In this debut, which takes the form of a fictional graphic diary, a 10-year-old girl tries to solve a murder. Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her e...(展开全部)

In this debut, which takes the form of a fictional graphic diary, a 10-year-old girl tries to solve a murder. Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her e...(展开全部)

In this unforgettable novel, Leonard Cohen boldly etches the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal. Life for Breavman is made up of dazzling colour – a series of motion pictures fed through a high-speed projector: the half-understood death of his father; the adult games of love and war, with their infinite capacity for fantas...(展开全部)

"Like father, like son...killers! Davey Fox returned to his hometown a war hero. But inside he was a shattered man, convinced he was a killer just like his father. The war proved it; his past proved it. All signs pointed to it. His wife would soon die! unless... Ellery Queen could show that Davey's father was innocent, and free him for his obsession with the past. But it was a ...(展开全部)

Amongst the one hundred folktales are such familiar tales as "The Three Billy-Goats Gruff", "Hansel and Gretel", "Sleeping Beauty", and some perhaps not so familiar, "The Magic Bird", "The Goose Girl", and "The Pancake".

In two previous books, Janet Malcolm explored the hidden sides of, respectively, institutional psychoanalysis and Freudian biography. In this book, she examines the psychopathology of journalism. Using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit as her larger-than-life example -- the lawsuit of Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, against Joe McGinniss, the author of Fatal Vision, ...(展开全部)

An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to...(展开全部)

An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder. In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to...(展开全部)

帕·聚斯金德1949年出生在联邦德国，早年在慕尼黑和法国的埃克斯昂普罗旺斯攻读与研究中世纪史和近代史，后一度靠写电影分镜头剧本维持生活。他发表的处女作是剧本《低音提琴》。1984年，聚斯金德完成了他的第一部小说《香水》，出版后轰动了德语文坛。继《香水》之后，聚斯金德用古典主义的笔调创作了中篇小说《鸽子》。

布赖恩·斯威特克（Brian Switek），从小就是个恐龙迷，现在仍未走出“恐龙期”，并设法把玩泥巴和做獠牙怪兽践踏远古泥浆的白日梦变成了正当职业。为此，他举家搬到了恐龙化石丰富的犹他州，并成为一名自由职业者，在撰写博客、专栏和图书之余，作为志愿者参与恐龙挖掘和研究活动。这是他的第二本书，他的第一部作品是《书之于石》（Written in Stone）。 译者简介 邢立达，青年古生物学者，科普作家。1982年生于广东潮州，高中时期便创建中国大陆第一个恐龙网站。在加拿大艾伯塔大学取得古生物学硕士学位，师从著名古生物学家菲利普·柯里（电影《侏罗纪公园》的主角原型）；在中国地质大学（北京）取得古生物学与地层学博士学位。受美国《国家地理》资助。中国科普作家协会会员，出版与翻译了近百本古生物科普书籍，并多次在CCTV各频道为公众介绍古生物知识。 李锐媛，Up...(展开全部)