A dark, wry, captivating tale, inspired by an unsolved American true crime mystery. 'My Sister, My Love' is based on the controversial true-crime mystery of the JonBenet Ramsey murder. When a beautiful, ice-skating child prodigy is found brutally murdered, suspicion immediately mounts against friends, neighbours -- and even the young girl's own family. Told from the point of v...(展开全部)

Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practical...(展开全部)

My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker - and more difficult to get out of the carpet - than water... When Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what's expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This'll be the third boyfriend Ayoola's dispatched i...(展开全部)

Herein is the unexpurgated first-person narrative of nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving child of an "infamous" American family destroyed a decade ago by the murder of Skylers six-year-old ice-skating champion sister, Bliss, and the media scrutiny that followed. Part investigation into the unsolved murder, part elegy for the lost Bliss and for his own lost chil...(展开全部)

乔伊斯·卡罗尔·欧茨1938年出生于纽约州的工人家庭，1960年毕业于锡拉丘兹大学，次年在威斯康星大学获文学硕士学位，1968至1978年在加拿大温索尔大学教英美文学，1978年以后，她搬到新泽西的普林斯顿，在普林斯顿大学教授文学创作。同时她和丈夫还经营一家小出版社，出版文学杂志《安大略评论》，直到她丈夫于2008年去世。 欧茨的创作力极为旺盛，以多产而闻名。自处女作短篇小说集《北门畔》问世以来，迄今她已出版一百余部作品，包括长篇小说、短篇小说集、诗集、剧本和文学评论等。1970年以长篇小说代表作《他们》获得美国国家图书奖，《漆黑的水》等三部作品曾获普利策提名，《大瀑布》获2005年度法国费米纳文学奖。《我们是马尔瓦尼一家》于2001年入选“奥普拉读书俱乐部”的推荐书。她被认为是1960年代以来最重要的美国小说家之一。

萨姆·哈里斯（Sam Harris） ● 名校毕业，哲学神经学双料博士 斯坦福大学哲学博士，加州大学洛杉矶分校神经科学博士。 ● 一举成名，佳作频频，引发热议 至今共出版5部著作，首部作品即斩获2005年美国笔会非虚构奖；5部作品全数荣登《纽约时报》畅销榜，并被翻译成超过20种语言，引发学界内外的热议。 ● 国际学者，科普红人，广受赞誉 与理查德·道金斯、克里斯托弗·希钦斯、丹尼尔·丹尼特并称为“新无神论四骑士”，并被道金斯评价为“甚为勇敢的高智识者”。常与许多知名人士进行公开交流，其中，与“龙虾教授”乔丹·彼得森围绕“何为真理”“神话原型与科学理论孰优孰劣”等尖锐话题进行过多场售票式对谈，座无虚席、火爆异常。此外，其主持的科普/思辨类播客还受到悉达多·穆克吉、贾雷德·戴蒙德、奈尔·德葛拉司·泰森、亚当·格兰特、斯蒂芬·弗莱等各界大咖的赞誉和喜爱，并...(展开全部)

Tombs, mummies, and funerary items make up a significant portion of the archeological remains that survive ancient Egypt and have come to define the popular perception of Egyptology. Despite the many sensational discoveries in the last century, such as the tomb of Tutankhamun, the tombs of some of the most famous individuals in the ancient world―Imhotep, Nefertiti, Alexander th...(展开全部)

萨姆·哈里斯（Sam Harris） ● 名校毕业，哲学神经学双料博士 斯坦福大学哲学博士，加州大学洛杉矶分校神经科学博士。 ● 一举成名，佳作频频，引发热议 至今共出版5部著作，首部作品即斩获2005年美国笔会非虚构奖；5部作品全数荣登《纽约时报》畅销榜，并被翻译成超过20种语言，引发学界内外的热议。 ● 国际学者，科普红人，广受赞誉 与理查德·道金斯、克里斯托弗·希钦斯、丹尼尔·丹尼特并称为“新无神论四骑士”，并被道金斯评价为“甚为勇敢的高智识者”。常与许多知名人士进行公开交流，其中，与“龙虾教授”乔丹·彼得森围绕“何为真理”“神话原型与科学理论孰优孰劣”等尖锐话题进行过多场售票式对谈，座无虚席、火爆异常。此外，其主持的科普/思辨类播客还受到悉达多·穆克吉、贾雷德·戴蒙德、奈尔·德葛拉司·泰森、亚当·格兰特、斯蒂芬·弗莱等各界大咖的赞誉和喜爱，并...(展开全部)

Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected and dismissed or about their true power. This is the first book to take us into the often secretive world of the ...(展开全部)

The New York Times bestselling author of The Stone Monkey is back with a brilliant thriller that pits forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme and his partner, Amelia Sachs, against an unstoppable killer with one final, horrific trick up his sleeve. The Los Angeles Times calls his novels "thrill rides between covers." The New York Times hails them as "dazzling," and The Times of L...(展开全部)