Isolated in Ashworth House, an asylum for the criminally insane, is the Ripper. He believes he's the notorious butcher who terrorized Whitechapel more than a century ago. He talks of time travel, infinity, and the occult. In the black hole of hisimagination, he reenacts the crimes. In the darkness of his heart, he still craves the thrill of the kill. Thank God he can't escape. But with such an ingenious mind for murder, the Ripper doesn't have to--and the ghastly crimes he can manipulate from his padded cell are taking Zinc Chandler and the Special X investigators on a trai! of unspeakable carnage that leads to the idyllic Cook Islands, where human sacrifice and cannibalism is more than a dark and-perverted chapter in history. It's tradition.
Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2010 As the finale to Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest is not content to merely match the adrenaline-charged pace that made international bestsellers out of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire. Instead, it roars with an explosive storyline that blows the doors off the series and announces that the very best has been saved for last. A familiar evil lies in wait for Lisbeth Salander, but this time, she must do more than confront the miscreants of her past; she must destroy them. Much to her chagrin, survival requires her to place a great deal of faith in journalist Mikael Blomkvist and trust his judgment when the stakes are highest. To reveal more of the plot would be criminal, as Larsson's mastery of the unexpected is why millions have fallen hard for his work. But rest assured that the odds are again stacked, the challenges personal, and the action fraught with neck-snapping revelations in this snarling
Gabriel Allon faces his most determined enemy-and greatestchallenge-in the stunning novel from the world-class practitionerof spy fiction.
Millions of readers have enjoyed the haunting tale of WutberngHeights for its romantic and suspenseful plot. But did you kn6wz that it's also packed with words you need to know for the SAT,Learning words by reading them in context is one of the mOst effective ways to expand your vocabulary, and this book can help you do just that!
In a complete stylistic departure from his mysterious and surreal novels (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; A Wild Sheep Chase) that show the influences of Salinger, Fitzgerald and Tom Robbins, Murakami tells a bittersweet coming-of-age story, reminiscent of J.R. Salamanca's classic 1964 novel, LilithAthe tale of a young man's involvement with a schizophrenic girl. A successful, 37-year-old businessman, Toru Watanabe, hears a version of the Beatles' Norwegian Wood, and the music transports him back 18 years to his college days. His best friend, Kizuki, inexplicably commits suicide, after which Toru becomes first enamored, then involved with Kizuki's girlfriend, Naoko. But Naoko is a very troubled young woman; her brilliant older sister has also committed suicide, and though sweet and desperate for happiness, she often becomes untethered. She eventually enters a convalescent home for disturbed people, and when Toru visits her, he meets her roommate, an older musician named Reiko, who's had a long history of mental i
Old Martin Chuzzlewit has a great fortune, but to whom can he leave it? He and his likable grandson, young Martin, have fallen out. Beyond that, a tangle of sly, grasping relatives coil about him. Throughout, the reader is rooting for the gentle Tom Pinch and his lovely sister, Mary. But before all can be decided, Dickens puts both Tom and young Martin through murder, mayhem and a brief purgatory in the United States. Reader Davidson quickly tunes into Dickens's ferocious irony, but his paramount strength is his uncanny ability to find and maintain the perfect voice for each of the vintage characters: drippy, insinuous, vicious, sly, bold American backwoods, or London Cheapside. Each is a distinct creation! Dickens lovers will treasure every tape in this two-volume masterpiece. P.E.F.An AUDIOFILE Earphones Award winner. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
A companion to the film, illustrated with full colorphotos. About the Author: Mark Cotta Vaz is the author of over twenty-one books, includingfour New York Times bestsellers. His recent works include TwilightSaga Eclipse: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion, MythicVision: The Making of Eragon, The Spirit: The Movie VisualCompanion, and the biography Living Dangerously: The Adventures ofMerian C. Cooper, Creator of King Kong, which was a Los AngelesTimes bestseller
Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make upBalzac's "History of the Thirteen" are concerned in part with theactivities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secretsociety in nineteenth-century France. While the deeds of "TheThirteen" remain frequently in the background, however, theindividual novels are concerned with exploring various forms ofdesire. A tragic love story, Ferragus depicts a marriage destroyedby suspicion, revelation and misunderstanding. The Duchess deLangeais explores the anguish that results when a society coquettetries to seduce a heroic ex-soldier, while "The Girl with theGolden Eyes" offers a frank consideration of desire and sexuality.Together, these works provide a firm and fascinating foundation forBalzac's many later portrayals of Parisian life in his greatnovel-cycle "The Human Comedy".
Her family hear nothing for three months and now everyone assumes the worst． Reporter Wendy Tynes is on a mission to identify and bring down sexual predators via televised sting operations．Her latest target：a social worker known as a friend to troubled teens．
It is the summer holidays and soon Harry Potter will be starting his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.Harry is Countiong the day:there are new spells to be learnt,more Quidditch to be played,and Hogwarts castle to continue exploring.But Harry needs to be carefulthere are unexpcted dangers lurking... J.K.Rowling contuinues to surprise and delight with the power of her rich,denanding and action-packed storytelling.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the great voices in the history ofAmerican literature, is best known today for his novels, but duringhis lifetime his fame stemmed primarily from his prolificachievements as one of America's most gifted short story writers."The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is one of his most memorablecreations. "I was born under unusual circumstances." And so begins the film"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," adapted from the 1920s storyby F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man whois born in his eighties andages backwards. A man, like any of us, unable to stop time. Wefollow his story set in New Orleans from the end of World War I in1918, into the twenty-first century, following his journey that isas unusual as any man's life can be. Directed by David Fincher,"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a time traveler's tale ofthe people and places Benjamin Button bumps into along the way, theloves he loses and finds, the joys of life and the sadness ofdeath, and what lasts beyond time.
Starred Review. Renaissance Florence's artistic zenith and Mughal India's cultural summit—reached the following century, at Emperor Akbar's court in Sikri—are the twin beacons of Rushdie's ingenious latest, a dense but sparkling return to form. The connecting link between the two cities and epochs is the magically beautiful hidden princess, Qara K z, so gorgeous that her uncovered face makes battle-hardened warriors drop to their knees. Her story underlies the book's circuitous journey.A mysterious yellow-haired man in a multicolored coat steps off a rented bullock cart and walks into 16th-century Sikri: he speaks excellent Persian, has a stock of conjurer's tricks and claims to be Akbar's uncle. He carries with him a letter from Queen Elizabeth I, which he translates for Akbar with vast incorrectness. But it is the story of Akbar's great-aunt, Qara K z, that the man (her putative son) has come to the court to tell. The tale dates to the time of Akbar's grandfather, Babar (Qara K z's brother), and it invo
It is 1963 in New York, and things have never been better for the Corleones. They've taken out their Mafia rivals, and legitimised the Family. Outside the fortified building owned by Michael Corleone, newly undisputed Boss of Bosses, a parade of people - among them former mob rivals and an emissary from the Mayor of New York - wait to ask the great man for favours. Only one thing remains to be done. Traitorous former Corleone capo Nick Geraci has powerful friends and far too much to say, and needs to be brought in. But then everything changes. As fireworks explode over First Avenue, news arrives that Jimmy Shea, President of the United States and an old friend of the Corleone's, has been assassinated...
Sixteen-year-old country girl Tess Durbey-field is sent by her impoverished family to acquaint herself with her more prosperous,distant relatives. But in Alec D'Urberville she finds a welcome she could never have expected, and an encounter that will come to blight her young life ...
Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of theEarth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen yearsafter the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett haswritten the most-anticipated sequel of the year, World WithoutEnd. In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillarsof the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century Englandcentered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds oflives it affected. Critics were overwhelmed--"it will hold you,fascinate you, surround you" (Chicago Tribune)--and readerseverywhere hoped for a sequel. World Without End takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, twocenturies after the townspeople finished building the exquisiteGothic cathedral that was at the heart of The Pillars of the Earth.The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web oflove and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge, but thissequel stands on its own. This time the men and women of anextraordinary cast of charact
It is 1274 and in the fortified city of Acre, the last major stronghold of the Crusaders in Palestine, an epic conflict is beginning. Will Campbell is a Templar Knight, trained for war, but as a member of the mysterious group known as the Brethren, he is also a man of peace. After years of bloodshed the Brethren have helped create a truce between the Christians and Muslims. But there are those on both side for whom peace is not an option. As war looms, Will is torn between his oath as a Templar, his secret role in the Brethren and his duty to Elwen, the woman he loves but is forbidden to marry. Robyn Young is a compelling voice in historical fiction, writing in the tradition of Bernard Cornwell, Conn Iggulden and Manda Scott.
In this towering story about a man pitting himself against thesea, against society, and against himself, Robert Stone againdemonstrates that he is "one of the most impressive novelists ofhis generation" (New York Review of Books). Inviting comparisonwith the great sea novels of Conrad, Melville, and Hemingway,Outerbridge Reach is also the portrait of two men and the powerful,unforgettable woman they both love - and for whom they are bothready, in their very different ways, to stake everything. As theSan Francisco Chronicle said, "Robert Stone asks questions of ourtime few writers could imagine and answers them in narratives fewreaders will ever quite forget."
Arguably India's greatest gift to the world, The Bhagavadgita ('The Song of the Blessed') forms an episode in the sixth book of the Hindu epic The Mahabharata and is the supreme work of that religion. The Gita consists of the dialogue between Prince Arjuna and his mentor and friend, Lord Krishna, on the eve of the climactic battle of Kuruksetra. This discourse contains an exposition of the Hindu philosophy of Karma Yoga (disciplined action performed in the right spirit) as Prince Arjuna struggles with his understandable 'existential' anguish at having to join battle against his gurus and kinsmen. The Gita, although almost 2,500 years old, contains profound truths of great relevance to contemporary society in India and the West.
Deeply romantic and extraordinarily suspenseful, TWILIGHT, NEW MOON, ECLIPSE and BREAKING DAWN capture the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This stunning set makes the perfect gift for fans of this bestselling vampire love story. The set will give existing fans a focus for their devotion and new fans will be entranced as the love story between Bella and the Vampire Edward develops from tentative beginnings in Twilight to its stunning conclusion in the publishing phenomenon that is Breaking Dawn.
