Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom.

As their paths converge, and the reasons for that convergence become clear, Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder. Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world’s great storytellers at the peak of his powers.

Here is the third volume in George R. R. Martin's magnificent cycle of novels that includes A Game of Thrones and A Clash of Kings. As a whole, this series comprises a genuine masterpiece of modern fantasy, bringing together the best the genre has to offer. Magic, mystery, intrigue, romance, and adventure fill these pages and transport us to a world unlike any we have ever experienced. Already hailed as a classic, George R. R. Martin's stunning series is destined to stand as one of the great achievements of imaginative fiction.
A Storm of Swords
Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey, of House Lannister, sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the land of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, the victim of the jealous sorceress who holds him in her evil thrall. But young Robb, of House Stark, still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Robb plots against his despised Lannister enemies, even as they hold his sister hostage at King's Landing, the seat of the Iron Throne. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still left in the world....
But as opposing forces maneuver for the final titanic showdown, an army of barbaric wildlings arrives from the outermost line of civilization. In their vanguard is a horde of mythical Others--a supernatural army of the living dead whose animated corpses are unstoppable. As the future of the land hangs in the balance, no one will rest until the Seven Kingdoms have exploded in averitable storm of swords. . .

Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under the pen name "Currer Bell", on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, England. The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York.[citation needed]
Primarily a bildungsroman, Jane Eyre follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the Byronic master of Thornfield Hall. The focus is on the gradual unfolding of Jane's moral and spiritual sensibility, and Jane Eyre revolutionised the art of fiction in the way that all the events are coloured by a heightened intensity that was previously the domain of poetry. Charlotte Brontë has been called the 'first historian of the private consciousness' and the literary ancestor of writers like Proust and Joyce. The novel contains elements of social criticism, with a strong sense of Christian morality at its core, and is considered by many to be ahead of its time because of Jane's individualistic character and how the novel approaches the topics of class, sexuality, religion, and feminism.

<b>Could you survive on your own in the wild, with every one out to make sure you don't live to see the morning?</b><br /><br />In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.<br /><br />Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before—and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weight survival against humanity and life against love.

<b>Sparks are igniting.<br />Flames are spreading.<br />And the Capitol wants revenge.</b><br /> <br />Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol—a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create. <br /><br />Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest that she's afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she's not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can't prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying.<br /><br />In <i>Catching Fire</i>, the second novel of the Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins continues the story of Katniss Everdeen, testing her more than ever before . . . and surprising readers at every turn.

<b>My name is Katniss Everdeen.<br />Why am I not dead?<br />I should be dead.</b><br /><br />Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Katniss's family is safe. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. District 13 really does exist. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding.<br /><br />It is by design that Katniss was rescued from the arena in the cruel and haunting Quarter Quell, and it is by design that she has long been part of the revolution without knowing it. District 13 has come out of the shadows and is plotting to overthrow the Capitol. Everyone, it seems, has had a hand in the carefully laid plans—except Katniss.<br /><br />The success of the rebellion hinges on Katniss's willingness to be a pawn, to accept responsibility for countless lives, and to change the course of the future of Panem. To do this, she must put aside her feelings of anger and distrust. She must become the rebels' Mockingjay—no matter what the personal cost.

《Cloud Atlas》（《云图》，2004）是大卫.米切尔的第三部小说。这本书由六段故事构成，从1840年一位美国人从悉尼旅行到旧金山的日记、二十世纪三十年代初居住在比利时的年轻作曲家、1975年卷入加利福尼亚灾难的年轻记者、当今伦敦出版回忆录的黑道、1984年韩国发生的故事与一个老人叙述当时在夏威夷的青春自语为终结。 《Cloud Atlas》入围2004年布克奖（Man Booker Prize）。

这是一部奇特有趣的女性职场小说，不陷入目前市场上任何一部职场小说的窠臼，不大惊小怪地描述外企优越感，不涉及耸人听闻的职场阴谋，不触碰自说自话的情感纠葛……
米娅，一个有点二百五，有点唠叨的姑娘，毕业于国内最高学府，进入一家世界500强的外企工作。她经历了6个老板，每个老板的脾气和性格各不相同，有对她抵触和厌恶的，也有对她欣赏和保护的，她在和不同老板的既斗争也合作的过程中，逐渐从一个职场新人，成为一个心有城府的职业女性。但是唯有一点不变，米娅认为工作需要讲求投入产出比，而聪明地“混”是最好的方式。米娅的两位女朋友各自拥有不同的职业态度和理想，能“混”的米娅和最没有事业心的朋友成为升职最快的人，而聪明勤奋、企图心强的另一位朋友则落于下风。这本书既有美剧六人行之幽默，也深含对企业与人、资本的秉性等诸多方面的矛盾有严肃的思考。

Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-year-old novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationary shop in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of eerie premonitions and bewildering events that threaten to destroy his marriage and undermine his faith in reality. A novel that expands to fill volumes in the reader's mind, Oracle Night is a beautifully constructed meditation on time, love, storytelling and the imagination by one of America's boldest and most original writers.

A profound mystery is at the heart of this magnificent new novel by Yiyun Li, “one of America’s best young novelists” (Newsweek) and the celebrated author of The Vagrants, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Moving back and forth in time, between America today and China in the 1990s, Kinder Than Solitude is the story of three people whose lives are changed by a murder one of them may have committed. As one of the three observes, “Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime.”
When Moran, Ruyu, and Boyang were young, they were involved in a mysterious “accident” in which a friend of theirs was poisoned. Grown up, the three friends are separated by distance and personal estrangement. Moran and Ruyu live in the United States, Boyang in China; all three are haunted by what really happened in their youth, and by doubt about themselves. In California, Ruyu helps a local woman care for her family and home, and avoids entanglements, as she has done all her life. In Wisconsin, Moran visits her ex-husband, whose kindness once overcame her flight into solitude. In Beijing, Boyang struggles to deal with an inability to love, and with the outcome of what happened among the three friends twenty years ago.
Brilliantly written, a breathtaking page-turner, Kinder Than Solitude resonates with provocative observations about human nature and life. In mesmerizing prose, and with profound insight, Yiyun Li unfolds this remarkable story, even as she explores the impact of personality and the past on the shape of a person’s present and future.

All new and original to this volume, the 21 stories in Dangerous Women include work by twelve New York Times bestsellers, and seven stories set in the authors’ bestselling continuities—including a new “Outlander” story by Diana Gabaldon, a tale of Harry Dresden’s world by Jim Butcher, a story from Lev Grossman set in the world of The Magicians, and a 35,000-word novella by George R. R. Martin about the Dance of the Dragons, the vast civil war that tore Westeros apart nearly two centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones.
Also included are original stories of dangerous women--heroines and villains alike--by Brandon Sanderson, Joe Abercrombie, Sherilynn Kenyon, Lawrence Block, Carrie Vaughn, S. M. Stirling, Sharon Kay Penman, and many others.
Writes Gardner Dozois in his Introduction, “Here you’ll find no hapless victims who stand by whimpering in dread while the male hero fights the monster or clashes swords with the villain, and if you want to tie these women to the railroad tracks, you’ll find you have a real fight on your hands. Instead, you will find sword-wielding women warriors, intrepid women fighter pilots and far-ranging spacewomen, deadly female serial killers, formidable female superheroes, sly and seductive femmes fatale, female wizards, hard-living Bad Girls, female bandits and rebels, embattled survivors in Post-Apocalyptic futures, female Private Investigators, stern female hanging judges, haughty queens who rule nations and whose jealousies and ambitions send thousands to grisly deaths, daring dragonriders, and many more.”

Contains an all new exclusive short story by George R. R. Martin! An adaptation of Martin's hit novel, bringing the world of A Song of Ice and Fire to life in comic book form. Night falls over the life of one noble knight and brings the dawn of his squire's knighthood. Dubbing himself "Ser Duncan the Tall," "The Hedge Knight" sets forth to the tourney at Ashford Meadow in search of fame and glory and the honor of upholding his oath as a knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Unfortunately for him, the world isn't ready for a knight who keeps his oaths, and his chivalrous methods could be the very cause of his demise.

A story of unfulfilled love--dark and tormented, but affecting--John Irving's most political novel since "The World According to Garp."

《盗墓笔记》神秘莫测的上古神墓、海底船墓、天宫雪墓。传说中的血尸、粽子、海猴子现身千年古墓。盗墓世家传人与摸金校尉诡异奇骇的大斗法。南北各派盗墓术语秘技大揭密。首度展现深入海底神秘船葬古墓的盗墓小说。当前盗墓小说狂潮的始作俑者之一。
五十年前，一群长沙土夫子(盗墓贼)挖到一部战国帛书，残篇中记载了一座奇特的战国古墓的位置，但那群土夫子在地下碰上了诡异事件，几乎全部身亡。
五十年后，其中一个土夫子的孙子在先人笔记中发现了这个秘密，他纠集了一批经验丰富的盗墓高手前去寻宝。但谁也没有想到，这个古墓中竟然有着这么多诡异的事物：七星疑棺、青眼狐尸、九头蛇柏……
这神秘的墓主人到底是谁，他们到底能不能找到真正的棺椁？为什么墓中还有那么多谜团无法破解？
后来发现的海底诡异船墓、秦岭上的万年神木以及崇山峻岭中的天宫雪墓与这座古墓又有着怎样的关系？它们背后究竟隐藏着哪些千古之谜？
够胆量就看《盗墓笔记》。

考古学家孙教授深夜潜入博物馆，被胡八一发现。无可奈何之下。孙教授逐渐表露心迹：他多年研究发现，四川的确有明代观山太保修筑的地仙墓。观山太保靠盗墓发家，将所盗之异宝悉数埋藏于地仙墓中，此墓就好比是一座“古墓博物馆”。孙教授一辈子怀才不遇，总想在考古界做出惊天之举，找到地仙墓一定能让他扬眉吐气。
既然地仙墓中藏尽天下异宝，一定有救人性命的丹鼎。众人正苦于无从下手，哪知孙教授酒后吐出一段关于地仙村的民谚：“好个大王，有身无首；娘子不来，群山不开；烧柴起锅，煮了肝肺；凿井伐曲，问鬼讨钱：鸟道纵横，百步九问：欲访地仙，先找乌羊……”
这段民谚就像一位向导，引导着孙教授和胡八一等人一步步地接近地仙古墓。

“并不是一切都消失在了时间的长河里。那时，我们坚定地相信某种东西，拥有能坚定地相信某种东西的自我。这样的信念绝不会毫无意义地烟消云散”——十六年的彷徨迷惑，换来一场决然的巡礼之年，当最后一块拼图集齐，重回完满的正五边形，剩下最稀薄的人，重建大地。
人若真的受伤，通常会无法直视伤口，想隐 藏它忘却它，把心 门关起来。这是一个成长的故事。要成长，伤痛就得大一点，伤口就得深一点。——村上春树
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在名古屋上高中时，多崎作有四个非常要好的朋友，两男两女，他们的姓氏都带有色彩——“赤”、“青”、“白”、“黑”，唯独多崎作的姓名中没有色彩，也只有他离开名古屋到东京读大学。大二假期返乡之际，多崎作突然被四位朋友告知要绝交，对原因没有任何说明。他深受打击，几至形销骨立，许久许久才恢复过来。
十六年来，他们始终没有见面.如今已经三十六岁的多崎作，在女朋友的劝告下，终于下决心去拜访抛弃自己的四个朋友，弄清真相。由此开始他的“巡礼之年”。当最后一块拼图集齐，谜底揭开，十六年前的秘密、十六年间的变化，以及十六年后的结局，都令人唏嘘伤痛。

讲述了一个“借种生子”的故事：商界巨子王草根急需生个男孩传宗接代，岂料他的精子荡然无存；优生专家刘主任意外发现某俊男对性懵懂无知，竟然拥有绝佳精子；各方人马为这个号称一亿六的优异“人种”展开激烈的争夺战……