Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world. It remains a beloved and deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit. Restored in this Definitive Edition are diary entries that were omitted from the original edition. These passages, which constitute 30 percent more material, reinforce the fact that Anne was first and foremost a teenage girl, not a remote and flawless symbol. She fretted about and tried to cope with her own sexuality. Like many young girls, she often found herself in disagreements with her mother. And like any teenager, she veered between the carefree nature of a child and the full-fledged sorrow of an adult. Anne emerges more human, more vulnerable and more vital than ever. 作者简介： Julie Harris, one of America's finest actresses on stage and screen, was dubbed "first lady of the theater" by revie

“A superb collection, a splendid and much-needed book. Andersonhas cleared away the dross and shown us the golden roots of fantasybefore it became a genre.” –Michael Moorcock, author of The EternalChampion Many of today’s top names in fantasy acknowledgeJ.R.R. Tolkien as the author whose work inspired them to createtheir own epics. But which writers influenced Tolkien himself? In acollection destined to become a classic in its own right,internationally recognized Tolkien expert Douglas A. Anderson,editor of The Annotated Hobbit, has gathered the fiction of themany gifted authors who sparked Tolkien’s imagination. Included areAndrew Lang’s romantic swashbuckler “The Story of Sigurd,” whichfeatures magic rings and a ferocious dragon; an excerpt from E. A.Wyke-Smith’s The Marvelous Land of Snergs, about creatures who wereprecursors to Tolkien’s hobbits; and a never-before-published gemby David Lindsay, author of A Voyage to Arcturus, a novel thatTolkien praised highly both as a thril

This is the first biography of the Queen and the Duke ofEdinburgh - both royal, both great-great-grandchildren of QueenVictoria, but, in temperament and upbringing, two very differentpeople. The Queen's childhood was loving and secure, the Duke's wasturbulent: his grandfather assassinated, his father arrested, hisfamily exiled, his parents separated when he was only ten.Elizabeth and Philip met as cousins in the 1930s. They married in1947, aged twenty-one and twenty-six. A little more than four yearslater, they were Queen and consort. For almost sixty years theirshave been among the most famous faces in the world - yet thepersonalities behind the image remain elusive and the nature oftheir marriage is an enigma. Philip Elizabeth tells theextraordinary story of these two contrasting lives, assesses theirachievement, together and apart, and explores the nature of theirrelationships, with one another and with their children. Here is aunique royal biography: the author has met all the principalplayers in

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.

One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore themysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman wastransformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space,frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. Butnow Poole has returned to life, awakening in a world far differentfrom the one he left behind--and just as the Monolith may bestirring once again . . .

Isolated in Ashworth House, an asylum for the criminally insane, is the Ripper. He believes he's the notorious butcher who terrorized Whitechapel more than a century ago. He talks of time travel, infinity, and the occult. In the black hole of hisimagination, he reenacts the crimes. In the darkness of his heart, he still craves the thrill of the kill. Thank God he can't escape. But with such an ingenious mind for murder, the Ripper doesn't have to--and the ghastly crimes he can manipulate from his padded cell are taking Zinc Chandler and the Special X investigators on a trai! of unspeakable carnage that leads to the idyllic Cook Islands, where human sacrifice and cannibalism is more than a dark and-perverted chapter in history. It's tradition.

With several Hollywood Heinlein adaptations about to belaunched (including "Starship Troopers" by the director of "TotalRecall"), this SF superstar is shining brighter than ever. Tocelebrate his success, Del Rey is reissuing the author's classicworks back into the forefront, beginning with "The Door intoSummer", the story of a modern-day--and future-time--Rip VanWinkle.

From England to Ireland to America, an explosive wave of violence sweeps CIA analyst Jack Ryan and his family into the deadliest game of our time: international terrorism. An ultra-left-wing faction of the IRA has targeted Ryan for his act of salvation in an assassination attempt. Now Ryan must pay--with his life. HC: G.P. Putnam.

The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or,through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm 2) A robot must obey orders givein to it byhuman beings except where such orders would conflict with the FirstLaw. 3) A robot must protect its own existence aslong as such protection does not conflict with the First or SecondLaw. With this, Asimov changed our perception ofrobots forever when he formulated the laws governing theirbehavior. In I, Robot, Asimov chronicles the development of therobot through a series of interlinked stories: from its primitiveorigins in the present to its ultimate perfection in thenot-so-distant future--a future in which humanity itself may berendered obsolete. Here are stories of robots gone mad, ofmind-read robots, and robots with a sense of humor. Of robotpoliticians, and robots who secretly run the world--all told withthe dramatic blend of science fact science fiction thatbecame Asmiov's trademark.

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford adopt the methods and manners of every major literary detective from Hercule Poirot to Sherlock Holmes to piece together an increasingly complex series of delightfully different-and deadly-misdeeds. Tommy and Tuppence Beresford adopt the methods and manners of every major literary detective from Hercule Poirot to Sherlock Holmes to piece together an increasingly complex series of delightfully different-and deadly-misdeeds. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Straight from the heart of #1 New YorkTimes bestselling author Nora Roberts--a trade paperback collectionof three of her favorite novels. With over 85 million copies of her books inprint, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts is one ofthe most prolific and popular writers of our time. Now, three ofher favorite novels--Tonight and Always, A Matter of Choice, andEndings and Beginnings--are collected in a beautiful new tradepaperback edition that will find a special place in the hearts ofreaders everywhere. "There's no mystery about why Roberts is abestselling author...she delivers the goods with panache and wit."--Publishers Weekly "Aconsistently entertaining writer." --USAToday "Roberts has a warm feel for her charactersand an eye for the evocative detail." --ChicagoTribune "Roberts is indeed a word artist, paintingher story and her characters

Arthur C. Clark, creator of one of the world's best-lovedscience fiction tales, revisits the most famous future everimagined in this NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, as two expeditions intospace become inextricably tangled. Heywood Floyd, survivor of twoprevious encounters with the mysterious monloiths, must againconfront Dave Bowman, HAL, and an alien race that has decided thatMankind is to play a part in the evolution of the galaxy whether itwishes to or not.

A new tie-in edition of Agatha Christie's bestseller, tocoincide with the broadcast of the new movie on ITV starringGeraldine McEwan. Includes a full colour plate section, a 'makingof' essay, background facts and a bonus chapter. 'Anyone whomurdered Colonel Protheroe,' declared the parson, brandishing acarving knife above a joint of roast beef, 'would be doing theworld at large a service!' It was a careless remark for a man ofthe cloth. And one which was to come back and haunt the clergymanjust a few hours later. From seven potential murderers, Miss Marplemust seek out the suspect who has both motive and opportunity.

This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, contains the kernel of Nietzsche's thought. 'God is dead', he tells us. Christianity is decadent, leading mankind into a slave morality concerned not with this life, but with the next. Nietzsche emphasises the 'Ubermensch, or Superman, whose will to power makes him the creator of a new heroic mentality. The intensely felt ideas are expressed in prose-poetry of indefinable beauty. Though misused by the German National Socialist party as a spurious justification of their creed,the book also had a profound influence on early twentiety-century writers such as Shaw,Mann,Gide,Lawrence and Sartre.It remains,to this day,a beacon of origiinal thought.

On its mysterious voyage through interstellar space, a massivealien starship carries its human passengers to the end of agenerations-long odyssey. But the great experiment designed by theRamans has failed, and Rama III has become a battleground. Fleeinga tyrant, a band of humans ventures into the nether regions of theship, where they encounter an emerald-doomed lair ruled by thefabulously advanced octospiders. As the octospiders lure the humansdeeper into their domain, the humans must decide whether thecreatures are their allies of enemies. All the while, Rama IIIcontinues its inexplorable journey towards the node, where theclimax of their voyage awaits the stunning revelation of the trueidentity of the beings behind this glittering trek across thecosmos.

Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live in luxe Fifth Avenue apartments and attend Manhattan's most exclusive private schools. We're smart, we've inherited classic good looks, we wear fantastic clothes, and we know how to party. We can't help it-we were born this way. Our story begins with three inseparable, completely gorgeous fifteen-year-olds, Serena van der Woodsen, Blair Waldorf, and Nate Archibald. Blair's loved Nate and his glittering green eyes since she was in Bonpoint onesies. Too bad Nate wishes Blair's beautiful best friend, Serena, was the one with the crush. And Serena has a secret she's keeping from them both. Hmmm, something tells me these best friends may not be as close as we thought. . . . How do I know all this? Because I know everything-and lucky for you, I can't keep a secret. So sit back while I untangle this messy little tale and tell you how it all began. Admit it, you're already falling for me. You know you love me

Eoin Colfer describes his new book, Artemis Fowl, as "Die Hard with fairies." He's not far wrong. Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history. With two trusty sidekicks in tow, he hatches a cunning plot to divest the fairyfolk of their pot of gold. Of course, he isn't foolish enough to believe in all that "gold at the end of the rainbow" nonsense. Rather, he knows that the only way to separate the little people from their stash is to kidnap one of them and wait for the ransom to arrive. But when the time comes to put his plan into action, he doesn't count on the appearance of the extrasmall, pointy-eared Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police Reconnaisance) Unit--and her senior officer, Commander Root, a man (sorry, elf) who will stop at nothing to get her back. Fantastic stuff from beginning to end, Artemis Fowl is a rip-roaring, 21st-century romp of the highest order. The author has let his imagination run riot by combining folklore, fant

John and Jenny were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then they brought home Marley, a wiggly yellow furball of a puppy—and their life would never be the same. Marley quickly grew into a barreling, ninety-seven-pound steamroller of a Labrador retriever who crashed through screen doors, flung drool on guests, stole women's undergarments, devoured couches and fine jewelry, and was expelled from obedience school. Yet Marley's heart was pure, and he remained a steadfast model of love and devotion for a growing family through pregnancy, birth, heartbreak, and joy, right to the inevitable goodbye.

It's springtime at St. Vladimir's Academy and Rose is close to graduation, but since making her first Strigoi kills, things haven't felt quite right. She's having dark thoughts, behaving erratically, and worst of all ...might be seeing ghosts. Consumed by her forbidden love with her tutor Dimitri and protecting her best friend, the Moroi princess Lissa, Rose is in no state to see the deadly threat that will change her entire world - and make her choose between the two people she loves most.

With The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, and his other belovednovels, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks hasgiven voice to our deepest beliefs about the power of love. Now hebrings us the long-awaited follow-up to The Notebook-a story of anordinary man who goes to extraordinary lengths to win back the loveof his life... After thirty years, Wilson Lewis is forced to face apainful truth: the romance has gone out of his marriage. His wife,Jane, has fallen out of love with him, and it is entirely hisfault. Despite the shining example of his in-laws, Noah and AllieCalhoun, and their fifty-year love affair (originally recounted inThe Notebook), Wilson himself is a man unable to express his truefeelings. He has spent too little time at home and too much at theoffice, leaving the responsibility of raising their children toJane. Now his daughter is about to marry, and his wife is thinkingabout leaving him. But if Wilson is sure of anything, it is this:His love for Jane has only grown over the ye

The Stargate has been breached by the serpent god Apophis, whose legions threaten to overwhelm Earth in a brutal conquest. Only Colonel Jack O'Neill possesses the courage and cunning to lead an elite group of specialists through the Stargate to halt the invasion. If they fail, they risk being trapped in an alternate universe forever.

Twelve ingenious, witty mysteries showing the author at her best, including: the curious disappearance of Lord Listerdale, the strange meeting on a train of a feckless man and a beautiful girl, Philomel Cottage and the extraordinary country house visit of Edward Robinson. Each four-story volume is expertly narrated by Hugh Fraser. Three double-cassette packs complete this tantalising series.