Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practical...(展开全部)

My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker - and more difficult to get out of the carpet - than water... When Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what's expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This'll be the third boyfriend Ayoola's dispatched i...(展开全部)

哈兰•科本，美国神秘悬疑小说教父级人物。代表作品有《死亡拼图》、《林中迷雾》、《守口如瓶》、《沉默猎杀》、《别无选择》。 克林顿最喜欢的畅销书作家，《达芬奇密码》作者丹布朗的伯乐。 第一位包揽国际最权威的埃德加•爱伦•坡奖、莎姆斯奖和安东尼奖的美国作家。 第一位入选图书奥斯卡（英国年度图书奖）的美国人。 科本的作品已经至少以二十二种语言出版，发行达三十二个国家和地区。每一部作品都是世界范围的畅销书。 周鹰，毕业于四川大学英国语言文学专业，数次出人联合国教科文组织关于世界自然遗产审批与考察的首席翻译，2002年以来从事翻译工作。主要译作有《放胆求生》、《白宫追杀令》、《以血成书》。

An explosive new stand-alone thriller from #1 "New York Times" bestseller Harlan Coben Wendy is a reporter on a mission: She's chasing down the lowest of the low-sexual predators-and exposing them on national television. Her big break comes when she nails a child advocate who works with abused and underserved children. She's there, cameras rolling, when the cops cuff him and t...(展开全部)

This taboo-breaking book deepens the understanding of the death of one's parents through the experiences of the author, a daughter of Holocaust survivors. Her parents never communicated their imprisonment experiences, causing Lydia Flem to grow up in a stifling silence that was finally broken upon their deaths as she emptied the old house. She discovers that the lonely process ...(展开全部)

Award-winning and world-renowned design firm IDEO uses a hallmarked process of first-hand observation and experimentation to inform and inspire its innovative work. Now, at long last, IDEO reveals these working methods for idea and product development. Each of the 16 experiments in this book posses an unexpected question: What if your watch could tell time slowly or quickly? Ea...(展开全部)

Ignorance is bliss, or so hopes Antoine, the lead character in Martin Page’s stinging satire, How I Became Stupid—a modern day Candide with a Darwin Award–like sensibility. A twenty-five-year-old Aramaic scholar, Antoine has had it with being brilliant and deeply self-aware in today’s culture. So tortured is he by the depth of his perception and understanding of himself and the...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 A 2009 Caldecott Honor Book Having fled from war in their troubled homeland, a boy and his family are living in poverty in a strange country. Food is scarce, so when the boy’s father brings home a map instead of bread for supper, at first the boy is furious. But when the map is hung on the wall, it floods their cheerless room with color. As the boy studies its ev...(展开全部)

A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2011! A picture-book delight by a rising talent tells a cumulative tale with a mischievous twist. The bear's hat is gone, and he wants it back. Patiently and politely, he asks the animals he comes across, one by one, whether they have seen it. Each animal says no, some more elaborately than others. But just as the bear ...(展开全部)

Mo Willems continues hisbest-selling Elephant and Piggie first reader series. The books feature two lovable and funny characters: an optimistic (andsometimes reckless) pig and a cautious, pessimistic elephant. Children who sat on their parents’ laps to have Pigeon read to them will eagerly take the plunge with these books to start reading on their own.Each book has been vetted...(展开全部)