春秋乱世，她从乱坟岗重生，寄人篱下。她女扮男装，混迹于游侠之间，靠聪明才智和经商之才，成为流亡齐地的赵公子出的门客和姬妾。她爱财如命，见金子两眼放光。他则以打压她为乐，没收她的财源。帷幔下，她以身相许，几多缱绻。她助他执掌赵国国政，一心为他。他则姬妾成群，另立她人为后。乱世争霸，她运筹帷幄，笑傲群雄。最终，她能否靠自己的才能让他一心一意，死心塌地？一对欢喜冤家，一场草根女与古代的情爱纠葛大戏，于春秋苍茫大地上，正在激情上演
年轻貌美、气性高傲的芭思希芭·埃弗汀来到威瑟伯里，继承她叔叔的农场。农场主波德伍德以及年轻英俊的中士特洛伊先后爱上了她，错综复杂的爱情纠葛导致了一出发生在远离尘嚣之地的悲剧。 ??
All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire's richestcitizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the lastdays of summer. The world's largest navy lies peacefully at anchorin Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seasideresorts of Baiae, Herculaneum, and Pompeii. But the carefreelifestyle and gorgeous weather belie an impending cataclysm, andonly one man is worried. The young engineer Marcus Attilius Primushas just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueductthat brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in ninetowns around the Bay of Naples. His predecessor has disappeared.Springs are failing for the and#64257;rst time in generations. Andnow there is a crisis on the Augusta's sixty-mile mainline--somewhere to the north of Pompeii, on the slopes of MountVesuvius. Attilius--decent, practical, and incorruptible--promisesPliny, the famous scholar who commands the navy, that he can repairthe aqueduct before the reservoir runs dry. His plan is to travelto
★Mandy Pajeck had a tough childhood. Now 28,she feelsresponsible for the accident that took her younger brother's sight.But his complete reliance on her care is making them bothmiserable.When she meets handsome Zach Harrigan and his mini guidehorse,she thinks she's found the ticket to her brother'shappiness-and maybe her own
Connie May Fowler is known to the world as the author ofbestselling novels and powerful essays—but no one knew that foryears she was the victim of brutal abuse and relentlesshumiliation. Now in this harrowing, spellbinding memoir, Fowlerfinally tells her own story. The daughter and grand-daughter of battered women, Fowler foundherself irresistibly drawn to a man who was bent on destroying her,physically and emotionally. Despite her youth, spirit, education,and wonderful talent, she was trapped in a cycle of violence anddespair with no way out. Until the day she adopted an incrediblepuppy she named Kateland. With stunning candor, Connie May Fowler reveals how theunconditional love and loyalty of this dog helped her turn thecorner, find a safe place, and reclaim her own life. A work ofextraordinary passion and courage, When Katie Wakes holds out hopeand inspiration to anyone who has ever dreamed of startingover.
"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the gloves herself. Big Benwas striking as she stepped out into the street. It was eleveno'clock and the unused hour was fresh as if issued to children on abeach." -from "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street" The landmark modernnovel Mrs. Dalloway creates a portrait of a single day in the lifeof Clarissa Dalloway as she orchestrates the last-minute details ofa grand party. But before Virginia Woolf wrote this masterwork, sheexplored in a series of fascinating stories a similar revelry inthe mental and physical excitement of a party. Wonderfullycaptivating, the seven stories in Mrs. Dalloway's Party create adynamic and delightful portrait of what Woolf called "partyconsciousness." As parallel expressions of the themes of Mrs.Dalloway, these stories provide a valuable window into Woolf'swriting mind and a further testament to her extraordinarygenius.
Second in the breathtaking Irish trilogy from the #1 New YorkTimes bestselling author. Nora Roberts returns to Ireland in thistale of a talented musician and the beautiful tomboy who's beensecretly in love with him for years.
