Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowski's ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of himself as a young man, tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Memories of a world filled with freaks and clowns, with wonder and pain and anger and passion; a world with its own narrow,...(展开全部)

When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth a second-rate travelling circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town.

An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of Riding Lessons . When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, drifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-ni...(展开全部)

Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowski's ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of himself as a young man, tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Memories of a world filled with freaks and clowns, with wonder and pain and anger and passion; a world with its own narrow,...(展开全部)

An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of Riding Lessons . When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, drifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-ni...(展开全部)

When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth a second-rate travelling circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town.

This book explores the chemistry of water and the effect it has on coffee. We aim to equip you with the tools to allow you to predict - with a given water - how a coffee will taste.

When I was born, there were a million elephants roaming Africa. By the time my daughter Charlotte was born in 2015, the numbers of savannah elephants had crashed to just 350,000. At the current pace of illegal poaching, when Charlotte turns twenty-five the African elephant could be gone from the wild. HRH Prince William, Duke of Cambridge An elephant is killed in Africa every...(展开全部)

《大象的证词》讲述了：赫尔克里·波洛伫立于崖顶。多年之前，这里发生了一起悲剧性的事故；更令人惊疑的是，随后又有一对夫妻双双陈尸于此——两人均中枪身亡。可他们究竟死于何人之手？莫非是二人约定自杀？还是一时冲动犯罪？抑或残忍的谋杀？波洛回溯遥远的往事，走进旧罪那长长的阴影之中…… With the help of Detective Poirot, mystery writer Ariadne Oliver must solve a murder from her past--before the tragic piece of history repeats itself.

在濒临海边的一间房子里，雷文斯克罗夫特将军夫妇双双毙命，是凶杀，还是自杀？两具尸体之间有一枝左轮手枪，枪上的指纹已经模糊，这件事情似乎与将军年轻漂亮的女秘书有关。 Crime novelist Ariadne Oliver again turns to Hercule Poirot, this time to solve a case the police consider closed. Olivers interest in the murder-suicide of General and Lady Ravenscroft is more than academic: Celia Ravenscroft is her goddaughter. This is one of Poirot's most daunting cases even ...(展开全部)