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Bret Harte's witty, sometimes heart-rending tales of frontier California earned him acclaim during the 1860s as the new prophet of American letters. His books, The Luck of Roaring Camp, The Outcasts of Poker Flat and M'liss, helped establish the foundations of western American fiction. Contents: Maruja; the stories from Drift From Two Shores and By Shore and Sedge; and Thankful Blossom. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

The book begins where Roses are Red ended, with Dr. Alex Cross at the home of murdered FBI Agent Betsey Cavalierre. Alex is in her room when his cellphone rings. Alex answers and the Mastermind is on the line. He tells Alex that he killed Cavalierre to toy with Alex. He's going to kill his grandmother and his children, and John Sampson, Cross' best friend and partner, who was watching over Nana Mama, Damon and Janelle, cannot stop him. Alex hangs up and calls Sampson, telling him what happened. Sampson tells Alex that the Mastermind can try but will not succeed. Alex is rushing home when the Mastermind calls him back and tells Cross that his family is safe for the moment. He warns Alex that he's next. Elsewhere, in San Francisco, California, a man and a woman jog through a Golden Gate Park. As they jog, the woman, Martha Wiatt, hears some kind of growling behind them. As they both run faster, she gains some distance between her and her boyfriend, Davis O'Hara. Then, she hears her boyfriend screaming behind her, and runs for help. She sees a van driving by, flags it down, and two people get out. They tell her that she and her boyfriend were chosen. The last thing she sees before dying are vampires. Later, Kyle Craig calls Alex about a similarity between two murders in San Francisco and a murder in Washington DC that they’d worked on a few months before. The case involved a runaway girl that was found hung from a light fixture in a hotel room. The FBI requests that he go to San Francisco to meet Inspector Jamilla Hughes. First, Alex takes Jannie and Ali to school but tells them he'll be back for Damon's choir concert. Kyle Craig calls him to make sure he received the information he had faxed. On the flight, he reviews the details of the murders, which include being hung with the blood drained, and remembers that the little runaway girl in DC had died in exactly the same way. Jamilla picks Cross up at the airport. She takes him to the morgue to see the bodies. A friend of hers, Dr. Allan Pang (a dental expert)is examining the bites on the victims. After reviewing the bites, he deduces that the man was bitten and mauled by a tiger and the girl was bitten by humans.

An anchor is a forged piece of iron, admirably adapted to its end, and technical language is an instrument wrought into perfection by ages of experience, a flawless thing for its purpose. An anchor of yesterday (because nowadays there are contrivances like mushrooms and things like claws, of no particular expression or shape - just hooks) - an anchor of yesterday is in its way a most efficient instrument.

1:1 [hgb]  奉 神 旨 意 ， 作 基 督 耶 稣 使 徒 的 保 罗 ， 写 信 给 在 以 弗 所 的 圣 徒 ， 就 是 在 基 督 耶 稣 里 有 忠 心 的 人 。      [kjv]  Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:     [bbe]  Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the purpose of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and those who have faith in Christ Jesus: 1:2 [hgb]  愿 恩 惠 平 安 ， 从 神 我 们 的 父 ， 和 主 耶 稣 基 督 ， 归 与 你 们 。      [kjv]  Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.     [bbe]  Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

《兔子休息了》从侧面描写美国作为一个“后自然”(postnatural)国家，其大地所拥有的资源差不多已被消耗一空了。在小说的结尾，已五十五岁的主人公“兔子”哈利·安斯特罗姆眺望佛罗里达州一处疗养地的风景时，他透过那天堂般的外表，看到其中的衰败和污染。在这些“危险的风景” (riskscape，美国当代地理学家苏珊·卡特杜撰了这一词，来形容空气中漂浮的毒气对自然风景的侵害)中，哈利看到成排的棕榈树由于遭受干旱而枯死，  看到蓝色的天空被“喷气飞机喷出的烟雾所污染”，看到“紫外线正把人体的扁平细胞烤成癌细胞”，看到“空气中弥漫的烟雾使人难以呼吸”。

1:1 [hgb]  提 阿 非 罗 阿 ， 我 已 经 作 了 前 书 ， 论 到 耶 稣 开 头 一 切 所 行 所 教 训 的 ，    [kjv]  The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,    [bbe]  I have given an earlier account, O Theophilus, of all the things which Jesus did, and of his teaching from the first,1:2 [hgb]  直 到 他 借 着 圣 灵 吩 咐 所 拣 选 的 使 徒 ， 以 后 被 接 上 升 的 日 子 为 止 。    [kjv]  Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:    [bbe]  Till the day when he was taken up to heaven after he had given his orders, through the Holy Spirit, to the Apostles of whom he had made selection:

Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus' journey home from the Trojan War has inspired writers from Virgil to James Joyce. Odysseus survives storm and shipwreck, the cave of the Cyclops and the isle of Circe, the lure of the Sirens' song and a trip to the Underworld, only to find his most difficult challenge at home, where treacherous suitors seek to steal his kingdom and his loyal wife, Penelope. Favorite of the gods, Odysseus embodies the energy, intellect, and resourcefulness that were of highest value to the ancients and that remain ideals in out time. In this new verse translation, Allen Mandelbaum--celebrated poet and translator of Virgil's Aeneid and Dante's Divine Comedy--realizes the power and beauty of the original Greek verse and demonstrates why the epic tale of The Odyssey has captured the human imagination for nearly three thousand years.

《幸运符》是《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜榜首作家爱情小说圣手尼古拉斯·斯帕克思最“斯帕克思味”的真爱之篇，一个男人与死亡擦身而过，命运的力量却引领他找到一生的挚爱。在战火纷飞的伊拉克，前美国海军陆战队队员蒂伯在废墟里捡到一张照片，照片上一个年轻女人微笑着。自此，洛根经历了一连串好运：不仅赢了纸牌游戏，还在战场上屡屡化险为夷。他最好的朋友维克多对此了解释——这张照片带给他幸运。回到家乡后，蒂伯穿过半个美国，终于找到了照片上的女人——单身妈妈伊丽莎白。他被这个女人深深吸引，在迎接崭新爱情的同时，独自体会着他所承担的过去。蒂伯把照片和好运的故事当作秘密隐藏了起来。 然而这个秘密不仅会毁灭了他们的爱情，更毁了他们的生活…… 在这部作品中，尼古拉斯·斯帕克思为我们讲述了一个让人难以忘怀的故事——一个男人与死亡擦身而过，命运却引领他找到一生的挚爱。故事充满了温情、浪漫，却又不失恐怖和悬疑，被誉为为尼古拉斯·斯帕克思的巅峰之作。

One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore: Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white--a poor white of the very poorest. From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. The details, however, are a bit fuzzy, consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine hundred devils.'" In the meantime, Kim amuses himself with intrigues, executing "commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion." His peculiar heritage as a white child gone native, combined with his "love of the game for its own sake," makes him uniquely suited for a bigger game. And when, at last, the long-awaited colonel comes along, Kim is recruited as a spy in Britain's struggle to maintain its colonial grip on India. Kipling was, first and foremost, a man of his time; born and raised in India in the 19th century, he was a fervid supporter of the Raj. Nevertheless, his portrait of India and its people is remarkably sympathetic. Yes, there is the stereotypical Westernized Indian Babu Huree Chander with his atrocious English, but there is also Kim's friend and mentor, the Afghani horse trader Mahub Ali, and the gentle Tibetan lama with whom Kim travels along the Grand Trunk Road. The humanity of his characters consistently belies Kipling's private prejudices, and raises Kim above the mere ripping good yarn to the level of a timeless classic.