Stranger in the Shogun's City

Amy Stanley

评分 9.0分

A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo--the city that would become Tokyo--and a portrait of a

The Glutton

A.K. Blakemore

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1798, France. Nuns move along the dark corridors of a Versailles hospital where the young Sister Perpetué has been tasked with sitting with the patient who must always be watched. The man, gaunt, w

The Glass Castle

Jeannette Walls

评分 9.1分

Amazon.com Jeannette Walls's father always called her "Mountain Goat" and there's perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily

Nixonland

Rick Perlstein

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Told with urgency and sharp political insight, Nixonland recaptures America's turbulent 1960s and early 1970s and reveals how Richard Nixon rose from the political grave to seize and hold the pre

Underworld

Don DeLillo

评分 9.0分

Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life; she is

The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts

Loren Grush

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In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and Code Girls, the remarkable true story of America’s first women astronauts—six extraordinary women, each making history going to orbit aboard NASA’

The Song of the Cell

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, an exploration of medicine and our r

Chip War

Chris Miller

评分 9.2分

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world’s most critical resource—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in conflict. <

Billy Summers

Stephen King

评分 8.8分

From legendary storyteller and #1 bestseller Stephen King, whose “restless imagination is a power that cannot be contained” (The New York Times Book Review), comes a thrilling new novel about a goo

Richer, Wiser, Happier

William Green

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From a renowned financial journalist who has written for Time, Fortune, Forbes, and The New Yorker, a fresh and unexpectedly profound book that draws on hundreds of hours of exclusive intervie

If It Bleeds

Stephen King

评分 7.5分

From #1 New York Times bestselling author, legendary storyteller, and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary collection of four new and compelling novellas—Mr. Harrigan’s Phone

The Year 1000

Valerie Hansen

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In history, myth often abides. It was long assumed that the centuries immediately prior to 1000 AD were lacking in any major cultural developments or geopolitical encounters, that the Europeans had

Amnesty

Aravind Adiga

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Danny—formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam—is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status after he fled from Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for t

Lie with Me

Philippe Besson

评分 8.8分

“Stunning and heart-gripping.” —André Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson—“the French Brokeback Mountain” (Elle)—about an

The Outsider

Stephen King

评分 7.4分

An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League

Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker PhD

评分 8.7分

The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert—Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab—reveals his groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining h

The Choice

Dr. Edith Eva Eger

评分 9.1分

At the age of sixteen, Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. Hours after her parents were killed, Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele, forced Edie to dance for his amusement and her survival. Edie was pulle

Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn Ward

评分 7.6分

A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular Amer

Barkskins

Annie Proulx

评分 9.0分

From Annie Proulx—the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Shipping News and “Brokeback Mountain,” comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic

Grit

Angela Duckworth

评分 7.6分

In this instant New York Times bestseller, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed—be it parents, students, educators, athletes, or business people—that the secret

Shoe Dog

Phil Knight

评分 9.0分

In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into

Doctor Sleep

Stephen King

评分 7.8分

Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonis

The Immune System Recovery Plan

Blum, Susan S.; Bender, Michele; Hyman, Mark

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Among the most prevalent forms of chronic illness in this country, autoimmune disease affects nearly 23.5 million Americans. This epidemic is a result of the toxins in our diet, exposure to chemica

On Looking

Alexandra Horowitz

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From the author of the giant #1 New York Times bestseller Inside of a Dog comes an equally smart, delightful, and startling exploration of how we perceive and discover our world. Ale

11/22/63

Stephen King

评分 8.2分

11/22/63 is a novel by Stephen King about a time traveler who attempts to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy which occurred on November 22, 1963 (the date of the novel's title). The novel

The Emperor of All Maladies

Siddhartha Mukherjee

评分 9.4分

Starred Review. Mukherjee's debut book is a sweeping epic of obsession, brilliant researchers, dramatic new treatments, euphoric success and tragic failure, and the relentless battle by scientists

Palo Alto

James Franco

评分 6.8分

A fiercely vivid collection of storiesabout troubledCalifornia teenagers and misfits--violent and harrowing, fromthe astonishingly talented actor and artist James Franco. Palo Alto is the debut

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

评分 9.1分

In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately

A Separate Peace

John Knowles

评分 8.4分

From School Library Journal Grade 9 &amp; Up--The volatile world of male adolescence provides the backdrop for John Knowles' engrossing tale of love， hate， war， and peace. Sharing a room at Devon，

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

评分 8.8分

THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR In this definitive collection of Ernest Hemingway s short stories, readers will delight in the author s most beloved classics such as