Dr. Hugh Westlake investigates murder in a powerful family, by the Edgar Award–winning author who wrote the Peter Duluth Mysteries as Patrick Quentin. Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned outstanding detective novels from the 1930s through the 1960s under other pseudonyms, including Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge. Anthony Boucher wrote...(展开全部)

Lulu and Merry's childhood was never ideal, but on the day before Lulu's tenth birthday their father propels them into a nightmare. He's always hungered for the love of the girls’ self-obsessed mother; after she throws him out, their troubles turn deadly. Lulu had been warned not let her father in, but when he shows up drunk, he's impossible to ignore. He bullies his way past L...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Miss Eyre listened in silence, perplexed but determined to be obedient to the directions of the doctor, whose kindness she and her family had good cause to know. She made strong tea; she helped the young men liberally in Mr Gibson's absence, as well as in his presence, and she found the way to unloosen their tongues, whenever their master was away, by talking to them ...(展开全部)

Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England.? At its core are family relationships -- father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father and step-daughter -- all tested and strained by the romantic entanglements that ensue. Despite its underlying seriousness, the prevailing tone is one ...(展开全部)

Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England.? At its core are family relationships -- father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father and step-daughter -- all tested and strained by the romantic entanglements that ensue. Despite its underlying seriousness, the prevailing tone is one ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Miss Eyre listened in silence, perplexed but determined to be obedient to the directions of the doctor, whose kindness she and her family had good cause to know. She made strong tea; she helped the young men liberally in Mr Gibson's absence, as well as in his presence, and she found the way to unloosen their tongues, whenever their master was away, by talking to them ...(展开全部)

New York Times Bestseller: A ';monumental' saga of four ordinary American women from the author of The Blackboard Jungle (The New York Times Book Review). Amanda, a small-town minister's daughter with

[美] 布鲁斯•费勒（Bruce Feiler） ★美国颇具影响力的作家。他极具冒险精神，曾跋涉一万多公里游历《圣经》记载的遗迹，并据此创作出畅销一时的《圣地踪迹》（Walking the Bible）一书，该书还被美国公共电视台拍摄成系列片，家喻户晓。 ★费勒自幼接受正统的犹太教育，获得耶鲁大学学士学位和剑桥大学国际关系学硕士学位，其研究触角涉及宗教、日本文化、马戏团、乡村音乐等多个领域。他酷爱旅游，足迹遍布五大洲60余国。 ★2008年5月，费勒被诊断为罕见的癌症——骨肉瘤。可能离开妻子和女儿的痛苦，让他萌生组建“爸爸军团”的念头。军团由费勒最欣赏与信赖的6位朋友组成，把费勒也许不能教给女儿们的人生课业传授给她们。如果“那一天”真的来临，这几位“爸爸”将承担起重任。“爸爸军团”的故事感动全球，费勒因此被美国父教协会（National Father...(展开全部)

在线试读It was said around the valley that the two Durance girls went off but just the one bothered to come back. People could not have said which one, since both the girls were aloof and looked similar—dark and rather tall. There was confusion even in the local paper. And they weren’t the sort of girls whose names were called across streets—girlfriend hallooing girlfriend in the e...(展开全部)