Sixteen-year-old country girl Tess Durbey-field is sent by her impoverished family to acquaint herself with her more prosperous,distant relatives. But in Alec D'Urberville she finds a welcome she could never have expected, and an encounter that will come to blight her young life ...

Jane Smith is charming, sexy, successful, and intelligent, a rare combination of domestic goddess and savvy business woman. John Smith is wealthy, daring, athletic, and smart,a guy who drinks his scotch the way he's climbed to the top of the construction business: straight up. Together they seem to be the ideal couple, though lately the spark has gone out of their marriage-until they win free sessions with a counselor. What they keep hidden from their therapist and each other, they confide in the journals they've been coaxed to keep.

When Atlantic Monthly Press relaunched her Commissario GuidoBrunetti series. Donna Leon was hailed as "the best mystery writeryou've never heard of...She uses the relatively small andcrime-free canvas of Venice for riffs about Italian life, sexualstyles and--best of all--the kind of ingrown business and politicalcorruption that seems to lurk just below the surface" ("ChicagoTribune). Now "Blood from a Stone brings her celebrated characterCommissario Guido Brunetti back on the scene: On a cold Venetiannight shortly before Christmas, a street vendor is killed in ascuffle in Campo San Stefano. The closest witnesses to the eventare the tourists who had been browsing the man's wares before hisdeath--fake handbags of every designer label. The dead man had beenworking as a "vu cumpra, one of the many African immigrantspurveying goods outside normal shop hours, trading without workpermits. Commissario Brunetti's response is that of everybodyinvolved: Why would anyone kill an illegal immigrant? With fewsocial c

Frank Abagnale was possibly the world's most talented conartist. A high school dropout, Abagnale amassed millions of dollarsby passing bad checks, playing the role of an airline pilot(including actually flying commercial airplanes), a pediatrician, alawyer who worked for the state attorney general, and a collegeprofessor at Columbia University. He tells his own story here,detailing his outrageous scams with candor, gusto, and a wickedsense of humor.

The bestselling crime book of all time; over 100 million copies have been sold. The Spectator 'Agatha Christie’s masterpiece.' The Observer ‘One of the very best, most genuinely bewildering Christies.’ The Daily Herald ‘The most astonishingly impudent, ingenious and altogether successful mystery story since The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.’ Time Magazine ‘One of the most ingenious thrillers in many a day.’ New York Times ‘The whole thing is utterly impossible and utterly fascinating. It is the most baffling mystery Agatha Christie has ever written.’ 作者简介： Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime．Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in 100 foreign languages．She is the most widely publiShed author of all time and in any language，outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare．She is the author of 80 crime novel and short story coUections，19 p

Beware, the Dead are coming back! This is a unique and fascinating collection of early mummy stories that helped to establish the chilling concept of the Dead returning to life as a potent sub-genre of horror fiction. The main feature on the mummy bill, The Jewel of the Seven Stars by Bram Stoker, is generally regarded as his best work after Dracula. A weird mixture of adventure, the supernatural and science fiction is found in Jane Webb's The Mummy, a tale written in 1827 but set in 2126. Some Words with a Mummy is by the great horror writer Edgar Allen Poe. Arthur Conan Doyle's The Ring of Thoth is the classic mummy tale and was the basis for the 1932 movie 'The Mummy' starring Boris Karloff and, indeed most mummy films ever since. Lot 249, another Doyle chiller, completes this collection, which is guaranteed to entertain and possibly prompt a nightmare.

The office of the public defender is not known as a trainingground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there toolong and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in areal firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young mancharged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just anotherof the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week. As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on aconspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself inthe middle of a complex case against one of the largestpharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind ofenormous settlement that would totally change his life—that wouldmake him, almost overnight, the legal profession’s newest king oftorts...

Beautiful, brave, and wildly impetuous, Istabelle O'Bannon is a daring sea captain who protects coastal villages from those who raid them. She calls no port home and does as she pleases. But now she is desperate to reclaim one of her most precious treasures from a vicious outlaw-and she trusts only one man to help her.

A memorable, mesmerizing heroine Jennifer -- brilliant, beautiful, an attorney on the way up until the Mafia's schemes win her the hatred of an implacable enemy -- and a love more destructive than hate. A dangerous, dramatic world The Dark Arena of organized crime and flashbulb lit courtrooms where ambitious prosecutors begin their climb to political power.

This is the story of an immortal-Pilgrim, a man who cannot die. Brought to Carl Jung's Zurich psychiatric clinic by a friend after an attempted suicide, he begins his encounter with the famous psychotherapist in stubborn silence. Like Inspector Morse he appears to have no first name - or at least, he is unwilling to reveal it. Gradually, though, as Jung gains access to his journals, his dreams and thus his memories, we begin to understand that the mysterious patient has lived not one life, but many. Who - or what - is Pilgrim? Why does every attempt he makes to kill himself fail? What follows is a meandering trip through history, reminiscent of one of those theme park rides where passengers 'experience' different eras and bump into animatronic models of famous historical figures. Pilgrim certainly seems to have been well-connected; he has known everyone from Henry James and Oscar Wilde to Leonardo da Vinci, and the book frequently abandons its central narrative to explore imaginary corners of their lives inst

Un ouvrier pris dans la tourmente de la Commune, déporté aubagne de Nouméa, s'évade et retrouve sa femme mariée à un autre...Mis à la retraite prématurément, un fonctionnaire se montreincapable de vivre en dehors du cadre étroit de l'administration...Sur son lit de mort, un riche paysan révèle sa double vie à sonfils et lui demande de prendre soin de sa ma?tresse... Voici deshistoires insolites contées par trois ma?tres du naturalisme.

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.

Hired by a Massachusetts grand dame to prove the innocence of her grandson, who has been implicated in a school shooting during which seven people were killed, Spenser wonders why the boy seems unconcerned about his possible wrongful imprisonment and faces difficult obstacles in the wake of unhelpful school officials and a blackmail conspiracy.

Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism. Kostova's masterful new novel travels from American cities to the coast of Normandy, from the late 19th century to the late 20th, from young love to last love. THE SWAN THIEVES is a story of obsession, history's losses, and the power of art to preserve human hope.

Book De*ion About Dean Koontz's Frankenstein Dean Koontz's Frankenstein is the collective title of a series ofnovels co-written by Dean Koontz. Though technically of the mysteryor thriller genres, the novels also feature the trappings ofhorror, fantasy, and science fiction. From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerfulreworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you thinkyou know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is themystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of… Dean Koontz's City of the Night They are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humansever created—and they must be destroyed. But not even VictorHelios—once Frankenstein—can stop the engineered killers he’s setloose on a reign of terror through modern-day New Orleans. Now theonly hope rests in a one-time “monster” and his all-too-humanpartners, Detectives Carson O’Connor and Michael Maddison.Deucalion’s centuries-old hi

While the cops out of Hollywood station deal with the costumed crackheads, prostitutes, purse snatchers, tweakers and ordinary lunatics that haunt the boulevards, in the streets behind the lights and crowds, the real Los Angeles simmers, never far from boiling point. Under the watchful eye of the veteran sergeant they call Oracle, the Hollywood station squad are as different as the streets they police. Budgie Polk's back on duty while still breast-feeding her son, begrudgingly teamed with old school patrol officer Fausto Gamboa. Flotsam and Jetsam live only for surfing and the petite - but intrepid - Meg Takara. Andi McCrea goes off duty and into night classes, while rich kid rookie Wesley Drubb is as desperate to see some action as Nathan 'Hollywood' Weiss is to get his * developed. Under-staffed and over-worked, bound by red tape and hobbled by political correctness, these men and women hold the front line in LA's epicentre, but add a diamond robbery, the Russian mafia and a cluelessly ambitious glass

Allows you to draw your own Wimpy-Kid-style cartoons, fill in facts and lists, check out the full-colour comics inside and even write your own Wimpy Kid journal, just like Greg.

Once Judge Atlee was a powerful figure in Clanton,Mississippi--a pillar of the community who towered over local lawand politics for forty years. Now the judge is a shadow of hisformer self, a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to hissprawling ancestral home. Knowing the end is near, Judge Atlee hasissued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discusshis estate. Ray Atlee is the eldest, a Virginia law professor,newly single and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprisedivorce. Forrest is Ray's younger brother, who redefines the notionof a family's black sheep. The summons is typed by the judgehimself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date andtime for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study. Ray reluctantlyheads south to his hometown, to the place where he grew up and nowprefers to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place. Thejudge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shockingsecret known only to Ray. And perhaps someone else.

Julie Julia , the bestselling memoir that's"irresistible....A kind of Bridget Jones meets The FrenchChef " ( Philadelphia Inquirer ), is now a major motionpicture. Julie Powell, nearing thirty and trapped in a dead-endsecretarial job, resolves to reclaim her life by cooking in thespan of a single year, every one of the 524 recipes in JuliaChild's legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking . Herunexpected reward: not just a newfound respect for calves' liversand aspic, but a new life-lived with gusto. The film is written anddirected by Nora Ephron and stars Amy Adams as Julie and MerylStreep as Julia.

Agatha Christie''s ingenious murder mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Luke Fitzwilliam could not believe Miss Pinkerton''s wild allegation that a multiple murderer was at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood -- or her speculation that the local doctor was next in line. But within hours, Miss Pinkerton had been killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Mere coincidence? Luke was inclined to think so -- until he read in The Times of the unexpected demise of Dr Humbleby! 作者简介： Agatha Christie''s ingenious murder mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Luke Fitzwilliam could not believe Miss Pinkerton''s wild allegation that a multiple murderer was at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood -- or her speculation that the local doctor was next in line. But within hours, Miss Pinkerton had been

Langland's Piers Plowman is one of the strangest and one of the greatest poems of the Middle Ages. As spiritual allegory and social satire, it is not comparable with any other poem. Its chain of dream visions relates not only to the practical problems of medieval life, but also to the whole gamut of Christian attitudes towards God. Langland is sometimes plain and forthright, sometimes clumsy and obscure, but these limitations are utterly outweighed by his gifts for both comedy and lyricism and by moments of real sublimity. The poem survives in at least three versions. Terence Tiller's verse translation of the B-text is based on his abridgement of the poem for radio in 1980. Himself a poet, Tiller vividly conveys the colloquial immediacy and spiritual intensity of Langland's alliterative verse. Priscilla Martin has added the translation of the 'autobiographical episode' from the C-text.