One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those words—and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zowa—Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life o...(展开全部)

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)

#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman, who “captures the messy essence of being human” (The Washington Post), returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a stranger’s life twenty-five years later. Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a ...(展开全部)

One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those words—and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zowa—Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life o...(展开全部)

If you're a dinosaur, all of your friends are dead. If you're a pirate, all of your friends have scurvy. If you're a tree, all of your friends are end tables. Each page of this laugh-out-loud illustrated humor book showcases the downside of being everything from a clown to a cassette tape to a zombie. Cute and dark all at once, this hilarious children's-book-for-adults teaches ...(展开全部)

A classic I Can Read about finding a friend—a good match for 3- to 6-year-olds looking for a friendship story, especially during or after a move. He likes his new room and his new street. The police officer and the mail carrier are very nice. But what Freddy really needs are friends—and he looks everywhere until he finds them! Syd Hoff created the Danny and the Dinosaur and Sam...(展开全部)

From the authors of the breakout national bestseller All My Friends Are Dead (more than 100,000 copies in print) comes a brand new illustrated compendium of the humourous existential ruminations of people, animals, legendary monsters, and inanimate objects. Readers will appreciate the plight of the light bulb whose only friends are burnouts, the caterpillar whose friends have a...(展开全部)

A New York Review Books Original Deception—the lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell others—is the subject of this, Tove Jansson’s most unnerving and unpredictable novel. Here Jansson takes a darker look at the subjects that animate the best of her work, from her sensitive tale of island life, The Summer Book , to her famous Moomin stories: solitude and community, art a...(展开全部)

托芙·扬松（Tove Jansson，1914—2001） 芬兰著名作家与画家，世界儿童文学大师，出生于赫尔辛基的一个说瑞典语的艺术家家庭，以其杰出的文学与艺术成就在国际上享有盛誉。扬松最广为人知的作品是“姆明”系列故事，以幽默和温情的笔触创造了一个美丽的幻想世界，深受全世界读者的喜爱。此外，她还创作了大量面向成人读者的短篇与长篇小说，通过轻快、明澈的文字传达了关于自由的人生哲学，代表作有《真诚的骗子》《夏日书》《公平竞争》等。扬松一生获奖无数，包括世界儿童文学最高荣誉国际安徒生奖、瑞典学院奖、芬兰国家勋章等。 【译者简介】 王梦达 北京外国语大学欧洲语言文学硕士，曾任上海外国语大学瑞典语讲师，现为自由译者。译有《平安小猪》《长袜子皮皮》《唯余细节》等作品。