阿瑟·黑利（Arthur Hailey），1920出生于英格兰贝德福德郡卢顿区，1939年第二次世界大战爆发后，加入英国皇家空军，直至1947年定居加拿大。他所出版的作品在欧美国家获得了巨大的成功，被誉为“行业小说之王”。他的11部作品被翻译成40种文字，总印数超过1.7亿册。阿瑟·黑利称自己的大脑“无时无刻不在编织故事”，他擅长把日常的故事写成引人入胜的小说。他常以美国社会中的一些重要行业为故事背景，如金融业、医疗行业、交通运输、新闻传媒等。故事情节多半围绕先进与落后、革新与保守之间的斗争展开，主人公多为精通专业技术、事业心强、果敢坚决的中产阶级知识分子。他的作品在欧美国家获得了巨大的成功，其中《大饭店》甚至成了酒店管理专业学生必读的“教科书”。

Myron screwed up. His job was to protect someone. He fell in love with that someone and then she died. End of story. So he's dropped out, left, run away to the Caribbean to escape his guilt. But now everything that he left behind has come back to haunt him. A friend is in trouble, murder trouble. The victim? One of his own clients. In order to help his friend, Myron must battl...(展开全部)

His heart is broken. His partner is in jail. And someone is trying to kill him. Then Myron Bolitar gets some really bad news.... For sports agent Myron Bolitar, it seemed like the perfect vacation. A tropical beach. A warm breeze. A little uncomplicated passion with a woman he barely knows. Myron is almost in heaven when his friend Win shows up with a message that blasts him ...(展开全部)

傍にいられること以上に、もう何も望まない――。 大きな過ちを犯した秋沢は大好きな楠田の信頼を取り戻そうとして、セックスすることも自分の我が儘を押し通すこともやめ、まだ触れることもできない楠田の傍に少しでもいようと俳優の仕事の合間をぬってニューヨークに通う。 秋沢が来るたびに怯えつつも彼の変化を感じるようになった楠田は好きだった頃を思い出し、同時に彼にもう一度キスしたい、触れたいと思うようになる。 季節が巡ると共に少しずつ近づいていく二人の距離――。 楠田の身体と心はゆっくりと癒されていき、ついにベッドで秋沢と触れ合えるようになって……。 他、藤島の仕事や二人きりの旅行など、透と藤島の幸せなその後の番外短編と書き下ろしを加えた待望の完結編。 すべての人が幸せになるCOLDシリーズ感動の最終巻!

In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide...(展开全部)

In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide...(展开全部)

《死者》是爱尔兰知名作家詹姆斯·乔伊斯短篇小说代表作。 知识分子加布里埃尔在圣诞宴会后，因妻子格丽塔追忆病逝的旧情人而陷入精神顿。 结尾“整个爱尔兰都在下雪”的意象，将个人情感危机升华为对生死、爱情与民族命运的沉思，雪覆盖生者与死者的画面成为现代主义文学经典场景。

秋吉理香子，日本推理界炙手可热的新生代推理作家，毕业于早稻田大学文学系，获得美国罗耀拉玛丽蒙特大学电影电视制作硕士学位。2008年以《雪花》荣获第三届“Yahoo!日本文学奖”，2009年以收录该得奖作品的同名短篇小说集《雪花》正式踏入文坛。《暗黑女子》和《亡者在放学后归来》是她的两部长篇小说代表作。

One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. But now Poole has returned to life, awakening in a world far different from the one he left behind--and just as the Monolith may be...(展开全部)

One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. But now Poole has returned to life, awakening in a world far different from the one he left behind--and just as the Monolith may be...(展开全部)