After an old Yorkshire farmer discovers a half-buried body in his pasture, excitement interrupts routine in the small community of Swainsdale. Series detective Alan Banks ( Gallows View , 1990) begins investigating the habits and background of the victim, a dedicated professor who left his job upon receiving a sizeable inheritance. Suspicion falls on his charmless wife, his long-time publisher, his local drinking buddies, a younger woman, and others. Before Banks can narrow the list, the murderer strikes again. Readers of English village mysteries should enjoy Robinson's promising second step.

Toby Temple is the world’S funniest comedian，loved by presidents，lusted after by women，He knows what he wants——and he always makes sure that he gets it．But，deep down，he yearns for love and stabi l ity Jill Castle has always been an outsider，desperate to be accepted Despite her beauty，she finds breaking into Hollywood as an actress impossible without auditioning on the di rectors’infamous casting couches． But，with one glance，Toby falls for Jill’S beauty and sweeps her out of obscurity to stardom by his side．Now she can get the revenge she has a lways longed for…

Arctic Tale accompanies a new Paramount Vantage motion picture from the producers of March of the Penguins, a 2005 Academy Award winner. The film, narrated by Queen Latifah, follows the dual drama of Seela and Nanu, a walrus calf and polar bear cub, as they embark on their astonishing journey from infancy to maturity amidst the stark beauty of the Arctic landscape. Protected by mothers who will stop at nothing to ensure their safe passage to adulthood, both cubs romp in their cold playground as ever-present threats of starvation, predators, and a harsh homeland are overcome in an unrelenting life-and-death struggle to survive.

There's a saying at Hollywood Station that the full moonbrings out the beast--rather than the best--in the precinct'scitizens. One moonlit night, veteran officers Dana Vaughn and"Hollywood" Nate Weiss get a call about a prowler who's beenbrutally attacking women. Meanwhile, a pair of cops with the surfersobriquets Flotsam and Jetsam are on the lookout for asmooth-talking player in dreads and a crazy-eyed, tattooed biker.But something bigger, more high-tech, and much more deadly is aboutto go down. After a dizzying series of twists, turns, and chases,the cops discover that they've stumbled upon a complex web of crimewhere even the criminals aren't sure who's conning whom. And forsome of the men and women in blue, public duty will exact theheaviest of tolls.

Agent Todd Belknap has been cut loose after an operation goes badly wrong. But when his best friend and fellow agent is abducted in Lebanon,and the government refuses to help, Belknap decides to take matters into his own hands. Meanwhile, Andrea Newton gets an unexpected call - she has been left six million dollars by a cousin she's never met. But there's one condition: she must agree to sit on the board of the Newton foundation, a charitable organisation run by the family patriarch, Paul Newton. Having never even met the family, Andrea is intrigued. But the foundation appears less and less benign the more deeply involved she gets… And what exactly is their involvement with the 'Genesis', a mysterious group working to destabilise the geopolitical balance at the risk of millions of lives? As events escalate, Todd and Andrea must form an uneasy alliance if they are to uncover the truth behind 'Genesis' - before it's too late.

The latest short-story collection from the master storyteller.The fourteen-all new-stories show Jeffrey Archer's great skills with a wide variety of character,of subjet and of setting.but all with that tradmark twist in the tall. Every reader will have their own favourites:the choices run from love at first sight across the train tracks to the cleverest of confidence tricks,from the quirks of the legal profession-and those who are able to manipulate both sides of the Bar-to the creative financial talents of a member of Her Majesty's diplomatic service-but for a good cause.The last story,‘The Grass is Always Greener',is possibly the best piece Archer has written,and will haunt you for the rest of your life.

Robinson Crusoe is undoubtedly one of the best-known works of liteature of alltime and is con-sidered to be one of the first evernovels written in English.Daniel Defoe,an English journalist,wrote this inmortal classis nearly 300 years a go .Defoe based his novel on the adventures of Scottishbuccandeer Alesandeer Selkirk.Bobison Crusoe(1719)is the story ofa shipwreeked sailor who is washed ashore on an uninhbited island .There,be begins a long and arduousstrug-glefor survival,tuying to make his lonely existence a little more pleasant.He manages to survive,until a terriying discovery threatens theentire lonely world he hasbuilt for himself . 作者简介 Daniel Defoe(1659-1731)was a pamphletteer,journalist and author.His father hoped that Daniel would become a clergy-man,but the young man defied his father's wishes and became a merchant .A not-so -successful entrepreneur frequently getting intotrouble with cerditors,Defoe found his calling as a journalist.He used his talent with the pen to caricature and in

It should have been a cosy scene - log fire, sheepskin rug, Vivaldi on the stereo, Christmas lights and tree. But appearances can be deceptive. For Caroline Hartley, lying quietly on the couch, has been brutally murdered. Inspector Alan Banks is called to the grim scene. And he soon has more suspects than he ever imagined. As he delves into her past, he realises that for Caroline, secrecy was a way of life, and her death is no different. His ensuing investigation is full of hidden passions and desperate violence ..."The characterizations are unfailingly sharp and subtle." - "New York Times". "A definite contender for fiction's new top cop." - "Independent on Sunday". "Watch for those twists - they'll get you every time." - Ian Rankin.

A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, thiscollection assembles Carson McCullers's best stories, including herbeloved novella "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe." A haunting tale of ahuman triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, the novellaintroduces readers to Miss Amelia, a formidable southern womanwhose cafe serves as the town's gathering place. Among other fineworks, the collection also includes "Wunderkind," McCullers's firstpublished story written when she was only seventeen about a musicalprodigy who suddenly realizes she will not go on to become a greatpianist. Newly reset and available for the first time in a handsometrade paperback edition, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe is a brilliantstudy of love and longing from one of the South's finestwriters.

Joyeux drille, amateur d'eau-de-vie et de bonne chère, lecabaretier Toine est cloué au lit par une attaque de paralysie. Safemme, qui ne supporte pas son inactivité, l'oblige à couver des?ufs ! Pour avoir cédé une fois aux appétits de la chair, Rose, unefille de ferme besogneuse, para?t condamnée jusqu'à la fin de sesjours à porter sa maternité comme un fardeau. Le père Amable, lui,a épargné toute sa vie. Aussi, foi d'honnête homme, son fils nedilapidera pas ses économies en épousant une fille déjà mère !Maupassant nous livre six contes et nouvelles de Normandie, tour àtour dr?les, émouvants et cruels.

Their marriage on the rocks, James and Cora Bevan flew to Jamaica for a last chance at patching things up. But in the slums of Kingston James found himself fighting for his life--while Cora found her own path to destruction, in the arms of another man. Available for the first time in more than 50 years, this lost novel by legendary pulp author David Goodis is a stunning, shocking tale of cruelty, danger, despera-tion...and the possibility of redemption.

FBI Special agent Brad Raines is facing his toughest case yet.A Denver serial killer has killed four beautiful young women,leaving a bridal veil at each crime scene, and he's picking up hispace. Unable to crack the case, Raines appeals for help from a mostunusual source: residents of the Center for Wellness andIntelligence, a private psychiatric institution for mentally illindividuals whose are extraordinarily gifted. It's there that he meets Paradise, a young woman who witnessedher father murder her family and barely escaped his hand. Diagnosedwith schizophrenia, Paradise may also have an extrasensory gift:the ability to experience the final moments of a person's life whenshe touches the dead body. In a desperate attempt to find the killer, Raines enlistsParadise's help. In an effort to win her trust, he befriends thisstrange young woman and begins to see in her qualities that most'sane people' sorely lack. Gradually, he starts to question whethersanity resides outside the hospital walls..

Following the best-selling triumph of Kafka on theShore—“daringly original,” wrote Steven Moore in The WashingtonPost Book World, “and compulsively readable”—comes a collectionthat generously expresses Murakami’s mastery. From the surreal tothe mundane, these stories exhibit his ability to transform thefull range of human experience in ways that are instructive,surprising, and relentlessly entertaining. As Richard Eder haswritten in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, “He addresses thefantastic and the natural, each with the same mix of gravity andlightness.” Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an iceman, aswell as the dreams that shape us and the things we might wish for.Whether during a chance reunion in Italy, a romantic exile inGreece, a holiday in Hawaii, or in the grip of everyday life,Murakami’s characters confront grievous loss, or sexuality, or theglow of a firefly, or the impossible distances between those whoought to be the closest of all. “While

1907：In a year of financial panic and labor unrest a series of train wrecks，fires，and explosions sabotage the Southern Pa-cific Railroad'S Cascades express line．Desperate，the railroad hires the fabled Van Dora Detective Agency,who send in their best man——Agent Isaac Bell． Bell quickly discovers that the saboteur is known as the wrcCkcr—— a man who recruits poor,down—and．out accom-plices to attack the railroad，and then kills them afterward．The Wrecker traverses the vast American west．striking at wil!and causing untold damage and loss of human life．But just who is he?And what does he want? Whoever he is,whatever his motives．the Wrecker knows how to wreak havoc，and Bell senses that he is far from done．In fact，his quarry is building up to a grand act unlike anything ever committed before.And if Bell doesn’t stop him in time， more thall a railroad coulde at risk——it could be the future of the entire country.

Wedding bells ring Detective Alex Cross and Bree's wedding plans are put on hold whenAlex is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassinationof two of Washington D.C.'s most corrupt: a dirty congressmen andan underhanded lobbyist. Next, the elusive gunman begins pickingoff other crooked politicians, sparking a blaze of theories--is themarksman a hero or a vigilante? A murderer returns The case explodes, and the FBI assigns agent Max Siegel to theinvestigation. As Alex and Siegel battle over jurisdiction, themurders continue. It becomes clear that they are the work of aprofessional who has detailed knowledge of his victims'movements--information that only a Washington insider couldpossess. Caught in a lethal cross fire As Alex contends with the sniper, Siegel, and the wedding, hereceives a call from his deadliest adversary, Kyle Craig. TheMastermind is in D.C. and will not relent until he has eliminatedCross and his family for good. With a supercharged blend of action,deception, and suspense,

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

When art dealer Jonathan Argyl! agreed to transport the Death of Socrates from a gallery in Paris to its new owner in Rome,he had no idea that such a worthless, nonde* painting wouldcause such a stir. First someone tries to steal it from him in a train station. Then the man he's delivering it to decides he doesn't want it--and is brutally murdered a few hours later. Now Argyll is stuck with a painting that only the most tasteless collector could love...and he finds himself right in the middle of a murder investigation.With the bodies piling up, he must investigate the dark secrets inthe painting's past--before someone with truly horrible taste decidesto put him out of the picture for good...

Arctic Tale accompanies a new Paramount Vantage motion picture from the producers of March of the Penguins, the 2005 Academy Award winner and highest-grossing natural history film of all time. The film, narrated by Queen Latifah, follows the dual drama of Seela and Nanu, a walrus calf and polar bear cub, as they embark on their astonishing journey from infancy to maturity amidst the stark beauty of the Arctic landscape. Protected by mothers who will stop at nothing to ensure their safe passage to adulthood, both cubs romp in their cold playground as ever-present threats of starvation, predators, and a harsh homeland are overcome in an unrelenting life-and-death struggle to survive. Each year in the unforgiving, frozen wilderness the two giants of the North Pole—the walrus and the polar bear–begin the cycle anew, of birth and death; of love and life; and of self-sacrifice and great danger. Adapted and deeply expanded from a sweeping screenplay, Arctic Tale features 150 stunning, full-color National Geogr

Time is running Out for Jolene. She's trapped by a madman, held captive, naked, waiting only for her worst nightmares to become reality. Her captor will keep her alive for twenty-eight days, hidden in an underwater city 400 feet below the surface. Then she will die horribly-like the others Jolene's only hope is Richard Dahlgren, a private underwater crime scene investigator. He has until the next full moon before Jolene becomes just another hideous trophy in the killer's surreal underwater lair. But Dahlgren has never handled a case where the victim is still alive. And the killer has never allowed a victim to escape. Max McCoy is an award-winning novelist, investigative journalist and an Advanced Open Wgter scuba diver. With The Moon Pool he has combined all three talents to create a thrilling novel that will carry readers to an underwater world of beauty, wonder... and breathtaking suspense.