Denis Johnson’s The Laughing Monsters is a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game. Roland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S. passport. After ten years’ absence, he returns to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to reunite with his friend Michael Adriko. They once made a lot of mon...(展开全部)

Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green ones.With a little help from her notoriously cantankerous grandfather, an avid naturalist, she figures out that the green grasshoppers are easier to see against the yellow grass, so they are eaten before they can get any larger...(展开全部)

Calpurnia Virginia Tate is eleven years old in 1899 when she wonders why the yellow grasshoppers in her Texas backyard are so much bigger than the green ones.With a little help from her notoriously cantankerous grandfather, an avid naturalist, she figures out that the green grasshoppers are easier to see against the yellow grass, so they are eaten before they can get any larger...(展开全部)

作者：（法国）帕特里克•莫迪亚诺 绘图者：（法国）让-雅克•桑贝 译者：林小白 帕特里克•莫迪亚诺，2014年诺贝尔文学奖得主，法国评论界一致公认的当今法国最有才华的作家之一，同时也是第一位先后获得龚古尔文学奖和诺贝尔文学奖的法国作家。他的作品探索和研究当今人的存在及其与周围环境、现实的关系。代表作有《暗店街》、《八月的星期天》等。获奖纪录：2014诺贝尔文学奖；2010奇诺•德尔杜卡世界奖；1996法国国家文学大奖；1984彼埃尔•摩纳哥基金会奖；1978龚古尔文学奖；1972法兰西学院小说大奖；1969钻石笔尖奖；1968罗歇•尼米埃奖。 让-雅克•桑贝，法国国宝级漫画大师，世界级的插图画家和漫画家，1960年他为《小淘气尼古拉》画插图，声名大噪，从此开始了插图绘画生涯。几米把桑贝奉为偶像，桑贝迷遍布全世界。他的20多部作品被译成多种文字，在几十...(展开全部)

作者：（法国）帕特里克•莫迪亚诺 绘图者：（法国）让-雅克•桑贝 译者：林小白 帕特里克•莫迪亚诺，2014年诺贝尔文学奖得主，法国评论界一致公认的当今法国最有才华的作家之一，同时也是第一位先后获得龚古尔文学奖和诺贝尔文学奖的法国作家。他的作品探索和研究当今人的存在及其与周围环境、现实的关系。代表作有《暗店街》、《八月的星期天》等。获奖纪录：2014诺贝尔文学奖；2010奇诺•德尔杜卡世界奖；1996法国国家文学大奖；1984彼埃尔•摩纳哥基金会奖；1978龚古尔文学奖；1972法兰西学院小说大奖；1969钻石笔尖奖；1968罗歇•尼米埃奖。 让-雅克•桑贝，法国国宝级漫画大师，世界级的插图画家和漫画家，1960年他为《小淘气尼古拉》画插图，声名大噪，从此开始了插图绘画生涯。几米把桑贝奉为偶像，桑贝迷遍布全世界。他的20多部作品被译成多种文字，在几十...(展开全部)

When the magnificent volume first appeared in 1966, it was celebrated for its extraordinary beauty. Now, more than thirty years since its first publication, it is made available once again. Illustrating one of the great art treasures of the world, The Hours of Catherine of Cleves is a fiteenth century illuminated manuscript containing a series of some of the most beautiful illu...(展开全部)

Set against a backdrop of life on a medieval manor, here is a young girl's account of her 14th year. Catherine feels trapped because her father is determined to marry her off to a rich man. By wit, trickery, and luck, she manages to send several would-be husbands packing. Then comes a man from the north--the oldest, the ugliest, and the richest. Newbery Medal winner; ALA 1995 B...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Catherine, a spirited and inquisitive young woman of good family, narrates in diary form the story of her fourteenth year--the year 1290. A Newbery Honor Book.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine ...(展开全部)