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'

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

The first book in a new trilogy from L. J. Smith! Elena Gilbert is alive again. When Elena sacrificed herself to save the two vampire brothers who love her the handsome, brooding Stefan and the sleek and dangerous Damon she was consigned to a fate beyond death. Until a powerful supernatural force pulled her back. Now Elena is not just human. She has powers and gifts that were bestowed on her in the afterlife. What's more, her blood pulses with an overwhelming and unique force that makes her irresistible to any vampire. Stefan wants to find a way to keep Elena safe so that they can make a life together. Damon, however, is driven by an insatiable desire for power, and wants Elena to rule as his princess. When Stefan is lured away from Fell's Church, Damon seizes his chance to convince her that he is the brother she is meant to be with. . . . But a darkness is infiltrating the town, and Damon, always the hunter, is now the hunted; he becomes the prey of a malevolent creature th

On June 8, 1972, nine-year-old Kim Phuc, severely burned bynapalm, ran from her blazing village in South Vietnam and into theeye of history. Her photograph-one of the most unforgettable imagesof the twentieth century-was seen around the world and helped turnpublic opinion against the Vietnam War. This book is the story of how that photograph came to be-and thestory of what happened to that girl after the camera shutterclosed. Award-winning biographer Denise Chong's portrait of KimPhuc-who eventually defected to Canada and is now a UNESCOspokesperson-is a rare look at the Vietnam War from the Vietnamesepoint-of-view and one of the only books to describe everyday lifein the wake of this war and to probe its lingering effects on allits participants.

The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week. As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would totally change his life—that would make him, almost overnight, the legal profession’s newest king of torts... 作者简介 JOHN GRISHAM is the author of Skipping Christmas, The Summons, A Painted House, The Brethren, The Testament, The Street Lawyer, The Partner, The Runaway Jury, The Rainmaker, The Chamber, The Client, The Pelican Brief, T

*消息 罗琳于2月1日更新了她的官方网站，里面登出了Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 《哈利波特与死圣》的出版日期。哈利波特7将于今年7月21日英国夏令时间00：01分开始发售。当然，今年也是《哈利波特与魔法石》的发售十周年纪念。 太阳报消息，罗琳在 Balmoral 旅馆的大理石像后边写下了下面的内容：“罗琳于2007年1月11日在此房间(652) 内完成Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 《哈利波特与死圣》的写作。”现在这条消息目前已经得到了BBC的证实。 The latest news about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows March 29th Bloomsbury Publishing Plc is delighted to release the book jacket images for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K.Rowling, to be published on 21st July 2007. The cover illustration for the children’s edition is by Jason Cockcroft, who drew the cover illustrations for the previous two Harry Potter books: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Har

Lady Edgware ne supporte pas la contradiction. Et son mari luidonne bien du souci. D'abord, il a un caractère impossible.Ensuite, il refuse de divorcer. Très ennuyeux... Car lady Edgware ajustement l'intention de se remarier. Que faire ? Mais chargerHercule Poirot de la débarrasser du gêneur, bien s?r ! N'est-il pasle grand spécialiste des affaires criminelles ? Lady Edgware auraittendance à confondre tueur à gages et détective que Poirot n'enserait pas autrement surpris. Mais peu importe, après tout. Puisquele mari a fini par se résigner. Il vient d'avoir la bonne idée demourir. Assassiné. Contrariant, lord Edgware ? Les femmes sontingrates...

With his U.S.A. trilogy, comprising THE 42nd PARALLEL, 1919,and THE BIG MONEY, John Dos Passos is said by many to have writtenthe great American novel. While Fitzgerald and Hemingway werecultivating what Edmund Wilson once called their "own littlecorners," John Dos Passos was taking on the world. Counted as oneof the best novels of the twentieth century by the Modern Libraryand by some of the finest writers working today, U.S.A. is a grand,kaleidoscopic portrait of a nation, buzzing with history and lifeon every page. The trilogy opens with THE 42nd PARALLEL, where wefind a young country at the dawn of the twentieth century. Slowly,in stories artfully spliced together, the lives and fortunes offive characters unfold. Mac, Janey, Eleanor, Ward, and Charley arecaught on the storm track of this parallel and blown New Yorkward.As their lives cross and double back again, the likes of EugeneDebs, Thomas Edison, and Andrew Carnegie make cameoappearances.

It’s 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met.But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking aboutone another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship arerevealed on the same day—July 15th—of each year. Dex and Em facesquabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter andtears. And as the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed,they must come to grips with the nature of love and lifeitself.

Andrea Sachs goes to work for Miranda Priestly, the all-powerful editor of Runway magazine. Miranda's behaviour is so insanely over-the-top that it's a gas to see what she'll do next, and to try to guess which incidents were culled from the real-life antics of the woman who's been called Anna "Nuclear" Wintour.... How far would you go to change your life in a year? Emmy finds herself single for the first time in years. She vows to find a man on every continent for some pure no-strings-attached fun. Adriana is stunning and can have any man she desires.Yet she wants an eligible bachelor who'll slip a five-carat Harry Winston diamond on her finger. Leigh has a doting boyfriend that most girls would kill for. But when literary bad boy Jesse Chapman asks to work with her, she just can't refuse. Knocking back raspberry mojitos one night, the three friends make a pact - to change one thing in their lives by the end of the year. Game On. The three best friends make a pact over raspberry mojitos one night this year

When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the arctic ice,the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory-a victory tith profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election.,To verify the authenticity of the find,the White House calls upon the skills of intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton.Accompanied by a team of experts,including the charismatic scholar Michael Tolland,Rachel travels to the Arctic and uncovers the unthinkable：evidence of scientific trickery-a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy.But before she can warn the President,Rachel and Michael are ambushed by a deadly team of assassins.Fleeing for their lives across a desolate and lethal landscape,their only hope for survival is to discover who is behind this masterful plot.The truth ,they will learn,is the most shocking deception of all.

Setting out to make his fortune in a far-off country, a youngtraveller discovers the remote and beautiful land of Erewhon, andis given a home among its extraordinarily handsome citizens. Buttheir visitor soon discovers that this seemingly ideal communityhas its faults - here crime is treated indulgently as a malady tobe cured, while illness, poverty and misfortune are cruellypunished, and all machines have been superstitiously destroyedafter a bizarre prophecy. Can he survive in a world where moralityis turned upside down? Inspired by Samuel Butler's years incolonial New Zealand, and by his reading of Darwin's "Origin ofSpecies", Erewhon (1872) is a highly original, irreverent andhumorous satire on conventional virtues, religious hypocrisy andthe unthinking acceptance of beliefs.

Last year, awareness about global warming reached a tippingpoint. Now one of the most dynamic writers and one of the mostrespected scientists in the field of climate change offer the firstconcise guide to both the problems and the solutions. Guiding uspast a blizzard of information and misinformation, Gabrielle Walkerand Sir David King explain the science of warming, the mostcutting-edge technological solutions from small to large, and thenational and international politics that will affect our efforts.While there have been many other books about the problem of globalwarming, none has addressed what we can and should do about it soclearly and persuasively, with no spin, no agenda, and noexaggeration. Neither Walker nor King is an activist or politician,and theirs is not a generic green call to arms. Instead theypropose specific ideas to fix a very specific problem. Mostimportant, they offer hope: This is a serious issue, perhaps themost serious that humanity has ever faced. But we can still dosomething about

Set during the Civil War, against a backdrop of grand estates,unimaginable riches, and deadly secrets, three teenagers in MysticFalls, Virginia enter a torrid love triangle that will spaneternity. Brothers Stefan and Damon Salvatore areinseparable until they meet Katherine, a stunning, mysterious womanwho turns their world upside down. Siblings turned rivals, theSalvatores compete for Katherine′s affection, only to discover thather sumptuous silk dresses and glittering gems hide a terriblesecret: Katherine is a vampire. And she is intent on turning theminto vampires so they can live together-forever.

Isaac and Nora haven't seen each other in five years, yet whenNora phones Isaac late one night, he knows who it is before she'sspoken a word. Isaac, a photographer, is relinquishing his artisticcareer, while Nora, a writer, is seeking to rededicate herself tohers. Fueled by their rediscovered love, Nora is soon on fire withthe best work she's ever done, until she realizes that the storyshe's writing has turned into a fictionalized portrait of Isaac,exposing his frailties and compromises and sure to be viewed by himas a betrayal. How do we remain faithful to our calling if itestranges us from the people we love? How do we remain in loveafter we have seen the very worst of our loved ones? These are someof the questions explored in a novel that critics are calling "anabsolute pleasure" (The Seattle Times).

In a complete stylistic departure from his mysterious and surreal novels (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; A Wild Sheep Chase) that show the influences of Salinger, Fitzgerald and Tom Robbins, Murakami tells a bittersweet coming-of-age story, reminiscent of J.R. Salamanca's classic 1964 novel, LilithAthe tale of a young man's involvement with a schizophrenic girl. A successful, 37-year-old businessman, Toru Watanabe, hears a version of the Beatles' Norwegian Wood, and the music transports him back 18 years to his college days. His best friend, Kizuki, inexplicably commits suicide, after which Toru becomes first enamored, then involved with Kizuki's girlfriend, Naoko. But Naoko is a very troubled young woman; her brilliant older sister has also committed suicide, and though sweet and desperate for happiness, she often becomes untethered. She eventually enters a convalescent home for disturbed people, and when Toru visits her, he meets her roommate, an older musician named Reiko, who's had a long history of mental i