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

My Dearest Reader, When you hear my story,perhaps you will think me a man unable to control his own hungers…his own temptations.But I warn you that I am no such thing.I am simply a man who knows what he wants,and what he can’t live without. It is only fair to tell you that my clan is one descended from magic.I have learned these powers are both a blessing and a curse-for the magic that flows through my blood controls my fate utterly and completely. When I first saw the beautiful Loris,I knew she was my unoliaeth,my oneness,the woman I am destined to unite with for all eternity.At that moment,I allowed my passion to lead me to do the unthinkable:I employed a forbidden magic to win Loris’s heart. How did I know that my error would lead to a black curse that still haunts me today? How could I have known that the curse would irrevocably cast Loris’affection for me to another man? Now I am left to ponder how I might win Loris back-black curse be damned.I believe there must be

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."

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.

Joyeux drille, amateur d'eau-de-vie et de bonne chère, lecabaretier Toine est cloué au lit par une attaque de paralysie. Safemme, qui ne supporte pas son inactivité, l'oblige à couver des?ufs ! Pour avoir cédé une fois aux appétits de la chair, Rose, unefille de ferme besogneuse, para?t condamnée jusqu'à la fin de sesjours à porter sa maternité comme un fardeau. Le père Amable, lui,a épargné toute sa vie. Aussi, foi d'honnête homme, son fils nedilapidera pas ses économies en épousant une fille déjà mère !Maupassant nous livre six contes et nouvelles de Normandie, tour àtour dr?les, émouvants et cruels.

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.

First there were ten--a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unkonwn to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they're unwilling to reveal--and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. One by one they fall prey. Before the weekend is out, there will be none. And only the dead are above suspicion. 作者简介： Agatha Christie is more than the most popular mystery writer of all time. In a career that spans over half a century, her name is synonymous with brilliant deception, ingenious puzzles, and the surprised denouement. By virtually inventing the modern mystery novel she has earned her title as the Queen of Crime. Curious? Then you're invited to read...And Then There Were None

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

Four women--four friends--share a determinationto stop a killer who has been stalking newlyweds in San Francisco.Each one holds a piece of the puzzle: Lindsay Boxer is a homicideinspector in the San Francisco Police Department, Claire Washburnis a medical examiner, Jill Bernhardt is an assistant D.A., andCindy Thomas just started working the crime desk of the SanFrancisco Chronicle. But the usual procedures aren't bringing themany closer to stopping the killings. So these women form a Women'sMurder Club to collaborate outside the box and pursue the case bysidestepping their bosses and giving each other a hand. The four women develop intense bonds as they pursue a killer whosecrimes have stunned an entire city. Working together, they trackdown the most terrifying and unexpected killer they have everencountered--before a shocking conclusion in which everything theyknew turns out to be devastatingly wrong. Full of the breathtakingdrama and unforgettable emotions for which James Patterson isfamous, 1st to Die

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.

De conception traditionnelle, cette collection a le mérited'aborder l'?uvre intégrale sous des angles diversifiés. Outre lerésumé détaillé des différentes parties et les commentairescomposés qui le complètent, chaque ouvrage propose une synthèselittéraire assez riche : il y est question de l'auteur, despersonnages, de la genèse et de l'architecture de l'?uvre maisaussi de ses particularités stylistiques, des réseauxd'intertextualité et des interprétations possibles. Par ailleurs,les documents situés en annexe offrent à l'élève la possibilité dese repérer rapidement dans l'?uvre : le lexique, l'index thématiqueet les citations retenues lui permettent de traiter aisément lessujets de dissertation et d'entretien oral. C'est donc une premièreapproche qui a pour but de familiariser le lecteur avec l'?uvre enquestion. Elle lui en donne une vision synthétique et lui suggèredes pistes de lecture pour l'analyse. ? l'inverse, la bibliographiefinale invite à enrichir ses connaissances

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

FBI Special agent Brad Raines is facing his toughest case yet. ADenver serial killer has killed four beautiful young women, leavinga bridal veil at each crime scene, and he's picking up his pace.Unable to crack the case, Raines appeals for help from a mostunusual source: residents of the Center for Wellness andIntelligence, a private psychiatric institution for mentally illindividuals whose are extraordinarily gifted. It's there that he meets Paradise, a young woman who witnessed herfather murder her family and barely escaped his hand. Diagnosedwith schizophrenia, Paradise may also have an extrasensory gift:the ability to experience the final moments of a person's life whenshe touches the dead body. In a desperate attempt to find the killer, Raines enlistsParadise's help. In an effort to win her trust, he befriends thisstrange young woman and begins to see in her qualities that most'sane people' sorely lack. Gradually, he starts to question whethersanity resides outside the hospital walls...or inside. As

First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond ... then came the 'suicide' that was murder... the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat ... a suspicious death in a locked gun-room ... a million dollar bond robbery ... the curse of a pharoah's tomb ... a jewel robbery by the sea ... the abduction of a Prime Minister ...the disappearance of a banker ...a phone call from a dying man ...and, finally, the mystery of the missing will. What links these fascinating cases? Only the brilliant deductive powers of Hercule Poirot! 'A capital collection ... ingeniously constructed, and told with an engaging lightness of style.'Literary Review. 作者简介： Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime．Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in 100 foreign languages．She is the most widely publiShed author of all time and in any language，outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare．She is the author of 80 crime novel and short story

The suicide of an elderly German Jew explodes into revelationafter revelation: of a Mafia-like organization called "Odessa"...of a real-life fugitive known as the "Butcher of Riga.."of ayoung German journalist tumed obsessed avenger.......and,ultimately, of brilliant, ruthless plot to reestablish theworldwide power of SS mass murderers and to carry out Hitler'schilling "Final Solution."

The house looked right, felt right to Dr Louis Creed.Rambling, old, unsmart and comfortable. A place where the family could settle; the children grow and play and explore. The rolling hills and meadows of Maine seemed a world away from the fume-choked dangers of Chicago.Only the occasional big truck out on the two-lane highway, grinding up through the gears, hammering down the long gradients, growled out an intrusive threat.But behind the house and far away from the road: that was safe. Just a carefully cleared path up into the woods where generations of local children have processed with the solemn innocence of the young, taking with them their dear departed pets for burial.A sad place maybe, but safe. Surely a safe place. Not a place to seep into your dreams, to wake you, sweating with fear and foreboding.

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 . .

Once upon a time, not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine . . . He was not a werewolf, vampire, ghoul, or unnameable creature from the enchanted forest or snow wastes; he was only a cop . . . Cujo is a huge Saint Bernard dog, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had. Then one day Cujo chases a rabbit into a bolt-hole. Except it isn't a rabbit warren any more. It is a cave inhabited by rabid bats.And Cujo falls sick. Very sick. And the gentle giant who once protected the family becomes a vortex of horror inexorably drawing in all the people around him . . .