《1984动物农场（珍藏版）》中描述的是对极权主义恶性发展的预言人性遭到扼杀，自由遭到剥夺，思想受到钳制，生活极度贫乏、单调。特别可怕的是：人性已堕落到不分是非善恶的程度。一段写于五十年前的绝妙政治寓言让人不寒而栗：如果有一天这一切再重现……从未在任何极权国家生活过的英国人奥威尔，何以有如此天才般的预见和洞察？其实就象丁春秋的逍遥派、东方不败的日月神教，作家们不过是透视了人性中最原始而丑陋的东西。
On the eve of the Globe's production of "Hamlet,"Shakespearean scholar Kate Shelton is given what is claimed to bethe Bard's long-lost work. When a killer decides to stagetheatrical murders as flesh-and-blood realities, Shelton mustdecipher a string of clues before anyone else dies.
In Lonely on the Mountain, Louis L'Amour's solitary wanderingSackett brothers make a stand together--to save one of their own.The rare letters Tell Sackett received always had trouble inside.And the terse note from his cousin Logan is no exception. Loganfaces starvation or a hanging if Tell can't drive a herd of cattlefrom Kansas to British Columbia before winter. To get to Logan, hemust brave prairie fires, buffalo stampedes, and Sioux war parties.But worse trouble waits, for a mysterious enemy shadows Sackett'severy move across the Dakotas and the Canadian Rockies. TellSackett has never abandoned another Sackett in need. He will bringaid to Logan--or die trying.
Four spellbinding tales of evil. These arecan't-tear-your-eyes-away stories that burn your imagination. -- Playboy King is a master storyteller, and you will never forget thesestories. -- The Seattle Times
Colonel Utah Blaine, held captive by the Army of theRevolution, broke out of jail and headed north from Mexico withnothing but the clothes on his back. Then he found new troublestruggling at the end of a noose-and stepped in just in time tosave the life of a Texas rancher. The would-be executioners werethe rancher's own men, looking to steal his land. Now Utah has aunique proposition: Have the wealthy Texan play dead, introducehimself as the spread's new foreman, and take care of the outlawsone by one. The wage to fight another man's war? A hundred a monthplus expenses. The cost of falling in love while he earns thatwage? It wasn't exactly part of the original agreement, but Utahwill soon find out-unless the bad guys get to him first.
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The controversial Gulf War air campaign is revealed in rich, provocative detail. And in this new edition, General Horner looks at the current Gulf conflict--and comments on the use of air power in Iraq today.
Book De*ion Let number-one New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts flyyou into Lunacy, Alaska, and into a colorful, compelling new novelabout two lonely souls who find love - and redemtion... Lunacy was Nate Burke's last chance. As a Baltimore cop, he'dwatched his partner die on the street - and the guilt still hauntshim. With nowhere else to go, he accepts the job as chief of policein this tiny, remote Alaskan town, where the peace provides a balmfor his shattered soul - and an unexpected affair with pilot MegGalloway warms his nights... But other things in Lunacy are heating up. Nate suspects thekiller in an unsolved murder still walks the snowy streets. Hisinvestigation will unearth the secrets and suspicions that lurkbeneath the placid surface, as well as bring out the big-citysurvival instincts that made him a cop in the first place. And hisdiscovery will threaten the new life - and the new love - that hehas finally found for herself. "Roberts is among the best popul
They were just kids when they stumbled upon the hidden horror oftheir hometown. Now, as adults, none of them can withstand theforce that has drawn them all back to Derry, Maine, to face thenightmare without end, and the evil without a name.
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
In this exciting collection of short stories, Louis L'Amour, thelegendary voice of the American West, celebrates the unique breedof men who worked the great cattle ranches. Men like Dan Regan, whorefused to surrender when trouble came -- Con Fargo, who wouldfight for what was his--despite the odds -- Rowdy Horn, asmall-time rancher with big-time dreams -- Tandy Thayer, too loyalto forget a friend ... Bill Carey, who might have fallen low, butnot low enough to let the likes of Tabat Ryerson ride off with awoman like Jane Conway -- and in the classic title story, DannyLonigan, a hard rider who faced a group of rustlers withoutfear--or mercy.
For thousands of years the lonely canyon knew only wind andrain, wild animals, and an occasional native hunter. Then a trapperfound a chunk of gold, and everything changed overnight. In sixdays a town called Confusion appeared . . . and on the seventh itcould disappear, consumed by the flames of lawlessness andviolence. On one side are those who understand only brute force. Onthe other are men who want law and order but are ready to use anoose to achieve their ends. Between them stand Matt Coburn andDick Felton: one a hardened realist, the other an idealist tryingto dig a fortune from the muddy hillside. Outnumbered andoutgunned, Felton and Coburn can't afford to be outmaneuvered. Foras the two unlikely allies confront corruption, betrayal, andmurder in an attempt to tame a town where the discovery of gold canmean either the fortune of a lifetime or a sentence of death, theyrealize that any move could be their last.
No one brings to life the Old West like Louis L'Amour. Collectedhere for the first time, these vintage frontier stories introduceyou to lawmen and loners, ranchers and renegades, gunslingers,cardsharps, bank robbers, etc. In these pages L'Amour brings tolife such classic characters as the Cactus Kid, Tensleep Mooney,One-Eared Tim, and the gunfighter Kim Sartain. These are frontiertales as only L'Amour can tell them--stories that surprise like thesharp crack of a Winchester and move like the lonely howl of thewind across an empty plain on the long ride home.
A writer is held hostage by his number-one fan in the novel that"demand[s] that we take King seriously as a writer with a deeplyfelt understanding of human psychology" ( Publishers Weekly ).His deeply felt understanding of what terrifies us doesn't hurteither.
In one of the most acclaimed and original novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.
