An old woman is dying of cancer in Cape Town. A classics professor, Mrs Curren has always been opposed to the brutality of apartheid, but has lived insulated from its true horrors. Now she is suddenly forced to come to terms with the iron-hearted rage that the system has wrought. In an extended letter addressed to her daughter, who has long since fled to America, Mrs Curren rec...(展开全部)

Tony Stark has returned from space with a vision of a better world. But who is his secret ally? Tony mysteriously shrugs his crime-fighting duties onto P.E.P.P.E.R. and focuses his energies on the grand unveiling of Troy, Tony's Iron Metropolitan city of tomorrow! What could go wrong? Well, Pepper could meet P.E.P.P.E.R., or discover Tony's family secret - or both! And if the M...(展开全部)

Tony Stark has returned from space with a vision of a better world. But who is his secret ally, what is his secret resource - and who would try to stop him? It's the grand unveiling of the core of Troy, Tony's Iron Metropolitan city of tomorrow! What could go wrong? Well, Pepper could meet P.E.P.P.E.R., or discover Tony's family secret...or both! And if the Mandarin is truly de...(展开全部)

Tony Stark has returned from space with a vision of a better world. But who is his secret ally? Tony mysteriously shrugs his crime-fighting duties onto P.E.P.P.E.R. and focuses his energies on the grand unveiling of Troy, Tony's Iron Metropolitan city of tomorrow! What could go wrong? Well, Pepper could meet P.E.P.P.E.R., or discover Tony's family secret - or both! And if the M...(展开全部)

Tony Stark has returned from space with a vision of a better world. But who is his secret ally, what is his secret resource - and who would try to stop him? It's the grand unveiling of the core of Troy, Tony's Iron Metropolitan city of tomorrow! What could go wrong? Well, Pepper could meet P.E.P.P.E.R., or discover Tony's family secret...or both! And if the Mandarin is truly de...(展开全部)

William Kent Krueger joined the ranks of today's best suspense novelists with this thrilling, universally acclaimed debut. Conjuring "a sense of place he's plainly honed firsthand in below-zero prairie" "(Kirkus Reviews), " Krueger brilliantly evokes northern Minnesota's lake country -- and reveals the dark side of its snow-covered landscape.Part Irish, part Anishinaabe Indian,...(展开全部)

Cork O'Connor has lost both his wife and his job as sheriff and falls into a profound emotional isolation. As a wild blizzard buries his lakeside town, a despised though influential resident is found dead, and a young Ojibwe Indian boy seems to have left home in a hurry. Cork has never taken Indian legends to heart, but when an old sage warns him that a cruel spirit with a hear...(展开全部)

Oil palms are ubiquitous—grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role in scores of packaged products, from lipstick and soap to margarine and cookies. And as Jonathan E. Robins shows, sweeping social transformations carried the plant around the planet. First brought to the global stage in the holds of sl...(展开全部)

Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China s foremost martial arts teacher.