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亞馬遜公布了2017年100本必讀圖書書單,我們選取了排在榜單前十名的著作詳細介紹,從科幻小說、紀實文學到懸疑推理,哪一本會列入你的讀書清單呢?
10. "The Dry" by Jane Harper
《迷霧中的小鎮》(簡?哈珀)
After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent Aaron Falk arrives in his hometown for the first time in decades to attend the funeral of his best friend, Luke. Twenty years ago when Falk was accused of murder, Luke was his alibi. Falk and his father fled under a cloud of suspicion, saved from prosecution only because of Luke's steadfast claim that the boys had been together at the time of the crime. But now more than one person knows they didn't tell the truth back then, and Luke is dead. Amid the worst drought in a century, Falk and the local detective question what really happened to Luke. As Falk reluctantly investigates to see if there's more to Luke's death than there seems to be, long-buried mysteries resurface, as do the lies that have haunted them. And Falk will find that small towns have always hidden big secrets.
聯邦警探亞倫?福克收到一張字條,請求他出席兒時玩伴盧克的葬禮,于是,時隔幾十年后他第一次回到故鄉。二十年前,福克是一樁命案的嫌疑人,而盧克為他提供了不在場證明。由于盧克一口咬定案發當時福克正和他在一起,這才讓福克免于被起訴。可人們的懷疑讓父親帶著盧克逃離了小鎮。但是現在不止一個人知道,當時盧克做了偽證,而盧克已經不在世上了。故事發生時,小鎮遭遇了100年來最嚴重的旱災,福克和當地的偵探對盧克真正的死因感到懷疑。盡管福克并不情愿去深挖盧克之死的來龍去脈,塵封的秘密還是一點點浮出水面,那些糾纏著他們的謊言也逐漸被拆穿。福克將會揭開深埋在這個小鎮下的驚天秘密。
9. "Sourdough" by Robin Sloan
《酵母》(羅賓?斯隆)
Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. Then, disaster! Visa issues. The brothers close up shop, and fast. But they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive, they tell her―feed it daily, play it music, and learn to bake with it.Lois is no baker, but she could use a roommate, even if it is a needy colony of microorganisms. Soon, not only is she eating her own homemade bread, she's providing loaves daily to the General Dexterity cafeteria. The company chef urges her to take her product to the farmer's market, and a whole new world opens up.
洛伊斯?克萊瑞是General Dexterity公司的一名軟件工程師,這家位于舊金山的機器人公司擁有改變世界的野心。洛伊斯白天一整天都在編程,晚上就癱著不動。她的人際交往僅限于隔壁經營小飯館的兩個兄弟。她每天晚上都在那兒點餐。不久,麻煩來了!由于簽證問題,兄弟倆很快關了店鋪。但是,他們還有最后一份“外賣”要送給洛伊斯,那就是他們的培養菌——用來烤面包的酸酵頭。洛伊斯必須讓它保持活力,兄弟倆告訴她,要每天給它喂食,聽音樂,還要學會用它烘焙。洛伊斯不是烘焙師,但是她的“室友”可以幫忙,雖然那只不過是一小堆微生物。很快,她不僅給自己烤面包,還向General Dexterity公司的食堂供應面包。公司的主廚讓她快點把自己的產品帶到農夫市場,一個全新世界的大門就此打開。
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