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Welcome to New York Citys Upper East Side, where my friends and I get everything and everyonewe want. Snagging the latest Marc Jacobs bag or your best friends boyfriend isnt pretty, but its always hot . . . Its almost graduation and our lives are really heating up. Everybodys into college and its obviously time to partyas if we hadnt been doing that already! Will Blair and Nates love affair continue? More importantly, will Blair finally get into Yale? Or will Nate and Serena hook up in New Haven and leave Blair alone in the city? And as for the juiciest scoop of all, whats this we hear about Jenny leaving Constance Billard to go to boarding school? Only time will tell how everyone will end up, but one things for sure: love is in the air, and it smells a lot like Gucci Envy.
FBI behavioral psychologist Daniel Clark is a man on a mission. After over a year of tracking a mysterious serial killer known as Eve, he feels closer than ever to discovering the murderer's true identity when he finds Eve's latest victim still alive. In an effort to save the girl, Daniel narrowly escapes becoming another casualty on Eve's list. Despite seeing the killer with his own eyes, a gunshot wound to the head leaves him with amnesia, unable to remember any details from the incident. His drive to find the killer takes on a whole new meaning when Eve takes yet another victim, one Daniel knows all too well-his estranged wife Heather. Determined to bring her back alive, Daniel takes his obsession to a dangerous new level, even recreating his own near-death experience in attempt to recall anything from his encounter with Eve. Soon enough he finds himself fighting for Heather's life, and, in the end, his own.
?" Quand j'ai compris que Mario était mort, tous les détailsme sont revenus. Les gens racontaient cela en long et en large à magrand-mère. Mario traversait le champ, un peu plus haut, à lasortie du village. Il cachait la bombe dans un sac, il courait.Peut-être qu'il s'est pris les pieds dans une motte de terre, et ilest tombé. La bombe a explosé. On n'a rien retrouvé de lui. C'étaitmerveilleux. C'était comme si Mario s'était envolé vers un autremonde, vers Ourania. Puis les années ont passé, j'ai un peu oublié.Jusqu'à ce jour, vingt ans après, où le hasard m'a réuni avec lejeune homme le plus étrange que j'aie jamais rencontré. " C'est ainsi que Daniel Sillitoe, géographe en mission au centre duMexique, découvre, gr?ce à son guide Rapha?l, la république idéalede Campos, en marge de la Vallée, capitale de la terre noire duChernozem, le rêve humaniste de l'Emporio, la zone rouge quiretient prisonnière Lili de la lagune, et l'amour pourDahlia.? J.M.G. Le Clézio. --Ce
On the run . . . Elena Gilbert's love, the vampire Stefan Salvatore, has beencaptured and imprisoned by demonic spirits who are wreaking havocin Fell's Church. While her friends Bonnie and Meredith explore theevil that has taken over their town, Elena goes in search ofStefan. In order to find him, she entrusts her life to Stefan's brother,Damon Salvatore, the handsome but deadly vampire who wants Elena,body and soul. Along with her childhood friend Matt, they set outfor the slums of the Dark Dimension, where Stefan is being heldcaptive. It is rumored to be a world where vampires and demons roamfree, but humans must live enslaved to their supernatural masters.. . . Elena will stop at nothing to free Stefan. Yet with each passingday the tension between Elena and Damon grows, and she is facedwith a terrible decision: Which brother does she really want? Back in Fell's Church, Bonnie and Meredith have made some dirediscoveries. They hastily try to follow Elena and warn her—only tob
First there were ten--a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unkonwn to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal--and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. And only the dead are above suspicion. 作者简介： Agatha Christie is more than the most popular mystery writer of all time. In a career that spans over half a century, her name is synonymous with brilliant deception, ingenious puzzles, and the surprised denouement. By virtually inventing the modern mystery novel she has earned her title as the Queen of Crime. Curious? Then you're invited to read...And Then There Were None
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special–and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric, Never Let Me Go is another classic by the author of The Remains of the Day.
Que reste-t-il des émotions, des rêves, des désirs quandon dispara?t? L'homme d'Aden, l'empoisonneur de Harrar sont-ils lesmêmes que l'adolescent furieux qui poussa une nuit la porte du caféde la rue Madame, son regard sombre passant sur un enfant de neufans qui était mon grand-père? Je marche dans toutes ces rues,j'entends le bruit de mes talons qui résonne dans la nuit, rueVictor-Cousin, rue Serpente, place Maubert, dans les rues de laContrescarpe.Celui que je cherche n'a plus de nom. Il est moinsqu'une ombre ... Lire la suite , moins qu'une trace, moins qu'un fant?me. Il est enmoi comme une vibration, comme un désir, comme un élan del'imagination, un rebond du cSur, pour mieux m'envoler. D'ailleursje prends demain l'avion pour l'autre bout du monde. L'autreextrémité du temps
This is far and away the finest critical edition of the play available' Eric Rasmussen, Shakespeare Survey --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure -- a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft. Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by an ancient race from thousands of miles to the east, led by a mythical hero, Kon-Tiki. He decided to prove his theory by duplicating the legendary voyage. On April 28, 1947, Heyerdahl and five other adventurers sailed from Peru on a balsa log raft. After three months on the open sea, encountering raging storms, whales, and sharks, they sighted land -- the Polynesian island of Puka Puka. Translated into sixty-five languages, Kon-Tiki is a classic, inspiring tale of daring and courage -- a magnificent saga of men against the sea. Washington Square Press' Enriched Classics present the great works of world literature enhanced for the contemporary reader. This edition of Kon-Tiki has been prepared by an editorial committee headed by Harry Shefter, professor of English
Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death. Chief among these was the publication of The Blind Assassin, a novel which earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following. Sexually explicit for its time, The Blind Assassin describes a risky affair in the turbulent thirties between a wealthy young woman and a man on the run. During their secret meetings in rented rooms, the lovers concoct a pulp fantasy set on Planet Zycron. As the invented story twists through love and sacrifice and betrayal, so does the real one; while events in both move closer to war and catastrophe. By turns lyrical, outrageous, formidable, compelling and funny, this is a novel fi
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'
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
Jack Reacher knows that suicide bombers are easy to identifyfrom a list of twelve points. At two o'clock at night in the subwayin New York he realized at once: its direct neighbor meets allpoints of the list-so begins the new action thriller by LeeChild
When a vampire asks Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic skills to find another missing vampire, she agrees under one condition: the bloodsuckers must promise to let the humans go unharmed.
A man named Mohammed sits in a café in Vienna, about to propose a deal to a Colombian. Mohammed has a strong network of agents and sympathizers throughout Europe and the Middle East, and the Colombian has an equally strong drug network throughout America. What if they were to form an alliance, to combine all their assets and connections? The potential for profits would be enormous--and the potential for destruction unimaginable. In a nonde* office building in suburban Maryland, the firm Hendley Associates does a profitable business in stocks, bonds, and international currencies, but its true mission is quite different: to identify and locate terrorist threats, and then deal with them, in whatever manner necessary. Established with the knowledge of President John Patrick Ryan, “the Campus” is always on the lookout for promising new talent, its recruiters scattered throughout the armed forces and government agencies--and three men are about to cross its radar. The first is Dominic Caruso, a rookie FBI ag
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...
It's that time again time to indulge in a spot of jealousy, betrayal and late-night bar-hopping. Also, the moment of truth has finally arrived. Everyone's back from a week of apres-ski hot tub fun in Sun Valley, and cream-coloured envelopes from the Ivy League are beginning to drop all over Fifth Avenue doorsteps. The question is: are the envelopes thick or thin? Has Nate's devotion to his misbehaving heiress dimmed his chances of getting into Brown? Is Blair too busy daydreaming in Eric's old pinstriped Oxfords to remember her real mission in life - Yale? Hopefully Serena can snap her newest-and-oldest best friend out of it. That is, if Serena hasn't already become too much of a vapid, celery-eating supermodel to even care. But we know that Serena is made of sterner stuff don't we?
See the action on board and below decks in an amaxing cross-scction of the pop-up pirate ship. Use press-out pieces to make up your own pirate story and read all about real life pirates and their adventures.
After a long visit to the planet Krypton, the Man Of Steel returns to earth to become the peoples savior once again and reclaim the love of Lois Lane
The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas become embroiled in the bloody battles of the French and Indian War. The abduction of the beautiful Munro sisters by hostile savages, the treachery of the renegade brave Magua, the ambush of innocent settlers, and the thrilling events that lead to the final tragic confrontation between rival war parties create an unforgettable, spine-tingling picture of life on the frontier. And as the idyllic wilderness gives way to the forces of civilization, the novel presents a moving portrayal of a vanishing race and the end of its way of life in the great American forests.
Her name is Elise Freeman, and her chilling cry for help comes too late to save her. On a DVD found near her lifeless body, the emotionally and physically battered woman chronicles a long ordeal of abuse at the hands of three sadistic tormentors. But even more shocking is the revelation that the offenders, like their victim, are teachers at one of L.A.'s most prestigious prep schools. Homicide detective Milo Sturgis is assigned to probe the hallowed halls of Windsor Prep Academy, and if ever he could use Dr. Alex Delaware's psychological prowess, it's now. As the scandalconscious elite close ranks around Windsor Prep, Alex and Milo push to expose the dirty secrets festeriug among society's manor-born.
