The first major biography of the Borgias in thirty years,Christopher Hibbert's latest history brings the family and theworld they lived in—the glittering Rome of the ItalianRenaissance—to life. The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, andgreed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voraciousRodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, wasthe central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven papal offspringalso rose to power and fame -- his daughter Lucrezia and herbrother Cesare, who murdered Lucrezia's husband and served as themodel for Machiavelli's The Prince. The Borgias were notorious forseizing power, wealth, land, and titles through bribery, marriage,and murder. The story of the family's dramatic rise from itsSpanish roots to the highest position in Italian society is anabsorbing tale.
The President's son and daughter are abducted, and DetectiveAlex Cross is one of the first on the scene. But someone veryhigh-up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him offthe case and in the dark. A deadly contagion in the water supply cripples half of thecapital, and Alex discovers that someone may be about to unleashthe most devastating attack the United States has everexperienced. As his window for solving both crimes narrows, Alex makes adesperate decision that goes against everything he believes--onethat may alter the fate of the entire country. KILL ALEX CROSS isfaster, more exciting, and more tightly wound than any Alex Crossthriller James Patterson has ever written!
胖查理在伦敦过着正常的生活，当他给住在美国、久已疏远的父亲打电话，请他来参加自己的婚礼时，却发现父亲刚刚过世了。胖查理去佛罗里达参加了父亲的葬礼，于是惊心动魄的故事逐一上演…… 因为他发现两件事：，他的父亲是化作人形的蜘蛛神阿纳西，一个来自非洲的骗子之神；第二，他还有个叫“蜘蛛”的兄弟继承了父亲的部分神力。蜘蛛拥有胖查理所没有的一切优点：幸运、快活、充满自信，还有父亲的如簧巧舌和追求女人的天份。他的出现把胖查理有条不紊的生活被蜘蛛搅得天翻地覆，他偷走了胖查理的工作、未婚妻，甚至是家中好的房间，更糟的是，他还害胖查理被警方当作挪用公款和谋杀客户的嫌疑犯…… 胖查理身陷囹圄，只得回到佛罗里达，试图摆脱兄弟的干扰。他借助于魔法，进入了图腾动物神祗们居住的灵魂世界，但故
Charles Wellington Furlong's monumental bestseller Let `ErBuck, an account of the now famous Pendleton Round-Up--completewith fifty of Furlong's famous pictures, was first published in1921 to educate the "blasé, effete, lily-livered youths" of Americaabout the values of an "honorable physical contest"--the rodeo. Outof print for over eighty years, it has at last been resurrected inthis stunning Overlook reproduction, entirely faithful to Furlong'soriginal, and beautifully photographed, outdoor epic. Each fall in Pendleton, Oregon, there is great carnival thatepitomizes the most dramatic phases of the pioneer days of theWest--and its spirit. There the real, practical work of the trail,cowcamp and range is shown through the sports of the pioneer.Recalling a phase of Americana that has all but passed, here is thework and life of the Old West, eternally engraved upon theescutcheon of our history. The epitome of the great human virtues with which the West wasreplete--courage, daring, belief in
Thirteen darkly comic stories, Dangerous Laughter is amesmerizing journey that stretches the boundaries of the ordinaryworld.
A master of literary transformation, Pulitzer Prize-winnerSteven Millhauser turns his attention to the transformations oflove in these three hypnotic novellas. While ostensibly showing herhome to a prospective buyer, the narrator of “Revenge” unfolds anorigami-like narrative of betrayal and psychic violence. In “AnAdventure of Don Juan” the legendary seducer seeks out newdiversion on an English country estate with devastating results.And the title novella retells the story of Tristan and Ysolt fromthe agonized perspective of King Mark, a husband who compulsivelylooks for evidence of his wife’s adultery yet compulsively denieswhat he finds. Combining enchantment as ancient as Sheherezade’swith up-to-the-minute acuity and unease, The King in the Tree isMillhauser at his best.
