Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley have been researching quarantine since long before the COVID-19 pandemic. With Until Proven Safe, they bring us a book as compelling as it is definitive, not only urgent reading for social-distanced times but also an up-to-the-minute investigation of the interplay of forces–––biological, political, technological––that shape our modern world. Qua...(展开全部)

John Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Si...(展开全部)

P. D. 詹姆斯（P. D. James, 1920—2014） 英国作家，被誉为“当代推理小说女王”，推理小说界两大至高终生成就奖——“钻石匕首奖”“大师奖”得主，也是继柯南•道尔、阿加莎•克里斯蒂之后，第三位被请进“世界推理小说名人堂”的作家。 P.D.詹姆斯的作品在推理性和文学性上都成就非凡：她前半生任职于医院、警局、刑法部门，积累了丰富素材；她拥有伦敦大学等八所高校的荣誉博士学位，曾担任英国作家协会会长，文学观深刻独到。 P.D.詹姆斯早年在刑法部门负责青少年犯罪案件，《无辜之血》深受这段经历的影响，以一个“寻母悲剧”探讨了血缘、救赎、自我认知的深刻主题。1980年，本书惊艳美国文坛，P.D.詹姆斯自此风靡大西洋彼岸，成为举世闻名的“推理女王”。

Innocent Blood (1980) is a crime novel by English writer P. D. James. Unlike her Adam Dalgliesh mysteries it is not a detective story but closer to a psychological thriller and was the first of James' novels to step outside the detective genre. (She had published a non-fiction account of a real crime, The Maul and the Pear Tree, in 1971.) It follows the story of a young woman s...(展开全部)

A gripping new novel from international bestseller Harlan Coben, author of the New York Times bestsellers Just One Look, No Second Chance, Gone for Good, and Tell No One.

The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize–winning author of “Love in the Time of Cholera” and “One Hundred Years of Solitude”. Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husba...(展开全部)

The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize–winning author of “Love in the Time of Cholera” and “One Hundred Years of Solitude”. Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husba...(展开全部)

Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One small dog. It’s just a normal weekend. What could possibly go wrong? In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty turns her unique, razor-sharp eye towards three seemingly happy families. Sam and Clementine have a wonderful, albeit busy, life: they have two little girls, Sam has just started a new dream job, and Clementine, a cellist, is bu...(展开全部)

In the wake of radical social movements in the 1960s and 1970s, literary studies’ embrace of politics entailed a widespread rejection of aesthetic considerations. For scholars invested in literature’s role in supporting or challenging dominant ideologies, appreciating literature’s formal beauty seemed frivolous and irresponsible, even complicit with the iniquities of the social...(展开全部)