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。

Utah Blaine Held captive south of the border, Colonel UtahBlaine escaped with nothing but the clothes on his back. Then hefound new trouble by saving the life of a Texas rancher. Thewould-be executioners were the rancher's own men, looking to stealhis land. Now Utah has a unique proposition: Have the wealthy Texanplay dead, introduce himself as the spread's new foreman, and takecare of the outlaws one by one. The wage to fight another man'swar? Generous. The cost of falling in love while earning that wage?Utah will soon find out--unless the bad guys get him first. SilverCanyon "You're not wanted in Hattan's Point," Matt Brennan was toldmoments after arriving in town. "There's trouble here and men arepicking sides." But Matt wasn't going anywhere until he found outwhat the dispute was about--and got to know Moira Maclaren. Sheconsidered him nothing more than a drifting ranch hand, and hewanted to prove her wrong. To do it, he'd have to solve the mysteryof the growing violence--a mystery that could make

In Lonely on the Mountain, Louis L'Amour's solitary wanderingSackett brothers make a stand together--to save one of their own.The rare letters Tell Sackett received always had trouble inside.And the terse note from his cousin Logan is no exception. Loganfaces starvation or a hanging if Tell can't drive a herd of cattlefrom Kansas to British Columbia before winter. To get to Logan, hemust brave prairie fires, buffalo stampedes, and Sioux war parties.But worse trouble waits, for a mysterious enemy shadows Sackett'severy move across the Dakotas and the Canadian Rockies. TellSackett has never abandoned another Sackett in need. He will bringaid to Logan--or die trying.

Wounded, dehydrated, and escaping a violent feud with the menof Bob Sutton's ranch, Trace Jordan is near collapse when hedescends from the heat of the desert into a cool, secluded canyon.He wakes to find a beautiful woman gently caring for his injuries.Maria Cristina and her family have also suffered at the hands ofSutton and his men. The experience has left her hostile anddefiant. But Jordan sees another side of Maria, and the more timethey spend together, the greater his concern for her safetybecomes. Sutton's men are watching and waiting for him to showhimself. If he escapes, Maria will be left behind to face theirbrutality. But if he convinces her to join him, he will be leadingher into a heat-blasted, waterless desert. And if that doesn't killthem, the Apaches will.

A collection of nine classic Salinger short stories.

Shalako He was a white man as cunning as any Indian, a lonerwho trusted in nothing but his weapon and his horse. But thenShalako came across a European hunting party, and a brave andbeautiful woman, stranded and defenseless in the SonoranDesert--the Apaches' killing ground. Shalako knew he had to stayand help them survive. For somewhere out there a deadly Apachewarrior had the worst kind of death in mind for them all. CatlowBen Cowan and Bijah Catlow had been friends since they were boys.By the time they became men, Catlow was an outlaw and Cowan a U.S.marshal. So when his old friend rode to Mexico to pull the biggestrobbery of his career, it became Ben's job to hunt him down. Butsouth of the border, Ben meets beautiful Rosita Calderon, whosepresence complicates an already dangerous situation. And soon Benrealizes that the price of getting Catlow home may be more thanhe's willing to pay.

In his newest adventure, Indiana Jones travels to Indiaaccompanied by a female torch singer named Willie Scott and aneleven-year-old boy named Short Round, his self-appointedside-kick.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag comes thispowerful novel of passion, heartbreak, and redemption--a story thatcelebrates our capacity to love one time, for all time, even in theface of adversity and change. They say that each of us becomes anentirely new person every seven years. But Rebecca Bradshaw doesn'tfeel any different when an old lover shows up severely injured atthe hospital where she runs the physical therapy department. Sevenyears ago baseball player Jace Cooper left her without a secondthought or the chance to share the life-changing secret she sworeshe'd keep from him forever. Now he was back, wanting both her helpand a second chance. Becca hadn't changed, and she didn't believeJace had either, but as she helped him repair his broken body andhis fractured past, she would find she was wrong on both counts.The only thing that had stayed the same was the most importantthing of all--and now suddenly time was running out.

Twenty years ago, four teenagers at summer camp walked into thewoods at night. Two were found murdered, and the others were neverseen again. Four families had their lives changed forever. Now, twodecades later, they are about to change again. For Paul Copeland,the county prosecutor of Essex, New Jersey, grief at the loss ofhis sister has only recently begun to subside. Cope, as he isknown, is now dealing with raising his 6-year old daughter aloneafter his wife has died of cancer. Balancing family life and arapidly ascending career as a prosecutor distract him from his pasttraumas, but only for so long. When a homicide victim is found withevidence linking him to Cope, the well-buried secrets of theprosecutor's family are threatened. Is this body one of the camperswho disappeared with his sister? Could his sister be alive? Copehas to confront so much he left behind that summer 20 years ago:his first love, Lucy, his mother who abandoned the family, and thesecrets that his parents might have been hiding even fro

Here is an historic adventure of extraordinary power waiting tosweep you away to exotic lands as one of the most popular writersof our time conquers new storytelling worlds. Louis L'Amour hasbeen best known for his ability to capture the spirit and drama ofthe authentic American West. Now he guides his readers to an evenmore distant frontier -- the enthralling lands of the 12th century.At the center of "The Walking Drum" is Kerbouchard, one ofL'Amour's greatest heroes. Warrior, lover, scholar, Kerbouchard isa daring seeker of knowledge and fortune bound on a journey ofenormous challenge, danger and revenge. Across the Europe, theRussian steppes and through the Byzantine wonder of Constantinople,gateway to Asia, Kerbouchard is thrust into the heart of thetreacheries, passions, violence and dazzling wonders of amagnificent time. From castle to slave gallery, from sword-rackedbattlefields to a princess's secret chamber, and ultimately, to theimpregnable fortress of the Valley of Assassins, "The Walking Drum"is

No one brings to life the Old West like Louis L'Amour. Collectedhere for the first time, these vintage frontier stories introduceyou to lawmen and loners, ranchers and renegades, gunslingers,cardsharps, bank robbers, etc. In these pages L'Amour brings tolife such classic characters as the Cactus Kid, Tensleep Mooney,One-Eared Tim, and the gunfighter Kim Sartain. These are frontiertales as only L'Amour can tell them--stories that surprise like thesharp crack of a Winchester and move like the lonely howl of thewind across an empty plain on the long ride home.

The open West was a land where wanderers could find themselves ahome--a home to fight for, to be changed by, sometimes to die for.Jed Ashbury was one such journeyman, taking on the identity of adead man. Allen Ring was another: he'd won his plot of land in acard game only to find he had to win again with a gun. From ahas-been boxer to a ranch hand taking on his bosses' troubles, thecharacters in these classic Louis L'Amour short stories are allandquot; riding for the brandandquot; -staying loyal to whatmatters, staking the West with their courage and their blood.

娇生惯养的家猫在四处寻找故事， 勇敢的流浪猫把故事变成了美味。一个现代寓言故事， 告诉你创造世界的秘密。娇生惯养的小猫喵小爪探向黑夜，想为自己闻一个故事。狡猾的狐狸答应给她讲故事，却在心里盘算着如何享用这送上门来的美味。小爪向狐狸一步步走近，越来越近，越来越近……突然——她还没明白怎么回事，一切就这么结束了。…………流浪猫大脾气毛毛带着她的三个饥饿的猫宝宝一路寻觅。但茫茫夜色中没有任何东西可以拿来充饥。毛毛开始在屋顶引吭高歌，她准备给孩子们讲一个故事。没想到，那竟然是一个可以“吃”的故事。一个现代寓言故事，告诉你创造世界的秘密。

Set in the years leading up to and culminating in Napoleon's disastrous Russian invasion, this novel focuses upon an entire society torn by conflict and change. Here is humanity in all its innocence and corruption, its wisdom and folly.

In The Sackett Brand, Louis L'Amour spins the story of acourageous man who must face overwhelming odds to track down akiller. Tell Sackett and his bride Ange came to Arizona to build ahome and start a family. But on Black Mesa something goes terriblywrong. Tell is ambushed and badly injured. When he finally managesto drag himself back to where he left Ange, she is gone. Desperate,cold, hungry, and with nothing to defend himself, Tell is stalkedlike a wounded animal. Hiding from his attackers, his rage andfrustration mount as he tries to figure out who the men are, whythey are trying to kill him, and what has happened to his wife.Discovering the truth will be risky. And when he finally does, itwill be their turn to run.

She has the knack of guiding us along the seamier side of lifewhile making us feel refreshed and restored like a terrific gospelblues singer GUARDIAN

WThen an infected bolt of cloth carries plagae from London toan isolated mountain viilage, a housemaid named Anna' Frith emergesas an unlikely heroine and healer. ThroUgh Anna s eyes we followthe story" of the plague vear, I666, as her fellow viliagers makean extraordinan choice: convinced by a visionary young, ministerthey elect to quarantine themselves within the village boundariesto arrest the spread of the disease. But as death reaches intoevery household.faith flays. When villagers turn from prayers tomurderous witch-hunting, Anna must confront the deaths of family,,the disintegration of her community, and the lure of illicit love.As she struggles to survive, a year of plague becomes instead arumsmirabilis, a year of wonders."

Where the real frontier begins... A young cowpuncher stakes aclaim that can only be sealed with fists and a .44 Colt.... Agunfighter, tired of violence, finds himself pushed down a trail ofbloody revenge.... From purple sage to gambler's gold, from a senorita's tempting smile to a splash of blood in the dust, here arestories with a distinctive L'Amour twist. A quiet farmer defendshis honor in a moment of panic and luck...only to find true courageon the run from the dead man's brothers. A young drifter defends alady's honor...and finds himself the quarry of a hanging posse. Anaging marshal with a reputation as a crack shot faces a strangerwho knows his secret. With relentless suspense and unforgettabledrama, Louis L'Amour once again paints a vivid portrait of ourwestern heritage that will live forever.

New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose delivers anotherpulse-pounding suspense novel that ties into SCREAM FOR ME. Five teenage girls have been murdered. One survived, and only shecan reveal the secrets of a disturbing ring of people who kidnapand sell teenage girls on the black market. But those responsiblefor the crimes will do whatever it takes to maintain hersilence. Susannah Vartanian and Luke Papadopoulos have both sworn to stopthe murderers for their own reasons. Susannah, the sister of thehero in SCREAM FOR ME, suffers from a mysterious past that isconnected to the sinister black market. Luke is an investigativeagent and a computer expert who refuses to let another childpredator get away. Susannah and Luke are instantly attracted to each other, buttheir troubled pasts prevent them from immediately acting upontheir feelings. The case will lead them to the shady realm ofInternet chat rooms, where anyone can mask their identity. AsSusannah and Luke draw closer to the crimin