FEAR NOTHING

作者：  Dean Koontz　著

出版社：Random House US 2011-12-1

简介：　　Christopher Snow is the best-known resident of 12,000-strongMoonlight Bay, California. This is because 28-year-old Chris hasxeroderma pigmentosum (XP)--a light-sensitivity so severe that hecannot leave his house in daylight, cannot enter a normally-litroom, cannot sit at a computer. Chris's natural element is thenight, and his parents, both academics, chose to live in MoonlightBay because in a small town Chris can make the nightscape hisown--roaming freely through the town on his bike, surfing in themoonlight, exploring while most people sleep. But Chris's brilliantmother, a scientist, was killed in a car accident 2 years ago, andas the book opens his father, Steven Snow, is dying of cancer;Chris's protected life is about to change forever. We meet Chris ashe is carefully preparing himself to go out in the late-afternoonsun to visit the hospital. In his last moments of life his fathertells Chris he is "sorry" and that Chris should "fearnothing"--cryptic words that Chris cannot really relate to. StevenSnow's body is removed to the hospital basement for transport tothe funeral home/crematorium, and when Chris goes downstairs for afinal moment of farewell, he witnesses a frightening andclandestine encounter: the funeral director and another man Chrisdoesn't recognize are substituting the body of a hitchhiker forSteven Snow's body-which is being taken not to the crematorium butto some secret destination. For Chris, this scene is the firstintimation of a conspiracy that he will come to realize envelopesmany of his townspeople. His parents knew of it and wanted toprotect Chris from it. His best friend has had hints of somethingwrong because of the frightening nocturnal visitors that have cometo his beachhouse. And the first person to try to explain to Chriswhat's going on--and warn him about the special danger he himselfis in--will be hideously murdered. In the 24 hours this bookencompasses, Christopher Snow will find out that, sheltered thoughhe's been, he has the soul of a fighter and an adventurer. By theend of the book he will have killed a man, will have discovered therole his own mother played in the birth of the conspiracy, willhave come to recognize the extraordinary guardians that, unknown tohim, have watched over him for years. He will realize that somepeople hate him, others revere him, and neither his own life northose of anyone he knows will ever be the same.

Little Golden Book Collection: Farm Tales [Hardcover] 农场故事 ISBN 9780375839429

作者：  本社 编

出版社：Random House US 2011-12-1

简介：There's nothing like a Little Golden Book--and everyone's farmfavorites are to be found in this deluxe collection. Beautifullybound, this choice crop of farm tales features such unforgettablestories as "The Jolly Barnyard, The Animals of Farmer Jones," and"The Shy Little Kitten" . . . plus some new favorites, too A truevalue from Golden Books.

SATURDAY

作者：  Ian McEwan　著

出版社：Random House US 2011-12-1

简介：　　In his triumphant new novel, Ian McEwan, the bestsellingauthor of "Atonement, "follows an ordinary man through a Saturdaywhose high promise gradually turns nightmarish. Henry Perowne-aneurosurgeon, urbane, privileged, deeply in love with his wife andgrown-up children-plans to play a game of squash, visit his elderlymother, and cook dinner for his family. But after a minor trafficaccident leads to an unsettling confrontation, Perowne must setaside his plans and summon a strength greater than he knew he hadin order to preserve the life that is dear to him.

CHESAPEAKE

作者：  James A. Michener　著

出版社：Random House US 2011-12-1

简介：　　"Michener's most ambitious work of fiction in theme andscope."THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER"Brilliantly written."ASSOCIATEDPRESSOnce again James A. Michener brings history to life with this400-year saga of America's great bay and its Eastern Shore.Following Edmund Steed and his remarkable family, who parallel thesettling and forming of the nation, CHESAPEAKE sweeps readers fromthe unspoiled world of the Native Americans to the voyages ofCaptain John Smith, the Revolutionary War, and right up to moderntimes.

CONNECTICUT YANKEE/KING ARTHUR

作者：  Mark Twain　著

出版社：Random House US 2011-12-1

简介：　　Hank Morgan awakens one morning to find he has beentransported from nineteenth-century New England to sixth-centuryEngland and the reign of King Arthur and the Knights of the RoundTable. Morgan brings to King Arthur's utopian court the ingenuityof the future, resulting in a culture clash that is at oncesatiric, anarchic, and darkly comic. Critically deemed one ofTwain's finest and most caustic works, A Connecticut Yankee in KingArthur's Court is both a delightfully entertaining story and adisturbing analysis of the efficacy of government, the benefits ofprogress, and the dissolution of social mores. It remains aspowerful a work of fiction today as it was upon its firstpublication in 1889.

RABBIT, RUN

作者：  John Updike　著

出版社：Random House US 2011-12-1

简介：　　Harry Angstrom was a star basketball player in high school andthat was the best time of his life. Now in his mid-20s, his work isunfulfilling, his marriage is moribund, and he tries to findhappiness with another woman. But happiness is more elusive than amedal, and Harry must continue to run--from his wife, his life, andfrom himself, until he reaches the end of the road and has to turnback....

FOUNDATION, FOUNDATION AND EMP

作者：  Isaac Asimov　著

出版社：Random House US 2011-12-1

简介：　　Isaac Asimov’s seminal Foundation trilogy—one of thecornerstones of modern speculative fiction—in a single hardcovervolume.　　It is the saga of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelvethousand years of rule. And it is the particular story ofpsychohistorian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see the horrorsthe future has in store—a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, andviolence that will last for thirty thousand years. Gathering a bandof courageous men and women, Seldon leads them to a hidden locationat the edge of the galaxy, where he hopes they can preserve humanknowledge and wisdom through the age of darkness.　　In 1966, the Foundation trilogy received a Hugo Award for BestAll-Time Series, and it remains the only fiction series to havebeen so honored. More than fifty years after their originalpublication, the three Foundation novels stand as classics ofthrilling, provocative, and inspired world-building.

JURASSIC PARK

作者：  Crichton　著

出版社：Random House US 2011-12-1

简介：　　An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaurDNA has been discovered. Creatures once extinct now roam JurassicPark, soon-to-be opened as a theme park. Until something goeswrong...and science proves a dangeroustoy...."Wonderful...Powerful."THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD "Fromthe Paperback edition."

MORALITY FOR BEAUTIFUL GIRLS

作者：  Alexander McCall Smith 　著

出版社：Random House US 2011-12-1

简介：In Morality for Beautiful Girls, Precious Ramotswe, founder andowner of the only detective agency for the concerns of both ladiesand others, investigates the alleged poisoning of the brother of animportant " Government Man, " and the moral character of the fourfinalists of the Miss Beauty and Integrity Contest, the winner ofwhich will almost certainly be a contestant for the title of MissBotswana. Yet her business is having money problems, and when otherdifficulties arise at her fianc?' s Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors,she discovers the reliable Mr J.L.B. Matekoni is more complicatedthen he seems.

NEMESIS

作者：  Isaac Asimov 著

出版社：Random House US 2011-12-1

简介：In the twenty-third century pioneers have escaped the crowdedearth for life in self-sustaining orbital colonies. One of thecolonies, Rotor, has broken away from the solar system to createits own renegade utopia around an unknown red star two light-yearsfrom Earth: a star named Nemesis. Now a fifteen-year-old Rotoriangirl has learned of the dire threat that nemesis poses to Earth'speople--but she is prevented from warning them. Soon she willrealize that Nemesis endangers Rotor as well. And so it will be upto her alone to save both Earth and Rotor as--drawn inexorably byNemesis, the death star--they hurtle toward certain disaster.

SONNETS & NARR POEMS-SHAKESP

作者：  William Shakespeare 　著

出版社：Random House US 2011-12-1

简介：(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) If William Shakespeare hadnever written a single play, if his reputation rested entirely uponthe substantial and sterling body of nondramatic verse he leftbehind, he would still hold the position he does in the hierarchyof world literature. The strikingly modern ?sonnets-intimate,baroque, and expansive at once; the invigorating narratives drawnfrom classical subjects; and the flawless lyricism represented by apoem like "The Phoenix and the Turtle"-permanently deepen ourunderstanding of the multiplicity and extravagant energy of ourgreatest poet.

HOT ICE

作者：  Nora Roberts 著

出版社：Random House US 2011-12-1

简介：Reckless Whitney MacAllister possesses all the wealth and beautyevery woman dreams of. Streetwise Douglas Lord has the good looksand quick wits to be a success at his chosen profession: larceny.She has the cash and the connections.He has the stolen documentsleading to a fabulous hidden fortune.It is a business proposition,pure and simple. But the race to find the treasure, from Manhattanto Madagascar, is only part of the game. For their fierce anddangerous attraction to each other soon threatens to overwhelmthem-unless their merciless and shadowy rivals kill them first.

SACRED SINS

作者：  Nora Roberts　著

出版社：Random House US 2011-12-1

简介：　　Combining explosive suspense with sensual passion, NoraRoberts turns up the heat in this classic tale -- the sizzlingstory of a man and woman on the trail of a demented killer, asearch that will plunge them headlong into danger.... In the lazydays of summer, a merciless heat wave is the biggest story inWashington, D.C. But the weather is knocked off the front pageswhen a young woman is found strangled to death. A note left behindreads "Her sins are forgiven her." Two more victims soon follow,and suddenly every headline is devoted to the killer the press hasdubbed "the Priest." When the police ask top-notch psychiatrist Dr.Tess Court to help with their investigation, she comes up with adisturbing portrait of a twisted soul. Detective Ben Paris doesn'tgive a damn about the killer's psyche. What he can't easily dismissis Tess. Tall, dark, and good-looking, Ben has a legendaryreputation with women, but the coolly elegant Tess doesn't react tohim like other women he's known -- and he finds the challengeenticing. Now, as the two are thrown together in a perilous questto stop a serial killer, the flame of white-hot passion flares. Butsomeone also has his eyes on the beautiful blond doctor ... and Bencan only pray that if the madman strikes, he'll be able to stop himbefore it's too late....

Platypus! 鸭嘴兽 ISBN 9780375824173

作者：  Ginjer L. Clarke　著

出版社：Random House US 2011-12-1

简介：　　Dive and swim. Spin and swoop. The platypus loves toplay!　　Beginning readers will dive right into this simple, Step 2nonfiction book about one of the most unique animals on earth.