本书精选法国著名作家莫泊桑的39篇中短篇小说，有《羊脂球》《我的叔叔于勒》《项链》等不朽名篇，内容丰富多彩，结构巧妙动人。
小说以主人公夏冲从4岁到31岁的经历、见闻为主要线索，时间跨度为1976年至2008年。 夏冲是一个对悲剧非常敏感的人，发现周围生活中到处是被忽略的悲剧，他的父母、少年时代的朋友等人都在各种悲剧之中，与传统悲剧不同的是，这些悲剧往往被看作是理所当然，不足为奇。小说叙述的半个爱情故事则是悲剧中的一抹暖色，女主人公戚敏与夏冲同样年轻、聪明，但更平静，也懂得安之若素。夏冲经历了三次“寂静”时期，他不清楚为什么生活如此平淡又令人激动，无论时代如何变化，这国家这生活都像一条龙，庞大、强力、野心勃勃，而主人公则像一只蝉，疏离、弱小、难以平静。当他到了成熟的年纪，成了一名律师，却仍受制于往日记忆，不得自由。2008年北京奥运会之前，中国已经成了一个崭新的国家，生活完全变了。这时夏冲回首往事，就像蝉发出了一
一部用智慧构建和平的心灵秘史 ?? ?? ??上世纪初，“改土归流”在康区已接近尾声，地处藏、汉、回交汇地的具有开放意识的云登格龙同康巴的所有土司一样，正经历着沉浮、恐慌与彷徨。和其他土司不同的是，他意识到土司制度必然被新的制度取代。这种悲剧式的觉醒让他了悟，如果要在多民族聚居地保住生存位置，相互间就必须学会宽容和尊重。然而，诱惑使他难以改变惯有的权力欲，于是，绝望、挣扎、希望交替出现在他的生命中…… ?? ?? ??一曲由鲜血和忏悔谱就的人性赞歌
本书精选法国有名作家莫泊桑的39篇中短篇小说，有《羊脂球》《我的叔叔于勒》《项链》等不朽名篇，内容丰富多彩，结构巧妙动人。
Book De*ion Dean Koontz’s uniquetalent for writing terrifying thrillers with a heart and soul isnowhere more evident than in this latest suspense masterpiece thatpits one man against the ultimate deadline. If there were speedlimits for the sheer pulse-racing excitement allowed in one novel,Velocity would break them all. Get ready for the ride of yourlife. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. A diabolic killer plays a harrowing game of catand mouse with a reclusive bartender in Koontz's latest grippingsuspense thriller. Billy Wiles, a 30-something bartender and formerwriter, is content with his solitary Napa County existencelistening to "beer-based psychoanalysis" from tavern regulars;visiting his hospitalized, comatose fiancée, Barbara; and carvingwood sculptures. But the simple life gets mighty complicated whenhe finds a note with a deadly, time-sensitive ultimatum: he mustchoose between the death of a young schoolteacher or an elderlyhumanitarian in six hours. Reluctant local s
From #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Tami Hoag comesthis bittersweet romance classic about a woman who's rebuilt herlife--and her heart--after the disappointments of the past, only tofind her carefully laid plans shattered by a knock on the door....As a trauma nurse, Julia McCarver is accustomed to dealing withlife-and-death emergencies. But she is the one in shock when sheanswers the door and finds the past standing there in the person ofS. T. "Storm" Dalton. Julia had painstakingly put her life togethernot just once but three times in the wake of his abrupt anddevastating departures, and she has no intention of doing it afourth time. Because that's what S.T. promises he will do--breakher engagement to another man, her heart, and her future all overagain. Except, of course, that's not what he calls his plan to winher back. He gives himself two weeks to convince Julia that he'schanged, that she is still in love with him, and that--despiteconventional wisdom--the fourth time lightning struck "can
When a cop killer cuts loose in a club called Purgatory,Detective Eve Dallas descends into an underground criminalhell.
Book De*ion "Moves like a roller coaster without brakes...Koontz is America'sNo.1 author of thrillers. One of his finest novels." -------Denver Pos We have your wife. You can get her back for two millioncash. On an ordinary afternoon, an ordinary man, a gardener of modestmeans, gets a phone call out of his worst nightmare. the caller isdead serious. He doesn't care that Mitch can't raise that kind ofmoney. He's confident that Mitch will find a way, If he loves hiswife enough... 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 bythen. But he'll pay a lot more. He'll pay anything. From its tense opening to its shattering climax, The Husband is athriller that will hold you in its relentless grip for every twist,every shock, every revelation. This is a Dean Koontz novel, afterall. And there's no other experience quite like it. Book Dimension length: (cm)17.4 width:(cm)10.6
In the stillness of a golden September afternoon, deep in thewilderness of the Rockies, a solitary craftsman, Grady Adams, andhis magnificent Irish wolfhound, Merlin, step from shadow intolight...and into an encounter with mystery. That night, a pair ofsingular animals will watch Grady's isolated home, waiting to maketheir approach. A few miles away, Camillia Rivers, a local veterinarian, beginsto unravel the threads of a puzzle that will bring to her door allthe forces of a government in peril. At a nearby farm, long-estranged identical twins come togetherto begin a descent into darkness...In Las Vegas, a specialist inchaos theory probes the boundaries of the unknowable...On a Seattlegolf course, two men make matter-of-fact arrangements formurder...Along a highway by the sea, a vagrant scarred by the pastbegins a trek toward his destiny. In a novel that is at once wholly of our time and timeless,fearless and funny, Dean Koontz takes readers into the momentbetween one turn of the world and the next, acros
With his bestselling blend of nail-biting intensity, daringartistry, and storytelling magic, Dean Koontz returns with anemotional roller coaster of a tale filled with enough twists,turns, shocks, and surprises for ten ordinary novels. Here is thestory of five days in the life of an ordinary man born to anextraordinary legacy—a story that will challenge the way you lookat good and evil, life and death, and everything in between. Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfatherleaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tockspends long hours walking the corridors between the expectantfathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. It's astrange vigil made all the stranger when, at the very height of thestorm's fury, Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speakscoherently for the frist and last time since his stroke. What he says before he dies is that there will be five dark days inthe life of his grandson—five dates whose terrible events Jimmywill have to prepar
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag comes thispowerful novel of passion, heartbreak, and redemption--a story thatcelebrates our capacity to love one time, for all time, even in theface of adversity and change. They say that each of us becomes anentirely new person every seven years. But Rebecca Bradshaw doesn'tfeel any different when an old lover shows up severely injured atthe hospital where she runs the physical therapy department. Sevenyears ago baseball player Jace Cooper left her without a secondthought or the chance to share the life-changing secret she sworeshe'd keep from him forever. Now he was back, wanting both her helpand a second chance. Becca hadn't changed, and she didn't believeJace had either, but as she helped him repair his broken body andhis fractured past, she would find she was wrong on both counts.The only thing that had stayed the same was the most importantthing of all--and now suddenly time was running out.
His love was wild... his soul untamed... his touch forbidden....From acclaimed author Susan Krinard comes the second novel in amagnificent trilogy of a powerful clan whose sensual legacy iscloaked in secrecy-and a beautiful woman kidnapped by an outlawwhose forbidden embrace could reveal her true identity.... Once aWolf In the unspoiled expanses of the American West, Toma sAlejandro Randall was called El Lobo, the desperado and sworn enemyof powerful financier Cole MacLean. Few humans knew his trueidentity: heir to a wolf bloodline that made him as much an exoticbeast as a devastatingly attractive man. It was Toma s's plan tolure Cole MacLean's elegant fiance e, Lady Rowena Forster, from herNew York mansion to the wild frontier. There he planned to seducethe golden-haired beauty as revenge for the destruction of hisfamily at MacLean's hands. But once she was in his possession, ElLobo found himself unable to resist the call of his own untamedpassion-a passion that would claim the beauty for his own. As forLad
Every so often a character so captures the hearts andimaginations of readers that he seems to take on a life of his ownlong after the final page is turned. For such a character, one bookis not enough--readers must know what happens next. Now Dean Koontzreturns with the novel his fans have been demanding. With theemotional power and sheer storytelling artistry that are histrademarks, Koontz takes up once more the story of a unique younghero and an eccentric little town in a tale that is equal partssuspense and terror, adventure and mystery--and altogetherirresistibly odd. We're all a little odd beneath the surface. He'sthe most unlikely hero you'll ever meet--an ordinary guy with amodest job you might never look at twice. But there's so much moreto any of us than meets the eye--and that goes triple for OddThomas. For Odd lives always between two worlds in the small deserttown of Pico Mundo, where the heroic and the harrowing are everydayevents. Odd never asked to communicate with the dead--it'ssomething
In an effort to remove a family curse and humor her grandfather,MacKenzie Sinclair heads for the Guatamalan jungle to return anancient amulet that her great-great grandfather, PeregrineSinclair, had taken from the Mayan ruins of Tikal during one of hisexpeditions. She ends up being catapulted back in time and into thelife of Liam O'Shea, Peregrine's partner and a man who neverreturned from the original expedition. Effective characterizationpropels the occasionally complex story (there is a smallwhite-slavery subplot) from the steamy Central American jungles tothe restrictive, glittering 1884 San Francisco social scene withall the grace and sensuality readers have come to expect fromKrinard. Krinard has written a number of alternative realityromances and is especially known for her sensual, mysticaldepiction of werewolves (Prince of Shadows, Bantam, 1996). Shelives in Concord, California. Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
The daughter of a diplomat disappears on a school fieldtrip–lured into the Santa Monica mountains and killed in coldblood. Her father denies the possibility of a political motive.There are no signs of struggle, no evidence of sexual assault,leaving psychologist Alex Delaware and his friend LAPD homicidedetective Milo Sturgis to pose the disturbing question: Why? Working together with Daniel Sharavi, a brilliant Israeli policeinspector, Delaware and Sturgis soon find themselves ensnared inone of the darkest, most menacing cases of their careers. And whendeath strikes again, it is Alex who must go undercover, alone, toexpose an unthinkable conspiracy of self-righteous brutality andtotal contempt for human life.
After falling in love with handsome Rook Galloway, Lady ArianeBurke-Marchand finds herself pitted against Rook when their homeplanets go to war, but she is unable to overcome her feelingsdespite the newfound conflict.
Havana may be far from Washington, but DC power brokers arenever far from Havana. Neither are danger, deception, and suddendeath. That’s what draws Max Pauling there. As an ex-CIA, ex-StateDepartment employee, he faces an uneventful early retirement–untilhe is asked to secretly fly some medical supplies into themysterious Cuban city. If Max is looking for excitement, he finds it.First there’s his contact, a breathtaking beauty with private plansof her own. Then there’s a former senator, in Havana to ease theU.S. embargo, but who may have another, more malevolent, mission.Throw in endless supplies of under-the-table money– not to mentiona murder–and Max has landed in a place even more corrupt . . . andmore compelling . . . than the U.S. capital itself.
Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle ofthe Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one ofour greatest storytellers. In Treasure Mountain Louis L’Amourdelivers a robust story of two brothers searching to learn the fateof their missing father — and finding themselves in a struggle justto stay alive. Orrin and Tell Sackett had come to exotic New Orleans looking foranswers to their father’s disappearance twenty years before. Touncover the truth, the brothers enlisted the aid of a trailwisegypsy and a mysterious voodoo priest as they sought to re-createtheir father’s last trek. But Louisiana is a dangerous land, and with one misstep thebrothers could disappear in the bayous before they even set foot onthe trail that led to whatever legacy their father had left behind... and a secret worth killing for.
It was just a godforsaken mountainside, but no place on earthwas richer in silver. For a bustling, enterprising America, thiswas the great bonanza. The dreamers, the restless, the builders,the vultures--they were lured by the glittering promise of instantriches and survived the brutal hardships of a mining camp to raisea legendary boom town. But some sought more than wealth. ValTrevallion, a loner haunted by a violent past. Grita Redaway, aradiantly beautiful actress driven by an unfulfilled need. Twofiercely independent spirits, together they rose above thechallenges of the Comstock to stake a bold claim on the future.
