Hal is a mild-mannered IRS bureaucrat who suspects that his wife is cheating with her younger, more virile coworker. At a drunken dinner party, Hal volunteers to fly to Belize in search of Susan's employer, T. the protagonist of Lydia Millet's much-lauded novel How the Dead Dream who has vanished in a tropical jungle, initiating a darkly humorous descent into strange and unpred...(展开全部)

Ghost Lights stars an IRS bureaucrat named Hal a man baffled by his wife s obsession with her young employer, T., and haunted by the accident that paralyzed his daughter, Casey. In a moment of drunken heroism, Hal embarks on a quest to find T. the protagonist of Lydia Millet s much-lauded novel How the Dead Dream who has vanished in a jungle. On his trip to Central America, Hal...(展开全部)

For fans of The Farewell, this graceful and indelible debut about love, grief, and family welcomes you into its pages and invites you to linger, staying with you long after you've closed its covers. How do you grieve, if your family doesn’t talk about feelings? This is the question the unnamed protagonist of Ghost Forest considers after her father dies. One of the many Hong Kon...(展开全部)

Adam Lang has been Britain's longest serving and most controversial prime minister of the last half century. And now that he's left office, he's accepted one of history's largest cash advances to compose a tell-all (or at least, tell-some) memoir of his life and years of power. As pressure mounts for Lang to complete this magnum opus, he hires a professional ghostwriter to fini...(展开全部)

Adam Lang has been Britain's longest serving and most controversial prime minister of the last half century. And now that he's left office, he's accepted one of history's largest cash advances to compose a tell-all (or at least, tell-some) memoir of his life and years of power. As pressure mounts for Lang to complete this magnum opus, he hires a professional ghostwriter to fini...(展开全部)

With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient , Booker Prize—winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing. Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now fo...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 On the day of her father's funeral, twenty-eight-year-old Clarissa Iverton discovers that he wasn't her biological father after all. Her mother disappeared fourteen years earlier, and her fiancé has just revealed a life-changing secret to her. Alone and adrift, Clarissa travels to mystical Lapland, where she believes she'll meet her real father. There, at a hotel made ...(展开全部)

在父亲的葬礼上，二十八岁的克莱丽莎感到深深的孤独。她有一个发育不完全的弟弟，从不会开口说话，她的母亲在十四年前就离家出走，从此音讯全无，留下孤单的克莱丽莎一人，随波逐流。可是克莱丽莎翻寻家族的一些文件时，无意中看到了自己的出生证，而上面列出的父亲却是一个陌生人。 原来她并非死去父亲的亲生女儿，而她唯一可以信赖的人——她的未婚夫也早已知情，却始终把她蒙在鼓里。那一天，克莱丽莎世界里所有的信念都变成了虚构和谣言，她无法忍受这场“长达十五年的背叛”，于是飘然远走，搭上前往赫尔辛基的飞机，再北行至北极圈里的拉普兰，去寻找母亲的下落，探询自己的身世之谜。 那是一个昼短夜长，满是驯鹿的世界，克莱丽莎相信母亲就是在那里与亲生父亲相遇的。她踏着母亲的足迹，寻找着她们之间的联系。在一个太阳照不到、却被北极光笼罩的地方，克莱丽莎找到拉普兰一位当地的牧师，老人交给了她寻找...(展开全部)

You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don’t know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot’s family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight.