Sixth in the Anthony Award-winning Southern Vampire series. Spiked with a frothy fusion of romance, mystery, and fantasy, this bestselling series sends the supernaturally gifted cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse to New Orleans, where she has to deal with the legacy of one of her own family and a host of potentially dangerous characters.

Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in a little bar in a small town deep in Louisiana. She's funny and pretty and well-mannered, but she doesn't have that many close friends - mind you, that's not so surprising when you consider how few people can appreciate her abilities as a mind-reader. It's not a quality that has the guys beating down her door - well, unless they're vampires or werewolves or the like . . . but they're not just supernatural freaks, some of them are friends, even family . . . And much as Sookie might want a quiet life, when she's around, things just seem to happen . . . like her brother, who appears to be changing into a were-panther. He's not that bothered, but someone doesn't like it - someone's trying to wipe him out, as well as the rest of the shape-changing population, and that mean's Sookie's got just a month, before the next full moon, to find out who wants her brother dead, and stop the fiend.

In Sookie Stackhouse - a Southern cocktail waitress with a supernatural gift - Harris has a created a heroine like few others, and a series that puts the bite back in vampire fiction. Now the hit series launches into hardcover for Sookie's biggest twist-filled adventure yet. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

當女英雄一向不是蘇琪 史戴克豪斯的第一志願，但認識吸血鬼之後，她似乎注定命運多舛…… 和苏琪史戴克豪斯有牽扯的吸血鬼只有一位（起碼這是她自願的），那就是比爾。然而，最近他有點疏遠──是指前往遙遠的別州這種距離上的遠。 比爾那邪惡性感的老闆艾瑞克知道上哪找他。接下來蘇琪便發現自己已經動身前往密西西比的首府傑克遜， 和比地下組織更隱密的「亡者俱樂部」打交道。這是一個危險的小巢穴，吸血鬼菁英可以到此冷靜一下並吸一些O型血。 當蘇琪終於發現在一場重大背叛中被擒住的比爾，她不知道該不該救他……或是趕快找幾根木樁來削尖。

When a vampire asks Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic skills to find another missing vampire, she agrees under one condition: the bloodsuckers must promise to let the humans go unharmed.

Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. Until the vampire of her dreams walks into her life-and one of her coworkers checks out.... Maybe having a vampire for a boyfriend isn't such a bright idea. A fun, fast, funny, and wonderfully intriguing blend of vampire and mystery that's hard to put down, and should not be missed. (Susan Sizemore) Praise for Charlaine Harris: Harris writes neatly and with assurance. ( New York Times Book Review ) An author of rare talents. ( Publishers Weekly )

A verbatim reproduction of Mark Twain's little known seventh book, with original illustrations. This edition predates Twain's better known "Sketches New and Old."

Eleven-year-old Satsuki and her sassy little sister Mei are overjoyed about moving into a historic country house with teir dad - but the girls don't realise what a delightful adventure awaits them there. WHie exploring their sprawling home and th beautiful rural area that surrounds it, Satsuki & Mei meet Granny,a sweet old woman, and her timid grandson Kanta. They also experience firsthand the magic of the Soot Sprites,mysterious creatures that live in the walls, and discover a huge camphor tree that just might be enchanted...

This Everyman’s Library edition–containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso–includes an introduction by Nobel Prize—winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli's marvelous late-fifteenth-century series of illustrations. Translated in this edition by Allen Mandelbaum, The Divine Comedy begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought to unlock the mystery of its own identity. Mandelbaum’s astonishingly Dantean translation, which captures so much of the life of the original, renders whole for us the masterpiece of that genius whom our greatest poets have recognized as a central model for all poets.

In the book, Zinn presented a different side of history from the more traditional "fundamental nationalist glorification of country". Zinn portrays a side of American history that can largely be seen as the exploitation and manipulation of the majority by rigged systems that hugely favor a small aggregate of elite rulers from across the orthodox political parties. A People's History has been assigned as reading in many high schools and colleges across the United States. It has also resulted in a change in the focus of historical work, which now includes stories that previously were ignored Library Journal calls Howard Zinn’s book “a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those…whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories.”

在巴黎火车站二十七座时钟后墙的暗窄通道里，十二岁的男孩雨果一直过着不为人知的秘密生活。孤儿、守钟人和小偷──雨果以为自己终将以这三重身分悲惨的生活下去，甚至再也无法踏出这座车站……除非，他能修好那个会写字的机器人！ 雨果的爸爸生前是个钟表匠，曾在工作的博物馆里发现一个坏了的但精致巧妙的机器人，而雨果的父亲恰恰在修理这个机器人的过程中，在博物馆的一场离奇的大火中神秘死亡。雨果见到这个被当作垃圾丢弃的机器人之后，就有一种预感，他必须修好这个机器人，那样就可以读到爸爸预留的信息，明白父亲想要告诉自己的一切。 为了修理机器人，雨果经常去玩具店老人那里偷取玩具，以便拆解出更多适合机器人的零件。不料却因此引出更复杂、更惊人的秘密！雨果的命运，也随之发生了翻天覆地的变化。魔术、电影、梦想……构成了这个复杂神奇的悬疑故事。

Sumptuous historical novel from bestselling author of THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL and THE QUEEN'S FOOL Elizabeth I has acceded to the throne of England, a position she has waited and schemed for all her life. She is surrounded by advisers, all convinced that a young woman cannot form political judgements. Elizabeth feels that she can rely on just one man: her oldest friend, Robert Dudley. It is soon plain that he is more than merely a friend. In a house in the countryside waits a very different woman, Amy Robsart -- Robert's wife. She has no taste for life at court and longs for the day when her husband will return home. She has loved him since she was a girl, but now they are adults she hardly sees him. Meanwhile, the pressure grows for Elizabeth to marry, for it is unthinkable that a queen should rule on her own. Elizabeth's preference is clear, but he is unavailable. But what if the unthinkable were to happen! Philippa Gregory blends passion, personalities and politics in this stunning novel of the Tudor court and a country divided.

""I am Catalina, Princess of Spain, daughter of the two greatest monarchs the world has ever known...and I will be Queen of England.""Thus, bestselling author Philippa Gregory introduces one of her most unforgettable heroines: Katherine of Aragon. Known to history as the Queen who was pushed off her throne by Anne Boleyn, here is a Katherine the world has forgotten: the enchanting princess that all England loved. First married to Henry VIII's older brother, Arthur, Katherine's passion turns their arranged marriage into a love match; but when Arthur dies, the merciless English court and her ambitious parents -- the crusading King and Queen of Spain -- have to find a new role for the widow. Ultimately, it is Katherine herself who takes control of her own life by telling the most audacious lie in English history, leading her to the very pinnacle of power in England.Set in the rich beauty of Moorish Spain and the glamour of the Tudor court, "The Constant Princess" presents a woman whose constancy helps her endure betrayal, poverty, and despair, until the inevitable moment when she steps into the role she has prepared for all her life: Henry VIII's Queen, Regent, and commander of the English army in their greatest victory against Scotland.

《胡林的儿女》是托尔金动笔最早、构思修改时间最长的故事，被视为托尔金创造的中土世界最重要的三大故事骨干之一。他一生不断修改，留下大量遗稿。本书由他的儿子克里斯托弗整理出版，忠实地以托尔金的文字呈现出一个生动完整的故事。 在 魔戒时代之前遥远的第一纪元，精灵和人类的军队在泪雨之战中惨败，黑暗魔王魔苟斯囚禁了人类领袖胡林，对他的一双儿女——图林和妮诺尔降下毒咒。胡林被迫 透过魔苟斯的眼睛目睹自己骨肉的遭遇：精灵、矮人、兽人、格劳龙等奇幻角色在中土大地纷纷登场，图林这个刚毅的男儿在魔苟斯的邪念作弄下，亦是在自身孤傲 性格的驱使下，一步步走向他人生的宿命。曲折离奇的故事中包含了珍贵的友谊、美丽的爱情和彻骨的悲怆。 Return to Middle Earth..... The Children of Hurin is full of magical Tolkien trademarks you'd expect, elves, eagles, dwarves, rampaging orcs, swords that glow and fire breathing dragons, not to mention epic battles between good and evil, rich landscapes, lifelong friendships and forbidden love, this book will appeal to MiddleEarth fanatics and families alike. Illustrated by Alan Lee, who won an Oscar for his artwork on The Return of the King.

外星人来到地球，给人类带来了高度发达的文明。最初的全球恐慌之后，人类欣喜地接受了来自外星文明的厚赠。战争消失了，瘟疫消失了，人类历史上的一切灾难都不复存在。 但是，人类的社会、国家、民族等诸般价值观念也被彻底颠覆。几个世纪之后，人类已经和过去截然不同。他们已经不再是过去意义上的“人类”。 是福是祸？外星人的目的何在？人类这一物种是否已经走到尽头？ 人类也许仍将延续。但是，它的童年时代一去不复返了……

《帷幕》是昆德拉于2005年3月出版的最新作品。作为《被背叛的遗嘱》和《小说的艺术》的延续，随笔《帷幕》概述昆德拉在前两者中的思考，并以更自由的笔触探索与历史和生活现实交混的小说艺术世界。他撕裂了遮盖着世界和文学的帷幕，将读者带到各国，带到拉伯雷、福楼拜、司汤达、塞万提斯、加西亚·马尔克斯、富恩特斯、罗伯特·穆齐尔和荷马的土地上。

The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura?s story, Atwood introduces a novel-within-a-novel. Entitled The Blind Assassin , it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms. When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sailboat carrying the dead body of her husband, a distinguished industrialist. Brilliantly weaving together such seemingly disparate elements, Atwood creates a world of astonishing vision and unforgettable impact.

A facsimile of the 1864 manuscript. Introduction by Martin Gardner.

AND did you really walk, said I, "On such a wretched night? I always fancied Ghosts could fly - If not exactly in the sky.