In this debut, which takes the form of a fictional graphic diary, a 10-year-old girl tries to solve a murder. Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her e...(展开全部)

In this debut, which takes the form of a fictional graphic diary, a 10-year-old girl tries to solve a murder. Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her e...(展开全部)

The English debut of a bestselling novelist, kin to Penelope Fitzgerald and Louis Begley in style and subtlety. At eighty, Max Opass is still reeling from the death of his wife a year earlier. His two grown-up children live abroad with their own families, his son in Bolivia, his daughter in Japan: he writes awkwardly to his daughter with the news of his humdrum activities and ...(展开全部)

At 80, Max Opass is still reeling from the death of his wife a year earlier. He decides to have his wife's portrait painted from his favourite photographs of her and picks five arbritary phone numbers under "artists". The story follows Max's comical and moving encounters with the artists.

约翰·本杰明·鲍威尔（John B．Powell，1888-1947），著名记者、报人，美国“密苏里新闻帮”远东采访报道的先驱。1917年，鲍威尔初次来到中国上海，从此与中国结下25年之缘。他先是就职于《密勒氏评论报》，五年后成为报社老板兼主编。1936年，该报刊登了埃德加·斯诺的采访及多幅照片，首次公开发表了毛泽东的身世和言论，在海内外产生强烈反响。1937年抗战全面爆发后，鲍威尔作为记者，经常披露日军的侵略阴谋与罪行，多次遭到打击报复。1941年太平洋战争爆发后，他被日军关入集中营，遭受非人虐待，双足致残。1942年，美国政府通过交换战俘将他解救回国。1947年，他在华盛顿猝然离世，终年59岁。他在逝世前完成了这本在华回忆录——《我在中国的二十五年》。 刘志俊，甘肃人，武汉理工大学毕业，2007年起从事编辑出版工作，现为自由撰稿人。

In this unforgettable novel, Leonard Cohen boldly etches the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal. Life for Breavman is made up of dazzling colour – a series of motion pictures fed through a high-speed projector: the half-understood death of his father; the adult games of love and war, with their infinite capacity for fantas...(展开全部)

纵使万般皆无奈，怎奈嘉鱼本逐水。 林逐水， 本以为，靠自身精湛的专业知识，对人性已是“无所不知，无所不晓”，看似算尽了世间难尽之事。 可如今看来，唯一算错的就是他和周嘉鱼的缘分。 周嘉鱼， 性温，不以物喜、不以己悲，一直觉得自己会是个坚定、规矩的公务员，过普通人的小日子，直到遇到林逐水。 可他应是忘了那句，南有嘉鱼，逐水而生。 我无惧于世间的规矩，我只问逐水命里有嘉鱼。 ★晋江大神西子绪高热度力作！网络原名《我五行缺你》，我无惧于世间的规矩，我只问逐水生命里有嘉鱼。 ★西子绪作品《万花筒·秋石》《不离》《寒剑栖桃花》《骷髅幻戏图》等一经连载、高居榜单、引发热潮。晋江文学城大榜单数据，总积分74亿+，收藏数37万+，灌溉110万+，评论25万+。 ★《嘉鱼逐水》是一部悬爱系小说。纵使万般皆无奈，怎奈嘉鱼本逐水。林逐水，本以为，对人性已是“无所不知，无所...(展开全部)

Amongst the one hundred folktales are such familiar tales as "The Three Billy-Goats Gruff", "Hansel and Gretel", "Sleeping Beauty", and some perhaps not so familiar, "The Magic Bird", "The Goose Girl", and "The Pancake".

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

“This beguiling brew of fascinating scientific facts and illuminating, poignant anecdotes makes Five Quarts something like blood itself: vital and pulsing with energy.” –Entertainment Weekly From ancient Rome, where gladiators drank the blood of vanquished foes to gain strength and courage, to modern-day laboratories, where machines test blood for diseases and scientists searc...(展开全部)