It's summer in the city, and this hot dog has had enough! Enough of sizzling sidewalks, enough of wailing sirens, enough of people's feet right in his face. When he plops down in the middle of a crosswalk, his owner endeavors to get him the breath of fresh air he needs. She hails a taxi, hops a train, and ferries out to the beach. Here, a pup can run! With fluid art and lyrical...(展开全部)

A richly mythic, colour-saturated tale of mothers and daughters from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Swimming Home. Two women arrive in a Spanish village - a dreamlike place caught between the desert and the ocean - seeking medical advice and salvation. One of the strangers suffers from a mysterious illness: spontaneous paralysis confines her to a wheelchair, her legs unus...(展开全部)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016 Plunge into this hypnotic tale of female sexuality and power - from the author of Swimming Home and The Man Who Saw Everything 'Propulsive, uncanny, dreamlike. A feverish coming-of-age novel' Daily Telegraph 'A triumph of storytelling' Literary Review _________________________________ 'Today I dropp...(展开全部)

【奥森·斯科特·卡德（Orson Scott Card） 】 ★1951年出生于华盛顿州。在加利福尼亚州、亚利桑那州和犹他州长大。 美国作家、评论家、公众演说家、散文作家、专栏作家、 反对同性婚姻的政治家，同时也是摩尔门教拥护者和终身执业成员。 当今美国科幻界最受人瞩目的 人物之一。 美国科幻史上唯一两年内连续两次将“雨果奖”和“星云奖”两大科幻奖尽收囊中的作者。 ★作为科幻小说家十分多产，共有12个系列， 《天贼》是他首部科幻小说。 目前和妻子一起定居于北卡罗来纳州，为当地一份报纸撰写专栏文章， 空余时间在阳台上喂养鸟、松鼠、花栗鼠、负鼠和浣熊。 ★代表作： 《天贼》 《沃辛传奇》 《安德的游戏》 《安德的代言》 《安德的影子》 《背叛之星》

Fresh from BATMAN: DEATH OF THE FAMILY and SUICIDE SQUAD, Harley Quinn returns to her first solo series in the New 52! The writing team of Jimmy Palmiotti (ALL STAR WESTERN) and Amanda Conner (BEFORE WATCHMEN: SILK SPECTRE) unleashed Harley on an unsuspecting DC Universe, as she encounters various heroes and villains ... and leaves no one unscathed in her wake! With art by Chad...(展开全部)

Fresh from BATMAN: DEATH OF THE FAMILY and SUICIDE SQUAD, Harley Quinn returns to her first solo series in the New 52! The writing team of Jimmy Palmiotti (ALL STAR WESTERN) and Amanda Conner (BEFORE WATCHMEN: SILK SPECTRE) unleashed Harley on an unsuspecting DC Universe, as she encounters various heroes and villains ... and leaves no one unscathed in her wake! With art by Chad...(展开全部)

Aya Takano is part of Takashi Murakami's "Hiropon Factory" ground zero for the new "Superflat" style, coined by Murakami. Superflat is basically Pop art which uses Japanese pop culture imagery. More broadly it encompasses tradtional Asian compositions and subject matter, science fiction, anime, and manga. Murakami has written a couple books outlining the manifesto of the moveme...(展开全部)

查尔斯•布考斯基（Charles Bukowski，1920～1994），20世纪美国最有影响力的诗人、小说家之一。生于德国，三岁时跟随父母前往美国。出版过诗集《花朵，拳头和野兽般的哀号》、《水深火热：1955～1973诗集》、《战争无止：1981～1984诗集》；小说《邮差》、《女人》、《夹心面包》、《苦水音乐》等数十部作品，被翻译成多种语言在世界各地出版。 1994年，布考斯基在美国加州小镇圣佩德罗去世。墓碑上刻着“Don’t Try”。

Hot Water Music is a collection of short stories by Charles Bukowski, published in 1983. The collection deals largely with: drinking, women, gambling, and writing. It is an important collection that establishes Bukowski's minimalist style and his thematic oeuvre.

A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. "The Hot Zone" tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account ...(展开全部)