An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom. As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by a secretive and brutal communist regime. Her home on the border with China gave he...(展开全部)

Israel, October 1973. As the Yom Kippur War flares into life, a state-of-the-art Soviet MiG fighter plane plummets to an unexpected landing. NASA Flight Controller and former US test pilot Kaz Zemeckis watches from the ground--unaware that its arrival will pull him into a high-stakes game of spies, lies, and secrets that hold the key to Cold War air and space supremacy. For wit...(展开全部)

艾温·威·蒂尔（1899-1980），美国著名博物学家，摄影家、自然文学作家，生于伊利诺州，曾任纽约昆虫协会、布鲁克林昆虫协会主席、梭罗协会主席，美国皇家摄影协会会员。他配有自己拍摄的照片的自然图书以准确的科学信息和诗意的表达方式而著称，获得包括普利策奖和约翰·伯勒斯勋章在内的多个奖项。

阿比·达蕾： 伦敦大学伯克贝克学院艺术硕士，专职作家。出生成长于尼日利亚拉各斯，18岁前往英国读大学，现居英国埃塞克斯，她的母亲泰茹·索莫林是尼日利亚历史上第一位女性税务学教授。 2018年阿比·达蕾凭借小说《大声说话的女孩》获巴斯小说奖。

History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius ... even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil.

History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius ... even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil.

艾温·威·蒂尔（1899-1980），美国著名博物学家，摄影家、自然文学作家，生于伊利诺州，曾任纽约昆虫协会、布鲁克林昆虫协会主席、梭罗协会主席，美国皇家摄影协会会员。他配有自己拍摄的照片的自然图书以准确的科学信息和诗意的表达方式而著称，获得包括普利策奖和约翰·伯勒斯勋章在内的多个奖项。

A bracing account of a war that lingers in our collective memory as both ambiguous and unjustly ignored For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953 that has long been overshadowed by World War II, Vietnam, and the War on Terror. But as Bruce Cumings eloquently explains, for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long fight that still haunts co...(展开全部)

A bracing account of a war that lingers in our collective memory as both ambiguous and unjustly ignored For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953 that has long been overshadowed by World War II, Vietnam, and the War on Terror. But as Bruce Cumings eloquently explains, for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long fight that still haunts co...(展开全部)

Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" ("Los Angeles Times Book Review"). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neu...(展开全部)