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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“这是一则你在热恋时会手不释卷的寓言。这是一个你在迷惘时能常伴左右的故事。这是一部你会再三阅读的小说,因为它具备一种罕见的魔力,能让你审视自己和整个世界的角度焕然一新。这本书是赠给灵魂的礼物。” ——谭恩美,著名美籍华裔作家,著有《喜福会》等 “在《你在天堂里遇见的五个人》中,米奇·阿尔博姆把我们引领到了一个新境界。你能在这本书里找到那些经典著作——比如《奥德赛》——的回响,这种特质使得阿尔博姆的作品成为我们最好的伙伴。” 这个叫爱迪的男人,瘸着一条腿,为救一个孩子死了。他在天堂遇见了五个人。他是不是把孩子救了出来,是不是在天堂乐不思蜀,这要看了书才知道。情节都在书中,写得很有章法,我不能抢先代作者透露。我可以说的是,爱迪在天堂,如同一个人得到珍贵的地图,终于看明白自己走了一生的道路,原来是那样勾连的。 Book Description Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret. Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people. These people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever. One by one, Eddie's five people illuminate the unseen connections of his earthly life. As the story builds to its stunning conclusion, Eddie desperately seeks redemption in the still-unknown last act of his life: Was it a heroic success or a devastating failure? The answer, which comes from the most unlikely of sources, is as inspirational as a glimpse of heaven itself. In The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom gives us an astoundingly original story that will change everything you've ever thought about the afterlife - and the meaning of our lives here on earth. With a timeless tale, appealing to all, this is a book that readers of fine fiction, and those who loved Tuesdays with Morrie, will treasure. -
Carrie
A modern classic, CARRIE introduced a distinctive new voice in American fiction Stephen King. The story of misunderstood high school girl Carrie White, her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge remains one of the most barrier-breaking and shocking novels of all time. Make a date with terror-- and live the nightmare that is。 -
The Lost Symbol
The Solomon Key is the working title of an unreleased novel in progress by American author Dan Brown. The Solomon Key will be the third book involving the character of the Harvard professor Robert Langdon, of which the first two were Angels & Demons (2000) and The Da Vinci Code (2003). According to early reports, the book's story will take place in the Washington, D.C. area, and focus on the work of the Freemasons. The book has been in development for several years and the projected publication date has been pushed back multiple times. As of early 2009, no firm release date has been announced. On February 12, 2009, Ron Howard reported to ETonline from the movie set of Angels and Demons that Brown had completed The Solomon Key. -
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
This mesmerizing debut, uncannily uniting the trials of a postmodern upbringing with a murder mystery, heralds the arrival of a vibrant new voice in literary fiction Special Topics in Calamity Physics is a darkly hilarious coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer. After a childhood moving from one academic outpost to another with her father (a man prone to aphorisms and meteoric affairs), Blue is clever, deadpan, and possessed of a vast lexicon of literary, political, philosophical, and scientific knowledgeand is quite the cineaste to boot. In her final year of high school at the elite (and unusual) St. Gallway School in Stockton, North Carolina, Blue falls in with a charismatic group of friends and their captivating teacher, Hannah Schneider. But when the drowning of one of Hannah's friends and the shocking death of Hannah herself lead to a confluence of mysteries, Blue is left to make sense of it all with only her gimlet-eyed instincts and cultural references to guideor misguideher. Structured around a syllabus for a Great Works of Literature class and containing ironic visual aids (drawn by the author), Pessl's debut novel is complex yet compelling, erudite yet accessible. It combines the suspense of Hitchcock, the self-parody of Dave Eggers, and the storytelling gifts of Donna Tartt with a dazzling intelligence and wit entirely Pessl's own. -
The Bourne Ultimatum
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The Broker
In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that compromise the world’s most sophisticated satellite surveillance system. Backman is quietly smuggled out of the country in a military cargo plane, given a new name, a new identity, and a new home in Italy. Eventually, after he has settled into his new life, the CIA will leak his whereabouts to the Israelis, the Russians, the Chinese, and the Saudis. Then the CIA will do what it does best: sit back and watch. The question is not whether Backman will survive—there is no chance of that. The question the CIA needs answered is, who will kill him? From the Hardcover edition.