At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers as depraved as the psychotic "Billy the Kid" Wharton and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in "Old Sparky". Here, guards as decent as Paul Edgecombe and as sadistic as Percy Wetmore watch over them. But good or evil, innocent or guilty, none have ever seen the bru...(展开全部)

At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers as depraved as the psychotic "Billy the Kid" Wharton and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in "Old Sparky". Here, guards as decent as Paul Edgecombe and as sadistic as Percy Wetmore watch over them. But good or evil, innocent or guilty, none have ever seen the bru...(展开全部)

《绿里奇迹》分为六部，原作为连载小说每月推出一部，于是成就了一个出版业中的奇迹：所有的六部同时全部荣登《纽约时报》畅销榜单，十本书的位置竟被占去了六本。合为一卷的完整版则毫无悬念地冲顶榜首。 州立冷山监狱死囚牢房的走廊上铺了绿色的油毡，因此这条在其他监狱称为“最后一英里”的不归路，在冷山就被叫成“绿里”。那是1932年的事，当时死囚在走过“绿里”之后要上的是电椅。斯蒂芬•金似乎一直对监狱不能释怀，这一部，自然还是短篇小说《肖申克的救赎》，正是监狱小说中的杰作。这也难怪，正是在这最接近地狱的“绿里”上，人性的善、恶才彰显得格外清楚，其间的角斗、对人性的拷问才格外惊心动魄。“恐怖小说之王”掘发“人类灵魂深处种种美丽的和悲剧的道德真相”的一出大悲剧，在死囚身上展现人性的光彩，在地狱之中梦想着天堂；感天动地，震撼人心。 第一部 两个死去的女孩 第二部 绿里上...(展开全部)

《绿里奇迹》分为六部，原作为连载小说每月推出一部，于是成就了一个出版业中的奇迹：所有的六部同时全部荣登《纽约时报》畅销榜单，十本书的位置竟被占去了六本。合为一卷的完整版则毫无悬念地冲顶榜首。 州立冷山监狱死囚牢房的走廊上铺了绿色的油毡，因此这条在其他监狱称为“最后一英里”的不归路，在冷山就被叫成“绿里”。那是1932年的事，当时死囚在走过“绿里”之后要上的是电椅。斯蒂芬•金似乎一直对监狱不能释怀，这一部，自然还是短篇小说《肖申克的救赎》，正是监狱小说中的杰作。这也难怪，正是在这最接近地狱的“绿里”上，人性的善、恶才彰显得格外清楚，其间的角斗、对人性的拷问才格外惊心动魄。“恐怖小说之王”掘发“人类灵魂深处种种美丽的和悲剧的道德真相”的一出大悲剧，在死囚身上展现人性的光彩，在地狱之中梦想着天堂；感天动地，震撼人心。 第一部 两个死去的女孩 第二部 绿里上...(展开全部)

Harry Kemelman (1908–1996) was best known for his popular rabbinical mystery series featuring the amateur sleuth Rabbi David Small. Kemelman wrote twelve novels in the series, the first of which, Friday the Rabbi Slept Late, won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. This book was also adapted as an NBC made-for-TV movie, and the Rabbi Small Mysteries were the inspiration for th...(展开全部)

Sixteen-year-old Amanda McCready has disappeared. Her anxious aunt contacts Patrick Kenzie to investigate. It is not the first time she has gone missing, as Patrick well knows - he was the investigator who worked on her case when she was kidnapped before, as a four-year-old. But this is not a simple case of a runaway girl. In fact, nothing in Amanda's life has been simple: brou...(展开全部)

In 1867, John Muir, age twenty-eight, was blinded in an industrial accident. He lay in bed for two weeks wondering if he would ever see again. When his sight miraculously returned, Muir resolved to devote all his time to the great passion of his life -- studying plants. He quit his job in an Indiana manufacturing plant, said good-bye to his family, and set out alone to walk to ...(展开全部)

Here is the adventure that started John Muir on a lifetime of discovery. Taken from his earliest journals, this book records Muir's walk in 1867 from Indiana across Kentucky. Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida to the Gulf Coast. In his distinct and wonderful style, Muir shows us the wilderness, as well as the towns and people, of the South immediately after the Civ...(展开全部)

AN ANGOULEME AWARD WINNER RETURNS WITH A PARABLE ABOUT LIFE IN THE ART WORLD "The Making Of" is the follow-up to international sensation Brecht Evens's Eisner-nominated debut, "The Wrong Place." With lush watercolors and his characteristic wit, Evens details the fumbling, amateurish foibles of the participants of a small art festival in the Flemish countryside. Pieterjan is i...(展开全部)

AN ANGOULEME AWARD WINNER RETURNS WITH A PARABLE ABOUT LIFE IN THE ART WORLD "The Making Of" is the follow-up to international sensation Brecht Evens's Eisner-nominated debut, "The Wrong Place." With lush watercolors and his characteristic wit, Evens details the fumbling, amateurish foibles of the participants of a small art festival in the Flemish countryside. Pieterjan is i...(展开全部)