男人就怕不把他当回事的女人，因为他不知道该对这样的女人怎么办。人生是不是很奇怪，得到的人追求过程而在过程中奋斗的人却无时不刻的想看到结果到底是什么。谁都知道大泡泡是要破的，可是泡泡越吹越大的时候非常诱人，人们宁可相信它会无限制的大。这个世界当然有正义，但她是深藏不露的。
本书精选法国著名作家莫泊桑的39篇中短篇小说，有《羊脂球》《我的叔叔于勒》《项链》等不朽名篇，内容丰富多彩，结构巧妙动人。
Evan Davis and his partners, Brad and Lily, attract the jobsno other detective can handle--cases with a dangerous, otherworldlyslant. But no one is better equipped for this because Lily and Bradare powerful daemon lords, and Evan is Brad's half-daemon son. Now,however, the trio face a real challenge--involving armies ofdaemons, and wealthy mortals who have delved far too deeply intothe dark arts...
Considine and Pete Runyon had once been friends, back in thedays when both were cowhands. But when Runyon married the womanConsidine loved, the two parted ways. Runyon settled down andbecame a sheriff. Considine took up robbing banks. Now Considine isplanning a raid on the bank at Obaro, a plan that will pit himagainst Runyon...and lead to riches or suicide. The one thing henever counted on was meeting a strong, beautiful woman and herstubborn father, hell-bent on traveling alone through Apacheterritory to a new life. Suddenly Considine must choose betweenrevenge and redemption--and either choice could be the last one hemakes.
In this third self-contained volume of her autobiography,which began with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angeloumoves into the adult world. Maya struggles to support herself andher son through a series of odd jobs and weathers a failed marriageto a white man before landing a gig singing in one of the mostpopular nightclubs on the San Francisco coast. From there, she iscalled to New York to join the cast of Porgy and Bess. Maya soonfinds herself on a joyous and dramatic adventure, touring abroadthrough Italy, France, Greece, Yugoslavia, and Egypt with spiritedcast members, and performing for large, enthusiastic audiences. Theexciting experience is dampened only by Maya’s nagging guilt thatshe has abandoned the person she loves most in life, her son, whosereentrance into her world reveals to Maya the healing power ofdevotion and love. Charged with Maya Angelou’s remarkable sense of life and love,Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas is a uniquecelebration of the hum
Welcome to Rome. It is the summer of 1978, and the Krasnanskyfamily, bickering, tired and confused, are supposed to be passingthrough. Alongside thousands of other Soviet Jewish refugees -among them criminals, dissidents and refuseniks - they awaitpassage to their new homes in the West. But escaping Communism isnot so easy, especially when some of the Krasnanskys insist onbringing it with them, and even more so when their sponsor in theUSA lets them down and they find that they're no longer passingthrough at all. On the contrary, they're stuck. Welcome, then, tothe waiting room of your life, and to a tragic yet comic tale ofreckless brothers and long-suffering sisters, ailing parents andinnocent children, of love affairs and criminal liaisons, of awonderfully troubled family and a perpetually wandering people, andtheir epic search for a home: somewhere, anywhere - or Canada, asit turns out.
The daughter of a diplomat disappears on a school fieldtrip–lured into the Santa Monica mountains and killed in coldblood. Her father denies the possibility of a political motive.There are no signs of struggle, no evidence of sexual assault,leaving psychologist Alex Delaware and his friend LAPD homicidedetective Milo Sturgis to pose the disturbing question: Why? Working together with Daniel Sharavi, a brilliant Israeli policeinspector, Delaware and Sturgis soon find themselves ensnared inone of the darkest, most menacing cases of their careers. And whendeath strikes again, it is Alex who must go undercover, alone, toexpose an unthinkable conspiracy of self-righteous brutality andtotal contempt for human life.
Patricia Volk’s delicious memoir lets us into her big, crazy,loving, cheerful, infuriating and wonderful family, where you’renever just hungry–your starving to death, and you’re never justfull–you’re stuffed. Volk’s family fed New York City for onehundred years, from 1888 when her great-grandfather introducedpastrami to America until 1988, when her father closed his garmentcenter restaurant. All along, food was pretty much at the center oftheir lives. But as seductively as Volk evokes the food, Stuffed isat heart a paean to her quirky, vibrant relatives: her grandmotherwith the “best legs in Atlantic City”; her grandfather, whoinvented the wrecking ball; her larger-than-life father, whosculpted snow thrones when other dads were struggling with snowmen.Writing with great freshness and humor, Patricia Volk will leaveyou hungering to sit down to dinner with her robust family–both forthe spectacle and for the food.
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.
A snappy, random,remarkable memoir - the first of its kind to give readers an honestflaws-n-all perspective of what it's like to be...ordinary.Initially inspired by the 'bizarre, haphazard arrangement' of ThePillow Book of Sei Shonagon, Rosenthal has collected a lifetime ofthoughts, observations and decisions, and created an alphabetisedpersonal encyclopaedia, complete with cross-referenced entries andillustrations. Whether you are laughing aloud or nodding along,reading Encyclopaedia of an Ordinary Life is like being introducedto a new friend.
Dr. Alex Delaware doesn't see many private patients anymore,but the young woman called Lucy is an exception. So is her dream.Lucy Lowell is referred to Alex by Los Angeles police detectiveMilo Sturgis. A juror at the agonizing trial of a serial killer,Lucy survived the trauma only to be tormented by a recurringnightmare: a young child in the forest at night, watching a strangeand furtive act. Now Lucy's dream is starting to disrupt her wakinglife, and Alex is concerned. The power of the dream, its grip onLucy's emotions, suggests to him that it may be more than anightmare. It may be the repressed childhood memory of somethingvery real. Something like murder.
Everyone's favorite supernatural detective steps in to thwartunchivalrous deeds at a Renaissance fair With Penguin's Fall 2009publication of "Introducing Aunt Dimity, Paranormal Detective"certain to attract new readers to the popular cozy series, "AuntDimity Slays the Dragon" is poised as the perfectly irresistiblegem that will leave them eager for more. After living in the smallEnglish village of Finch for eight years, Lori Shepherd longs forsome excitement to spice up her all-too-familiar routine. So when aRenaissance festival complete with wizards, wenches, knights, andjesters sets up in town for the summer, Lori gets her wish-andmore. She soon discovers a sinister stalker, a jealous saboteur,and an evil assassin behind the scenes of King Wilfred's Faire, andit's up to Lori-with Aunt Dimity's otherworldly guidance-to preventthe medieval revelry from ending in modern-day tragedy.
A novel of startling scope and ambition, Prague depicts anintentionally lost Lost Generation as it follows five Americanexpats who come to Budapest in the early 1990s to seek theirfortune. They harbor the vague suspicion that their counterparts inPrague have it better, but still they hope to find adventure,inspiration, a gold rush, or history in the making.
MelanieStryderrefusestofadeaway.Theearthhasbeeninvadedbyaspeciesthattakesoverthemindsoftheirhumanhostswhileleavingtheirbodiesintact,andmostofhumanityhassuccumbed. Wanderer,theinvading'soul'whohasbeengivenMelanie'sbody,knewaboutthechallengesoflivinginsideahuman:theoverwhelmingemotions,thetoo-vividmemories.ButtherewasonedifficultyWandererdidn'texpect:theformertenantofherbodyrefusingtorelinquishpossessionofhermind. MelaniefillsWanderer'sthoughtswithvisionsofthemanMelanieloves-Jared,ahumanwhostilllivesinhiding.Unabletoseparateherselffromherbody'sdesires,Wandereryearnsforamanshe'snevermet.AsoutsideforcesmakeWandererandMelanieunwillingallies,theysetofftosearchforthemantheybothlove.
