渡边一淳一以一贯柔美细致的笔触，描写由女系继承的京都传统料理店中，主持家业的母亲津子和面容娇好、气质迥异的三姊妹间微妙的情愫，以及她们各自面对情欲和人生的不同抉择。

A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old girl with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. We witness her transformation as she learns the rigorous arts of the geisha: dance and music; wearing kimono, elaborate makeup, and hair; pouring sake to reveal just a touch of inner wrist; competing with a jealous rival for men's solicitude and the money that goes with it. In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction—at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful—and completely unforgettable.

This volume, authorized by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's estate, contains all 4 full-length novels and all 56 short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. At over a thousand pages, the weighty tome is a perfect gift for budding amateur sleuths, and it is an ideal companion for a long stay on a desert island (or a leisurely trip through the English countryside). As the reader wades past the tense introductions of A Study in Scarlet and moves towards such classic tales as The Hound of the Baskervilles, "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," and "The Final Problem," she is sure to draw her own conclusions about Holmes's veiled past and his quirky relationship with his "Boswell," Watson. Doyle never revealed much about Holmes's early life, but the joy of reading the complete Holmes is assembling the trivia of each story into something like a portrait of the detective and his creator. By the end of the long journey through London and across Europe (with a long stopover at Reichenbach Falls), one is apt to have found a friend for life. --Patrick O'Kelley --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

《柔福帝姬》是这两年红遍网络的历史情感小说，作者米兰lady（天涯ID为Milanlady）这部四十多万字的小说根据宋朝真假公主柔福帝姬的历史疑案展开想象，以北宋靖康年间二帝被掳至金为背景，描述了一个亡国公主的一生，借宋徽宗的女儿柔福帝姬这样一位身份特殊的女人，关照国难家仇对女性身心的摧残和撕裂，以细腻的笔触谱写了湮没在破碎山河间的一阕悲歌，颇能引人深思。 此小说连载时，在天涯等网络社区有着上千万点击率的超高人气。暨南大学文学院教授东方龙吟看过小说后提笔撰写了一万余字的序言，对小说价值给予肯定并向读者推荐。书中封面及内文插图则由国内优秀插画家卢波花近四个月时间精心绘制。此次出版的是《柔福帝姬》修订版，作者在网上初稿的基础上进行了大篇幅修改增删，改动字数长达7万字，尤其是对金国部分，增写了近两章内容，加写了被女作家侯虹斌称为“心如玻璃七窍玲珑，却充满了破坏欲”的宁福帝姬，以及完颜宗隽从弄权到受金主猜忌的内容。 著名历史小说家，《智圣东方朔》的作者东方龙吟在序言中写道，“以往的历史杂录、稗说佚闻，乃至小说演义，谈及靖康之难这段历史，总把笔触放到康王泥马渡江、岳飞立志直捣黄龙、韩世忠梁红玉夫妇奋力杀敌、秦桧卖国求荣、张俊助纣为虐、李清照家破身离的凄凄惨惨戚戚上，很少有人留意那些身陷虎狼之口的弱女子是如何受难、如何应对的。《柔福帝姬》一书，恰恰从人们遗忘之处着手，以柔福帝姬的故事为线索，较全面地展现了那个苦难年代里，一群羊一般的柔弱女子为了自身尊严所撑持、所搏击的历史。《柔福帝姬》所展现的，就是这样一曲哀感顽艳、让人魂销心碎的血泪史。”

The New York Times Bestseller Boston, 1865. A series of murders, all of them inspired by scenes in Dante’s Inferno . Only an elite group of America’s first Dante scholars—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J. T. Fields—can solve the mystery. With the police baffled, more lives endangered, and Dante’s literary future at stake, the Dante Club must shed its sheltered literary existence and find the killer. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Angels & Demons is a 2000 bestselling mystery-thriller novel written by American author Dan Brown and published by Pocket Books. It revolves around the quest of fictional Harvard University symbologist Robert Langdon to uncover the mysteries of a secret society called the Illuminati and to unravel a plot to annihilate Vatican City using destructive antimatter. The book uses the idea of a historical conflict between science and religion, particularly that between the Illuminati and the Roman Catholic Church. The novel introduces the character Robert Langdon, who is also the protagonist of Brown's subsequent 2003 novel, The Da Vinci Code. It also shares many stylistic elements with its sequel, such as conspiracies of secret societies, a single-day time frame, and the Catholic Church. Ancient history, architecture, and symbolism are also heavily referenced throughout the book. A film adaptation was released on May 15, 2009, though it was set after the events of The Da Vinci Code film, which had been released in 2006.

Robert Langdon, Harvard Professor of symbology, receives an urgent late-night call while in Paris: the curator of the Louvre has been murdered. Alongside the body is a series of baffling ciphers. Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Da Vinci – and further. The curator, part of a secret society named the Priory of Sion, may have sacrificed his life to keep secret the location of a vastly important religious relic hidden for centuries. It appears that the clandestine Vatican-sanctioned Catholic sect Opus Dei has now made its move. Unless Landon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine code and quickly assemble the pieces of the puzzle, the Priory’s secret – and a stunning historical truth – will be lost forever.

The Book Thief is a novel by Australian author Markus Zusak.[1] Set in Nazi Germany, it describes a young girl's relationship with her foster parents, the other residents of their neighborhood, and a Jewish fist-fighter who hides in her home during the escalation of World War II. Published in 2005, it has won numerous awards and was listed on the New York Times Children's Bestseller List for over one hundred weeks.

少年的头突然起火燃烧，是人体自燃？ 中学生在池边捡到人脸面具，是死者冤魂不散？ 心脏麻痹的死者，其实是感染怪异疾病？ 海上突然出现巨大杀人火柱，是超自然现象？ 目击命案现场的少年，竟是灵魂出壳？ 五个离奇的事件，隐藏其后的其实是刁钻的科学诡计！天才物理学家汤川，以伽利略般刨根究底的精神，与刑警草薙共同解开了这一个个不可思议的谜团！

模仿犯第壹部故事回顾： 一个姑娘神秘失踪了，不久有人在公园的垃圾箱里发现了一条被砍断的右手，案件就这样拉开了序幕…… “我就是那个把右手扔到大川公园的人，你们不想再对这一事件进行报道了吗？”突然有一个电话打到了电视台的直播节目组。罪犯不止一次地给节目组打来电话，兴奋地谈论着案件的相关情况，同时还预告了更恐怖的事情：“直播我的犯罪。”这是个前所未有的“杀人计划”。 然而，一场车祸似乎结束了这种恐怖的直播报道。警方证实，两名嫌疑犯在一起意外坠崖车祸中死亡，案件真的会这么简单地结束吗？ 模仿犯第贰部故事梗概： 就在大多数人认为死于车祸的粟桥浩美和高井和明就是罪犯的时候，一个男人闪亮登场，出现在媒体面前，他就是毕业于耶鲁大学的犯罪心理学家纲川浩一。他认为另有一名真正的罪犯。纲川参加了许多电视节目，主张自己的“真凶存在说”。 不久，他那极具说服力的主张、潇洒的长相和睿智的谈吐风靡了整个社会……“真正的罪犯还活着”，于是人们开始等待那令人恐惧的结局。可是，纲川认为的那个真正的罪犯到底是谁呢？而他又凭什么信誓旦旦地肯定“罪犯另有其人”呢…… 加害人、受害人、遗属、警察和媒体，所有知道这件罪案的人全被卷了进来，而案件也进入了极具讽刺意味和冲击力的最后结局……

模仿犯故事 一位姑娘消失了，不久有人发现了被砍断的右手，案件就这样拉开了序幕……在东京郊区一直经营豆腐店的有马义男的外孙女古川鞠子突然下落不明，十个月之后，有人在隅田河沿岸的大川公园发现了女性用的手包和被砍断的右手。日本电视台和报纸对这一事件进行了大规模的报道，所有日本人都在关注事件的进展情况。“我就是那个把右手扔到大川公园的男人，你们不想再对这一事件进行报道了吗？”突然有一个电话打到了电视台的直播节目组。“手包和右手的主人是两个不同的人，手包的主人是―个叫古川鞠子的女性。”随着这起让人意想不到的案件的进展，人们越来越惊讶了。罪犯不止一次地给节目组打电话，兴奋地谈论着案件的相关情况，罪犯不仅嘲笑报道案件的媒体，还嘲笑因案件内容所兴奋的观众。不久，在罪犯告诉媒体的地方，发现了古川鞠子的尸体……“直播我的犯罪。”那位给直播节目组打电话的罪犯又预告了更恐怖的事情，这是前所未有的“杀人计划”。整个日本都被这起案件所吸引。预告的日子终于来临了，所有的人都在和理性抗争着，在电视机前面一动不动地站着。然后，报道开始了…两名嫌疑犯在一起车祸中死亡！案件就会这么简单地结束吗？报告文学作家前烟滋子大吃―惊。就在那个“杀人计划”把日本闹得沸沸扬扬的时候，在那辆坠崖并燃烧的汽车的后备箱里发现了丈夫前烟昭二的尸体。以前，滋子还打算亲自去采访另一起案件的受害人的遗属？冢田真一，可转眼之间，自己也成了受害人的遗属，她再也没有心情去采访了。警方证实，开着那辆坠崖汽车的男人的尸体是粟桥洁美和高井和明。在栗桥浩美的房间里发现了大量和连环绑架杀人案有关的证据。警察宣布，他们很可能就是罪犯；媒体对这两个人的犯罪行为进行了肯定性的报道；人们对此又哗然一片。自称是嫌疑犯朋友的男人开始在电视上讲述案件情况：“真正的罪犯还活着”，于是人们开始等待那令人恐惧的结局，“是的，我认为罪犯另有他人。”就在大多数人认为死于车祸的浩美和和明就是罪犯的时候，一个男人闪亮登场，出现在媒体面前，这就是毕业于耶鲁大学的犯罪心理学家纲川浩一。他是浩美和和明中学时的同学．那时他的外号叫“豌豆’，这是因为他笑的样子很像豌豆。“豌豆”认为和明是无实之罪，另有一名真正的罪犯。“豌豆”参加了许多电视节目，主张自己的“真凶存在说”。不久，他那极具说服力的主张、潇洒的长相和理智的谈吐风靡了整个日本…“豌豆”认为的那位真正的罪犯到底是谁，失去心爱之人的有马和滋子会对这名真凶穷追不舍吗？加害人、受害人、遗属、警察和媒体，所有能看见的人全都卷了进来，这个故事进人极具冲击力的最后结局……

Three narratives, set in the fifth, fourteenth, and twentieth centuries, all revolving around an ancient text and each with a love story at its center, are the elements of this ingenious novel, a follow-up to the bestselling, An Instance Of The Fingerpost. The centuries are the fifth (the final days of the Roman Empire); the fourteenth (the years of the Black Death); and the twentieth (World War II). The setting for each is the same--Provence--and each has at its heart a love story. The narratives intertwine seamlessly, but what joins them thematically is an ancient text--"The Dream of Scipio"--a work of neo-Platonism that poses timeless philosophical questions. What is the obligation of the individual in a society under siege? What is the role of learning when civilization itself is threatened, whether by acts of man or nature? Does virtue lie more in engagement or in neutrality? "Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless," warns one of Pears's characters.

The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. Musashi is a novel in the best tradition of Japanese story telling. It is a living story, subtle and imaginative, teeming with memorable characters, many of them historical. Interweaving themes of unrequited love, misguided revenge, filial piety and absolute dedication to the Way of the Samurai, it depicts vividly a world Westerners know only vaguely.

1590年末的伊斯坦布尔，国王苏丹秘密委制一本伟大的书籍，颂扬他的生活与帝国。四位当朝最优秀的细密画家齐聚京城，分工合作，精心绘制这本旷世之作。此时离家12年的青年黑终于回到他的故乡——伊斯坦布尔，迎接他归来的除了爱情，还有接踵而来的谋杀案…… 一位细密画家失踪了，随即被发现死于深井中，奉命为苏丹绘制抄本的长者也惨遭杀害。遇害的画家究竟是死于画师间的夙仇、爱情的纠葛、还是与苏丹的这次秘密委托有关？苏丹要求宫廷绘画大师奥斯曼和青年黑在三天内查出结果，而线索，很可能……就藏在书中未完成的图画某处。 究竟谁是凶手？动机是什么？作者让相关人士全部都现身说法了：一只狗、一棵树、一枚金币、红色，两具尸体及死亡，甚至凶手全都站出来了。他们仿若有生命般，靠着自己的经历与观察，仔细地告诉我们每一条蛛丝马迹。

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On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will have become victims of the younger girl's imagination. Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.