A little girl painstakingly crafts Valentines for her mother and father, and when her cards mysteriously disappear, she tracks down the culprit and gets her own Valentine's treat, in a beginning reader complemented by flash cards to help reading comprehension.

10 hours, 23 minutes A compelling story of murder, betrayal, and the secrets of the past… Georgina, known as Geo, is a 30-year-old rising executive when her world comes crashing down. Her high school boyfriend has been identified and arrested for a series of serial murders, including Angela, Geo's best friend in high school. Angela disappeared without a trace at 16 and her body...(展开全部)

This is the story of three best friends: one who was murdered, one who went to prison, and one who's been searching for the truth all these years . . . When she was sixteen years old, Angela Wong—one of the most popular girls in school—disappeared without a trace. Nobody ever suspected that her best friend, Georgina Shaw, now an executive and rising star at her Seattle pharmace...(展开全部)

格雷格·贝尔（1951- ） 美国当代硬科幻大师，出生于加利福尼亚州圣迭戈市，毕业于圣迭戈大学，获文学学士学位。两次荣获“雨果奖”，五次荣获“星云奖”。 贝尔的科幻作品涉及星际冲突、人工智能、生物进化等诸多主题。他善于在小说中为当下的科学和文明难题提供解决方案。 《天使女王》中，他的这一特点展现得淋漓尽致，此书因而获得了雨果奖、轨迹奖和约翰•坎贝尔纪念奖三项提名。

格雷格·贝尔（1951- ） 美国当代硬科幻大师，出生于加利福尼亚州圣迭戈市，毕业于圣迭戈大学，获文学学士学位。两次荣获“雨果奖”，五次荣获“星云奖”。 贝尔的科幻作品涉及星际冲突、人工智能、生物进化等诸多主题。他善于在小说中为当下的科学和文明难题提供解决方案。 《天使女王》中，他的这一特点展现得淋漓尽致，此书因而获得了雨果奖、轨迹奖和约翰•坎贝尔纪念奖三项提名。

埃勒里•奎因（Ellery Queen），推理小说史上一个非凡的名字，实指弗雷德里克•丹奈（Frederic Dannay，1905—1982）和曼弗里德•李（Manfred Lee，1905—1971）这对表兄弟作家。他们的创作时间长达半个世纪，作品多达数十部，全球销量约计两亿册；他们曾五获埃德加•爱伦•坡奖；他们的四部“悲剧系列”和九部“国名系列”作品被公认为推理小说史上难以逾越的佳作；他们于1941年创办的《埃勒里•奎因神秘杂志》（EQMM）成为劳伦斯•布洛克、迈克尔•康柰利等推理大家起飞的平台，迄今仍是最专业、最权威的推理文学杂志之一；他们出资设立“密室研讨小组”，定期与约翰•狄克森•卡尔、克雷顿•劳森等推理大师交流、切磋……他们成就的不仅仅是自己，更为成就推理小说的黄金时代书写了浓墨重彩。

An expert historian on Mary, Queen of Scots draws on hundreds of her encrypted letters to paint a vivid portrait of one of history’s most compelling figures. For almost two decades before her execution at Fotheringhay Castle in 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots was a prisoner. From her chambers, she wrote countless letters, many encrypted using complex ciphers to prevent her communica...(展开全部)

短篇小说集。包括： a The African Traveler：没有发表在报刊上的短篇小说《非洲旅客》 b The Girl on the Trapeze／The hanging acrobat：《吊死的特技演员》（1934年）； c The One-Penny Black： 《黑便士》（1933年）； d The Sinister Beard：《有胡子的女人》（1934年）； e The Three Lame Men：《三个跛子》（1934 年）； f Four Men Loved a Woman：《隐形的仰慕者》（1934年）； g The Affair of the Gallant Bachelor／The Teakwood Case：《柚木烟盒》（1933年）； h The 'Two-Headed Dog'：《双头狗》（1934年）； i ...(展开全部)

Stella and her little brother, Sam, discover the wonders of winter together. Playing in the snow, they explore the white-draped forest, pelt each other with snowballs, and make snow angels. Evocative watercolors bring alive the magic of a winter day, as Sam asks a million questions and Stella patiently answers them in a big sister kind of way.

In eleven stories, the brilliant sleuth tangles with a book thief, an assassin who targets acrobats, and more . . . For Ellery Queen, there is no puzzle that reason cannot solve. In his time, he has faced down killers, thugs, and thieves, protected only by the might of his brain—and the odd bit of timely intervention by his father, a burly New York police inspector. But when a ...(展开全部)