全书以一本家传的秘书残卷为引，讲述胡八一、Shirley?杨、王胖子三人为解开部族消失的千古之谜，解读天下大山大川的脉搏，寻找一处处失落在大地深处的龙楼宝殿的故事。在他们的追寻下，历史的神秘面纱一层层被揭开……? 胡八一和胖子两人的后背上都长了一个眼球形印记，远在美国的Shirley?杨也有此异状。考古专家孙教授见到印记惊恐万分，只道：天机不可泄露。?
这是我一直都不懂的故事，也是我一直都不懂的世界。作者笔下的茶峒山城，只是一个边境小城，在故事里却仿佛真正成了一个被时间遗忘的安静角落。不管别处的人们如何不幸挣扎，生死存亡的恐慌感都似乎永远弥漫不到这里。热闹充满生气的小地方，妇人聚集的吊脚楼，负责摆渡的老船夫。在那里就连世俗为不齿的妓女，“也永远那么浑厚”。她们可以为了生计接待四川商人，也可以把所有的眼泪快乐牢牢地系在归期不定的水手身上，有着古代女子“拼将一生休，尽君一日欢”的勇气和无悔。 沈从文尽其所能地把这个世界展现在世人面前。然而，世界上本没有真正的“世外桃源”，即使是湘西这么一个纯朴、灵动的地域，依旧不能把握自己命运的不尽人意：爷爷的逝去，翠翠和傩送未果的爱情。翠翠的母亲如此，翠翠亦如此，在湘西小城、酉水岸边茶峒里
七万年前，原始人类在濒临灭绝的严峻情况下勉强幸存，七万年后，拥有先进文明与高端科技的人类又再一次面临灭绝危机……瘟疫虽然有了最终的解药，伊麻里组织却依旧进逼着全世界，阿瑞斯更是引爆了遍布在南极洲周围的水雷，融化的古代冰层形成一场大洪水，迅速侵袭世界各地。此时，凯特跟大卫收到一组来自外层空间的加密信号，他们知道这段信号是阻止伊麻里的关键，必须尽快解开密码，于是，一行人穿过传送门来到了亚特兰蒂斯的烽火系统……随着亚特兰蒂斯记忆拼图的逐渐完成，人类世界起源的面纱即将揭开，过去与现在相互角力，的结局，人类将何去何从？
Jonathan Kellerman is a master at creating psychologicallynuanced novels of suspense--an author whose name is synonymous withunrelenting action, intriguing plot twists, and penetrating insightinto the criminal mind. Now he ventures into bold, new territorywith his biggest and best novel yet. "A Cold Heart" featuresKellerman's brilliant signature style--but in this tour-de-force hemines even deeper the emotional landscape of his characters:psychologist-sleuth Alex Delaware, LAPD homicide detective MiloSturgis, Milo's colleague Petra Connor, and Alex's ex-lover, RobinCastagna--bringing them all vividly to life as never before. ""I'vegot a weird one, so naturally I thought of you,"" says MiloSturgis, summoning his friend Alex to the trendy gallery where apromising young artist has been brutally garroted on the night ofher first major showing. What makes it "a weird one" is the lack ofany obvious motive, and the luridly careful staging of the murderscene--which immediately suggests to Alex not an impulsive
This unique collection of Twain’s essential short stories andsemiautobiographical narratives is a testament to the author’s vastimagination. Featuring popular tales such as “Jim Smiley and HisJumping Frog” and “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” as well assome delightful excerpts from The Diaries of Adam and Eve, thiscompilation also includes darker works written in the author’stwilight years. These selections illuminate the depth of Twain’sartistry, humor, irony, and narrative genius.
After discovering six gold Roman coins buried in the mud ofthe Devil's Dyke, Barnabas Sackett enthusiastically invests ingoods that he will offer for trade in America. But Sackett has apowerful enemy: Rupert Genester, nephew of an earl, wants him dead.A battlefield promise made to Sackett's father threatens Genester'sinheritance. So on the eve of his departure for America, Sackett isattacked and thrown into the hold of a pirate ship. Genester'sorders are for him to disappear into the waters of the Atlantic.But after managing to escape, Sackett makes his way to the Carolinacoast. He sees in the raw, abundant land the promise of a brightfuture. But before that dream can be realized, he must first returnto England and discover the secret of his father's legacy.
In To the Far Blue Mountains," " Louis L'Amour weaves theunforgettable tale of a man who, after returning to his homeland,discovers that finding his way back to America may be impossible.Barnabas Sackett was leaving England to find his fortune in the NewWorld. But as he settled his affairs, he learned that a Royalwarrant had been sworn out against him, and that men were searchingfor him in every port. At issue were some rare gold coins Sackettsold to finance his trip to the Americas--coins believed to be partof a great treasure lost by King John years before. Believing thatSackett possesses the rest of the treasure, the Queen will stop atnothing to find him. If caught, not only will his dream of a lifein American be lost, he will be tortured and put to death on thegallows.
A rapturous, witty, and passionate memoir ... Violin Dreams isnot only the story of a man becoming an artist, its a history oftwentieth-century music. John Guare, Tony Awardwinning playwrightArnold Steinhardt, for more than forty years an internationalsoloist and the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet,brings warmth, wit, and fascinating insider details to the story ofhis lifelong obsession with the violin, that most seductive andstunningly beautiful instrument. His story is rich with vividscenes: the terror inflicted by his early violin teachers, thesensual pleasure involved in the pursuit of the perfect violin, thecharged atmosphere of high-level competitions. Steinhardt describesBachs Chaconne as the holy grail for the solo violin, and heilluminates, from the perspective of an ardent owner of a greatStorioni violin, the history and mysteries of the renowned Italianviolinmakers. Violin Dreams includes a remarkable CD recording ofSteinhardt performing Bachs Partita in D Minor as a young vio
1t's 1 962 and Baltimore’s Tracy Turnblad，a big girl with big hair and an even bigger personality，is ready for a change．When she wins a spot on the IocaI Tv dance program，The Corny Collins Show,she is transformedfrom socia I outcast to teen celebrity overn ight． But can a newly trendy Tracy vanquish The Corny Collins Show's reigning starlet，win the heart of her crush，Link Larkin，and racially integrate a television show without dentinq her，d0? 0nly in Hairspray!
Back in print after more than tenyears. Torn between the white and Comanche worldsof her parents, Indigo Wolf has grown up estranged from thetownspeople of Wolf's Landing, Orgeon. Bo one understands herelusive spirit-until Jake Rand comes to town to act as foreman ofher family's ranch. But Jake's real motives are as secret as histrue identity, and as personal as his growing attraction toIndigo.
Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances oftheir own social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen.Here in one volume are her seven great novels: Sense andSensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, NorthangerAbbey, Persuasion, and Lady Susan. Through her vivacious andspirited heroines and their circle, Austen vividly portrays Englishmiddle-class life as the eighteenth century came to a close and thenineteenth century began. Each of the novels is a love story and astory about marriage—marriage for love, for financial security, forsocial status. But they are not romances; ironic, comic, and wise,they are masterly evocations of the society Jane Austen observed.This beautiful volume covers the literary career of one ofEngland’s finest prose stylists of any century.
After his haystack was torched, Mr. Harmsworth barricaded acommon path through his orchard. But witnesses-both human andanimal-claim a ghost perpetrated the deed. And the ghost has amessage that Miss Potter hopes to figure out.
**DEBUT FICTION** Mary Todd Lincoln is one of history's mostmisunderstood and enigmatic women. The first president's wife to becalled First Lady, she was a political strategist, a supporter ofemancipation, and a mother who survived the loss of three childrenand the assassination of her beloved husband. Yet she also ran herfamily into debt, held seances in the White House, and wascommitted to an insane asylum. In Janis Cooke Newman's debut novel,Mary Todd Lincoln shares the story of her life in her own words.Writing from Bellevue Place asylum, she takes readers from hertempestuous childhood in a slaveholding Southern family through theyears after her husband's death. A dramatic tale filled withpassion and depression, poverty and ridicule, infidelity andredemption, Mary allows us entry into the inner, intimate world ofthis brave and fascinating woman.
Nora Roberts continues the romantic saga: the story of threewomen who shared a home and a childhood -- but grew to fulfilltheir own unique destinies.
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
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.
NOTHING BUT TROUBLEFlagan and Galloway Sackett had settled anold family debt and were heading west from Tennessee to seek theirfortune. That's when they came across an old Irish horse trader whooffered them two fine horses if they agreed to escort hisgranddaughter, Judith, to her father in Colorado. Flagan sawnothing but trouble in the pretty, fiery young woman. But theyneeded and wanted the horses. Unfortunately, Flagan was right, forJudith had fallen for James Black Fetchen, a charismatic gunmanwhose courtship hid the darkest of intentions. Now Fetchen and hisgang are racing the Sackett brothers to Colorado -- leaving a trailof betrayal, robbery, and murder. Flagan and Galloway could onlyguess why Judith is so important to Fetchen and what awaits them ather father's ranch. One thing Flagan knows for sure: The tough andspirited woman had won his heart. But could he trust her with hislife?Our foremost storyteller of the authentic West, L'Amour hasthrilled a nation by chronicling the adventures of the brave m
'What we were after was lashings of ultraviolence'. In thisnightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and hisfriends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture andmurder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the Statetries to reform him - but at what cost? Social prophecy? Blackcomedy? Study of freewill? "A Clockwork Orange" is all of these. Itis also a dazzling experiment in language, as Burgess creates a newlanguage - 'nadsat', the teenage slang of a not-too-distantfuture.
Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, abeautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearbyWildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen hisfriendship, but when her reclusive behavior becomes the subject oflocal gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder whether histrust in her has been misplaced. It is only when she allows Gilbertto read her diary that the truth is revealed and the shockingdetails of the disastrous marriage she has left behindemerge...Told with great immediacy, combined with wit and irony,"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" is a powerfully involving read.
