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。
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。
Spirited American stories Gathered together for the first timeFrom the coasts of Brazil to the borders of Tibet to the veryheartland of America, May There Be a Road gathers ten previouslyuncollected stories that capture the magnificent scope and sense ofepic adventure that epitomize Louis L'Amour classic fiction. Inthese vivid settings L'Amour takes us into the pivotal moments whenlives are altered forever, when men and women face a deadly enemy,find a kindred spirit, or confront their own mortality. Among theunforgettable characters we meet here are a hard-living,hard-drinking freighter captain whose penchant for flying maychange the course of World War II . . . A lonely frontiersman whounexpectedly finds himself the protector of two orphans . . . Aboxer who accepts a gambler's payoff and then must fight to redeemhimself . . . A detective willing to believe an unproven story inorder to discover a painful truth hidden in a small town. And inthe title story L'Amour weaves the powerful tale of a young Ti
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author-a spellbindingtale about a woman who, though battered in both body and spirit,never loses hope...
A collection of classic adventure... From the jungles ofBorneo to the hidden canyons of the American West, from small-townfight clubs to a Parisian cafe at the end of World War II, here aretales of betrayal and revenge, courage and cowardice, glory andgreed, as only Louis L'Amour can tell them. Here is L'Amour at hisvery best. A charismatic boxer itches to fight all comers--but hisonly shot at the championship is in beating the man who ruined hisfather.... A beautiful movie star finds a dead man in her apartmentand begs her ex-lover, a tough private eye, to clear her name.... Areluctant hero guides a diamond-hunting couple up a river ruled byheadhunters and pirates in pursuit of a legendary stone and themysterious warlord who guards it.... A young renegade sails theSouth China Sea with a trio of dangerous men in search of treasure,but when it's time to divide the prize, can he trust any of them?Combining electrifying action scenes, vivid historical detail, andcharacters who seem to leap off the page, t
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。
There are few authors who can weave nail-biting thrills,edge-of-your-seat drama, and romantic suspense as masterfully asJulie Garwood. Now she ratchets up the tension with "Murder List,"in which evil is on the hunt- and proves to be methodicallyorganized and chillingly successful. When Chicago detective AlecBuchanan is offered a prime position with the FBI, it is theperfect opportunity to leave the Windy City and follow in hisbrothers' footsteps to the top echelons of law enforcement. Butfirst he must complete one last assignment (and one that he is nottoo happy about): acting as a glorified bodyguard to hotel heiressRegan Hamilton Madison. The gorgeous exec has become entangled insome potentially deadly business. Someone has e-mailed her agraphic crime-scene photo-and the victim is no stranger. Regansuspects that the trouble started when she agreed to help ajournalist friend expose a shady self-help guru who preys onlonely, vulnerable women. In fact, the smooth-as-an-oil-slick Dr.Lawrence Shields may
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.
In the stillness of a golden September afternoon, deep in thewilderness of the Rockies, a solitary craftsman, Grady Adams, andhis magnificent Irish wolfhound, Merlin, step from shadow intolight...and into an encounter with mystery. That night, a pair ofsingular animals will watch Grady's isolated home, waiting to maketheir approach. A few miles away, Camillia Rivers, a local veterinarian, beginsto unravel the threads of a puzzle that will bring to her door allthe forces of a government in peril. At a nearby farm, long-estranged identical twins come togetherto begin a descent into darkness...In Las Vegas, a specialist inchaos theory probes the boundaries of the unknowable...On a Seattlegolf course, two men make matter-of-fact arrangements formurder...Along a highway by the sea, a vagrant scarred by the pastbegins a trek toward his destiny. In a novel that is at once wholly of our time and timeless,fearless and funny, Dean Koontz takes readers into the momentbetween one turn of the world and the next, acros