Thirty years ago Jo Becker's bohemian life ended when she found her best friend brutally murdered in the house they shared in Cambridge. Now Jo has everything: work she loves, a devoted husband, three grown daughters, and a beautiful home. But when an old friend settles in her small town, the fabric of her life begins to unravel and Jo hesitantly enters a relationship that returns ther to the darkest moments of her past, imperilling all that she loves.

在线阅读本书 An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare withthese features: Illustrated with photographs from NewYork Shakespeare Festival productions, vivid readable readableintroductions for each play by noted scholar David Bevington, alively personal foreword by Joseph Papp, an insightful essay on theplay in performance, modern spelling and pronunciation, up-to-dateannotated bibliographies, and convenient listing of keypassages.

Slaughterhous-Five is one of the world's great anti-warbooks. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, BillyPilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of ourown fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraidto know.

New chronology and further reading; Tony Tanner's originalintroduction reinstated Edited with an introduction by Kathryn Sutherland.

The Greatest Survivor Stories Never Told offers an entirely new definition of what it means to win against all odds. These exciting true stories of people from all walks of life who battled death toe-to-toe include: The badly hurt New York cop who was able to stumble out of the collapse of the south tower of the World Trade Center only to be buried by debris when the north tower fell. The injured teenage girl who hobbled for days in the Amazon jungle after falling out of the sky when the passenger plane she was in exploded, killing everyone but her. The lost prospector who defied death after staggering in the sun-baked Arizona desert for nearly a week without a drop of water.

This item is eligible for our 4-for-3 promotion. Eligibleproducts include select Books and Home Garden items. Buy any4 eligible items and get the lowest-priced item free. Here's how(restrictions apply)

When Lord Jim first appeared in 1900, many took Joseph Conradto task for couching an entire novel in the form of an extendedconversation--a ripping good yarn, if you like. (One critic in TheAcademy complained that the narrator "was telling that after-dinnerstory to his companions for eleven solid hours.") Conrad defendedhis method, insisting that people really do talk for that long, andlisten as well. In fact his chatty masterwork requires nodefense--it offers up not only linguistic pleasures but a timelessexploration of morality. The eponymous Jim is a young, good-looking, genial, and naivewater-clerk on the Patna, a cargo ship plying Asian waters. He is,we are told, "the kind of fellow you would, on the strength of hislooks, leave in charge of the deck." He also harbors romanticfantasies of adventure and heroism--which are promptly scuttled onenight when the ship collides with an obstacle and begins to sink.Acting on impulse, Jim jumps overboard and lands in a lifeboat,which happens to be beari

Stories that trace the decline and fall of a marriage, ahistory made up of the happiness of growing children and sharedlife, and the sadness of growing estrangement and themisunderstandings of love.

该书稿共12万字左右，是著名哲学家、评论家、小说家乔治·巴塔耶早期一部非常重要的带有自传色彩的哲理小说。本书主人公的人生轨迹与巴塔耶自己早年的经历有许多重合之处，并且主人公的精神演变过程，也正是巴塔耶自己早期的思想形成过程的一种映射。在这部小说里，巴塔耶开启了他对死亡的哲学思考，由此衍生出巴塔耶著名的概念：耗尽。而此概念的提出，使得巴塔耶获得了较大的关注与评价，属于巴塔耶哲学思想中的重要概念。本书是研究作者思想脉络与哲学体系的重要参照。

Llewlyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumblesupon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-riddenbodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces achoice – leave the scene as he found it, or cut the money and run.Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything. And sobegins a terrifying chain of events, in which each participantseems determined to answer the question that one asks another: howdoes a man decide in what order to abandon his life? ‘No Country for Old Men is a compelling,harrowing, disturbing, sad, endlessly surprising and resonantnovel’ Robert Edric, Spectator ‘No Country for Old Men is a severed head andshoulders over anything else written in America this year’Independent on Sunday ‘A Western thriller with a racy plot and punchydialogue, perfect for a lazy Sunday’ Sarah Emily Miano, TheTimes ‘[An] utterly absorbing, chilling tale . . . Oneof the most sinister characters in modern American fiction’Herald ‘A f

One of the greatest French novelists, Balzac was also anaccomplished writer of shorter fiction. This volume includes twelveof his finest short stories many of which feature characters fromhis epic series of novels the Comedie Humaine. Compelling tales ofacute social and psychological insight, they fully demonstrate themastery of suspense and revelation that were the hallmarks ofBalzac's genius. In The Atheist's Mass, we learn the true reasonfor a distinguished atheist surgeon's attendance at religiousservices; La Grande Breteche describes the horrific truth behindthe locked doors of a decaying country mansion, while The Red Innrelates a brutal tale of murder and betrayal. A fascinatingcounterpoint to the renowned novels, all the stories collected herestand by themselves as mesmerizing works by one of the finestwriters of nineteenth-century France.