颇具人性的吸血鬼莱斯特有幸遇上了好人戴维和格伦琴,但不幸的是，他也遭遇了坏人詹姆斯。詹姆斯设下圈套盗走了莱斯特的万能鬼体并到处兴风作浪。在所有同类不愿对莱斯特施以援手的情况下,戴维帮助他收复“复地”并消灭了坏人詹姆斯。
本书作者安妮·赖斯在一次访谈中说,“本书最终成了一中无比生动的小说,它给我带来了极大的欢乐……我不得不坦白,对本书的过分热爱导致我在写作时不顾一切,致使本书的故事情节过于曲折。”

在元旦新年的守岁夜，伦敦有四个失意绝望的人：因为跟一个15岁少女上床而声败名裂的电视名人马丁；除了照顾自己严重残疾的成年儿子没有自己生活的中年妇女莫莲；因为姐姐几年前神秘失踪而一直走不出心理阴影的少女杰丝；和乐队解散、女友分手的美国摇滚歌手JJ。他们都想到著名的“礼帽大厦”楼顶跳楼自杀，四人在楼顶不期而遇。他们一起度过了一个晚上，讲述各自不幸的遭遇，第二天一早各自回家，但从此形成了一个奇怪的四人小团体，开始发生各种各样有趣的事情，比如他们试图挽救马丁的婚姻，结果一团糟；他们组成读书会，专门讨论自杀的作家们，他们还计划不周地匆匆去金丝雀群岛旅行……

这是一本老少咸宜、令人百看不厌、回味无穷的好书，这本书的作者是一位热爱自然及尊重动物个性的人。作者在她念小学的时候，曾经自己收拾行李，向妈妈要求她要独自到森林里去过一过冒险的生活。在妈妈的支持下她的确是背起了背包，奔向她向往已久的森林里了，但是离家之後的四十分钟，她就自 动回家了。为了满足自己与大自然合而为一的理想，作者写下了这本“山中岁月”。因为她相信：几乎每个人都会有那种想要躲到遥远的山林或小岛上过着平静生活的念头。
你曾有过离家出走的冲动吗？男孩山姆离开了纽约的父母，来到山中。他住在树洞里，学会分辨可食用的植物，捕捉小动物，观测天气。猎鹰“克星”，小鼹鼠“男爵”是他的伙伴……
小主人公山姆在父母的同意下，带着最简单的野外生存工具，离开大都市，回到曾祖父拥有的已经荒废的克斯奇山的农场，尝试独立的野外生活。他住在树洞里，学会分辨可食用的植物，捕捉小动物，观测天气，和小鼹鼠“男爵”成为了伙伴，渐渐地掌握了独立生存的本领，成为了荒山的真正主人。春去秋来，日子一天天愉快的过去，冬天就要来临了，小山姆能扛过野外的寒冬吗？最后的结局将会是什么呢？打开书吧！保证你会得到一个意外的结局。
这本书的主角名字叫山姆。山姆原本是纽约市里一个十四、五岁的男孩，家里有四个姊妹、四个兄弟和爸妈，全家共十一个人，住在一栋公寓里。爸爸是水手，喜欢广大无边际的海洋，不喜欢陆地。偏偏梭罗对曾祖父遗留下来的卡兹奇山地心生向往。但任谁都知道那是一片被荒废了百年几乎没有人烟了的山地森林。有一年的五月，山姆在爸妈的允许下，带着必要的工具，进入了森林独自生活。而一开始就发生困难了，山姆必须设法升火煮饭，必须做一个可以栖息的窝。夜幕低垂了，四周的动物叫声显得既恐怖又吵杂。在泪水和颤抖中，山姆顾不得自己的面子奔向山林里唯一可见的亮光人家，昏沉沉的睡着了。这个屋主就是山姆第一位山林朋友，也就是教他如何生火的老人。山姆猜想，卡兹奇山上在夏天里，可能有些钓鱼的或是打猎的人会路过这山区，他花了好几天功夫，终於在隐密的山林里找到一棵铁杉的枯树心。他把树心挖空，做了一个能睡觉的“窝”。日子一天天的过去了，山姆凭着敏锐的观察力和来自图书馆的常识，克服了许多生活上的困难。为了寻找食物来源，他学会了分辨植物，并且仔细观察、模仿小动物的摄食行为。他甚至训练了一只小老鹰做他的刺探。冬天里，为了御寒，他必须学着制作动物皮革毛衣、盖冰屋或是和其他强势动物争食。为了生活更舒适顺利，他必须观测气象、预测天气，为第二天的生活做最万全的准备。山姆已经属於这片森林的了，甚至它能解读森林里动物朋友们的叫声或是举动，来预测即将要发生的事。偶而，山姆必须下山去图书馆找资料，因为他的穿着特异，引发了记者的好奇。随着好奇的人们上山来，森林里一切都走了样了，人群的声音把山姆安静的世界全都遮盖了。山姆的朋友告诉他：“面对现实吧！你根本不可能跟别人完全不同。你若要坚持与众不同，别人就开始注意你，别人知道这块净土以後，就会开始搬过来了，这样和你搬回城里去又有什麽不同呢？”。山姆的妈妈也告诉他：“等你成年以後，你喜欢去那儿就去那儿，目前我还有义务要照顾你，让你在山林独居是不合法的。”为了让爸妈成为法律上尽责任的父母亲；为了不让人群把可爱的动物们赶入深山，山姆最後还是决定保留卡兹奇山原来的模样，随着父母回家了。这本“山中岁月”，是山姆在山林里独自冒险的生活笔记。我看了又看，我想山姆能成功的应付丛林森活，应该是得利於经常上图书馆的关系。你猜得到他在森林里生活时，最感到可怕的是什麽吗？那就是被猎人当作花鹿来追杀啊！因为他当时穿着自己做的鹿皮衣！！你知道，只要是森林里会移动的目标，猎人都不会放过的。各位同学，这本书值得你看！要记得做什麽事之前，都得要有充份的准备，事情才能顺利成功喔！

Hugh Laurie concocts an uproarious cocktail of comic zingers and over-the-top action in this "ripping spoof of the spy genre" "(Vanity Fair)" -- the irresistible tale of a former Scots Guard-turned-hired gun, a freelance soldier of fortune who also happens to be one heck of a nice guy.Cold-blooded murder just isn't Thomas Lang's cup of tea. Offered a bundle to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts to warn the intended victim instead -- a good deed that soon takes a bad turn. Quicker than he can down a shot of his favorite whiskey, Lang is bashing heads with a Buddha statue, matching wits with evil billionaires, and putting his life (among other things) in the hands of a bevy of femmes fatales. Up against rogue CIA agents, wannabe terrorists, and an arms dealer looking to make a high-tech killing, Lang's out to save the leggy lady he has come to love...and prevent an international bloodbath to boot.

There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst the swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.' Thus Bram Stoker, one of the greatest exponents of the supernatural narrative, describes the demonic subject of his chilling masterpiece Dracula, a truly iconic and unsettling tale of vampirism.

A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who involuntarily travels through time, and Clare Abshite, an artist whose life take a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate affair endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that test the strength of fate and basks in the bonds of love.

《龙枪编年史》里的英雄会疲倦、会流泪，也会犯错。他们的世界也是充满了冲突、歧视以及不平等的待遇。与其他人不同的只是，他们决定反抗，反抗阶级上的歧视，反抗精灵对人类的仇恨，反抗骑士僵硬死板的荣誉体制；他们牺牲了自己可能拥有的一切，只为了争取他们认为正确的价值。
在龙枪的世界克莱恩中，不再“从此之后过着幸福快乐的日子”。克莱恩不是童话世界，故事中的每个人都会流血，都有可能为了达到自己的目标而牺牲。英雄将不再是谈笑用兵的无敌强者，他们大多数是背负着诅咒，和宿命搏斗的悲剧英雄。
《龙枪编年史》在结构上虽属小说，但是当初在美国出版时，其功能是比产偏向工具书的。20世纪80年代，在美国的青少族群中，非常流行一种纸上冒险游戏，类似《大富翁》游戏，但进行方式截然不同。这类桌上游戏比较著名的是TSR公事所发明的《龙与地下城》系列，而TSR公司发行的《龙枪编年史》小说其实是当作这部游戏的背景故事，让玩者能够更切身体会游戏的感觉。尽管如此，《龙枪编年史》在欧美奇幻文学史上仍然占有一席之地。

"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy -- exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling-- does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father's tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies. Perhaps it is story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing rags for diapers, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner and gathering coal from the roadside to light a fire, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors--yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness. Angela's Ashes , imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion, is a glorious book that bears all the marks of a classic.

一本即将步入中年的男子的爱情告白书，一个撞毁沉埋于深海之中的情爱黑匣子，一部男人完成从幼稚到成熟的蜕变历程的心智写真。
在北伦敦的一条小巷里，36岁的洛·弗莱明拥有一家小小的二手唱片行。在三年同居之后，他的女友萝拉弃他而去，搬离他塞满唱片、录音带、CD收藏的家。洛开始依照年代排序，列出他自己有生以来最伤心难过的被甩者“失恋排行榜”，在慧黠而充满反讽的自我嘲谑当中，如同以一张张唱片专辑名称、歌名和曲目排列顺序撰写生命传记一样，洛的生命就在其中流动……

《芒果街上的小屋》是一本优美纯净的小书，一本“诗小说”。它由几十个短篇组成，一个短篇讲述一个人、一件事、一个梦想、几朵云，几棵树、几种感觉，语言清澈如流水，点缀着零落的韵脚和新奇的譬喻，如一首首长歌短调，各自成韵，又彼此钩连，汇聚出一个清晰世界，各样杂沓人生。所有的讲述都归于一个叙述中心：居住在芝加哥拉美移民社区芒果街上的女孩埃斯佩朗莎（埃斯佩朗莎，是西班牙语里的希望）。生就对弱的同情心和对美的感觉力，她用清澈的眼打量周围的世界，用美丽稚嫩的语言讲述成长，讲述沧桑，讲述生命的美好与不易，讲述年轻的热望和梦想，梦想着有一所自己的房子，梦想着在写作中追寻自我，获得自由和帮助别人的能力。

《不能承受的生命之轻》是米兰·昆德拉最负盛名的作品。小说描写了托马斯与特丽莎、萨丽娜之间的感情生活。但它不是一个男人和两个女人的三角性爱故事，它是一部哲理小说，小说从“永恒轮回”的讨论开始，把读者带入了对一系列问题的思考中，比如轻与重、灵与肉。
《不能承受的生命之轻》是一部意象繁复的书，其中装载了多种涵义：被政治化了的社会内涵的揭示、人性考察、个人命运在特定历史与政治语境下的呈现，以及对两性关系本质上的探索等。昆德拉将这些元素糅合在一起，写成一部非同凡响的小说——其中既有隐喻式的哲学思考，也有人的悲欢离合的生命历程的展现。

In his eagerly awaited fourth novel, "New York Times"-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line. Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives. In four distinct and riveting first-person voices, Nick Hornby tells a story of four individuals confronting the limits of choice, circumstance, and their own mortality. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances. Intense, hilarious, provocative, and moving, "A Long Way Down" is a novel about suicide that is, surprisingly, full of life. " What's your jumping-off point? Maureen Why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this marvelous place when you pass on. And the one thing you can do to get you there a bit quicker is something that stops you getting there at all. Oh, I can see that it's a kind of queue-jumping. But if someone jumps the queue at the post office, people tut. Or sometimes they say "Excuse me, I was here first." They don't say "You will be consumed by hellfire for all eternity." That would be a bit strong. Martin I'd spent the previous couple of months looking up suicides on the Internet, just out of curiosity. And nearly every single time, the coroner says the same thing: "He took his own life while the balance of his mind was disturbed." And then you read the story about the poor bastard: His wife was sleeping with his best friend, he'd lost his job, his daughter had been killed in a road accident some months before . . . Hello, Mr. Coroner? I'm sorry, but there's no disturbed mental balance here, my friend. I'd say he got it just right. Jess I was at a party downstairs. It was a shit party, full of all these ancient crusties sitting on the floor drinking cider and smoking huge spliffs and listening to weirdo space-out reggae. At midnight, one of them clapped sarcastically, and a couple of others laughed, and that was it-Happy New Year to you, too. You could have turned up to that party as the happiest person in London, and you'd still have wanted to jump off the roof by five past twelve. And I wasn't the happiest person in London anyway. Obviously. JJ New Year's Eve was a night for sentimental losers. It was my own stupid fault. Of course there'd be a low-rent crowd up there. I should have picked a classier date-like March 28, when Virginia Woolf took her walk into the river, or November 25 (Nick Drake). If anybody had been on the roof on either of those nights, the chances are they would have been like-minded souls, rather than hopeless f*ck-ups who had somehow persuaded themselves that the end of a calendar year is in any way significant. "