A Masterpiece of Historical Fiction-The Great Novel of America's"Greatest Generation" Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II,which begins with The Winds of War and continues in War andRemembrance, stands as the crowning achievement of one of America'smost celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the war,Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of globalevents-and all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of WorldWar II-as it immerses us in the lives of a single American familydrawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom. .

" All modern American literature comes from one book by MarkTwain called Huckleberry Finn, " Ernest Hemingway wrote, " It's thebest book we've had." A complex masterpiece that has spawnedvolumes of scholarly exegesis and interpretative theories, it is atheart a compelling adventure story. Huck, in flight from hismurderous father, and Nigger Jim, in flight from slavery, pilottheir raft thrillingly through treacherous waters, surviving acrash with a steamboat, betrayal by rogues, and the final threatfrom the bourgeoisie. Informing all this is the presence of theRiver, described in palpable detail by Mark Twain, the formersteamboat pilot, who transforms it into a richly metaphoric entity.Twain's other great innovation was the language of the book itself,which is expressive in a completely original way. " The inventionof this language, with all its implications, gave a new dimensionto our literature, " Robert Penn Warren noted. " It is a languagecapable of poetry."

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The three classic novelspublished here in one volume are rich with the crisp prose, subtlecharacters, and intricate plots that made Dashiell Hammett one ofthe most admired writers of the twentieth century. A one-timedetective and a master of deft understatement, Hammett virtuallyinvented the hard-boiled crime novel. In "The Maltese Falcon," SamSpade, a private eye with his own solitary code of ethics, tangleswith a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at thedrop of a dime. "The Thin Man" introduces Hammett's wittiestcreations, Nick and Nora Charles, who solve homicides in betweenwisecracks and martinis. And in "Red Harvest," Hammett's anonymoustough-guy detective, the Continental Op, takes on the entire townof Poisonville in a deadly war against corruption. "DashiellHammett is a master of the detective novel, yes, but also one hellof a writer."--"Boston Globe" "Hammett was spare, hard-boiled, buthe did over and over what only the best writers can ever do.

Only a few know the terrifying truth--an outcast Earthscientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, alunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilationof the Sun. They know the truth--but who will listen? They haveforeseen the cost of abundant energy--but who will believe? Thesefew beings, human and alien, hold the key to the Earth'ssurvival.

Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his fatheroutsIde a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least,unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elderbrother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his fathermeasures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank hasturned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations. In thebizarre daily rituals there is some solace. But when news comes ofEric's escape from the hospital Frank has to prepare the ground forhis brother's inevitable return - an event that explodes themysteries of the past and changes Frank utterly. Iain Banks'celebrated first novel is a work of extraordinary originality,imagination and horrifying compulsion: horrifying, because itenters a mind whose realities are not our own, whose values of lifeand death are alien to our society; and compulsive, because thehumour and compassion of that mind reach out to us all.

Anecdotal, funny, frank, POPism is Warhols personal view of thePop phenomenon in New York in the 1960s and a look back at therelationships that made up the scene at the Factory, including hisrelationship with Edie Sedgewick, focus of the upcoming filmFactory Girl. In the detached, back-fence gossip style he wasfamous for, Warhol tells allthe ultimate inside story of a decadeof cultural revolution.

Kate Daniels cleans up the paranormal problems no one else wantsto deal with-especially if they involve Atlanta's shapeshiftingcommunity. And now there's a new player in town-a foe that may be too much foreven Kate and Curran, the Lord of the Beasts, to handle. Becausethis time, Kate will be taking on family.

Agatha Christie's memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan Agatha Christie was already well known as a crime writer when she accompanied her husband, Max Mallowan, to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s. She took enormous interest in all his excavations, and when friends asked what her strange life was like, she decided to answer their questions in this delightful book. First published in 1946, Come, Tell Me How You Live is now reissued in B format. It gives a charming picture of Agatha Christie herself, and is, as Jacquetta Hawkes concludes in her Introduction, 'a pure pleasure to read'.

For her exciting debut in hardcover, New York Timesbestselling author Karen Rose delivers a heart-stopping suspensenovel that picks up where DIE FOR ME left off, with a detectivedetermined to track down a brutal murderer. Special Agent Daniel Vartanian has sworn to find theperpetrator of multiple killings that mimic a 13-year-old murderlinked to a collection of photographs that belonged to his brother,Simon, the ruthless serial killer who met his demise in DIE FOR ME.Daniel is certain that someone even more depraved than his brothercommitted these crimes, and he's determined to bring the currentmurderer to justice and solve the mysterious crime from yearsago. With only a handful of images as a lead, Daniel's search willlead him back through the dark past of his own family, and into therealm of a mind more sinister than he could ever imagine. But hisquest will also draw him to Alex Fallon, a beautiful nurse whosetroubled past reflects his own. As Daniel becomes attached to Alex,he discover

The phenomenal #1 bestseller is now a major motion picture:"Startling and addictive. . . . An epic story of love, family, andloyalty." - USA Today Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. Our world has been invaded by an unseen enemy that takes over theminds of human hosts while leaving their bodies intact. ButWanderer, the invading "soul" who occupies Melanie's body, findsits former tenant refusing to relinquish possession of hermind. As Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of Jared, ahuman who lives in hiding, Wanderer begins to yearn for a man she'snever met. Soon Wanderer and Melanie-reluctant allies-set off tosearch for the man they both love. Featuring one of the most unusual love triangles in literature, THE HOST is a riveting and unforgettable novel about thepersistence of love and the essence of what it means to behuman. THE HOST movie opens in theaters on March 29, 2013.

In the twenty-third century pioneers have escaped the crowdedearth for life in self-sustaining orbital colonies. One of thecolonies, Rotor, has broken away from the solar system to createits own renegade utopia around an unknown red star two light-yearsfrom Earth: a star named Nemesis. Now a fifteen-year-old Rotoriangirl has learned of the dire threat that nemesis poses to Earth'speople--but she is prevented from warning them. Soon she willrealize that Nemesis endangers Rotor as well. And so it will be upto her alone to save both Earth and Rotor as--drawn inexorably byNemesis, the death star--they hurtle toward certain disaster.

Here, collected in one volume, are all four full-length novelsand 56 short stories chronicling the colorful adventures ofSherlock Holmes--every word Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ever wrote aboutBaker Street's most famous resident.

#1 "New York Times" bestselling author Nora Roberts invitesreaders to the wedding event of the year #1 "New York Times"bestselling author Nora Roberts presents her first trade original-anovel of love, friendship, and family-Book One in the BrideQuartet. Wedding photographer Mackensie "Mac" Elliot is most athome behind the camera, but her focus is shattered moments beforean important wedding rehearsal when she bumps into thebride-to-be's brother...an encounter that has them both seeingstars. A stable, safe English teacher, Carter Maguire is definitelynot Mac's type. But a casual fling might be just what she needs totake her mind off bridezillas. Of course, casual flings can turninto something more when you least expect it. And Mac will have toturn to her three best friends-and business partners-to see her wayto her own happy ending.

A Game of Thrones is a contemporary masterpiece of fantasy. The cold is returning to Winterfell, where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime. A time of conflict has arisen in the Stark family, as they are pulled from the safety of their home into a whirlpool of tragedy, betrayal, assassination, plots and counterplots. Each decision and action carries with it the potential for conflict as several prominent families, comprised of lords, ladies, soldiers, sorcerers, assassins and bastards, are pulled together in the most deadly game of all--the game of thrones. 作者简介： George R.R. Martin sold his first story in 1971 and has been writing professionally ever since. He has written fantasy, horror, and science fiction, and for his sins spent ten years in Hollywood as a writer/producer, working on Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast, and various feature films and television pilots that were never made. In the mid 90s he returned to prose, his first love, and began work on his epic fantasy s

Who's testing whom? When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planetSolaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he is forced toconfront a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in theliving physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Others examining theplanet, Kelvin learns, are plagued with their own repressed andnewly corporeal memories. Scientists speculate that the Solarisocean may be a massive brain that creates these incarnate memories,its purpose in doing so unknown.The first of Lem's novels to bepublished in America and now considered a classic, SOLARIS raises aquestion: Can we truly understand the universe around us withoutfirst understanding what lies within?

Selden Edwards, apparently, took 35 years to write this dismal piece of drivel. He started writing at age 25, but I suspect that he conceived the idea at the age of 15. How else to explain the wholly un-ironic adoption of the puerile schoolboy nickname for the main character's guru - the Venerable Haze, a.k.a. the Haze - throughout the book? On page 6, Mr Edwards employs the word 'momentarily' to mean 'in a moment' - when in fact it means 'for a moment'. I would say that if it is English teaching that he has recently retired from, then it is just as well that he has retired. Time travel, I can (only just) live with, but the plot is contrived, and the story wholly devoid of humour, takes itself far too seriously, and employs tortured coincidences to allow the hero to make his way through life in 19th Century 'fin de siecle' (he loves that term!) Vienna. I managed 36 pages of this rubbish, and then gave up in disgust. I trust that Mr Edwards, if he ever does write another novel, will again take 35 years t

Synopsis In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the ''war to end all wars''. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway''s de*ion of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteer and the men and women he meets in Italy with total conviction. But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war. In it Hemingway has also created a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion.

Oscar is a sweet but fat sci-fi obsessed introvert who -- from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister -- dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fuku -- a curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, following them on their epic journey from New Jersey to Washington Heights and back to Santo Domingo. Encapsulating Dominican American history, Oscar's story open our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere -- and risk it all -- in the name of love. Pulitzer Prize winning novel

Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle ofthe Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one ofour greatest storytellers. In Treasure Mountain Louis L’Amourdelivers a robust story of two brothers searching to learn the fateof their missing father — and finding themselves in a struggle justto stay alive. Orrin and Tell Sackett had come to exotic New Orleans looking foranswers to their father’s disappearance twenty years before. Touncover the truth, the brothers enlisted the aid of a trailwisegypsy and a mysterious voodoo priest as they sought to re-createtheir father’s last trek. But Louisiana is a dangerous land, and with one misstep thebrothers could disappear in the bayous before they even set foot onthe trail that led to whatever legacy their father had left behind... and a secret worth killing for.