Winner of the Caldecott Medal Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them -- and caught three sly creatures to get them. This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.

Recounts how most African folk tales came to be called Spider Stories .

Many African stories, whether or not they are about Kwaku Ananse the "spider man," are called, "Spider Stories." This book is about how that came to be. The African storyteller begins: "We do not really mean, we do not really mean that what we are about to say is true. A Story, a story; let it come, let it go." And it tells that long, long ago there were no stories on earth f...(展开全部)

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比尔•普洛奇尼Bill Pronzini（1943- ） 比尔•普洛奇尼一九四三年四月十三日出生于美国加利福尼亚州，全名威廉•约翰•普洛奇尼。成为作家之前，他从事过很多种工作，直至一九六九年才开始专职写作。一九七一年，普洛奇尼推出自己的首部作品《跟踪者》，以及“无名侦探”系列的首部曲《抢夺》。从此笔耕不辍，迄今为止已有百部以上的作品问世，而“无名侦探”系列小说也已经超过三十五部。在三十八年的时间跨度中，这位始终没有名字的侦探，与他的创造者和读者们共同成长，成为侦探小说史上最特殊而鲜明的侦探形象之一。 提到小说中的私人侦探，人们会想起许多光辉的名字，以及他们或坚毅、或古怪的性格。然而在这些名侦探中却有一位是因为“没有名字”而扬名天下的。比尔•普洛奇尼一直未能给自己笔下一系列畅销侦探小说的主角取一个响亮的名字，这究竟是有意为之还是纯属意外，如今已不可考，...(展开全部)

A new Nameless Detective story from the 2008 Mystery Writers of America Grand Master...A locked room mystery that goes from stolen books to stolen lives and the hunt for a phantom stalker with a penchant for pouring acid to make his point give Nameless and his partner Jake more than enough work to earn their fees--as long as neither turns his back at the wrong moment. Nameless ...(展开全部)

‘I too wanted to forget that girl. Really forget her, that is, stop yearning to write about her. Stop thinking that I have to write about the girl and her desire and madness, her idiocy and pride, her hunger and her blood that ceased to flow. I have never managed to do so.’ In A Girl’s Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the summer of 1958, her first away from home, when she worked as...(展开全部)

Upon her mother’s death from Alzheimer’s, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time, as she seeks to "capture the real woman, the one who existed independently from me, born on the outskirts of a small Normandy town, and who died in the geriatric ward of a hospital in the suburbs of Paris." She explores the bond between mother and daughter, tenuous and unshakable a...(展开全部)

Have you ever felt out of place, as though you were living someone else's life? Assistant Bean Counter #1138 has only ever known a world in which numbers reign supreme, but there's a feeling he cannot shake that, deep down, he is more than an accountant. One day, he discovers a magical, mystical place that presents new and tantalizing horizons: a bookstore. For all those who ha...(展开全部)

‘I too wanted to forget that girl. Really forget her, that is, stop yearning to write about her. Stop thinking that I have to write about the girl and her desire and madness, her idiocy and pride, her hunger and her blood that ceased to flow. I have never managed to do so.’ In A Girl’s Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the summer of 1958, her first away from home, when she worked as...(展开全部)