From the superb storyteller and quintessential women's fiction author, a new story about two families who must confront each other over an inheritance
Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and staggeringly expensive actions now being considered to meet the challenges of global warming ultimately will have little impact on the world’s temperature. He suggests that rather than focusing on ineffective solutions that will cost us trillions of dollars over the coming decades, we should be looking for smarter, more cost-effective approaches (such as massively increasing our commitment to green energy R&D) that will allow us to deal not only with climate change but also with other pressing global concerns, such as malaria and HIV/AIDS. And he considers why and how this debate has fostered an atmosphere in which dissenters are immediately demonized.
Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who left her when she was five. Now, leaving her hometown of Chicago for dreams of art school and marriage to an ambitious young doctor, she finds herself with a child of her own. But her mother's absence, and the shameful memories of her past, leave her with painful doubts about her selF-worth and maternal ability.The only waY to reunite her fractured family is to revisit her childhood - and find answers in the past to give her the strength to face the future.
Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! This is the third book in the "Inspector Banks" series, centering around the murder of an unpopular and brutal constable during a political demonstration. Robinson is also the author of "A Dedicated Man", "Bird Detective" and "Caedmon's Song".
Enter the world of "Gossip Girl" - a world where espadrille sandals are flown in from Spain, crisp cotton sundresses are made to order, and jealousy and betrayal are the ultimate summer accessories...Serena and Blair are now co-muses to a super-famous designer, who just happens to live next door to Nate's Hamptons estate ...But how neighbourly are these new neighbours going to get? And what's this about Vanessa venturing surfside? Who's next, Dan? Never say never...
Dan Brown作品去年今年在全世界风靡，其中达芬奇密码正在巴黎、伦敦、爱丁堡等地拍摄，主演为汤姆汉克斯，明年中旬上映，毕竟能再次掀起达芬奇密码热潮，Dan Brown作品是除去哈利波特系列以外我公司畅销的图书产品。 While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.
ln an astonishing feat of narrative invetion, our most ambi-tious novelist imagines an alternate version of American his-tory.ln 1940 Charles A.Lindbergh,heroic aviator and rabidisolationist,is elected President. Shortly thereafter,he nego-tiates a cordial"understanding"with Adolf Hitler,while the new government embarks on a program of folksy anti-Semitism. For one boy growing up in Newark,Lindbergh s election is the first in a series if ruptures that threatens to destroy his small,safe corner of America-and with it,his mother, his father, and his older brother.
According to tradition Cervantes first conceived his comic masterpiece in jail - his avowed intent being to debunk the romances of chivalry. From first publication Don Quixote was a best-seller, initially taken as a knockabout account of a mad Spanish gentleman and his cowardly peasant squire, but later reinterpreted as an enlightenment text, a representation of universal human nature, a myth of a tragic hero defending man's nobler aspirations, a study in alienation, a spiritual autobiography, a metaphor for Spain's imperial decline, an experimental novel that shaped later prose fiction, a tragedy and comedy in one, and a demonstration that ambiguity and uncertainty can lie at the centre of great art and that great art can be comic. Tobias Smollet's vigorous and lively translation brilliantly catches the feeling and tone of the Spanish original.It is a comic novelist's homage to a comic novelist.
High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem. Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and out comes Dance Dance Dance. It is an assault on the sense, part murder mystery, part metaphysical speculation; a fable for our times as catchy as a rock song blasting from the window of a sports car.
In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appeqarances are paramount；where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder；where women are trained to beguile the most powerfus men；and where love is scorned as illusion.It isaunique and triumphant work of fiction-at once romantic,erotic,suspenseful-and completely unforgettable. 作者简介：Arthur Golden was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and was educated at Harvard College, where he received a degree in art history, specializing in Japanese art. In 1980 he earned an M.A. in Japanese history from Columbia University, where he also learned Mandarin Chinese. Following a summer at Beijing University, he worked in Tokyo, and, after returning to the United States, earned an M.A. in English from Boston University. He resides in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife and two children.
He wanted power she wanted revenge... "Dear Diary: This morning I met the man I am going to marry." It was a simple enough entry in a young woman′s diary which gave not the slightest portent of the elaborate chain of events that was about to occur. Leslie Stewart beautiful and ambitious PR executive learns that for some men power is the greatest aphrodisiac. Oliver Russell handsome governor of a small southern state finds out why hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. The Best Laid Plans is the explosive story of two equally determined people headed on a collision course. Oliver has a strategy to win the White House; Leslie has a scheme to make him wish he'd never been born. They both should have known that even the best laid plans can go dangerously astray in a deadly dangerous way.
Harry Osborn and Peter Parker were once best friends. But that was before Harry found out Peter is Spider-Man, and before Harry saw Spider-Man bring home the body of his father. Believing Spider-Man killed his father, Harry can't forgive or forget. The anger and pain fill Harry until he's driven to accept his father's villainous legacy. The New Goblin is in town, and he wants revenge.
From the bestselling author of "Fatherland" and "Imperium" comes "The Ghost," an extraordinarily auspicious thriller of power, politics, corruption, and murder. Dashing, captivating Adam Lang was Britain's longest serving -- and most controversial -- prime minister of the last half century, whose career ended in tatters after he sided with America in an unpopular war on terror. Now, after stepping down in disgrace, Lang is hiding out in wintry Martha's Vineyard to finish his much sought-after, potentially explosive memoir, for which he accepted one of history's largest cash advances. But the project runs aground when his ghostwriter suddenly and mysteriously disappears and later washes up, dead, on the island's deserted shore.Enter our hero -- Lang's new ghostwriter -- cynical, mercenary, and quick with a line of deadpan humor. Accustomed to working with fading rock stars and minor celebrities, he jumps at the chance to be the new ghost of Adam Lang's memoirs, especially as it means a big payday. At once he f
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The prizewinning writer Luis Alberto Urrea's long-awaited novel is an epic mystical drama of a young woman's sudden sainthood in late 19th-century Mexico. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
1948: INDO-CHINA. Lee Crane is an American pilot flying transport planes across South-East Asia for the highest bidder. He'll fly anywhere, carry anything, if the money is right. But his experiences during World War Two still haunt him, and when he meets a woman from the past, memories of a time when his innocence was shattered threaten to ground him. 1941: BURMA. Crane is a young and carefree pilot flying fighter planes for the notorious Flying Tigers against the Japanese. He's one of the best pilots in the air. But when he falls for the charms of a beautiful Anglo-Indian girl, she has a devastating effect on him. As the war ignites across the region, Crane is separated from her, and, caught up in a world of death and corruption, he desperately needs to return to find his lover, no matter what the cost...
This is the extraordinary story of Edward Glyver, book lover,scholar and murderer. His life's quest is to overcome his deadly rival, Phoebus Daunt, and reclaim his rightful destiny. His path takes him from Victorian London's foggy streets, brothels and opium dens to England's most enchanting country house, home to both hisarch-enemy Daunt and the ravishing Emily Carteret,object of his obsession. But for each step Glyver takes towards entrapping his rival, the more he seems to become engulfedin fresh layers of mystery.
At the dawn of the next World mar, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult superutsion, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from Cluilizatlon thep can do anpthing thep want. Rnything. But as order collapses, as strange ho,,,ls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of sduenture seems as far remoued from realitp as the hope of being rescued...
