Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues—gravediggers, groundskeepers, and a priest—visit her to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix with the coffee she offers them. Her life is lived to the rhythms of their funny, moving confidences....(展开全部)

With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intellige...(展开全部)

Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper, and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes, until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental tranformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary.

With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intellige...(展开全部)

丹尼尔·凯斯（Daniel Keyes，1927—2014）出生于纽约，拥有布鲁克林大学心理学学位。1950年代早期进入《漫威科幻故事杂志》（Marvel Science Stories）工作，随后转换跑道，成为时装摄影师与中学教师。后获得布鲁克林大学英美文学学位。 1959年，凯斯在《奇幻与科幻杂志》首度发表短篇处女作《献给阿尔吉侬的花束》，赢得雨果奖的肯定，1966年扩展成长篇后又再荣获该年度星云奖，一举囊括了科幻小说最重要的两项大奖。这部探讨心智障碍主角查理·高登与白老鼠阿尔吉侬在医疗介入后，身体与心理变化的作品，曾三次改编为电影，首部改编电影《查理》（Charley）男主角克里夫·罗伯逊拿下奥斯卡最佳男主角奖的殊荣。日本NHK电视台也在2003年改编成电视剧《献花给仓鼠》，法国、波兰与英国则先后改编成舞台剧。第二次改编的最新日剧由野岛伸司编剧...(展开全部)

This book explores the chemistry of water and the effect it has on coffee. We aim to equip you with the tools to allow you to predict - with a given water - how a coffee will taste.

This book explores the chemistry of water and the effect it has on coffee. We aim to equip you with the tools to allow you to predict - with a given water - how a coffee will taste.

Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowski's ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of himself as a young man, tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Memories of a world filled with freaks and clowns, with wonder and pain and anger and passion; a world with its own narrow,...(展开全部)

When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth a second-rate travelling circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town.