Brendan Doyle is a twentieth-century English professor who travels back to 1810 London to attend a lecture given by English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This is a London filled with deformed clowns, organised beggar societies, insane homunculi and magic. When he is kidnapped by gypsies and consequently misses his return trip to 1983, the mild-mannered Doyle is forced ...(展开全部)

The Anibus Gate is the classic time travel novel that took the fantasy world by storm a decade ago. Only the dazzling imagination of Tim Powers could have created such as adventure.

【作者】 詹姆斯·坎贝尔，英国作家、评论家和编辑，以撰写深入细腻的人物传记和文学评论闻名。1951年出生于苏格兰格拉斯哥，1978年至1982年担任《新爱丁堡评论》编辑，之后成为《泰晤士报文学增刊》长期专栏作者。他特别关注那些在种族、政治、社会边缘挣扎的作家群体，这种兴趣也直接引领了他撰写詹姆斯·鲍德温传记的决心。另著有《巴黎流放者》《这就是垮掉的一代》等。 【译者】 吴琦，《单读》主编，播客《螺丝在拧紧》主播。与项飙合著谈话录《把自己作为方法》，译有《下一次将是烈火》《去山巅呼喊》。

In Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller’s debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always captivating. In wry and so...(展开全部)

The highly anticipated third book in Sabaa Tahir's New York Times bestselling EMBER QUARTET. Beyond the Empire and within it, the threat of war looms ever larger. The Blood Shrike, Helene Aquilla, is assailed on all sides. Emperor Marcus, haunted by his past, grows increasingly unstable, while the Commandant capitalizes on his madness to bolster her own power. As Helene searche...(展开全部)

戴维·M. 格兰茨（DAVID M. GLANTZ），被誉为西方研究红军在伟大卫国战争中表现的首席专家、最高权威，1942年1月11日生于美国纽约州，美国陆军退役上校，毕业于弗吉尼亚军事学院、北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校、美国陆军指挥和总参学院以及国防语言学院等。曾作为野战炮兵军官在越南服役，后从事苏联陆军研究工作。1993年以美国陆军外国军事研究办公室主任身份退役，并继续担任《斯拉夫军事研究杂志》的编辑和俄罗斯联邦自然科学院成员。他笔耕不辍，慧眼所及，不仅涉及苏联的军事理论和战术，而且特别关注了苏德战争中历来不被重视的部分，即“被遗忘的战斗”，独立编著与合作作品包括《二战中的苏联军事欺骗》《从顿河到第聂伯河：1942年12月-1943年8月的苏军攻势》《苏联的军事战略》《巴巴罗萨行动：1941年希特勒入侵苏联》《列宁格勒会战：1941-1944》《哈尔...(展开全部)

An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing up in a Chinese American restaurant on the Jersey shore. In the late 1980s on the Jersey shore, Jane Wong watches her mother shake ants from an MSG bin behind the family’s Chinese restaurant. She is a hungry daughter frying crab rangoon for lunch, a child sneaking naps on bags of r...(展开全部)

When Toru Kamiya is pushed into falsely confessing his love to Maori Hino, she tells him she’ll date him on three conditions. 1) Don’t talk to her until after school. 2) Keep any communication between them concise. 3) Don’t really fall in love. Unfortunately, he isn’t able to keep the last rule—and when he tells her how he feels, she reveals that she has an illness that prevent...(展开全部)

An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing up in a Chinese American restaurant on the Jersey shore. In the late 1980s on the Jersey shore, Jane Wong watches her mother shake ants from an MSG bin behind the family’s Chinese restaurant. She is a hungry daughter frying crab rangoon for lunch, a child sneaking naps on bags of r...(展开全部)

Alexandra Fuller was the daughter of white settlers in 1970s war-torn Rhodesia. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is a memoir of that time, when a schoolgirl was as likely to carry a shotgun as a satchel. Fuller tells a story of civil war; of a quixotic battle against nature and loss; and of her family's unbreakable bond with a continent which came to define, shape, scar and h...(展开全部)