《寄居者》的故事发生在抗战期间的上海,由女主人公玫在晚年讲述给一位传记作者听:玫在1939年的上海,爱上一名刚刚逃离集中营上岸的犹太男子。那时赶上约瑟夫·梅辛格臭名昭著的“解决方案”就要实施,为让爱人去美国,玫临时在上海抓了个救星另一位美国青年做自己的丈夫。乱世中,小人物们开始一串连环套式的命运救助,,玫用“爱人”的钱赎救了“丈夫”,用“丈夫”的护照让“爱人”脱险,同时,以毁掉对爱情的原始理解和信念的方式,去实现了爱情……故事结局在爱情的部分出人意料,令人叹惋。这部作品是严歌苓在题材、写作手法和女性角色塑造上又一次新鲜成功的尝试。同时,小说延续了作者独特的自述式与视觉化的叙事风格。
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Corine Solomon is a handlerawhen she touches an object sheinstantly knows its history and its future. Using her ability, shecan find the missingawhich is why people never stop trying to findher. Like her ex-boyfriend Chance, who needs Corineas gift to findsomeone dear to them both. But the search proves dangerous as itleads them into a strange world of demons and sorcerers, ghosts andwitchcraft, zombiesaand black magic...
The Fourth Reich is waiting to be born. The only man who can stop it is about to sign its birth certificate. In 1945 the children of the Third Reich were secretly hidden all over the world - to be concealed until the 1970s, when they would come of age. Then the most elaborate plans and $780 million in a Swiss bank would be waiting. There would even be an unsuspecting outsider to set the plan into action. That outsider is Noel Holcroft, the American son of a high-ranking Nazi. He's just been shown an amazing document, the Holcroft Covenant. If he signs, it will be his own death warrant and a devastating threat to the security of the world.
In the small coastal town of Fog Horn, South Carolina, you'llfind plenty of characters, ne'er-do-wells, and even a few celebstrying to duck the paparazzi. But when townspeople start turning updead with haiku poems left with the bodies, writer Olivia Limogesand the Fog Horn Fiction Group are determined to get the storybefore there's an unhappy surprise ending.
The first novel written by both the #1 "New York Timesbestselling author Nora Roberts, and her #1 bestselling pseudonym,J.D. Robb.
The bestselling author of "When The Bough Breaks," "BloodTest," and "Over The Edge" delivers the most stunning novel yet andfeaturing psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware. At a party fora controversial Los Angeles sex therapist, Alex encounters a facefrom his own past--Sharon Ransom, an exquisite, alluring lover wholeft him abruptly more than a decade earlier. Sharon now hints thathe desperately needs help, but Alex evades her. The next day she isdead, an apparent suicide. Driven by guilt and sadness, Alexplunges into the maze of Sharon's life--a journey that will takehim through the pleasure palaces of California's ultra-rich, intothe dark closets of a family's disturbing past, and finally intothe alleyways of the mind, where childhood terrors still hold sway.Also available on BDD Audio Cassette.
Drafted into working for the Order of Merciful Aid, mercenaryKate Daniels has more paranormal problems than she knows what to dowith. And in Atlanta, where magic comes and goes like the tide,thatas saying a lot. But when Kateas werewolf friend Derek isdiscovered nearly dead, she must confront her greatest challengeyet.
While harvesting yucca plants to make paper, China Baylesfinds a body-cause of death: unknown. It seems that the simplelives of many residents of Pecan Springs hide complex and dangerouspasts. And now, while also unraveling secrets that hit close tohome, China must set the record straight- and find a killer.
Chinaas still reeling from her fatheras death and has nointerest in her halfbrother Milesas investigation. But when fateforces her to get involved, China realizes itas time to bring thepast to lightaor else it will haunt her forever. Then she discoversthat Miles may be keeping secrets himself. How deep do the layersof secrecy go? And who has a stake in concealing a long-buriedtruth? Now, one fresh murder and several cold cases will forceChina Bayles to face her dark past.
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 this sexy series based around the Mayan doomsday prophecy,a group of magic- wielding warrior heroes called the Nightkeepersare ready to fight the demon creatures of the underworld to preventannihilation... When prominent Mayanist Ambrose Ledbetter goesmissing, his daughter Sasha tracks his remains down to an ancienttemple. Before she can recover from the shock, she is kidnapped.Slick and charming recruit Michael Stone rescues Sasha from herimprisonment and feels an instant attraction. But he doesn't dareget involved, with the threat of his dark side growing stronger andthe powers of sorcery on the rise. Both Michael and Sasha willdiscover a new passion together and one they have to admit to inorder to change their worlds...