Available for the first time as an exclusive eBook in this original Outlander novella, Diana Gabaldon reveals what really happened to Roger MacKenzie Wakefield’s parents. Orphaned during World War II, Roger believed that his mother died during the London Blitz, and that his father, an RAF pilot, was killed in combat. But in An Echo in the Bone, Roger discovers that this may not...(展开全部)

Everyone knows the wind’s touch, its presence, its force. Sometimes it roars and howls, at other times we hear its wistful sighs and feel its soothing caresses. Since antiquity, humans have borne witness to the wind and relied on it to navigate the seas. And yet, despite its presence at the heart of human experience, the wind has evaded scrutiny in our chronicles of the past. I...(展开全部)

The "New York Times" bestselling novel. This is the riveting first-person narrative of Kvothe, a young man who grows to be one of the most notorious magicians his world has ever seen. From his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic,...(展开全部)

Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the cemetery of lost books , a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves and pulls out La Sombra del Viento by Julian Carax. But as he grows up...(展开全部)

[英]威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆 小说家，剧作家。现实主义文学代表人物。 毕业于伦敦圣托马斯医学院，后弃医从文。 在现实主义文学没落期坚持创作，并奠定文学史上经典地位。 倡导以无所偏袒的观察者角度写作，包容看待人性， 尽可能保持作品的客观性和真实性， 反对将小说当作"布道的讲坛"而交由读者自行判断。 1946年，设立萨黙塞特·毛姆奖，奖励优秀年轻作家。 1952年，牛津大学授予名誉博士学位。 1954年，英王室授予"荣誉侍从"称号。

[英]威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆 小说家，剧作家。现实主义文学代表人物。 毕业于伦敦圣托马斯医学院，后弃医从文。 在现实主义文学没落期坚持创作，并奠定文学史上经典地位。 倡导以无所偏袒的观察者角度写作，包容看待人性， 尽可能保持作品的客观性和真实性， 反对将小说当作"布道的讲坛"而交由读者自行判断。 1946年，设立萨黙塞特·毛姆奖，奖励优秀年轻作家。 1952年，牛津大学授予名誉博士学位。 1954年，英王室授予"荣誉侍从"称号。

Watch the wind blow through beautiful scenes of each month of the year. Charming illustrations and fun, engaging rhymes will enchant toddlers as they learn about the wind; holding kites high in the spring, pushing sailboats in the summer, tossing leaves around in the fall, and making snowflakes dance in the winter. Hanna Konola's illustrations are popular the world over. A Year...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The intrepid Jack and Annie are summoned once again to the fantasy realm of Camelot. There, Merlin the Magician tells them that the Stone of Destiny has been stolen. The answer to its disappearance lies within a haunted castle. With a young magician named Teddy, Jack and Annie take on the challenge in an adventure that takes them to new heights and places they couldn’...(展开全部)

The Signature of All Things is Giorgio Agamben’s sustained reflection on method. To reflect on method implies for Agamben an archeological vigilance: a persistent form of thinking whose path is to expose, examine, and elaborate that which remains obscure, unthematized, even unsaid, in an author’s thought. To be archeologically vigilant, then, is to return to, even invent, a met...(展开全部)

An NYRB Classics Original Simone Weil--philosopher, activist, mystic--is one of the most uncompromising of modern spiritual masters. In "On the Abolition of All Political Parties" she challenges the foundation of the modern liberal political order, making an argument that has particular resonance today, when the apathy and anger of the people and the self-serving partisanship o...(展开全部)