At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge LuisBorges returned to writing short stories. In "Brodieas Report," hereturned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutalrealism, nightmares, and bloodshed. Many of these stories,including aUnworthya and aThe Other Duel, a are set in the machoArgentinean underworld, and even the rivalries between artists aresuffused with suppressed violence. Throughout, opposing themes offate and free will, loyalty and betrayal, time and memory flickerin the recesses of these compelling stories, among the best Borgesever wrote.

Sparks (A Bend in the Road, etc.) logs more miles on thewinding high road of romance with the story of two middle-agedpeople who meet by chance in the small North Carolina coastal townof Rodanthe. The impassioned but doomed romance seems to owe muchto Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County. Once again,a housewife who has focused on everyone but herself indulges in abrief, intense, secret affair with a stranger who changes her lifeforever. As the story begins, Adrienne Willis is 60, the divorcedmother of three grown children. To help her troubled daughter copewith the untimely recent death of her husband, Adrienne tells herthe tale of her love affair, which took place 15 years before. Atthe time, Adrienne was an uptight matron whose ex-husband had justleft her for a younger woman. This rejection colors her entirelife, and Sparks realistically portrays a vulnerable and isolatedwoman who throws herself into raising her children to escape herdespair. Paul Flanner, her paramour, is a surgeon an

Caryl Phillips’ ambitious and powerful novel spans two hundred and fifty years of the African Diaspora. It tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journeys through different epochs and continents: one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s.one a pioneer on a wagon trail to the American west later that century, and one a Gl posted to a Yorkshire village in the Second World War. Crossing the River won the James Tait Black Memorial Award in 1994, and was shortlist for the 1993Booker Prize. Caryl Phillips exploration of the relations between black and white is nuanced, humane,and sympathetic ,And his deep awareness of the historical proess is combined with an exceptionally inteligent prose style-clear,unecumbered,and compassionate'New Statesman& Society.

This stunning and steamy debut chronicles the adventures ofNan King, a small town girl at the turn of the century whose lifetakes a wild turn of its own when she follows a local music hallstar to London...

Passionate and perceptive, the three short novels that make upBalzac's "History of the Thirteen" are concerned in part with theactivities of a rich, powerful, sinister and unscrupulous secretsociety in nineteenth-century France. While the deeds of "TheThirteen" remain frequently in the background, however, theindividual novels are concerned with exploring various forms ofdesire. A tragic love story, Ferragus depicts a marriage destroyedby suspicion, revelation and misunderstanding. The Duchess deLangeais explores the anguish that results when a society coquettetries to seduce a heroic ex-soldier, while "The Girl with theGolden Eyes" offers a frank consideration of desire and sexuality.Together, these works provide a firm and fascinating foundation forBalzac's many later portrayals of Parisian life in his greatnovel-cycle "The Human Comedy".

当卡米莉家乡的几名女孩被谋杀后，由于工作的原因，她被迫回到那个古老南方贵族与吸毒青年共同生活的地方。随着卡米莉揭露杀害那些女孩的凶手以及杀人动机的谜底，《利器》这个故事使读者在心理上产生了深度困扰：卡米莉为何如此坚定地去调查这些被害的女孩？卡米莉与她母亲之间发生了什么？这件事是怎样与多年前她另一个妹妹的死联系到一起的？ When two girls are abducted and killed in Missouri,journalist Camille Preaker is sent back to her home town to reporton the crimes. Long-haunted by a childhood tragedy and estranged from hermother for years, Camille suddenly finds herself installed onceagain in her family's mansion, reacquainting herself with herdistant mother and the half-sister she barely knows - a precocious13-year-old who holds a disquieting grip on the town. As Camille works to uncover the truth about these violentcrimes, she finds hersel

An upper-class woman, recovering from a suicide attempt, visitsthe women's ward of Millbank prison as part of her rehabilitation.There she meets Selina, an enigmatic spiritualist-and becomes drawninto a twilight world of ghosts and shadows, unruly spirits andunseemly passions, until she is at last driven to concoct adesperate plot to secure Selina's freedom, and her own. "Unfoldssinuously and ominously...a powerful plot-twister. The book ismultidimensional: a naturalistic look at Victorian society; a trulysuspenseful tale of terror; and a piece of elegant, thinly veilederotica." ("USA Today") "Gothic tale, psychological study, puzzlenarrative-Sarah Waters' second novel is all of these wrapped intoone, served up to superbly suspenseful and hypnotic effect." ("TheSeattle Times")

二十一岁的巴特与十八岁的新兵莫菲，於美国出兵伊拉克前夕于军中相识，两人一见如故，巴特答应莫菲母亲，会平安带著她儿子归来，但二○○五年，只剩巴特独自一人退伍返国。莫菲在伊拉克战场上因饱受死亡威胁，精神崩溃逃出军营，巴特与士官长施大林发现他时，莫菲已遭不明人士虐杀，全身赤裸，不仅眼睛被挖出，耳朵、鼻子被割掉，生殖器也几乎被切断，两人在怕事的心态下将莫菲丢入河中佯装失踪，巴特事后假扮莫菲写了封信给莫菲之母。然而等到巴特退伍回国后，莫菲的尸体浮现在底格里斯河与幼发拉底河的汇流处…… A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The YellowBirds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stayalive. "The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins thispowerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq,twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighte

"7岁那年，丽比的妈妈和姊姊死於「堪萨斯疯狂杀人事件」。就在凶手大开杀戒之时，小丽比从小小的农宅逃了出去，还上法庭作证，说15岁的哥哥班恩就是凶手，并因此声名大噪。25年后，靠著慈善捐献过活的丽比发现，世人已渐渐遗忘她的存在，捐款日渐稀少，眼看就要用完了…… 就在这时，杀手俱乐部登场。这个病态的地下组织，对於恶名昭彰的犯罪事件特别感兴趣。他们找上丽比，想从她嘴裡证实班恩的无辜，丽比则想趁机大捞一笔。她要求俱乐部出钱，让她调查当年卷入这桩灭门血案的人物，并允诺定期向俱乐部回报……或许，她会坦承当年的证词充满漏洞。 随著调查行动展开，丽比发现自己回到故事的起点－－她崇拜的哥哥身上。" Libby Day was just seven years old when her older brothermassacred her family while she hid in a cupboard. Her evidencehelped put him

Peter Pan, the "boy who would not grow up," originally appearedas a baby living a magical life among birds and fairies in J.M.Barrie’s sequence of stories, Peter Pan in KensingtonGardens . His later role as flying boy hero was brought to thestage by Barrie in the beloved play Peter Pan , which openedin 1904 and became the novel Peter and Wendy in 1911. In anarrative filled with vivid characters, epic battles, pirates,fairies, and fantastic imagination, Peter Pan’s adventures capturethe spirit of childhood— and of rebellion against the role ofadulthood in conventional society. This edition includes the novel and the stories, as well as anintroduction by eminent scholar Jack Zipes. Looking at the manbehind Peter Pan and sifting through the psychologicalinterpretations that have engaged many a critic, Zipes explores thelarger cultural and literary contexts in which we should appreciateBarrie’s enduring creation and shows why Peter Pan is a worknot for children but for adults seeking to reconnect

In Storybrooke, Maine, Emma Swan and Mary Margaret Blanchardare friends and roommates. They're united in their mission to makelife better for Henry, Emma's young son, who has been raised byStorybrooke's vicious mayor, Regina Mills. Henry is convinced thatMary Margaret and Emma are more than just roommates, however. Hebelieves they're family-mother and daughter fairy-tale charactersexiled from their enchanted forest by an evil curse. And he'sright: Mary Margaret is Snow White, and Emma is her daughter. In this companion book to the hit ABC television show Once Upon ATime, Emma and Snow tell their own stories, in their own words, forthe first time. With Emma relating her time in Storybrooke and Snownarrating the events of fairytale land, present and future fans ofthe show will get a whole new look at their favorite characters andstories. Show de*ion from ABC: "From the inventive minds of Lost executive producers AdamHorowitz and Edward Kitsis, the show is a bold new

In a perfect pairing of talent, this volume blends twentyillustrations by Peter SA-s with Jorge Luis Borgesas 1957compilation of 116 astrange creatures conceived through time andspace by the human imagination, a from dragons and centaurs toLewis Carrollas Cheshire Cat and the Morlocks of H. G. Wellsas "TheTime Machine." A lavish feast of exotica brought vividly to lifewith art commissioned specifically for this volume, "The Book ofImaginary Beings" will delight readers of classic fantasy as wellas Borgesas many admirers.

When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory -- a victory with profound implications for NASA policy and the impending presidential election. To verify the authenticity of the find, the White House calls upon the skills of intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic scholar Michael Tolland, Rachel travels to the Arctic and uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of scientific trickery -- a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy. But before she can warn the president, Rachel and Michael are ambushed by a team of assassins. Fleeing for their lives across a desolate and lethal landscape, their only hope for survival is to discover who is behind this masterful plot. The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all.

GBF Discussion; Guide online Introduction by CynthiaOzick.

The author of Leviathan returns with a dazzling, picaresque,new novel in which Walter Claireborne Rawley, now an octogenarian,recounts his extraordinary vaudevillian adventures as "Walt theWonder Boy" in 1924. "One hears every page of this novel, and seesit as well".--Washington Post.

Robert Jordan's epic fantasy saga The Wheel of Time is nowfirmly established as a classic of the genre and a world-widebestseller. Now the series continues with the eagerly-awaited tenthvolume . Rand al'Thor, the Dragon Reborn, must fight on against theDark One in a stuggle that has drawn an entire world into itsvortex - claiming the souls of friends and enemies alike. He hascleansed the taint of madness from the male half of the TrueSource, so may now draw on its power as a weapon of awesomepotential. This could tip the balance in a perilous battle againstevil as Rand must gamble with himself at stake. He cannot be surewhich of his allies are really enemies - even among lifelongcompanions.

Merton defines Christian mysticism, especially as expressed bythe Spanish Carmelite St. John of the Cross, and he offers thecontemplative experience as an answer to the irreligion andbarbarism of our times. For those...curious about mysticism...thisis an excellent book (Catholic World).

When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you nooptions. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing sowould hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give,how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy andnightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for BellaSwan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for EdwardCullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf JacobBlack, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have ledher to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to eitherjoin the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fullyhuman life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribeshangs. Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain ofunprecedented events is about to unfold with potentiallydevastating, and unfathomable, consequences. Just when the frayedstrands of Bella's life-first discovered in Twilight, thensca

In this "ingenious" novel (New York Times) by "one of Europe'smost original and remarkable writers" (Los Angeles Times), aproofreader's deliberate slip opens the door to romance-andconfounds the facts of Portugal's past. Translated by GiovanniPontiero.

A man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me aboat. The king's house had many other doors, but this was the doorfor petitions. Since the king spent all his time sitting at thedoor for favors (favors being offered to the king, you understand),whenever he heard someone knocking at the door for petitions, hewould pretend not to hear . . ." Why the petitioner required aboat, where he was bound for, and who volunteered to crew for him,the reader will discover in this delightful fable, a philosophiclove story worthy of Swift or Voltaire.

Jane Austen's debut in our award-winning graphic-coverseries. Written during Jane Austen's race against failing health,Persuasion tells the story of Anne Elliot, a woman who-attwenty-seven-is no longer young and has few romantic prospects.Eight years ago, she was persuaded by her friend Lady Russell tobreak off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome navalcaptain with neither fortune nor rank. When Anne and Frederick meetagain, he has acquired both, but still feels the sting of herrejection. A brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, Austen'slast completed novel is also a movingly told love story tinged withthe heartache of missed opportunities.

When the Iberian Peninsula breaks free of Europe and begins todrift across the North Atlantic, five people are drawn together onthe newly formed island-first by surreal events and then by love."A splendidly imagined epic voyage...a fabulous fable" (KirkusReviews). Translated by Giovanni Pontiero.