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慈禧垂帘听政的清末，即同治、光绪之交，曾发生无数的奇情冤案，其中以杨乃武与小白菜案、名伶杨月楼冤案、太原奇案、张汶祥刺马案最为轰动，统称为清末四大奇案。…… 慈禧垂簾聽政的清末，即同治、光緒之交，曾發生無數的奇情冤案，其中以楊乃武與小白菜案、名伶楊月樓冤案、太原奇案、張汶祥刺馬案最為轟動，統稱為清末四大奇案。

For the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley explore their strong, lifelong personal engagement with Alcott's novel - what it has meant to them and why it still matters. These four voices come together to form a deep, funny, far-ranging meditation on the power of great literature to shape our lives. 

In the second novel in the Hybrid Chronicles—perfect for fans of Ally Condie, Lauren Oliver, and Scott Westerfeld—Eva and Addie struggle to share their body as they clash over romance and the fight for hybrid freedom. Addie and Eva escaped imprisonment at a horrific psychiatric hospital. Now...

Fans of Stephenie Meyer's The Host will enjoy What's Left of Me, Kat Zhang's shocking, thought-provoking, and emotionally charged story of two souls sharing one body. What's Left of Me, the first book of the Hybrid Chronicles, is set in an alternate reality where everyone is born with two souls...

La terza edizione dei migliori racconti della collana Future Fiction esplora alcuni temi fondamentali per la fantascienza contemporanea: dal concetto di trasferimento dell’identità, alle ultime scoperte nel campo dell’intelligenza artificiale e del ripristino della memoria danneggiata, passando per gli sviluppi tecnologici applicati all'architettura d’avanguardia.

Eine junge Frau übernimmt das Influencer-Leben ihrer verstorbenen Schwester. Als ihre Eltern bei einem Autounfall ums Leben kommen, werden die eineiigen Zwillingsschwestern Julie und Chloé Chan als kleine Mädchen adoptiert: Während Julie in ärmlichen Verhältnissen bei ihrer geizigen Tante in einem kanadischen Provinznest aufwächst und als Supermarktkassiererin so gerade über die Runden kommt, wird Chloé von den megareichen Van Huusens in New York aufgezogen und macht eine unfassbare Karriere als Influencerin.

Um nach den letzten Aufregungen den guten Ruf von Hopgood Hall wieder herzustellen, stimmen Alexi Ellis und die Hopgoods zu, eine Reality-TV-Backshow in ihrem Hotel zu veranstalten. Der hitzköpfige Chefkoch Marcel Gasquet macht Teilnehmern und Crew das Leben zur Hölle, während die Kandidaten alles tun würden, um den Sieg zu erringen. Als sie plötzlich tot aufgefunden wird, ist Marcel mit seinem Temperament natürlich der Verdächtige Nummer eins.

Als die investigative Journalistin Alexi Ellis ihren Job verliert, macht sie sich mit ihrem unsozialen Wildkater Cosmo auf den Weg zum wunderschönen Hopgood Hall, dem Hotel ihrer alten Freunde Cheryl und Drew Hopgood, um endlich wieder zur Ruhe zu kommen. Doch das Chaos folgt Alexi auf dem Fuße und bei ihrer Ankunft sind Cheryl und Drew in völliger Aufregung: Ihre gute Freundin Natalie Parker ist verschwunden! Alexi hat mit dem Journalismus zwar nichts mehr am Hut, aber immer noch einen sechsten Sinn dafür, wo eine gute Story zu finden ist, und will der Sache auf den Grund gehen.

Young people are driving social change like never before, but many passionate activists lack the roadmap to turn their ideas into sustainable organizations. Olivia Zhang, who founded Cancer Kids First at age fourteen after losing two loved ones to cancer, delivers the comprehensive nonprofit guide she wishes she'd had when first starting out. Now a Harvard student and recipient of the Diana Legacy Award, Zhang shares her journey of growing Cancer Kids First to reach over 10,000 patients across twenty-two countries.

Brought to you by Penguin. They’ve never met, but this is the way it is supposed to be: they belong to each other. Lonely college student Minnie feels invisible until she stumbles upon HOURglass: America’s new K-pop boyband obsession. Soon she is memorising the lyrics to every song and...

The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis (AMH) presents a formal and systematic exposition of a new narrative about financial markets that reconciles rational investor behavior with periods of temporary financial insanity. In this narrative, intelligent but fallible investors learn from and adapt to randomly shifting environments. Financial markets may not always be efficient, but they are highly competitive, innovative, and adaptive, varying in their degree of efficiency as investor populations and the financial landscape change over time.

Is it too much to ask for an ordinary, boring life? Bai Jian is a typical Chinese boy growing up in a big city. But his life is far from typical: his mother abandoned him when he was a baby, and his father, Hei Jian, is always out of work, always fighting with his long parade of girlfriends, always getting the two of them involved in some harebrained scheme.

Granny may be old, but she’s certainly not feeble—or idle! She’s built a splendid vegetable garden from scratch on the rooftop of her Chengdu apartment building. She collects thrown-away produce to feed her animals or make compost for the garden. She waters, weeds, and shows the neighborhood kids how to care for her plants: with love, patience, and pride. Come harvest time, Granny gathers her fresh produce and cooks up a delicious feast for her friends and family. She even sends them off with extra bags of goodies so people can make their own yummy, healthy meals at home!

No.13 Liangqian Hutong in Beiping was inhabited by Qian Dahu’s family during the Ming Guo era. One gruesome night, all 13 members of the family, old and young, were slaughtered and dismembered, their bodies found without heads. The spine-chilling and mystifying deaths of all the mansion’s successors kept tenants away and the mansion was deserted for years. During the Cultural Revolution, rumors of the curse’s return spread fear into its neighbors like a plague, but to their surprise, soon after, mysterious strangers begin arriving at the uncanny mansion No.13 one after another.

Long Fei, an agent of the KMT, planned a secret rendezvous with Bai Wei, the daughter of Plum Blossom Party’s leader, to locate the Plum Blossom Painting, which contains a list of the Plum Blossom Party members. It’s said that Fei failed in his mission, and from then on, the painting was nowhere to be found, the identity of the party’s members an even bigger mystery. 10 years later, following the unauthorized release of a nuclear submarine design, the odd occurrence of a woman in disguise at Tiger Beach, and the haunting of a crematorium, the Plum Blossom Party reemerges from the depths.

Rubin loves the beautiful sounds that are played by the orchestra. He wants to learn to play the violin and make his own music. But when Rubin plays, it doesn't sound like he imagines it should. Rubin goes into the forest to practice alone and despite only getting the violin to screech, he finds an unlikely audience that loves his unique style.

In the summer of 1976, an earthquake swallows up the city of Tangshan, China. Among the hundreds of thousands of people scrambling for survival is a mother who makes an agonizing decision that irrevocably changes her life and the lives of her children. In that devastating split second, her seven-year-old daughter, Xiaodeng, is separated from her brother and the mother she loves and trusts. All Xiaodeng remembers of the fateful morning is betrayal.

Fear swept Zhenjiang as British soldiers gathered outside the city walls in the summer of 1842. Already suspicious of foreigners, locals had also heard of the suffering the British inflicted two months earlier, in Zhapu. A wave of suicides and mercy killings ensued: rather than leave their families to the invaders, hundreds of women killed themselves and their children or died at the hands of male family members. British observers decried an "Asian culture" of ritual suicide. In reality, the event was sui generis—a tragic result of colliding local and global forces in nineteenth-century China.

There was rarely a time when Phoenix Yuan-Whyller’s mother, Rain, didn’t live with her. Even when Phoenix got married, Rain, who followed her from China to Toronto, came to share Phoenix’s life. Now at the age of eighty-three, Rain’s unexpected death ushers in a heartrending separation.

 Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. It's about existence and nonexistence, about being born - without consent. Jenny Zhang writes about accepting pain, about the way we fetishize womanhood and motherhood, and reduce women to their violations, traumas, and body parts.