In an inspiring pairing, Amy Hest and P.J. Lynch create an unforgettable tribute to the immigrant experience. Jessie lives with her grandmother in a poor village in the valleys of eastern Europe. When, to everyone's surprise, young Jessie is chosen by the village rabbi to travel to America, and to leave her grandmother behind, they both feel their hearts will break. Award...(展开全部)

In an inspiring pairing, Amy Hest and P.J. Lynch create an unforgettable tribute to the immigrant experience. Jessie lives with her grandmother in a poor village in the valleys of eastern Europe. When, to everyone's surprise, young Jessie is chosen by the village rabbi to travel to America, and to leave her grandmother behind, they both feel their hearts will break. Award...(展开全部)

The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Played out against a vividly rendered landscape and filled with allusions to myth and magic, Murdoch's novel exposes the jumble of motivations that drive her characters - the human vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguis...(展开全部)

The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Played out against a vividly rendered landscape and filled with allusions to myth and magic, Murdoch's novel exposes the jumble of motivations that drive her characters - the human vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguis...(展开全部)

Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years. None of his plans work out, and his memoir evolves into ...(展开全部)

崔溥（1454年～1504年）字渊渊，号锦南，明朝朝鲜全罗道罗州（即今韩国务安郡）人，24岁中进士第三名，29岁中文科乙科第一名，1487年任朝鲜弘文馆副校理（五品官员），奉王命赴济州岛执行公务。明弘治元年（1488年）闰正月初，因其父去世渡海返家奔丧，与同船的从吏、护军、仆人、水手等42人，不幸遭风暴袭击。漂流海上并最终在中国官员和百姓的帮助下返回朝鲜。《漂海录》即是其这次遭遇的沿途记录，是研究中国明代历史的重要史料。

崔溥（1454年～1504年）字渊渊，号锦南，明朝朝鲜全罗道罗州（即今韩国务安郡）人，24岁中进士第三名，29岁中文科乙科第一名，1487年任朝鲜弘文馆副校理（五品官员），奉王命赴济州岛执行公务。明弘治元年（1488年）闰正月初，因其父去世渡海返家奔丧，与同船的从吏、护军、仆人、水手等42人，不幸遭风暴袭击。漂流海上并最终在中国官员和百姓的帮助下返回朝鲜。《漂海录》即是其这次遭遇的沿途记录，是研究中国明代历史的重要史料。

The first original novel from author Hugh Howey in six years, Across the Sand takes us back to the world of Sand, to a far future many generations after a disaster has destroyed civilization as we know it, where four siblings struggle to build their futures amid the harsh wastes of endless desert. The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes, a lan...(展开全部)

Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules. Amy quickly realizes th...(展开全部)

A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder. Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a...(展开全部)