The story of the mythical hero Theseus, slayer of monsters, abductor of princesses and king of Athens. He emerges from these pages as a clearly defined personality; brave, aggressive and quick. The core of the story is Theseus' Cretan adventure.

Nothing is ever as it seems Quentin Coldwater is king of the bizarre and wonderful land of Fillory, but the days and nights of royal luxury are losing their appeal and Quentin is getting restless. Even in heaven a man needs a little adventure. So when a steward is murdered on a morning's hunt that is exactly what Quentin gets. But this quest is like no other. What starts as a f...(展开全部)

Nothing is ever as it seems Quentin Coldwater is king of the bizarre and wonderful land of Fillory, but the days and nights of royal luxury are losing their appeal and Quentin is getting restless. Even in heaven a man needs a little adventure. So when a steward is murdered on a morning's hunt that is exactly what Quentin gets. But this quest is like no other. What starts as a f...(展开全部)

This is a vintage murder mystery. Respected crime writer Frank Cairns plots the perfect murder - a murder that he himself will commit. Cairns intends to murder the hit-and-run driver who killed his young son, but when his intended victim is found dead and Cairns becomes the prime suspect, the author insists that he has been framed. An old friend of Cairns calls in private detec...(展开全部)

This is a vintage murder mystery. Respected crime writer Frank Cairns plots the perfect murder - a murder that he himself will commit. Cairns intends to murder the hit-and-run driver who killed his young son, but when his intended victim is found dead and Cairns becomes the prime suspect, the author insists that he has been framed. An old friend of Cairns calls in private detec...(展开全部)

From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoot...(展开全部)

内尔•诺伊豪斯（Nele Neuhaus），德国最受欢迎的推理小说作家之一。 1967年生于德国北莱茵-威斯特法伦敏斯特市，在陶努斯区一带成长，从小就热爱在笔记本上写故事。大学攻读法律、历史与德国文学，曾任职广告公司。 婚后，内尔上午在丈夫的肉品厂工作，下午照顾赛马，只能利用夜里的时间写作。内尔自费出版了自己的第一本书，并利用丈夫的物流渠道送书，结果作品销售火热，书店和出版商又主动找上门来。 内尔以刑警奥利弗和皮娅为主角的系列侦探小说，以德国陶努斯地区为背景，所以在当地极受欢迎，在圣诞节期间，卖得比《哈利•波特》还好，开启了德国出版界的“内尔奇迹”。目前，该系列已经售出30余种语言版权，在日韩尤其受欢迎。 内尔热衷慈善，成立了自己的基金会，帮助青少年提高阅读、写作和语言能力。

彼得·伯克赛尔（Peter Boxall）是英国学者和作家，萨塞克斯大学英语系的教授，从事当代文学、文学理论和文学现代主义研究。他是文学理论杂志《文本实践》（Textual Practice）的编辑和《牛津英语小说史》（第7卷）的主编，著有《21世纪的小说》（剑桥大学出版社，2013年）、《小说的价值》（剑桥大学出版社，2015年）、《假体的想象》（剑桥大学出版社，2020年）等，因主编《有生之年一定要读的1001本书》而广为人知。

When Byrne and Susan Hollander are killed in a brutal home invasion, the whole city catches its collective breath. A few days later the killers turn up dead behind a locked door in Brooklyn. One has killed his partner, then himself. The city sighs with relief. The cops close the case.</p>Matt and Elaine Scudder were in the same room with the Hollanders hours before their deaths...(展开全部)

In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In "A Hologram for the King," Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his splintering family together in the fac...(展开全部)