Thirteen-year-old Meg envies her sister Molly's beauty and popularity, and these feelings make it difficult for her to cope with Molly's illness and death.

莎伦·考夫曼（Sharon R. Kaufman），加州大学旧金山分校健康与老年研究所、社会与行为科学系教授，人类学、历史和社会医学系主任。考夫曼的研究兴趣包括一些相互关联的主题，如老年认同、主体性与晚年生活的意义，社会变迁与医学文化的转型，美国医院文化与晚期病人的临终，生物科技与伦理、医疗实践的关系，老年医疗保险政策与卫生保健体系改革，以及生命本身的人类学。由此可见，她的研究涉及医学人类学和老年人类学的许多核心议题。

莎伦·考夫曼（Sharon R. Kaufman），加州大学旧金山分校健康与老年研究所、社会与行为科学系教授，人类学、历史和社会医学系主任。考夫曼的研究兴趣包括一些相互关联的主题，如老年认同、主体性与晚年生活的意义，社会变迁与医学文化的转型，美国医院文化与晚期病人的临终，生物科技与伦理、医疗实践的关系，老年医疗保险政策与卫生保健体系改革，以及生命本身的人类学。由此可见，她的研究涉及医学人类学和老年人类学的许多核心议题。

<b>A schoolteacher fights to prove that her father’s suicide was actually murder</b><br /><br /> Ann hasn’t seen her mother in 3 years, and she doesn’t miss her at all. But without warning, Elaine shows up on her daughter’s doorstep, dead broke and hungry for scotch. Ann’s father has just come into an inheritance, and Elaine wants every penny. After a few drinks, she stumbles o...(展开全部)

After two years at the Russian front, Ernst Graeber finally receives three weeks' leave. But since leaves have been canceled before, he decides not to write his parents, fearing he would just raise their hopes. Then, when Graeber arrives home, he finds his house bombed to ruin and his parents nowhere in sight. Nobody knows if they are dead or alive. As his leave draws to a clo...(展开全部)

When Zeina was born, the civil war in Lebanon had been going on for six years, so it's just a normal part of life for her and her parents and little brother. The city of Beirut is cut in two by bricks and sandbags, threatened by snipers and shelling. East Beirut is for Christians, and West Beirut is for Muslims. When Zeina's parents don't return from a visit to the other half o...(展开全部)

泽娜·阿比拉赫德，黎巴嫩艺术家。她的作品，大多都融入了自己年少时的战争经历，对焦战争中的普通人，虽在战争中艰难求生，却仍然不忘创造美好。其他代表作还有《东方钢琴》。

When Byrne and Susan Hollander are killed in a brutal home invasion, the whole city catches its collective breath. A few days later the killers turn up dead behind a locked door in Brooklyn. One has killed his partner, then himself. The city sighs with relief. The cops close the case.</p>Matt and Elaine Scudder were in the same room with the Hollanders hours before their deaths...(展开全部)

The German philosopher's examination of the development, nature, and importance of language.

作者簡介 泰絲．格里森 Tess Gerritsen 《史蒂芬．金談寫作》書單推薦作家，其著作為史蒂芬．金藏書必備 出版界競相邀請推薦的驚悚大師。 國內已引進的《別相信任何人》、《最後理論》、《貝塞尼家的姊妹》、《下流祕密俱樂部》……等書均不約而同邀請泰絲推薦，其地位可見一斑。 作品已譯成四十國語言，全球銷量高達三千萬冊 《出版人週刊》盛讚她為「醫學懸疑天后」（the medical suspense queen） 出生於加州聖地牙哥。母親是第一代華人移民，擁有華裔血統的她從小就喜歡窩在電影院看驚悚片，因而培養出她對黑暗主題的興趣，並反映在她後來撰寫的小說中。 泰絲畢業於名校史丹佛大學，而後繼續深造，最後取得加州大學舊金山分校醫學博士學位，於夏威夷檀香山展開她繁忙的內科醫師生涯。熱愛寫作的她，結婚生子後為了照顧兩個幼兒減少工作量，並開始嘗試寫作。 一...(展开全部)