A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They're polar oppos...(展开全部)

约翰·瓦利（美） John Varley 约翰·瓦利，美国著名科幻作家，1947年出生于美国得州奥斯汀市，毕业于密歇根州立大学，主修物理。瓦利1974年出道，随即一鸣惊人，被誉为美国20世纪70年代最为成功的科幻作家。瓦利风格独特，长篇作品是畅销榜常客，中篇作品更是被誉为“艺术品”。他曾三获雨果奖，两获星云奖，其他奖项和提名数十次，代表作有“八星”系列中的《按回车键》《蛇夫座热线》《钢铁海滩》等，多以太阳系为场景，展示近未来的人类社会。

约翰·瓦利（美） John Varley 约翰·瓦利，美国著名科幻作家，1947年出生于美国得州奥斯汀市，毕业于密歇根州立大学，主修物理。瓦利1974年出道，随即一鸣惊人，被誉为美国20世纪70年代最为成功的科幻作家。瓦利风格独特，长篇作品是畅销榜常客，中篇作品更是被誉为“艺术品”。他曾三获雨果奖，两获星云奖，其他奖项和提名数十次，代表作有“八星”系列中的《按回车键》《蛇夫座热线》《钢铁海滩》等，多以太阳系为场景，展示近未来的人类社会。

In this charming picture book, a cheerful family tumbles out of the car and onto the beach, ready for a perfect day. Buoyant verse just right for reading aloud and bright, playful illustrations capture the singular feeling of a hazy, lazy day by the ocean, complete with a ball game with new friends, water-skiers and sailboats, and a picnic lunch of fried chicken and deviled egg...(展开全部)

For more than three hundred years, Bluff House has sat above Whiskey Beach, guarding its shore ― and its secrets. To summer tourists, it’s the crown jewel of the town’s stunning scenery. To the residents of Whiskey Beach, it’s landmark and legend. To Eli Landon, it’s home. . . . A Boston lawyer, Eli has weathered an intense year of public scrutiny and police investigation after...(展开全部)

For more than three hundred years, Bluff House has sat above Whiskey Beach, guarding its shore ― and its secrets. To summer tourists, it’s the crown jewel of the town’s stunning scenery. To the residents of Whiskey Beach, it’s landmark and legend. To Eli Landon, it’s home. . . . A Boston lawyer, Eli has weathered an intense year of public scrutiny and police investigation after...(展开全部)

For more than three hundred years, Bluff House has sat above Whiskey Beach, guarding its shore ― and its secrets. To summer tourists, it’s the crown jewel of the town’s stunning scenery. To the residents of Whiskey Beach, it’s landmark and legend. To Eli Landon, it’s home. . . . A Boston lawyer, Eli has weathered an intense year of public scrutiny and police investigation after...(展开全部)

For more than three hundred years, Bluff House has sat above Whiskey Beach, guarding its shore ― and its secrets. To summer tourists, it’s the crown jewel of the town’s stunning scenery. To the residents of Whiskey Beach, it’s landmark and legend. To Eli Landon, it’s home. . . . A Boston lawyer, Eli has weathered an intense year of public scrutiny and police investigation after...(展开全部)

The story of a very nice young man called Ned Maddstone who, 20 years after being seized outside a Knightsbridge language college and thrown into solitary confinement as a political prisoner, returns to London implacably focused upon revenge.

Following on the heels of Martin Parr’s limited-edition, album-style publication Life’s a Beach, Aperture now presents this beach-friendly mini edition. Parr has been photographing the topic of the beach for many decades, documenting sunbathers, rambunctious swimmers caught mid-plunge and the eternal sandy picnic. His international career, in fact, could well be traced to the p...(展开全部)