本书精选法国著名作家莫泊桑的39篇中短篇小说，有《羊脂球》《我的叔叔于勒》《项链》等不朽名篇，内容丰富多彩，结构巧妙动人。
小说以主人公夏冲从4岁到31岁的经历、见闻为主要线索，时间跨度为1976年至2008年。 夏冲是一个对悲剧非常敏感的人，发现周围生活中到处是被忽略的悲剧，他的父母、少年时代的朋友等人都在各种悲剧之中，与传统悲剧不同的是，这些悲剧往往被看作是理所当然，不足为奇。小说叙述的半个爱情故事则是悲剧中的一抹暖色，女主人公戚敏与夏冲同样年轻、聪明，但更平静，也懂得安之若素。夏冲经历了三次“寂静”时期，他不清楚为什么生活如此平淡又令人激动，无论时代如何变化，这国家这生活都像一条龙，庞大、强力、野心勃勃，而主人公则像一只蝉，疏离、弱小、难以平静。当他到了成熟的年纪，成了一名律师，却仍受制于往日记忆，不得自由。2008年北京奥运会之前，中国已经成了一个崭新的国家，生活完全变了。这时夏冲回首往事，就像蝉发出了一
《寄居者》的故事发生在抗战期间的上海，由女主人公玫在晚年讲述给一位传记作者听：玫在1939年的上海，爱上一名刚刚逃离集中营上岸的犹太男子。那时赶上约瑟夫·梅辛格臭名昭著的“解决方案”就要实施，为让爱人去美国，玫临时在上海抓了个救星另一位美国青年做自己的丈夫。乱世中，小人物们开始一串连环套式的命运救助，，玫用“爱人”的钱赎救了“丈夫”，用“丈夫”的护照让“爱人”脱险，同时，以毁掉对爱情的原始理解和信念的方式，去实现了爱情……故事结局在爱情的部分出人意料，令人叹惋。这部作品是严歌苓在题材、写作手法和女性角色塑造上又一次新鲜成功的尝试。同时，小说延续了作者独特的自述式与视觉化的叙事风格。
一部用智慧构建和平的心灵秘史 ?? ?? ??上世纪初，“改土归流”在康区已接近尾声，地处藏、汉、回交汇地的具有开放意识的云登格龙同康巴的所有土司一样，正经历着沉浮、恐慌与彷徨。和其他土司不同的是，他意识到土司制度必然被新的制度取代。这种悲剧式的觉醒让他了悟，如果要在多民族聚居地保住生存位置，相互间就必须学会宽容和尊重。然而，诱惑使他难以改变惯有的权力欲，于是，绝望、挣扎、希望交替出现在他的生命中…… ?? ?? ??一曲由鲜血和忏悔谱就的人性赞歌
"Good riddance", is the response of every Pecan Springsresident to the murder of local real estate shark Edgar Coleman. itdoesn't take long for China to learn that Coleman was havingnumerous affairs -- and was blackmailing City Council members fortheir votes on a bad land development deal. With her fianceimmersed in the murder investigation -- and the suspect listgrowing longer by the minute -- China can forget about a honeymoon,unless she can find the killer...
They were just kids when they stumbled upon the hidden horror oftheir hometown. Now, as adults, none of them can withstand theforce that has drawn them all back to Derry, Maine, to face thenightmare without end, and the evil without a name.
A plucky street boy who smokes, gambles, and speaksungrammatically, Dick is also honest and hardworking. Aquintessential novel of adventure, romance, and coming-of-age, itis also an exhilarating tale of one boy's metamorphosis from dirtystreet urchin to gentleman.
在线阅读本书 Dr. Moreau, a scientist expelled from his homeland for cruelexperiments, finds a deserted island where he can create hideouscreatures with manlike intelligence. But as the rigid order onMoreau's island dissolves, the consequences of his experimentsemerge-and his creations revert to beasts more shocking than naturecould devise.
Former lawyer China Bayles works hard to make her Texas herbshop a success. Business is booming, but China is too distracted torevel in her triumph. She's trying to spend more time with her newhusband and stepson, and she's worrying about her best friend. Tofurther complicate matters, when she has to round up a supply ofmistletoe, her chief supplier turns up dead.
In this swashbuckling novel, by the author of Treasure Island,young Dick Shelton is left orphaned. So he seeks the help of themysterious Black Arrow fellowship. Brimming with adventure andsuspense, this is a portrait of England during the War of theRoses, when many, like Dick, were torn between their loyalties.
When sexy Nightkeeper Dez goes rogue, the bounty hunterenlisted to catch him is Reese, his former lover. The sexual energybetween them is hotter than ever-but the life-and-death stakesattached to the chase may pull them apart for good.
China Bayles isn't happy when a Texas wind blows her husband'sex-wife, and the mother of China's stepson, into her herb shop.Sally is known to have a split personality and fall into constanttrouble with the law, but she claims she has nowhere else to turn.Now its up to China to weed out whatever it is Sally's running frombefore the truth catches up to them all.
In an effort to remove a family curse and humor her grandfather,MacKenzie Sinclair heads for the Guatamalan jungle to return anancient amulet that her great-great grandfather, PeregrineSinclair, had taken from the Mayan ruins of Tikal during one of hisexpeditions. She ends up being catapulted back in time and into thelife of Liam O'Shea, Peregrine's partner and a man who neverreturned from the original expedition. Effective characterizationpropels the occasionally complex story (there is a smallwhite-slavery subplot) from the steamy Central American jungles tothe restrictive, glittering 1884 San Francisco social scene withall the grace and sensuality readers have come to expect fromKrinard. Krinard has written a number of alternative realityromances and is especially known for her sensual, mysticaldepiction of werewolves (Prince of Shadows, Bantam, 1996). Shelives in Concord, California. Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Past midnight, Chyna Shepherd, twenty- six, gazed out a moonlitwindow, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley homeof her best friend's family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderoussociopath, Edgler Forman Vess, has entered the house, intent onkilling everyone inside. A self-proclaimed "homicidal adventure,"Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immensehimself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse or limits, tolive with intensity. Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit. Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safetyand self-respect. Now she will be tested as never before. At firsther sole aim is to get out alive-until, by chance, she learns theidentity of Vess's next intended victim, a faraway innocent onlyshe can save. Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaningbeyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resourceshe has to save an endangered girl—as moment by moment, theterrifying threat Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies.
Undead fathers really do know best... To prove her journalisticchops, Libby Monroe ends up in Broken Heart, Oklahoma, chasing downbizarre rumors of strange goings-onaand finding vampires,lycanthropes, and zombies. She never expects to fall in lust withone of them, but vampire/single dad Ralph Genessa is tooirresistible. Only the town is being torn in two by a war betweenthe undeadaand Libby may be the only thing that can hold BrokenHeart togethera]
As the carrier of a rare gene, Sirantha Jax has the ability tojump ships through grimspace-a talent which makes her a highlyprized navigator for the Corp. Then a crash landing kills everyoneon board, leaving Jax in a jail cell with no memory of the crash.But her fun's not over. A group of rogue fighters frees her...for aprice: her help in overthrowing the established order.
Drafted into working for the Order of Merciful Aid, mercenaryKate Daniels has more paranormal problems than she knows what to dowith. And in Atlanta, where magic comes and goes like the tide,thatas saying a lot. But when Kateas werewolf friend Derek isdiscovered nearly dead, she must confront her greatest challengeyet.
