We are all in need of lights to follow. One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old woman on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and worked alone on a tiny rocky outcrop, caring for wild Eider ducks and gathering their down. Hers was a centuries-old trade that had once made men and women rich, but had long been in decline. Still, somehow, she seemed to be hanging on...(展开全部)

From one of the most important intellectuals of our time comes an extraordinary story of exile and a celebration of an irrecoverable past. A fatal medical diagnosis in 1991 convinced Edward Said that he should leave a record of where he was born and spent his childhood, and so with this memoir he rediscovers the lost Arab world of his early years in Palestine, Lebanon, and Egyp...(展开全部)

An extraordinary and brilliant work of historical imagination -- this is Mantel's epic novel of the French Revolution. A spellbinding novel which recounts the events between the fall of the Ancient Regime and the peak of the Terror, as seen through the eyes of the French Revolution's three protagonists -- Georges-Jacques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins, m...(展开全部)

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異動で本社にやってきた加賀は、見た目はいいのに無愛想、協調性もなく融通が利かず言葉遣いも辛辣なので、同僚たちから敬遠されていた。 先輩としてそんな加賀の扱いに手を焼いていた横山は、てっきり嫌われていると思っていた加賀に告白されて戸惑う。加賀の本心だとわかったからだ。 ――それは天使だった父から譲り受けた資質のひとつ。嘘と真実を見分ける力、もうひとつは真っ白な羽だった。 Holly NOVELS第29弾！！木原音瀬の幻の傑作、待望の新装版！改稿＆書き下ろし２０ページあり。

Spatial and cultural analysis have recently found much common ground, focusing in particular on the nature of the city. Place/Culture/Representation brings together new and established voices involved in the reshaping of cultural geography. The authors argue that as we write our geographies we are not just representing some reality, we are creating meaning. Writing becomes as ...(展开全部)

The Vampire Chronicles continue with Anne Rice's spellbinding new novel, in which the great vampire Marius returns. The golden-haired Marius, true Child of the Millennia, once mentor to The Vampire Lestat, always and forever the conscientious foe of the Evil Doer, reveals in his own intense yet inti-mate voice the secrets of his two-thousand-year existence. Once a proud Senator...(展开全部)

柯丽·邓·波姆（1892－1983年），生长于荷兰的一个基督教家庭，是一名钟表匠。二次世界大战期间，她和她的家人帮助、收容了许多受到迫害的犹太人，并因此被送入了纳粹的集中营。她的父亲和大姐都死在集中营里，而幸存下来的柯丽则在战后四处演讲她在战时的经历以及上帝的恩典和引领。她的见证感动并安慰了许多人，也包括那些曾经迫害过她的德国人。1971年，由她与约翰·谢里尔、伊丽莎白·谢里尔合著的自传《密室》问世；1975年同名的电影全球发行。 柯丽·邓·波姆荣获了荷兰女王授予的爵士封号，并获得了以色列授予的国家正义奖。1983年，在她91岁生日当天，在美国去世。