George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond rec...(展开全部)

George Bowling, the hero of this comic novel, is a middle-aged insurance salesman who lives in an average English suburban row house with a wife and two children. One day, after winning some money from a bet, he goes back to the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty years before. The pool, alas, is gone, the village has changed beyond rec...(展开全部)

Bilingual Edition -- German/English Hans Magnus Enzensberger is Germany's most important and influential living poet, a lightning rod in a stormy political and cultural landscape. (Translations of his Kiosk and Selected Poems have also been published by Sheep Meadow.) Having come of age after the Third Reich, Enzensberger builds his poetry upon tradition and titanic German wrec...(展开全部)

The city is Beszel, a rundown metropolis on the eastern edge of Europe. The other city is Ul Qoma, a modern Eastern European boomtown, despite being a bit of an international pariah. What the two cities share, and what they don't, is the deliciously evocative conundrum at the heart of China Mieville's The City & The City. Mieville is well known as a modern fantasist (and urbani...(展开全部)

DODO冒险队的几个伙伴登上了著名的浮空城，那里是冒险协会的大本营，而在前不久的墨多多爷爷的来信中提到，会在墨多多登上浮空城的的那一天与他见面。墨多多怀着激动喜悦的心情，和小伙伴们一起，在不死鸟安卡的帮助下顺利登陆。在浮空城的大厅里，许多破谜小队齐聚，准备接受考验，DODO冒险队因此结识了一个名叫埃克斯的少年，并认识了浮空城的市长汉森、冒险协会的会长雷欧。就在DODO冒险队和其他破谜小队准备接受考验时，冒险协会协会的死对头——“鬼影迷踪”入侵了浮空城，墨多多和他的小伙伴们主动请缨，决定加入到清缴敌人的队伍中去，然而在追踪过程中，他们竟然遇到了一模一样的“自己”。大家好不容易在埃克斯和安卡的帮助下才逃脱险境，但是，浮空城谜团重重，同时也危险重重、杀机四伏。 一切阴谋都才刚刚开始，到底谁才是真正的幕后黑手？神秘的浮空城遗产到底是什么？鬼影迷踪究竟从何而来...(展开全部)

New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other-real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points ...(展开全部)

Whether visiting the King of the Lozis at a bend in the Zambezi river or crossing the United States in a railway car of unsurpassable luxury, relating his experiments with biblical dieting, or detailing the illneses and diseases suffered in half a lifetime of travel, Paul Theroux, the fresh-air fiend himself, is always an entertaining and honest guide. Full of startling encount...(展开全部)

Coming Up for Air is a novel by George Orwell, first published in June 1939, shortly before the outbreak of World War II. It combines premonitions of the impending war with images of an idyllic Thames

Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, Donald Miller takes readers on a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden and describes the terrible cost of bombing for the German people. Fighting at 25,000 feet in t...(展开全部)