D.A. Doug Selby was in trouble again. An enticing redhead had been murdered; the county newspaper, The Blade, was after his neck; he had an unsolved jewellery theft on his hands and that sly, unscrupulous attorney A.B. Carr was running circles around him.Selby knew that somehow or other all four of his troubles were tied up in one explosive bundle. But how could he open the bun...(展开全部)

In this touching and atmospheric novel set among the fishermen of Newfoundland, Proulx tells the story of Quoyle. From all outward appearances, Quoyle has gone through his first 36 years on earth as a big schlump of a loser. He's not attractive, he's not brilliant or witty or talented, and he's not the kind of person who typically assumes the central position in a novel. But Pr...(展开全部)

News is to the mind what sugar is to the body. In 2013 Rolf Dobelli stood in front of a roomful of journalists and proclaimed that he did not read the news. It caused a riot. Now he finally sets down his philosophy in detail. And he practises what he preaches: he hasn't read the news for a decade. Stop Reading the News is Dobelli's manifesto about the dangers of the most toxic ...(展开全部)

One of the acknowledged masterpieces of Mexican literature, Fernando del Paso's News from the Empire is a powerful and encyclopedic novel of the tragic lives of Maximilian and his wife, Carlota, the short-lived Emperor and Empress of Mexico. Simultaneously intimate and panoramic, the narrative flows from Carlota's fevered memories of her husband's ill-fated empire to the multip...(展开全部)

One of Bookpage's Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2021 Join "America’s funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post), Mary Roach, on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that br...(展开全部)

Tout bouge, marche, court, rampe ou vole… Notre planète tout entière et l'univers lui-même ne sont jamais au repos. Ce grand livre documentaire nous raconte la beauté, l'histoire et les mystères de ces mouvements. Nous y faisons d'innombrables rencontres, des sternes reliant les deux pôles aux navigateurs vikings, des inventeurs chinois de la boussole à la sonde spatiale Voyage...(展开全部)

Parue en 1980, L'Ecriture du désastre porte à un point d'incandescence l'écriture fragmentaire telle que Blanchot avait pu la pratiquer, dans Le Pas au-delà notamment. Le texte est composé de fragments d'inégale longueur dont certains étaient antérieurement parus en revue. C'est une polyphonie, un jeu de reformulation perpétuelle, où chaque fragment a valeur d'éclat, ruinant to...(展开全部)

Tout bouge, marche, court, rampe ou vole… Notre planète tout entière et l'univers lui-même ne sont jamais au repos. Ce grand livre documentaire nous raconte la beauté, l'histoire et les mystères de ces mouvements. Nous y faisons d'innombrables rencontres, des sternes reliant les deux pôles aux navigateurs vikings, des inventeurs chinois de la boussole à la sonde spatiale Voyage...(展开全部)