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Book 1 Eat Pray Love
Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Born on July 18, 1969 (1969-07-18)in Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S.
Other works: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Pilgrims
Stern Men

Main content:
At 32 years old, Elizabeth Gilbert was educated, had a home, a husband, and a successful career as a writer. However, she was unhappy in her marriage and often spent the night sleeping on her bathroom floor. After separating from her husband and initiating a divorce, which he contested, she embarked on a rebound relationship which continued for some time but did not work out, leaving her devastated and alone.
Afterwards, while writing an article on yoga vacations in Bali, Gilbert met a ninth-generation medicine man who told her she would one day come back and study with him. After finalizing her difficult divorce, Gilbert spent the next year traveling around the world. The trip was paid for in advance with a book deal from the publisher. She spent four months in Italy, eating and enjoying life ("Eat"). She spent three months in India, finding her spirituality ("Pray"). She ended the year in Bali, Indonesia, looking for "balance" of the two and found love ("Love") in the form of a dashing Brazilian factory owner.

Book 2 “Twilight” 《暮色》
Writer:
Stephenie Meyer斯蒂芬妮·梅尔(1973— ), Writer, She was born in Hartford, Connecticut, America. She graduated from Brigham Young University and got the Bachelor of Arts Degree in English Literature. Her representative works include: “New Moon”《新月》(2006) “Eclipse” 《月食》(2007) ,“Breaking Dawn” 《破晓》(2008) etc.
Introduction:
A young-adult vampire-romance novel by author Stephenie Meyer. It is the first book of the Twilight series, and introduces seventeen-year-old Isabella "Bella" Swan, who moves from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington and finds her life in danger when she falls in love with a vampire, Edward Cullen.

Book 3 “Harry Potter” 《哈利波特》
Author：
Joanne Kathleen Rowling乔安妮·凯瑟林·罗琳(1965— ), children literature writer, she was born in Chipping Sodbury, Britain and graduated from University Of Exeter. She learned French and classical literature and got the bachelor of art degree. Her representative works include: “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone” 《哈利·波特与魔法石》, “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”《哈利·波特与密室》, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”《哈利·波特与阿兹卡班囚徒》,“Quidditch Through The Ages”《神奇的魁地奇球》,etc.

Introduction:
“Harry Potter” series have a total of 7 books. The first 6 books’ background is Hogworts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and show Harry Potter 6 years’ studying, living, and adventuring stories in this school. The last one describes a story about Harry Potter searched for Horcruxes in wild areas and eliminated Voldmort eventually.

Book 4
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Author: J. K. Rowling

Main content:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the last book in the series, begins directly after the events of the sixth book. Voldemort has completed his ascension to power and gains control of the Ministry of Magic. Harry, Ron, and Hermione drop out of school so that they can find and destroy Voldemort's remaining horcruxes. To ensure their own safety as well as that of their family and friends, they are forced to isolate themselves. As they search for the horcruxes, the trio learn details about Dumbledore's past, as well as Snape's true motives—he had worked on Dumbledore's behalf since the murder of Harry's mother.

The book culminates in the Battle of Hogwarts. Harry, Ron, and Hermione, in conjunction with members of the Order of the Phoenix and many of the teachers and students, defend Hogwarts from Voldemort, his Death Eaters, and various magical creatures. Several major characters are killed in the first wave of the battle. After learning that he himself is a horcrux, Harry surrenders himself to Voldemort, who casts a killing curse at him. However, the defenders of Hogwarts do not surrender after learning this, but continue to fight on. Having managed to return from the dead, Harry finally faces Voldemort, whose horcruxes have all been destroyed. In the subsequent battle, Voldemort's curse rebounds off of Harry's spell and kills Voldemort. An epilogue describes the lives of the surviving characters and the effects on the wizarding world.

Book 5 The LAST SONG
Author: Nicholas Charles Sparks (born December 31, 1965)
Other works: Message in a Bottle
A Walk to Remember
The Notebook
Nights in Rodanthe

Brief introduction:
Bestselling author Nicholas Sparks's new novel is at once a compelling family drama and a heartrending tale of young love. Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie's father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church. The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story of love on many levels--first love, love between parents and children -- that demonstrates, as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can, the many ways that love can break our hearts...and heal them.

Book 6 the Note Book
Author: Nicholas Sparks

Plot summary
At thirty-one, Noah Calhoun, back in costal North Carolina after World War Ⅱ, is haunted by images of the girl he lost more than a decade earlier. At twenty-nine, socialite Allie Nelson is about to marry a wealthy lawyer, but she cannot stop thinking about the boy who long ago stole her heart. Thus begins the story of a love so enduring and deep it can turn tragedy into triumph, and may even have the power to create a miracle…
No matter how hard, no matter how many people against them, no matter how poor they are, they must be together!
Love can turn tragedy into triumph, even create a miracle.
Noah said: “ I am succeed than anybody else. I love another woman with all my heart. It is enough for me.”
They joined hands to leave the world.

Book 7 The Complete Works of Dale Carnegie
Introduction
During the first thirty-five years of the twentieth century, the publishing houses of America printed more than a fifth of a million different books. Most of them were deadly dull, and many were financial failures. ''Many," did I say? The president of one of the largest publishing houses in the world confessed to me that his company, after seventy-five years of publishing experience, still lost money on seven out of every eight books it published.

Why then did I have the temerity to write another book? And, after I had written it, why should you bother to read it?

Fair questions, both; and I will try to answer them.
I have, since1912, been conducting educational courses for business and professional men and women in New York. At first, I conducted courses in public speaking only-courses designed to train adults, by actual experience, to think on their feet and express their ideas with more clarity, more effectiveness and more poise, both in business interviews and before groups.

But gradually, as the seasons passed, I realized that as sorely as these adults needed training in effective speaking, they needed still more training in the fine art of getting along with people in everyday business and social contacts.
I also gradually realized that I was sorely in need of such training myself. As I look back across the years, I am appalled at my own frequent lack of fitness and understanding. How I wish a book such as this had been placed in my hands twenty years ago ! What a priceless boon it would have been.

Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer. Reach done a few years ago under the auspices of the CARNEGIE Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching uncovered a most important and significant fact-a fact later confirmed by additional studies made at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. These investigations revealed that even in such technically lines as engineering, about 15 percent is due to skill in human engineering--to personality and the ability to lead people.

For many years, I conducted courses each season at the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia, and also courses for the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. A total of probably more than fifteen hundred engineers have passed through my classes. They came to me because they had finally realized, after years of observation and experience, that the highest-paid personnel in engineering are frequently not those who know the most about engineering. One can for example, hire mere technical ability in engineering, accountancy, architecture or any other profession at nominal salaries. But the person who has technical knowledge plus the ability to express ideas ,to assume leadership ,and to arouse enthusiasm among people ---that person is headed for higher earning power.

In the heyday of his activity, john D Rockefeller said that "ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I will pay more for that ability," said john D, "than for any other under the sun."

Wouldn't you suppose that every college in the land would conduct courses to develop the highest-priced ability under the sun? But if there is just one practical ,common--sense course of that kind given for adults in even one college in the land ,it has escaped my attention up to the present writing.

Those powers which you habitually fail to use! The sole purpose of this book--if you aren't then a little better equipped to meet life's situations, then I shall consider this book to be a total failure so far as you are concerned. For "the great aim of education," said Herbert Spencer, '"is not knowledge but action'

And this is an action book.

Book 8 How to Win Friends & Influence People
Author: Dale Breckenridge Carnegie （November 24，1888－November 1，1955）
Representative books: Public Speaking for Success , Five Minute Biographies , How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
The main content
How to Win Friends and Influence People is one of the first bestselling self-help books ever published. Written by Dale Carnegie and first published in 1936, it has sold 15 million copies world-wide. Leon Shimkin of the publishing firm Simon & Schuster took one of the 14-week courses given by Carnegie in 1934. Shimkin persuaded Carnegie to let a stenographer take notes from the course to be revised for publication. In 1981, a new revised edition with updated language and anecdotes was released. The revised edition reduced the number of sections from 6 to 4, eliminating sections on effective business letters and improving marital satisfaction.

Book 9 The Princess Dairies
Author: Meg Cabot
Meg Cabot (born on February 1, 1967 in Bloomington, Indiana, United States) is an American author of romantic and paranormal fiction for teens and adults and used to write under several pen names, but now writes exclusively under her real name, Meg Cabot. She has written and published over fifty books, and is best known for The Princess Diaries, later made by Walt Disney Pictures into two feature films of the same name.
Content
The story of Mia Thermopolis's adolescent turmoil as an average teenager, and a princess of royal descent and chronicled in her ongoing journal, where she explores topics of teenage angst, love and betrayal through a very opinionated eye.

Book 10 THE DEVIL WERRS PRADA
Author: Lauren Weisberger (born March 28, 1977) is an American novelist and author of the 2003 bestseller The Devil Wears Prada, a speculated roman à clef of her real life experience as a put-upon assistant to Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.

Introduction
The Devil Wears Prada (2003) is a best selling novel by Lauren Weisberger about a young woman who, freshly graduated from college, is hired as a personal assistant to a powerful fashion magazine editor, a job that becomes hellish as she struggles to keep up with her boss's capricious and demeaning requests. It spent six months on the New York Times bestseller list and became the basis for the 2006 film of the same name, starring Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, and Emily Blunt.

Book 11 Who moved my cheese
Writer: Spencer Johnson M.D
Introduction:
Little friends in a maze find and enjoy some cheese, but when that cheese is gone, only Sniff and Scurry adapt and go searching for more ,while Hem and Haw wait for more cheese to appear.

Book 12 Three Cups of Tea
Author: Greg Mortenson (Born December 27, 1957 (age 53) St. Cloud, Minnesota, United States
Brief introduction:
In 1993, mountaineer Greg Mortenson attempted to climb K2, the world's second highest mountain and located in the Karakoram range of northern Pakistan-administered Kashmir, as a way of honoring the memory of his deceased sister, Christa. As a memorial, he had planned to lay her amber necklace on the summit of K2. After more than 70 days on the mountain, Mortenson and three other climbers had their ascent interrupted by the need to complete a 75-hour life-saving rescue of a fifth climber. After getting lost during his descent, alone, he became weak and exhausted. Instead of arriving in Askole, where his porters awaited, he came across Korphe, a small village built on a shelf jutting out from a canyon. He was greeted and taken in by the chief elder, Haji Ali of Korphe.
To repay the remote community for their hospitality, Mortenson recounted in the book that he promised to build a school for the village. After difficulties in raising capital, Mortenson was introduced to Jean Hoerni, a Silicon Valley pioneer who donated the money that Mortenson needed for his school. In the last months of his life, Hoerni co-founded the Central Asia Institute, endowing the CAI to build schools in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.
According to the book, Mortenson faced many daunting challenges in his quest to raise funds for the building of more than 55 schools in Taliban territory. Some of these challenges included death threats from Islamic mullahs, long periods of separation from his family, and being kidnapped by Taliban sympathizers.
Reflecting on the state of a post-9/11 world, Mortenson advocates in his books and during his speaking engagements that extremism in the region can be deterred through collaborative efforts to alleviate poverty and improve access to education, especially for girls. Formerly in Afghanistan and Pakistan, schooling focused on boys. Because educated boys tend to