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基地纪元498年。 银河未来的命运决定于某人一念之间，这个就是葛兰·崔维兹。他必须在第一基地，第二基地与盖娅之间做出银河未来由谁主导的决定：由第一基地创建的新帝国将会逞领银河进入科技昌明的世纪，却会像第一帝国那样摧毁在战争之中；由第二基地指导的新帝国将能确保人类的永久和平，却因此成为了一个父权制帝国；而以盖娅为蓝图的盖娅星系则会是个心灵共同体，所有人类将与万物融合成一个良善的整体。崔维兹直觉地做出了选择，但却无法确定自己的选择是否正确，他怀疑宇宙中还藏有更强大的操纵力量。 崔维兹相信地球是解开所有谜团的关键，因为地球是人类的起源母星。奇怪的是，银河中有关地球的资料全都神秘消失。决心查明真正的崔维兹，再次在险恶的群星间漂流，寻觅，究竟两万年前的地球隐藏着什么秘密，崔维兹会改变他的决定吗？

女孩儿突然用手捧住尼克的脸，吻了他的嘴唇。“开车小心点儿，好莱坞先生。再见！”女孩儿带着甜甜的微笑说，然后转过身迅速离去了。尼克.洛茨感到莫名其妙。仅仅十分钟前，女孩来到咖啡馆坐在了他旁边，尼克这才认识她的。可她离去时为什么吻了他？她为什么叫他“好莱坞先生”？在开车去温哥华的路上他一直思考着这些问题，可始终找不到答案。其实，这里还有一件事尼克不知道。当女孩对尼克说再见时有人在旁边正听着呢--这个人对“好莱坞先生”这个称号很感兴趣。在温哥华，尼克很快便得知那个人的兴趣于己不利。

《第二十二条军规》是一部严肃的、讽刺性极强的小说。通过这部小说，约瑟夫·海勒将他眼中的美国社会展现在读者眼前。这个社会处于一种有组织的混乱、一种制度化了的疯狂之中，这个社会的一切只服从“第二十二条军规”的荒诞逻辑。这样一种病态的、荒诞的社会只有海勒的想象力才能够包容它，只有“黑色幽默”这样的创作手法才能够较好地表现它。通过“第二十二条军规”这个象征，读者也可以看到战争、美国社会及其官僚机构的荒诞、疯狂和不可理喻。由于这部小说揭示了美国社会真实的一面，因此它不仅在西方社会里具有普遍的意义并被译成十多种文字，而且对于我们中国读者认识、了解当代美国社会以及由这个社会造就的一代没有理想、没有信仰、没有人生目标的美国人，无疑具有极高的价值。这部小说的主要情节非常简单：第二次世界大战末，在意大利厄尔巴岛以南八英里的地中海的一个美国空军基地——皮亚诺萨小岛上，轰炸手约塞连上尉像只惊弓之鸟，在一片混乱、荒谬与恐怖中，置一切权威、信条于不顾，为保存自己的性命而进行着几近疯狂的努力。在这个岛上，他生活的唯一目的就是逃避作战飞行。于是，他一次又一次地装病住进医院，因为他发现唯有这里才是最好的藏身之地。最后，终于开了小差，逃到了瑞典。在本书中，海勒借虚构的皮亚诺萨小岛作为舞台，以第二次世界大战期间美军某飞行大队里发生的一系列事件为内容，将他眼中的美国社会展现在读者眼前，让人们能够看清楚在这个疯狂的世界里，人是如何变得“全疯了”的。　　　　 Catch-22 is like no other novel It is one of the funniest books ever written,a key-stone work in Americal literature,and even added a new term to the dictionary. 　　 At the heart of Cathc-22 resides the incomparable malingering bombardier,Yos sarinal a hero endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his skin form the horrible chances of war.His efforts are perfectly understandable because as he furiously scrambles thousands of people he hasn't even met are trying to kill him.His problem is Colonel Cathcart,who keeps raising the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service.Yet if Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself form the perilous missions that he is committed to flying,he is trapped by the Great Loyalty Oath Crusade,the hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule from which the book takes its title:a man is considered insane of he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions,but if he makes the necessary formal request to be relieved of such missions the very act of making the request proves that he is sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved.

It is May 1660 and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis XIV is in love, and Raoul de Bragelonne, son of Athos, is intent on serving France and winning the heart of Louise de la Valliere. D'Artagnan, meanwhile, is perplexed by a mysterious stranger, and soon he learns that his old comrades already have great projects in hand. Athos seeks the restoration of Charles II, while Aramis, with Porthos in tow, has a secret plan involving a masked prisoner and the fortification of the island of Belle-Ile. D'Artagnan finds a thread leading him to the French court, the banks of the Tyne, the beaches of Holland, and the dunes of Brittany. The Vicomte de Bragelonne opens an epic adventure which continues with Louise de la Valliere and reaches its climax in The Man in the Iron Mask. This new edition is the only one in print and is fully annotated with an introduction that sets Dumas's saga in its historical and cultural context.

Officer, diplomat, spy, journalist, and intermittent genius, Marie Henri Beyle employed more than 200 aliases in the course of his crowded career. His most famous moniker, however, was Stendhal, which he affixed to his greatest work, The Charterhouse of Parma. The author spent a mere seven weeks cranking out this marvel in 1838, setting the fictional equivalent of a land-speed record. To be honest, there are occasional signs of haste, during which he clearly bypassed le mot juste in favor of narrative zing. So what? Stendhal at his sloppiest is still wittier, and wiser about human behavior, than just about any writer you could name. No wonder so meticulous a stylist as Paul Valéry was happy to forgive his sins against French grammar: "We should never be finished with Stendhal. I can think of no greater praise than that." The plot of The Charterhouse of Parma suggests a run-of-the-mill potboiler, complete with court intrigue, military derring-do, and more romance than you can shake a saber at. But Stendhal had an amazing, pre-Freudian grasp of psychology (at least the Gallic variant). More than most of his contemporaries, he understood the incessant jostling of love, sex, fear, and ambition, not to mention our endless capacity for self-deception. No wonder his hero, Fabrizio de Dongo, seems to know everything and nothing about himself. Even under fire at the Battle of Waterloo, the young Fabrizio has a tendency to lose himself in Napoleonic reverie: Suddenly everyone galloped off. A few moments later Fabrizio saw, twenty paces ahead, a ploughed field that seemed to be strangely in motion; the furrows were filled with water, and the wet ground that formed their crests was exploding into tiny black fragments flung three or four feet into the air. Fabrizio noticed this odd effect as he passed; then his mind returned to daydreams of the Marshal's glory. He heard a sharp cry beside him: two hussars had fallen, riddled by bullets; and when he turned to look at them, they were already twenty paces behind the escort. The quote above, a famous one, captures something of Stendhal's headlong style. Until now, most English-speaking readers have experienced it via C.K. Scott-Moncrieff's superb 1925 translation. But now Richard Howard has modernized his predecessor's period touches, streamlined some of the fussier locutions, and generally given Stendhal his high-velocity due. The result is a timely version of a timeless masterpiece, which shouldn't need to be updated again until, oh, 2050. Crammed with life, lust, and verbal fireworks, The Charterhouse of Parma demonstrates the real truth of its creator's self-composed epitaph: "He lived. He wrote. He loved."

哈克贝利逃亡到密西西比河上。遇到了勤劳朴实、热情诚实、忠心耿耿的黑奴吉姆，他为了逃脱再次被主人卖掉的命运，从主人家中出逃。两个人历经种种奇遇。

达芬奇密码前传，虔诚的上帝信徒“欧核中心”的杰出科学家列奥纳多.维特勒毕生致力于以科学的手段证明神的存在。他和其养女、神秘妩媚的科学家维多利亚在实验室里进行了高度机密的试验，成功地制造出了一种极其强大的能量“反物质”。在这个重大发现尚未对外公布时，列奥纳多就在实验室里惨遭杀害，一颗眼珠被凶手挖走，胸口上赫然印着一个神秘的标记“光照派”。更令人震惊的是，藏在地下的反物质不翼而飞，而这些反物质一旦与物质相遇便会产生巨大的能量，足以摧毁一座城市。哈佛大学的符号学专家罗伯特·兰登应“欧核中心”负责人之邀，前来调查这个神秘的符号。就在当天，失踪的反物质被人发现位于梵蒂冈城地下某处。离开了实验中心的反物质，在二十四小时之后就会自行爆炸，而这天正是天主教教皇选举日。来自世界各地的天主教红衣主教会聚在梵蒂冈城，藏在地下的反物质就如同一枚定时炸弹，如不能及时找到，整个梵蒂冈城便会成为一片废墟。还有六个钟头，刻不容缓，兰登与列奥纳多之女一起踏上了前往梵蒂冈的冒险之旅。

美籍阿富汗裔作家卡勒德·胡赛尼的第二本小说，出版之前即获得极大关注，2007年5月22日在美国首发，上市仅一周销量就突破100万册，赢得评论界一致好评，被很多评论家赞誉为“超越《追风筝的人》的伟大作品”。内容简介：玛丽雅姆在阿富汗一个偏远贫穷的地方长大，她想上学，母亲却告诫她：“ 学校怎么会教你这样的人，一个女人只要学一样本领，那就是忍耐。”私生女玛丽雅姆的童年在十五岁生日时一去不复返：母亲自杀，定期探访的父亲也仿佛陌路。她成为了喀布尔中年鞋匠拉希德的妻子，生活在动荡年代的家庭暴力阴影下。十八年后，战乱仍未平息，少女莱拉失去了父母与恋人，亦被迫嫁给拉希德。两名阿富汗女性各自带着属于不同时代的悲惨回忆，共同经受着战乱、贫困与家庭暴力的重压，心底潜藏着的悲苦与忍耐相互交织，让她们曾经水火不容，又让她们缔结情谊，如母女般相濡以沫。

The Kite Runner is a novel by Khaled Hosseini. Published in 2003 by Riverhead Books, it is Hosseini's first novel,[1] and was adapted into a film of the same name in 2007. The Kite Runner tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, who befriends Hassan, the son of his father's Hazara servant. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of Afghanistan's monarchy through the Soviet invasion, the mass exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the rise of the Taliban regime.