The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector’s mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid’s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door — crushing the cockroach — and then watches it die. At the end of the novel, at the height of a spiritual crisis, comes the most famous and most genuinely shocking scene in brazilian literature…

For Jack McEvoy, the killer named The Poet was the last word in evil.
Think again, Jack.
Jack McEvoy is at the end of the line as a crime reporter. Forced to take a buy-out from the Los Angeles Times as the newspaper grapples with dwindling revenues, he's got only a few days left on the job. His last assignment? Training his replacement, a low-cost reporter just out of journalism school. But Jack has other plans for his exit. He is going to go out with a bang — a final story that will win the newspaper journalism's highest honor — a Pulitzer prize.
Jack focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer from the projects who has confessed to police that he brutally raped and strangled one of his crack clients. Jack convinces Alonzo's mother to cooperate with his investigation into the possibility of her son's innocence. But she has fallen for the oldest reporter's trick in the book. Jack's real intention is to use his access to report and write a story that explains how societal dysfunction and neglect created a 16-year-old killer.
But as Jack delves into the story he soon realizes that Alonzo's so-called confession is bogus, and Jack is soon off and running on the biggest story he's had since The Poet crossed his path years before. He reunites with FBI Agent Rachel Walling to go after a killer who has worked completely below police and FBI radar—and with perfect knowledge of any move against him.
What Jack doesn't know is that his investigation has inadvertently set off a digital tripwire. The killer knows Jack is coming—and he's ready.

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A game-changing model for giving effective feedback to peers, employees, or even your boss--without offending or demotivating.
How are you supposed to tell someone that they're not meeting expectations without crushing their spirit? Regular feedback, when delivered skillfully, can turn average performers into the hardest workers and stars into superstars. Yet many see it as an awkward chore: Recent studies have revealed 37% of managers dread giving feedback, and 65% of employees wish their managers gave more feedback.
This trail-blazing new model eliminates the guesswork. Dr. Therese Huston, the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Seattle University, discovered that the key to being listened to is to listen. First, find out what kind of feedback an employee wants most: appreciation, coaching, or evaluation. If they crave one, they'll be more receptive once their need has been satisfied. Then Huston lays out counterintuitive strategies for delivering each type of feedback successfully, including:
• Start by saying your good intentions out loud: it may feel unnecessary, but it makes all the difference.
• Side with the person, not the problem: a bad habit or behavior is probably less entrenched than you think.
• Give reports a chance to correct inaccurate feedback: they want an opportunity to talk more than they want you to be a good talker.
This handbook will make a once-stressful ordeal feel natural, and, by greasing the wheels of regular feedback conversations, help managers improve performance, trust, and mutual understanding.
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Feedback is an important tool for motivation and evaluation, so it’s important you get it right. When delivering feedback, make it clear that you’re on the other person’s side. Know what you’re looking to get out of the conversation, and listen relationally to get the other person’s side of the story.
Ask more, tell less.
One of the easiest ways to gain your employees’ trust and confidence is to ask follow-up questions. Follow-up questions show you’re engaged, and that you’re thinking closely about what they’ve said. But stay away from questions that begin with Why. These tend to put people on the defensive. Instead, ask questions that begin with What. One great example is: “What’s the real challenge here for you?” This question works well because it helps you get to the root of an issue and provide quality coaching.
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Develop an engaged and motivated workforce who know where they stand.
As a manager, you don’t need to be told that employee morale is critical. Motivated employees are productive employees, and productive employees make for profitable companies. But how do you stay connected with your team, and ensure their spirits are high? In a nutshell: quality feedback.
Giving great feedback is no easy feat. Too often, managers have to figure it out through trial and error. How much praise is too much? How do you know if you’re actually getting through to people?
That’s where this book come in. They give clear and actionable advice on how to deliver praise, coaching, and evaluations in a way that will generate better work and more engaged employees. Feedback doesn’t have to be a chore – used correctly, it’s one of the best tools managers have at their disposal.
In these book, you’ll learn
• the difference between me-strengths and we-strengths;
• why it’s hard to praise too much; and
• how to have that awkward convo you’ve been dreading.

With a wealth of never-before-accessed materials--including unpublished letters and manuscripts; court, police, and psychiatric records; and new interviews--Heather Clark brings to life the brilliant daughter of Wellesley, Massachusetts who had poetic ambition from a very young age and was an accomplished, published writer of poems and stories even before she became a star English student at Smith College in the early 1950s.
Determined not to read Plath's work as if her every act, from childhood on, was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Clark evokes a culture in transition, in the shadow of the atom bomb and the Holocaust, as she explores Plath's world: her early relationships and determination not to become a conventional woman and wife; her conflicted ties to her well-meaning, widowed mother; her troubles at the hands of an unenlightened mental-health industry; her Cambridge years and thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes, a marriage of true minds that would change the course of poetry in English; and much more.
Clark's clear-eyed portraits of Hughes, his lover Assia Wevill, and other demonized players in the arena of Plath's suicide promotes a deeper understanding of her final days, with their outpouring of first-rate poems. Along with illuminating readings of the poems themselves, Clark's meticulous, compassionate research brings us closer than ever to the spirited woman and visionary artist who blazed a trail that still lights the way for women poets the world over.

《冰与火之歌》英国版
First volume of a brilliant new fantasy trilogy: the most powerful, original and absorbing new epic since Stephen Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. The first volume of George R R Martin's glorious high fantasy tells the tragic story of treachery, greed and war that threatens the unity of the Seven Kingdoms south of the Wall. Martin unfolds with astonishing skill a tale of truly epic dimensions, thronged with memorable characters, a story of treachery and ambition, love and magic. Set in a fabulous world scarred by battle and catastrophe over 8000 years of recorded history, it tells of the deeds of men and women locked in the deadliest of conflicts and the terrible legacy they will leave their children. In the game of thrones, you win or you die. And in the bitter-cold, unliving lands beyond the Wall, a terrible winter gathers and the others -- the undead, the neverborn, wildlings to whom the threat of the sword is nothing -- make ready to descend on the realms of men. A Game of Thrones begins the most imaginative, ambitious and compelling fantasy epic since The Lord of the Rings. Thronged with memorable characters, it unfolds with astonishing skill a tale of truly epic dimensions. There have been many pretenders to the throne of Tolkien: now at last he has a true heir.

她们曾经是律师、会计师、教师、设计师、记者、医生、出版商、学者……有着高额的薪水和远大的职业前景，最终却有了一个共同的归宿：全职家庭主妇。
作者沙尼·奥加德对受过高等教育的伦敦女性及其伴侣进行了深入采访，这些女性为了照顾孩子回归家庭，而丈夫则继续从事高薪工作。媒体和政策鼓励职业女性维持工作和家庭的平衡、构建伙伴式的平等夫妻关系。而女性们面对的现实情况却截然相反：不友好的职场文化、对家庭妇女的污名化和对育儿事务的贬低……她们牺牲了事业，结果发现家庭也不是真正的避风港。
沙尼向我们揭示了性别平等口号和女性遭受的不公正待遇间的巨大落差：自主选择的背后是结构性的不平等，幸福的表象之下则是深深的愤怒和失望。《回归家庭》希望能够倾听这些女性的心声，并以此为起点，帮助她们在家庭生活和工作中，获得迟来的、真正的平等。
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★她们是高学历、高收入的职业女性，本该在职场上大展身手，但是——
性别歧视与职场天花板阻断了 女性的上升空间，高强度和高要求的职场文化吞噬了个人生活。主妇生活进一步削弱她们的职业竞争力，重返职场变得困难重重。她们最终回归家庭，看似出于自愿，实则没有选择。
★ 她们是高喊Girl Power的一代，不做贤妻良母，追求事业家庭双丰收，但是——
一面是《欲望都市》《傲骨贤妻》，以及Facebook首席运营官谢丽尔·桑德伯格等注重自我选择和奋斗、达成事业家庭平衡的女性形象，一面是毫无育儿支持、对家务劳动无限贬低的社会文化。她们抱持着双赢的幻想，陷入两难的窘境，抛弃了事业，却发现家庭也不是避风港。
★她们是新时代全职妈妈，本应在家庭内部和伴侣平等以待，但是——
她们支持着伴侣的高强度工作，独力承担育儿和家庭事务，却成为外人眼中游手好闲的阔太太，家人眼中的寄生虫和仆役。她们努力展现自信与平衡，但压抑和愤怒从未消失。
★复旦大学新闻学院教授曹晋作序盛情推荐，直面妇女在家庭、职场的不平等处境和真实心声。

在这本书中，福格博士亲自拆解了他提出的福格行为模型，揭示了驱动人类所有行为的3个关键要素，解析了每一个要素在驱动人类行为中的重要作用，提供了激发每一个要素以更好地推动行为改变的有效方法。此外，福格博士还给出了让福格行为模型更好地发挥作用的两个方法，通过设计情绪来设计行为，通过打造高频率小成功让小改变自然生长。
本书不仅能够帮助人们毫不费力地养成好习惯，也能够指导人们成功对抗坏习惯；不仅能够帮助个人实现改变，也能够帮助群体直面挑战。只要掌握福格行为模型的精髓并加以灵活运用，每个人都能够轻松改变自己的工作与生活，成为自己想要成为的那个人。
本书给出了福格行为设计工具箱，包含15种人生情景与挑战、300个微习惯配方、100种庆祝方式，手把手地教你减重、减压、改善睡眠质量、摆脱坏习惯、提升效率……

编辑推荐：
★横扫欧美各大畅销榜，引发美国、英国、法国、日本、西班牙等31国阅读狂潮。蝉联《纽约时报》畅销榜冠军长达8周；邦诺书店、美国书商协会、《出版人周刊》等年度好书。
★人生就像一场游戏，奇迹只发生在全力以赴之后。一场让人迷失的魔法游戏，两位少女的奇幻勇气之旅。
★日本书店大奖最佳翻译小说，女星吉冈里帆感动推荐。
★设定精彩绝伦，极具画面感，20世纪福克斯公司以七位数美金夺下电影版权，由《分歧者》《饥饿游戏》制作人操刀。
★一颗守护之心，一笔不可逃脱的债，一场必须赢的游戏。无论现实多么扑朔迷离，勇气、智慧和真心总能帮你逃出生天！
媒体评论：
★斯蒂芬妮?加伯创造了一个世界，这个世界充满活力也充满诡计，无比神秘，令人惊喜，让人完全无法预料又无比浪漫。 ——《今日美国》
★一部卓越的处女作，一个引人入胜的故事，有关爱情、失去、牺牲和希望。 —— 《出版人周刊》
★整个故事令人陶醉。 ——《美国周刊》
★我在这个危险而迷人的世界中迷失了自己，不想走出来。 —— 美国畅销书作家 萨巴·塔希尔
内容简介：
女孩斯嘉丽从小听着卡拉瓦尔魔法秀的传奇故事长大，对她来说，卡拉瓦尔秀不仅是无比神奇的真人魔法秀，更是能帮助自己和妹妹脱离被虐困境的出路，因为，每一个卡拉瓦尔秀的赢家都能被实现一个愿望，无论这愿望多么离奇。
在连续请求卡拉瓦尔秀班主7年后，斯嘉丽终于收到了邀请函！她如约抵达，开始了魔幻闯关之旅，发现一切比自己想象得更复杂，岛上的一切亦真亦幻，其他玩家都深藏不露，带她来到岛屿的朱利安也似乎有所隐瞒。五夜四天的游戏中，她将如何去赢？卡拉瓦尔的层层幻象后到底藏着什么秘密？当游戏与现实的界线渐渐模糊不清，如何才能找到出路？

An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets became a huge bookseller favorite, and then on to national bestellerdom.

In 1942, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went off to fight the war. He was twenty-two. Soon recognized as a cryptographer of genius, he became head of communications at the Special Operations Executive (SOE), where he revolutionized the codemaking techniques of the Allies and trained some of the most famous agents dropped into occupied Europe, including "the White Rabbit" and Violette Szabo. As a top codemaker, Marks had a unique perspective on one of the most fascinating and, until now, little-known aspects of the Second World War. Writing with the narrative flair and vivid characterization of his famous screenplays, Marks gives free rein to his keen sense of the absurd and his wry wit, resulting in a thrilling and poignant memoir that celebrates individual courage and endeavor, without losing sight of the human cost and horror of war.

哥伦比亚大学教师三十年教学经验锤炼而成，
人手必备的实用写作宝典，二百余个写作模板即学即用
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如何在最紧急的情况下，快速写出一封能切实解决问题的商务致歉信？如何在毫无准备的情况下，顺利写出一篇精彩而鼓舞人心的演讲稿？如何在阻力重重的环境中，轻松写出一份让人过目不忘的简历？无论你打算写什么，本书都给出了最简单、直接的建议，明确每种文体的特点、合理规划写作路径、精准掌握读者的心理，本书将颠覆你的写作思维，重塑你的写作习惯！
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※媒体推荐※
这是一本绝对实用的写作指南。如果你在工作或生活中需要用文字传递信息，那毫无疑问，你需要这本书。
——伯恩特·施密特 哥伦比亚大学商学院教授
必须说，这是一本值得拥有的参考书！对写好商业邮件、投诉信、道歉信等等方面，布朗提供了简单而直接的建议。在每个案例旁加上“怎样做”和“不要做”版块的确相当有用。
——娱乐周刊
劳拉·布朗写出了一本终极写作指南，旨在让你的写作变得更简洁凝练、更有说服力，更具沟通性。学生、商务人士，甚至是经验丰富的专业作家都应该随时带着这本书，它和字典、辞典同等重要。
——米歇尔·斯内尔 文学代理人，作家
《完全写作指南》是在这个数字通信如此发达的时代中，我所看到的第一本指向写作核心的书。书中的讲解适合每一个人。
——玛丽·奥尔森 数字商务设计与开发先锋
作为一个有三十年教学经验的写作教师，我非常了解年轻写作者们的需求。劳拉·布朗回答了最困难的问题：关于怎样开始写作，怎样针对目标读者调整技艺，怎样充实简单的内容，怎样精通表达与辩论。
——罗杰·马赫妮 帕萨迪纳市立学院助理教授
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※内容简介※
希望投资人资助你开展一个特别项目，应该怎样写一封具有说服力的电子邮件？准备申请大学，如何才能写出一篇引人注目的自我陈述？同事的母亲去世了，怎样用最好的方式表达你的哀悼之情？
无论科技多么进步，即时通讯变得多么快速便捷，用文字进行交流和表达永远是现代人必须掌握的技能。但不可否认的是，很多人在摊平稿纸、打开电脑准备“写作”的时候，却常常感到思维混乱，不知从何开始。
这本《完全写作指南》告诉我们，只要思路清晰、流程顺畅、有好的方法和习惯，写作并不是困难的事。本书从写作的核心——写作思维入手，分析每一种实用写作的思维要点，以读者的角度反观写作的关键。按照作者所精心规划的写作流程，只要经过“确定写作目标、深度了解读者、展开头脑风暴、组织结构、打初稿、修改”这六个步骤，无论多棘手的写作难题，都能够得到顺利解决。通过阅读本书，读者能真正学会如何进行清晰、简洁、得体的写作。同时，本书更总结了二百多个方便参照、易于使用的写作模板，囊括了工作、学习、个人生活的方方面面，可以随查随用，让你真正做到“从提笔就怕到什么都能写”。

十六世纪初的欧洲，泽农出生于布鲁日首屈一指的富商家庭，但他从未见过自己的生父，后者是来自佛罗伦萨的一位年轻教士，远大前程的召唤让他断然割舍北方水城的短暂恋情。对一个私生子而言，泽农是为教会长大的。然而二十岁时，他决定离家出走，到大千世界去探寻知识。他在三十多年里游历了大半个世界，然后隐名埋姓回到布鲁日，在济贫院里为穷人看病。一桩与他几乎无关的僧侣风化事件令他的真实身份暴露，经世俗司法当局与教会的联席审判，泽农被判火刑。1569年2月，寒冬将尽的时候，泽农在临刑前夜结束了自己的生命，在他出生的城市里死去。
《苦炼》书名取自欧洲中世纪炼金术的一个术语，指的是将物质放在坩埚中进行煅烧和分离，以提炼出纯粹成分的过程，这是整个炼金术的第一步，也是最为艰辛的一个步骤。主人公泽农身兼医生、哲学家、炼金术士几重身份，无论对世界还是对人自身的认识，都不甘心接受任何现成的概念，而是不惜冒着生命危险，用毕生的观察、实践和思考来努力获得接近于真理的知识。泽农一生的上下求索，浓缩了从中世纪到文艺复兴时期几代人文主义者对知识和人性的探求。在这个意义上，泽农之死也是一曲文艺复兴终结的挽歌。
《苦炼》从酝酿到成书历时四十余年，尤瑟纳尔漫长的创作过程也堪称一部人生的炼金术。

Pozdnyshev and his wife have a turbulent relationship. When her beauty blossoms after the birth of their children, men begin to flock around her, and he becomes increasingly jealous. Convinced his wife is betraying him with a young musician, his overpowering suspicion drives him to ever more dangerous lengths. United by the theme of love, the writings in the "Great Loves" series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced to love's endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love...

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Can you trust yourself when you don’t know who you are? Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe’s Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even managing to have himself voted to the position of ‘Thursday’. In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty, when Syme discovers another undercover policeman on the Council, however, he starts to question his role in their operations. And as a desperate chase across Europe begins, his confusion grows, as well as his confidence in his ability to outwit his enemies. But he has still to face the greatest terror that the Council has - its leader: a man named Sunday, whose true nature is worse than Syme could ever have imagined. …

A visionary technothriller about climate change.
Neal Stephenson’s sweeping, prescient new novel transports readers to a near-future world where the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless heat waves, and virulent, deadly pandemics.
One man has a Big Idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as “elemental.” But will it work? And just as important, what are the consequences for the planet and all of humanity should it be applied?
Ranging from the Texas heartland to the Dutch royal palace in the Hague, from the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas to the sunbaked Chihuahuan Desert, Termination Shock brings together a disparate group of characters from different cultures and continents who grapple with the real-life repercussions of global warming. Ultimately, it asks the question: Might the cure be worse than the disease?

A brand-new epic fantasy adventure set in the beloved world of the Demon Cycle, following a new generation of heroes, from New York Times bestselling author Peter V. Brett
Fifteen years have passed since the end of the war with demons, creatures of darkness who have hunted the night and plagued humanity since time out of mind. The heroes of humanity’s hour of need have become legend, and those who remain struggle to escape their shadows.
Olive Paper and Darin Bales have grown up in this new peaceful world. Demons have been all but destroyed, but dangers still lurk for the children of heroes.
Olive, Princess of Hollow, has her entire life planned out by her mother, Duchess Leesha Paper: a steady march on a checklist to prepare her for succession. The more her mother writes the script, the more Olive rails against playing the parts she is assigned.
Darin faces challenges of a different kind. Though free to choose his own path, the weight of legacy hangs heavy around his shoulders. It isn’t easy being the son of the man people say saved the world. Everyone expects greatness from Darin, but the only thing he’s ever been great at is hiding.
But when Olive and Darin step across the wards one night, they learn the demons are not all gone, and those that remain hunger for revenge. Events are set in motion that only prophecy can foresee as Olive and Darin seek to find their own places in the world in time to save it again.

From the international best-selling author of the Raven's Shadow and Draconis Memoria series comes the spectacular first novel in an all-new epic fantasy trilogy.
Born into the troubled kingdom of Albermaine, Alwyn Scribe is raised as an outlaw. Quick of wit and deft with a blade, Alwyn is content with the freedom of the woods and the comradeship of his fellow thieves. But an act of betrayal sets him on a new path - one of blood and vengeance, which eventually leads him to a soldier's life in the king's army.
Fighting under the command of Lady Evadine Courlain, a noblewoman beset by visions of a demonic apocalypse, Alwyn must survive war and the deadly intrigues of the nobility if he hopes to claim his vengeance. But as dark forces, both human and arcane, gather to oppose Evadine's rise, Alwyn faces a choice: can he be a warrior, or will he always be an outlaw?

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are remarkably simple – a family is drawn together by shared and separate losses, a child’s reality conflicts with his parents’ memories, a young man struggles to come to terms with the loss of his father.
Yet each piece of writing in this critically acclaimed collection is infused with a powerful life of its own, a precision of language and a scrupulous fidelity to the reality of time and place, of sea and Maritime farm.
Focusing on the complexities and abiding mysteries at the heart of human relationships, the seven stories of
map the close bonds and impassable chasms that lie between man and woman, parent and child.

A USA Today Best-Selling Novel, and one of the Best Books of 2019 according to NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, BookPage, Shelf Awareness, BookRiot, and Bustle!
“Unlike anything I’ve ever read. ” ―V.E. Schwab
“Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space!” ―Charles Stross
“Deft, tense and atmospheric, compellingly immersive and wildly original.” ―The New York Times
The Emperor needs necromancers.
The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.
Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense.
Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants. The result is a heart-pounding epic science fantasy.
Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won’t set her free without a service.
Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. If Harrowhark succeeds she will be become an immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier. Without Gideon’s sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die.
Of course, some things are better left dead.
THE LOCKED TOMB TRILOGY
BOOK 1: Gideon the Ninth
BOOK 2: Harrow the Ninth
BOOK 3: Alecto the Ninth