In every story Clyde Clason has written he has woven his mystery around an unusual background of subject, and in this book, he surpassed himself. Nobody but he could so convincingly have woven into a modern American mystery story the strange customs and weird rites of colorful Tibet. Adam Merriweather, a Chicago collector, buys an eighth century sacred Tibetan manuscript. This ...(展开全部)

The Man From St Petersburg is a dark tale of family secrets and political consequences. Ken Follett's masterful storytelling brings to life the danger of a world on the brink of war. A Secret Negotiation 1914. Tensions are rising as Europe finds itself caught in a web of alliances and dangerous warmongering. To help tip the balance in their favour Britain aims to draw Russia in...(展开全部)

First published in 1934, "Border Town" brings to life the story of Cuicui, a young country girl coming of age during a time of national turmoil. Like any teenager, Cuicui dreams of romance and finding true love. She's spellbound by the local custom of nighttime serenades, and she is deftly pursued by two eligible brothers. But Cuicui is also haunted by the imminent death of her...(展开全部)

In Border Districts, a man moves from a capital city to a remote town in the border country, where he intends to spend the last years of his life. It is time, he thinks, to review the spoils of a lifetime of seeing, a lifetime of reading. Which sights, which people, which books, fictional characters, turns of phrase, and lines of verse will survive into the twilight? A dark-hai...(展开全部)

His name was Feliks. He came to London to commit a murder that would change history. He had many weapons at his command, but the most dangerous were the love of a beautiful young woman longing for the end of innocence, and the passion of a high-born lady demanding satisfaction at any price. Against him were ranged the whole of the English police, a brilliant and powerful lord, ...(展开全部)

The United States–Mexico border is neither the United States nor Mexico; it is rather a "third country," ten miles wide and two thousand miles long, that lies in between. This borderland, split by the Rio Grande and the border fence, is a place of transience and crossings—of people and goods as well as of ideas and beliefs. Noted photo-journalist Alex Webb has spent decades cov...(展开全部)

In this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five y ears previously, to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece. When she was a child, the border zone was rumored to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall, and it swarmed with soldiers and spies. On holidays i...(展开全部)

When Kapka Kassabova was a child, the borderzone between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece was rumoured to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall so it swarmed with soldiers, spies and fugitives. On holidays close to the border on the Black Sea coast, she remembers playing on the beach, only miles from where an electrified fence bristled, its barbs pointing in...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 卡帕卡·卡萨波娃（Kapka Kassabova）1973年出生于保加利亚首都索非亚，1992年时跟随家人移居新西兰，现居苏格兰。曾经出版小说《和平别墅》（Villa Pacifica）、回忆录《无名之街》（Street Without a Name）和《十二分钟的爱：探戈故事》（Twelve Minutes of Love: A Tango Story）。 . 【译者简介】 马娟娟，浙江人，国际关系学院毕业，曾在新闻媒体长期从事国际新闻工作，译有《软实力》《战略：一部历史》《以色列总理私人史》等作品。

By the renowned author of "Things Fall Apart, this novel foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between the two worlds.