When we look at a photograph we see a moment that is no more. Photographs place reality into the past tense, representing not memory but memory's loss. They are not conduits for the return of memory, but "memento mori: reminders of the fact of death itself. And it is in this, Jay Prosser tells us, that we find the gift of photography. Engaging the photographic reflections of fi...(展开全部)

作者：雷蒙·斯尼奇（本名丹尼尔·汉德勒） 是位编故事的高手。1970年，他出生于美国，1998年开始用雷蒙·斯尼奇这个笔名创作《波特莱尔大遇险》系列小说，并一举成名，盘踞《纽约时报》畅销榜长达600多周，受到《纽约时报》《美国新闻和世界报道》等一众主流媒体的高度评价。而由此系列小说改编的电影《雷蒙·斯尼奇的不幸历险》上映后，更是受到读者观众的追捧。从此，他便用小说里的这个人物的名字开始一系列的创作。他不仅会写故事，在音乐和电影方面也有很高的造诣。因此他的作品所呈现的画面感极强，阅读时经常会有身临其境的感觉。他了解孩子的内心世界，所以才能把儿童的心理活动及感受描写的那么透彻。 绘者：乔恩·克拉森 出生于1981年的加拿大新锐画家。他的第一本自写自画图画书《我要把我的帽子找回来》，一经面世，便受到了读者的喜爱。被《纽约时报书评》评为“2011年度10本最...(展开全部)

保罗·霍尔特（Paul Halter, 1956— ），法国当代侦探小说作家，因坚持本格侦探小说创作而被誉为“黄金时代侦探小说最后的捍卫者”。1987年凭借《第四扇门》（La Quatrième Porte）获得科尼亚克侦探小说大奖。陆续创作以“阿兰·图威斯特”（Alan Twist）和“欧文·伯恩斯”（Owen Burns）为主人公的系列作品。其代表作有《第四扇门》《第七重解答》（La Septième Hypothèse）《幻影小巷》（La Ruelle fantôme）等。

The Dupayne， a small private museum on the edge of London s Hampstead Heath devoted to the interwar years 1919-39， is in turmoil. The trustees--the three children of the museum founder， old Max Dupayne--are bitterly at odds over whether it should be closed. Then one of them is brutally murdered， and what seemed to be no more than a family dispute erupts into horror. For even a...(展开全部)

P．D．詹姆斯是英国当代最著名的推理小说女作家，被尊称为“推理小说第一夫人”。出生于1920年的P．D．詹姆斯自1950年开始写作，至今笔耕不辍。她已出版近20部作品，她的大部分作品均被拍成电视剧或电影。 P．D.詹姆斯的作品曾经多次获得英美推理小说奖。1987年荣获有“诺贝尔推理文学奖”之称的英国推理小说家协会“钻石匕首奖”终身成就奖，并受英国皇室勋封为女伯爵，1999年荣获美国推理小说家协会大师奖，也曾获爱伦坡奖。P.D.詹姆斯现任英国作家协会主席。

Murders present meet murders past in P.D. James’s latest harrowing, thought-provoking thriller. Commander Adam Dalgliesh is already acquainted with the Dupayne--a museum dedicated to the interwar years, witha room celebrating the most notorious murders of that time--when he is called to investigate the killing of one of the family trustees. He soon discovers that the victim ...(展开全部)

It’s 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility, deep in California’s Central Valley. Outside is the world from which she has been severed: the San Francisco of her youth and her young son, Jackson. Inside is a new reality: thousands of women hustling for the bare essentials needed to survive; the bluffing and...(展开全部)

Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, at Stanville Women’s Correctional Facility. Outside is the world from which she has been permanently severed: the San Francisco of her youth, changed almost beyond recognition. The Mars Room strip club where she once gave lap dances for a living. And her seven-year-old son, Jackson, now in the care of ...(展开全部)

Brunhild was a foreign princess, raised to be married off for the sake of alliance-building. Her sister-in-law Fredegund started out as a lowly palace slave. And yet-in sixth-century Merovingian France, where women were excluded from noble succession and royal politics was a blood sport-these two iron-willed strategists reigned over vast realms, changing the face of Europe. The...(展开全部)

Growing up in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a young Kurdish boy named Kerim has ample opportunity to witness the murderous repression that defined the era for thousands of Iraqis. In Sherko Fatah's "The Dark Ship", we experience an extraordinary new voice in fiction, which tells us the story of the kind of trauma and striving that leads a man from religious extremism to a vain hope fo...(展开全部)