When Kamryn Ryn Matika gets a call from college friend Adele Del Brannon, she reluctantly heads to the hospital where Adele is dying of cancer. The two had been odd couple friends (working-class Ryn is black, posh Adele is white) while attending Leeds University, but their friendship did not survive Del's admission of an affair with Ryn's fiancé Nate Turner, which also ended Ry...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly "Some 35 years have passed since I wrote this novel and, on rereading it, I am struck by the immature technique revealed in certain places." So writes Endo (Deep River) in a candid afterword. Endo, Japan's foremost Catholic novelist, is a good critic of his own work, for this novel is a sentimental tale filled with coincidence and heavy Christian symbolis...(展开全部)

Award-winning and world-renowned design firm IDEO uses a hallmarked process of first-hand observation and experimentation to inform and inspire its innovative work. Now, at long last, IDEO reveals these working methods for idea and product development. Each of the 16 experiments in this book posses an unexpected question: What if your watch could tell time slowly or quickly? Ea...(展开全部)

作者簡介 2016年諾貝爾獎提名人 娜迪雅‧穆拉德 Nadia Murad 伊拉克亞茲迪人，歷經伊斯蘭國（ISIS）對亞茲迪族的種族滅絕及俘虜，成功脫逃後移居德國，現為人權運動者。獲首任聯合國人口販賣倖存者尊嚴親善大使（Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking）、瓦茨拉夫哈維爾人權獎（Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize）以及沙卡洛夫獎（Sakharov Prize）。目前和亞茲迪族權益組織「亞茲達」（Yazda）合作，戮力讓伊斯蘭國為其種族滅絕和違反人性的罪行，接受國際刑事法庭審判。她亦創辦「娜迪雅倡議」（Nadia’s Initiative），旨在協助種族滅絕及人口販賣的生還者治癒身心及重建社群。 推薦序者簡介 艾瑪‧庫隆尼...(展开全部)

In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of ISIS tells her harrowing and ultimately inspiring story. Nadia Murad was born and raised in Kocho, a small village of farmers and shepherds in Iraq. A member of the Yazidi community, she and her eleven brothers and sisters lived a quiet life. Nadia was in high school and had dreams of becoming a history teacher and openin...(展开全部)

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

A New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2011! A picture-book delight by a rising talent tells a cumulative tale with a mischievous twist. The bear's hat is gone, and he wants it back. Patiently and politely, he asks the animals he comes across, one by one, whether they have seen it. Each animal says no, some more elaborately than others. But just as the bear ...(展开全部)

Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In I Will Surprise My Friend!, Gerald and Piggie want to play a game and surprise each other-but the biggest surprise is the one they least expect.

Mo Willems continues hisbest-selling Elephant and Piggie first reader series. The books feature two lovable and funny characters: an optimistic (andsometimes reckless) pig and a cautious, pessimistic elephant. Children who sat on their parents’ laps to have Pigeon read to them will eagerly take the plunge with these books to start reading on their own.Each book has been vetted...(展开全部)

Pete the Cat goes walking down the street wearing his brand-new white shoes. Along the way, his shoes change from white to red to blue to brown to WET as he steps in piles of strawberries, blueberries, and other big messes But no matter what color his shoes are, Pete keeps movin' and groovin' and singing his song . . . because it's all good.