Together in one extraordinary boxed set- "Naked in Death,""Glory in Death," and "Immortal in Death"-the first three In Deathnovels featuring New York Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas. Naked inDeath Eve Dallas is a New York police lieutenant using herinstincts to hunt for a ruthless killer. Breaking every rule, Evegets involved with Roarke, an Irish billionaire-and a suspect inEve's murder investigation. But passion and seduction have rulesall their own. Glory in Death Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas has noproblem finding connections between two violent crimes. Bothvictims were beautiful and highly successful women whose intimaterelations with men of great power and wealth provide Eve with along list of suspects-including her own lover, Roarke. Immortal inDeath A top model is dead, the victim of a brutal murder. PoliceLieutenant Eve Dallas puts her professional life on the line totake the case when suspicion falls on her best friend, the otherwoman in a fatal love triangle. And beneath the facade of glamour,Ev

The Happiest Man in the World buoyantly describesseventy-four-year-old David Pearlman, a restless and migratorysoul, a mariner, a musician, a member of the Explorers Club and afriend of the San Francisco Beats, a former preacher and signpainter, a polymath, a pauper, and a football strategist for theRed Mesa Redskins of the Navajo Nation. When Pearlman was fifty, hewas bitten on the hand by a dog in Mexico and for two years got sosick that he thought he would die. When he recovered, he felt sodifferent that he decided he needed a new name. He began callinghimself Poppa Neutrino, after the itinerant particle that is sosmall it can hardly be detected. To Neutrino, the particlerepresents the elements of the hidden life that assert themselvesdiscreetly. Inspired by Thor Heyerdahl and Kon-Tiki, Neutrino is the only manever to build a raft from garbage he found on the streets of NewYork and sail it across the North Atlantic. The New York Daily News described the accomplishment as “the sailof the cent

"Wicked and provocative...Vidal's purview of Hollywood in oneof its golden ages is fascinating." --"Chicago Tribune" In hisbrilliant and dazzling new novel, Gore Vidal sweeps us into one ofthe most fascinating periods of American political and socialchange. The time is 1917. In Washington, President Wilson is aboutto lead the United States into the Great War. In California, a newindustry is born that will transform America: moving pictures. Hereis history as only Gore Vidal can re-create it: brimming withintrigue and scandal, peopled by the greats of the silver screenand American politics, from Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanksto Franklin D. Roosevelt and the author's own grandfather, theblind Senator Gore. With Hollywood, Vidal once again proves himselfa superb storyteller and a perceptive chronicler of human nature'sendless deceptions. "From the Paperback edition."

InTVstarLaurenConrad'sdelicious,entertainingnovelaboutyoungHollywood,theliesareonlyassweetasthepeopletellingthem.JaneRobertswastheaveragegirlnextdooruntilsheandherbestfriendScarlettHarplandedtheirownrealityshow,L.A.Candy.SuddenlytheyfoundthemselvesthrownintothepubliceyewithVIPticketstoeverything.ButthestarletsquicklydiscoverthatfamegoeshandinhandwithscandalwhenJanefindsherselfthecentreofattentionforallthewrongreasons.EvenherrelationshipwithScarlettisthreatened.ThingsgofrombadtoworsewhenScarlettfallsforaguywhoisstrictlyofflimits…InrealityTVnothingstayssecretforlongandwithallthisdramaL.ACandy'sratingsrocket.Theshowisabonafidehit-butcanthegirlsstandanotherseasoninthespotlight?

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 award-winning debut novel that “brings to mind theatmosphere and tension of Gabriel García Márquez.”( KatharineWeber, author of The Little Women) Nítido Amán knows he was born in Guatemala, but he doesn’t knowwhy his family left. Raised in the States by his immigrant parents,they never talked about it. When Nítido loses his father toAlzheimer’s disease, his despondent mother grows increasinglysilent and Nítido realizes that his links to the past aredisappearing. Seeking answers, Nítido travels to Guatemala against hismother’s wishes. Upon his arrival in the small town of Río Roto, heis mistaken for the new priest, and decides to play the part. Fromhis parishioners, he catches tantalizing and frightening glimpsesof the buried history he’s aching to know. In a place shrouded insecrets, Nítido is at once determined and frightened to unearth theunnamed horrors it has seen. With her elegant, hypnotic prose, this marks Sellers- García’sarrival a

In the town of Hawkins Hollow, itas called the Seven. Everyseven years, on the seventh day of the seventh month, madnessdescends on this small town. But three men bound by blood and threewomen bound by ancestry to a demon have pledged their soulsaandtheir heartsato stop it.

Originally subtitled "An Adventurous Education, 1935-1946",this book is a key volume in Kerouac's lifework, the series ofautobiographical novels he referred to as The Legend of Duluoz. Awonderfully unassuming look back at the origins of his career--aprehistory of the Beat era, written from the perspective of thepsychedelic '60s.

OVER THE NEXT DECADET, TW'O OUT of every three companies Will face thechallenge of their corporate lives: redefining their core business to stay competitive.Buffeted by ever-stiffening global competition,shifting global dynamics, andacceleratingchange, business leaders face an increasinglyuncertain future. More and more, executives will realize that they must m ke fundamental changes in their companies' ore to spur growth in the future--even as they continue to deliver the goods and services that keep their firms in business today. Unstoppable shows you how to look deep within your organization to find undervalued, unrecognized, or underutilizdd assets--in the form of business platforms, customer insights,and capabilities--that can serve as new foundations for sustainable growth. Drawing on extensive studies and more than thirty in-depth interviews with CEOs from firms as diverse as De Beers,American Express, Li & Fung, and Harman International, Chris Zook explains how to know when your company's co

First in a brand new series from the "New York Times"bestselling creator of the Myth and Phule novels. A low-stakes conartist and killer poker player, Griffen "Grifter" McCandlesgraduated college fully expecting his wealthy family to have a jobwaiting for him. Instead, his mysterious uncle reveals a strangefamily secret: Griffen and his sister, Valerie, are actuallydragons. Unwilling to let Uncle Mal take him under his wing, so tospeak, Griffen heads to New Orleans with Valerie to make a livingthe only way he knows how. And even the criminal underworld of theFrench Quarter will heat up when Griffen lands in town.

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,earlymorning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? Fornearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberatedthroughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks andshaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, suspenseful, andwitty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yetit is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugelyentertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnantof the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of alandmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkablecharacters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman'sCard Club; the turbulent young redneck gigolo; the hapless reclusewho owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man,woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern bellewho is the "soul of pampered self-absorption"; the uproariouslyfunny black drag queen; the acerbic and ar

It’s1988andDexterMayhewandEmmaMorleyhaveonlyjustmet.Butafteronlyonedaytogether,theycannotstopthinkingaboutoneanother.Overtwentyyears,snapshotsofthatrelationshiparerevealedonthesameday—July15th—ofeachyear.DexandEmfacesquabblesandfights,hopesandmissedopportunities,laughterandtears.Andasthetruemeaningofthisonecrucialdayisrevealed,theymustcometogripswiththenatureofloveandlifeitself. 出身平凡的爱玛与俊美自恋的花花公子德克斯特原本像两道平行线，不会有任何交集。大学毕业前夕的一天，两人短暂邂逅，称不上甜蜜，却深深印入彼此心中柔软的部分。此后每年同一天，伦敦、罗马、巴黎、爱丁堡，时空变换，他们焦灼、倾诉、挂念、幻想、安慰、伤害，总是在需要彼此的时刻，一再错过。二十年追逐的尽头，是甘美的琼浆，还是苦涩的酸汁？如果早点懂得，幸福会不会更久一些？

Victor Hugo's classic adventure story tells of thetragic figure of Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre-DameCathedral and his devotion to La Esmeralda, the flamboyant gypsydancer. When the demented archdeacon Claude Frollo plans to abduct LaEsmeralda, he employs Quasimodo to do the job for him. But the plangoes horribly wrong, and Esmeralda finds herself charged with themurder of Phoebus, the man she was in love with. In a thrillingscene of high drama, her kidnapper becomes her rescuer; but for howlong can she remain concealed from the evil Frollo? In awonderfully evocative novel, Victor Hugo brings medieval Paris toglorious, bustling life.

Love blooms in the second novel in Nora Roberts's celebratedBride Quartet series. As little girls MacKensie, Emma, Laurel, andParker spent hours acting out their perfect make believe "I do"moments. Years later their fantasies become reality when they starttheir own wedding planning company to make every woman's dream daycome true. With perfect flowers, delicious desserts, and joyfulmoments captured on film, Nora Roberts's Bride Quartet shares eachwoman's emotionally magical journey to romance. "In Bed of Roses,"florist Emma Grant is finding career success with her friends atVows wedding planning company, and her love life appears to bethriving. Though men swarm around her, she still hasn't found Mr.Right. And the last place she's looking is right under her nose.But that's just where Jack Cooke is. He's so close to the women ofVows that he's practically family, but the architect has begun toadmit to himself that his feelings for Emma have developed intomuch more than friendship. When Emma returns his pa

The engrossing historical series of three sisters living ineleventh-century Troyes, France, continues with the tale of Miriam,the lively and daring middle child of Salomon ben Isaac, the greatTalmudic authority. Having no sons, he teaches his daughters theintricacies of Mishnah and Gemara in an era when educating women inJewish scholarship was unheard of. His middle daughter, Miriam, isdetermined to bring new life safely into the Troyes Jewishcommunity and becomes a midwife. As devoted as she is to her chosenpath, she cannot foresee the ways in which she will be tested andhow heavily she will need to rely on her faith. With "RashiasDaughters," author Maggie Anton brings the Talmud andeleventh-century France to vivid life and poignantly captures thestruggles and triumphs of strong Jewish women.

An historic literary event： the publication of a newly discovered novel， the earliest known work from Harper Lee， the beloved， bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic， To Kill a Mockingbird. Originally written in the mid-1950s， Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To Kill a Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost， the manuscript was discovered in late 2014. Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father， Jean Louise Finch—Scout—struggles with issues both personal and political， involving Atticus， society， and the small Alabama town that shaped her. Exploring how the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird are adjusting to the turbulent events transforming mid-1950s America， Go Set a Watchman casts a fascinating new light on Harper Lee’s enduring classic. Moving， funny and compelling， it stands as a magnificent nov

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.