Following the death of their eldest son, Ellie and TuckerGrant divorce and gradually make the transition into separatelives. But their two sons Zach and Kody are convinced that theirparents are still meant to be together. The brothers hatch a planto run away from home into the Oregon wilderness. Surely Ellie andTucker will come to their rescue--and their senses.
Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle ofthe Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one ofour greatest storytellers.In The Warrior's Path, Louis L'Amourtells the story of Yance and Kin Sackett, two brothers who are thelast hope of a young woman who faces a fate worse than death. WhenYance Sackett's sister-in-law is kidnapped, he and Kin race northfrom Carolina to find her. They arrive at a superstitious town rifewith rumors--and learn that someone very powerful was behindDiana's disappearance. To bring the culprit to justice, one brothermust sail to the exotic West Indies. There, among pirates,cutthroats, and ruthless "businessmen," he will apply the skills helearned as a frontiersman to an unfamiliar world--a world where onefalse move means instant death.
The Door, Margaret Atwood's first book of poetry since Morningin the Burned House, is a magnificent achievement. Here inpaperback for the first time, these fifty lucid, urgent poems rangein tone from lyric to ironic to mediative to prophetic, and insubject from the personal to the political, viewed in its broadestsense. They investigate the mysterious writing of poetry itself, aswell as the passage of time and our shared sense of mortality.Brave and compassionate, The Door interrogates the certainties thatwe build our lives on, and reminds us once again of MargaretAtwood's unique accomplishments as one of the finest and mostcelebrated writers of our time.
The ultimate battle between good and evil
Released in 2005 in Arabic, Girls of Riyadh caused a sensation throughout the Arab world. Now in English, Rajaa Alsanea's bold first novel exposes the hidden lives of young upper-class women and their personal conflicts with culturaltradition and offers Westerners an unprecedented glimpse into a society often veiled from view. From the Saudi singles scene in Riyadh to their travels outside the country, four young women, Gamrah,Michelle, Sadeem, and Lamees, literally and figuratively shed traditional garb as they negotiate, their love lives; their professional successes; their rebellions, large and small; and ultimately their place-somewhere in between contemporary Western society and their Islamic home.
"USA Today" bestselling author Catherine Anderson takesreaders to a quaint wilderness town, where together, a man and awoman find a second chance at life-and love... Determined to giveher son Jeremy the childhood he deserves, Chloe Evans has left atough past behind to start over in the charming town of Jack Pine,Oregon. But protecting Jeremy becomes a dicey proposition when heseeks out the most dangerous man in town, Ben Longtree, to heal hissick puppy. Chloe has been warned to stay away from Ben. Butthere's something about him that intrigues her...
A beautifully polished, utterly knowing and palpitatingbook. TIME Enter the new world of post Cold War espionage. Penetrate thesecret world of ruthless arms dealers and drug smugglers who haverisen to unthinkable power and wealth. The sinister master of themall is an untouchable Englishman named Roper. Slipping into thismaze of peril is a former British soldier, Jonathan Pine, who knowsRoper well enough to hate him more than any man on earth. NowPersonal vengeance is only part of why Pine is willing to help themen at Whitehall try to bring Roper down.... A Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club
His heart is broken. His partner is in jail. And someone istrying to kill him. Then Myron Bolitar gets some really badnews.... For sports agent Myron Bolitar, it seemed like the perfectvacation. A tropical beach. A warm breeze. A little uncomplicatedpassion with a woman he barely knows. Myron is almost in heavenwhen his friend Win shows up with a message that blasts him back toreality: Esperanza is in trouble. It's time to come home. Now Myronis back in New York, determined to help Esperanza, his best friendand partner, who's been accused of killing one of their clients.But Esperanza isn't talking. Neither is her lawyer. And to provehis friend's innocence, Myron must trace the rise and fall of thevictim, a pitcher who had been making a comeback with the Yankees.Suddenly the investigation is leading Myron to places he'd rathernot go: into a family's agony, through the city's sexualunderground, and to a moment buried on the dark side of a brilliantsports career.... Twelve years ago a young agent named Bolitart
andquot; PUZO IS IN TOP FORM.andquot; *Time The Last Don isMario Puzo at his finest, thrilling us with his greatest Mafianovel since The Godfather *a masterful saga of the last greatAmerican crime family and its powerful reach into Hollywood and LasVegas. andquot; THE MOST ENTERTAINING READ SINCE THEGODFATHER.andquot; *The New York Times Book Review The Last Don isDomenico Clericuzio, a wise and ruthless old man who is determinedto see his heirs established in legitimate society but whose visionis threatened when secrets from the family's past spark a viciouswar between two blood cousins. andquot; SKILLFULLY CRAFTED . . . ITGIVES US HOLLYWOOD, LAS VEGAS, AND THE MOB IN ONE SWEETDISH.andquot; *Los Angeles Times Book Review The Last Don is amesmerizing tale that takes us inside the equally corrupt worlds ofthe mob, the movie industry, and the casinos *where beautifulactresses and ruthless hitmen are ruled by lust and violence, wheresleazy producers and greedy studio heads are drunk on power, wherecrooked cops
In one of his finest achievements, Nobel Prize winner SaulBellow presents a multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero, a manstruggling with the complexity of existence and longing forredemption. Introduction by Philip Roth
Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle ofthe Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one ofour greatest storytellers. In Ride the Dark Trail L'Amour tells thestory of Logan Sackett, a cynical drifter who changes his ways tohelp a widow keep her land from falling into the wronghands.... Logan Sackett was wild and rootless, riding west in search ofeasy living. Then he met Emily Talon, a fiery old widow who waseven wilder than he was. Tall and lean, Em was determined to defendherself against the locals who were trying to steal her land. Logan didn't want to get involved, until he found out that Em hadbeen born a Sackett. Em was bucking overwhelming odds, but Loganwouldn't let her stand alone. For even the rebellious drifter knewthat part of being a Sackett was backing up your family when theyneeded you.
As soon as it first appeared in 1953, this gem by the greatSaul Bellow was hailed as an American classic. Bold, expansive, andkeenly humorous, "The Adventures of Augie March" blends streetlanguage with literary elegance to tell the story of a poor Chicagoboy growing up during the Great Depression. A aborn recruit, aAugie makes himself available for hire by plungers, schemers, risktakers, and operators, compiling a record of choices that isato saythe leasta eccentric.
Past midnight, Chyna Shepherd, twenty- six, gazed out a moonlitwindow, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley homeof her best friend's family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderoussociopath, Edgler Forman Vess, has entered the house, intent onkilling everyone inside. A self-proclaimed "homicidal adventure,"Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immensehimself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse or limits, tolive with intensity. Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit. Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safetyand self-respect. Now she will be tested as never before. At firsther sole aim is to get out alive-until, by chance, she learns theidentity of Vess's next intended victim, a faraway innocent onlyshe can save. Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaningbeyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resourceshe has to save an endangered girl—as moment by moment, theterrifying threat Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies.
A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which sparesno one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital,but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealingfood rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to thisnightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with nomother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barrenstreets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundingsare harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation anda vivid evocation of the horrors of the twentieth century,Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayalof man's worst appetites and weaknesses-and man's ultimatelyexhilarating spirit. The stunningly powerful novel of man's will tosurvive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize forLiterature
本书主要内容：约翰23岁时，高中毕业便不再升学，终日不知所以地换了一份又一份工作，惶惶然地在酒吧饮酒作乐度过，恋情不断却未见真爱。直到有一天，他毅然投效军旅，并于放假回家时，在家乡的艳阳下、沙滩上，偶然结识正值花样年华的莎文娜。21岁的莎文娜，成长背景与约翰相去甚远，不同于约翰的放浪形骸，她单纯、善良、率真，有坚定的理念与信仰，有清楚而明确的目标。透过莎文娜，约翰重新认识了自己，也重新认识了爱情。甜蜜的相处时光总是短暂，约翰必须回到军队，甚至被派驻海外。时间一天又一天地过去，这段靠书信维系、偶而得以见上一面的远距离恋情，终因莎文娜的一封分手信而划下句点。陷入心碎绝境的约翰，没有立刻打电话给莎文娜，也没有立刻飞回家乡，只是把信折好放回信封，决定去哪里都带着它，像是带着上战场所
William J. Mann, author of the bestselling Kate: The WomanWho Was Hepburn, has now turned his attention to ElizabethTaylor, the quintessential movie star, and uses her biography toreveal the machinations of stardom and fame, from the studio era ofHollywood through the 1970s. How to Be a Movie Star isa totally fresh, brilliantly researched, and reported portrait ofElizabeth Taylor, as she became our first superstar. It isalso a fascinating revelation of cadre that got her there, from hermother to her managers, publicists, gossip columnists, and earlypaparazzi--and, not least of all, herself. Swathed in mink, sailing aboard her yachts, discarding husbandsnearly as frequently as she changed diamond earrings, Taylordominated the headlines for three glittering decades, rewritingrules, defying conventions, laying down the yardstick by whichcelebrity has been measured ever since. Focusing on the mostglamorous period in Taylor's career, Mann takes us inside herprivileged childhood in England to her schooling
Hailed as a classic upon its first publication in 1934, TheValleys of the Assassins firmly established Freya Stark as oneof her generation's most intrepid explorers. The book chroniclesher travels into Luristan, the mountainous terrain nestled betweenIraq and present-day Iran, often with only a single guide and on ashoestring budget. Stark writes engagingly of the nomadic peoples who inhabit theregion's valleys and brings to life the stories of the ancientkingdoms of the Middle East, including that of the Lords of Alamut,a band of hashish-eating terrorists whose stronghold in the ElburzMountains Stark was the first to document for the RoyalGeographical Society. Her account is at once a highly readabletravel narrative and a richly drawn, sympathetic portrait of apeople told from their own compelling point of view. This edition includes a new Introduction by Jane FletcherGeniesse, Stark's biographer.
Who will be with you in the darkesthour? Amy Redwing has devoted her life to rescuing dogs. But the uniquebond she shares with Nickie, a golden retriever she saves in themost dangerous encounter of her life, is deeper than any she hasever known. In one night, their loyalty will be put to the test,and each will prove to the other how far they will go – when thestakes turn deadly serious.
