What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

It's the first day of school, and Camilla discovers that she is covered from head to toe in stripes, then polka-dots, and any other pattern spoken aloud With a little help, she learns the secret of accepting her true self, in spite of her peculiar ailment.

大卫·香农 他的绘画兴趣与许多孩子一样，起源于最早拿起铅笔和蜡笔涂鸦的幼儿时期。著名的代表作《大卫，不可以》人物原型和灵感来自他五岁时的作品，这当然要感谢有心的妈妈，保存儿子幼时作品多年。身为放射科医生的父亲对艺术家的成长也功不可没，他常常把工作中用过的纸张从中间一折拿回家，给小香农涂涂画画。这中间一折的纸张是否预示了香农未来与出版物结缘的生涯呢？ 毕业于美国最知名的艺术院校艺术中心设计学院后，他到纽约过了一段所有成功艺术家初期都会经历的苦日子。他通过画政治漫画，担任《纽约时报》、《时代周刊》和《滚石杂志》等世界一流杂志的插画家，作品逐渐被人注意。1989年他首次受邀为一本民间故事书《豹身上有多少斑点？》创作插图，从此与儿童图画书结缘并找到自己最喜欢的创作领域。

Category: Making Friends"What we have here is a bad case of stripes. One of the worst I've ever seen!"Camilla Cream loves lima beans, but she never eats them. Why? Because the other kids in her school don't like them. And Camilla Cream is very, very worried about what other people think of her. In fact, she's so worried that she's about to break out in...a bad case of stripes!"...(展开全部)

An utterly contemporary and deeply thought-provoking novel which addresses the profound unease of countless people in modern democracies around the world. An eminent, seventy-two-year-old Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions. It is a chance to air some urgent concerns. He writes short essays on the origins of the state, on Machiavelli, ...(展开全部)

A new work of fiction by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Disgrace In this brilliant new work of fiction, J. M. Coetzee once again breaks new literary ground with a book that is, in the words of its main character, “a response to the present in which I find myself.” Diary of a Bad Year takes on the world of politics—a new topic for Coetzee—and explores the role of the write...(展开全部)

From the internationally acclaimed author of The Infatuations comes the mesmerizing story of a couple living in the shadow of a mysterious, unhappy history--a novel about the cruel, tender punishments we exact on those we love. Madrid, 1980. Juan de Vere, nearly finished with his university degree, takes a job as personal assistant to Eduardo Muriel, an eccentric, once-successf...(展开全部)

西蒙·巴恩斯（Simon Barnes） 《泰晤士报》屡获殊荣的首席体育记者，周末版生态环境与野生动物专栏作者。小说家、自然写作者、马术师。出版有《聆听：与一只鸟相遇的最好方式》《运动的意义》等多部畅销作品。《星期日电讯报》评价他：“巴恩斯是一种独一无二的声音，总想挑战传统观念，寻求更为深层的意义。”