When the curator of a Danish museum responds to a query about ancient exhibits, he doesn’t expect a reply. When Tina Hopgood first wrote it, nor did she … Professor Anders Larsen, an urbane man of facts, has lost his wife, along with his hopes and dreams for the future. He does not know that a query from a Mrs Tina Hopgood about a world-famous antiquity in his museum is about t...(展开全部)

An Indie Next and LibraryReads Selection “The charmer of the summer.” ―NPR “Warm-hearted, clear-minded, and unexpectedly spellbinding, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to savor.” ―Annie Barrows, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society In Denmark, Professor Anders Larsen, an urbane man of facts, has lost his wife and his hopes...(展开全部)

Duration: 06:33:34 "Warm-hearted, clear-minded, and unexpectedly spellbinding, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to savor." —Annie Barrows, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society In Denmark, Professor Anders Larsen, an urbane man of facts, has lost his wife and his hopes for the future. On an isolated English farm, Tina Hopgo...(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)

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)

Rarely has anyone photographed reality in such an unprettified way as Boris Mikhailov. He captures the unadorned and the natural; in pictures devoid of aesthetic exhaltation, he concentrates on people and their living conditions. On his journeys through Russia, Germany, and his Ukrainian homeland, Mikhailov has equally observed the poor, the well-to-do, the outcasts, and the ho...(展开全部)

In 2006, about 69 million U.S. households had pets, giving homes to around 73.9 million dogs, 90.5 million cats, and 16.6 million birds, and spending more than 38 billion dollars on companion animals. As never before in history, our pets are truly members of the family. But the notion of “companion species”—knotted from human beings, animals and other organisms, landscapes, and...(展开全部)

埃米利奥·达利桑德罗（Emilio D'Alessandro），斯坦利·库布里克的贴身助手，陪伴库布里克度过了生命最后的30年，曾是一名赛车手。20世纪60年代末的经济危机使他结束赛车生涯，转行成为一名出租车司机，与库布里克邂逅。库布里克去世后，他回到祖国，现居意大利卡西诺。更多信息，欢迎登陆他的网站 www.emiliodalessandro.com. 菲利普·乌利维耶里（Filippo Ulivieri），意大利作家、编剧、电影理论教师。他是研究斯坦利·库布里克的意大利顶尖专家，曾在多家报纸和杂志发表过有关库布里克生活和电影的文章，并创建了研究库布里克的网站 www.archiviokubrick.it. 他也是纪录片《S代表斯坦利》（S Is For Stanley）的合作编剧之一。

杜鲁门·卡波特，美国著名作家，两次获得欧•亨利短篇小说奖。1924年生于新奥尔良，17岁受雇于《纽约客》开始写作生涯。1948年处女作《别的声音，别的房间》获得世界性的成功。1958年，奠定其大师地位的杰作《蒂凡尼的早餐》出版。1966年，完成了巅峰之作《冷血》。1984年8月25日晚，敏感、复杂和饱受争议的卡波特，因用药过度，猝死于友人家中，终年59岁。

在线阅读本书 On Christmas Eve, Scrooge sits in his house with not a kind word for anyone; he just wants to be left alone until the humbug of Christmas is over. But four ghostly visitorshis former business partner, followed by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Comeshow him the error of his ways, and by the time Christmas Day dawns, Scrooge is a cha...(展开全部)