戏剧与现实交错的杰作在雷格纳·希尔部推理小说《喜欢交际的女人》里，他创造的一对独特的侦探搭档也首度登场。一位是心宽体胖、好色贪怀、爱斗嘴耍活宝的刑事主任达尔齐尔，另一位则是教养优雅、学识丰富的警官帕斯科。 自从柯南·道尔创造了华生医生作为神探福尔摩斯的搭档之后，推理小说家就经常使用这种对比手法，用一位“次要而平凡”的角色来衬托神探的不凡。这些二号人物有时候是侦探的朋友，有时候是记者，有时候是助手或忠仆，但多半不脱烘托主角的功能。但雷格纳·希尔采取了另外一种途径：他让侦探的搭档有能力也有作用，甚至是重要的互补，没有对方彼此都不是完整的；他又让两人的文化特质与思考形态南辕北辙，比较与冲突的趣味因而源源不绝。仅此一项，就是希尔对推理小说的重大贡献。 希尔的小说结构复杂紧凑，在我们
戏剧与现实交错的杰作在雷格纳·希尔部推理小说《喜欢交际的女人》里，他创造的一对独特的侦探搭档也首度登场。一位是心宽体胖、好色贪怀、爱斗嘴耍活宝的刑事主任达尔齐尔，另一位则是教养优雅、学识丰富的警官帕斯科。 自从柯南·道尔创造了华生医生作为神探福尔摩斯的搭档之后，推理小说家就经常使用这种对比手法，用一位“次要而平凡”的角色来衬托神探的不凡。这些二号人物有时候是侦探的朋友，有时候是记者，有时候是助手或忠仆，但多半不脱烘托主角的功能。但雷格纳·希尔采取了另外一种途径：他让侦探的搭档有能力也有作用，甚至是重要的互补，没有对方彼此都不是完整的；他又让两人的文化特质与思考形态南辕北辙，比较与冲突的趣味因而源源不绝。仅此一项，就是希尔对推理小说的重大贡献。 希尔的小说结构复杂紧凑，在
《寄居者》的故事发生在抗战期间的上海，由女主人公玫在晚年讲述给一位传记作者听：玫在1939年的上海，爱上一名刚刚逃离集中营上岸的犹太男子。那时赶上约瑟夫·梅辛格臭名昭著的“解决方案”就要实施，为让爱人去美国，玫临时在上海抓了个救星另一位美国青年做自己的丈夫。乱世中，小人物们开始一串连环套式的命运救助，，玫用“爱人”的钱赎救了“丈夫”，用“丈夫”的护照让“爱人”脱险，同时，以毁掉对爱情的原始理解和信念的方式，去实现了爱情……故事结局在爱情的部分出人意料，令人叹惋。这部作品是严歌苓在题材、写作手法和女性角色塑造上又一次新鲜成功的尝试。同时，小说延续了作者独特的自述式与视觉化的叙事风格。
Matagorda Tap Duvarney lost his innocence in the War Between theStates, then tested his skills in the frontier army. Now he'ssettled on the Texas coast, working a ranch as the partner of hisold friend Tom Kittery--and finding himself in the middle of a feudbetween Kittery and a neighboring family. But the danger fromoutside is nothing compared to the threat within, as Duvarneysuspects Kittery's woman isn't all she appears to be. Tap may haveto go to war again. But this time will it be with his closestfriend? The First Fast Draw East Texas wasn't much of a home forCullen Baker. Few liked him, and some even tried to kill him. Yetafter three years of wandering, he's back to farm the land that isrightfully his. But Cullen's neighbors have long memories, and hisworst adversary has teamed up with a vicious outlaw. With enemiesclosing in on all sides and threatening the woman he loves, Cullenwill have to be faster than lightning--and twice as deadly--just tosurvive.
Tell Sackett had been lured into the Apache's mountainstronghold by the icy beauty of his brother's wife. Hedidn't go alone. John J. Battles, Spanish Murphy and thehalf-breed Tampico rode beside him. Each was driven byhis past to test his speed and cunning against an enemy who couldsmell a white man a mile away-and then shoot his eyes out at a deadgallop. It was a contest few men could enter-and fewerstill could hope to win.
1996 wurde das Teatro La Fenice in Venedig vom Feuer zerst?rt.Ausgehend von dieser Trag?die gestaltet der Autor einbeeindruckendes historisches Portr?t einer einzigartig sch?nenStadt und seiner Bewohner und prominenten G?ste.
Innocence and beauty ignite with evil and terror as a younggirl exhibits signs of a wild and horrifying force.
Radigan Tom Radigan spent four hard years building up hisranch. Now a beautiful and deadly opportunist presents him with"evidence" that the land belongs to her. Angelina Foley wantsRadigan off Vache Creek immediately, and with an outfit ofgunfighters to back her and winter coming on, she's not taking nofor an answer. Outmanned, outgunned, and legally outmaneuvered,Radigan isn't going anywhere. Not without fighting for what heknows is rightfully his...even if he has to die for it. North tothe Rails Tom Chantry came west to buy cattle, not to find trouble.So when he leaves town rather than accept a challenge from agunfighter named Dutch Akin, he's labeled a coward. Now only oneman will agree to help Chantry take his herd to the railroad: ashrewd and ruthless cattleman named French Williams. He makesChantry an unusual deal. He will hire a crew but Chantry mustremain with the drive from start to finish or forfeit the herd.Chantry accepts...and the first man French hires is Dutch Akin.
During the Nazis’ brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting and thrown into the same cell as a handsome deserter named Kolya. Instead of being executed, Lev and Kolya are given a shot at saving their own lives by complying with an outrageous directive: secure a dozen eggs for a powerful Soviet colonel to use in his daughter’s wedding cake. In a city cut off from all supplies and suffering unbelievable deprivation, Lev and Kolya embark on a hunt through the dire lawlessness of Leningrad and behind enemy lines to find the impossible. By turns insightful and funny, thrilling and terrifying, City of Thieves is a gripping, cinematic World War II adventure and an intimate coming-of-age story with an utterly contemporary feel for how boys become men.
Book De*ion Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush toa fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year oldgirl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and aprofessor who told him of a future where people could think. AndGuy Montag knew what he had to do.... Amazon.com In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision ofthe future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in orderto burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up theappearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivialinformation is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire CaptainBeatty explains it this way, "Give the people contests they win byremembering the words to more popular songs.... Don't give themslippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with.That way lies melancholy." Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis offaith. His wife spends all day with her television "family,"imploring M
Sent by their mother to live with their devout,self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and herbrother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudiceof the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at hermother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many timesher age–and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Yearslater, in San Francisco, Maya learns about love for herself and thekindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of greatauthors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) willallow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a modernAmerican classic that will touch hearts and change minds for aslong as people read.
In his newest adventure, Indiana Jones travels to Indiaaccompanied by a female torch singer named Willie Scott and aneleven-year-old boy named Short Round, his self-appointedside-kick.
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They came by river and by wagon train, braving the endlessdistances of the Great Plains and the icy passes of the SierraNevada. They were men like Linus Rawlings, a restless survivor ofIndian country who'd headed east to see the ocean but left hisheart--and his home--in the West. They were women like LilithPrescott, a smart, spirited beauty who fled her family and fell fora gambling man in the midst of a frontier gold boom. Thesepioneering men and women sowed the seeds of a nation with theircourage--and with their blood. Here is the story of how their pathswould meet amid the epic struggle against fierce enemies andnature's cruelty, to win for all time the rich and untamedWest.
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.
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.
Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle ofthe Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one ofour greatest storytellers. In Treasure Mountain Louis L’Amourdelivers a robust story of two brothers searching to learn the fateof their missing father — and finding themselves in a struggle justto stay alive. Orrin and Tell Sackett had come to exotic New Orleans looking foranswers to their father’s disappearance twenty years before. Touncover the truth, the brothers enlisted the aid of a trailwisegypsy and a mysterious voodoo priest as they sought to re-createtheir father’s last trek. But Louisiana is a dangerous land, and with one misstep thebrothers could disappear in the bayous before they even set foot onthe trail that led to whatever legacy their father had left behind... and a secret worth killing for.
Twenty years ago, four teenagers at summer camp walked into thewoods at night. Two were found murdered, and the others were neverseen again. Four families had their lives changed forever. Now, twodecades later, they are about to change again. For Paul Copeland,the county prosecutor of Essex, New Jersey, grief at the loss ofhis sister has only recently begun to subside. Cope, as he isknown, is now dealing with raising his 6-year old daughter aloneafter his wife has died of cancer. Balancing family life and arapidly ascending career as a prosecutor distract him from his pasttraumas, but only for so long. When a homicide victim is found withevidence linking him to Cope, the well-buried secrets of theprosecutor's family are threatened. Is this body one of the camperswho disappeared with his sister? Could his sister be alive? Copehas to confront so much he left behind that summer 20 years ago:his first love, Lucy, his mother who abandoned the family, and thesecrets that his parents might have been hiding even fro
#1 "New York Times" bestselling author Tami Hoag mixes mysteryand romance in this moving classic novel of a missing woman and thesearch that brings together the unlikeliest of lovers.... She was ablond goddess, a box office megastar. Every woman wanted to be her;every man wanted to bed her. But over a year ago Devon Staffordvanished without a trace. As a biographer, Jake Gannon had taughthimself to follow the clues of a person's life story like adetective. As an ex-Marine, he was accustomed to being firmly incontrol. But when his car died in a little town called Mare's Neston the Carolina coast, he had to admit he'd come to a dead end.There he met a .38-toting tow-truck driver named Dixie La Fontaine.She was no celebrity, but Dixie had an irresistible sex appeal allher own. What did this down-to-earth woman know about a missingmovie star? Surprisingly, quite a lot. And Jake was going touncover it all...if Dixie didn't end up shooting him first.
