In a breathtaking, minute-by-minute format, December 8, 1980: The Day John Lennon Died follows the events leading to the horrible moment when Mark David Chapman calmly fired his Charter Arms .38 Special into the rock icon, realizing his perverse fantasy of attaining perennial notoriety. New York Times bestselling author Keith Elliot Greenberg takes us back to New York City and ...(展开全部)

A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary musician and songwriter. John Lennon was one of the greatest songwriters the world has ever known, creator of "Help!", "Come Together", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Imagine", and dozens more. But it was in his correspondences that he let his personality and poetry flow un...(展开全部)

A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary musician and songwriter. John Lennon was one of the greatest songwriters the world has ever known, creator of "Help!", "Come Together", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Imagine", and dozens more. But it was in his correspondences that he let his personality and poetry flow un...(展开全部)

A lifetime of letters, collected for the first time, from the legendary musician and songwriter. John Lennon was one of the greatest songwriters the world has ever known, creator of "Help!", "Come Together", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Imagine", and dozens more. But it was in his correspondences that he let his personality and poetry flow ungu...(展开全部)

閻連科 一九五八年生，河南省嵩縣田湖鎮人。一九七八年入伍，一九八五年畢業於河南大學政教系，一九九一年畢業於解放軍藝術學院文學系，二○○四年十月，由解放軍二炮創作室調任為北京作家協會專業作家。 一九七八年開始寫作，作品有長篇小說《日光流年》、《堅硬如水》、《受活》、《風雅頌》等七部，小說集《年月日》、《耙耬天歌》等十餘部，另有《閻連科文集》五卷。 曾獲第一、二屆魯迅文學獎，以《受活》獲第三屆老舍文學獎，並先後獲其他全國、全軍性文學獎二十多項，其作品也曾被翻譯成多種語言出版。

閻連科 一九五八年生，河南省嵩縣田湖鎮人。一九七八年入伍，一九八五年畢業於河南大學政教系，一九九一年畢業於解放軍藝術學院文學系，二○○四年十月，由解放軍二炮創作室調任為北京作家協會專業作家。 一九七八年開始寫作，作品有長篇小說《日光流年》、《堅硬如水》、《受活》、《風雅頌》等七部，小說集《年月日》、《耙耬天歌》等十餘部，另有《閻連科文集》五卷。 曾獲第一、二屆魯迅文學獎，以《受活》獲第三屆老舍文學獎，並先後獲其他全國、全軍性文學獎二十多項，其作品也曾被翻譯成多種語言出版。

康纳•奥克莱利（Conor O’Clery），曾为《爱尔兰时报》驻莫斯科、伦敦、北京、纽约、华盛顿通讯记者。因报道苏联解体和九一一事件，两次获选为爱尔兰年度最佳记者。另著有 The Billionaire Who Wasn’t。

The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the USSR; Boris Yeltsin, a coarse and a hard drinking “bulldozer,” wished to destroy the union and create a capita...(展开全部)

亨特•戴维斯，英国作家、记者和播音员。戴维斯著书超过四十部，创作范围广泛，包括小说、儿童故事、旅游、社会历史和体育。戴维斯的传记作品中包括有华兹华斯、哥伦布、斯蒂文森、波特小姐等，他也是披头士唯一授权的传记作者——1968年出版的授权传记《披头士》广受好评。身为记者，他曾在《星期日泰晤士报》、《潘趣》杂志和《卫报》工作多年。

'He heard Daddy one time saying he was a grand quiet boy to Mother when he thought Johnsey couldn't hear them talking. Mother must have been giving out about him being a gom and Daddy was defending him. He heard the fondness in Daddy's voice. But you'd have fondness for an auld eejit of a crossbred pup that should have been drowned at birth.' While the Celtic Tiger rages, and g...(展开全部)