Lisey Debusher Landon lost her husband, Scott, two years ago, after a twenty-five-year marriage of the most profound and sometimes frightening intimacy. Scott was an award-winning, bestselling novelist and a very complicated man. Early in their relationship, before they married, Lisey had to learn from him about books and blood. Later, she understood that there was a place Scott went--a place that both terrified and healed him, that could eat him alive or give him the ideas he needed in order to
Love Story[爱情故事]
He is Oliver Barrett IV, a rich jock from a stuffy Wasp family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law. She is Jenny Cavilleri, a wisecracking working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe. They are opposites in nearly every way. But they fell in love. This is their story.
Message in a Bottle[瓶中信]
Avoiding a sophomore slump, Sparks follows The Notebook with another sentimental candidate for the bestseller lists. Boston parenting columnist Theresa Osborne has lost faith in the dream of everlasting love. Three years after divorcing her cheating husband, the single mother is vacationing on Cape Cod when she finds a bottle washed up on the shore. Inside, a message begins: My Dearest Catherine, I miss you. Subsequent publication of the poignant missive in her column turns up two more letters,
Morrigan's Cross[The Circle Trilogy 1]
Number-one New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts delivers an extraordinary new trilogy—an epic tale that breaks down the boundaries between reality and the otherworldly, while forging together the passions of the men and women caught in a battle for the fate of humanity... In the last days of high summer, with lightning striking blue in a black sky, the sorcerer stood on a high cliff overlooking the raging sea... Belting out his grief into the storm, Hoyt Mac Cionaoith rails against the
The Glass-Blowers
Perhaps we shall not see each other again. I will write to you, though, and tell you, as best I can, the story of your family. A glass-blower, remember, breathes life into a vessel, giving it shape and form and sometimes beauty; but he can with that same breath, shatter and destroy it Faithful to her word, Sophie Duval reveals to her long-lost nephew the tragic story of a family of master craftsmen in eighteenth-century France. The world of the glass-blowers has its own traditions, its own langu
Jamaica Inn[牙买加旅店]
Jamaica Inn is a true classic. After the death of her mother, Mary Yellan travels to Jamaica Inn on the wild British moors to live with her Aunt Patience. The coachman warns her of the strange happenings there, but Mary is committed to remain at Jamaica Inn. Suddenly, her life is in the hands of strangers: her uncle, Joss Merlyn, whose crude ways repel her; Aunt Patience, who seems mentally unstable and perpetually frightened; and the enigmatic Francis Davey. But most importantly, Mary meets Jem
Brokeback Mountain[断背山]
SynopsisFilm tie-in edition of the story by Annie Proulx, now a movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Randy Quaid, Anne Hathaway and Heath Ledger. Brokeback Mountain is set in the beautiful, wild landscape of Wyoming where cowboys live as they have done for generations. Hard, lonely lives in unforgiving country. Jack Twist and Ennis del Mar are two ranch hands -- drop-out country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough-mannered, tough spoken -- glad to have found each
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
Step beyond the wall of your own imagination to the place where erotic enchantment lies... When Sleeping Beauty awakes at the Princes kiss it is the beginning of our story, not the end. Once the prisoner of a spell, locked in the sleep of innocence - now she is the prisoner of sensual love, held fast by the magic of desire. Claimed by the Prince as the slave of his passions, Sleeping Beauty learns that tenderness and cruelty, pleasure and pain, longing and fulfilment are all one in the awesome k
Heart and Science
Dr. Ovid Vere first caught sight of the love of his life the day before he was due to leave for the Mediterranean. He caught sight of her in the street and followed her to a concert, where she fainted. What could he do? He was a doctor, after all; he had to help her -- and thats how he learned that she was Carmina Graywell, his mothers niece from Italy, accompanied by her old nurse, Teresa. Carminas father, Robert, had just died leaving her to be brought up by Mrs. Gallilee in London. That was b
Antonina
Ancient Rome, AD 408: Young Antonia had the misfortune to live in interesting times -- the days when mighty Rome was brought low by the terror of the Goths. Wilkie Collins first book, historical romance.
The Undomestic Goddess
这是畅销书《购物狂系列》作者Sophie Kinsella的最新作品。
Strange Attractions
When high school dropout and unrepentant heartbreaker Charity Wills is offered a chance to attend college for free, she jumps at it. There is just one little catch... She must travel to the estate of a reclusive physicist with an ingenious mind for sex games. Obsessed with the unattainable and the mysteries of desire, there抯 only thing he craves: the thrill of being refused. Leave it to Charity to provide a challenge—especially when Eric Berne, her sexy keeper is there to lend a hand. Behin
Catching Midnight
In the Scottish wood, a clan of immortal shape-shifting wolves takes in an orphan girl, Gillian, as one of their own. But when she matures into a beautiful woman and falls for a mere mortal, her forest family and new lover are plunged into a fiery, passionate struggle to claim Gillians heart, body, and soul...
Menage
When two handsome grad students move into Kate Winthrops Philadelphia townhouse, the once-burned divorcee thrills to having two young admirers, at least until she finds them in bed with each other! Sensitive Joe is mortified. Badboy Sean challenges her to join in. Aroused by their show, she accepts. The adventure that ensues is more intense than any of them expected, and more fun. But can three lovers live happily ever after . . . together?
The Top Of Her Game
SynopsisRule yourself, and you rule the world, Julia Muellers mother told her. That was some years before her daughter grew up to become a businesswoman so independent and successful that men found her too intimidating to love. Now Julia - formidably tall and flawlessly groomed - is looking for a man who wont be tamed too easily. When she encounters Zach, an unreconstructed hunk who runs a dude ranch in Montana, she thinks she might have found him. The closest Julias ever been to a horse i
A Widow for One Year[寡居的一年]
SynopsisRuth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character - a difficult woman. By no means is she conventionally nice, but she will never be forgotten. Her story is told in three parts, each focusing on a critical time in her life.
Love in the Time of Cholera[霍乱时期的爱情]
SynopsisThis love story, translated from the Spanish, tells the story of Florentino Ariza who has loved Fermina Daza for 50 years. When her husband dies, his chance for happiness comes.
Rebellion[MacGregors 8]
SynopsisDespite the enmity between their two countries, Brigham Langston, a handsome English lord, finds himself drawn to the beautiful Serena MacGregor, a hot-tempered Scottish hoyden, in a historical romance that serves as a prequel to Robertss best-selling MacGregor series.
The Perfect Neighbor[MacGregors 7]
Cybil Campbell lives in apartment 3A, where she works magic by drawing the famous comic-strip Friends and Neighbors. Nothing quiet about Cybils life. She is bubbly, upbeat, loves to bake (and give it away so she will not eat it all), and thrives on background noise. Good thing too, since all her neighbors in the building are LOUD. Except, that is for the new resident in 3B, across the hall. Everyone wonders who the new guy is. He is silent and seldom seen. Cybil finally gets the man to spe
Macgregor Grooms[MacGregors 6]
SynopsisWealthy and powerful Daniel MacGregor, patriarch of the MacGregor clan, discovers the perfect women to marry his three eligible grandsons.
