In her electrifying debut, Julia Armfield explores women’s experiences in contemporary society, mapped through their bodies. As urban dwellers’ sleeps become disassociated from them, like Peter Pan’s shadow, a city turns insomniac. A teenager entering puberty finds her body transforming in ways very different than her classmates’. As a popular band gathers momentum, the fangirl...(展开全部)

In her electrifying debut, Julia Armfield explores women’s experiences in contemporary society, mapped through their bodies. As urban dwellers’ sleeps become disassociated from them, like Peter Pan’s shadow, a city turns insomniac. A teenager entering puberty finds her body transforming in ways very different than her classmates’. As a popular band gathers momentum, the fangirl...(展开全部)

Ke Peng, who was born in Hunan Province and grew up in Shenzhen in China, set her creation in the rapidly developing urban space to awaken other people's perception by projecting her personal experience onto the fragile and sensitive parts of the big city. Essentially The Salt Pond is more like an ecosystem that may be slightly out of balance due to being involved, where the si...(展开全部)

文·图/［英]海伦·库柏 英国知名儿童图画书作家，1963年生于英国伦敦。在校主修音乐，毕业后任职音乐老师。1987年第一本书出版后，便开始致力于童书创作，以《南瓜汤》和《不睡觉的小孩》两度荣获英国图画书最高荣誉——凯特·格林纳威大奖。 译/柯倩华 台湾辅仁大学哲学研究所硕士，美国南依利诺大学哲学博士班研究生。曾在台湾师范大学及台北教育大学教授幼儿文学、图画书赏析等相关课程。 目前从事童书翻译、评论、出版咨询、研究教学，并参与各项儿童文学奖评审工作。

文·图/［英]海伦·库柏 英国知名儿童图画书作家，1963年生于英国伦敦。在校主修音乐，毕业后任职音乐老师。1987年第一本书出版后，便开始致力于童书创作，以《南瓜汤》和《不睡觉的小孩》两度荣获英国图画书最高荣誉——凯特·格林纳威大奖。 译/柯倩华 台湾辅仁大学哲学研究所硕士，美国南依利诺大学哲学博士班研究生。曾在台湾师范大学及台北教育大学教授幼儿文学、图画书赏析等相关课程。 目前从事童书翻译、评论、出版咨询、研究教学，并参与各项儿童文学奖评审工作。

Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World , here turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of humankind. A substance so valuable it served as curr...(展开全部)

Trapped in a boring, dead-end day job in a department store, stage designer Therese Belivet finds her life forever changed when she encounters--and falls in love with--Carol Aird, an alluring suburban housewife in the midst of a divorce, as they set out on a cross-country odyssey, pursued by a private investigator who forces Carol into choosing between her daughter and her love...(展开全部)

Winter, 1945. Four teenagers. Four secrets. Each one born of a different homeland; each one hunted, and haunted, by tragedy, lies…and war. As thousands of desperate refugees flock to the coast in the midst of a Soviet advance, four paths converge, vying for passage aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff, a ship that promises safety and freedom. Yet not all promises can be kept. Inspired b...(展开全部)

In 1662 the great sea-lord dynasty of the Cheng family expelled the Dutch from Taiwan, beginning a curious and little-known episode in cross-cultural diplomacy. China's new Manchu-Chinese Ch'ing dynasty and the greatest mercantile-colonial power of the seventeenth century negotiated with each other concerning conditions of trade and terms of military cooperation against their c...(展开全部)

The chef behind the groundbreaking Brooklyn restaurant Bonnie’s shares over 85 recipes that showcase his unique style of Chinese home cooking, a mash-up of Americana and Cantonese classics inspired by the flavors of his childhood. “Calvin Eng draws on traditional Cantonese techniques and the mixing of Cantonese and American flavors that reflect our own experience. And he does i...(展开全部)