Thirteen-year-old Johnny Merrimon has to face things no boy his age should face. In the year since his twin sister's abduction his world has fallen apart: his father has disappeared and his fragile mother is spiralling into ever deeper despair. Johnny keeps strong. Armed with a map, a bike and a flashlight, he stalks the bad men of Raven County. The police might have given up...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly A year after 12-year-old Alyssa Merrimon disappeared on her way home from the library in an unnamed rural North Carolina town, her twin brother, Johnny, continues to search the town, street by street, even visiting the homes of known sex offenders, in this chilling novel from Edgar-winner Hart (Down River). Det. Clyde Hunt, the lead cop on Alyssa's case, ...(展开全部)

Today only about a thousand giant pandas survive in the wild. Dependent on a shrinking supply of bamboo on the one hand and threatened by human greed on the other, the panda is at extreme risk. Here, acclaimed naturalist George B. Schaller uses his evocative powers and the insight gained by four years in the forests of the Wolong and Tangjiahe panda reserves to document the pli...(展开全部)

Adults and children the world over have fallen in love with Beagle's timeless classic, The Last Unicorn. Now, in this historic publication, Beagle's richly inventive novel springs to life in beautifully rendered illustrations that perfectly evoke the mystery and magic of one of man's favorite myths.

Adults and children the world over have fallen in love with Beagle's timeless classic, The Last Unicorn. Now, in this historic publication, Beagle's richly inventive novel springs to life in beautifully rendered illustrations that perfectly evoke the mystery and magic of one of man's favorite myths.

在线阅读本书 "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." --Randy Pausch A lot of professors give talks titled " The Last Lecture ." Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was o...(展开全部)

一部关于被指控的女巫们令人震撼的幽灵故事——一本施展巫术的书——出自备受赞誉的《明日雇员停摆事件》(The Employees) 和《我的工作》(My Work) 的作者之手。 在十七世纪的丹麦，贵族女子克里斯坦泽·克鲁考，一位未婚女性，被指控施行巫术。她和其他几名女性被谣传为魔鬼附身——魔鬼以一个高大无头男子的形态出现在她们面前，赋予她们黑暗力量：她们能偷走人们的幸福，她们行过不敬神的邪行，她们能引发瘟疫或死亡。她们都面临着被处以火刑的危险。 《蜡孩》由克里斯坦泽·克鲁考制作的蜡像娃娃讲述，是一部令人不安的恐怖故事，探讨了残酷与权力、自然与巫术，背景设定在前现代欧洲的脆弱社群中。 《蜡孩》基于十七世纪发生在日德兰半岛北部的一系列真实巫术审判案件，研究深入，浸透着令人身临其境、充满氛围感的细节。奥尔加·拉文不仅以其华丽的叙事和令人惊异的丰沛想象力，还...(展开全部)

One dark night the Gruffalo's Child disobeys her father's warnings and ventures out into the snow. After all, the Big Bad Mouse doesn't really exist ...does he? This is the perfect companion to "The Gruffalo Big Book". It includes bonus activities ideal for classroom use.

One night the Gruffalo's child goes into the woods to find the Big Bad Mouse, a creature her father met years ago. After much searching, the child stumbles upon a little mouse . . . and decides to eat him. Suddenly a terrible shadow falls on the ground. Could it be the Big Bad Mouse? Or maybe the little mouse is bigger and badder than the Gruffalo's child thinks. Like ...(展开全部)

This is Alan Hollinghurst's first novel since "The Line of Beauty", winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize. In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at 'Two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Dap...(展开全部)