One couple's secrets cast six friendsadrift... With rumors of infidelity straining Greg and Tess MacAvoy'smarriage, the couple head out on their sailboat one early-summerday to celebrate their wedding anniversay, hoping the roughestwaters are behind them. But in an accident off Nantucket, theymysteriously drown, leaving behind two small children as well asthe three couples who have long been their closest friends. Tragedy brings to the surface long-simmering conflicts andemotions, and the MacAvoys' six grieving friends find themselvesunprepared for the revelation of secret upon secret as theystruggle to answer the question: What happened to Greg andTess? The Castaways probes the boundaries of friendship and forgivenessas it tells a page-turning story of passion, betrayal, andsuspense, filled with the perfect details of summer island lifethat have made Elin Hilderbrand's novels beloved bestsellers.

Paul Morel was born into a battlefield with his hard-drinking Nottinghamshire coal-mining father on one side, and his refined mother with middle-class aspirations on the other. When he falls in love with a girl living on a nearby farm, Paul discovers the true meaning of conflicting loyalties.PENGUIN POPULAR CLASSICS are the per-fect introduction to the world-famous PENGUIN CLASSICS series - which en- compasses the best books ever written,from Homer's Odyssey to Orwell's 1984 and everything in between. For a full list and ideas on what to read next, visit www.penguinclassics.com.

Osborne completes his homage to Christie with this third and final adaptation of an original Christie play， following Black Coffee (1998） and The Unexpected Guest (1999）。Though the play was written in 1954， the story suffers little from the passage of time， and aside from the static setting， reads well as a novel。Christie’s exquisite timing and clever sleight-of-mind tricks are a delight， while Osborne has the good sense not to embroider the tale。A typical closed cast of characters occupies the temporary country home of Henry and Clarissa Hailsham-Brown： the seemingly scatterbrained Clarissa； her stepdaughter， Pippa； the odious Oliver Costello， who has married Pippa’s mother； Sir Rowland Delahaye， Clarissa’s godfather and a man of honor； an outspoken gardener； a butler； a cook； and Inspector Lord， the rather diffident policeman。When Clarissa discovers a body in the drawing room， she decides that it mustn’t be found there。Her plans to dispose of the bod

Someone is secretly sending Jigsaw valentines. When Jigsaw thinks about each valentine as a clue, the case starts to come together. It's a red-hot musteru for Jigsaw and MiLa, the/oest detectives in the second grade.

AI Colby should never have agreed to smuggle the package from Chile to Peru. Now one man's dead, two beautiful women have betrayed him, and a couple of gunmen are hot on his trail. All because of an ancient Quechua manu* pointing to the hiding place of a priceless hoard of gold, lost for centuries. So the race is on - by train, by plane, by motorboat and by mule-first to find the treasure and then to escape with it alive...

William and Harry are my one splendid acbievement.Diana Princess of Wales.

Agatha Christie's ingenious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects: Philip Blake (the stockbroker) who went to market; Meredith Blake (the amateur herbalist) who stayed at home; Elsa Greer (the three-time divorcee) who had roast beef; Cecilia Williams (the devoted governess) who had none; and Angela Warren (the disfigured sister) who cried 'wee wee wee' all the way home. It is sixteen years later, but Hercule Poirot just can't get that nursery rhyme out of his mind!

In Act I, at a dinner party given by a famed British actor, one of the guests drops dead. In Act II, at a second dinner, which includes some of the same guests, another death occurs. Two dead men may equal murder. One of the guests, Hercule Poirot, follows suspects (often literally) and clues, both real and "staged," to bring the curtain down on the killer. Andrew Sachs gives this minor Christie vigor and authenticity, even to an unoriginal motive. His Poirot is methodical, polite, and perfectly accented, but sounds like other Poirots. Sachs's best interpretations are those of the actor's young fiancée and the killer. M.T.B.

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How odd, Anne Beddingfeld thought, that the stranger caught her eye, recoiled in horror, and fell to his death on the rails of Hyde Park Underground Station. Odder still was a doctor in a brown suit who pronounced him dead and vanished into the crowd. But what really aroused Anne's suspicion was when she learned of the doctor's link to the murder of a famous ballerina, a fortune in hidden diamonds, and a crime-lord embroiled in blackmail. And most frightening of all was the attempt made on Anne's own life. But she is unable to resist the lure of an isolated mansion that could hold the solution to the bizarre mystery--even if she becomes the next victim... 作者简介： Agatha Christie is the world's best-known mystery writer. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in 44 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her writing career spanned more than half a ce

Grade 5-8-This exciting historical novel opens in the year 1893when the Oklahoma Land Rush is in full swing. Cissy Sissney and herparents have just arrived to stake a claim in the future town ofFlorence. Their mode of transportation is a train, the Red RockRunner, soon to become a major factor in the story. Angered thatthe settlers can't be talked into selling him their claims, therailroad owner vows never to allow stops in Florence. He becomesall the more determined when his son throws his lot in with thetown. If the newcomers can't change his mind, their town is doomed.A colorful cast of characters works to solve this dilemma but everyplan seems destined to fail. A teacher is hired and opens theworld's most unconventional school, and everyone is thrilled when atraveling troupe of actors comes to town. So well do they performtheir melodrama that a member of the audience stands up and shootsthe villain, who then stays and becomes another citizen ofFlorence. There is also a real villain and a major feud betwe

Although Laymon died in 2001, his U.K. novels have only recently gotten an American release; this 1997 title is a sordid, flawed gem, both stomach churning and erotic, and not infrequently at the same time. Narrated by paranoid, defiant 26-year-old Alice, the book opens on a peaceful night of house-sitting—but as Alice warns, "You can never be sure it's safe." Indeed, shortly after midnight she spots a strange man emerge from the woods and go swimming naked in the family pool. A fortunately timed phone call that's a wrong number gives Alice the chance to drive off the stranger, but sets in motion a 24-hour whirlwind of murder, terror and madness, beginning when Alice splits open someone's head with a Civil War saber—and escalating precipitously from there. Alice's matter-of-fact attitude toward her grisly handiwork can make her hard to sympathize with ("I felt rotten about killing him, but not particularly guilty"); supporting characters are easier to like, but don't get too attached. As the night wears o

Suetonius, chronicler of the extraordinary personalities of the first dynasties to rule the Roman Empire, was the greatest Latin biographer. His colourful work, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, is, along with Tacitus, the major source for the period from Julius Caesar to Domitian. He sets out in vivid detail a great range of aspects illuminating the emperor's characters, their habits, from table to bedchamber - their intrigues, their loves and their deaths. Himself a court official, he quotes from a variety of sources, from the official and private documents as well as from old anecdotes, gossip, songs and jokes, giving an unparalleled oblique view of his subjects. Long familiar to students of classics, he found a new audience as the main source for Robert Graves' novels and the subsequent television series I, Claudius.

A man named Mohammed sits in a café in Vienna, about to propose a deal to a Colombian. Mohammed has a strong network of agents and sympathizers throughout Europe and the Middle East, and the Colombian has an equally strong drug network throughout America. What if they were to form an alliance, to combine all their assets and connections? The potential for profits would be enormous--and the potential for destruction unimaginable. In a nonde* office building in suburban Maryland, the firm Hendley Associates does a profitable business in stocks, bonds, and international currencies, but its true mission is quite different: to identify and locate terrorist threats, and then deal with them, in whatever manner necessary. Established with the knowledge of President John Patrick Ryan, “the Campus” is always on the lookout for promising new talent, its recruiters scattered throughout the armed forces and government agencies--and three men are about to cross its radar. The first is Dominic Caruso, a rookie FBI ag