When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building. While o...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Quack! Quack! What's that sound? Biscuit goes to see and meets a lost duckling. Biscuit helps the duckling find its way home, and then the fun begins. Woof! Quack!

Aladdin Books presents a handsome new edition of a Caldecott Medal winner. "Absurdities and contrasts are so imaginatively combined in a hilarious comedy of manners that the merriment can be enjoyed on several levels".--The Horn Book. Three-color illustrations.

Winner of the Caldecott Medal One day, a small boy receives a very special invitation -- the King and the Queen have invited him to the castle for tea. He accepts, with one question: "May I bring a friend?" "Any friend of our friend is welcome her," says the King. But their guest's friend turns out to be someone they never expected! Beatrice Schenk de Regniers's rhythmi...(展开全部)

比阿特丽斯·申克·德·雷尼尔斯（Beatrice Schenk de Regniers）/著 童书作家。1914年出生于美国印第安纳州的拉斐特。1941年获得芝加哥大学社会工作管理专业的硕士学位。20世纪40年代，她一直在美国和埃及西奈半岛的一个南斯拉夫难民营工作。20世纪50年代，比阿特丽斯以自由作家的身份从事专栏写作，创作非虚构小说、幽默故事、短篇小说和童书。1953年，她出版了第一部童书作品The Giant Story，该书的插画由当时还名不见经传的莫里斯·桑达克绘制。1961年，比阿特丽斯开始在学乐出版社工作，她一周上四天班，每周一专事写作，直到1981年退休。比阿特丽斯一生共创作了五十多部作品，其中有十部以笔名“塔玛拉·凯特”出版。《我能带个朋友吗?》荣获1965年凯迪克金奖。 贝尼·蒙特雷索（Beni Montresor）/绘 1926...(展开全部)

What could be more natural, when invited by the King and Queen to tea, than to ask to bring a friend? And that, of course, is what the hero of "May I Bring a Friend?" does. Not only to tea, but to breakfast, lunch, dinner, apple pie and Halloween - one invitation for each of six days of the week. The King is most gracious. "Any friend of our friend is most welcome, " says he. ...(展开全部)

This book investigates what women enjoy about consuming, and in some cases producing, gay male erotic media-from slashfic, to pornographic texts, to visual pornography-and how this sits within their consumption of erotica and pornography more generally. In addition, it will examine how women''s use of gay male erotic media fits in with their perceptions of gender and sexuality....(展开全部)

1930-something: a professional hunter is passing through an unnamed Central European country that is in the thrall of a vicious dictator. The hunter wonders whether he can penetrate undetected into the dictator’s private compound. He does. He has the potential target in his sites and is wondering whether to pull the trigger when security catches up with him. Imprisoned, torture...(展开全部)

Rogue Male is one of the classic thrillers of the 20th century. An Englishman plans to assassinate the dictator of a European country. But he is foiled at the last moment and falls into the hands of ruthless and inventive torturers. They devise for him an ingenious and diplomatic death but, for once, they bungle the job and he escapes. But England provides no safety from his pu...(展开全部)

Rogue Male is one of the classic thrillers of the 20th century. An Englishman plans to assassinate the dictator of a European country. But he is foiled at the last moment and falls into the hands of ruthless and inventive torturers. They devise for him an ingenious and diplomatic death but, for once, they bungle the job and he escapes. But England provides no safety from his pu...(展开全部)