Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with thescars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a verywealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he's divorced and re-married and whoends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazygangster are after Marlowe.
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.
Will Behr lives on his own and does not want children, but hedoes see the point of single mothers, especially if they look likeJulie Christie. Then he meets Marcus, whose parents have split upand who is being persecuted by bullies. Marcus discovers that Willhas a lot to teach him about life. --This text refers to an out ofprint or unavailable edition of this title.
One of most ground-breaking shows in the history of television, The Twilight Zone has become a permanent fixture in pop culture. This new graphic novel series re-imagines the show’s most enduring episodes, in all their original uncut glory, originally written by Rod Serling himself, and now adapted for a new generation—a generation that has ridden Disney’s Twilight Zone Tower of TerrorTM ride, studied old episodes in school, watched the annual marathons, and paid homage to the show through the many random take-offs that show up in movies and TV shows everywhere. Submitted for your approval: Marsha White, a dissatisfied shopper with an unusual problem. This is one shopping trip that is marked final sale, return only to the customer service desk—in the Twilight Zone!
A Novel is a passionate, absorbing and riveting debut novel by David Wroblewski. In this captivating story, the author illustrates a boy hero Edgar who is born mute and has a preternatural ability to commune with the dogs, and his family's odyssey.
Narrated by a fifteen-year-old girl with a ruthless regard fortruth, The Last Life is a beautifully told novel of lies andghosts, love and honor. Set in colonial Algeria, and in the southof France and New England, it is the tale of the LaBasse family,whose quiet integrity is shattered by the shots from agrandfather's rifle. As their world suddenly begins to crumble,long-hidden shame emerges: a son abandoned by the family before hewas even born, a mother whose identity is not what she has claimed,a father whose act of defiance brings Hotel Bellevue-the familybusiness-to its knees. Messud skillfully and inexorably describeshow the stories we tell ourselves, and the lies to which we cling,can turn on us in a moment. It is a work of stunning power from awriter to watch.
Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew, casual acquaintances duringtheir university years, spend graduation night together. It’s July15, 1988, and their futures are up in the air. Dexter, thehandsome, confident son of a well-to-do family, knows only that hewants “to be successful. . . . to live life to the extreme, butwithout any mess or complications” [p. 9]. Emma is determined tostay true to her left-leaning passions and ideals though she haslittle idea of how she’ll do it. They part the next day with vaguepromises to keep in touch as Dexter sets off to travel the worldand Emma returns to her working-class family in Leeds to figure outwhat she’ll do next. Over the next twenty years, they’ll thinkabout each other, sometimes to meet and reignite a relationshipthat neither can give up nor explain.
Grade 9 Up–Recovered from the vampire attack that hospitalized her in the conclusion of Twilight (Little, Brown, 2005), Bella celebrates her birthday with her boyfriend Edward and his family, a unique clan of vampires that has sworn off human blood. But the celebration abruptly ends when the teen accidentally cuts her arm on broken glass. The sight and smell of her blood trickling away forces the Cullen family to retreat lest they be tempted to make a meal of her. After all is mended, Edward, realizing the danger that he and his family create for Bella, sees no option for her safety but to leave. Mourning his departure, she slips into a downward spiral of depression that penetrates and lingers over her every step. Vampire fans will appreciate the subsequently dour mood that permeates the novel, and it's not until Bella befriends Jacob, a sophomore from her school with a penchant for motorcycles, that both the pace and her disposition begin to take off. Their adventures are wild, dare-devilish, and teeter on
For 123 days in the summer of 1940, 3,000 youthful airmen in theRoyal Air Force fought back against Hitler’s advancing forces witha heroism that astonished the world. Drawing on interviews withscores of surviving pilots as well as diaries and letters neverbefore seen, military historian and journalist Patrick Bishopre-creates with astonishing intimacy and clarity this excruciating,exhilarating war of nerves. In their own words, the pilots describewhat it was like to bale out from a stricken plane, to go intobattle in the face of overwhelming odds, to hear the screams of acomrade as he went down in flames. With a riveting, taut narrative, Fighter Boys relates how those young heroes changed thecourse of World War II—and the history of the modern world.
Vivre avec les siens devrait couler de source... et pourtantce sont les relations les plus délicates, où les blessures commeles joies sont les plus profondes. Qui d'entre nous ne s'estinterrogé sur la signification de l'amour ? Qui n'a connu ledésarroi provoqué par l'usure du quotidien ou par un attachementtrop vif ? Et lorsque le couple devient une famille, commentaccueillir l'enfant, le protéger tout en le laissant libre ? Danscet ouvrage essentiel, Jacques Salomé nous guide à la rencontre denos proches. ?tre ouvert au monde afin de faire durer l'amour.Trouver l'épanouissement au sein du couple et en famille. Go?ter,tout simplement, la joie d'être entouré.
Sixteen-year-old Katya Spivak is out for a walk on thegracious streets of Bayhead Harbor with her two summer babysittingcharges when she's approached by silver-haired, elegant MarcusKidder. At first his interest in her seems harmless, even pleasant;like his name, a sort of gentle joke. His beautiful home, thechildren's books he's written, his classical music, the marvelousart in his study, his lavish presents to her -- Mr. Kidder's lifecouldn't be more different from Katya's drab working-classexistence back home in South Jersey, or more enticing. But bydegrees, almost imperceptibly, something changes, and posing forMr. Kidder's new painting isn't the lighthearted endeavor it oncewas. What does he really want from her? And how far will he go toget it? In the tradition of Oates's classic story "Where Are YouGoing, Where Have You Been?" "A Fair Maiden "is an unsettling,ambiguous tale of desire and control.
Il y a un Maupassant satiriste, un Maupassant fantastique, unMaupassant poète, un Maupassant naturaliste... Il y a aussi unMaupassant peintre de la vie charnelle, dans ses joyeusetés et sesfureurs, ses bonheurs et ses singularités. C'est celui qu'onrencontrera dans ce livre. Des bordels ordinaires aux alc?ves desdemi-mondaines, des rives de la Seine (Mouche) au décor normand(Une partie de campagne), jusqu'en Afrique et même au cimetièreMontmartre (Les Tombales), les contes rassemblés ici fontl'inventaire des heurs et malheurs du désir dans tous les ?ges et àtravers toutes les couches sociales. Truculent ou féroce, d'uneétonnante hardiesse et cependant jamais vulgaire, l'auteur de Boulede suif et de Bel-Ami est ici ce qu'il est toujours : le peintreéclatant et généreux de la Vie sous toutes ses formes.
Nicholas Sparks has become famous for writing the sweet and tender love story that appeals to the romantic in all of us. He doesn't disappoint with "The Notebook" as he weaves the tale of two teenagers, Noah and Allie, who meet one fateful summer and fall in love. Since the course of true love is never smooth, it should come as no surprise that Allie's parents do not approve of her relationship with Noah. He does not have the education, money, or social prominence they wish for their daughter. Allie and her parents move away and Noah writes to her for years, but after never receiving an answer gives up. WWII comes, lives change, but one thing remains constant---neither Allie nor Noah can forget the other. As Noah's friend Gus tells him, first love changes your life forever and no matter what else happens in your life, the memory of it stays with you. And so it is that fourteen years later and three weeks before her wedding, Allie finds herself driving to New Bern to find Noah for reasons she herself does not
Raymond Chandler's fifth novel has Philip Marlowe going toHollywood as he explores the underworld of the glitter capital,trying to find a sweet young thing's missing brother. Along the wayhe uncovers a little blackmail, a lot of drugs, and more thanenough murder.
"You see, even after all these years, I wonder if you reallyloved me."Vanessa and Virginia are sisters, best friends, bitterrivals, and artistic collaborators. As children, they fight for theattention of their overextended mother, their brilliant butdifficult father, and their adored brother, Thoby. As young women,they support each other through a series of devastating deaths,then emerge in bohemian Bloomsbury, bent on creating new lives andgroundbreaking works of art. Through everything--marriage, lovers,loss, madness, children, success and failure--the sisters remainthe closest of co-conspirators. But they also betray each other.Inthis lyrical, impressionistic account, written as a love letter andan elegy from Vanessa to Virginia, Sellers imagines her way intothe heart of the lifelong relationship between the writer VirginiaWoolf and the painter Vanessa Bell. With sensitivity and fidelityto what is known of both lives, Sellers has created a powerfulportrait of sibling rivalry.
Amy Tan作品，此作者在外国人当中有很高的知名度，尤其是喜福会这本书，在上海新天地就有一家以喜福会命名的酒吧。 作者简介:Amy Tan was born in Oakland,California,in 1952and grew up in the San Francisco Bay area.she graduated from high school in Montreux,Switzer-land ,and recerived her master's degree in linguistics from San Jose State University.Tan is the author of The Joy Luck Club,The Kitchen God's Wife ,The Hundred Secret Senses,and two books for children,the Moon Lady and The Chinese Siamese Cat.Her work has been translated into twenty languages.She has been married for the past twenty-two years to lou DeMattei.They live in San Francisco and New York with their cat ,Sagwa,and their dog,Mr.Zo.
A phenomenally popular vampire sequence - now showing on ITV2- from the best selling author of Night World.
