New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson weaves a delicate tale of murder and mystery in the first book of a striking new series, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and E. Lockhart. Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early twentieth century tycoon, who wante...(展开全部)

New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson weaves a delicate tale of murder and mystery in the first book of a striking new series, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and E. Lockhart. Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early twentieth century tycoon, who wante...(展开全部)

Someone is sending poison pen letters in the small village of Prior's Umborne, and they have already driven one of the inhabitants to suicide. Private detective Nigel Strangeways is commissioned to find the source of the letters by arrogant financier Sir Archibald Blick, whose two sons live in the village, only for Sir Archibald to meet an untimely end at the bottom of the drea...(展开全部)

Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One small dog. It’s just a normal weekend. What could possibly go wrong? In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty turns her unique, razor-sharp eye towards three seemingly happy families. Sam and Clementine have a wonderful, albeit busy, life: they have two little girls, Sam has just started a new dream job, and Clementine, a cellist, is bu...(展开全部)

Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One small dog. It’s just a normal weekend. What could possibly go wrong? In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty turns her unique, razor-sharp eye towards three seemingly happy families. Sam and Clementine have a wonderful, albeit busy, life: they have two little girls, Sam has just started a new dream job, and Clementine, a cellist, is bu...(展开全部)

大Ｓ徐熙媛 思想独特的新生代艺人。 天秤座。喜欢阅读、思想独特、敢爱亦敢恨。十七岁即出道，以一首〈十分钟的恋爱〉一炮而红，主持八大“娱乐百分百”而奠定地位。 2001年，因演出“流星花园”杉菜一角而红遍全亚洲，并入围金钟奖最佳女主角奖，是现今最具演技实力的新生代艺人。她的戏剧作品有“流星花园２”、“倩女幽魂”、“求婚事务所”、“战神”，以及电影“疑神疑鬼”。 瑞秋・威廉。 Anna Sui 原创设计师 瑞秋・威廉 (Rachel Williams) 毕业于坎萨斯艺术学院（Kansas City Art Institute ），主修绘画。1960年出生于英国，十二岁那年父母遽世，之后即搬到美国与姐姐同住。 瑞秋・威廉十分喜爱搜集维多利亚时期的物品，例如童书、历史古籍和饰品。从某年某日开始，在她的创作里，几乎找不到除了‘黑’与‘紫’的其他颜色。 Pen...(展开全部)

Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1st, 1819, the third of eight children.At the age of 7 Melville contracted scarlet fever which was to permanently diminish his eyesight.At this time

Every night, a pageant of Greek mythology circles overhead. Perseus flies to the rescue of Andromeda, Orion faces the charge of the snorting Bull, and the ship of the Argonauts sails in search of the Golden Fleece. Constellations are the invention of the human imagination, not of nature. They are an expression of the human desire to impress its own order upon the apparent chaos...(展开全部)

Bannermen Tales is the first book in English to offer a comprehensive study of zidishu (bannermen tales)―a popular storytelling genre created by the Manchus in early eighteenth-century Beijing. Contextualizing zidishu in Qing dynasty Beijing, this book examines both bilingual (Manchu-Chinese) and pure Chinese texts, recalls performance venues and features, and discusses their c...(展开全部)

It is estimated that some three million people died in the Soviet forced-labour camps of Kolyma, in the northeastern area of Siberia. Shalamov himself spent seventeen years there, and in these stories he vividly captures the lives of ordinary people caught up in terrible circumstances, whose hopes and plans extended to further than a few hours. This new enlarged edition combine...(展开全部)