From legendary storyteller and #1 bestseller Stephen King, whose “restless imagination is a power that cannot be contained” (The New York Times Book Review), comes a thrilling new novel about a good guy in a bad job. Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He’s a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he’ll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And n...(展开全部)

From legendary storyteller and #1 bestseller Stephen King, whose “restless imagination is a power that cannot be contained” (The New York Times Book Review), comes a thrilling new novel about a good guy in a bad job. Billy Summers is a man in a room with a gun. He’s a killer for hire and the best in the business. But he’ll do the job only if the target is a truly bad guy. And n...(展开全部)

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。

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。

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57013/nineteen-eighty-four/9780141187761.html

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57013/nineteen-eighty-four/9780141187761.html

A boy growing up in the Soviet Union of the 1960s and 1970s visits his French grandmother each summer, accumulating new tales of a Russia he never knew.

《1984》是英国作家乔治奥威尔创作的一部政治讽刺小说，小说创作于1948年，出版于1949年。书中讲述了一个令人感到窒息和恐怖的，以追逐权力为最终目标的假想的未来极权主义社会，通过对这个社会中一个普通人温斯顿史密斯的生活描写，投射出了现实生活中极权主义的本质。