A bursting, heartfelt, debut following fifty-five days in the life of ten-year-old Rae, who must look after herself and her dog when her mother disappears. For as long as Rae can remember, it’s been her and Mum, and their dog, Splinter; a small, deliberately unremarkable, family. They have their walks, their cooking routines, their home. Sometimes Mum disappears for a while to ...(展开全部)

作者：贝丝•里维斯，美国青少年科幻/奇幻小说作家。“上帝之速”系列是她创作的青少年科幻三部曲，本系列第一部《天空的灯火》也是她的第一本长篇小说，一脱稿就被美国企鹅出版集团以高价买得版权，2011年1月出版，即荣登《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜 当过教师的她现在和丈夫一起居住在北加利福尼亚的乡下。 她希望能用80天环游世界，还想探索月球，找到纳尼亚。 译者：张一帆，笔名“夜潮音”。上海旅居、北京工作的东北姑娘，服装设计师、杂志编辑，偶尔扮演写手角色。2011年翻译了长篇科幻小说《冥界热线》，将罗伯特•蓝金的作品带入了中国读者的视线，从此与小说翻译结缘。张一帆出版译作如下： 《冥界热线》（2011年第2期《科幻世界•译文版》）《陶偶》、《奇幻战场》系列之《术士的陵寝》、《木乃伊的诅咒》（预计2012年6月出版）《女童》（预计2012年12月出版）《上帝之速I ...(展开全部)

Godspeed was fueled by lies. Now it is ruled by chaos. It's been three months since Amy was unplugged. The life she always knew is over. And everywhere she looks, she sees the walls of the spaceship Godspeed. But there may just be hope: Elder has assumed leadership of the ship. He's finally free to enact his vision - no more Phydus, no more lies. But when Elder discovers sh...(展开全部)

Trapped on board the spaceship Godspeed, Amy trusts no-one. The ship's ruler is dead and a rebellion threatens. Amy wants to help Elder as he tries to take charge, but she's torn between her feelings for him and the chaos that's pulling everything apart. As more harrowing discoveries are made about Godspeed, Amy is caught in a desperate race to unravel its secrets. Only one thi...(展开全部)

Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s impassioned and prescient travelogue of his journeys through his ancestral homeland, with a new preface by the author. Arising out of Naipaul’s lifelong obsession and passion for a country that is at once his and totally alien, India: A Million Mutinies Now relates the stories of many of the people he met traveling there more than fifty years a...(展开全部)

Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s impassioned and prescient travelogue of his journeys through his ancestral homeland, with a new preface by the author. Arising out of Naipaul’s lifelong obsession and passion for a country that is at once his and totally alien, India: A Million Mutinies Now relates the stories of many of the people he met traveling there more than fifty years a...(展开全部)

More than two million copies of Things Fall Apart have been sold in the United States since it was first published here in 1959. Worldwide, there are eight million copies in print in fifty different languages. This is Chinua Achebe's masterpiece and it is often compared to the great Greek tragedies, and currently sells more than one hundred thousand copies a year in the United ...(展开全部)

Every word of this book is true. A nurse in 1913 fell in love with a man called John Smith, except he was a visitor from another world. She fell in love with a man from the stars. And she wrote it all down.

More than two million copies of Things Fall Apart have been sold in the United States since it was first published here in 1959. Worldwide, there are eight million copies in print in fifty different languages. This is Chinua Achebe's masterpiece and it is often compared to the great Greek tragedies, and currently sells more than one hundred thousand copies a year in the United ...(展开全部)

Jim Paul's meteoric rise took him from a small town in Northern Kentucky to governor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, yet he lost it all -- his fortune, his reputation, and his job -- in one fatal attack of excessive economic hubris. In this honest, frank analysis, Paul and Brendan Moynihan revisit the events that led to Paul's disastrous decision and examine the psychologic...(展开全部)