年轻貌美、气性高傲的芭思希芭·埃弗汀来到威瑟伯里，继承她叔叔的农场。农场主波德伍德以及年轻英俊的中士特洛伊先后爱上了她，错综复杂的爱情纠葛导致了一出发生在远离尘嚣之地的悲剧。 ??
年轻貌美、气性高傲的芭思希芭·埃弗汀来到威瑟伯里，继承她叔叔的农场。农场主波德伍德以及年轻英俊的中士特洛伊先后爱上了她，错综复杂的爱情纠葛导致了一出发生在远离尘嚣之地的悲剧。
这是陕西作家李晓兵标志性作品，2005年中国以民工为题材的同名电视剧的文学脚本，它讲述了一群游走在现代都市的社会层的城市边缘人——农民工生活的故事。该小说真实地记录了现代都市里一群被忽视的农民工合法追讨微薄的血汗钱，却被诱拐、诱骗、致残、致死的一些鲜为人知的真相；不加掩盖地暴露了黑心包工头纠党结伙、非法牟取暴利、欺骗压榨农民工的暴戾面目。这里是一个真实的世界，没有夸张，没有矫情，一切的一切都是他们生活的血泪史，看了，你一定会流泪。
这是陕西作家李晓兵标志性作品，2005年中国以民工为题材的同名电视剧的文学脚本，它讲述了一群游走在现代都市的社会层的城市边缘人——农民工生活的故事。该小说真实地记录了现代都市里一群被忽视的农民工合法追讨微薄的血汗钱，却被诱拐、诱骗、致残、致死的一些鲜为人知的真相；不加掩盖地暴露了黑心包工头纠党结伙、非法牟取暴利、欺骗压榨农民工的暴戾面目。这里是一个真实的世界，没有夸张，没有矫情，一切的一切都是他们生活的血泪史，看了，你一定会流泪。
Oscar is a sweet but fat sci-fi obsessed introvert who -- fromthe New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother andrebellious sister -- dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R.Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But Oscar may never getwhat he wants. Blame the fuku -- a curse that has haunted Oscar'sfamily for generations, following them on their epic journey fromNew Jersey to Washington Heights and back to Santo Domingo.Encapsulating Dominican American history, Oscar's story open oureyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary Americanexperience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere --and risk it all -- in the name of love. Pulitzer Prize winning novel
No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page. A horizon line, maybe. But also a slot for blackness to pour through... A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a "geographic cure," a new life distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. And Kamen suggests something else. "Edgar, does anything make you happy?" "I used to sketch." "Take it up again. You need hedges...hedges against the night." Edgar leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico and the tidal rattling of shells on the beach
Douglas Adams is back with the amazing, logic-defying,but-why-stop-now fifth novel in the Hitchhiker Trilogy. Here is theepic story of Random, who sets out on a transgalactic quest to findthe planet of her ancestors. Line drawings. "From the Hardcoveredition."
Handsome, strong, and just a little bit dangerous, hald-ComancheChase Wolf is used to getting what he wants. So when he seesFranny-a golden- haired angel with deep green eyes, delicatefeatures, and the sweetest smile-he sets out to make her his. ButFranny is far from the innocent she seems. And the truth may bemore than Chase can bear...
The Broken is a place where people shop at Wal-Mart and magicis nothing more than a fairy tale. The Weird is a realm whereblueblood aristocrats rule and the strength of your magic canchange your destiny. Rose Drayton lives on the Edge, the placebetween both worlds. A perilous existence indeed, made even more soby a flood of magic-hungry creatures bent on absolutedestruction.
The inspiration for the major motion picture starring BradPitt and Cate Blanchettaplus eighteen other stories by the belovedauthor of "The Great Gatsby" IN THE TITLE STORY, a baby born in1860 begins life as an old man and proceeds to age backward. F.Scott Fizgerald hinted at this kind of inversion when he called hisera aa generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought,all faiths in man shaken.a Perhaps nowhere in American fiction hasthis aLost Generationa been more vividly preserved than inFitzgeraldas short fiction. Spanning the early twentieth-centuryAmerican landscape, this original collection captures, withFitzgeraldas signature blend of enchantment and disillusionment,America during the Jazz Age.
Templar Bascot de Marins is preparing to rejoin the Holy Warswhen he is called upon to investigate a gruesome murder in theOrder's own chapel... The shocking discovery of a strangled prostitute in the Templarchapel throws the Order into disarray. Alongside the corpse is apurse containing thirty pence-the same amount of silver Judasreceived for betraying Christ. Is the murder revenge for a Templar brother's betrayal? Has oneof their own broken his vow of chastity? The Order's preceptorturns to Bascot to determine whether an outsider is seeking todishonour the Templars or a murderer walks among their ranks.
A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, thiscollection assembles Carson McCullers's best stories, including herbeloved novella "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe." A haunting tale of ahuman triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novellaintroduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern womanwhose cafe serves as the town's gathering place. Among other fineworks, the collection also includes "Wunderkind," McCullers's firstpublished story written when she was only seventeen about a musicalprodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a greatpianist. Newly reset and available for the first time in a handsometrade paperback edition, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe is a brilliantstudy of love and longing from one of the South's finestwriters.
Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strangetrip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plasticshopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eightyears were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. Buta gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic in*ion, the mysteriousdisappearance of Earth's dolphins, and the discovery of hisbattered copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy all conspireto give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldlyis indeed going on. . . . God only knows what it all means. Andfortunately, He left behind a Final Message of explanation. Butsince it's light-years away from Earth, on a star surrounded bysouvenir booths, finding out what it is will mean hitching a rideto the far reaches of space aboard a UFO with a giant robot. Butwhat else is new?
He has waited for this moment. "He has planned his every move. "He has made it onto the jury in the most explosive trial of the century. "Now the verdict belongs to him. . . . They are at the center of a multimillion dollar legal hurricane: twelve men and women who have been investigated, watched, manipulated, and harassed by high-priced lawyers and consultants who will stop at nothing to secure a verdict. Now that the jury must make a decision in the most explosive trial of the century, a precedent-setting lawsuit against a giant tobacco company. But only a handful of people know the truth: that this jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him... He is known only as Juror #2. But he has a name, a past, and he has planned his every move with the help of a beautiful woman on the outside. Now, while a corporate empire hands in the balance, while a grieving family waits, and while lawyers are plunged into a battle for their careers, the truth about Juror #2 is about to explode, in a cross fire of greed
A "suspenseful" novel by the #1 "New York Times" bestsellingauthor-now in a French flap trade edition. Nora Roberts delivers anexciting tale that takes readers to the depths of the Caribbean-andthe heights of passion and suspense-as a marine archaeologist and asalvager join forces to search for a legendary treasure.
In his newest adventure, Indiana Jones travels to Indiaaccompanied by a female torch singer named Willie Scott and aneleven-year-old boy named Short Round, his self-appointedside-kick.
When Samantha Harrigan attends the local rodeo, she doesn'texpect to wind up in jail. But that's what happens when she triesto stop a drunkard from abusing his horse. Tucker Coulter, ahandsome local veterinarian, comes to her defense, and both of themare arrested. The charges are dropped, but Sam's troubles have onlystarted...
Following the death of their eldest son, Ellie and TuckerGrant divorce and gradually make the transition into separatelives. But their two sons Zach and Kody are convinced that theirparents are still meant to be together. The brothers hatch a planto run away from home into the Oregon wilderness. Surely Ellie andTucker will come to their rescue--and their senses.
Christopher Snow is the best-known resident of 12,000-strongMoonlight Bay, California. This is because 28-year-old Chris hasxeroderma pigmentosum (XP)--a light-sensitivity so severe that hecannot leave his house in daylight, cannot enter a normally-litroom, cannot sit at a computer. Chris's natural element is thenight, and his parents, both academics, chose to live in MoonlightBay because in a small town Chris can make the nightscape hisown--roaming freely through the town on his bike, surfing in themoonlight, exploring while most people sleep. But Chris's brilliantmother, a scientist, was killed in a car accident 2 years ago, andas the book opens his father, Steven Snow, is dying of cancer;Chris's protected life is about to change forever. We meet Chris ashe is carefully preparing himself to go out in the late-afternoonsun to visit the hospital. In his last moments of life his fathertells Chris he is "sorry" and that Chris should "fearnothing"--cryptic words that Chris cannot really relate to. StevenS
A reclusive millionaire makes a deal with the devil. Justanother horror tale? Don't bet on it. It's from Clive Barker.
