本书精选法国著名作家莫泊桑的39篇中短篇小说，有《羊脂球》《我的叔叔于勒》《项链》等不朽名篇，内容丰富多彩，结构巧妙动人。
Deepest night, Montana. An eerie light proclaims the arrival ofa mysterious watcher in the woods. And one solitary man begins adesperate battle against something unknown -- and unknowable. Broad daylight, Los Angeles. An ordinary morningerupts in cataclysmic violence. A young family is shattered in aheartbeat. Fate will lead this family to an isolatedMontana ranch, but their sanctuary will become their worstnightmare. For there they will face a chillingly ruthless enemy,from which no one -- living or dead -- is safe.
It was a dark time for the rebel alliance...Han Solo, frozenin carbonite, had been delivered into the hands of the vilegangster Jabba the Hutt. Determined to rescue him, Luke Skywalker,Princess Leia, and Lando Calrissian launched a hazardous missionagainst Jabba's Tatooine stronghold. The Rebel commanders gathered all the warships of the Rebel fleetinto a single giant armada. And Darth Vader and the Emperor, whohad ordered construction to begin on a new and even more powerfulDeath Star, were making plans to crush the Rebel Alliance once andfor all.
With her shopping excesses (somewhat) in check and hercareeras a TV financial guru thriving, Becky's biggest problemseems to betearing her entrepreneur boyfriend, Luke, awayfrom work f'or aromantic country weekend. And worse, figuringout how to pack light.But packing takes on a whole newmeaning when Luke announces he'smoving to New York f'orbusiness--and he asks Becky to go with him!Before you cansay "Prada sample sale," Becky has landed in the BigApple,home of" Park Avenue penthouses and luxury boutiques.Surelyit's only a matter of"time until she becomes an AmericanTVcelebrity, and she and Luke are the toast of"Gotham society.Nothingcan stand in their way, especially with Becky's billsmiles away inLondon. But then an unexpected disasterthreatens her careerprospects, her relationship with Luke, andher available creditline! Shopaholic Takes Manhattan--butwill she have to returnit.)
Nora Roberts continues the romantic saga: the story of threewomen who shared a home and a childhood -- but grew to fulfilltheir own unique destinies.
**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.
Grade 9 Up–Johnson begins this exceptional novel in a lightweight fashion but quickly segues into more serious issues that affect the three young women who make up the Bermudez Triangle. It is the summer before their senior year in Saratoga Springs, NY. At first, organized, serious Nina has trouble adjusting to her leadership workshop at Stanford University. Although she desperately misses Avery and Mel, who are waitresses at a restaurant back home, she quickly falls head over heels for eco-warrior Steve, who has grown up in a commune on the West Coast–so different from Nina's secure middle-class experience. When she returns to New York, she immediately senses that Mel and Avery are keeping secrets and soon discovers that they have become lovers. Rocked to the core, Nina wishes them happiness, but feels excluded and lonely, especially as her long-distance relationship begins to deteriorate. As is typical for teens, the girls obsess ad nauseam over their romantic relationships. Yet this narrow focus
Hans Christian Andersen was the profoundly imaginative writerand storyteller who revolutionized literature for children. He gaveus the now standard versions of some traditional fairy tales - withan anarchic twist - but many of his most famous tales sprangdirectly from his imagination. The thirty stories here range fromexuberant early works such as "The Tinderbox" and "The Emperor'sNew Clothes" through poignant masterpieces such as "The LittleMermaid" and "The Ugly Duckling," to more subversive later talessuch as "The Ice maiden" and "The Wood Nymph."
The Chinese vice-premier has been brutally slain by alegendary assassin. World leaders ask the same fearful questions: Why has Jason Bourne come back? Who is paying him? Who is thenext to die? But U.S. officials know the shocking truth: There is no Jason Bourne. The name was created as cover for DavidWebb on his search for the notorious killer Carlos. Someone elsehas taken the Bourne identity--and unless he is stopped, the worldwill pay a devastating price. So Jason Bourne must live again. Onceagain, Webb must utilize his lethal skills--because once again,like a nightmare relived, the woman he loves is suddenly torn fromhis life. To find her, trap his own impostor, and uncover anexplosive secret plan, Webb must lauch a desperate oddyssey intothe espionage killing fields. But this time, survival will not beenough. This time Bourne must reign supreme.
First came the days of the plague. Then came the dreams. Dark dreams that warned of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down boot heels tramping the night roads. The warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil. His time is at hand. His empire grows in the west and the Apocalypse looms.
This 100th Anniversary Edition presents the timeless tale ofHumphrey Van Weyden, pressed into service aboard the seal-huntingGhost, led by the brutal, enigmatic captain Wolf Larsen. Thisvolume also includes four of London's acclaimed short stories.
Book De*ion While struggling to help an agoraphobic friend cope, MartieRhodes, a young video game designer, suddenly falls prey to her owntraumatic autophobia, a fear of herself. Amazon.com Not a continuation of the Moonlight Bay series (Seize the Nightand Fear Nothing) as many fans were expecting, False Memory isnonetheless just as powerful and compulsive as anything Koontz haswritten before. Martie Rhodes is a successful young computer games designer witha loving husband, Dusty, and a seemingly normal life. Her bestfriend, Susan, however, suffers from agoraphobia, or a fear of openspaces, and relies on Martie to take her to weekly therapysessions. Suddenly and inexplicably, Martie herself beginsexhibiting worrying signs of a mental disorder, fearing herselfcapable of inflicting great harm on her loved ones. At the sametime, Dusty's brother Skeet also succumbs to irrational mentalbehavior and tries to throw himself from a roof. It soon becomesclear that these four
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...
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
So begins the ageless epic of Aeneas and his men, who areseemingly destined to wander the ancient world endlessly, theplaythings of wrathful gods. Fleeing the ruins of Troy, Aeneas mustfight his battles with little notion that Jupiter has ordained thatthe Trojan champion shall promulgate a race that will be theforebears of Rome.
Book De*ion "Moves like a roller coaster without brakes...Koontz is America'sNo.1 author of thrillers. One of his finest novels." -------Denver Pos We have your wife. You can get her back for two millioncash. On an ordinary afternoon, an ordinary man, a gardener of modestmeans, gets a phone call out of his worst nightmare. the caller isdead serious. He doesn't care that Mitch can't raise that kind ofmoney. He's confident that Mitch will find a way, If he loves hiswife enough... Mitch does love her enough. He loves her more than life itself.He's got sixty hours to prove it. He has to find the two million bythen. But he'll pay a lot more. He'll pay anything. From its tense opening to its shattering climax, The Husband is athriller that will hold you in its relentless grip for every twist,every shock, every revelation. This is a Dean Koontz novel, afterall. And there's no other experience quite like it. Book Dimension length: (cm)17.4 width:(cm)10.6
Cattlemen ride alone across the open range under the deadlyaim of roving desperadoes--Gamblers stake their fortunes and theirlives on a deck of cards--Strong-willed senoritas seek independencethrough an enticing combination of beauty, audacity, andspirit--Lawmen and outlaws walk the same dusty streets and speak acommon language: Colt, Winchester, Smith and Wesson. Gritty, tough,and unflinchingly authentic, here is the West as it really was: aland where for every friend there is an enemy, for every handshakea fist, for every dispute a resolution--usually in an explosiveshowdown of blood and bullets. In these remarkable tales, LouisL'Amour--like the very heroes he depicts--blazes a trail across theAmerican frontier and takes us on an unforgiving journey into theheart of our western heritage.
