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The office of the public defender is not known as a trainingground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there toolong and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in areal firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young mancharged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just anotherof the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week. As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on aconspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself inthe middle of a complex case against one of the largestpharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind ofenormous settlement that would totally change his life—that wouldmake him, almost overnight, the legal profession’s newest king oftorts...
Ben Cowan and Bijah Catlow had been bound as friends sincechildhood. By the time they grew to manhood, Catlow had become atop cowhand with a wild streak. It took just one disastrousconfrontation with a band of greedy ranchers to make him an outlaw.And when he crossed that line, it was up to U.S. Marshal Ben Cowanto bring him in alive -- if only Catlow would give him thechance...
Book De*ion About Dean Koontz's Frankenstein Dean Koontz's Frankenstein is the collective title of a series ofnovels co-written by Dean Koontz. Though technically of the mysteryor thriller genres, the novels also feature the trappings ofhorror, fantasy, and science fiction. From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerfulreworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you thinkyou know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is themystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of… Dean Koontz's City of the Night They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humansever created—and they must be destroyed. But not even VictorHelios—once Frankenstein—can stop the engineered killers he’s setloose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Now theonly hope rests in a one-time “monster” and his all-too-humanpartners, Detectives Carson O’Connor and Michael Maddison.Deucalion’s centuries-old hi
全书由一篇简介开始，简介的内容其实就象是聊天，作者与读者之间的聊天。写这篇文章时候的小花絮，那篇文章的灵感来自哪里，另外一篇写完之后的感受，诸如此类的话题，对于阅读理解后面的文章有一定的帮助。 这本集子的标题“烟与镜”的含义是，魔术师靠镜子与烟雾来表演，镜子能映照出实像，而45度斜放的镜子会让你看到假象，让你以为你所看到的是真的，这个概念在若干篇里都有出现。小说都是镜子，用来反映这个世界，而奇幻小说也是镜子，是魔术师常用的45度斜放的镜子，甚至是凹凸不平的变形镜，它们可以告诉我们一些事情，一些平时看不到的事情。读完所有的故事，你是不是也会看到一些平时看不到的事情呢？ An elderly widow finds the Holy Grail beneath anold fur coat. A stray cat fights and refights a terrible nightlybattle to protect his unwary adoptive fami
A collection of shortfrontier stories personally selected and introduced by the author.
Once Judge Atlee was a powerful figure in Clanton,Mississippi--a pillar of the community who towered over local lawand politics for forty years. Now the judge is a shadow of hisformer self, a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to hissprawling ancestral home. Knowing the end is near, Judge Atlee hasissued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discusshis estate. Ray Atlee is the eldest, a Virginia law professor,newly single and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprisedivorce. Forrest is Ray's younger brother, who redefines the notionof a family's black sheep. The summons is typed by the judgehimself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date andtime for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study. Ray reluctantlyheads south to his hometown, to the place where he grew up and nowprefers to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place. Thejudge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shockingsecret known only to Ray. And perhaps someone else.
Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle ofthe Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one ofour greatest storytellers. In Treasure Mountain Louis L’Amourdelivers a robust story of two brothers searching to learn the fateof their missing father — and finding themselves in a struggle justto stay alive. Orrin and Tell Sackett had come to exotic New Orleans looking foranswers to their father’s disappearance twenty years before. Touncover the truth, the brothers enlisted the aid of a trailwisegypsy and a mysterious voodoo priest as they sought to re-createtheir father’s last trek. But Louisiana is a dangerous land, and with one misstep thebrothers could disappear in the bayous before they even set foot onthe trail that led to whatever legacy their father had left behind... and a secret worth killing for.
The legal thriller of the decade. --Cleveland Plain Dealer Now a Major Motion Picture! In this true story of an epic courtroom showdown, two of thenation's largest corporations stand accused of causing the deathsof children. Representing the bereaved parents, the unlikeliest ofheroes emerges: a young, flamboyant Porsche-driving lawyer whohopes to win millions of dollars and ends up nearly losingeverything, including his sanity. A searing, compelling tale of alegal system gone awry--one in which greed and power fight anunending struggle against justice-- A Civil Action is alsothe story of how one determined man can ultimately make adifference. With an unstoppable narrative power, it is anunforgettable reading experience.
Arthur C. Clark, creator of one of the world's best-lovedscience fiction tales, revisits the most famous future everimagined in this NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, as two expeditions intospace become inextricably tangled. Heywood Floyd, survivor of twoprevious encounters with the mysterious monloiths, must againconfront Dave Bowman, HAL, and an alien race that has decided thatMankind is to play a part in the evolution of the galaxy whether itwishes to or not.
andquot; Michener is America's best writer, and he proves itonce again in CENTENNIAL.andquot; THE PITTSBURGH PRESSA stunningpanorama of the West, CENTENNIAL is an enthralling celebration ofour country, brimming with the glory and the greatness of theAmerican past that only bestselling author James Michener couldbring to stunning life. From the Native Americans, the migratingwhite men and women, the cowboys, and the foreigners, it is a storyof trappers, traders, homesteaders, gold seekers, ranchers, andhunters--all caught up in the dramatic events and violent conflictsthat shaped the destiny of our legendary West.
Hawaii is not only a truly great story but a notable literaryachievement. It is a work of fiction, yet so true to the spirit andthe history of the islands that it can properly be called the firstmajor chronicle of the land and its people- a monumental tributethat will stand indefinitely.
Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young womanfinds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressedominously to 'My dear and unfortunate successor'. Her discoveryplunges her into a world she never dreamed of - a labyrinth wherethe secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fateconnect to an evil hidden in the depths of history. In those fewquiet moments, she unwittingly assumes a quest she will discover isher birthright - a hunt for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, themedieval ruler whose barbarous reign formed the basis of theDracula myth. Deciphering obscure signs and hidden texts, readingcodes worked into the fabric of medieval monastic traditions, andevading terrifying adversaries, one woman comes ever closer to thesecret of her own past and a confrontation with the very definitionof evil. Elizabeth Kostova's debut novel is an adventure of monumentalproportions - a captivating tale that blends fact and fantasy,history and the present with an assurance
The more than 600 stories written by O. Henry provided anembarrassment of riches for the compilers of this volume. The finalselection of the thirty-eight stories in this collection offers forthe reader's delight those tales honored almost unanimously byanthologists and those that represent, in variety and balance, thebest work of America's favorite storyteller. They are tales in hismost mellow, humorous, and ironic moods. They give the full rangeand flavor of the man born William Sydney Porter but knownthroughout the world as O. Henry, one of the great masters of theshort story.
With over eight million copies of her beloved books in print,Sophie Kinsella is a true phenomenon. Now Becky Brandon (neeBloomwood) is back, in a hilarious new" "Shopaholic novel Becky'slife is blooming She's working at London's newest big store, TheLook, house-hunting with husband Luke (her secret wish is a ShoeRoom)...and she's pregnant She couldn't be moreoverjoyed--especially since discovering that shopping cures morningsickness. Everything has got to be perfect for her baby: from thedesigner nursery...to the latest, coolest pram...to the celebrity,must-have obstetrician. But when the celebrity obstetrician turnsout to be Luke's glamorous, intellectual ex-girlfriend, Becky'sperfect world starts to crumble. She's shopping for two...but arethere three in her marriage?
Praise for A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: 'In the grand epic fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best …tense, surging, insomnia-inflicting' Time Magazine ‘An absorbing, exciting read … Martin’s style is so vivid that youwill be hooked within a few pages’ The Times ‘The sheer mind-boggling scope of this epic has sent other fantasywriters away shaking their heads …Its ambition: to construct theTwelve Caesars of fantasy fiction, with characters so venomous theycould eat the Borgias’ Guardian ‘Colossal, staggering … Martin captures all the intoxicatingcomplexity of the Wars of the Roses or Imperial Rome in hisimaginary world … The writing is always powerful …' SFX
They came by river and by wagon train, braving the endlessdistances of the Great Plains and the icy passes of the SierraNevada. They were men like Linus Rawlings, a restless survivor ofIndian country who'd headed east to see the ocean but left hisheart--and his home--in the West. They were women like LilithPrescott, a smart, spirited beauty who fled her family and fell fora gambling man in the midst of a frontier gold boom. Thesepioneering men and women sowed the seeds of a nation with theircourage--and with their blood. Here is the story of how their pathswould meet amid the epic struggle against fierce enemies andnature's cruelty, to win for all time the rich and untamedWest.
