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
Jeannette Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were both their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary Walls had four children. In the beginning, they lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary, who painted and wrote and couldn't stand the responsibility of providing for her family, called herself an "excitement addict." Cooking a meal that would be consumed in fifteen minutes had no appeal when she could make a painting that might last forever. Later, when the money ran out, or the romance of the wandering life faded, the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town -- and the family -- Rex Walls had done everything he could to escape. He drank. He stole the grocery money and disappeared for days. As the dysfunction of the family escalated, Jea
Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods thatsurround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincolnkneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken withsomething the old-timers call "Milk Sickness." "My baby boy..." she whispers before dying. Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatalaffliction was actually the work of a vampire. When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in hisjournal, "henceforth my life shall be one of rigorous study anddevotion. I shall become a master of mind and body. And thismastery shall have but one purpose..." Gifted with his legendaryheight, strength, and skill with an ax, Abe sets out on a path ofvengeance that will lead him all the way to the White House. While Abraham Lincoln is widely lauded for saving a Union andfreeing millions of slaves, his valiant fight against the forces ofthe undead has remained in the shadows for hundreds of years. Thatis, until Seth Grahame-Smith stumbled upon The Secret Journa
Stefan and Damon weren't always fighting or succumbing to theirbloodlusts. Once they were loving siblings, who enjoyed all theriches and happiness that their wealthy lifestyle afforded them;loyal brothers who happened to both fall for the same beautifulwoman.Once they were alive...
While the cops out of Hollywood station deal with the costumed crackheads, prostitutes, purse snatchers, tweakers and ordinary lunatics that haunt the boulevards, in the streets behind the lights and crowds, the real Los Angeles simmers, never far from boiling point. Under the watchful eye of the veteran sergeant they call Oracle, the Hollywood station squad are as different as the streets they police. Budgie Polk's back on duty while still breast-feeding her son, begrudgingly teamed with old school patrol officer Fausto Gamboa. Flotsam and Jetsam live only for surfing and the petite - but intrepid - Meg Takara. Andi McCrea goes off duty and into night classes, while rich kid rookie Wesley Drubb is as desperate to see some action as Nathan 'Hollywood' Weiss is to get his * developed. Under-staffed and over-worked, bound by red tape and hobbled by political correctness, these men and women hold the front line in LA's epicentre, but add a diamond robbery, the Russian mafia and a cluelessly ambitious glass
Simon Axler, one of the leading American stage actors of his generation, is now in his sixties and has lost his magic, talent, and assurance. His Falstaff and Peer Gynt and Vanya, all his great roles, 'tare melted into air, into thin air." When his wife leaves him, and after a stint at a mental hospital, he retires to his upstate New York country house and hopes for deliverance which arrives in the form of the lithe, vibrant, and ever-sub-versive Pegeen Stapleford, the daughter of old friendsand twenty-flve years his junior. In this tight, surprising narrative told with Roth's inimi-table urgency, bravura, and gravity, we confront the ter-rifying fragility of all our llfe's performances.
Thalassa was a paradise above the earth. Its beauty and vastresources seduce its inhabitants into a feeling of perfection. Butthen the Magellan arrives, carrying with it one million refugeesfrom the last mad days of earth. Paradise looks indeed lost....
The FBI doesn't believe it. The Governor wants the problem todisappear. But agent Judy Maddox knows the threat is real: anextreme group of eco-terrorists has the means and the know-how toset off a massive earthquake of epic proportions. For California,time is running out. Now Maddox is scrambling to hunt down a petty criminal turnedcult leader turned homicidal mastermind. Because Judy knows thatthe dying has already begun. And soon, the earth will violentlyshift, bolt, and shake down to its very core. . . .
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Come back to the Ringworld . . . the most astonishing feat ofengineering ever encountered. A place of untold technologicalwonders, home to a myriad humanoid races, and world of some of themost beloved science fiction stories ever written! The human, Louis Wu; the puppeteer known as the Hindmost;Acolyte, son of the Kzin called Chmeee . . . legendary beingsbrought together once again in the defense of the Ringworld.Something is going on with the Protectors. Incoming spacecraft arebeing destroyed before they can reach the Ringworld. Vampires aremassing. And the Ghouls have their own agenda--if anyone daresapproach them to learn. Each race on the Ringworld has always had its own Protector. Nowit looks as if the Ringworld itself needs a Protector. But who willsit on the Ringworld Throne? "Niven's work has been an intriguing and consistent universe, andthis book is the keystone of the arch. . . . [His] technique iswonderfully polished, his characters and their situations arenicely drawn . .
Jane Austen (1775-1817) is considered by many scholars to be thefirst great woman novelist. Her novels revolve around people, notevents or coincidences. Miss Austen sets her novels in the uppermiddle class English country which was her own environment. Her novels have increased in stature over time. Her skills ofwriting, including a dry humor and a witty elegance of expressionhave attracted generations to her work. Miss Austen completed six novels and part of a seventh, "Senseand Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield Park", "Emma","Northanger Abbey", "Persuasion" and the partial "Lady Susan".Quiet Vision publishes all seven. --This text refers to an outof print or unavailable edition of this title.
When Woolf debuted in 1961, audiences and critics alike couldnot get enough of Edward Albee's masterful play. A dark comedy, itportrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night ofdangerous fun and games. By the evening's end, a stunningrevelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years.With the play's razor-sharp dialogue and the stripping away ofsocial pretense, Newsweek keenly foresaw Who's Afraid ofVirginia Woolf? as "a brilliantly original work of art-anexcoriating theatrical experience, surging with shocks ofrecognition and dramatic fire that will be igniting Broadway forsome time to come."
2001: A Space Odyssey shocked, amazed, and delighted millions inthe late 1960s. An instant book and movie classic, its fame hasgrown over the years. Yet along with the almost universal acclaim,a host of questions has grown more insistent through the years, forexample: who or what transformed Dave Bowman into the Star-Child?What alien purpose lay behind the monoliths on the Moon and out inspace? What could drive HAL to kill the crew? Now all thosequestions and many more have been answered, in this stunning sequelto the international bestseller. Cosmic in sweep, eloquent in itsdepiction of Man's place in the Universe, and filled with theromance of space, this novel is a monumental achievement and amust-read for Arthur C. Clarke fans old and new."A daring rompthrough the solar system and a worthy successor to 2001."CarlSagan
A new trade paperback edition of McCullers' second novel,REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE, immortalized by the 1967 film starringElizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, and John Houston. Set on aSouthern army base in the 1930s, REFLECTIONS tells the story ofCaptain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival ofMajor Langdon, a charming womanizer who has an affair withPenderton's tempestuous and flirtatious wife, Leonora. Upon thenovel's publication in 1941, reviewers were unsure of what to makeof its relatively scandalous subject matter. But a critic for TimeMagazine wrote, "In almost any hands, such material would yield arank fruitcake of mere arty melodrama. But Carson McCullers tellsher tale with simplicity, insight, and a rare gift of phrase."Written during a time when McCullers's own marriage to Reeves wason the brink of collapse, her second novel deals with her trademarkthemes of alienation and unfulfilled loves.
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer – in case he or she decides to strike again.
The fifth novel in Asimov's popular Foundation series openswith second thoughts. Councilman Golan Trevize is wondering if hewas right to choose a collective mind as the best possible futurefor humanity over the anarchy of contentious individuals, nationsand planets. To test his conclusion, he decides he must know thepast and goes in search of legendary Earth, all references to whichhave been erased from galactic libraries. The societies encounteredalong the way become arguing points in a book-long colloquy aboutman's fate, conducted by Trevize and traveling companion Bliss, whois part of the first world/mind, Gaia.
In his debut novel， The Kite Runner， Khaled Hosseini accomplishes what very few contemporary novelists are able to do。 He manages to provide an educational and eye-opening account of a country’s political turmoil--in this case， Afghanistan--while also developing characters whose heartbreaking struggles and emotional triumphs resonate with readers long after the last page has been turned over。 And he does this on his first try。 The Kite Runner follows the story of Amir， the privileged son of a wealthy businessman in Kabul， and Hassan， the son of Amir’s father’s servant。 As children in the relatively stable Afghanistan of the early 1970s， the boys are inseparable。 They spend idyllic days running kites and telling stories of mystical places and powerful warriors until an unspeakable event changes the nature of their relationship forever， and eventually cements their bond in ways neither boy could have ever predicted。 Even after Amir and his father flee to America， Amir r
Through her research on twins and the genetic components ofaggression, scientist Jeannie Ferrami makes a startling discovery.Using a restricted FBI database, she finds two young men who appearto be identical twins: Steve, a law student, and Dennis: aconvicted murderer. Yet they were born on different days, todifferent mothers, in hospitals hundreds of miles apart. As Ferramidelves into their backgrounds, she unwittingly locks horns withsome of the most powerful forces in America, including theuniversity where she works, The New York Times, even the Pentagon.What secret has Ferrami uncovered? Can she trust her boss andmentor, or must she put her life in the hands of Steve Logan, thetwin she finds herself falling in love with--even though he'ssurrounded by intrigue and suspicion? But one thing is certain:There are those who will stop at nothing to keep their chillingconspiracy in the shadows. . . .
Une femme venue d'outre-tombe. Une main coupée qui s'anime. Unhomme invisible assis dans un fauteuil vide. Des objets qui sortentpar la porte et bousculent leur propriétaire. Est-ce une illusiondes sens ? Ou bien la réalité est-elle régie par des lois inconnues? Confrontés à une série d'événements surnaturels ainsi qu'à leurspropres angoisses insurmontables, les héros de Maupassantconnaissent tout au long de ces six contes fantastiques de ?régulières éclipses de la raison ?.
1996 wurde das Teatro La Fenice in Venedig vom Feuer zerst?rt.Ausgehend von dieser Trag?die gestaltet der Autor einbeeindruckendes historisches Portr?t einer einzigartig sch?nenStadt und seiner Bewohner und prominenten G?ste.
It was evident, if there were no other entrance to the ice house, that the body had at some point traversed this thorny barrier...The big question was, how long ago? How long had that nightmare been there?' The people of Streech village had never trusted the three women living up at the Grange - not since Phoebe Maybury's husband suddenly, inexplicably, vanished. Ten years later a corpse is discovered in the grounds and Phoebe's nightmare begins. For once they have identified the body the police are determined to charge her with murder... 'The most impressive first novel in years' - "Daily Telegraph". 'A seductive writer with an imagination that makes her dangerous to know' - "Sunday Express". 'Terrific first novel with a high Rendellesque frisson count' - "The Times".
David Baldacci-the #1 bestselling author of The WholeTruth and First Family-returns with his most surprising,heart-stopping, and timely thriller to date . . . DELIVER US FROM EVIL Evan Waller is a monster. He has built a fortune from hiswillingness to buy and sell anything . . . and anyone. In search ofnew opportunities, Waller has just begun a new business venture:one that could lead to millions of deaths all over theglobe. On Waller's trail is Shaw, the mysterious operative from TheWhole Truth, who must prevent Waller from closing his latest deal.Shaw's one chance to bring him down will come in the most unlikelyof places: a serene, bucolic village in Provence. But Waller's depravity and ruthlessness go deeper than Shawknows. And now, there is someone else pursuing Waller inProvence-Reggie Campion, an agent for a secret vigilante groupheadquartered in a musty old English estate-and she has an agendaof her own. Hunting the same man and unaware
The first book in a new post-apocalyptic trilogy from "amaster of the genre" Heather O'Grainne is the Assistant Secretaryin the Office of Future Threat Assessment, investigating rumorssurrounding something called "Daybreak." The group is diverse andradical, and its members have only one thing in common-their hatredfor the "Big System" and their desire to take it down. Now,seemingly random events simultaneously occurring around the worldare in fact connected as part of Daybreak's plan to destroy moderncivilization-a plan that will eliminate America's top governmentpersonnel, leaving the nation no choice but to implement itsemergency contingency program...Directive 51.
