In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational corporation that has developed an astoundin...(展开全部)

Michael Crichton's new novel opens on the threshold of the twenty-first century. It is a world of exploding advances on the frontiers of technology. Information moves instantly between two points, without wires or networks. Computers are built from single molecules. Any moment of the past can be actualized -- and a group of historians can enter, literally, life in fourteenth-ce...(展开全部)

An old man wearing a brown robe is found wandering disoriented in the Arizona desert. He is miles from any human habitation and has no memory of how he got to be there, or who he is. The only clue to his identity is the plan of a medieval monastery in his pocket. So begins the mystery of Timeline, a mystery that will catapult a group of young scientists back to the Middle Age...(展开全部)

查尔斯·狄更斯，十九世纪英国最著名的现实议作家，一生写有十多部长篇小说。他写作《雾都孤儿》时，年仅二十五岁。这部小说曾被改编、拍摄成多种电影、电视片，放映和播映，影响广泛、深远。他一生写有十多部长篇小说，被称为杰出的语言大师。他擅长运用讽刺、幽默和夸张的手法，他笔下的人物风貌和语言风格，都富有浓厚的浪漫主义特色。《雾都孤儿》（即《奥立弗·退斯特》）是狄更斯的一部伟大的社会小说，在世界文学史上占有重要的位置。 《雾都孤儿》是狄更斯的第一部社会批判小说。富人的弃婴奥利佛在孤儿院里挣扎了9年，又被送到棺材店老板那儿当学徒。难以忍受的饥饿、贫困和侮辱，迫使奥利佛逃到伦敦，又被迫无奈当了扒手。他曾被富有的布莱罗先生收留，不幸让小扒手发现又入贼窝。善良的女扒手南希为了营救奥利佛，不顾贼头的监视和威胁，向布莱罗报信，说奥利佛就是他找寻已久的外孙儿。南希被贼窝头目杀...(展开全部)

查尔斯·狄更斯，十九世纪英国最著名的现实议作家，一生写有十多部长篇小说。他写作《雾都孤儿》时，年仅二十五岁。这部小说曾被改编、拍摄成多种电影、电视片，放映和播映，影响广泛、深远。他一生写有十多部长篇小说，被称为杰出的语言大师。他擅长运用讽刺、幽默和夸张的手法，他笔下的人物风貌和语言风格，都富有浓厚的浪漫主义特色。《雾都孤儿》（即《奥立弗·退斯特》）是狄更斯的一部伟大的社会小说，在世界文学史上占有重要的位置。 《雾都孤儿》是狄更斯的第一部社会批判小说。富人的弃婴奥利佛在孤儿院里挣扎了9年，又被送到棺材店老板那儿当学徒。难以忍受的饥饿、贫困和侮辱，迫使奥利佛逃到伦敦，又被迫无奈当了扒手。他曾被富有的布莱罗先生收留，不幸让小扒手发现又入贼窝。善良的女扒手南希为了营救奥利佛，不顾贼头的监视和威胁，向布莱罗报信，说奥利佛就是他找寻已久的外孙儿。南希被贼窝头目杀...(展开全部)

A penguin has wings for a reason . . . doesnÕt he? Having a best friend with his own airplane is one thing, but actually experiencing what it feels like to fly by himself? Here is one penguin who believes this is precisely what he needs to feel complete. Only . . . if flying by himself is so wonderful, then why does he feel so empty? Because some experiences are better shared....(展开全部)

In this much-anticipated sequel to the internationally best-selling picture book Lost and Found, we re-visit the boy and the penguin after their trip to the South Pole! All seems well between the two friends, who enjoy spending time together, playing their favourite game! That is, until the penguin starts getting ideas above his station, wanting to fly, while ignoring the boy's...(展开全部)

In this much-anticipated sequel to the internationally best-selling picture book Lost and Found, we re-visit the boy and the penguin after their trip to the South Pole...The boy and the penguin still enjoy spending all their time together...That is, until the penguin starts to dream of flying, ignoring the boys advice that it is impossible. Running away, the penguin visits plac...(展开全部)

In this much-anticipated sequel to the internationally best-selling picture book Lost and Found, we revisit the boy and the penguin after their trip to the South Pole...The boy and the penguin still enjoy spending all their time together...That is, until the penguin starts to dream of flying, ignoring the boys advice that it is impossible. Running away, the penguin visits place...(展开全部)

Oliver Twist, subtitled The Parish Boy's Progress, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Naïvely unaware of their unlawful activities, Oliver is led to the lair of their elderly criminal trainer Fagin.