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悟空传，ISBN：9787539139999，作者：
In a hidden Ireland where fishermen and tenant farmers findsolace in their ancient faith, songs, stories, and communalcelebrations, young Honora Keeley and Michael Kelly wed and start afamily. Because they and their countrymen must sell both theircatch and their crops to pay exorbitant rents, potatoes have becometheir only staple food. But when blight destroys the potatoes three times in four years,a callous government and uncaring landlords turn a natural disasterinto The Great Starvation that will kill one million. Honora andMichael vow their children will live. The family joins two millionother Irish refugees--victims saving themselves--in the emigrationfrom Ireland. Danger and hardship await them in America. Honora, herunconventional sister Máire, and their seven sons help transformChicago from a frontier town to the "City of the Century." The boysgo on to fight in the Civil War and enlist in the cause ofIreland's freedom. Spanning six generations and filled with joy, sadness, an
We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash. On an ordinary afternoon, an ordinary man, a gardener of modest means, gets a phone call out of his worst nightmare. The caller is dead serious. He doesn't care that Mitch can't raise that kind of money. He's confident that Mitch will find a way. If he "loves his wife enouoeh...Mitch does love her enough. He loves her more than life itself. He's got sixty hours to prove it. He has to find the two million by then. But he'll pay a lot more. He'llpay anyt/.,ing. From its tense opening to its shattering climax, The Husband is a thriller that will hold you in its relentless grip for every twist, every shock, every revelation. This is a Dean Koontz novel, after all. And there's no other experience quite like it.
Seventeen-year-old Haley McWaid never gave her parents amoment's worry. Until one morning her mother wakes to find thatHaley didn't come home the night before. Three months quickly passwithout a word, and everyone assumes the worst. Wendy Tynes is areporter on a mission: to identify and bring down sexual predatorsvia televised sting operations. Her latest target is Dan Mercer, asocial worker known as a friend to troubled teens. But his storysoon becomes more complicated than Wendy could have imagined.CAUGHT tells the story of a missing girl, the community stunned byher loss, the predator who may have taken her, and the reporter whosuddenly realises she can't trust her own instincts about thisstory - or the motives of the people around her...
This is the story of Precious Jones, asixteen-year-old illiterate black girl who has never been out ofHarlem. She is pregnant by her own father for the second time, andkicked out of school when that pregnancy becomes obvious. Placed inan alternative teaching programme, she learns to read and write.This is Precious's diary, in which she honestly records herrelationships and her life.
The commissioner kept looking at him with an expression thatcombined contempt and commiseration, apparently discerningunmistakable signs of senile dementia in the inspector. "I'm goingto speak very frankly, Montalbano. I don't have a very high opinionof you." "Nor I of you," the inspector replied bluntly.Montalbano's gruesome discovery of a naked young woman suffocatedin her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer. Amongthe suspects are her aging husband, a famous doctor; a shy admirer,now disappeared; an antiques-dealing lover from Bologna; and thevictim's friend Anna, whose charms Montalbano cannot help butappreciate. But it is a mysterious, reclusive violinist who holdsthe key to this murder...
city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which sparesno one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital,but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealingfood rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to thisnightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with nomother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barrenstreets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundingsare harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation anda vivid evocation of the horrors of the twentieth century,Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayalof man's worst appetites and weaknesses-and man's ultimatelyexhilarating spirit. The stunningly powerful novel of man's will tosurvive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize forLiterature.
SirPaul McCartney first picked up a guitar as a bereaved teenager in1956. In the fifty years since, he's become the most successful popmusic composer in history, enjoying a virtual season ticket to the"Guinness Book of Records". McCartney's ballad "Yesterday", whichhe wrote in his sleep, has since been covered by 2,400 otherartists - making it the most popular song of all time. Now,Christopher Sandford reveals the man behind the myth...Among theeye-opening stories is the surprising love-hate relationship withJohn Lennon, not to mention with Lennon's widow, as well as aninsider's account of McCartney's controversial marriage to HeatherMills. Likeswise, Sir Paul's restless creativity - both mainstreamand avant-garde - his second group and his marriage to the lateLinda McCartney are seen here in fresh and stunning detail. Thisbehind the scenes story takes readers right up to today, as SirPaul passes his 64th birthday. It's a hard, fast, sometimesshocking saga of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll - the true adventure
