What's the truth behind the legend of the hound of theBaskervilles? Is it really a devil-beast that's haunting the lonelymoors? Enter Sherlock Holmes to find the answer, in this, the onlyfull-length novel ever written by the creator of one of the mostpopular and enduring detective series ever written.
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*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
Amy Harper Bellafonte is six years old and hermother thinks she's the most important person in the whole world.She is. Anthony Carter doesn't think he could ever be in a worseplace than Death Row. He's wrong. FBI agent Brad Wolgast thinkssomething beyond imagination is coming. It is. THEPASSAGE.
For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruledsupreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of therevolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--toa dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will lastthirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind,Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists andscholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of theGalaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a fututre generations. Hecalls his sanctuary the Foundation. But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy ofcorrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire.Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submitto the barbarians and be overrun--or fight them and bedestroyed.
On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. In the forest they see two men killed. As adults, their lives become braided together by desire, determination, avarice and retribution. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. Yet they wilt always live under the shadow of the unexplained killing on that fateful childhood day. Ken Follett's masterful epic The Pillars oft& Earth enchanted millions of readers with its compelling drama of war, passion and family conflict, set around the building of a cathedral. Now World With out End takes readers back to medieval Kingsbridge two centuries later, as the men, women and children of the city once again grapple with the devastating sweep of historical change.
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Calico Pie and The Pobble Who Has No Toes, together with Edward Lear's crazy limericks, have entertained adults and children alike for over 100 years. This edition, illustrated by the author, contains all the verse and stories of The Book of Nonsense, More Nonsense, Nonsense Songs, Nonsense Stories and Nonsense Alphabets and Nonsense Cookery. It has a biographical Preface by Lear himself, and concludes with some delightful 'heraldic' sketches of his cat, Foss. 作者简介： Edward Lear (1812-1888) Born in London, Edward Lear was the youngest of twenty-one children. He made his reputation as a water-colorist, and invented himself as an Old Man with a Beard.
"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.
Afather and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark.Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pis-tol to defend themselves against the law-less bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scav-enged food--and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire;' are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision,The Road is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
Becky Bloomwood, America's favorite shopaholic, is back in a hilarious, heartwarming tale of married life, best friends, and long-lost sisters (and the perils of simply having to own an Angel handbag!) What's a round-the-world honeymoon if you can't buy the odd souvenir to ship back home? Like the twenty silk dressing gowns Becky go on a budget. And worse: her beloved best friend Suze has found a new best friend while Becky was away. Becky's feeling rather blue -- when her parents deliver some incredible news. She has a long-lost sister! Becky is thrilled! She's convinced her sister will be a true soulmate. They'll go shopping together, have manicures together…… Until she meets Jessica for the first time and gets the shock of her life. Surely Becky Bloomwood's sister can't …… hate shopping?
This stunning and steamy debut chronicles the adventures ofNan King, a small town girl at the turn of the century whose lifetakes a wild turn of its own when she follows a local music hallstar to London...
★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
Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honor to the author. In fact The Old Man and the Sea revived Ernest Hemingway's career, which was foundering under the weight of such postwar stinkers as Across the River and into the Trees. It also led directly to his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1954 (an award Hemingway gladly accepted, despite his earlier observation that "no son of a bitch that ever won the Nobel Prize ever wrote anything worth reading afterwards"). A half century later, it's still easy to see why. This tale of an aged Cuban fisherman going head-to-head (or hand-to-fin) with a magnificent marlin encapsulates Hemingway's favorite motifs of physical and moral challenge. Yet Santiago is too old and infirm to partake of the gun-toting machismo that disfigured much of the author's later work: "The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-c
Four men and a woman are reduced to a microscopicfraction of their original size, sent in a miniaturized atomic subthrough a dying man's carotid artery to destroy a blood clot in hisbrain. If they fail, the entire world will be doomed.
Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into a new year and a new school where undersize weaklings share the corridors with kids who are taller, meaner and already shaving. Desperate to prove his new found maturity, which only going up a grade can bring, Greg is happy to have his not-quite-so-cool sidekick, Rowley, along for the ride. But when Rowley's star starts to rise, Greg tries to use his best friend's popularity to his own advantage. Recorded in his diary with comic pictures and his very own words, this test of Greg and Rowley's friendship unfolds with hilarious results.
He gave up the money. He gave up the power. Now all he hasleft is the law. Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushingrelentlessly to the top of Drake Sweeney, a giant D.C. lawfirm. One step away from partnership, Michael has it all. Then, inan instant, it all comes undone. A homeless man takes nine lawyers hostage in the firm's plushoffices. When it is all over, the man's blood is splattered onMichael's face--and suddenly Michael is willing to do theunthinkable. Rediscovering a conscience he lost long ago, Michaelis leaving the big time for the streets where his attacker oncelived--and where society's powerless need an advocate forjustice. But there's one break Michael can't make: from a secret that hasfloated up from the depths of Drake Sweeney, from aconfidential file that is now in Michael's hands, and from aconspiracy that has already taken lives. Now Michael's formerpartners are about to become his bitter enemies. Because to them,Michael Brock is the most d
Joining the campaign of a charismatic congresswoman, young Erin Hartsock arrives in Washinton, D.C., filled with idealism and ambition. But her enthusiasm dissolves into terror when the campaign takes a malevolent turn. Someone...something...has begun threatening Erin and her colleagues. First come the strange fires, then a seemingly accidental death. As the election nears, Erin fears that she just may be a murderer's next candidate 著作简介： Barbara Michaels is the the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty novels, She also writes mysteries under the pseudonym of Elizabeth Peter.Ms.Michaels,who holds a Ph.D.in Egyptology from the University of Chicago,Lives in an historic farmhouse in Frederick,Maryland.
