A song holds the key to murder in this Dr. Hugh Westlake mystery from the Edgar Award–winning author who wrote the Peter Duluth series as Patrick Quentin. Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned outstanding detective novels from the 1930s through the 1960s under other pseudonyms, including Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge. Anthony Boucher w...(展开全部)

A favorite folk song about a clever fox who outsmarts a farmer provides the text for Peter Spier's splendid and humorous illustrations of a New England autumn night in a Caldecott Honor Book. Includes music for voice, guitar, piano, and all seven verses of the song.

A favorite folk song about a clever fox who outsmarts a farmer provides the text for Peter Spier's splendid and humorous illustrations of a New England autumn night in a Caldecott Honor Book. Includes music for voice, guitar, piano, and all seven verses of the song.

伊恩•麦克尤恩，1948年生，英国当代著名作家。1976年以处女作短篇小说集《最初的爱情，最后的仪式》成名，并获当年毛姆奖。此后佳作不断，迄今已出版十几部既畅销又获好评的小说，其中《阿姆斯特丹》获布克奖，《时间中的孩子》获惠特布莱德奖，《赎罪》获全美书评人协会奖。近年来，随着麦克尤恩在主流文学圈获得越来越高的评价，在图书市场上创造越来越可观的销售记录，他已经被公认为英国的“国民作家”，他的名字已经成为当今英语文坛上“奇迹”的同义词。

简介：“我们这不是变异，我们不是怪物！这是进化……”“进化……吗？”“跟我走吧，一起去寻找和我们一样的人，人类，是永远不会待见我们的。”“好……我跟你走！”————————————“喂，也有不会伤害人类的怪物啊！”“那有不会伤害怪物的人类吗？”————————————“车贤秀，来，说出你的欲望吧……然后幸福的留在这里……”“我的欲望是……看卡塔·琪利亚的最终章啊！”

伊恩•麦克尤恩，1948年生，英国当代著名作家。1976年以处女作短篇小说集《最初的爱情，最后的仪式》成名，并获当年毛姆奖。此后佳作不断，迄今已出版十几部既畅销又获好评的小说，其中《阿姆斯特丹》获布克奖，《时间中的孩子》获惠特布莱德奖，《赎罪》获全美书评人协会奖。近年来，随着麦克尤恩在主流文学圈获得越来越高的评价，在图书市场上创造越来越可观的销售记录，他已经被公认为英国的“国民作家”，他的名字已经成为当今英语文坛上“奇迹”的同义词。

'I haven't read a book that has shaken me so intensely in many years... The comparisons are inevitable – Saramago, Orwell, McCarthy – but this novel will stand entirely on its own.' Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon An Irish Times 'Book to Look Forward to in 2023' A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-wi...(展开全部)

On an island at the edge of a wide, wild sea, a girl and her grandmother gather gifts from the earth. Salmon from the stream, herring eggs from the ocean, and in the forest, a world of berries. Salmonberry, Cloudberry, Blueberry, Nagoonberry. Huckleberry, Snowberry, Strawberry, Crowberry. Through the seasons, they sing to the land as the land sings to them. Brimming with joy an...(展开全部)

Quatrième de couverture C'est l'histoire d'un amour, vécu aux Indes, dans les années 30, dans une ville surpeuplée des bords du Gange. Deux jours de cette histoire sont ici évoqués. La saison est celle de la mousson d'été. Quatre voix sans visage parlent de cette histoire. L'histoire de cet amour, les voix l'ont sue, ou lue, il y a longtemps. Certaines s'en souviennent mieux qu...(展开全部)

Unseen voices narrate this story of the affair between the haunting Anne-Marie Stretter and the disgraced French vice-consul in Lahore. In the India of 1937, with the smell of laurels and leprosy permeating the air, the characters perform a dance of doomed love to the strains of a dying colonialism.