Only the Worthy (The Way of Steel—Book 1)

TURNED is a book to rival TWILIGHT and VAMPIRE DIARIES, and one that will have you wanting to keep reading until the very last page! If you are into adventure, love and vampires this book is the one for you!

"One of the best thrillers I have read this year. The plot is intelligent and will keep you hooked from the beginning. The author did a superb job creating a set of characters who are fully developed and very much enjoyable. I can hardly wait for the sequel."--Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Any Means Necessary)OPPOSE ANY FOE is book #4 in the bestselling Luke Stone thriller series, which begins with ANY MEANS NECESSARY (book #1)!A small arsenal of U.S. nuclear weapons are stolen from a NATO base in Europe. The world scrambles to figure out who the culprits are and what their target is—and to stop them before they unleash hell on humanity.

From Blake Pierce, bestselling author of ONCE GONE (a #1 bestseller with over 800 five star reviews), comes book #4 in the heart-pounding Mackenzie White mystery series.In BEFORE HE TAKES (A Mackenzie White Mystery—Book 4), newly minted FBI agent Mackenzie White is ordered to take on a new and disturbing case. Women are going missing in rural Iowa, and a pattern is emerging. It is feared a serial killer is on a rampage, his pace increasing. Given her Midwestern roots, Mackenzie is chosen as the perfect fit.

Adam Burns, Washington Post columnist and controversial presidential critic, is dead. With no clear circumstances, speculation, gossip, and rumor flood the media—was it accident, suicide, or murder? Conspiracy theories run amok, accusing none other than the President of the United States. Was Adam Burns the target of a government hit squad? Did someone decide to silence his diatribes once and for all?Fiona Fitzgerald, an unlikely hero in Washington D.C.'s blue-collar, predominantly male police force, is entrusted with unraveling Burns' death. Born into the elite social circles of the nation's capital, and with privileged access to what lurks behind the pristine fa?ade of the political establishment, Fiona is determined to expose the chicanery buried under prim rose bushes and concealed within the ceaseless Washington Masquerade.

The most popular work from provocative Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher is a searing portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires. Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. Her life appears boring, but Erika, a quiet thirty-eight-year-old, secretly visits Turkish peep shows at night and watched sadomasochistic films. Meanwhile, a handsome, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old student has become enamored with Erika and sets out to seduce her. She resists him at firstbut then the dark passions roiling under the piano teacher's subdued exterior explode in a release of perversity, violence, and degradation.

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帆船时代的海洋，北海海盗统治着上古精灵遗迹，鹰视北海，扼守东西海洋咽喉，富可敌国的北海匪盗们却陷入了两难的境地，千年的盘踞使得精灵遗迹已经难以养活十数万居民，放弃这里又将丧失他们的海上霸主地位，北海霸主霍兰特面临艰难的抉择。来自南方的霍尔姆林特商会之主森或能为他解决部分问题，他对霍兰特手下的奴隶需求十分旺盛，双方已经有了非常密切的合作，并不差钱的霍兰特向商会的主人发出邀请，一艘钢铁巨轮缓缓自南方矮人港口海门缓缓驶出。

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

本书是著名学者王彬彬的历史人文随笔集。王彬彬的文章，兼具学者气度，书生风雷，以良知着墨，秉笔书史。讲谈五四，挥斥方遒；《“华人与狗不得入内”的公德教训》钩沉故事，澄澈褊狭；《章太炎的身后事》上下追索，摸索推演文化耆宿一段鲜为人知的身前身后事；《胡适面折陈济棠》摈弃“左”顾“右”盼的孔见，以知识分子的良知与独立人格秉笔，高屋建瓴，别有洞见。

一朝穿越，双十一的姑娘变成妈！穿越什么的去死吧！有女如意，豆蔻年华，立志守寡什么的去死吧！女儿哭：“娘啊，我爱的那个他不爱我！”“好办，娘教你怎么调戏小鲜肉！”女儿又哭：“娘啊，我爱的那个他的爹不让他娶我！”“放心，娘去搞定帅大叔。”【情节虚构，请勿模仿】

重生凤凰还巢，她纤纤玉指收拾渣男恶女，搅弄庙堂风云，步步为营终于站在皇权之巅。赫然回首，才发现自己身边多了一人，白衣墨发，偏偏若仙。他是天下闻名的佞臣，将帝王玩弄在鼓掌之中，愿为她圈养在权谋之中；公主：“你得罪了皇上，夫妻本是同林鸟，大难临头各自飞。”微臣：“不用飞，皇上已被我废除了。”公主：“你可不可以再无耻点。”微臣：“可以，床榻上。”公主，放开微臣！【情节虚构，请勿模仿】

肥胖、邪恶的博因顿老夫人是家族的暴君。她就像一只盘踞在网中的蜘蛛，把几位儿女死死地困在身边，不让他们和外界接触，并以此为乐。每个人都对她厌憎无比，却又无力摆脱。古怪的博因顿一家来到约旦。炎热的一天，在佩特拉迷人的玫瑰色峭壁上，博因顿老夫人像尊怪异的佛像一般端坐不动——她死了。只是，她的手腕上留有一个微小的针孔，那是她被注射过致命一针的唯一迹象。这一次，留给波洛解谜的时间，只有二十四小时。

莫嫣然怎么也没想到，就凭自己装巧卖乖就得到了沈初寒的真心，她真的只是穿过来和皇帝谈恋爱的嘛。怎么想到这个皇帝是这种人，陛下，说好的高贵冷艳霸气十足呢。【情节虚构，请勿模仿】

初次见面是在海湾，一辆中巴车边，当时欧阳琳从车门下来，季东升站在车下迎候。欧阳琳穿高跟鞋，由于地面不平，下车时鞋跟没踩实，她的身子忽然一晃，重心失衡，季东升在一旁紧急出手相扶，欧阳琳一把抓住他的胳膊，终于站稳了，没有摔倒。身边那些人没有谁注意到这个细节，只有他俩心里明白。欧阳琳抽回手时问了一句：“没事吧？”季东升回答：“负伤了。好运气。”彼此只当开玩笑，其实不全是玩笑。当时是夏天，天气热，季东升穿短袖衫，他的左胳膊被欧阳琳抓出一道划痕，一时火辣辣。