Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community. Months earlier, Martha do...(展开全部)

托马斯·W.汉肖（Thomas W. Hanshew，1857―1914），美国作家和演员，出生于纽约的布鲁克林。他十六岁时就登台演出，演艺生涯持续了一段时间后，他在伦敦与出版机构合作，开始了文学创作。其中，部分小说是他与妻子玛丽·E.汉肖共同完成的。他笔下最著名的人物是汉密尔顿·克里克侦探，这位侦探因为善于伪装而被称为“千面人”。

肯尼思•利布莱希特，就职于美国加利福尼亚州帕萨迪纳的加州理工大学，是一名物理系教授，在那里他学习了晶体生长的分子动力学，专攻冰晶如何由水蒸气生长出来，本质上这就是雪花的物理学。他曾经撰写过雪花这一主题的很多书， 堪称雪花界的大师。

BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND GRAND MASTER LAWRENCE BLOCK RETURNS TO HIS DEADLIEST HITMAN A man named Nicholas Edwards lives in New Orleans renovating houses, doing honest work and making decent money at it. Between his family and his stamp collection, all his spare time is happily accounted for. Sometimes it's hard to remember that he used to kill people for a living. But when the na...(展开全部)

BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND GRAND MASTER LAWRENCE BLOCK RETURNS TO HIS DEADLIEST HITMAN A man named Nicholas Edwards lives in New Orleans renovating houses, doing honest work and making decent money at it. Between his family and his stamp collection, all his spare time is happily accounted for. Sometimes it's hard to remember that he used to kill people for a living. But when th...(展开全部)

Keller is a regular guy. He goes to the movies, works on his stamp collection. Call him for jury duty and he serves without complaint. Then every so often he gets a phone call from White Plains that sends him flying off somewhere to kill a perfect stranger. Keller is a pro and very good at what he does. But the jobs have started to go wrong. The realization is slow coming yet, ...(展开全部)

A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession - with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then she is thirty years old, a teacher married to an executive, mother of two infant sons. She looks after their nice apartment, raises her children. An...(展开全部)

One woman's story of the miseries of motherhood and matrimony. In this semi-autobiographical work, Renaux describes her teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and the need to fulfill her ambition in her chosen profession.

A Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession - with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then she is thirty years old, a teacher married to an executive, mother of two infant sons. She looks after their nice apartment, raises her children. An...(展开全部)

Two Frenchmen, an idea, and a blank piece of paper. That's how it started. Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg are the creators of the multi-award-winning and much-loved musicals Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Martin Guerre and now an exciting new work The Pirate Queen. Les Miserables alone has been seen by over 53 million people. The Musical World of Boublil and Schonberg ...(展开全部)