Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring the lines between magical realism, horror, and science-fiction, Chung uses elements of the fantastic and surreal to address the very real horrors and cruelties of patriarchy and capitalism in modern society. Anton Hur’s translation skilfully captures the way Chung’s prose effortles...(展开全部)

One of the Continental Op's most bizarre cases, as he is faced with Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett, who has an unfortunate effect on the people around her - they have a habit of dying violently.

"As close to genius as one gets in a picture book."-- USA Today * An ABBY Honor Book * ALA Notable Book * ALA Best Books for Young Adults * The Horn Book Fanfare * Texas Bluebonnet Award * Publishers Weekly Best Books of 1995 * School Library Journal Best Books of 1995 * Booklist : Editors' Choice Award

When the teacher tells her class that they can think of almost everything as a math problem, one student acquires a math anxiety which becomes a real curse.

约翰·席斯卡： 美国著名童书作家。他和兰·史密斯是童书界的最佳拍挡，曾一起合作过《臭起司小子爆笑故事大集合》《数学魔咒》《科学童话》等。 席斯卡于2008年被美国图书馆协会任命为“国家青年文学大使”。2001年开始，致力于推动男孩阅读活动。 兰·史密斯： 美国著名童书插画家，经常和约翰·席斯卡合作创作童书。他创作的《臭起司小子爆笑故事大合集》获得了凯迪克银奖。他本人也获奖无数，曾经三次获得美国插画协会颁发的银奖，四次入选《纽约时报》最佳图书奖等。

One of Vonnegut's major works, this is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes.

Elaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood - unbearable betrayals and cruelties - surface relentlessly, forcing her to confront the spectre of Cordelia, once her best friend and tormentor, who has haunted her for forty years. 'Not since Graham Greene has a novelist captured so forcefully the relationship between s...(展开全部)

From the Backcover of the book: Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to TOronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine mu...(展开全部)