★比尔•克林顿（Bill Clinton） 1992年当选为美国总统，他一直任职到2001年。在离开白宫后，他建立了克林顿基金会，帮助改善全球健康状况，为女童和妇女创造更多机会，减少儿童肥胖和可预防疾病，创造经济机会，促进经济增长，并解决气候变化的影响。他创作了许多非小说 作品，包括国际畅销书《我的生活》。本书是他的第一部小说。 ★詹姆斯•帕特森（James Patterson） 获得过国家图书基金会颁发的美国文学界杰出服务文学奖。他拥有《纽约时报》最畅销书籍的吉尼斯世界纪录，他的书在世界范围内已经卖出了超过3.75亿本。帕特森孜孜不倦地捍卫书籍和阅读的力量，他创建了吉米•帕特森儿童图书出版公司，其使命很简单：“我们想让每一个孩子读完一本吉米公司出版的书，还可以说，‘请再给我一本。’”

The publishing event of 2018: Bill Clinton and James Patterson's The President Is Missing is a superlative thriller . . . one that can really happen, and one that must not be missed. The President Is Missing confronts a threat so huge that it jeopardizes not just Pennsylvania Avenue and Wall Street, but all of America. Uncertainty and fear grip the nation. There are whispers of...(展开全部)

With eloquent simplicity, Bear Heart, a full-blooded and traditionally trained healer of the Muskogee Creek tribe, shares a lifetime of training. In sections titled "The Cure Lies Within You" and "Learning How To Live," Bear Heart weaves together anecdotes and philosophy to show how traditional tribal wisdom can help us maintain mental, spiritual and physical health in to...(展开全部)

With eloquent simplicity, Bear Heart, a full-blooded and traditionally trained healer of the Muskogee Creek tribe, shares a lifetime of training. In sections titled "The Cure Lies Within You" and "Learning How To Live," Bear Heart weaves together anecdotes and philosophy to show how traditional tribal wisdom can help us maintain mental, spiritual and physical health in to...(展开全部)

已故美国知名作家杰克．凯鲁亚克（Jack Kerouac）从未出版，且被认为其生前就已遗失的首本小说，终于得以出版。 20岁的凯鲁亚克1942年在商船上工作时，开始动手写下日志。这158页的原版手稿，也成为他的第1本小说。凯鲁亚克最着名的作品为「在路上」（On The Road），描述他随心所欲横跨美国大陆的故事。 这本企鹅经典（Penguin Classics）出版的「大海为兄：一本遗失的小说」（The Sea is My Brother: The Lost Novel，暂译），充分展现青年凯鲁亚克的胆识才气，而这种特性在1950年代后期的「垮掉」（beat）运动时充分绽放。 企鹅经典表示，这本小说描述男子马丁（Wesley Martin）的故事。凯鲁亚克称主人翁「深爱大海，但是是一种奇特又孤独的爱。 以凯鲁亚克自己的话来说，这个故事是关于「一个男...(展开全部)

Published in its entirety for the first time, "The Sea is My Brother" is Jack Kerouac's first novel. Described by Kerouac as being about 'man's simple revolt from society as it is, with the inequalities, frustration, and self-inflicted agonies', the 158-page handwritten manuscript was not published during his lifetime. He wrote in his notes for the project that the characters w...(展开全部)

杰克•凯鲁亚克（Jack Kerouac，1922-1969） 美国当代重要作家，其生活方式几乎成为一代人的理想，他的文学主张及风格，对二十世纪六七十年代以降美国主流文化观产生重要影响。凯鲁亚克出生于马萨诸塞州洛厄尔，父母为法裔美国人，他是家中幼子，以橄榄球奖学金入纽约哥伦比亚大学，结识艾伦•金斯伯格、威廉•巴勒斯和卢西恩•卡尔等“垮掉的一代”的重要人物。 凯鲁亚克大学二年级退学从事文学创作，1950年，第一部小说《镇与城》出版。1957年《在路上》问世后，他成为“垮掉的一代”代言人，跻身二十世纪最有争议的著名作家行列。

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.

Bestselling author Bruce Feiler was a young father when he was diagnosed with cancer. He instantly worried what his daughters' lives would be like without him. "Would they wonder who I was? Would they wonder what I thought? Would they yearn for my approval, my love, my voice?" Three days later he came up with a stirring idea of how he might give them that voice. He would ...(展开全部)