When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes. Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering secrets. To an old friend and older adversary. It leads the former Chief of Homic...(展开全部)

The Sunday Times Bestseller A new assessment of the West’s colonial record In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet empire in 1989, many believed that we had arrived at the ‘End of History’ – that the global dominance of liberal democracy had been secured forever. Now however, with Russia rattling its sabre on the borders of Europe and China rising to challenge the post-194...(展开全部)

Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiveness of images of torture, horror, and war has all but demolished the twentieth-century hope that such imagery might shock us into a less alienated state, or aid in the creation of a just social order. What to do now? When to look, when to turn away? Genre-busting author Maggie Nel...(展开全部)

After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There--after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fourteen she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patr...(展开全部)

After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There--after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fourteen she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patr...(展开全部)

A National Book Award finalist’s unforgettable account of raising her children abroad with the help of Chinese and Indian women who are also working mothers When Megan Stack left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have a baby and work from her home in Beijing writing a book, she quickly realized that childcare and housework would consume the time she needed to wr...(展开全部)

作者苏珊·克莱伯德，是“科伦拜恩枪击案”中迪伦·克莱伯德的母亲。事发后的数年里，她仔细反省了家庭生活的细枝末节，试图理解精神健康障碍与暴力行为之间的交叉联系。她没有被哀伤打垮，相反，逐步成为了一名推动者，全力投入到推进精神健康意识和疾病干预活动中去，并且成效卓著。本书的全部收益将捐献给专注精神健康议题研究的慈善机构和组织。

作者苏珊·克莱伯德，是“科伦拜恩枪击案”中迪伦·克莱伯德的母亲。事发后的数年里，她仔细反省了家庭生活的细枝末节，试图理解精神健康障碍与暴力行为之间的交叉联系。她没有被哀伤打垮，相反，逐步成为了一名推动者，全力投入到推进精神健康意识和疾病干预活动中去，并且成效卓著。本书的全部收益将捐献给专注精神健康议题研究的慈善机构和组织。

Alistair MacLeod musters all of the skill and grace that have won him an international following to give us No Great Mischief , the story of a fiercely loyal family and the tradition that drives it. Generations after their forebears went into exile, the MacDonalds still face seemingly unmitigated hardships and cruelties of life. Alexander, orphaned as a child by a horrific tr...(展开全部)

The definitive work on Stalin's purges, Robert Conquest's The Great Terror was universally acclaimed when it first appeared in 1968. Edmund Wilson hailed it as "the only scrupulous, non-partisan, and adequate book on the subject." George F. Kennan, writing in The New York Times Book Review, noted that "one comes away filled with a sense of the relevance and immediacy of old que...(展开全部)