On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautifulyoung woman is found in a Los Angeles vacant lot. The victim makesheadlines as the Black Dahlia-and so begins the greatest manhunt inCalifornia history.Caught up in the investigation are BuckyBleichert and Lee Blanchard: Warrants Squad cops, friends, andrivals in love with the same woman. But both are obsessed with theDahlia-driven by dark needs to know everything about her past, tocapture her killer, to possess the woman even in death. Their questwill take them on a hellish journey through the underbelly ofpostwar Hollywood, to the core of the dead girl's twisted life,past the extremes of their own psyches-into a region of totalmadness.

Thinner' - the old gypsy man barely whispers the word. Billy feels the touch of a withered hand on his cheek. Billy Halleck, prosperous if overweight citizen, happily married, shuddered then turned angrily away. The old woman's death had been none of his fault. The courts had cleared him. She'd just stumbled in front of his car. Now he simply wanted to forget the whole messy business. Later, when the scales told him he was losing weight, it was what the doctor ordered. His wife was pleased - as she should have been. But . . . 'Thinner' - the word, the old man's curse, has lodged in Billy's mind like a fattening worm, eating at his flesh, at his reason. And with his despair, comes violence.

In this classic collection of four novellas, the grand master takes you on irrestistible journeys into the far reaches of horror, heartache and hope. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is the story of two men convicted of murder - one guilty, one innocent - who form the perfect partnership as they dream up a scheme to escape from prison. In Apt Pupil a golden schoolboy entices an old man with a past to join in a dreadful union. The Body sees four young boys venture into the woods and find life, death ...and the end of innocence. The Breathing Method is the tale of a doctor who goes to his club and discovers a woman determined to give birth - no matter what.

If you’ve ever paid off one credit card with another，thrown out a bill before opening it，or convinced yourself that buying at a two-for-one sale is like making money，then this silly，appealing novel is for you。In the opening pages of Confessions of a Shopaholic，recent college graduate Rebecca Bloomwood is offered a hefty line of credit by a London bank。Within a few months，Sophie Kinsella’s heroine has exceeded the limits of this generous offer，and begins furtively to scan her credit-card bills at work，certain that she couldn’t have spent the reported sums。 In theory anyway，the world of finance shouldn’t be a mystery to Rebecca，since she writes for a magazine called Successful Saving。 Struggling with her spendthrift impulses，she tries to heed the advice of an expert and appreciate life’s cheaper pleasures： parks， museums， and so forth。Yet her first Saturday at the Victoria and Albert Museum strikes her as a waste。Why？ There’s not a price tag in sight

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.

It's not just a game when you're running for your life. Every night they tuned in to the nation's favourite prime-time TV game show. They all watched, from the sprawling slums to the security-obsessed enclaves of the rich. They all watched the ultimate live death game as the contestants tried to bet not the clock, but annihhilation at the hands of the Hunters. Survive thirty days and win the billion dollar jackpot - that was the promise. But the odds were brutal and the game rigged. Best score so far was eight days. And now there was a new contestant, the latest running man, staking his life while a nation watched.

"The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel that connects with the heart as well as the mind....Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction."--Stephen King, The New York Times Book Review Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art. As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love--and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle. The Goldfinch

Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no.good-dirty-rotten pig-stealing great- great-grandfather and has since followed genera- tions of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day, digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment--and redemption.

When the Dashwood sisters romantic Marianne and cautious Elinor move to the country in reduced circumstances, both find the possibility of love in their new life. But they will soon discover that the path to happiness is more complex than they had realized... 作者简介： PENGUIN POPULAR CLASSICS are the per fect introduction to the worldfamous PENGUIN CLASSICS series which en compasses the best books ever written, from Homer's Odyssey to Orwell's 1984 and everything in between. For a full list and ideas on what to read next, visit www.penguinclassics.com

Fifteen years ago in Boston, Kate Summers made a bargain:she became the mother of a perfect, beautiful newborn baby, and shepromised she would never breathe a word about the adoption toanyone. Now Kate has built a good life for herself and her son,Jon, in a small town in Oregon. She has almost forgotten her fearthat he will somehow be taken away. Then Daegan O'Rourke arrives intown and strikes up a friendship with her and Jon. Daegan has hisown past to hide - one with shocking ties to hers. Someone issearching for Kate and her son and is willing to go to any lengthsto claim him. And the one man Kate is tempted to trust hasdangerous secrets that could change her world forever. Soon, thepast Kate thought she could outrun will explode, unearthing alegacy of lies and treachery and a fury powerful enough tokill.

At midnight comes the point of balance. Of danger. The instant of utter stillness when between two beats of the heart, an alternative reality can slip through, like a blade between the ribs, and switch you into a new and terrifying world. FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT: four heart-stopping accounts of that moment when the familiar world fractures beyond sense, the fragments spinning away from the desperate, clutching reach of sanity ...

Comédie de caractères et farce dans la pure tradition dugenre, l'Avare est aussi une satire subtile de la bourgeoisie auXVIIe siècle. Avarice et tyrannie d'un père, dissimulation, misèrematérielle et morale du foyer : l'ambiance chez Harpagon n'est pasgaie ! Mais voilà que par ses deux enfants l'amour entre dans lamaison. Dans leur course au bonheur, Cléante et ?lise apprendrontla désobéissance, assistés par le valet La Flèche : ils y gagnerontleur indépendance.

For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruledsupreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of therevolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--toa dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will lastthirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind,Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists andscholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of theGalaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a fututre generations. Hecalls his sanctuary the Foundation. But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy ofcorrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire.Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submitto the barbarians and be overrun--or fight them and bedestroyed.

FBI behavioral psychologist Daniel Clark is a man on a mission. After over a year of tracking a mysterious serial killer known as Eve, he feels closer than ever to discovering the murderer's true identity when he finds Eve's latest victim still alive. In an effort to save the girl, Daniel narrowly escapes becoming another casualty on Eve's list. Despite seeing the killer with his own eyes, a gunshot wound to the head leaves him with amnesia, unable to remember any details from the incident. His drive to find the killer takes on a whole new meaning when Eve takes yet another victim, one Daniel knows all too well-his estranged wife Heather. Determined to bring her back alive, Daniel takes his obsession to a dangerous new level, even recreating his own near-death experience in attempt to recall anything from his encounter with Eve. Soon enough he finds himself fighting for Heather's life, and, in the end, his own.

Roland the Gunfighter and his two companions continue the quest for the tower at the portal of all the worlds...in this third volume in the epic that continues to dominate the bestseller lists.

Three Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights Adventures. One SpecialPrice The million-copy "New York Times" bestselling trilogy, now inone deluxe omnibus edition. Volume One includes the complete novels"Heirs of the Force," "Shadow Academy," and "The Lost Ones."

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 surprise 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... Passenger To Frankfurt It was an unusual predicament for Sir Stafford Nye-to awaken in a stupor after being drugged, only to find his passport stolen. There was also no trace of the fascinating woman he encountered in Frankfurt who begged him to help save her life. But Sir Stafford's troubles are only just beginning. The target of two murder attempts, he now seeks the help of the stranger who so urgently sought his. If he can locate her. What he finds is a woman of numerous identities and twice as many secrets, who ushers him into the shadows of an international conspiracy that could well prove to be the death of them.

WHO IS KATE BLACKWELL? She is the symbol of success, the beautiful woman who parlayed her inheritance into an international conglomerate. Winner of a unique position among the wealthy and world-renowned. And she's a survivor, indomitable as her father, the man who returned from the edge of death to wrench a fortune in diamonds from the bleak South African earth. Now, celebrating her ninetieth birthday, Kate surveys the family she has manipulated, dominated, and loved: the fair and the grotesque, the mad and the mild, the good and the evil -- her winnings in life. Is she the... MASTER OF THE GAME?

Agatha Christie's seasonal Poirot and Marple short story collection, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. First came a sinister warning to Poirot not to eat any plum pudding! then the discovery of a corpse in a chest! next, an overheard quarrel that led to murder! the strange case of the dead man who altered his eating habits! and the puzzle of the victim who dreamt his own suicide. What links these five baffling cases? The little grey cells of Monsieur Hercule Poirot!

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece. A father 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. They sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearting, a cart of scavenged 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, it 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 fac