Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and The Tenth Circle , pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy. Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens--until the day its complacency is shattered by an act of violence. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the j...(展开全部)

朱迪•皮考特（Jodi Picoult） 美国当代著名畅销书作家、小说家，连续5年入选“全美最受欢迎作家”。 1992年，以处女作Songs of the Humpback Whale崭露头角，其后陆续出版的作品无一不持续畅销，广受好评，其中《姐姐的守护者》一书为她带来世界级的声誉。此后，每有新作必速登《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》、亚马逊网站等畅销书排行榜前列。她的作品经常涉及诸多当下社会关注的尖锐话题：安乐死、青少年自杀、克隆、干细胞、死刑……这些话题总能随着小说的畅销在全美乃至全球引发关注。“朱迪•皮考特”也因此被美国《时代周刊》、英国《泰晤士报》等多家媒体和社会公众视为“畅销、争议与重大反响”的代名词。

Across the country, the revolutionary MindUP program, which was developed under the auspices of the Hawn Foundation, established by Goldie Hawn, is teaching children vital social and emotional skills. By understanding how their brains work, children discover where their emotions come from and become more self-aware. They learn to appreciate the sensory aspects of their lives an...(展开全部)

In 2003 Trent Parke began a road-trip around his native Australia, a monumental journey that was to last two years and cover a distance of over 90,000 km. Minutes to Midnight is the ambitious photographic record of that adventure, in which Parke presents a proud but uneasy nation struggling to craft its identity from different cultures and traditions. Minutes to Midnight merges...(展开全部)

In JUST LISTEN, veteran psychiatrist and business coach Mark Goulston reveals the secret to how to get through to anyone, even when productive communication seems impossible, and presents remarkably effective tools and techniques you can use whenever a job, a sale, or a relationship hangs in the balance. Goulston has proven these strategies during his own 30-year career as a bu...(展开全部)

In Just Kids, Patti Smith’s first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship, Smith brings the same unique, lyrical quality to J...(展开全部)

Smith's beautifully crafted love letter to her friend Robert Mapplethorpe functions as a memento mori of a relationship fueled by a passion for art and writing. Her elegant eulogy lays bare the chaos and the creativity so embedded in that earlier time and in Mapplethorpe's life and work.

Smith's beautifully crafted love letter to her friend Robert Mapplethorpe functions as a memento mori of a relationship fueled by a passion for art and writing. Her elegant eulogy lays bare the chaos and the creativity so embedded in that earlier time and in Mapplethorpe's life and work.

In Just Kids, Patti Smith’s first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship, Smith brings the same unique, lyrical quality to J...(展开全部)

佩吉・拉特曼，1953年出生于美国明尼苏达州，毕业于明尼苏达大学，获心理学学士学位，后又学习过美术及儿童文学写作。1991年，因《一味抄袭的鲁比》一书，拉特曼被评为“最有潜力的新人”，并获得《出版者周刊》年度Cuffie奖。1996年出版的《警官巴克尔和警犬葛芮雅》更是一举囊括了包括该迪克金奖在内的十一项大奖。