Sixteen-year-old Amanda McCready has disappeared. Her anxious aunt contacts Patrick Kenzie to investigate. It is not the first time she has gone missing, as Patrick well knows - he was the investigator who worked on her case when she was kidnapped before, as a four-year-old. But this is not a simple case of a runaway girl. In fact, nothing in Amanda's life has been simple: brou...(展开全部)

Zanders Chicago hockey isn’t complete without me—everyone’s favorite player to hate. I know my role, and I play it well. In fact, I thoroughly enjoy spending the majority of my game time in the penalty box before leaving the arena with a new girl on my arm each night. What I don’t like is the new flight attendant on our team’s private plane. She works for me, not the other way ...(展开全部)

In 1867, John Muir, age twenty-eight, was blinded in an industrial accident. He lay in bed for two weeks wondering if he would ever see again. When his sight miraculously returned, Muir resolved to devote all his time to the great passion of his life -- studying plants. He quit his job in an Indiana manufacturing plant, said good-bye to his family, and set out alone to walk to ...(展开全部)

Here is the adventure that started John Muir on a lifetime of discovery. Taken from his earliest journals, this book records Muir's walk in 1867 from Indiana across Kentucky. Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida to the Gulf Coast. In his distinct and wonderful style, Muir shows us the wilderness, as well as the towns and people, of the South immediately after the Civ...(展开全部)

At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers as depraved as the psychotic "Billy the Kid" Wharton and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in "Old Sparky". Here, guards as decent as Paul Edgecombe and as sadistic as Percy Wetmore watch over them. But good or evil, innocent or guilty, none have ever seen the bru...(展开全部)

At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers as depraved as the psychotic "Billy the Kid" Wharton and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in "Old Sparky". Here, guards as decent as Paul Edgecombe and as sadistic as Percy Wetmore watch over them. But good or evil, innocent or guilty, none have ever seen the bru...(展开全部)

C'est décidé. Aujourd'hui, Émile est invisible. À midi, plus personne ne pourra le voir ! Pourquoi à midi ? Parce qu'à midi, maman aura cuisiné des endives. Des endives ! Mais c'est horrible, les endives ! De toute façon, ça fait longtemps qu'Émile avait envie d'être invisible, alors...

A killer who targets lonely women on cruise ships is at the center of Mary Higgins Clark s newest thriller You Belong to Me， a masterful combination of page-turning suspense and classic mystery. When Dr. Susan Chandler decides to use her daily radio talk show to explore the phenomenon of women who disappear and are later found to have become victims of killers who prey on the ...(展开全部)

玛丽·希金斯·克拉克 克拉克是当代难得一见的讲故事高手，被誉为“美国悬疑小说天后”，曾获得美国悬疑推理小说界最高荣誉“爱伦·坡奖之大师奖”。身为爱尔兰后裔的她。在纽约出生、成长，从1956年开始在杂志上发表作品，几乎每一本书都是排行榜上的常胜军，其成名作《我的孩子在哪里》在美国本土造成轰动后。又陆续出版了《后会谁说无期》等三十余部悬疑小说。 美国推理家协会于2001年发起以克拉克为名、由赛门舒斯特出版社赞助的奖项。用以鼓励最具类似悬疑风格的作家。1980年。她还荣获了法国推理文学大奖，作品蝉联法国畅销书排行榜冠军。她的作品仅在美国本土已经累计销售超过8000万册。直逼亿册大关，堪称当代悬疑小说界的重量级大师。