"These figs are very special," the woman whispered. "They can make your dreams come true." Thus Monsieur Bibot, the cold-hearted dentist, was given two ordinary-looking figs as payment for extracting a tooth from an old woman's mouth. Monsieur Bibot refused to believe such nonsense and proceeded to eat on of the figs for a bedtime snack. Although it was possibly the finest, swe...(展开全部)

The Green Berets—a legendary corps of soldiers whose exploits made military history. But now, their very identity and role as a fighting force may be forever changed… Until the war in Iraq, Special Forces were the military’s counterinsurgency experts. Their specialty was going behind enemy lines and training insurgent forces. In Afghanistan, they toppled the Taliban by transf...(展开全部)

A strange boy with red hair leads a birthday-girl and her companions on a hunt for the wishing tree which brings them many suprising and magical adventures.

作者 桑迪•托兰（Sandy Tolan）南加州大学安纳伯格传播与新闻学院教授，重点关注土地、身份、环境和全球经济等交叉领域。托兰是三本非虚构图书的作者，还是十二部纪录片和纪实广播的制作人。 -- 译者 杨扬 现当代文学硕士，管理学硕士，编辑、记者、书评人，致力于挖掘生活和文本中的趣味性。著、译作品包括《这辈子：1920—2020外婆回忆录》《月光下的歌谣》。

In the summer of 1967, not long after the Six Day War, three young Palestinian men ventured into the town of Ramla in Israel. They were cousins, on a pilgrimage to see their childhood homes, from which they and their families had been driven out nearly twenty years earlier. One cousin had the door slammed in his face, one found that his old house had been converted into a schoo...(展开全部)

作者 桑迪•托兰（Sandy Tolan）南加州大学安纳伯格传播与新闻学院教授，重点关注土地、身份、环境和全球经济等交叉领域。托兰是三本非虚构图书的作者，还是十二部纪录片和纪实广播的制作人。 -- 译者 杨扬 现当代文学硕士，管理学硕士，编辑、记者、书评人，致力于挖掘生活和文本中的趣味性。著、译作品包括《这辈子：1920—2020外婆回忆录》《月光下的歌谣》。

毛姆（1874—1965)，英国著名作家，被誉为英国“最伟大的短篇小说家”、“故事圣手”，整个英语世界最畅销的作家之一。

毛姆（1874—1965)，英国著名作家，被誉为英国“最伟大的短篇小说家”、“故事圣手”，整个英语世界最畅销的作家之一。

伊恩•凯丽（Erin Kelly）1976年生于伦敦，毕业于沃里克大学英文专业。从事自由撰稿记者十余年，写作题材多涉及女性、健康，两性关系及生活方式等方面。曾在多家刊物上定期发表文章，如：《每日邮报》（The Daily Mail）、心理（Psychologies）、《星期日泰晤士报》（The Sunday Times），女性时尚杂志Elle、嘉丽（Marie Claire）、英国Glamour杂志、镜报（The Mirror）等。另外，凯丽通过笔名还著有十六本探讨两性关系的非虚构类作品，以及六本成人小说。

"A terrific suspense debut, reminiscent of Du Maurier's "Rebecca." I wish I had written it." -Stephen King With its hip London backdrop and expert pacing, Erin Kelly's masterful debut, "The Poison Tree," delivers all the way through to its shocker of an ending. London, 1997. Karen meets exotic, flamboyant Biba and, spellbound, she moves into the crumbling mansion Biba share...(展开全部)