The bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tick For centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in Heart: A History, it was only recently that we demolished a...(展开全部)

桑迪普·乔哈尔是长岛犹太医疗中心心脏衰竭项目的负责人。他著有两部医学回忆录，并为报刊撰写专栏。两部医学回忆录均登上纽约时报畅销书榜。桑迪普现与妻子、儿女居于长岛。

米兰·昆德拉，小说家，出生于捷克斯洛伐克布尔诺；自1975年起，在法国定居。长篇小说《玩笑》、《生活在别处》、《告别圆舞曲》、《笑玩录》、《不能承受的生命之轻》和《不朽》，以及短篇小说集《好笑的爱》，原作以捷克文写成。最近出版的长篇小说《慢》、《身份》和《无知》，还有随笔集《小说的艺术》和《被背叛的遗嘱》，原作以法文写成。《雅克和他的主人》，系作者戏剧代表作。

米兰·昆德拉，小说家，出生于捷克斯洛伐克布尔诺；自1975年起，在法国定居。长篇小说《玩笑》、《生活在别处》、《告别圆舞曲》、《笑玩录》、《不能承受的生命之轻》和《不朽》，以及短篇小说集《好笑的爱》，原作以捷克文写成。最近出版的长篇小说《慢》、《身份》和《无知》，还有随笔集《小说的艺术》和《被背叛的遗嘱》，原作以法文写成。《雅克和他的主人》，系作者戏剧代表作。

Just before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing. While driving home exhausted, the boys are involved in a fatal car accident on a deserted road. Two of the boys are wearing seat belts; one goes through the windshield. The doctors declare him brain-dead shortly after arriving at the hospital, but his heart is still beating. The Heart takes place over the twen...(展开全部)

This hilarious, brilliantly inventive novel by the author of The Master and Margarita tells the story of a scroungy Moscow mongrel named Sharik. Thanks to the skills of a renowned Soviet scientist and the transplanted pituitary gland and testes of a petty criminal, Sharik is transformed into a lecherous , vulgar man who spouts Engels and inevitably finds his niche in the bureau...(展开全部)

Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way...(展开全部)

A Heart so White begins as, In the middle of a family lunch Teresa, just married, goes to the bathroom, unbuttons her blouse and shoots herself in the heart. What made her kill herself immediately after her honeymoon? Years later, this mystery fascinates the young newlywed Juan, whose father was married to Teresa before he married Juan's mother. As Juan edges closer to the trut...(展开全部)

Just before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing. While driving home exhausted, the boys are involved in a fatal car accident on a deserted road. Two of the boys are wearing seat belts; one goes through the windshield. The doctors declare him brain-dead shortly after arriving at the hospital, but his heart is still beating. The Heart takes place over the twen...(展开全部)

Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children No Solicitations No Visitors No Quests Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere... else. But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children. Nancy tumbled once, but ...(展开全部)