春秋乱世，她从乱坟岗重生，寄人篱下。她女扮男装，混迹于游侠之间，靠聪明才智和经商之才，成为流亡齐地的赵公子出的门客和姬妾。她爱财如命，见金子两眼放光。他则以打压她为乐，没收她的财源。帷幔下，她以身相许，几多缱绻。她助他执掌赵国国政，一心为他。他则姬妾成群，另立她人为后。乱世争霸，她运筹帷幄，笑傲群雄。最终，她能否靠自己的才能让他一心一意，死心塌地？一对欢喜冤家，一场草根女与古代的情爱纠葛大戏，于春秋苍茫大地上，正在激情上演
年轻貌美、气性高傲的芭思希芭·埃弗汀来到威瑟伯里，继承她叔叔的农场。农场主波德伍德以及年轻英俊的中士特洛伊先后爱上了她，错综复杂的爱情纠葛导致了一出发生在远离尘嚣之地的悲剧。 ??
这是陕西作家李晓兵标志性作品，2005年中国以民工为题材的同名电视剧的文学脚本，它讲述了一群游走在现代都市的社会层的城市边缘人——农民工生活的故事。该小说真实地记录了现代都市里一群被忽视的农民工合法追讨微薄的血汗钱，却被诱拐、诱骗、致残、致死的一些鲜为人知的真相；不加掩盖地暴露了黑心包工头纠党结伙、非法牟取暴利、欺骗压榨农民工的暴戾面目。这里是一个真实的世界，没有夸张，没有矫情，一切的一切都是他们生活的血泪史，看了，你一定会流泪。
Five years ago, Laura Townsend's life was nearly destroyedwhen a head injury impaired her ability to use language and forcedher to abandon a brilliant career. Her vivacious spirit intact, shehas found a great new job at an animal clinic-and a handsome newboss who fills her heart with longing. Now he's moving heaven andearth to convince her they belong together, but since she can'tfulfill all of his needs, shouldn't she love him enough to walkaway?
Alex Delaware is back And in Jonathan Kellerman's riveting andingenious new novel, Monster, he faces one of the most grisly andbaffling mysteries of his career: How can a nonfunctional psychoticlocked up in a supposedly secure institution for homicidal madmenpredict brutal murders in the outside world? Delaware and hisfriend and partner Detective Milo Sturgis must penetrate thisenigma in order to stop the horrific killings. A marginal actor isfound dead in a car trunk, sawn in half. Months later, apsychologist at a hospital for the criminally insane is discoveredmurdered and mutilated in a tantalizingly similar way. When reportsof an inmate's incoherent ramblings begin to make frightening senseas predictions of yet more slayings, Delaware and Sturgis are drawninto a web of family secrets, vengeance, and manipulation--bothinside the asylum and on the streets of L.A., where death, drugs,and sex are marketed as commodities. The climactic discovery theymake as they race to prevent more killings gives fresh
In this unforgettable memoir, acclaimed novelist CarolynSlaughter recalls her childhood in Africa and how the land itselfreleased her from a rage that threatened to destroy her. For Carolyn Slaughter, who grew up in Botswana in the 1950s, itwas the Kalahari Desert that made life bearable. Her father was acruel and violent district commissioner during the last days ofBritish colonial rule, and their family’s stiff English facademasked an unspeakable household secret. But out in the bush, theintensity of the air and the beauty of the landscape touched herwith a kind of feverish grace. She would disappear for hours towatch the flat brown river with its water lilies and crocodiles;the thorn trees and the flocks of flamingos; the local women withtheir babies strapped to their backs. Filled with the majesty andsplendor of the ever-changing desert, Before The Knife is thedeeply moving story of a girl who endured and transcended herfamily’s violence to emerge an impassioned observer and explicatorof
The year is 1889, and Rachel Hollister hasn't set foot outsideher house in five years. Ever since a savage attack left her familydead, she's cordoned herself off from the outside world, afraid tolet anyone into her home-or into her heart. But now trouble hasappeared on her doorstep-and suddenly she has no choice but to leta handsome rancher enter her well-guarded existence.
With scores of millions of books in print, translation intotwo dozen languages, and one of the most popular heroes incontemporary fiction to his name, #1 New York Times bestsellingauthor Jonathan Kellerman is the unequivocal “master of thepsychological thriller” (People). In his newest novel Kellermandelivers a tour de force–poignant, dark, and chilling–thatilluminates a shadowy world where impulse rules. Tanya Bigelow was a solemn little girl when Dr. Alex Delawaresuccessfully treated her obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Now, atnineteen, she still seems older than her years–but her problems gobeyond hyper-maturity. Patty Bigelow, Tanya’s aunt and adoptivemother, has made a deathbed confession of murder and urged theyoung woman to seek Delaware’s help. The doctor recalls Patty as aselfless E.R. nurse struggling to raise a child on her own–a womanseemingly incapable of the “terrible thing” she has admitted. Butfor Tanya’s peace of mind, Delaware agrees to investigate, and heenl
Two brothers. One, top FBI Agent, Aloysius Pendergast. Theother, Diogenes, a brilliant and twisted criminal. An undyinghatred between them. Now, a perfect crime. And the ultimatechallenged: Stop me if you can.
Lieutenant Commanders Matthew Reddy of USS Walker has found anunlikely ally in Commodore Jenks of the New Britain Imperial Navy.Now they are searching for a traitor who abducted nurse SandraTicker and young Princess Rebecca of the New British Empire. It issoon obvious that the New Britain Company is attempting tooverthrow the throne. And Reddy must navigate through a tempest ofpolitics, deception, and betrayal if he is ever going to save thehostages and live to fight another day...
The fifth novel in Asimov's popular Foundation series openswith second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if hewas right to choose a collective mind as the best possible futurefor humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nationsand planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know thepast and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to whichhave been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encounteredalong the way become arguing points in a book-long colloquy aboutman's fate, conducted by Trevize and traveling companion Bliss, whois part of the first world/mind, Gaia.
It is a wild race against time as Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer andthe newest member of the Women's Murder Club, attorney YukiCastellano, lead an investigation into a string of mysteriouspatient deaths--and reveal a hospital administration determined toshield its reputation at all costs. And while the hospital wages anexplosive court battle that grips the entire nation, the Women'sMurder Club hunts for a merciless killer among its esteemed medicalstaff. The newest addition to the top selling new mystery seriestakes the Women's Murder Club to the most terrifying heights ofsuspense they have yet to encounter. THE 5TH HORSEMAN proves onceagain that James Patterson is "the page-turningest author in thegame right now " (San Francisco Chronicle).
All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire's richestcitizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the lastdays of summer. The world's largest navy lies peacefully at anchorin Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seasideresorts of Baiae, Herculaneum, and Pompeii. But the carefreelifestyle and gorgeous weather belie an impending cataclysm, andonly one man is worried. The young engineer Marcus Attilius Primushas just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueductthat brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in ninetowns around the Bay of Naples. His predecessor has disappeared.Springs are failing for the and#64257;rst time in generations. Andnow there is a crisis on the Augusta's sixty-mile mainline--somewhere to the north of Pompeii, on the slopes of MountVesuvius. Attilius--decent, practical, and incorruptible--promisesPliny, the famous scholar who commands the navy, that he can repairthe aqueduct before the reservoir runs dry. His plan is to travelto
