In this delightful story we meet Fritzl,a farmer who lives with his wife Liesi,their baby kinndli,and Spitz,their dog.Fritzl works hard in the fields every day.Liesi works hard all day,too,but Fritzl somehow feels that he works harder.

Boston private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find four-year-old Amanda Cready. Despite extensive news coverage and dogged investigation into her abduction, the police have uncovered nothing. And as the Indian summer fades, Amanda McCready stays gone – vanished so completely that she seems never to have existed. Then a second child d...(展开全部)

In this delightful story we meet Fritzl,a farmer who lives with his wife Liesi,their baby kinndli,and Spitz,their dog.Fritzl works hard in the fields every day.Liesi works hard all day,too,but Fritzl somehow feels that he works harder.

COMEDY, TRAGEDY, THERAPY Simon Amstell did his first stand-up gig at the age of thirteen. His parents had just divorced and puberty was confusing. Trying to be funny solved everything. HELP is the hilarious and heartbreaking account of Simon’s ongoing compulsion to reveal his entire self on stage. To tell the truth so it can’t hurt him any more. Loneliness, anxiety, depression ...(展开全部)

COMEDY, TRAGEDY, THERAPY Simon Amstell did his first stand-up gig at the age of thirteen. His parents had just divorced and puberty was confusing. Trying to be funny solved everything. HELP is the hilarious and heartbreaking account of Simon’s ongoing compulsion to reveal his entire self on stage. To tell the truth so it can’t hurt him any more. Loneliness, anxiety, depression ...(展开全部)

The tough neighborhood of Dorchester is no place for the innocent or the weak. A territory defined by hard heads and even harder luck, its streets are littered with the detritus of broken families, hearts, dreams. Now, one of its youngest is missing. Private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro don't want the case. But after pleas from the child's aunt, they open an ...(展开全部)

Roberto Arlt (1900-1942), celebrated in Argentina for his tragicomic, punch-in-the-jaw writing during the 1920s and 1930s, was a forerunner of Latin American "boom" and "postboom" novelists such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende. "Mad Toy", Arlt's most acclaimed novel, is set against the chaotic background of Buenos Aires in the early twentieth century. Set in the ba...(展开全部)

Roberto Arlt (1900-1942), celebrated in Argentina for his tragicomic, punch-in-the-jaw writing during the 1920s and 1930s, was a forerunner of Latin American 'boom' and 'postboom' novelists such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende. "Mad Toy", Arlt's most acclaimed novel, is set against the chaotic background of Buenos Aires in the early twentieth century. Set in the ba...(展开全部)

A soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past, and what we choose to leave behind. Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher—was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sl...(展开全部)

In the second breathtaking volume of Robin Hobb's Liveship Traders trilogy, a new tide of glory and terror sweeps forward the story of the Vestrit clan, their liveship Vivacia, and all who strive to possess her. As the ancient tradition of Bingtown's Old Traders slowly erodes under the cold new order of a corrupt ruler, the Vestrits anxiously await the return of their liveship...(展开全部)