Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and The Tenth Circle , pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy. Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens--until the day its complacency is shattered by an act of violence. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the j...(展开全部)

朱迪•皮考特（Jodi Picoult） 美国当代著名畅销书作家、小说家，连续5年入选“全美最受欢迎作家”。 1992年，以处女作Songs of the Humpback Whale崭露头角，其后陆续出版的作品无一不持续畅销，广受好评，其中《姐姐的守护者》一书为她带来世界级的声誉。此后，每有新作必速登《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》、亚马逊网站等畅销书排行榜前列。她的作品经常涉及诸多当下社会关注的尖锐话题：安乐死、青少年自杀、克隆、干细胞、死刑……这些话题总能随着小说的畅销在全美乃至全球引发关注。“朱迪•皮考特”也因此被美国《时代周刊》、英国《泰晤士报》等多家媒体和社会公众视为“畅销、争议与重大反响”的代名词。

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Hundreds of facts are waiting to be unearthed in this latest book from Aleksandra Mizielinska and Daniel Mizielinski, the duo behind Maps. Dive below the surface and find out what happens under earth and under sea—from early submarines and deep-sea life to burrowing animals and man-made tunnels.

Hundreds of fascinating facts are waiting to be unearthed in this latest book from Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielinski, the creative duo behind the bestselling Maps. Dive below the surface, and find out what happens under the earth and under the water. From early submarines and deep-sea life, to burrowing animals and man-made tunnels - you will never look at the world in the same...(展开全部)

《1984》是英国作家乔治奥威尔创作的一部政治讽刺小说，小说创作于1948年，出版于1949年。书中讲述了一个令人感到窒息和恐怖的，以追逐权力为最终目标的假想的未来极权主义社会，通过对这个社会中一个普通人温斯顿史密斯的生活描写，投射出了现实生活中极权主义的本质。

《1984》是英国作家乔治奥威尔创作的一部政治讽刺小说，小说创作于1948年，出版于1949年。书中讲述了一个令人感到窒息和恐怖的，以追逐权力为最终目标的假想的未来极权主义社会，通过对这个社会中一个普通人温斯顿史密斯的生活描写，投射出了现实生活中极权主义的本质。

Words are important to Gretel, always have been. As a child, she lived on a canal boat with her mother, and together they invented a language that was just their own. She hasn’t seen her mother since the age of sixteen, though – almost a lifetime ago – and those memories have faded. Now Gretel works as a lexicographer, updating dictionary entries, which suits her solitary natur...(展开全部)

After tales from the USA and Britain, Bill Bryson turns his roving eye to Australia, the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. It is the driest, flattest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents. It has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way that anywhere else. Yet when Bill ...(展开全部)