Ever heard of a culling song? It's a lullaby sung in Africa to give a painless death to the old or infirm. The lyrics of a culling song kill, whether spoken or even just thought. You can find one on page 27 of Poems and Rhymes from Around the World, an anthology that is sitting on the shelves of libraries across the country, waiting to be picked up by unsuspecting readers. Repo...(展开全部)

The baby is dead. It only took a few seconds. When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect caretaker for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite and devoted woman who sings to their children, cleans the family's chic apartment in Paris's upscale tenth...(展开全部)

Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. After responding to several calls with paramedics, he notices that all the dead children were read the same poem from the same library book the night before they died. It's a 'culling song' - an ancient African spell for euthanizing sick or old people. Researching it, he meets a woma...(展开全部)

From the author of the New York Times bestseller Choke and the cult classic Fight Club, a cunningly plotted novel about the ultimate verbal weapon, one that reinvents the apocalyptic thriller for our times. Carl Streator is a solitary widower and a fortyish newspaper reporter who is assigned to do a series of articles on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. In the course of this inve...(展开全部)

At first sight, the childlike figures for which Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara is now famous seem altogether cute and appealing. On closer examination his creations are robust, angry, and vulnerable creatures, standing up defiantly to the world of adults--self-confident, stubborn, and sometimes violent. Nara's work is influenced by Japanese comic books but he is unique in the c...(展开全部)

内容简介： 新周刊10年经典品牌。全面梳理2014年，盘点专家《新周刊》与知道分子联手编选。把一个年度的时代现场，浓缩在由l000条语录构成的口述史里。2014我们一起走过，共同见证。 迄今为止，新周刊《语录》已连续多年登上各大城市畅销书榜，成为最具有现场感，最个性化、最有趣的“中文甜点”。每年年底上市即抢购一空，成为各色人等的案头必备和年度珍藏。一定有话语在《语录》中遗漏，它来自你的偏爱；但也一定有声音从《语录》中走出，直接进入你的内心。这是我们共同生活、经历和见证的时代。这也是我们共同记忆、感知和聆听的世界。还原2014，且翻《语录》。 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 编辑推荐： 1、新周刊语录出版已...(展开全部)

2021年末，某大厂员工林灰正玩着手机摸鱼呢，毫无征兆就重生了，重生在2014年高考的前几天。技术宅重生了能做什么？答案是——想做什么就做什么。哪里用去金融市场玩心跳？提交些iOS漏洞能换百万绿票写个小游戏轻松营收千万随便一个后世烂大街的算法现在更是能换得一笔天文数字……会点技术就了不起啊？抱歉，有技术真的可以为所欲为。

上辈子，他穷，辛辛苦苦打拼了7年，仍旧没有翻身。这辈子，他一定要翻身！一定！ 他想着想着就睡着啦，翻过身把司马李阳压在了身下。 ——节选文中小段。 哈哈，你以为主角是司马李阳吗？错了，刘安华才是主角。 这本书讲的就是刘安华翻身的故事，对，他重生了。

2021年末，某大厂员工林灰正玩着手机摸鱼呢，毫无征兆就重生了，重生在2014年高考的前几天。技术宅重生了能做什么？答案是——想做什么就做什么。哪里用去金融市场玩心跳？提交些iOS漏洞能换百万绿票写个小游戏轻松营收千万随便一个后世烂大街的算法现在更是能换得一笔天文数字……会点技术就了不起啊？抱歉，有技术真的可以为所欲为。

Amy Novesky is the author of Georgia in Hawaii and Me, Frida, which won the Pura Belpre Honor Award and was an ALA Notable Book. She lives in San Francisco. www.amynovesky.com. Isabelle Arsenault is an award-winning illustrator whose first children's book received the prestigious Governor General's Award for children's literature in French (illustration). She lives in Montreal....(展开全部)