A little boy is on a search for the perfect gift for his mother, navigating the streets of 1890s Vienna, meeting new people, and continuing to trade one gift for another.

When I was a boy, my father often pulled me aside to convey lessons intended to build what we generally refer to as 'character'. Often his advice was very simple - work hard, think for yourself, do right by others - but I believe those lessons provided the foundation for everything that has followed in my life. Now that I'm a dad myself, I wanted to put them down in one place, ...(展开全部)

He’s the swashbuckling world traveler and legendary investor who made his fortune before he was forty. Now the bestselling author of A Bull in China, Hot Commodities , and Adventure Capitalist shares a heartfelt, indispensable guide for his daughters (and all young investors) to find success and happiness. In A Gift to My Children , Jim Rogers offers advice with his tradema...(展开全部)

When the official history of twentieth-century Wall Street is written, it will certainly contain more than a few pages on Michael Steinhardt. One of the most successful money managers in the history of "The Street," Steinhardt far outshone his peers by achieving an average annual return of over thirty percent-significantly greater than that of every market benchmark. During his...(展开全部)

《妈妈的红沙发》故事是，家里发生了火灾，东西被烧光了，但是外婆说：“幸好我们还年轻，可以从头开始。”多么乐观的人生态度！于是外婆、妈妈和孩子三代人开始了努力攒钱重建家园的过程。邻居们送来了桌子、椅子和床，还有比萨、冰淇淋和好多好东西，这让她们很感激。可是，最令她们兴奋和骄傲的是，经过一段时间的省吃俭用，她们终于攒够了钱买了一个漂亮的、舒服的红沙发！这是一本让人心里充满了感动的赞美勇气的、节俭的和团结的书。 小女孩和妈妈买鞋回家后，发现家门前停了消防车，浓烟及大火吞蚀了家中的一切，还好外婆和猫咪都没有事。 当她们搬新家的时候，街坊邻居及亲戚们全都来帮忙，有的送披萨、冰淇淋，有的送窗帘，有的送地毯，有的送餐具，还有的送玩具，然而令人感动的是她们得到了许多的掌声，倍感温馨。 之后，妈妈辛苦工作赚的小费、小女孩削洋葱洗瓶子打工的钱、外婆努力讨价还价节省开...(展开全部)

The jar of coins is full. The day has come to buy the chair--the big, fat, comfortable, wonderful chair they have been saving for. The chair that will replace the one that was burned up--along with everything else--in the terrible fire. A book of love and tenderness filled with the affirmation of life. The jar of coins is full. The day has come to buy the chair - the big, f...(展开全部)

In a scruffy park of a West European metropolis, a man in an ill-fitting trench coat is found hanging by the feet, half-dead. This is Abel Nema, the enigmatic yet fascinating protagonist of Terézia Mora’s internationally acclaimed novel, a linguistic phenomenon who can speak ten languages flawlessly but whose grip on reality is slowly slipping away. Since his self-imposed...(展开全部)

奥尔罕•帕慕克（Orhan Pamuk, 1952— ） 诺贝尔文学奖得主，当代欧洲最杰出的小说家之一。生于伊斯坦布尔，自幼学画，大学主修建筑，后从文。2006年获诺贝尔文学奖，授奖词称：“在探索他故乡忧郁的灵魂时，发现了文明之间的冲突和交错的新象征。”他的作品已经被译为60多种语言出版。

Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And there's no delete button. She's the smartest kid in her whole school—but no one knows it. Most people—her teachers and doctors included—don't think she's capable of learning, and up until recently her school days consisted of listening to the same preschool-le...(展开全部)

A New York Times bestseller! Melody faces her fears to follow her passion in this stunning sequel to the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling middle grade novel Out of My Mind. Melody, the huge-hearted heroine of Out of My Mind, is a year older, and a year braver. And now with her Medi-talker, she feels nothing’s out of her reach, not even summer camp. There have to be camps f...(展开全部)