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It was a killer year for horror fiction of the harder kind. Authors, editors, and publishers presented readers with some startling works of horrific imagination, stories graphic in the extreme yet with subtleties suggesting larger meanings, tales that explore humanity by plumbing depths of soulless inhumanity and, in some cases, outright depravity. The stories here represent the best of them, disturbing tales that dig deep and take you into the dark heart of horror itself, unrelenting and unapologetic.

1997年亚洲金融危机重创了大多数东亚新兴经济体，IMF和世界银行等国际组织“献计献策”，为接受援助的经济体开出统一的“政策处方”，结果却事与愿违……1997年亞洲金融危機重創了大多數東亞新興經濟體，IMF和世界銀行等國際組織「獻計獻策」，為接受援助的經濟體開出統一的「政策處方」，結果卻事與願違……

In love as in comedy, timing is everything. One bad night doesn't mean it's time to quit. Have patience: great marriages, like a successful comedy career, take time. Turns out the cardinal rules of comedy have an uncanny resemblance to the "rules" of building a strong marriage. With humor and grace, writer and comedian Dani Klein Modisett shares a map for navigating your marriage through rough patches, bad jokes, and even nights when you bomb.

In this sharp, masterfully argued book, Dani Rodrik, a leading critic from within, takes a close look at economics to examine when it falls short and when it works, to give a surprisingly upbeat account of the discipline. Drawing on the history of the field and his deep experience as a practitioner, Rodrik argues that economics can be a powerful tool that improves the world - but only when economists abandon universal theories and focus on getting the context right.

What's fascinating about Dani Shapiro's story "Supernova" is "its focus on the minor catastrophe that is Shenkman, a relatively prosperous man whose minor shortcomings feel, to him alone, monumental and impossible to overlook," writes Benjamin Samuel, co-editor of Electric Literature, in his introduction to this issue of Recommended Reading. "Despite rowing every day, obsessively racing against an old rival in a computerized simulation, nobody even knows Shenkman is still competing."

Working in the medical field can be quite poetic, it can also be very funny. This book combines both to deliver what everyone says is the best medicine, but no doctor has ever written a prescription for: a laugh!

A long-distance relationship with a hot American businessman is the last thing on Beatrice Hart's mind when she drink-books a last-minute flight to glamorous Southern California. With Bea's firm belief that long distance never works, will she ever consider that an exhilarating introduction at 35,000 feet could lead to anything more than a steamy holiday romance?

Rachel hat alles, was sie sich immer erträumte: Einen gutaussehenden Freund, einen großen Freundeskreis und in wenigen Wochen wird sie ihr Traumstudium beginnen. Doch dann geschieht dieser schreckliche Unfall, der ihr alles nimmt, was sie liebt. Als Rachel Jahre später nach einem schweren, nächtlichen Sturz im Krankenhaus erwacht, ist ihr Leben plötzlich wieder so, wie sie es sich immer erhofft hat. Von den Auswirkungen der Tragödie keine Spur. Und der Mann, den sie damals verlor, ist immer noch am Leben.

Frauen haben die grenzenlose Fähigkeit zur Liebe. Umfassend und bedingungslos zu lieben ist ihr unendlich wertvolles und einzigartiges Geschenk an die Welt. Vadim Tschenze, der berühmte russische Heiler, zeigt in diesen Meditationen für Frauen, wie das Weibliche erweckt und gestärkt werden kann. Die visionären Reisen führen zu den ureigenen weiblichen Zentren – Gebärmutter, Herz und Kopf –, wobei sie lange bestehende Blockaden lösen und dabei helfen, negative Gedanken und Muster hinter sich zu lassen. Selbstliebe, Intuition und Charisma werden so gestärkt, die feminine Kraft entfaltet sich.

Vadim Tschenze, der beliebte russische Heiler, zeigt uns, wie wir die Magie der Zahlen nutzen können, um Blockaden zu lösen, unser Herz zu heilen und negative Gedanken und Muster loszulassen. In der Meditation führt er uns nach innen und lädt uns ein, uns im visionären Raum mit der Kraft der Zahlen und ihren Heilfrequenzen zu verbinden. So werden wir auf der Ebene der Gene geheilt und in unserer ureigenen Mitte zentriert. Unser Herz öffnet sich mitsamt seinen spirituellen Gaben.

This book is not about life and death struggles. This book is the polar opposite. It is about the absolute, over-the-top insanity that I have witnessed during my time in the ER. This book is the untold, unseen, and unshared rants and raves of an ER nurse who has been slowly driven mad by his patients. I want you, the listener to step into my scrubs, see this bizarre world through my eyes, and understand that once you stop laughing in the ER, it's time to quit.

When Caris' unearthly musical talent attracts the attention of the Wild Hunt, the Welsh farm girl is stolen away to serve as a faery grim, a herald of death. Two centuries later she's finally escaped back to the human world - and into the present-day life of a reclusive and heartbroken American musician.

Kidnapped on his wedding day in the 12th century and forced into a thousand years of servitude by a cold-hearted faery princess, rugged blacksmith Aidan dreams of nothing but revenge on his captor. Then the spell of a beautiful witch awakens him to the present day - and a passionate desire. But to build a future, he must first confront his past.… Modern witch and magic-shop owner Brooke doesn’t think her life is missing anything, until a wayward enchantment lands a brooding medieval blacksmith in her spell room - and in her arms.

Growing up, goody-two-shoes Kirra Jacobs and troublemaker Reef McKenna were always at odds. Now paired together on Yancey's search-and-rescue canine unit, they begin to put aside old arguments as they come to see each other in a different light. Then a call comes in from the Iditarod that will push them to their limits. Kirra's uncle, a musher in the race, has disappeared. Kirra and Reef quickly track the man, but what they discover is harrowing. Frank's daughter has been kidnapped.

In college, Griffin McCray and his four best friends had their lives planned out. Griffin and Luke Gallagher would join the Baltimore PD. Declan Gray would head to the FBI, and Parker Mitchell would go on to graduate school as a crime scene analyst. But then Luke vanished before graduation, and their world - and friendships - crumbled. Now Griffin is a park ranger at Gettysburg, having left life as a SWAT-team sniper when a case went bad.

Brilliant 21st-century tycoon Justin Cord was brought from cryogenic storage into a 24th-century society where people own stock in one another, safeguarding each other's welfare only out of economic self-interest. This is anathema to the defiantly individualistic Cord, who leads the outer edges of the solar system to form a new government and revolt against the core world of Earth and Mars.

Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriage is transformed by time—abraded, strengthened, shaped in miraculous and sometimes terrifying ways by accident and experience. With courage and relentless honesty, Dani Shapiro opens the door to her house, her marriage, and her heart, and invites us to witness her own marital reckoning--a reckoning in which she confronts both the life she dreamed of and the life she made, and struggles to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become.

Beim Check-in hat Hannah ihn zum ersten Mal gesehen: Logan, mit den unglaublich grünen Augen. Ist es Schicksal, dass er sich im Flugzeug neben sie setzt, kurz bevor die Maschine wie ein Stein vom Himmel fällt, in das eisige Wasser eines Sees? Wie durch ein Wunder kommen Hannah und Logan bei dem Flugzeugabsturz mit dem Leben davon, doch die nächsten Tage verlangen ihnen das Äußerste ab, vor allem, als mit jeder Stunde, die vergeht, die Hoffnung auf Rettung schwindet.

Das schamanische Feuer in dir entzünden. Nach schamanischer Vorstellung bestehen der Mensch, die Erde und das gesamte Universum aus fünf Elementen: Erde, Wasser, Luft, Feuer und Holz. Sind diese Elemente im Menschen ausgewogen, dann ist er gesund, glücklich und lebt in Harmonie mit dem Universum.

Geneva "Neva" Ross never wanted to be a werewolf. Now that she's been turned against her will, she thinks suicide is her only choice. She can't risk hurting the people she loves when she takes on her monstrous new form. After witnessing Neva's leap from a high ledge, Travis Williamson - a Changeling with a dark past - uses his powers to save her life. Days later, Neva wakes up in the hospital as Travis speeds out of town. But he risks everything to turn back and kidnap her, knowing the approaching full moon will put everyone in jeopardy.