Elite Guardians bodyguard Haley Callaghan may be in South Carolina, but when a photo leads investigators in West Ireland to open a twenty-five-year-old cold case, her life is suddenly in danger. Haley

Winner of Newbery Honor,Wanda Gág's timeless tales tells of an old man who sets off in search of a beautiful cat to bring home as a companion for his wife.But instead of one cat,he comes back with"Hundreds of cats,thousands of cats,Millions and billions and trillions of cats"…

Wanda G‡g's enchanting tale of the very old man who went off in search of the prettiest cat in the world for his wife and returned instead with millions to choose from has become an American classic, widely recognized as the first modern picture book. First published in 1928, it was a recipient of the 1929 Newbery Honor Book Award and has gone on to sell over a million cop...(展开全部)

Winner of Newbery Honor,Wanda Gág's timeless tales tells of an old man who sets off in search of a beautiful cat to bring home as a companion for his wife.But instead of one cat,he comes back with"Hundreds of cats,thousands of cats,Millions and billions and trillions of cats"…

Best friends since college Leigh, Adriana, and Emmy are all immersed in busy, fabulous New York City lives that nonetheless afford them plenty of time to sit around watching Grey's Anatomy and moan to each other about their problems, chief among them the horrifying fact that they are all on the cusp of 30. Leigh, a hard-driving editor at a publishing house, fears she doesn't ac...(展开全部)

The phone messages waiting for Henry Pierce clearly aren't for him: "Where is Lilly? This is her number. It's on the site." Pierce has just moved into a new apartment, and he's been "chasing the dime"--doing all it takes so his company comes out first with a scientific breakthrough worth millions. But he can't get the messages for Lilly out of his head. As Pierce tries to help ...(展开全部)

Best friends since college Leigh, Adriana, and Emmy are all immersed in busy, fabulous New York City lives that nonetheless afford them plenty of time to sit around watching Grey's Anatomy and moan to each other about their problems, chief among them the horrifying fact that they are all on the cusp of 30. Leigh, a hard-driving editor at a publishing house, fears she doesn't ac...(展开全部)

The phone messages waiting for Henry Pierce clearly aren't for him: "Where is Lilly? This is her number. It's on the site." Pierce has just moved into a new apartment, and he's been "chasing the dime"--doing all it takes so his company comes out first with a scientific breakthrough worth millions. But he can't get the messages for Lilly out of his head. As Pierce tries to help ...(展开全部)

捷克作家博胡米尔•赫拉巴尔（Bohumil Hrabal，1914~1997），这位法学博士为自己设计的一生是这样的：大学毕业后服兵役，做推销员、仓库管理员、炼钢工、废纸回收站打包工、舞台布景工……四十九岁时第一部作品才得以出版，而此后获得国内、国际奖项有三十多个。他的作品多数被改编为话剧和电影。与小说《严密监视的列车》同名的电影于1966年获奥斯卡最佳外语片奖。根据另一部小说《售屋广告：我已不愿居住的房子》改编的电影《失翼灵雀》获1990年柏林影展最佳影片金熊奖。1997年2月3日，这位原本即将病愈出院的作家从医院五楼窗口坠落身亡。 赫拉巴尔的作品大多描写普通、平凡、默默无闻、被抛弃在“时代垃圾堆上的人”。他对这些底层人物寄予同情与爱怜，并且融入他们的生活，发现他们心灵深处的美。他的小说是最具捷克味的作品。

Conventional wisdom suggests that markets are efficient, random walks and that stock prices rise and fall with the fundamentals of the company. How then have black-box traders prospered and how do they exploit market inefficiencies? Are their strategies on their last legs or will they adapt to the new landscape amidst the global financial crisis? Chasing the Same Signals is a u...(展开全部)