喜爱日光浴的阿琳娜·斯图尔特美丽的棕色身体脸朝下横陈在海滩上，但是这一次没有阳光——她被人勒死了。阿琳娜一出现，赫尔克里·波洛就在海滩的空气中嗅到了情欲的气息。但是，这个显而易见的“激情犯罪”中，也许包含着更多的邪恶和阴谋？赫尔克里·波洛探长该如何侦破这一悬案？

Agatha Christie's ginius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal, her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. No one knows the human heart--or the dark passions that can stop it--better than Agatha Christie. She is truly the one and only Queen of Crime.
The Muder Of Roger Ackroyd
Village rumor hints that Mrs. Ferrars poisoned her husband, but no one is sure. Then there's another victim in a chain of death. Unfortunately for the killer, master sleuth Hercule Poirot takes over the investigation.

突如其来的寂静笼罩了地球。这事实上比噪音更加可怕。有一会儿，什么也没有发生。
巨大的飞船一动不动地挂在空中，覆盖了地球上的每个国家。
在黯然退场之前，地球首先被改造成了最终极的声音重放器件，这是有史以来建造过的最伟大的播音系统。但伴之而来的不是演奏会，不是音乐，没有开场号曲，而仅仅是一条简短的信息。
“地球人，请注意了。”一个声音说，这声音堪称完美，仿佛来自四声道系统，完美得无懈可击，失真度低得能让勇敢的男人洒下眼泪。
“这里是银河超空间规划委员会。诸位无疑已经知道，银河系边远地区的开发规划要求建造一条穿过贵恒星系的超空间快速通道，令人遗憾的是，贵行星属于计划中预定毁灭的星球之一。毁灭过程将在略少于贵地球时间两分钟后开始。谢谢合作。”

亚瑟·邓特横穿银河系，结束了他最漫长也最危险的一次搭车。飞碟最后把他放在一颗小型行星上，午夜时分，滂沱大雨。他耐心等待。
一辆车经过。
他回到了地球。
为超空间旁道让路而被摧毁的地球不知怎的回来了。
地球被毁灭的那一天究竟发生了什么？
海豚为什么全都消失了？
还有，上帝 给造物的最后留言究竟是什么？
这正是他想知道，但又不敢相信的答案。

宇宙尽头的餐馆是餐饮史上最了不起的风险投资，整个餐馆被一个巨大的时间泡包裹，并沿时间轴向前投射至宇宙终结的那个时刻。
餐馆里，客人各自挑选座位坐下，吃着美食，观看整个宇宙在周围爆炸。
你可以随意就座，无需预约，因为你可以返回原先时间后再补订；你愿意来多少次就可以来多少次，但要确定千万别遇见自己；同时，你需要做的不过是在自己所在的时代开个储蓄账户，存下一分钱，等抵达时间尽头的时候，所得的复利足以保证你付得起账单。
为此，混球星系的广告公司的口号是：如果今天早晨你已经做了六件不可能的事情，那就干脆来宇宙尽头的“豪河”餐馆吃顿早饭吧！
“黄金之心”号的乘员们正有此意。比起逃脱沃贡人的追击，避免被带到银河系最邪恶的星球，以及教飞船学会如何冲一杯好茶，这实在是件不足挂齿的小事。
说真的，有谁预约过吗？

有理论声称，若是有谁真的搞清楚了宇宙为何存在、因何存在，宇宙就会立刻消失，取而代之的则是更怪异、更难以说明的东西。
另有理论声称，此事已经发生过了。
……
一颗位于银河边陲、名叫“坂裘”的不起眼行星突然向整个银河系发动了灭绝袭击，原因只是由于它忽然发现了银河系的存在。在此之前，坂裘人始终以为他们孤独地生活在宇宙之中，因为这颗星球被重重尘埃星云包围。
坂裘军队是一帮白色机器人，所持武器在我们看来无比类似板球拍和板球。
为此，银河系的其他星球始终对地球敬而远之。
因为我们打板球。

There is a distinct hint of Armageddon in the air. According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (recorded, thankfully, in 1655, before she blew up her entire village and all its inhabitants, who had gathered to watch her burn), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, the Four Bikers of the Apocalypse are revving up their mighty hogs and hitting the road, and the world's last two remaining witch-finders are getting ready to fight the good fight, armed with awkwardly antiquated instructions and stick pins. Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. . . . Right. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. </p>
Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon -- each of whom has lived among Earth's mortals for many millennia and has grown rather fond of the lifestyle -- are not particularly looking forward to the coming Rapture. If Crowley and Aziraphale are going to stop it from happening, they've got to find and kill the Antichrist (which is a shame, as he's a really nice kid). There's just one glitch: someone seems to have misplaced him. . . . </p>
First published in 1990, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's brilliantly dark and screamingly funny take on humankind's final judgment is back -- and just in time -- in a new hardcover edition (which includes an introduction by the authors, comments by each about the other, and answers to some still-burning questions about their wildly popular collaborative effort) that the devout and the damned alike will surely cherish until the end of all things. </p>

The world will end on Saturday. Next Saturday. Just before dinner, according to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655. The armies of Good and Evil are amassing, and everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except that a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture.
Oh, and someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist...
Put New York Times bestselling authors Terry Pratchett and Neil Hainan together... and all Hell breaks loose. In a very good way.

Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the British society of her youth and the small but effective society she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong, she is compelled by her awakening conscience to reassess her life and learn how to love.
The Painted Veil is a beautifully written affirmation of the human capacity to grow, to change, and to forgive.

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. Whilst his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications. Inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is at once a satiric caricature of Edwardian conventions and a vivid portrayal of the mentality of a genius.

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《Tess of the d Urbervilles(苔丝)》讲述了：Set in Hardy’s Wessex，Tess of the d’Urbervilles is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards。 Its challenging sub-title，A Pure Woman，infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891，and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic。
It tells of Tess Durbeyfield，the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager，who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d'Urberville。 In her search for respectability her fortunes fluctuate wildly，and the story assumes the proportions of a Greek tragedy。 It explores Tess’s relationships with two very different men，her struggles against the social mores of the rural Victorian world which she inhabits and the hypocrisy of the age。
In addressing the double standards of the time，Hardy’s masterly evocation of a world which we have lost，provides one of the most compelling stories in the canon of English literature，whose appeal today defies the judgement of Hardy’s contemporary critics。

Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships. Welcome to the life of a junior doctor. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, comedian and former junior doctor Adam Kay’s This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line (with a foreword attempting to explain the National Health Service to a non-UK audience). Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking by turns, this is everything you wanted to know—and more than a few things you didn't—about life on and off the hospital ward. And yes, it may leave a scar.

Volume II begins with The Hound of the Baskervilles, a haunting novel of murder on eerie Grimpen Moor, which has rightly earned its reputation as the finest murder mystery ever written. The Valley of Fear matches Holmes against his archenemy, the master of imaginative crime, Professor Moriarty. In addition, the loyal Dr. Watson has faithfully recorded Holmes’s feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the thrilling The Adventure of the Red Circle, Holmes’s tragic and fortunately premature farewell in The Final Problem, and the twelve baffling adventures from The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes.

A wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place...The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara , Nurse Craven, Colonel Luttrell and his charming wife, Daisy, and the charismatic Boyd-Carrington. So Hastings was shocked to learn from Hercule Poirot's declaration that one of them was a five-times murderer. True, the ageing detective was crippled with arthritis, but had his deductive instincts finally deserted him?!

《哈利·波特与阿兹卡班的囚徒》是“哈利·波特”系列的第三部。
哈利·波特在霍格沃茨魔法学校已经度过了不平凡的两年，而且早已听说魔法世界中有一座守备森严的阿兹卡班监狱，里面关押着一个臭名昭著的囚徒，名字叫小天狼星布莱克。传言布莱克是“黑魔法”高手伏地魔——杀害哈利父母的凶手——的忠实信徒，曾经用一句魔咒接连结束了十三条性命。不幸的是，布莱克逃出了阿兹卡班，一心追寻哈利。布莱克在睡梦中仍然呓语不休：“他在霍格沃茨……他在霍格沃茨。”
哈利·波特虽然身在魔法学校的城堡内，既有朋友的赤诚帮助，也有老师的悉心呵护，但校园内危机四伏，哈利的生命时时受到威胁。一天，布莱克终于站到了哈利的面前……

一岁的哈利・波特失去父母后，神秘地出现在姨父姨妈家的门前。哈利在姨父家饱受欺凌，度过十年极其痛苦的日子。姨父和姨妈好似凶神恶煞，他们那混世魔王儿子达力――一个肥胖、娇惯、欺负人的大块头，更是经常对哈利拳脚相加。哈利的“房间”是位于楼梯口的一个又暗又小的碗橱。十年来，从来没有人为他过过生日。
但是在他十一岁生日那天，一切都发生了变化，信使猫头鹰带来了一封神秘的信：邀请哈利去一个他――以及所有读到哈利故事的人――会觉得永远难忘的、不可思议的地方――霍格沃茨魔法学校。
在魔法学校，哈利不仅找着了朋友、学会了空中飞行，骑着一把型号为光轮2000的飞天扫帚打魁地球，还得到了一件隐形衣。他发现那里的一切――从上课到吃饭到睡觉都充满了魔力，但是一块魔石出现了，它与哈利的命运息息相关……

《哈利·波特与密室》是“哈利·波特”系列的第二部。
哈利·波特在霍格沃茨魔法学校学习一年之后，暑假开始了。他在姨父姨妈家熬过痛苦的假期。正当他准备打点行装去学校时，小精灵多比前来发出警告：如果哈利返回霍格沃茨，灾难将会临头。
但哈利义无返顾地回到了霍格沃茨，新来的吉罗德·洛哈特教授装腔作势，让他作呕；游荡在女生舆洗室里的幽灵“哭泣的桃金娘”搅得他不得安宁；低年级的小女生金妮对他投来关切目光常令他尴尬不已；小男生科林·克里维“追星”式的跟踪又经常使他落荒而逃。
但是，这一切仅仅是灾难的序曲。正如多比所预言的，哈利遭受了重重磨难，经历了种种危险，难解之谜又使他煞费苦心：霍格沃茨的学生接二连三地变成了石头。这一切是品德败坏的学生德拉科·马尔福精心策划的杰作？还是忠厚善良的海格无心铸成的大错？或者另有人将在霍格沃茨制造更大的阴谋？这一切又是否与传说中的密室有关？哈利决心揭开谜底……

《哈利·波特与凤凰社》是“哈利·波特”系列的第五部。
漫长的暑假，哈利·波特被困在女贞路4号，意外地遭到摄魂怪的袭击……逃过一劫的哈利被护送到伦敦一个秘密的地方，在那里他见了自己的教父小天狼星布莱克、前任黑魔法防御术课教师卢平、疯眼汉穆迪以及他的朋友赫敏和罗恩。他只是知道邓布利多与凤凰社成员正在加紧秘密活动，以对抗日益强大的伏地魔。但是，所有的人都不愿向他透露更多的情况……
哈利在茫然与愤怒中来到霍格沃茨，然而令他不解的是，邓布利多不愿见他，海格不知去向。更糟糕的是，哈利越来越频繁地在梦中看见一道长长的走廊，每当他快要走进长廊尽头的一扇门时，他都会头痛欲裂地从梦中惊醒，觉得自己身体里蠕动着一条大蛇……
魔法部派来了一位专横跋扈的高级调查官，对学校各项事务横加干涉，并最终赶走了邓布利多校长，打伤了麦格教授，整个学校笼罩在一片混乱和压抑之中……
大蛇的影子在哈利的脑海里越来越清晰，伏地魔走近了哈利……这时，邓布利多告诉他一个天大的秘密……

《哈利·波特与“混血王子”》是“哈利·波特”系列的第六部。
仲夏的一个夜晚，反常的浓雾笼罩在窗户玻璃上，哈利·波特在女贞路4号德思礼家自己的卧室里紧张地等待着邓布利多教授的来访。
哈利不太确定邓布利多是否真的会来德思礼家。邓布利多为什么现在要来看他呢？几个星期之后，他就要返校，邓布利多为什么不能等一等呢？哈利六年级的学习似乎就这样出人意料地提前开始了……
而更加出人意料的事情还在接踵而至：邓布利多终于让斯内普教授如愿以偿，任命其担任黑魔法防御术课教师……哈利从教室的储藏柜里翻到一本魔药课本，它的前任主人是“混血王子”，从此哈利在神秘“王子”的帮助下成为“魔药奇才”……邓布利多开始了给哈利的单独授课，但奇怪的是，邓布利多却经常离开学校外出……在邓布利多的课上，哈利经历了几段关于少年伏地魔的惊心动魄的记忆，揭示了伏地魔不同寻常的身世之谜……
哈利隐隐觉得这一学期期内普教授和马尔福的关系发生了微妙变化，其中似乎别有一番隐情，而马尔福更是行踪诡秘……哈利试图揭穿马尔福的阴谋，但始终没有成功，直到马尔福把食死徒引进学校，斯内普对邓布利多校长举起了魔杖……

Makeup, as we know it, has only been commercially available in the last 100 years, but applying decoration to the face and body may be one of the oldest global social practices. In Face Paint, Lisa Eldridge reveals the entire history of the art form, from Egyptian and Classical times up through the Victorian age and golden era of Hollywood, and also surveys the cutting-edge makeup science of today and tomorrow. Face Paint explores the practical and idiosyncratic reasons behind makeup’s use, the actual materials employed over generations, and the glamorous icons that people emulate and how they achieved their effects. An engaging history of style, it is also a social history of women and the ways in which we can understand their lives through the prism and impact of makeup.