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。

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。

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.

Novel by Ivan Turgenev, published in 1862 as Ottsy i deti.Quite controversial at the time of its publication, Fathers andSons concerns the inevitable conflict between generations andbetween the values of traditionalists and intellectuals. Thephysician Bazarov, the novel's protagonist, is the most powerful ofTurgenev's creations. He is a nihilist, denying the validity of alllaws save those of the natural sciences. Uncouth and forthright inhis opinions, he is nonetheless susceptible to love and by thatfact doomed to unhappiness. In sociopolitical terms he representsthe victory of the revolutionary nongentry intelligentsia over thegentry intelligentsia to which Turgenev belonged. At the novel'sfirst appearance the radical younger generation attacked itbitterly as a slander, and conservatives condemned it as toolenient in its characterization of nihilism.

Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens's sudden deathreaches his struggling American publisher, James Osgood sends histrusted clerk, Daniel Sand, to await the arrival of Dickens'sunfinished final manu*. But Daniel never returns, and when hisbody is discovered by the docks, Osgood must embark on a quest tofind the missing end to the novel and unmask the killer. WithDaniel's sister Rebecca at his side, Osgood races the clock througha dangerous web of opium dens, sadistic thugs, and literary lionsto solve a genius's last mystery and save his own-andRebecca's-lives.

A search of the victim’s sparsely furnished room revealslittle— except for a carefully hidden religious medal with amysterious in*ion, and a couple of underlined Bible passages.The autopsy reveals more: faint scars of knife wounds, a removedtattoo—and evidence of plastic surgery, suggesting that “FatherFlores” may not have been the man his parishioners had thought.Now, as Eve pieces together clues that hint at gang connections anda deeply personal act of revenge, she believes she’s makingprogress on the case. Until a second murder—in front of an evenlarger crowd of worshippers—knocks the whole investigationsideways. And Eve is left to figure out who committed these unholyacts—and why. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

On a photography assignment in the northern territory of MountMarsabit, American adventuress Jade del Cameron and her friendshope to film the area's colossal elephants. Instead, they discoverthe mutilated remains of four elephants and a man. Although theauthorities suspect Abyssinian poachers and raiders in search ofivory and slaves, Jade has her own suspicions. Could it have beenHarry Hascombe, her nemesis and unremitting suitor? Soon the Kikuyuboy accompanying her is captured by slave traders. Ultimately, itwill take all of Jade's mettle to rescue her guide from slavetraders, protect the animals, and expose another kind of beast.

One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual-- in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career godown the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the nextthing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars. Suddenly he foundhimself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career:impersonating an important politician who had been kidnapped. Peacewith the Martians was at stake -- failure to pull off the act couldresult in interplanetary war. And Smythe's own life was on the line-- for if he wasn't assassinated, there was always the possibilitythat he might be trapped in his new role forever!

Who will be with you in the darkesthour? Amy Redwing has devoted her life to rescuing dogs. But the uniquebond she shares with Nickie, a golden retriever she saves in themost dangerous encounter of her life, is deeper than any she hasever known. In one night, their loyalty will be put to the test,and each will prove to the other how far they will go – when thestakes turn deadly serious.

Undeniably powerful, an enormously affecting and intenselyhuman story. --The Washington Post Book World "A GUT-WRENCHING PIECE OF WORK. . . Carcaterra's graphic narrativegrips like gunfire in a dark alley." --The Atlanta Journal Constitution "In his controversial memoir SLEEPERS, Carcaterra remembersharrowing months in the Wilkinson Home for Boys and the elaboratevengeance he and his friends exacted against the guards. He tellsit all in spare, stylish prose . . . [with] relentless momentum andsheer drama. . . . SLEEPERS is a thriller, to be sure, but it isequally a wistful hymn to another age." --The Washington Post Book World "A TERRIFYING ACCOUNT OF BRUTALITY AND RETRIBUTION, searing in itsemotional truth, peopled with murderers, sadists, and thugs, butbiblical in its passion and scope." --People "SLEEPERS is so many things: a Dickensian portrait of coming of agein Hell's Kitchen, a terrifying and heartbreaking account of thebrutalization of youth, a shocking--and disturbinglysatisfying--climax worthy of

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.

1941年，抗联战士庞天德所在的部队遭到日本关东军围剿，危急之下转入苏联境内与苏军联系。女教官娜塔莎负责对庞天德等人进行特工训练，她十分欣赏庞天德，两人渐渐萌生了深厚的爱情。之后，二人接到上级命令返回海东市从事地下工作……日本战败，日本人纪子的父亲跪求庞善祖收留重病在身的女儿，纪子寄养在庞天德家。父亲庞善祖希望儿子与纪子完婚，可庞天德心里只有娜塔莎，两人通信表达相思与爱意。新中国成立后，娜塔莎作为苏联专家到中国提供技术援助，两人终于再次见面。准备结婚登记之时，娜塔莎接到苏联专家撤离中国的命令。之后二人又经受了常年的别离和相思之苦。八十年代，庞天德做起了边境贸易，目的是寻找娜塔莎。经历重重磨难后，有情人终于相聚。

Loop me in, odd one. The words, spoken in the deep of night bya sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For thiswas a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, andStormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted hallsof the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas isstalking spirits of an infinitely darker nature. . . .BrotherOdd. Through two New York Times bestselling novels, Odd Thomas hasestablished himself as one of the most beloved and unique fictionalheroes of our time. Now, wielding all the power and magic of amaster storyteller at the pinnacle of his craft, Dean Koontzfollows Odd into a singular new world where he hopes to make afresh beginning—but where he will meet an adversary as old andinexorable as time itself.

Roses link four novellas by four romance writers. The best isRoberts' powerful fairy tale of a kingdom imprisoned in ice andsnow that features a wounded hero from another land who appreciatesall that the young hardworking queen does for her people, evenrisking her own life to magically heal those who need it. MarianneWillman's story is about the daughter of a king hidden from theevil sorceress queen by means of an amulet forged with rose petals.Jill Gregory's tale is of a princess who, upon her twentiethbirthday, will lose the protection that has kept her hidden fromthe evil sorcerer who had slain her family. Her only hope ofsurviving is to marry a man with a magical sword. Ruth Ryan Langantells of a mute girl in war-torn Scotland and a wounded warrior. Aswith all collections, some stories will appeal more to some readersthan to others. Diana Tixier Herald。

Book De*ion Dean Koontz’s uniquetalent for writing terrifying thrillers with a heart and soul isnowhere more evident than in this latest suspense masterpiece thatpits one man against the ultimate deadline. If there were speedlimits for the sheer pulse-racing excitement allowed in one novel,Velocity would break them all. Get ready for the ride of yourlife. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. A diabolic killer plays a harrowing game of catand mouse with a reclusive bartender in Koontz's latest grippingsuspense thriller. Billy Wiles, a 30-something bartender and formerwriter, is content with his solitary Napa County existencelistening to "beer-based psychoanalysis" from tavern regulars;visiting his hospitalized, comatose fiancée, Barbara; and carvingwood sculptures. But the simple life gets mighty complicated whenhe finds a note with a deadly, time-sensitive ultimatum: he mustchoose between the death of a young schoolteacher or an elderlyhumanitarian in six hours. Reluctant local s

Upon his return to Los Angeles from a harrowing adventure inthe South Pacific, Alex is called upon by his friend Milo Sturgisto help solve the murder of a celebrity author. For three months the police found no clues to the murder ofHope Devane, psychology professor and controversial author of apop-psych bestseller about men. She was found stabbed to death on aquiet, shaded street in one of L.A.'s best neighborhoods. Theevidence suggested not random slaughter, but cold, calculatedstalking. And the list of potential suspects was as extensive asthe audience for her book and her talk show appearances. Newly assigned to the cold case, homicide detective MiloSturgis calls on his friend, Dr. Alex Delaware to seek out insightsinto the victim's high-profile life. What Alex uncovers is a seriesof troubling inconsistencies about Hope, including hercontradictory personas: the sensational, anti-male bestsellingauthor versus the low-key scholarly university professor. But it is when Alex delves

After his haystack was torched, Mr. Harmsworth barricaded acommon path through his orchard. But witnesses-both human andanimal-claim a ghost perpetrated the deed. And the ghost has amessage that Miss Potter hopes to figure out.

Skeeve must deal with myth guided desires, fairy godfathers,and an offer he can't refuse in two of Robert Asprin's mostdelightful myth adventures.

When the phone rings in the middle of the night, childpsychologist Alex Delaware does not hesitate. Driving through thedream-lit San Fernando Valley, Alex rushes to Jamey Cadmus, thepatient he had failed five years before--and who now calls with abizarre cry for help. But by the time Alex reaches Canyon OaksPsychiatric Hospital, Jamey is gone, surfacing a day later in thehands of the police, who believe Jamey is the infamous LavenderSlasher, a psychotic serial killer. Wooed by a high-poweredattorney to build a defense, Alex will get a chance to do what hecouldn't five years ago. And when he peers into a family's troubledhistory and Jamey's brilliant, tormented mind, the psychologistputs himself at the heart of a high-profile case. Because Alexknows that in a realm of money, loss, and madness, somethingterrible pushed Jamie over the edge--or else someone is gettingaway with murder.

With his bestselling blend of nail-biting intensity, daringartistry, and storytelling magic, Dean Koontz returns with anemotional roller coaster of a tale filled with enough twists,turns, shocks, and surprises for ten ordinary novels. Here is thestory of five days in the life of an ordinary man born to anextraordinary legacy—a story that will challenge the way you lookat good and evil, life and death, and everything in between. Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfatherleaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tockspends long hours walking the corridors between the expectantfathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. It's astrange vigil made all the stranger when, at the very height of thestorm's fury, Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speakscoherently for the frist and last time since his stroke. What he says before he dies is that there will be five dark days inthe life of his grandson—five dates whose terrible events Jimmywill have to prepar

In 1975, the now defunct Laser Books issued Invasion byAaron Wolfe, aka Koontz (who later expanded that novel into Winter Moon , 1994), a breakneck tale of alien invasioncentered on an isolated farm. Koontz's new novel also concernsalien invasion, and a comparison of the two books offers insightinto the evolution of this megaselling author's work. Invasion was mostly speed and suspense—a brilliant ifsuperficial exercise in terror. The new novel also featuresabundant suspense, as a couple in an isolated California homeendure a phosphorescent rain and learn that, around the world, something is attacking humans and laying waste tocommunications. It's only when they drive to a nearby town thatthey learn of a global alien invasion; the tension ratchets as aweird fog descends and the aliens not only manifest physically butanimate the dead. For years, however, Koontz has aimed at more thanjust thrills; today he is a novelist of metaphysics and moralreflection. His aliens are inherently evil as well as scary;s