When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top.  No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fi...(展开全部)

On a momentous visit to the aquarium, Elliot discovers his dream pet: a penguin. It's just proper enough for a straight-laced boy like him. And when he asks his father if he may have one (please and thank you), his father says yes. Elliot should have realized that Dad probably thought he meant a stuffed penguin and not a real one . . . Clever illustrations and a wild surprise e...(展开全部)

托妮·布茨欧 托妮以前在学校图书馆工作过十六年，现为全职作家。有一次，她去访问一所小学，在教师办公室听到了一个男孩和他偷来的企鹅的趣闻，便一下子爱上了这个都市传奇，由此创作了这部作品。托妮有很多非常受欢迎的作品，包括《灯塔上的圣诞节》《安妮去幼儿园的大冒险》《安妮去工作的大冒险》《水手箱》《准备好了吗，闲逛的小鸭子》《小笨蛋和爸爸》等。 戴维·斯莫尔 戴维的作品《如果你想当总统……》获得了凯迪克金奖，《园丁》（文字作者是他的妻子和亲密的合作伙伴萨拉·斯图尔特）获得了凯迪克银奖，以图像小说形式创作的自传《缝不起来的童年》获得了美国国家图书奖提名。同时他也是儿童文学作品《妞妞的鹿角》的文字作者和插图作者。另一本书《特别的恐龙日》（文字作者是艾莉丝·布洛奇）荣获E.B.怀特插图奖。迄今为止，戴维已为四十多本书绘制了插图。

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)

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

For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with sta...(展开全部)