Jack McEvoy is a Denver crime reporter with the stickiest assignment of his career.His twin brother, homicide detective Sean McEvoy, was found dead in his car from a self-inflicted bullet wound to the head--an Edgar Allen Poe quote smeared on the windshield.Jack is going to write the story.The problem is that Jack doesn't believe that his brother killed himself, and the more in...(展开全部)

Duration: 03:30:49 Don't miss this acclaimed audiobook, read by the author—winner of an Odyssey Honor and an AudioFile Earphones Award winner! The Poet X is also the winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award. Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for this astonishin...(展开全部)

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers—especially after she catches ...(展开全部)

In The Poet Zheng Zhen (1806-1864) and the Rise of Chinese Modernity, J. D. Schmidt provides the first detailed study in a Western language of one of China's greatest poets and explores the nineteenth-century background to Chinese modernity, challenging the widely held view that this is largely of Western origin. The volume contains a study of Zheng's life and times, an examina...(展开全部)

克斯汀•唐尼著有《罗斯福新政背后的女性》，该书入选了2009年《洛杉矶时报》图书奖最终名单。她是《纽约时报》畅销书《经济危机调查报告》的作者之一，曾是《华盛顿邮报》雇员作者。2008年，《华盛顿邮报》因对弗吉尼亚理工大学校园枪击案的报道获得普利策奖，唐尼对此亦有贡献。她 是2001年哈佛大学尼曼奖学金获得者。她的丈夫是尼尔•华纳•埃弗莱特，他们有五个孩子。

克斯汀•唐尼著有《罗斯福新政背后的女性》，该书入选了2009年《洛杉矶时报》图书奖最终名单。她是《纽约时报》畅销书《经济危机调查报告》的作者之一，曾是《华盛顿邮报》雇员作者。2008年，《华盛顿邮报》因对弗吉尼亚理工大学校园枪击案的报道获得普利策奖，唐尼对此亦有贡献。她 是2001年哈佛大学尼曼奖学金获得者。她的丈夫是尼尔•华纳•埃弗莱特，他们有五个孩子。

The world of the samurai, the legendary elite warrior cult of old Japan, has long been associated solely with military history and has remained a mystery to the general reader. In this paperback edition, Stephen Turnbull, the world's leading authority on the samurai, goes beyond the battlefield to paint a picture of the samurai as they really were. This book explores the samura...(展开全部)

Erich Auerbach’s Dante: Poet of the Secular World is an inspiring introduction to one of world’s greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and still provocative essay in the history of ideas. Here Auerbach, thought by many to be the greatest of twentieth-century scholar-critics, makes the seemingly paradoxical claim that it is in the poetry of Dante, supreme among religi...(展开全部)

Dave was an extraordinary artist, poet, and potter living in South Carolina in the 1800s. He combined his superb artistry with deeply observant poetry, carved onto his pots, transcending the limitations he faced as a slave. In this inspiring and lyrical portrayal, National Book Award nominee Laban Carrick Hill's elegantly simple text and award-winning artist Bryan Collier's res...(展开全部)