From the bestselling author of The Swallows of Kabul comes this timely and haunting novel that powerfully illuminates the devastating human costs of terrorism.Dr. Amin Jaafari is an Arab-Israeli surgeon at a hospital in Tel Aviv. As an admired and respected member of his community, he has carved a space for himself and his wife, Sihem, at the crossroads of two troubled societ...(展开全部)

Ammine, a surgeon in a Jerusalem hospital, struggles to cope with the mangled bodies of victims of a suicide bombing in a downtown Jerusalem pizza restaurant. He is harassed, well-meaning, utterly dedicated and professional – and a naturalised Israeli Arab. When the police pin responsibility the suicide attack on Ammine's wife, he is at first baffled, disbelieving and angr...(展开全部)

From National Book Award in Fiction finalist Andrew Krivak comes a gorgeous fable of Earth’s last two human inhabitants and a girl’s journey home. In an Eden-like future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They own a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches his dau...(展开全部)

Johnny Orchard brings home a playful bear cub that soon becomes huge and a nuisance to the neighbors.

《熊》是美国作家、诺贝尔文学奖得主威廉·福克纳1941年创作的中篇小说，收录于长篇《去吧，摩西》并构成其核心章节。 本书讲述三次狩猎故事，以象征手法，隐喻工业文明对自然的侵蚀。

October 28, 1997. The Dow drops 500 points. Investors the world over receive a startling reminder that "what goes up, must come down." It is a profoundly unsettling experience for those of us who have either forgotten or have never known the experience of a bear market. Half of the money invested in U.S. stocks in this century entered the market from 1991-1996, making the dark ...(展开全部)

An animal adventure for the little white bear and his magic pencil. As bear strolls through the forest when he meets a lonely gorilla, a noisy crocodile, a lion and even an elephant. They all look like they need something, so bear steps in to save the day using his magic red and yellow pencil to draw just what they were looking for. Originally published in 1988 this early work ...(展开全部)

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 'Burning the Books is fascinating, thought-provoking and very timely. No one should keep quiet about this library history' IAN HISLOP Opening with the notorious bonfires of 'un-German' and Jewish literature in 1933 that offered such a clear signal of intentions, Burning the Books takes us on a 3000-year journey through the destruction of knowledge ...(展开全部)

『著者简介』 理查德•奥文登（Richard Ovenden），毕业于杜伦大学和伦敦大学学院，并在牛津大学贝利奥尔学院担任研究员。他自2014年起任牛津大学博德利图书馆的馆长。在此之前，他曾在杜伦大学图书馆、上议院图书馆、苏格兰国家图书馆和爱丁堡大学任职。他是古文物研究学会和皇家艺术学会的会员，美国哲学学会的成员，还是《摄影师约翰•汤姆森（1837—1921）》的作者。他于2019年英国女王寿辰荣获大英帝国勋章。 『译者简介』 刘佳玥，伦敦大学学院硕士，近代早期研究专业，主要研究方向为英国17世纪女性作者的手稿和出版物。

The Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in the New Yorker as “Yoko Tawada’s magnificent strangeness”―Tawada is an author like no other. Three generations (grandmother, mother, son) of polar bears are famous as both circus performers and writers in East Germany: they are polar bears who move in human society, stars of the ring and of the literary worl...(展开全部)