the Indian villages downstream of the river. Walking among these captives is our heroine Mary Ingalls, a pregnant young mother and her two young sons. The prisoner's road is difficult and full of dangers, but what is more terrible than this is the slavery and humiliation. With courage and dignity, Mary endured all the hardships along the way and won the praise, or some respect, of the Shawnee people. Even the young leader who captured her gave her a choice after silently observing her for many days, a choice that she had to seriously consider - this was not only related to her own life safety, but also related to the pair of young sons under her knees and the baby girl she had just given birth to on the road. Perhaps sacrificing personality and freedom to provide for herself and her children with adequate food and clothing is not such a bad choice compared to death? However, for Mary Ingalls, freedom was never a bargaining chip...

It is difficult to solve strange things by asking the craftsmen. They are omnipotent and cannot be deceived by gods and ghosts. Judge's Eye, Eight-skin Tomb, Corpse Silkworm Clothes, Floating Corpse City, Shaman Sutra... See the dead and super fierce Lolita, decipher the secrets buried for thousands of years!

The mysterious organization "Nine Ges", which had been dormant for nearly ten years, reappeared. Tragedies of killing families followed one after another, and a bloody storm was inevitable. Mo Hesheng, the young owner of Zhixian Villa, had no choice but to be entrusted with the task, so he had to run around to seek justice. Unexpectedly, it involves the past events of the previous dynasty and the tragedy of this life. The situation in Bianliang has changed dramatically, and the pyramid of power has been reshuffled. He pressed the pair of pine and crane fans against the neck of his beloved woman, and asked and answered three questions widely. The first question: "Who are you?" The first answer: "A person from Jiu Ge." The second question: "Who else is Jiu Ge besides you?" The second answer: "The nine branches can be divided into enemies, and together they can destroy the world." The third question: "What is the purpose of Jiu Ge?" The third answer: "To avenge the grievances of the most wronged people, and to avenge the most miserable people!"

A happy game hides a serial murder plot, a naive policewoman is trapped in a mysterious mystery, and under the dark web where reality and virtuality are intertwined, can the most precious emotions between people still be summoned?

"Pride and Prejudice" is Austen's colorful and fascinating comedy masterpiece. It takes the love entanglements of the hero and heroine as the main line and describes four marriages. The writing of the novel is funny and spicy, and the dialogue is full of life. Through the interaction between Elizabeth and Darcy, it presents the marriage and love model that Austen longed for: in addition to equality and respect, there is also freedom and mutual understanding. To this day, we can still extract from Elizabeth the spiritual core that is suitable for today's women: she has her own thoughts, and insists on her own emotional choices beyond the label of "elegant woman".

"1993" is an important work in the later years of the famous French writer Victor Hugo, and it is also his last novel. In the novel, Hugo created three central characters, the Marquis de Landenac, the leader of the Vendée rebels, his grandnephew, Govan, the commander of the Republican Army who suppressed the rebellion, and Simourdain, Govan's tutor and commissioner of the Public Security Commission. He developed an intricate plot around them, depicting the historical scene of the desperate struggle between the bourgeoisie and the feudal forces in 1793.

"The Train Sails toward the Sunset" is the first novel written by Wu Tong, a young writer born in 1995. The work tells a story about love and loss that travels through different time and space - after doctor Qu Han lost his daughter unexpectedly, he decided to leave the city that brought her loss and pain. On the green train, she met a mysterious old friend. He was as young as twenty years ago, but he was vague about his experiences. Qu Han couldn't help but follow him and embarked on a journey of memories. As the train drove into the sunset, the truth about her daughter's death finally slowly emerged...

"Notre Dame de Paris" is set in France under the rule of Louis XI in 1482. It describes the entanglement between a gypsy girl, Frollo, the deputy bishop of Notre Dame Church, and the outcast Quasimodo. The truth, goodness, beauty, falsehood, evil, and ugliness of the characters are all magnified. Quasimodo, who is ugly, deaf and mute, has a noble and pure heart. Esmeralda is a beautiful and pure dancer who was framed to death by Frollo, the deputy bishop of Notre Dame Church, because she did not succumb to his desires. Quasimodo was desperate for losing his idol, and angrily pushed Frollo from the top floor to his death. He also went to the cemetery and committed suicide next to Esmeralda's body.

Catherine, the innocent daughter of a country priest, gets acquainted with the hypocritical Thorpe brothers and sisters, and falls in love at first sight with the upright and handsome rich boy Henry. She is warmly invited to his home by Henry's father, General Tierney. In Northanger Abbey, a deep and ancient house, Catherine, who has always been obsessed with Gothic novels, embarked on a ridiculous "adventure" journey in the house because of various terrifying phantoms in her mind. Although the snobbish General Tierney believed Thorpe's words and ordered Catherine to be expelled, Henry did not give in. After many twists and turns, he finally got married to Catherine.

The noble lady Anne and the young officer Frederick fell in love and entered into a marriage contract. Unexpectedly, Anne's father and godmother strongly opposed the man because he was from a humble background and had no property. Anne accepted their "persuasion" out of "prudence" and reluctantly broke off her engagement with Frederick. Eight years later, Frederick returned home in fine clothes, and Anne's heart was filled with mixed feelings. Can the two people whose old love was unforgettable be able to renew their relationship...

"Mr. Lu Xun in Hangzhou" is Fang Wei's latest collection of short and medium stories. It includes eight works of various themes and types that he has created in recent years, presenting a novel and changeable appearance. "The Profiler's Reminiscence" three hundred years later after the earth has become a giant community, the female writer who was mysteriously murdered at home, the female video writer struggling between the overwhelming reality and the online world, and the fake "Adventures" of Mr. Lu Xun in Hangzhou, the secret of the unexpected disappearance of Yu Dafu in the summer of Sumatra... Fang Wei Freely shuttle between the identity of a writer and a scholar, mixing historical materials and reasoning, time travel and fantasy, collaging historical, contemporary and future elements, using historical fantasy and black humor to launch a general attack on the absurd, nihilistic and boring life, and write another imagination about self, destiny and future.

Emma has outstanding appearance, a wealthy family, and is smart and generous. It seems that even God has favored her. However, she is not so perfect. She always likes to make random mistakes based on whims or impulses. The novel uses Emma's subjective imagination to be frustrated again and again in reality, and interprets the story of Emma's growth from childishness to maturity, and finally wins "perfect happiness".

"Shishuoxinyu" was compiled under the leadership of Liu Yiqing, a writer from the Southern Song Dynasty. It is a representative of ancient Chinese aristocratic novels. It mainly records the words and deeds of celebrities from the late Eastern Han Dynasty to the Wei and Jin Dynasties. The stories in the book are divided into thirty-six categories according to content, including "virtue", "speech", "political affairs", "literature" and "rightness", with a total of more than 1,200 stories. "Shishuoxinyu" uses minimalist pen and ink to focus on the social atmosphere of that time that valued talent, good wit, good conversation, and advocating nature. Many famous articles became the material of opera novels or commonly used allusions in poetry in later generations, and they have an important position in the history of Chinese literature.

With Shushan Mountain to the east and Li River to the west, the story begins with a Liaohu teahouse on Gunan Street, Gushu Town, Jiangnan. Every inch of land in the "mud of Huanglong Mountain" is precious, and the handed down master's pot is even more expensive. A pot carries the ingenuity of the pot maker, the discernment of the pot hider, the integrity of the pot appraiser, and the covetousness of speculators. The novel takes the legend of three generations of the Ge family of the purple sand family as the main line, connecting the past events of a century since the late Qing Dynasty to the present. Monk hat teapots, tie-beam teapots, buck melon teapots, Mengchen teapots, double-butterfly teapots... In the tiny space of teapots, the centuries-old history of Chinese purple sand craftsmanship and cultural development slowly unfolds. The art of purple sand is passed down to inherit the family's prosperity. The coating of the pot is also the coating of people.

Fanny, who is kind and sensible but comes from a poor family, was fostered in the home of her wealthy aunt when she was young. The care and love of her cousin Edmund was the only warmth in her life under the shelter of others. As an adult, Fanny often attended social gatherings with her cousins, and thus got acquainted with the charming young man Crawford and his sister... The final ending of these young men and women who were entangled in emotions was unexpected, but also reasonable. At a time when individuality and originality are showing off, the shy, delicate, sincere and sensitive country girl Fanny has won our respect and love with her virtue and personality.

"Les Misérables" is another magnificent masterpiece written by the famous French romantic writer Victor Hugo after "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". It is a novel that represents Hugo's thoughts and artistic style. With outstanding artistic expression, the book shows people a picture of the French Revolution from 1793 to 1832 through the description of the tragic experiences of Jean Valjean and others and a series of touching deeds done by Jean Valjean after he was converted by Bishop Myrière. The brilliant picture of French social and political life during the Paris Popular Uprising in 2006 profoundly exposed and criticized the decadent nature of French society and its criminal phenomena at that time, and expressed compassion and sympathy for the exploitation, fraud and cruel persecution suffered by the poor people under heavy pressure. "Notre Dame de Paris" is set in France under the rule of Louis XI in 1482. It describes the entanglement between a gypsy girl, Frollo, the deputy bishop of Notre Dame Church, and the outcast Quasimodo. The truth, goodness, beauty, falsehood, evil, and ugliness of the characters are all magnified. Quasimodo, who is ugly, deaf and mute, has a noble and pure heart. Esmeralda is a beautiful and pure dancer who was framed to death by Frollo, the deputy bishop of Notre Dame Church, because she did not succumb to his desires. Quasimodo was desperate for losing his idol, and angrily pushed Frollo from the top floor to his death. He also went to the cemetery and committed suicide next to Esmeralda's body. "1993" Is an important work in the later years of the famous French writer Victor Hugo, and it is also his last novel. In the novel, Hugo created three central characters, the Marquis de Landenac, the leader of the Vendée rebels, his grandnephew, Govan, the commander of the Republican Army who suppressed the rebellion, and Simourdain, Govan's tutor and commissioner of the Public Security Commission. He developed an intricate plot around them, depicting the historical scene of the desperate struggle between the bourgeoisie and the feudal forces in 1793.

"The Collected Works of Jane Austen" includes six representative works of the outstanding British female writer Jane Austen: "Pride and Prejudice", "Sense and Sensibility", "Mansfield Park", "Emma" and "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion" published after her death. With extraordinary insight and exquisite language, she truly shows the small world around her. These six masterpieces span half of his life from 1795 to 1816 and are the culmination of Austen's short and intense creative career. The emotional attitude displayed in her works remains an insight that transcends its time even today. This edition is carefully translated by the famous translator Mr. Sun Zhili based on the Oxford edition, which is accurate and vivid; it also includes dozens of classic illustrations by the famous illustrator Hugh Thomson of the Victorian era.

He was the best at that time, and I was the best me later. But the best thing is that there is a whole youth between us. Maybe ordinary people like us have the first secret, which is called love. "Geng Geng?" "Huh?" "Let's always be roommates." He said this without any reason or reason. My heart suddenly beat wildly. Not only did time not take me away, but it also took a big step back, back to a golden afternoon. He said to me, Geng Geng, let's be roommates. Let's be roommates. Let's stay roommates. "Okay." I looked at him and nodded. This is something that is not decided by us at all, but we made the decision early. The person to the right of my name on the red list for the first semester, Yu Huai, became my deskmate for three years. It has become my eternal haunting Yu Huai in my best time.

Non-random crime series: Hidden behind each seemingly bizarre case is the struggle and game of human nature. Criminal investigation writer Ma Tuo uses an objective and delicate approach to present the crime in front of your eyes. The woman dreamed that her missing father died in a no-man's land beside the railway tracks. Later, under the "guidance" of her dream, the police actually excavated her father's body; a "zombie" bite incident suddenly occurred in the ancient city. Soon after, three second-grade students disappeared mysteriously, and the three of them were members of the school's UFO research team. When the three people disappeared, many witnesses claimed that a flying saucer took them away; in the funeral shed, a 60-year-old woman fell from the sky and fell to her husband's coffin with blood from her orifices; a popular young man in the entertainment industry suddenly died unexpectedly, the conspiracy behind the silence of his parents, a corporate executive died in a secret room, and the mysterious witness to the neighbor's murder...

"Youth" is an autobiographical novel by Coetzee. It tells the life of a young man named John after arriving in London from South Africa. This young man "he" worked as a programmer at IBM and an international computer company. Materially, he lived a relatively comfortable life, but mentally he fell into an extremely depressed state. He longs to get rid of the influence of South Africa and truly live a life like a Londoner, but he is unable to truly integrate into the local area, nor can he completely cut off the connection with his mother; he longs for emotional comfort, but cannot resonate emotionally with other girls; he is introverted and lacks enthusiasm, but he yearns for a vigorous life like a poet. In this novel, Coetzee re-examines his youth path from "his" perspective.

Three generations of a family have the same name. What kind of family secrets and emotional undercurrents are hidden behind this? In an ancient house in the forest next to a cemetery, when the sleepwalking Mrs. Baige calls "Franz", who is she calling, her lover who disappeared during World War II, her only son who depends on each other for life, or her grandson who is of mixed Chinese and German descent? The novel "My Franz" by Hai Rao, a writer living in Germany, begins with the meeting of two women who are married far away. Wu Jialing and Xia Yihong from Chongqing hit it off in distant Germany and became friends. As the relationship deepened, Wu Jialing, who was poor and unable to have a child, began to distance himself from Xia Yihong, who was wealthy and unexpectedly had a child, because of jealousy, but returned to her again and again because of her kindness. When Xia Yihong was struggling in pain because of her husband's relationship with her mother-in-law, Wu Jialing also had doubts about her marriage because she discovered her husband's secret. The hand of fate hasn't stopped playing yet. Xia Yihong's beauty disappeared unexpectedly, her husband was imprisoned in a mental hospital, and her son Franz was adopted by Wu Jialing. The interweaving of themes such as cultural conflict, the subtleties of human nature, historical pain, emotion and dignity, memory and redemption support the story of new immigrants belonging to the 21st century.

"Summer" is a novel by the famous South African writer and Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee. It is the third part of the "Trilogy of Scenes from Provincial Life". Together with "Boy" and "Youth", it forms a complete autobiographical trilogy. In "Summer", Coetzee takes the subtle and confusing memoir style of alternate reality and fiction a step further: the famous writer Coetzee is dead; in order to write a biography of the late writer, a young British writer searches for Coetzee's ghostly middle age like a detective and talks to the important figures in Coetzee's life one by one. This is a unique work, an "autobiography" from the perspective of others, and also an extremely poignant and profound self-exploration and self-expression of the writer.

Five short stories, urban legend × psychological thriller × depressive reasoning, write about the undercurrent of human nature. "Greedy Sheep": Beautiful sisters with very different personalities live in a mansion. Their lovers frequently disappear, their grandmothers are tortured to death, and their parents die of illness one after another. In the end, they became the murderer and the victim of a murder. "The Immoral Sheep": Daisuke Shinoda inherited his father's company. Although he encountered business difficulties, with the help of his perfect wife, Sheep, he believed that everything would be solved. Until one day, he noticed that his son looked more and more like his friend's children. "Sheep on Sleepless Nights": Komuro Tazi, who depends on her mother for life, suffers from insomnia. One long night, she dreamed that she impulsively killed her friend. The next day, at the old friend's corpse park, the exciting killing in the dream came true. "Stockholm Sheep": Four maids have loyally served the prince imprisoned in a high tower for many years. Unexpectedly, the intrusion of a foreign princess broke their peaceful life. Sacrificial Sheep: A hungover female high school student woke up and found herself handcuffed in a public toilet stall. There seemed to be a white-collar worker and a housewife next door. Footsteps sounded, and with screams, the two people next door disappeared one after another. There are many incredible things in the world...

Malice? Justice? A serial killer who was previewed in advance, a crime show that was broadcast live on the entire network. The crisis is imminent. The person who pressed the start button may be you who is hiding deep in the Internet... A murder warning message was sent to the Cyber ​​Crime Countermeasures Section of the Criminal Police Corps, and it was signed by the former serial murderer "Soulmate". This made deputy section chief Xu Jia uneasy. Although the police have announced that she was shot dead during the arrest, there are still many believers on the Internet who regard her as an idol. Xu Jia was worried that someone would imitate him and commit crimes, so he took his colleagues to the location of the notice. The murder occurred in front of Xu Jia and was made public through a live broadcast on the Internet. What confuses the police is that the victim's death was entirely caused by a series of accidental events... With murder notices coming one after another, how will the police hunt down the real murderer?

Who wrote my diary? The 2020 Edgar Allan Poe Award-winning work has three narrative perspectives, a Gothic "work within a work", and connects multiple murders. Claire is a high school teacher and an expert on Gothic novelist R. M. Holland. One day, her close friend and colleague suddenly died tragically at home. Next to the body was a line taken from Holland's "The Stranger": "Hell is empty." Claire was surprised to find that her life and the novel she was studying gradually overlapped. The police launched an investigation and suspected that the murderer was an acquaintance of Claire. At a time of crisis and not knowing who to trust, Claire opened her diary and recorded her fears and doubts about the case. But a few days later, she found a sentence in the diary that she had never seen before: Hello Claire, you don't know who I am. Real life and horror novels are intertwined, and the story is given a terrifying life. Can the ending be rewritten?