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Dostoevsky's last and greatest novel, The Karamazov Brothers (1880) is both a brilliantly told crime story and a passionate philosophical debate. The dissolute landowner Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov is murdered; his sons--the atheist intellectual Ivan, the hot-blooded Dmitry, and the saintly novice Alyosha--are all involved at some level. Brilliantly bound up with this psychological drama is Dostoevsky's intense and disturbing exploration of many deeply felt ideas about the existence of God, freedom of will, the collective nature of guilt, and the disastrous consequences of rationalism. Filled with eloquent voices, this new translation fully realizes the power and dramatic virtuosity of Dostoevsky's most brilliant work. 　　老卡拉马佐夫贪婪好色，独占妻子留给儿子们的遗产，并与长子德米特里为一个风流女子争风吃醋。一天黑夜，德米特里疑心自己的情人去跟老头儿幽会，便闯入家园，一怒之下，差点把老头儿砸死。他仓皇逃离后，躲在暗中装病的老卡拉马佐夫的私生子斯乜尔加科夫悄然杀死老爷，造成了一桩震惊全俄的扑朔迷离的血案，从而引发一连串惊心动魄的事件。作品展示了错综复杂的社会、家庭矛盾和人性悲剧，体现了作家一生的最高艺术成就。

当路易斯．萨奇尔还是学生时，他的老师们总是念错他的名字。现在，他变成有名的童书作家，不同地方的老师还是念错他的名字。在他们家族，这个姓氏的发音是萨「克」尔，但事实上这个字正统的发音为萨「奇」尔，你说怪不怪。 三十层楼的教室里，有个很坏的老师，你不乖，她就会动动耳朵，把你变成苹果！后来来了个很好的老师，第一次上课，她却把学生看成了猴子！这是什么怪学校？你看他怪，他才觉得你不正常！ 最搞笑的故事接二连三上演，绝对让你迫不及待一次看完、捧腹大笑！

埃莉诺·霍奇曼·波特（Eleanor Hodgeman Porter）的代表作（《比利小姐》、《比利小姐的决定》）之一。

From the first the voyage was going wrong. Routed out of my hotel on a bitter March morning, I had crossed Baltimore and reached the pier-end precisely on time. At nine o'clock the tug was to have taken me down the bay and put me on board the Elsinore, and with growing irritation I sat frozen inside my taxicab and waited. On the seat, outside, the driver and Wada sat hunched in a temperature perhaps half a degree colder than mine. And there was no tug. Possum, the fox-terrier puppy Galbraith had so inconsi-derately foisted upon me, whimpered and shivered on my lap inside my greatcoat and under the fur robe. But he would not settle down. Continually he whimpered and clawed and struggled to get out. And, once out and bitten by the cold, with equal insistence he whimpered and clawed to get back. His unceasing plaint and movement was anything but sedative to my jangled nerves. In the first place I was uninterested in the brute. He meant nothing to me. I did not know him. Time and again, as I drearily waited, I was on the verge of giving him to the driver. Once, when two little girls-evidently the wharfinger's daughters-went by, my hand reached out to the door to open it so that I might call to them and present them with the puling little wretch.

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。

Tuesdays with Morrie is a 1997 non-fiction novel by American writer Mitch Albom. The story was later adapted by Thomas Rickman into a TV movie of the same name directed by Mick Jackson, which aired on 5 December 1999 and starred Jack Lemmon and Hank Azaria. The book topped the New York Times Non-Fiction Bestsellers of 2000. This novel tells the true story of retired sociology professor Morrie Schwartz and his relationship with his students. On his graduation, Mitch Albom, the narrator, tells his favorite professor, Morrie Schwartz, that he will keep in touch. However, Mitch hears nothing of his old professor until one night on T.V. when he sees Morrie being interviewed. It turns out that Morrie has developed ALS, a terminal disease, and is in a wheelchair. Mitch begins to visit his professor and soon realizes that, though he has grown remarkably, he still has a lot to learn from Morrie. Both the film and the book chronicle the lessons about life that Mitch learns from his professor. After five years in hardcover, Tuesdays with Morrie was released as a trade paperback in October 2002. It was re-released as a mass-market paperback by Anchor Books in January 2006. According to this edition, 11 million copies of Tuesdays with Morrie are in print worldwide.

故事在1947年，银行家安迪被指控枪杀了妻子及其情人，安迪同时被判两个无期徙刑，这意味着他将在肖申克监狱中渡过余生。 二十年来，安迪每天都在用那把小鹤嘴锄挖洞，然后用海报将洞口遮住。安迪出狱后，领走了部分监狱长存的黑钱，并告发了监狱长贪污受贿的真相。监狱长在自己存小账本的保险柜里见到的是安迪留下的一本圣经，里边挖空的部分是鹤嘴锄的样子，警方沿安迪逃跑线路追寻，最终只在泥潭里找到已经快解体的鹤嘴锄。 瑞德获释了，他在橡树下的火山岩下找到了一盒现金和一封信，两个老朋友终于在墨西哥阳光明媚的海滨重逢了。

One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore: Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest. From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'" In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic.

爱和漫骂，尊敬和愤慨，比尔克林顿Bill Clinton是当代一位具争议性的政治领袖。作为第42任美国总统，他推动了北美自由贸易协定（NAFTA）的成立，并协助中国加入世界贸易组职（WTO）。然而他与莱温斯基Lewinsky的性丑闻却令他的政治生涯蒙上阴影。他离开白官后，仍继续以高姿态从事各项社会活动。他的自传《我的生活》以一种坦率方式，道出他的政治生涯和私人生活。 没有人怀疑比尔?克林顿能够写出一本非常精彩的回忆录，因为他拥有太多不同寻常的故事可以讲述。他是一个出生卑微的遗腹子，却全凭个人奋斗登上了美国政治权利的顶峰；他的八年总统任期几乎都是在与对手的政治斗争中度过，却取得了美国历任总统中仅次于林肯和肯尼迪的政绩；他几乎因性丑闻遭到弹劾，却仍然是一位举世公认的偶像式魅力人物。如果说克林顿的身上充满了谜，《我的生活》则或多或少揭示了谜底。 在《我的生活》中，克林顿以儿子、兄弟、教师、丈夫、父亲和公众人物的多重身份，回顾了自己五十多年的人生历程，在追述早年的生活时，他以诚挚情感的笔触写出了对母亲的崇敬与依恋，对继父的同情与怜悯，对弟弟的关爱与愧疚，还有对帮助他成长的良师益友们的感激之情。同时他也深刻的剖析了自己内心生活与外部世界之间持久的矛盾与斗争，这种矛盾与斗争对他后来的政治生涯与私人生活都有着决定性的影响。在回忆八年白宫岁月时，他不仅谈到了白水事件的前因后果，透露了葆拉?琼斯案和莱温斯基绯闻中许多不为人知的细节，还广泛涉及了国际政治局势的风云变幻，包括科索沃战争、中东和平进程、索马里危机、本?拉登与基地组织、朝鲜问题以及中美关系等等。 《我的生活》被认为是有史以来最受关注和最成功的总统自传之一，其魅力固然在相当程度上来自于举世皆知的绯闻事件，但绝不仅止于此。更值得我们关注的是书中所表现的不懈奋争的生活信念，对家庭和国家的热爱与忠诚，以及一位杰出政治家的远见卓识。