This "New York Times" bestseller tells the harrowing true storyof nine American airmen shot down over the Pacific. One of them,George H.W. Bush, was miraculously rescued. This edition featuresthe same Afterword by the author that appeared in the tradepaperback edition.

A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" that sparesno one. Authorities confine the first to go blind to an emptymental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyonecaptive, stealing food rations and assault-ing women. There is oneeyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers through thebarren streets to freedom--a procession as uncanny as thesurroundings are harrowing. Blindness is an unsettling portrait of man's inhumanity toman-and of humankind's resilient spirit. Discussion guide available at www.HarcourtBooks.com .

This true story about the love between a spiritual mentor and his pupil has soared to the bestseller list for many reasons。For starters：it reminds us of the affection and gratitude that many of us still feel for the significant mentors of our past。It also plays out a fantasy many of us have entertained：what would it be like to look those people up again。tell them how much they meant to us。 maybe even resume the mentorship？ Plus。we meet Morrie Schwartz——a one of a kind professor。whom the author describes as looking like a cross between a biblical prophet and Christmas elf。And finally we are privy to intimate moments of Morrie’s final days as he lies dying from a terminal illness。Even on his deathbed。this twinkling-eyed mensch manages to teach us all about living robustly and fully。Kudos to author and acclaimed sports columnist Mitch Albom for telling this universally touching story with such grace and humility。 作者简介： MITCH ALBOM iS the author ofthe internationa

本书主要内容：约翰23岁时，高中毕业便不再升学，终日不知所以地换了一份又一份工作，惶惶然地在酒吧饮酒作乐度过，恋情不断却未见真爱。直到有一天，他毅然投效军旅，并于放假回家时，在家乡的艳阳下、沙滩上，偶然结识正值花样年华的莎文娜。21岁的莎文娜，成长背景与约翰相去甚远，不同于约翰的放浪形骸，她单纯、善良、率真，有坚定的理念与信仰，有清楚而明确的目标。透过莎文娜，约翰重新认识了自己，也重新认识了爱情。甜蜜的相处时光总是短暂，约翰必须回到军队，甚至被派驻海外。时间一天又一天地过去，这段靠书信维系、偶而得以见上一面的远距离恋情，终因莎文娜的一封分手信而划下句点。陷入心碎绝境的约翰，没有立刻打电话给莎文娜，也没有立刻飞回家乡，只是把信折好放回信封，决定去哪里都带着它，像是带着上战场所

The arms dealer betrayed them. Now the survivors want revenge.SOMETIMES, surviving a war can almost seem worse than dying in it. In a Croatian village near Vukovar, no one who survived will ever forget the night they waited for the weapons they needed to make a last-ditch fight against the advancing Serbs. The promised delivery never came, and the village was overrun. Eighteen years later, a body is unearthed from a field, and with it the identity of the arms dealer who betrayed them. Now the villagers can plot their revenge. In leafy England, arms dealer Harvey Gillott regards himself as a man of his word. There is only one blemish on his record, and that was long ago. But Gillott, his family, his friends and his enemies are about to be pitched into a sequence of events that will unfold across Europe with breath-taking drama and almost biblical power. Harvey Gillott is about to find out what happens when the hand of the past suddenly reaches out to the present - and it's holding a gun.

The ultimate battle between good and evil

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny officeparties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That’s just whatLuther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just thisonce, they’ll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the onlyhouse on Hemlock Street without a rooftop Frosty, they won’t behosting their annual Christmas Eve bash, they aren’t even going tohave a tree. They won’t need one, because come December 25 they’resetting sail on a Caribbean cruise. But as this weary couple isabout to discover, skipping Christmas brings enormousconsequences—and isn’t half as easy as they’d imagined. A classic tale for modern times, Skipping Christmas offers ahilarious look at the chaos and frenzy that have become part of ourholiday tradition.

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

Vehicles move through the murky night, carrying highly secret material. And that clandestine material will only be available--after midnight--to those who have signed non-disclosure notices. The plot of the new Dan Brown novel? No, it’s actually how reviewers such as myself obtained our copies of the much-anticipated The Lost Symbol, the follow-up to the Da Vinci Code. And as we read it in (literally) the cold light of dawn, we wonder: is it likely to match the earlier book’s all-conquering, phenomenal success? Firstly, it should be noted that The Lost Symbol has incorporated all the elements that so transfixed readers in The Da Vinci Code: a complex, mystifying plot (with the reader set quite as many challenges as the protagonist); breathless, helter-skelter pace (James Patterson's patented technique of keeping readers hooked by ending chapters with a tantalisingly unresolved situation is very much part of Dan Brown’s armoury). And, of course, the winning central character, resourceful symbologi

Set during the Napoleonic wars at a time of national economicstruggles, Shirley is an unsentimental yet passionatedepiction of conflict among classes, sexes, and generations.Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore considers marriage to thewealthy and independent Shirley Keeldar, yet his heart lies withhis cousin Caroline. Shirley, meanwhile, is in love with Robert’sbrother, an impoverished tutor. As industrial unrest builds to apotentially fatal pitch, can the four be reconciled?

Roland the Gunfighter and his two companions continue the quest for the tower at the portal of all the worlds...in this third volume in the epic that continues to dominate the bestseller lists.

"A very funny book... no character is minor: they're allhilarious." --"Houston Chronicle." "In The Road To Gandolfo,"Robert Ludlum introduced us to the outrageous General MacKenzieHawkins and his legal wizard, Sam Devereaux, whose plot to kidnapthe Pope spun wildly out of control into sheer hilarity. NowLudlum's two wayward heroes return with a diabolical scheme toright a very old wrong -- and wreak vengeance on the (expletivedeleted) who drummed the hawk out of the military. Their outragedopposition will be no less than the White House. ByzantineTreachery. Discovering a long-buried 1878 treaty with an obscureIndian tribe, the hawk -- a.k.a. Chief Thunder Head -- hatches abrilliant plot that will ultimately bring him and his reluctantlawyer Sam before the Supreme Court. Their goal: to reclaim achoice piece of American real estate -- the state of Nebraska.Which just happened to the headquarters of the U.S. Strategic AirCommand Will they succeed against the powers that be? Will theWopotami tribe ever hav

A magnificent saga of American fiction, the Sacketts series isone of the greatest treasures by legendary storyteller LouisL'Amour. In The Daybreakers, L'Amour spins the tale of two brotherswho couldn't be more different -- yet remain bound by theirrestlessness of spirit."RIDE WITH THE LAW, NEVER AGAINST IT".Youhad to push to start a fight with Orrin Sackett, but not with hisbrother, Tyrel. Tye had been born to trouble, and the night hestepped between his brother and a bullet changed the course of boththeir lives forever. Now their trail pointed west, to Santa Fe, afrontier town on the edge of violence -- but justice had to comebefore putting down roots in a lawless land. Orrin took on the jobof marshal, while Tye commanded fear and respect even without abadge. But when a loose end from their past turned up, one brotherwas forced to revert to his old ways -- if the other's dreams wereto be realized....

Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young womanfinds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressedominously to 'My dear and unfortunate successor'. Her discoveryplunges her into a world she never dreamed of - a labyrinth wherethe secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fateconnect to an evil hidden in the depths of history. In those fewquiet moments, she unwittingly assumes a quest she will discover isher birthright - a hunt for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, themedieval ruler whose barbarous reign formed the basis of theDracula myth. Deciphering obscure signs and hidden texts, readingcodes worked into the fabric of medieval monastic traditions, andevading terrifying adversaries, one woman comes ever closer to thesecret of her own past and a confrontation with the very definitionof evil. Elizabeth Kostova's debut novel is an adventure of monumentalproportions - a captivating tale that blends fact and fantasy,history and the present with an assurance

在线阅读本书 Book De*ion Mrs H.D. Everett was the last in a long line of gifted Victoriannovelists who knew how to grip the reader through the invasion ofeveryday life by the abnormal and dramatic, leaving the facts toproduce their special thrills without piling on the agony. 'Ialways know', says one of her characters, 'how to distinguish atrue ghost story from a faked one. The true ghost story never hasany point and the faked one dare not leave it out.' From thechilling horror of The Death Mask to the shocking violence of TheCrimson Blind, from the creeping menace of Parson Clench to themounting suspense of The Pipers of Mallory, these thrilling storieswere enthusiastically received by readers and critics when theyfirst appeared, and are sure to delight and terrify the modernreader in equal measure. Synopsis The Crimson Blind Other Stories is a work of mystery. About the Author Part of Wordsworth's Mystery Supernatural series, featuringclassic spine chilling tales, some previously u

Book De*ion Let number-one New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts flyyou into Lunacy, Alaska, and into a colorful, compelling new novelabout two lonely souls who find love - and redemtion... Lunacy was Nate Burke's last chance. As a Baltimore cop, he'dwatched his partner die on the street - and the guilt still hauntshim. With nowhere else to go, he accepts the job as chief of policein this tiny, remote Alaskan town, where the peace provides a balmfor his shattered soul - and an unexpected affair with pilot MegGalloway warms his nights... But other things in Lunacy are heating up. Nate suspects thekiller in an unsolved murder still walks the snowy streets. Hisinvestigation will unearth the secrets and suspicions that lurkbeneath the placid surface, as well as bring out the big-citysurvival instincts that made him a cop in the first place. And hisdiscovery will threaten the new life - and the new love - that hehas finally found for herself. "Roberts is among the best popul

A proud family's deadly secrets are exposed in this passionatetale of two rivals who, while toiling in the Napa Valley vineyards,discover they have much to learn-from each other, and aboutthemselves.