In his most brilliant and powerful novel, Pat Conroy tells thestory of Tom Wingo, his twin sister, Savannah, and the dark andviolent past of the family into which they were born. Set in NewYork City and the lowcountry of South Carolina, the novel openswhen Tom, a high school football coach whose marriage and careerare crumbling, flies from South Carolina to New York after learningof his twin sister's suicide attempt. Savannah is one of the mostgifted poets of her generation, and both the cadenced beauty of herart and the jumbled cries of her illness are clues to thetoo-long-hidden story of her wounded family. In the paneled officesand luxurious restaurants of New York City, Tom and SusanLowenstein, Savannah's psychiatrist, unravel a history of violence,abandonment, commitment, and love. And Tom realizes that trying tosave his sister is perhaps his last chance to save himself. Withpassion and a rare gift of language, the author moves from presentto past, tracing the amazing history of the Wingos from Wo

As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept getting the tough assignments -- responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. In Band of Brothers, Ambrose tells of the men in this brave unit who fought, went hungry, froze, and died, a company that took 150 percent casualties and considered the Purple Heart a badge of office. Drawing on hours of interviews with survivors as well as the soldiers' journals and letters, Stephen Ambrose recounts the stories, often in the men's own words, of these American heroes.

The history of nations is a history of haves and have-nots,and as we approach the millennium, the gap between rich and poorcountries is widening. In this engrossing and important new work,eminent historian David Landes explores the complex, fascinatingand often startling causes of the wealth and poverty of nations.The answers are found not only in the large forces at work ineconomies: geography, religion, the broad swings of politics, butalso in the small surprising details. In Europe, the invention ofspectacles doubled the working life of skilled craftsmen, andplayed a prominent role in the creation of articulated machines,and in China, the failure to adopt the clock fundamentally hinderedeconomic development. The relief of poverty is vital to thesurvival of us all. As David Landes brilliantly shows, the key tofuture success lies in understanding the lessons the past has toteach us - lessons uniquely imparted in this groundbreaking andvital book which exemplifies narrative history at its best.

Afather and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark.Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pis-tol to defend themselves against the law-less bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scav-enged food--and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire;' are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision,The Road is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.

*消息 罗琳于2月1日更新了她的官方网站，里面登出了Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 《哈利波特与死圣》的出版日期。哈利波特7将于今年7月21日英国夏令时间00：01分开始发售。当然，今年也是《哈利波特与魔法石》的发售十周年纪念。 太阳报消息，罗琳在 Balmoral 旅馆的大理石像后边写下了下面的内容：“罗琳于2007年1月11日在此房间(652) 内完成Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 《哈利波特与死圣》的写作。”现在这条消息目前已经得到了BBC的证实。 The latest news about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows March 29th Bloomsbury Publishing Plc is delighted to release the book jacket images for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K.Rowling, to be published on 21st July 2007. The cover illustration for the children’s edition is by Jason Cockcroft, who drew the cover illustrations for the previous two Harry Potter books: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Har

“Every reader knows of writers who are likesecrets one wants to keep, and whose books one wants to tell theworld about. Millhauser is mine.” —David Rollow, Boston Sunday Globe From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author: the essential storiesacross three decades that showcase his indomitableimagination. Steven Millhauser's fiction has consistently, and to dazzlingeffect, dissolved the boundaries between reality and fantasy,waking life and dreams, the past and the future, darkness andlight, love and lust. The stories gathered here unfurl in settingsas disparate as nineteenth-century Vienna, a contemporaryConnecticut town, the corridors of a monstrous museum, and ThomasEdison's laboratory, and they are inhabited by a wide-ranging castof characters, including a knife thrower and teenage boys, ghostsand a cartoon cat and mouse. But all of the stories are united intheir unfailing power to surprise and enchant. From the earliest tothe stunning, previously unpublished novella-length tit

Londres, été 1888. Sous le poids d'une chaleur suffocante, laville est saisie d'horreur par les premiers meurtres de celui qu'onnommera bient?t " Jack l'Eventreur ". Pourtant, aucune des enquêtesdu célèbre Sherlock Holmes ne mentionne la plus fameuse affairecriminelle qui ait agité ses contemporains. Bien des années plustard, le docteur Watson confie à son éditeur le journal del'investigation qu'il mena aux c?tés du détective surl'insaisissable tueur en série. Une terrible plongée dans l'enferdes bas-fonds londoniens, sur les pas du meurtrier le plussanguinaire et le plus énigmatique que l'Angleterre ait connu.

作者简介： J. K. (Jo) Rowling was born in Chipping Sodbury in the UK in 1965. Such a funny-sounding name for a birthplace may have contributed to her talent for collecting odd names. She was quiet, freckly, short-sighted and not very good at sports. She even broke her arm playing netball. Her favourite subject by far was English, but she also liked languages. Jo always loved writing more than anything. 'The first story that I ever wrote down, when I was five or six, was about a rabbit called Rabbit. He got the measles and was visited by his friends, including a giant bee called Miss Bee. And ever since Rabbit and Miss Bee, I have wanted to be a writer, though I rarely told anyone so. I was afraid they'd tell me I didn't have a hope.' As she got older, Jo kept writing but she never showed what she had written to anyone, except for some of her funny stories that featured her friends as heroines. Jo attended the University of Exeter in Devon where she studied French. When she was 25,

Considered one of the greatest works of Chinese literature, this five-part story charts the changing fortunes of the Jia family. It sets worldly events - love affairs, sibling rivalries, even murder - within the context of the Buddhist understanding that karma determines the shape of our lives.

Three-volume paperback boxed set of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic masterpiece, packaged in the classic black covers designed by Tolkien himself. Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power -- the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring -- the ring that rules them all -- which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose. Since it was first published in 1954, 'The Lord of the Rings' has been a book people have treasured. Steeped in unrivalled magic and otherworldliness, its sweeping fantasy has touched the hearts of young and old alike.

- Un livre de plus sur l'école, alors ? - Non, pas surl'école ! Sur le cancre. Sur la douleur de ne pas comprendre et seseffets collatéraux sur les parents et les professeurs.

The first three books in von Ziegesar's Gossip Girls series are packaged together in this paperback boxed set. Includes "Gossip Girl, You Know You Love Me," and "All I Want Is Everything."

THE CASUAL VACANCY J.K. Rowling Book De*ion： When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties,the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled marketsquare and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty fa?adeis a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wivesat war with their husbands, teachers at war with theirpupils…Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town’s council soonbecomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yetseen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicityand unexpected revelations? Blackly comic, thought‐provoking and constantly surprising, TheCasual Vacancy is J.K.Rowling’s first novel for adults. Author Profile: J.K. Rowling is the author of the bestselling Harry Potter seriesof seven books, published between 1997 and 2007, which have soldmore tha

A companion to The Art of The Fellowship of the Ring, thisauthoritative and insightful book is packed with more than fivehundred full-color images — many exclusive to this volume — andshows the development of the imagery in The Two Towers from conceptdrawings to wide-screen glory. With illuminating captions tellingthe story of the images in the words of the artists and designersresponsible for the look of the film, including the renownedartists Alan Lee and John Howe, and contributions from PeterJackson, Richard Taylor, Grant Major, Ngila Dickson, Paul Lasaine,and others, this book is a must for all fans of The Lord of theRings. In this essential reference to the architecture and costumesof Jackson"s onscreen Middle-earth, the stunning large-format art,from sketches to paintings to three-dimensional maquettes anddigital art, is lovingly reproduced with lavish production valuesto create a spectacular keepsake for the film"s millions offans.

With 90 millinon cipies solk worlkwide，the Key Words with Lodybird reading scheme is the springboard to reading for life. 12 Key Words make up one quarter of all those we read and write；100 Key Words make up half of all those we read and write This essential vocabulary is carefully introduced，practised and developed throughout the scheme. The a series introduces new Key Words The b series practises Key Words The c series develops Key Words using phonics and writing skills

This is the new "Roy Grace" novel from the bestselling author of "Dead Tomorrow". Don't imagine for one moment that I'm not watching you...The Metropole Hotel, Brighton. After a heady New Year's Eve ball, a woman is brutally raped as she returns to her room. A week later, another woman is attacked. Both victims' shoes are taken by the offender...Detective Superintendent Roy Grace soon realises that these new cases bear remarkable similarities to an unsolved series of crimes in the city back in 1997. The perpetrator had been dubbed 'Shoe Man' and was believed to have raped five women before murdering his sixth victim and vanishing. Could this be a copycat, or has Shoe Man resurfaced? When more women are assaulted, Grace becomes increasingly certain that they are dealing with the same man. And that by delving back into the past - a time in which we see Grace and his missing wife Sandy still apparently happy together - he may find the key to unlocking the current mystery. Soon Grace and his team will find themse

Chine, juillet 1405. La plus grande armada del'histoire, une escadre colossale de jonques géantes, quitte lesrivages de l'empire du Milieu sous le commandement du titanesqueeunuque Zheng He. Son ma?tre, Yong Lo, troisième empereur de ladynastie des Ming, a décidé que l'univers entier le reconna?traitcomme Fils du Ciel et lui ferait allégeance. Cette gigantesqueflotte aux trésors doit y contribuer. A bord, le truculent Li Ying:grande gueule, ripailleur goulu, soiffard impénitent, féru d'artsmartiaux et familier du monde des courtisanes. Mais ce colosse,plus fin qu'il n'y para?t, est fidèle en amitié. De petitboutiquier il se retrouve mandarin et croise sur sa route unemultitude de personnages: aigrefins, entremetteurs véreux, héta?resredoutables...

When Desperate Housewives debuted on ABC last fall, viewers were served up a dish of delectable characters and delicious plot twists. This Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning show offers a glimpse into life in the suburbs-and it+s not all soccer moms and PTA meetings. From the lovably clumsy single mom Susan, to the perfectionist homemaker Bree, to the harried mother of three Lynette, to the vixen-next-door Gabriela, these housewives defy stereotypes.This first official Desperate Housewives fan guide gives viewers an irresistible glimpse into the world of Wisteria Lane. With profiles and interviews of the cast and creative team, never-before-told anecdotes and set details, glamorous photographs of the housewives (both in and out of character), as well as fascinating details from the writers and producers on what it takes to make the show-including a foreword written by the show+s creator and executive producer, Marc Cherry, on his initial inspiration in creating the show.

Sookie Stackhouse is the main character in The Southern Vampire Mysteries, a series of eight books written by bestselling author Charlaine Harris

In Jurassic Park, he created a terrifying new world. Now, inMicro, Michael Crichton reveals a universe too small to see and toodangerous to ignore. In a locked Honolulu office building, three men are found deadwith no sign of struggle except for the ultrafine, razor-sharp cutscovering their bodies. The only clue left behind is a tiny bladedrobot, nearly invisible to the human eye. In the lush forests of Oahu, groundbreaking technology hasushered in a revolutionary era of biological prospecting. Trillionsof microorganisms, tens of thousands of bacteria species, are beingdiscovered; they are feeding a search for priceless drugs andapplications on a scale beyond anything previously imagined. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, seven graduate students at theforefront of their fields are recruited by a pioneeringmicrobiology start-up. Nanigen MicroTechnologies dispatches thegroup to a mysterious lab in Hawaii, where they are promised accessto tools that will open a whole new scientific frontier.

This astonishing novel that parallels the great American classic novel, "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, has been twelve years in the making. Now, the most beloved and most widely-read saga of the American Civil War is retold from the point of view of its unrivalled hero, the dashing and enigmatic scion of the South, Rhett Butler. See what Rhett is really thinking as he sits in the armchair listening to Scarlett declare her love for Ashley. Find out what happened on the other side of the cupboard, where Melanie was hiding.Discover the truth of Rhett's relationship with Belle Watling...Brought to vivid and authentic life by the hand of a master, "Rhett Butler's People" fulfills the dreams of countless millions whose imaginations have been indelibly marked by "Gone With the Wind". ""Rhett Butler's People" covers the period from 1843 to 1874, nearly two decades more than are chronicled in "Gone With the Wind". Readers will...get inside Rhett's head as he meets and courts Scarlett O'Hara in one of the m

The delicate artistry and lyrical prose of Woolf's novels have established her as a writer of sensitivity and profound talent. Virginia Woolf displays genuine humanity and concern for the experiences that enrich and stultify existence. Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party and her thoughts on that one day, and the interior monologues of others with interwoven lives reveal the characters of the central protagonists. "To the Lighthouse" is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels. Based on her early experiences, it touches on childhood and children's perceptions and desires. It is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War. "Orlando", 'the longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West.'I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot', said Woolf of "The Waves". Regarded as on

Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to get pregnant, andjust when she's about to get her heart's desire, tragedy destroysher world. In the aftermath of loss and divorce, she throws herselfinto her career as a music therapist. Working with Vanessa, shefinds their relationship moving from business, to friendship, andthen - to Zoe's surprise - blossoming into love. When Zoe allowsherself to start thinking of children again, she remembers thatthere are still frozen embryos that she and her husband never used.But Max, having sought peace at the bottom of a bottle, has foundredemption in an evangelical church, and Zoe needs his permissionto take his unborn child ...SING YOU HOME is accompanied by asoundtrack of original songs created for the novel by Jodi Picoultand Ellen Wilber.