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In the fourteenth fantastical book from The Kingdom of Wrenly series, Prince Lucas and Clara discover there is a ghost haunting the Wrenly Castle.There are things that go bump in the night, even in the well-protected royal palace of Wrenly. Mysterious happenings have set Prince Lucas and his dragon, Ruskin, on edge. Curtains sway next to closed windows, temperatures drop for no reason, and strange lights glow in empty rooms. Lucas and Clara are sure there is a ghost haunting the castle halls. But will they find the ghost before the ghost finds them?With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, The Kingdom of Wrenly chapter books are perfect for beginning readers.

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他是水電工，囤積症患者，也是詩人。「你說好像沒有什麼愛的感覺／我做了，可心裡有些難過。兩次。／你叫我叫水電行的來修理熱水器／我做了，整天整個人都成為水電工了／手指頭被鐵鎚敲到好想讓人安慰／不過那也都是過去的事了／今天天氣好得不像樣／我感覺青春從遠遠的過去過來了／幾乎會要了我的命」――〈每天的天氣〉在滿是記憶符碼的、擁擠的房間裡，他曾提筆抄詩，聽著傷心欲絕，用一台小影印機，列印出略帶無力卻又奇怪積極

他是水電工，囤積症患者，也是詩人。 「你說好像沒有什麼愛的感覺／我做了，可心裡有些難過。兩次。／ 你叫我叫水電行的來修理熱水器／我做了，整天整個人都成為水電工了／ 手指頭被鐵鎚敲到好想讓人安慰／不過那也都是過去的事了／ 今天天氣好得不像樣／我感覺青春從遠遠的過去過來了／幾乎會要了我的命」 ——〈每天的天氣〉 在滿是記憶符碼的、擁擠的房間裡，他曾提筆抄詩，聽著傷心欲絕，用一台小影印機，列印出略帶無力卻又奇怪積極的白紙黑字；使用訂書機裝訂後，再以電火布（水電膠帶）封邊，做成一本名喚《我們的戒菸失敗》的zine詩集。很粗糙，就這樣，全臺灣100多人擁有，卻幾乎沒人願意割愛。 ★新增20餘幅彩色攝影主題作品＋全新校訂內文＋全新後記 ★傳奇手寫zine詩集，穢土轉生，全新面貌「文庫本」與你相遇 ★一本獻給邊緣人、孤獨者，與地才們的詩集。 怕只怕在某個又飄起雨沫的夜裡／例如響著座頭市那樣陰暗的樂曲／ 憶起究竟走過幾回的中正台商圈／就難忍莫可奈何的苦笑／ 如同我們的戒菸失敗／繼續抽著名為幸運的香菸／ 試圖在馬桶上創造些什麼鬼東西——〈#便秘〉 各領域推薦 「如果你曾有一丁點被《我們的戒菸失敗》打動，代表詩集裡的真實氣味離你不遠，《我們的戒菸失敗》是作者用人生交換來的字字句句，有屁尿屎淚，也有血有肉，有時令人會心一笑，有時慘不忍睹。常常仰賴生活衝擊創作的我，多少能體會創作者自傳體帶有自殘又自癒的矛盾。」——葛洛力（業餘唱作人，化石代的少女） 「恣睢麻利的詩句，將一個人遭受社會化齒輪反覆壓榨、推擠的過程，帶點自嘲地說完。表面上瘋瘋癲癲，讀了卻誠實到讓人覺得不堪，不忍。但這不是一本需要憐憫的書，因為讀者也是書中主角：我們都在成功邊緣徘徊，一邊嘆息Almost doesn’t count，一邊因為被他的詩句深深理解，而可以告訴自己，We’re almost there。」——陳夏民（本書編輯） 「自那個總在夜晚的Livehouse中爛醉的狂人帶著詩與害羞的表情進入我的地下室以後，我才開始真的明白：日子越是破敗無聊，越能美麗。」——黃廷玉（Mangasick店長） 「麻利詩文有種特殊的浪漫。那種浪漫來自於浮沉人生不上不下掙扎，並不只是憤怒，或者憑藉他工人身分可以大書特書的政治正確，像是張作驥的電影。當我們

The #1 internationally bestselling series, soon to be a major TV series on HBO"Strike shares a trait with many great fictional detectives: He is darn good company." -- Harlan CobenWhen novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine thinks her husband has just gone off by himself for a few days, as he has done before, and asks Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, he discovers that Quine has just completed a manuscript revealing poisonous secrets about almost everyone he knows. If the novel were to be published, it would ruin lives--meaning that there are lots of influential people who might want him silenced.When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances, Strike and Robin, his determined young assistant, embark on a race against time to understand the motivations of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any they've encountered before...A compulsively readable novel in the highly ac

Almost fifteen per cent of the world's population today experiences some form of mental or physical disability and society tries to accommodate their needs. But what was the situation in the Roman world? Was there a concept of disability? How were the disabled treated? How did they manage in their daily lives? What answers did medical doctors, philosophers and patristic writers give for their problems? This, the first monograph on the subject in English, explores the medical and material contexts for disability in the ancient world, and discusses the chances of survival for those who were born with a handicap. It covers the various sorts of disability: mental problems, blindness, deafness and deaf-muteness, speech impairment and mobility impairment, and includes discussions of famous instances of disability from the ancient world, such as the madness of Emperor Caligula, the stuttering of Emperor Claudius and the blindness of Homer.

A witty and revealing memoir of the mid-1990s, when high design became art and there was no more exclusive club for high design than MOSS. For almost twenty years the SoHo design gallery MOSS was the

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Almost eighty years after Leon Trotsky founded the Fourth International: the World Party of Socialist Revolution, there are now Trotskyist organizations in 57 countries, including most of Western Euro

Almost eighty years after Leon Trotsky founded the Fourth International: the World Party of Socialist Revolution, there are now Trotskyist organizations in 57 countries, including most of Western Euro

Shusei is the most handsome and popular boy at his high school -- and he's turned down almost every girl there, including Aoi's best friend. But when his apartment catches fire, he has to move in with

Book VI of the Histories is one of Herodotus' most varied books, beginning with the final collapse of the Ionian Revolt and moving on to the Athenian triumph at Marathon (490 BC); it also includes fascinating material on Sparta, full of court intrigue and culminating in Kleomenes' grisly death, and there is comedy too, with Alkmeon's cramming clothes, boots, and even cheeks with gold dust, then Hippokleides 'dancing away his marriage'. In Herodotus' time, Marathon was already reaching almost legendary status, commemorated in epigrams and monuments, and in this edition a substantial introduction discusses Herodotus' relation to these other memorials. It also explores the place of the book in the Histories' overall structure, and pays particular attention to Herodotus' treatment of impiety. A new text is then accompanied by a full commentary, covering literary and historical aspects and offering help with translation. The volume is suitable for undergraduates, graduate students, teachers

Book VI of the Histories is one of Herodotus' most varied books, beginning with the final collapse of the Ionian Revolt and moving on to the Athenian triumph at Marathon (490 BC); it also includes fascinating material on Sparta, full of court intrigue and culminating in Kleomenes' grisly death, and there is comedy too, with Alkmeon's cramming clothes, boots, and even cheeks with gold dust, then Hippokleides 'dancing away his marriage'. In Herodotus' time, Marathon was already reaching almost legendary status, commemorated in epigrams and monuments, and in this edition a substantial introduction discusses Herodotus' relation to these other memorials. It also explores the place of the book in the Histories' overall structure, and pays particular attention to Herodotus' treatment of impiety. A new text is then accompanied by a full commentary, covering literary and historical aspects and offering help with translation. The volume is suitable for undergraduates, graduate students, teachers

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