Captain John "Black Jack" Geary tries a desperate gamble to lead the Alliance Fleet home-through enemy-occupied space-only to lose half the Fleet to an unexpected mutiny.

Book Description Everything you can imagine is real High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the loss of his mother. He is angery and he is alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness, and as he takes refuge in the myths and fairytales so beloved by his dead mother he finds that the real world ...(展开全部)

2006年10月25日下午一點三十分，我看完愛爾蘭作家約翰‧康諾利的新作《失物之書》，最後一章是在全身感動得雞皮疙瘩不斷的情況下唸完的。唸完最後兩段時，我的眼眶是濕的，為此又把那幾句話讀了兩次：“For a man’s lifetime was but a moment in that place, and every man dreams his own heaven. And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again.”。由於工作使然，在閱讀的過程中，我不斷試圖尋找一個強而有力的行銷語句（pitch），可以簡潔準確地說出這本書的特點，勾起讀者興趣。例如「黑暗版的《說不完的故事》」，或者「名導泰瑞吉利安的那部『神鬼剋星』（Brothers...(展开全部)

Book Description Everything you can imagine is real High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the loss of his mother. He is angery and he is alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness, and as he takes refuge in the myths and fairytales so beloved by his dead mother he finds that the real world ...(展开全部)

2006年10月25日下午一點三十分，我看完愛爾蘭作家約翰‧康諾利的新作《失物之書》，最後一章是在全身感動得雞皮疙瘩不斷的情況下唸完的。唸完最後兩段時，我的眼眶是濕的，為此又把那幾句話讀了兩次：“For a man’s lifetime was but a moment in that place, and every man dreams his own heaven. And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again.”。由於工作使然，在閱讀的過程中，我不斷試圖尋找一個強而有力的行銷語句（pitch），可以簡潔準確地說出這本書的特點，勾起讀者興趣。例如「黑暗版的《說不完的故事》」，或者「名導泰瑞吉利安的那部『神鬼剋星』（Brothers...(展开全部)

High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mournsthe death of his mother, with only the books on his shelf forcompany. But those books have begun to whisper to him in thedarkness. Angry and alone, he takes refuge in his imaginationand soon finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. Whilehis family falls apart around him, David is violently propelledinto a world th...(展开全部)

In 2007, when a new edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary ― widely used in schools around the world ― was published, a sharp-eyed reader soon noticed that around forty common words concerning nature had been dropped. Apparently they were no longer being used enough by children to merit their place in the dictionary. The list of these “lost words” included acorn, adder, bluebe...(展开全部)

In 2007, when a new edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary ― widely used in schools around the world ― was published, a sharp-eyed reader soon noticed that around forty common words concerning nature had been dropped. Apparently they were no longer being used enough by children to merit their place in the dictionary. The list of these “lost words” included acorn, adder, bluebe...(展开全部)

著者： 大卫·霍布斯（David Hobbs），作者大卫·霍布斯在英国*家海军服役了33年，并担任舰队空军博物馆馆长，后来成为一名海军航空记者和作家。他另著有多部作品，包括近期的《海军航空世纪》（A Century of Carrier Aviation）等。 译者： 张宇翔，留学电子博士，主要兴趣为一战至二战期间的海军发展和战史。作品包括描述日德兰海战的《巨人的对决》，以及在其他刊物上发表的若干文章。