Lina is just like any other fifteen-year-old Lithuanian girl in 1941. She paints, she draws, she gets crushes on boys. Until one night when Soviet officers barge into her home, tearing her family from the comfortable life they've known. Separated from her father, forced onto a crowded and dirty train car, Lina, her mother, and her young brother slowly make their way north, cros...(展开全部)

In every way, this book is a fresh and daring perspective on the natural world and those that live in it. By removing colour from the visual element, the viewer is encouraged to interact directly with each image on a subjective level and to take from it a uniquely personal experience. The text is in caption format, and helps create a multilayered work that hints at both poetry ...(展开全部)

A fascinating report on the astounding economic and political ramifications we face as the majority of the world’s population grows old—chosen by the National Chamber Foundation of the US Chamber of Commerce as one of the top ten books every business and government leader should read. Today’s world is rapidly aging—by the year 2030, one billion people will be sixty-five or old...(展开全部)

E L James is a former TV executive, wife and mother of two based in West London. Since early childhood she dreamed of writing stories that readers would fall in love with, but put those dreams on hold to focus on her family and her career. She finally plucked up the courage to put pen to paper with her first novel, Fifty Shades of Grey.

When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Gr...(展开全部)

When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Gr...(展开全部)

Fifteen short stories set in typical Alice Munro territory, the farms and semi-rural towns of south-western Ontario.

When unworldly student Anastasia Steele first encountered the driven and dazzling young entrepreneur Christian Grey it sparked a sensual affair that changed both of their lives irrevocably. Shocked, intrigued, and, ultimately, repelled by Christian’s singular erotic tastes, Ana demands a deeper commitment. Determined to keep her, Christian agrees. Now, Ana and Christian have i...(展开全部)

The Picture of Dorian Gray is an 1891 philosophical novel by Irish writer and playwright Oscar Wilde.First published as a serial story in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine,the editors feared the story was indecent,and without Wilde's knowledge,deleted five hundred words before publication.Despite that censorship,The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers,some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding the public morality.In response,Wilde aggressively defended his novel and art in correspondence with the British press.