Inspired by family stories, two-time Newbery Honor winner and New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Holm beautifully blends family lore with America's past in this charming gem of a novel, rich in historical detail, humor, and the unique flavors of Key West. Life isn't like the movies, and eleven-year-old Turtle is no Shirley Temple. She's smart and tough and has see...(展开全部)

In this intellectual biography, Sebastian de Grazia presents a new vision of Machiavelli that evokes, with uncanny precision, the great Florentine thinker’s presence. After providing an engrossing account of Machiavelli's childhood and the period following his imprisonment and torture, the book turns to an examination of The Prince. The details of Machiavelli’s life never cease...(展开全部)

The humanitarian organisation, Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) delivers emergency aid to victims of armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and those who lack reliable health care. Each year, more than 2,500 volunteer doctors, nurses, and other professionals join locally-hired staff to provide medical aid in more than eighty countries. At the forefront a...(展开全部)

Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF (aka Doctors Without Borders), was founded in 1971 by rebellious French doctors. It is arguably the most respected humanitarian organization in the world, delivering emergency aid to victims of armed conflict, epidemics and natural disasters as well as to many others who lack reliable health care. Dan Bortolotti follows the volunteers at the for...(展开全部)

Life isn't like the movies and 11-year-old Turtle is no Shirley Temple. She's smart and tough and has seen enough of the world not to expect a Hollywood ending. Afterall, it's 1935 and money and sometimes even dreams are a scarce. So when Turtle's Mother gets a job housekeeping for a lady who doesn't like kids, Turtle says goodbye and heads off to Florida to live with relatives...(展开全部)

作者罗伯特・s •拉什：从军47年，文武双全的北约老兵，打过60迫击炮，开过装甲悍马车，研究过二战部队史。拥有哲学和军事史、欧洲史、商业史博士学位，文学硕士学位。 历任迫击炮班班长，重武器排军士长，师级、军级、军种级历史学家，欧洲-大西洋冲突研究工作组主任。著有《二战中的美国步兵》《应募入伍士兵指导手册》《士官指导手册》《军事写作实用指南》等作品。 译者董旻杰：网名本垒打，军事作家、职业出版人，曾任多本知名军事刊物的主编。著有《二战苏德军服》、《东线：第三帝国的黑洞》、《沸腾的雪：阿登反击战》、《血色夜空：二战英德夜间空战实录》、《装甲英豪：二战德军装甲兵上将温克和他的部队》。译有《1945年的六个月：从盟友到对抗》、《1944阿登战役：希特勒的后反攻》

列斯特·坦尼博士，1919年生，美国亚利桑那州立大学退休荣誉教授，巴丹死亡行军的幸存者，紫心勋章和青铜星章获得者，在日本战俘营中度过三年半时间，曾在日本福冈县大牟田17号战俘营充当奴隶矿工，现在他担任巴丹和克雷吉多保卫战老兵协会主席，是美国盟军战俘向日本政府索赔运动领袖。

A collection of previously uncompiled stories from the short-story master and literary sensation Lucia Berlin. In 2015, FSG published A Manual for Cleaning Women, a posthumous story collection by a relatively unknown writer, to wild, widespread acclaim. It was a New York Times bestseller; the paper's Book Review named it one of the Ten Best Books of 2015; and NPR, Time, Enterta...(展开全部)

A finalist for the 1994 Booker Prize, England's highest honor for works of fiction, Paradise is at once the story of an African boy's coming of age, a tragic love story, and a tale of the corruption of African tradition by European colonialism. Sold by his father in repayment of a debt, twelve-year-old Yusuf is thrown from his simple rural life into the complexities of precolon...(展开全部)

阿卜杜勒拉扎克•古尔纳，坦桑尼亚裔英国作家，2021年因“他对殖民主义文学的影响，以及对身处于不同文化夹缝中难民处境毫不妥协且富有同情心的洞察”而获诺贝尔文学奖。古尔纳1948年出生于东非海岸的桑给巴尔岛，20世纪60年代移居英国并求学，最终在肯特大学获得博士学位，留校任教至今。他的主要学术兴趣是后殖民主义写作和与殖民主义有关的论述，特别是与非洲、加勒比和印度有关的论述。曾担任凯恩非洲文学奖和布克奖评审，2006年入选皇家文学学会。古尔纳的作品围绕难民主题，主要描述殖民地人民的生存状况，聚焦于身份认同、种族冲突及历史书写等，他展现的后殖民时代生存现状被认为具有重要的社会现实意义。代表作有《天堂》《海边》《来世》等。