A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hat...(展开全部)

A powerful tragedy distilled into a small masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader in 1680s United States, when the slave trade is still in its infancy. Reluctantly he takes a small slave girl in part payment from a plantation owner for a bad debt. Feeling reje...(展开全部)

On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment of a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens' life changes. With her intelligence and passion for wearing the cast-off shoes of her mistress, Florens has never blended into the background and now at the age of eight she is taken from her family to begin a new life. She ...(展开全部)

A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hat...(展开全部)

安·莱基 Ann Leckie 美国知名科幻小说家，被誉为“创造了新的科幻小说历史”的作家。 早期主要写作短篇小说，并在美国科幻奇幻作家协会任职。2002年，安·莱基开始撰写《数字星舰》系列的初稿。《数字星舰1：正义的觉醒》于2013年出版，出版后一举拿下了包括雨果奖和星云奖在内 的多项科幻大奖，她也成了备受瞩目的科幻女作家。 随后两年，安•莱基完成了“数字星舰三部曲”。该系列的后两部作品同样斩获了包括轨迹奖在内的多项科幻至高奖项。

Popular since its original publication more than 25 years ago, Leonard Cohen's classic book of contemporary psalms is now beautifully repackaged. Internationally celebrated for his writing and his music, Leonard Cohen is revered as one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our time. Now beautifully repackaged, the poems in Book of Mercy b...(展开全部)

The classic novel from the definitive voice of the Beat Generation, Desolation Angels is the story of Kerouac's life just before the publication of On the Road--as told through his fictional self--Jack Duluoz. As he hitches, walks, and talks his way across the world, Duluoz perceives the angel that is in everything. It is life as he sees it.

"Desolation Angels" is the wild and soulful story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of "On the Road", told through the persona of Jack Duluoz and accompanied by his thinly-disguised Beat cohorts Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs. As they hitch, hop freight trains, walk and talk their way across the world, from California ...(展开全部)

在《達文西密碼》（The Da Vinci Code）還未竄上暢銷榜之前，Dan Brown的舊作一直不能算是熱門書。Angles & Demons可以說是《達文西密碼》的前傳，也是他所有的書中科幻味最重的一本。他的主角也就是出現在《達文西密碼》中的符號學家蘭登，只不過蘭登這次要破的案子，可不是跟名畫有關的，而是瑞典實驗室的一位頂尖的物理學家被謀殺，他的突破性成果——一個能量可與核能相比的物質被偷，抽絲剝繭竟然發現這是一樁與梵蒂崗有關的陰謀……

波丽•邓巴（Polly Dunbar）今日英国人气儿童插画家和作家。16岁就出版了两本著作。后来不断努力，被推选为英国十大插画家之一。这位才女还是Long Nose Puppets剧团的创办人，看剧团的名字就知道，她还喜欢制作木偶。