"A European Gone Girl ." -- The Wall Street Journal An internationally bestselling phenomenon: the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives -- all over the course of one meal. It's a summer's evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of foo...(展开全部)

"A European Gone Girl ." -- The Wall Street Journal An internationally bestselling phenomenon: the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives -- all over the course of one meal. It's a summer's evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of foo...(展开全部)

Roberto Arlt (1900-1942), celebrated in Argentina for his tragicomic, punch-in-the-jaw writing during the 1920s and 1930s, was a forerunner of Latin American "boom" and "postboom" novelists such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende. "Mad Toy", Arlt's most acclaimed novel, is set against the chaotic background of Buenos Aires in the early twentieth century. Set in the ba...(展开全部)

Roberto Arlt (1900-1942), celebrated in Argentina for his tragicomic, punch-in-the-jaw writing during the 1920s and 1930s, was a forerunner of Latin American 'boom' and 'postboom' novelists such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende. "Mad Toy", Arlt's most acclaimed novel, is set against the chaotic background of Buenos Aires in the early twentieth century. Set in the ba...(展开全部)

In the second breathtaking volume of Robin Hobb's Liveship Traders trilogy, a new tide of glory and terror sweeps forward the story of the Vestrit clan, their liveship Vivacia, and all who strive to possess her. As the ancient tradition of Bingtown's Old Traders slowly erodes under the cold new order of a corrupt ruler, the Vestrits anxiously await the return of their liveship...(展开全部)

A soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past, and what we choose to leave behind. Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life—living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher—was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sl...(展开全部)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama Over the past decade, Donald Margulies has written some of the most insightful works in contemporary American drama. His body of work includes "The Loman Family Picnic, Sight Unseen, The Model Apartment" and "Collected Stories," and with each succeeding work his audiences have grown. It is no surprise that his newest work is his most criti...(展开全部)

Elegant entertaining is always in style, and who better to explain the finer points of the art of the table than Arthur Inch, a veteran English butler who served as technical advisor for the film Gosford Park ? With an historian's appreciation for the traditions of fine English homes, he discusses the elements of the table, including flatware and silver, china and glassware, s...(展开全部)

Elegant entertaining is always in style, and who better to explain the finer points of the art of the table than Arthur Inch, a veteran English butler who served as technical advisor for the film Gosford Park ? With an historian's appreciation for the traditions of fine English homes, he discusses the elements of the table, including flatware and silver, china and glassware, s...(展开全部)