Dear Moon, will our nights be as charming without you? It's when Cloud takes your place in the sky that we need you to brighten our evenings with your smile, and remind us how round, and around, you've always been.

Dear Moon, will our nights be as charming without you? It's when Cloud takes your place in the sky that we need you to brighten our evenings with your smile, and remind us how round, and around, you've always been.

A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes’s father’s thoughts as his wife goes into labor, and ending with Johannes’s own thoughts as he embarks upon a day in his life when everything is exactly the same, yet totally different...(展开全部)

First published in 1971, Philip Jones Griffiths' account of the Vietnamese War was the outcome of three years' reporting and is a detailed survey of the conflict. Showing us the true horrors of the war as well as offering a study of Vietnamese folk life, the author argues against the de-humanizing power of technology and highlights the arrogance and hypocrisy of American imperi...(展开全部)

The sensational Dutch bestseller: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's extraordinary portrait of a farming family distorted by grief, translated by Michele Hutchison. I asked God if he please couldn't take my brother Matthies instead of my rabbit. 'Amen.' Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of experiencing her universe: the feeling of udder ointment on her skin as protection against harsh w...(展开全部)

Ten-year-old Jas has a unique way of experiencing her universe: the feeling of udder ointment on her skin as protection against harsh winters; the texture of green warts, like capers, on migrating toads; the sound of 'blush words' that aren't in the Bible. But when a tragic accident ruptures the family, her curiosity warps into a vortex of increasingly disturbing fantasies - un...(展开全部)

Vietnamese history prior to the tenth century has often been treated as a branch of Chinese history, but the Vietnamese side of the story can no longer be ignored. In this volume Keith Taylor draws on both Chinese and Vietnamese sources to provide a balanced view of the early history of Vietnam.

A little rabbit greets each day and says good night to the familiar things outside.

阿瑟·黑利(1920-2004)，他出生英伦，参加皇家空军征战二战，写尽美国社会百态之后，终老于巴哈马，但更愿承认自己是加拿大人。 他的小说改编成电影，引领好莱坞的灾难片风潮；他的小说改编成电视剧，创造出历史最高的收视纪录。 他的小说入选MBA教材，成为从业人员的必读之书；他的小说入选英文课本，是学习写作的经典范本。 他是畅销书之父，作品被译作38种语言，总销量17亿册。他无时无刻不在编织故事，一天却只能创作600字。 他是行业小说之王，人们从他的小说里了解空港经营、酒店管理、媒体运作、金融内幕，他却谦虚道：“我就是个讲故事的人，读者的其他收获不过是偶然罢了。”