From two-time Pulitzer Prizewinning historian Arthur M.Schlesinger, Jr., comes one of the most important and influentialinvestigations of the American presidency. The Imperial Presidencytraces the growth of presidential power over two centuries, fromGeorge Washington to George W. Bush, examining how it has bothserved and harmed the Constitution and what Americans can do aboutit in years to come. The book that gave the phrase imperialpresidency to the language, this is a work of substantialscholarship written with lucidity, charm, and wit (The NewYorker).
Lizbreath Salamander is young and beautiful. Her scales have aniridescent sheen, her wings arch proudly, her breath has a tang ofsulfur. And on her back a tattoo of a mythical creature: a girl.But when Lizbreath is drawn into a dark conspiracy she will have torely on more than her beauty and her vicious claws the size ofsabres ...A dragon has disappeared, one of a secretive clan. AsLizbreath delves deeper into their history she realises that thesedragons will do anything to defend their secrets. Welcome to theworld of The Dragon With The Girl Tattoo. A world of gloomy Nordicdragons leading lives uncannily like our own (despite their size,despite the need for extensive fireproofing of home furnishings), aworld of money hoarded, a world of darkness and corruption. A worldwhere people are the fantasy.
Et si pour une fois, la tribu Malaussène s'agrandissait par lefils, et non par la mère ? Et si Malaussène, rescapé, recousu,réanimé d'un précédent épisode (La Petite Marchande de prose)décidait de sauter le pas avec sa Julie d'amour, revenue elle aussid'encore plus loin (La Fée carabine) ? C'est vrai que d'habitude,dans la tribu, on fête une naissance à chaque fois que la mère estamoureuse : elle part vivre son amour loin des yeux mais jamaisloin du coeur, et puis elle "réappara?t", enceinte, pour repartirsit?t le petit nouveau bien arrivé. Mais cette fois, elle estrevenue toute seule, désemparée et muette. Alors, c'est au tour deBen de prendre la relève. Sauf qu'évidemment, à Belleville, ?a nepeut pas se passer aussi simplement : sinon on ne serait pas chezles Malaussène... Pour la quatrième fois, Pennac nous fait la gr?ce de redonner vie àson héros, et comme les enfants quand Ben leur raconte deshistoires, on se surprend presque à crier "la suite, la suite !". --Karla Manuele
《The Magician's Nephew》:On a daring quest to save a life,two friends are hurled into anoter world,where an evil sorceress seeks to enslave them.But them the lion Aslan's song weaves itself into the fabric of a new land,a land that will be known as Narnia.And in Narnia,all things are possible…… 《The Lion,the Witch and the Wardrobe》:Four adventurers step through a wardrobe door the into the land enslaved by the power of the White Witch.But when almost all hope in lost,the return of the Great Lion,Aslan,signals a great change……and in great sacrifice. 《The Horse and His Boy》、《Princdce Caspian》、《The Voyage of the Dawn Treader》、《The Last Battle》、《The Silver Chair》.
Grade 9 Up–When Bella Swan moves from sunny Phoenix to Forks, Washington, a damp and dreary town known for the most rainfall in the United States, to live with her dad, she isnt expecting to like it. But the level of hostility displayed by her standoffish high school biology lab partner, Edward Cullen, surprises her. After several strange interactions, his preternatural beauty, strength, and speed have her intrigued. Edward is just as fascinated with Bella, and their attraction to one another grows. As Bella discovers more about Edwards nature and his family, she is thrown headlong into a dangerous adventure that has her making a desperate sacrifice to save her one true love. One of the more original vampire constructs around, this recording of Stephenie Meyers debut novel (Megan Tingley Books, 2005) is narrated with great style by Ilyana Kadushin, who makes the infinitely romantic tale of star-crossed lovers resonate with a bittersweet edge. Although Edward and Bellas romance and subsequent danger develops
First published in 1939, these three short novels secured theauthor's reputation as a master of short fiction.
A man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me aboat. The king's house had many other doors, but this was the doorfor petitions. Since the king spent all his time sitting at thedoor for favors (favors being offered to the king, you understand),whenever he heard someone knocking at the door for petitions, hewould pretend not to hear . . ." Why the petitioner required aboat, where he was bound for, and who volunteered to crew for him,the reader will discover in this delightful fable, a philosophiclove story worthy of Swift or Voltaire.
Penelope Fitzgerald's first novel, THE GOLDEN CHILD, combinesa deft comedy of manners with a classic mystery set in London'smost refined institution -- the museum. When the glitteringtreasure of ancient Garamantia, the golden child, is delivered tothe museum, a web of intrigue tightens around its personnel,especially the hapless museum officer Waring Smith. While prowlingthe halls one night, Waring is nearly strangled. Two suspiciousdeaths ensue, and only the cryptic hieroglyphics of the Garamantescan bring an end to the mayhem. Fitzgerald has an unerring eye forhuman nature, and this satirical look at the art world delivers aterrifically witty read.
全书由一篇简介开始,简介的内容其实就象是聊天,作者与读者之间的聊天。写这篇文章时候的小花絮,那篇文章的灵感来自哪里,另外一篇写完之后的感受,诸如此类的话题,对于阅读理解后面的文章有一定的帮助。 这本集子的标题“烟与镜”的含义是,魔术师靠镜子与烟雾来表演,镜子能映照出实像,而45度斜放的镜子会让你看到假象,让你以为你所看到的是真的,这个概念在若干篇里都有出现。小说都是镜子,用来反映这个世界,而奇幻小说也是镜子,是魔术师常用的45度斜放的镜子,甚至是凹凸不平的变形镜,它们可以告诉我们一些事情,一些平时看不到的事情。读完所有的故事,你是不是也会看到一些平时看不到的事情呢? An elderly widow finds the Holy Grail beneath anold fur coat. A stray cat fights and refights a terrible nightlybattle to protect his unwary adoptive fami
The Fury: Faced with an ancient evil, Stefan and Damon must stoptheir feuding and join forces with Elena to confront it. But in sodoing, they are unwittingly sealing her fate ...The Reunion: Elenasummons the vampire trio once more to unite and challenge theirfate. Together they will be called to face the most terrifying evilFell's Church has ever known.
Acquired by Grogan and his wife in Florida when he was a puppy, Marley, an oversize, energetic, and supremely loving yellow Lab, was expelled from his first obedience school but successfully auditioned for a part in a movie. He bolted his food, chewed everything in sight, and went berserk in thunderstorms. After moving to Pennsylvania with the growing Grogan family, he discovered the joy of snow, tobogganing down the hill on his master's stomach. Although never really well-behaved, Marley made his home in their hearts for 13 years. Grogan has trimmed down his best-selling account, Marley and Me (2005), for younger readers, leaving out considerable detail about the family but keeping all the deeds and misdeeds that made Marley so entertaining. The dog's poignant last days are detailed as well. Young readers with pets of their own will recognize the unconditional affection Marley gave and the love he earned in return.
As Peter Carlyle, a smooth-talking, super-successful lawyer,waved his family off on a sailing trip, all they had in mind was lying back and relaxing. But when a violent storm broke out, an explosion caused the boat to vanish without a trace and the family were lost, presumed dead. Until now. When a message in a bottle is found, it becomes apparent that there must have been at least one survivor. The race is on to rescue the family, but does everyone looking for them really want to find them alive? Was the explosion the accident everyone assumed it to be? Survival may be the least of their concerns. In fact, being found may be the last thing they should be hoping for ...
With a brilliant comic voice as well as Jane Austen's penchantfor social satire, Candace Bushnell, who with Sex and the Citychanged forever how we view New York City, female friendships, andthe love of a good pair of Manolos, now brings us a sharplyobservant, keenly funny, wildly entertaining latter day comedy ofmanners. Modern-day heroine Janey Wilcox is a lingerie model whosereach often exceeds her grasp, and whose new-found success has goneto her head. As we follow Janey's adventures, Bushnell draws usinto a seemingly glamorous world of $100,000 cars, hunky poloplayers and media moguls, Fifth Avenue apartments, andrelationships whose hidden agendas are detectable only by thesocially astute. But just as Janey enters this world of too muchmoney and too few morals, unseen forces conspire to bring her down,forcing her to reexamine her values about love and friendship-andhow far she's really willing to go to realize her dreams.
A deliciously dark masrerwork from the genius who created Coraline.American Gods and Stardust NOBODY OWENS,known tO his friends as B od,is a perfectly normRl boy.Apart from the fact that he lices in a graveyard and is being raised and educated by ghosts,and his guardian belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are dangers and adventures for Bod:in the graveyard:the strange and terrible.menace of the Sleer;a gravestone entrance to a desert that leads tO the city of ghouls;friendship with a witch;and so much more.
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...
S and B and J and N are back, along with A, D, V, and assorted other rich, catty Manhattan teenagers in this third installment of the Gossip Girl series. An omniscient and anonymous narrator keeps track of the scene in www.gossipgirl.net (now an actual site), where the rumors fly, backs are stabbed, and celebrity sightings are dutifully reported. Serena (S) and Blair (B) are best friends again, shoring each other up as Blair faces life without her ex, Nate, who has hooked up with a sweet, busty 14-year-old, and Serena fends off advances from drop-dead-gorgeous rock star, Flow. Life's rough. Meanwhile, Vanessa and Dan play the will-he/won't-he game of sex, and Aaron tries to thwart his own crush on new stepsister Blair. They're the teens you love to hate, and yet it's not all trash. Beneath the designer name-obsessed veneer and the nasty soap opera quality of Gossip Girl novels, there's plenty that's true and real for any teenager. Angst, creative passion, love, college applications, drinking, smoking, sex…s
Taking his title from the wounded cry of the once great MaxBialystock in The Producers -- "Look at me now Look at me now I'mwearing a cardboard belt " -- the charming essayist Joseph Epsteingives us his largest and most adventurous collection to date. Withhis signature gifts of sparkling humor and penetratingintelligence, he issues forth as a memoirist, polemicist, literarycritic, and amused observer of contemporary culture. In deeplyconsidered examinations of writers from Paul Valery to TrumanCapote, in incisive take-downs of such cultural pooh-bahs as HaroldBloom and George Steiner, and in personally revealing essays abouthis father and about his years as a teacher, this remarkablecollection from one of America's best essayists is a book to besavored.
To everyone who's anyone in New York City Victory Ford, Wendy Healy and Nico O'Neilly are the beautiful face of success in the city. Victory is the hottest new designer on the block, Wendy is President of Parador Pictures with a sure-fire hit in production and Nico is the editor of BONFIRE magazine. The trouble is, from where Victory, Nico and Wendy are standing things don't look quite that way. Nico is fitting in guilty extra-marital sex with an underwear model. Victory's last collection bombed and Wendy's twelve-year marriage to her metrosexual househusband is in freefall. Candace Bushnell's new heroines are irresistible, and as she follows them through the minefield of work, love and life at the top she gives us a hugely entertaining lesson on how to stay ahead in the toughest town on the planet.