The exquisitely crafted stories in Anthony Doerr's acclaimed debut collection take readers from the African coast to the pine forests of Montana to the damp moors of Lapland, charting a vast physical and emotional landscape. Doerr explores the human condition in all its varieties-metamorphosis, grief, fractured relationships, and slowly mending hearts-and conjures nature in bot...(展开全部)

HThe natural world exerts a powerful, brooding presence in this first collection; it's almost as much a main character as any of the individuals the 26-year-old Doerr records. Nature, in these eight stories, is mysterious and deadly, a wonder of design and of nearly overwhelming power. This delicate balance is evidenced by the title story, about a blind man who spends his days ...(展开全部)

安东尼·多尔 Anthony Doer （1973 - ），美国小说家，二〇一五年普利策奖得主。作品包括《捡贝壳的人》（The Shell Collector）、《关于恩典》（About Grace）、《罗马四季》（Four Seasons in Rome）、《记忆墙》（Memory Wall）等书。多尔凭短篇小说三次获得欧亨利小说奖、一次全国杂志奖和手推车奖，作品收录于《美国最佳短篇小说》、《安可新美国短篇小说选》和《斯克里布纳当代小说选》中，邦诺书店新秀奖、罗马奖和纽约公共图书馆幼狮文学奖也给予他高度肯定。 2007年，著名文学杂志《格兰塔》将安东尼·多尔列入二十一位全美最佳青年小说家的排名中。多尔目前在沃伦威尔森学院的文艺创作硕士班任教，与妻子和两个儿子住在爱达荷州博伊西市。

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One of Sidney Sheldon's most popular and bestselling titles, repackaged and reissued for a new generation of fans. Kate Blackwell is one of the richest and most powerful women in the world. She is an enigma, a woman surrounded by a thousand unanswered questions. Her father was a diamond prospector who struck it rich beyond his wildest dreams. Her mother was the daughter of a cr...(展开全部)

Count Dracula meets Bonnie Parker. What will they do together? The vampire you'd hate to love, sinister and debonair, sinks those eye teeth into Bonnie's succulent throat.' Is this the beginning of a sadistic relationship or simply an extract from a psychopath's diary? Either way it marks the beginning of a dangerous game that is destined to end in chilling terror and bloody mu...(展开全部)

From master storyteller Carlos Ruiz Zafón, author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Wind , comes The Angel’s Game—a dazzling new page-turner about the perilous nature of obsession, in literature and in love. “The whole of Barcelona stretched out at my feet and I wanted to believe that, when I opened those windows, its streets would whisper stories to me,...(展开全部)

Escape or die trying…No.1 international bestseller Jeffery Deaver returns with a stunning new thriller – the first in an exciting series featuring enigmatic investigator Colter Shaw.‘Masterful storytelling ― The Never Game is Deaver’s most riveting, most twisty, most unputdownable novel yet’ Karin SlaughterA killer is changing the rules. One murder at a time . . .You wake up al...(展开全部)

Hugo Award Winner! Miles Vorkosigan graduates from the Academy, joins a mutiny, is placed under house arrest, goes on a secret mission, reconnects with his loyal Dendarii Mercenaries, rescues his Emperor, and thwarts an interstellar war. Situation normal, if you're Miles.

A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. And though no one knows why the eccentric, game-loving millionaire has chosen a virtual stranger - and a possible murderer - to inherit his vast fortune, one thing's for sure: Sam Westing may be dead... but that won't stop him from playing one last game!