This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games—games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive b...(展开全部)

埃克托尔・比安西奥蒂,法兰西学院院士。1930年出生于阿根廷，1961年到巴黎，开始从事文学创作。比安西奥蒂一九七七年获美第奇外国语作品奖，一九八三年获最佳外国语书籍奖，一九八五年获菲米纳奖（又译为女性奖，因评委全部是女性），一九九三年获摩纳哥亲王奖，一九九四年获法国语言奖，一九九七年被选为法兰西学院院士。

Compared to Conrad, Nabokov, and Beckett by Octavio Paz, Argentine-born Hector Bianciotti is one of the leading literary figures in his adopted homeland of France. What the Night Tells the Day, his first novel to be translated into English, is the fictionalized story of Bianciotti's youth among poor immigrant peasants in rural Argentina during the late years of the Perón regime...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Based on first-person accounts， scholarly studies and data from a nationwide survey of college campuses conducted by Ms. magazine， freelance journalist Warshaw draws a devastating portrait of men who rape women they know. The Ms. survey reveals that 25% of the college women polled have been the victims of rape or attempted rape， 84% of the victims were a...(展开全部)

罗宾•沃肖 (Robin Warshaw) 她从事社会问题、医疗和健康问题的写作。在写《危险的熟人》的过程中，她为那些分享经历的女性取了化名，而且自己也第一次直白地写下了她亲历的熟人强奸遭遇。她从没有后悔过这个决定，并且感激那些多年来一直与她联系，告诉她这本书对自己的帮助有多大的女性（和一些男性）。 沃肖也为其它非营利性出版物撰稿，并且是作家协会（Authors Guild）、美国记者与作家协会和卫生保健记者协会的成员。她的作品曾多次荣获美国新闻奖。

We are thrilled to welcome John Dickson Carr into the Crime Classics series with his first novel, a brooding locked room mystery in the gathering dusk of the French capital. In the smoke-wreathed gloom of a Parisian salon, Inspector Bencolin has summoned his allies to discuss a peculiar case. A would-be murderer, imprisoned for his attempt to kill his wife, has escaped and is k...(展开全部)

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder With an introduction by Martin Edwards and featuring the Dickson Carr short story "The Shadow of the Goat" We are thrilled to welcome John Dickson Carr into the Crime Classics series with his first novel, a brooding locked room mystery in the gathering dusk of the French capital. In the smoke-wreathed gloom of a Parisian...(展开全部)

A hypnotic, disorienting story of parallel lives unfolding over a day and a night in the sweltering heat of Seoul's summer. For two years, twenty-eight-year-old Kim Ayami has worked at Seoul's only audio theatre for the blind. But now the theatre is shutting down and Ayami's future is uncertain. Her last shift completed and the theatre closed for good, Ayami walks the streets o...(展开全部)

A little rabbit greets each day and says good night to the familiar things outside.

A hypnotic, disorienting story of parallel lives unfolding over a day and a night in the sweltering heat of Seoul's summer. For two years, twenty-eight-year-old Kim Ayami has worked at Seoul's only audio theatre for the blind. But now the theatre is shutting down and Ayami's future is uncertain. Her last shift completed and the theatre closed for good, Ayami walks the streets o...(展开全部)