Jane Austen's debut in our award-winning graphic-coverseries. Written during Jane Austen's race against failing health,Persuasion tells the story of Anne Elliot, a woman who-attwenty-seven-is no longer young and has few romantic prospects.Eight years ago, she was persuaded by her friend Lady Russell tobreak off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome navalcaptain with neither fortune nor rank. When Anne and Frederick meetagain, he has acquired both, but still feels the sting of herrejection. A brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, Austen'slast completed novel is also a movingly told love story tinged withthe heartache of missed opportunities.
Outside a peaceful town in central Maine, a monster is waiting… Cujo is a huge Saint Bernard dog, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had. One day Cujo chases a rabbit into a bolt-hole, a cave inhabited by some very sick bats. What happens to Cujo, how he becomes a horrifying vortex inexorably drawing in all the people around him, makes for one of the most heart-stopping novels Stephen King has written.
Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse isperfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love ormarriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering inthe romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings ofher good friend Mr Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitablematch for her protegee Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soonunravel and have consequences that she never expected. With itsimperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle explorationof relationships, "Emma" is often seen as Jane Austen's mostflawless work.
A daring and deeply moving novel set in Argentina in the time ofthe Generals--a time when the streets are empty at night, andpeople have trained themselves not to see. Richard Garay lives withhis mother, hiding his sexuality from her and from society. Stifledby his job, Richard is willing to take chances, both sexually andprofessionally. But Argentina is changing, and as his country edgestoward peace, Richard tentatively begins a love affair. The resultis a powerful, brave, and poignant novel of sex, death, and thediffculties of connecting one's inner life with the outsideworld.
They were Easy Company, 101st Army Airborne-the World War IIfighting unit legendary for their bravery against nearlyinsurmountable odds and their loyalty to one another in the face ofdeath. Every soldier in this band of brothers looked to one man forleadership: Major Dick Winters. This is the riveting story of an ordinary man who became anextraordinary hero. After he enlisted in the army's arduous newAirborne division, Winters's natural combat leadership helped himclimb the ranks, but he was never far from his men. Decades later,Stephen E. Ambrose's Band of Brothers made him world-famous. Fullof never-before-published photographs, interviews, and Winters'scandid insights, Biggest Brother is the story of a man who became asoldier, a leader, and a living testament to the valor of the humanspirit.
The second book in Robert Jordan's internationally bestsellingepic fantasy series, THE WHEEL OF TIME, now reissued with astunning new cover design. The Forsaken are loose, the Horn ofValere has been found and the Dead are rising from their dreamlesssleep. The Prophecies are being fulfilled - but Rand al' Thor, theshepherd the Aes Sedai have proclaimed as the Dragon Reborn,desperately seeks to escape his destiny. Rand cannot run forever.With every passing day the Dark One grows in strength and strivesto shatter his ancient prison, to break the Wheel, to bring an endto Time and sunder the weave of the Pattern. And the Patterndemands the Dragon. Look out for more information on this title andothers at www.orbitbooks.co.uk
Captain Gault has decided that his family must leave Lahardane. They are after all Protestants living in the big house in rural Cork, and the country is in turmoil. It is 1921. But 8-year-old Lucy can't bear to leave the seashore, the old house, the woods - so she hatches a plan. It is then that the calamity happens - an accident almost, but so vicious in its consequences that it blights the lives of the Gaults for years to come. Trevor's new novel beautifully evokes rural Ireland and the tensions existing there, but also is Hardy-like in its portrayal of the impact of mere chance on a life.
The companion volume to The New York Times bestseller The Omnivore's Dilemma Michael Pollan's lastbook , The Omnivore's Dilemma, launched a national conversation about the American way of eating; now In Defense of Food shows us how to change it, one meal at a time. Pollan proposes a new answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating.
Afather and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark.Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pis-tol to defend themselves against the law-less bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scav-enged food--and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire;' are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision,The Road is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,earlymorning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? Fornearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberatedthroughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks andshaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, andwitty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yetit is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugelyentertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnantof the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of alandmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkablecharacters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman'sCard Club; the turbulent young redneck gigolo; the hapless reclusewho owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man,woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern bellewho is the "soul of pampered self-absorption"; the uproariouslyfunny black drag queen; the acerbic and ar
Four friends come together in a hot contemporary erotic novelfrom the author of Chain Reaction. Meet the friends: Free spirited Jamie is not one to be tieddown—unless it’s in the bedroom. Caleb is Jamie’s sexuallyadventurous lover who has no desire to domesticate her. Mia isJamie’s naive friend whose sexual fulfillment has depended solelyon her first and only lover. Aidan thinks he knows what Mia wants.That’s because he’s the only man she’s ever gone to, to getit. This weekend, four best friends at the crossroads of theirrelationships have decided to do something different. But as sexualpartners shift, Jamie, Caleb, Mia, and Aidan will discover moreabout themselves and each other than they ever imagined.
It's here--a fully expanded, updated, and re-designed editionof the best-selling doctor-authored pregnancy book inAmerica! Your Pregnancy Week by Week is the most medically current andcomprehensive pregnancy guide available. Doctors recommend it.Reviewers praise it. Pregnant couples rely on it. With over 70 new topics covered, and completely updatedthroughout to keep up with trends, new products, and safetyrecommendations, this comprehensive, authoritative, and easy-to-useguide includes: -Detailed de*ions of baby's developmental milestones eachweek -Clear illustrations of how both mother and baby are changing andgrowing -Up-to-date information about medical tests and procedures -Tips on nutrition and lifestyle and the ways actions affectbaby -Safe weekly exercises to help mother stay in shape andcomfortable -Helpful hints for the father-to-be and information on how apregnancy affects a couple
An ancient artifact is discovered in a dusty antiquities shop in Alexandria, Egypt - the long forgotten trinket soon becomes the center of the most deadly archaeological hunt in history. The 20,000 year-old relic is inscribed with what appears to be the long lost language of Atlantis. Only one man would seem to be able to decode its meaning - the world's foremost linguist, Dr. Thomas Lourdes - but only if he can stay alive long enough! Meanwhile, an earthquake in Cadiz, Spain, uncovers a most unexpected site - one which the Vatican rush to be the first to explore! Perhaps the lost city of Atlantis is finally ready to be found? But is the world ready for her secrets?
?" Quand j'ai compris que Mario était mort, tous les détailsme sont revenus. Les gens racontaient cela en long et en large à magrand-mère. Mario traversait le champ, un peu plus haut, à lasortie du village. Il cachait la bombe dans un sac, il courait.Peut-être qu'il s'est pris les pieds dans une motte de terre, et ilest tombé. La bombe a explosé. On n'a rien retrouvé de lui. C'étaitmerveilleux. C'était comme si Mario s'était envolé vers un autremonde, vers Ourania. Puis les années ont passé, j'ai un peu oublié.Jusqu'à ce jour, vingt ans après, où le hasard m'a réuni avec lejeune homme le plus étrange que j'aie jamais rencontré. " C'est ainsi que Daniel Sillitoe, géographe en mission au centre duMexique, découvre, gr?ce à son guide Rapha?l, la république idéalede Campos, en marge de la Vallée, capitale de la terre noire duChernozem, le rêve humaniste de l'Emporio, la zone rouge quiretient prisonnière Lili de la lagune, et l'amour pourDahlia.? J.M.G. Le Clézio. --Ce
He wanted power. Oliver Russell is fated to rise to the pinnacle of power, the office of President of the United States. She wanted revenge. Leslie Stewart is his betrayed fiancee, a woman dedicated to a single purpose-the downfall of Oliver Russell. Amassing her own media empire, marshaling all her forces against him, she stands poised to destroy Russell on the eve of his most dazzling triumph. From Sidney Sheldon, the unchallenged master of bestselling fiction, comes a story of blazing ambitions and thwarted love that enthralls and surprises with every page...
Bestselling novelist Sheldon's memoir is reminiscent of his colorful novels, a rags-to-riches yarn replete with struggle, an indomitable hero and eventual glamour. It opens with a 17-year-old Sheldon preparing to commit suicide in Chicago in 1934. "[L]onely and trapped," he wanted to attend college but couldn't afford it. Thankfully, his father intervened, and the young man got a new lease on life. He went from being an RKO theater usher to a struggling songwriter, then a top-flight Hollywood screenwriter in a few short years. For the next 30-odd years, Sheldon wrote and directed films, meeting studio honchos and stars like Kirk Douglas, Judy Garland and Marilyn Monroe. The author's impressive achievements include a WWII flying stint, a screenwriting Oscar for 1947's The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, a Tony for writing the 1959 Broadway hit Redhead, the creation of four classic TV series (including I Dream of Jeannie) and several bestsellers (Bloodline; The Sands of Time; etc.). Yet these accomplishments came
Product De*ion After a whirlwind first week on the Upper East Side, the Carlyles have made their mark on Manhattan's Golden Mile. Owen is new BFFs with Rhys Sterling, but what will happen when they both fall for the same girl? Baby stole resident it girl Jack Laurent's boyfriend...and then Avery stole Jack's popularity. Now Jack is on the warpath, and she wants nothing more than to send the Carlyle girls packing their Louis Vuitton trunks. Is the UES big enough for all their drama? About the Author Cecily von Ziegesar has always lived in New York City. She's already working on her next Gossip Girl: The Carlyles novel coming in May 2009, as well as her next It Girl, so be careful of what you do or say and who you're seen with...
A power revered by presidents and kings, a fortune unsurpassed by few people on earth: all that ended for Harry Stanford the day he mysteriously-and fatally-plunged from his luxury yacht into the Mediterranean Sea. Then, back home in Boston, as the family gathers to grieve for his memory and to war over his legacy, a stunningly beautiful young woman appears. She claims to be Stanford's long-lost daughter and entitled to her share of his estate. Now, flaming with intrigue and passion through the glamorous preserves of the world's super rich, the ultimate game of wits begins, for stakes too dazzling and deadly to imagine.
Amy Tan作品，此作者在外国人当中有很高的知名度，尤其是喜福会这本书，在上海新天地就有一家以喜福会命名的酒吧。 作者简介:Amy Tan was born in Oakland,California,in 1952and grew up in the San Francisco Bay area.she graduated from high school in Montreux,Switzer-land ,and recerived her master's degree in linguistics from San Jose State University.Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club,The Kitchen God's Wife ,The Hundred Secret Senses,and two books for children,the Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat.Her work has been translated into twenty languages.She has been married for the past twenty-two years to lou DeMattei.They live in San Francisco and New York with their cat ,Sagwa,and their dog,Mr.Zo.
The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze thatmarks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro polesfan out their wings to dry them. the air smells faintly of burning.The waterless flood ? a manmade plague ? has ended the world. Buttwo young women have survived: Ren, a young dancer trapped whereshe worked, in an upmarket sex club (the cleanest dirty girls intown); and Toby, who watches and waits from her rooftop garden. Isanyone else out there?
