Anna decides to take an end-of-summer getaway-to get away from her drama-filled LA life. So she packs her Louis Vuitton, grabs her close friend Sam, and heads to the Big Apple. Between trips to the Met and shopping at Bendel's, the girls are living the A-List life on Anna's home turf. But their trip isn't exactly a vacation. Sam is here to spy on Eduardo and decode his recent strange behavior. Will what she discovers send her hopping on the next private jet back to Beverly Hills? And who is the beautiful stranger who appears on Anna's Upper East Side doorstep? Anna begins to wonder whether she wants to head back west again-especially since Ben seems to have moved on . . . with someone who isn't a stranger at all. When it comes to the A-List, there's drama coast to coast.

The best public defender in Prosper, Kendall has stumbled uponthe town's chilling secret - and her marriage to one of the town'smost powerful men has become a living hell. Now Kendall is aterrified mother trying to save her child's life.

Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published. Whether it is her sharp, ironic gaze at the Gothic genre invoked by the adventures of Catherine Morland in "Northanger Abbey"; the diffident and much put-upon Fanny Price struggling to cope with her emotions in "Mansfield Park"; her delightfully paced comedy of manners and the machinations of the sisters Elinor and Marianne in "Sense and Sensibility"; the quiet strength of Anne Elliot in "Persuasion" succeeding in a world designed to subjugate her very existence; and Emma - 'a heroine whom no one but myself will like' teased Austen - yet another irresistible character on fire with imagination and foresight.Indeed not unlike her renowned creator, Jane Austen is as sure-footed in her steps through society's whirlpools of

La mer abrite des millions de poissons, mais le vieux pêcheurn'a rien pris depuis quatre-vingt-cinq jours. Elle s'étend àl'infini, les c?tes cubaines s'éloignent inexorablement, etpourtant, il s'agit d'un roman de l'enfermement. Le Vieil Hommeet la mer , durant trois jours entiers, se retrouvent face àface. Rare élément féminin dans ce récit qui oppose deux volontésviriles et où la douceur maternelle provient d'un gamin, la mer estle lieu du lien. Lien entre le vieil homme et l'espadon, entre lepêcheur et la vie, lien entre le retour et le départ, l'eau est unlieu de séjour transitoire entre la vie et la mort. A peine unpurgatoire, car l'on imagine mal cet homme à l'?me sublime avoircommis aucun péché, la mer fait surgir en lui des sentimentsd'amour profond, de respect pour la vie, mais aussi de manque et delassitude. Les expressions reviennent sans cesse, les images sontrécurrentes et la voix parle à l'esprit dont elle émane. Lespoissons volent, comme mus par la tension incessante de l'

The inspiration for the film starring Kathy Bates and JenniferJason Leigh.

LOST HORIZON is the tale of three men and a woman seeking escape from a political upheaval in the Orient. Their airplane crashes high on a Tibetan plateau. They are saved by a party of natives and taken to Shangri-La. Finding themselves prisoners at first, then visitors, they soon become willing captives until they discover the secret of that hidden paradise. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

Josie Tyrell,white trash,artist's model,teen runaway and denizen of LA's 1980 punk rock scene,finds a chance at real love with art student Michael Faraday.A Harvard dropout and son of a renowned pianist,Michael introduces her to a world of sophistication,and to his own artistic quest for beauty.But when she receives a call from the Los Angeles County Coroner asking her to identify her lover's dead body,her bright dreams fade to black. What happens to a dream when the dreamer is gone?'As Josie struggels to come to some new understanding of the Michael she thought she knew,she finds herself drawn into a dark and twisted relationship with his mother,Meredith.In mutual distrust and blind need they circle one another-their very survival and memory of Michael is at stake. Passionate,wounded, fiercely alive,Josie Tyrell walks the brink of her own destruction as she fights to discover what is left of the brilliant vision of the future she and Michael once nurtured together. 作者简介： Janet F

Souvent les enfants s'inventent une famille, une autre origine,d'autres parents Le narrateur de ce livre, lui, s'est inventé un frère. Un frèrea?né, plus beau, plus fort, qu'il évoque devant les copains devacances, les étrangers, ceux qui ne vérifieront pas... Et puis unjour, il découvre la vérité, impressionnante, terrifiante presque.Et c'est alors toute une histoire familiale, lourde, complexe,qu'il lui incombe de reconstituer. Une histoire tragique qui leramène aux temps de l'Holocauste, et des millions de disparus surqui s'est abattue une chape de silence Psychanalyste, Philippe Grimbert est venu au roman avec La PetiteRobe de Paul. Avec ce nouveau livre, couronné en 2004 par le prixGoncourt des lycéens et en 2005 par le Grand Prix littéraire deslectrices de Elle, il démontre avec autant de rigueur que d'émotioncombien les puissances du roman peuvent aller loin dansl'exploration des secrets à l'o euvre dans nos vies.

Now in paperback--the 19th book in the #1 "New York Times"bestselling In Death series, featuring New York City policelieutenant Eve Dallas. Eve investigates a rash of horrific killingswith the help of her new husband, billionaire Roarke, and her rawpartner, Peabody.

The new queen of the blockbuster is back In the ultra-chic world of the fabulously rich, fashion can have a very high price! Saul Milford, owner of one of England's oldest and most prestigious luxury goods companies is dead, but who will inherit his estate? For years Saul's niece Cassandra, editor-in-chief of Rive, the most glamorous fashion magazine of the moment has believed that she would be the sole benefactor. But she's not the only family member with their eye on the ultimate prize. Roger, Saul's handsome brother with a demanding wife. Julia the art-dealer sister with a dark and brooding secret, Tom the playboy nephew, and Emma, the hard--working but unlucky in love niece living and working in Boston. All have their reasons for wanting the company. But one of them will go to any lengths to secure what they believe is rightfully theirs. Once again Tasmina Perry takes us a non-stop tour of the mega-privileged, weaving a gilt-edged tale of lust, glamour and intrigue around the world's most luxurious locati

Leadership guru Maxwell, who successfully bridged secular and Christian markets with such motivational titles as The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership and Developing the Leader Within You, draws on Old Testament paragons in this gifty inspirational hardback. Maxwell asks readers to envision the great "cloud of witnesses" (Heb. 12:1) said to surround us as we run the marathon of life, imagining that this cloud includes "the giants of the faith"-biblical heroes whose lives impart meaningful lessons. He includes the usual suspects: the David-tackles-Goliath tale demonstrates how people can rise above their limitations, while Noah exemplifies a willingness to take new risks (i.e., build a boat when no one had seen rain before). But there are bolder moments, too. Maxwell uses Rebekah as a model of generous giving (a welcome and underutilized virtue in business titles) and provides some gee-whiz facts to drive the point home: he estimates that to water Jacob's 10 camels, Rebekah needed about 200 gallons of water, r

This novel, Hardy's last, is quite a delightful tale, almost comical in tone, and its wry, tongue-in-cheek flavor is beautifully realized by reader Robert Powell. It concerns sculptor Jocelyn Pierston and his 40-year quest for the incarnation of the ideal woman. This phantom eludes him as it flits from woman to woman most especially Avice Caro, his sweetheart at 20; then Avice's daughter, Anne Avice, who charms him when he is 40; and finally Avice the third, the granddaughter, whom he courts at 60. Alas, none of these romances reach fruition, and he loses both his artistic abilities and drive and his interest in the old quest. At 62, he can pass for 75, and in his old age he finds an old flame who sees him into his dotage. Hardy classed this work with his "Romances and Fantasies," and it is indeed almost an allegory or fable. Very enjoyable and excellently read, this is a good addition to fiction collections that feature important British writers. Harriet Edwards, East Meadow P.L., NY Copyright 20

Stepping out into the dusk of a warm Moscow evening, esteemed art critic Anatoly Sukhanov feels on top of the world: his career is glittering, his wife is beautiful and his children are clever. But the year is 1985 and the air is heavy with change. Sukhanov's future will be haunted by doubt. Beset by heartbreaking visions of a past he gave up, he questions his choices: in swapping a precarious life as a brilliant underground artist for comfort and security did he betray his dreams? And if his dreams are lost, what does he have left? One of the most highly-acclaimed debuts of recent years, The Dream Life of Sukhanov is a work of demon energy and startling imagery: a new classic.

It is the 1970s in Northern California. A farmer and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work the land with the help of Coop, the enigmatic young man who lives with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until they are riven by an incident of violence - of both hand and heart - that 'sets fire to the rest of their lives'. Anna will come to rest in the calming landscape of south-central France. There, she delves into the story of a writer who, decades earlier, lived in the isolated house she now occupies - a story that circles around the 'raw truth' of her own life, the one she's left behind but can never truly leave. And while Anna's story lies at the heart of the novel, the narrative sweeps across the terrain of the lives of Coop and Claire as well, each of them managing to find some foothold in a present rough-hewn from the past.This is a story of possession and loss, about the often discordant demands of family, love, and memory. Written in the sensuous prose for which Michael Ondaatje's fiction is celebr

Are hurricanes increasing in ferocity and frequency because ofglobal warming? In the wake of Katrina, leading science journalistChris Mooney follows the careers of top meteorologists on eitherside of this red-hot question through the 2006 hurricane season,tracing how the media, special interests, politics, and the weatheritself have skewed and amplified what was already an intensescientific debate. In this fascinating and urgently important book,Mooney--a native of New Orleans--delves into a compellingconsequence of the great inconvenient truth of our day: Are weresponsible for making hurricanes even bigger monsters than theyalready are?