Amid the harsh landscape of the Ozark Hills, sixteen-year-old Ree is taking care of her mother and two brothers. Her father has put their house up as bail and if he doesn't show up at court it'll be sold from under them. To save her family she needs to track him down but in a community riven with long-running feuds getting answers isn't easy.

'Shadow and Bone’ is Peter Levi’s first collection of poems since 'Private Ground’ (1981), apart from two small books of 'lamentations’ – formal elegies for friends – 'The Echoing Green’ and 'Shakespeare’s Birthday’. It is a rich and diverse collection, varied in subject and verse-forms. There are sequences about railway posters and America, poems for friends and fellow scholar...(展开全部)

Mitsuhiro Matsunaga is an investor relations manager at a large development firm that’s currently in the process of constructing a new high-rise building. After claims surface online of fires breaking out, illness spreading, and human bones unearthed at the site, he ventures there himself to find out whether there’s any truth to the rumors. During his search, he detects an eeri...(展开全部)

1912. Webster was a grandniece of Mark Twain. She was interested in social work, especially the fields of childcare and prison reform, but her main occupation was writing. She wrote a number of short stories and novels for younger readers including her most famous work, Daddy- Long-Legs. In Daddy-Long-Legs Jerusha Abbot is an orphan with a wicked pen and penetrating insight. La...(展开全部)

Hilary and Mark Bradley are trapped in a web of suspicion. Last year, accusations of a torrid affair with a student cost Mark his teaching job and made the young couple into outcasts in their remote island town off the Lake Michigan coast. Now another teenage girl is found dead on a deserted beach. . . and once again, Mark faces a hostile town convinced of his guilt. Hilary B...(展开全部)

大卫·米切尔，英国著名作家，欧美文学界公认的新一代小说大师。1969年生于英格兰伍斯特郡，在肯特大学主修英美文学、比较文学。曾在日本广岛担任工程系学生的英文教师八年。 米切尔博采村上春树、奥斯特、卡尔维诺、博尔赫斯诸大师作品所长，自成一派，其作波诡云谲，灵气无穷。处女作《幽灵代笔》（1999）震撼欧美文学界，荣获莱斯文学奖，入围《卫报》处女作奖决选；《九号梦》（2001）入围布克奖和詹姆斯·泰特·布莱克纪念奖决选，米切尔也因此书被评为英国优秀青年小说家；《云图》（2004）荣膺英国国家图书奖小说奖和理查与茱蒂读书俱乐部年度选书，同时入围布克奖、星云奖、克拉克奖决选，改编同名电影轰动全球；《绿野黑天鹅》（2006）获得美国图书馆协会青少年图书和《学校图书馆报》图书称号，入围科斯塔图书奖和《洛杉矶时报》图书奖；《雅各布·德佐特的千秋》（2010）问鼎英联...(展开全部)