Winner of the Caldecott Medal Once, all the stories in the world belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. He kept them in a box beside his throne. But Ananse, the Spider man, wanted them -- and caught three sly creatures to get them. This story of how we got our own stories to tell is adapted from an African folktale.

Recounts how most African folk tales came to be called Spider Stories .

Many African stories, whether or not they are about Kwaku Ananse the "spider man," are called, "Spider Stories." This book is about how that came to be. The African storyteller begins: "We do not really mean, we do not really mean that what we are about to say is true. A Story, a story; let it come, let it go." And it tells that long, long ago there were no stories on earth f...(展开全部)

The acclaimed New York Times bestseller Black Hawk Down is "a shocking account of modern warfare . . . gripping and horrifying" (San Francisco Chronicle) Destined to become a classic of war reporting, Black Hawk Down is Mark Bowden's brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3rd, 1993, about a hundred elit...(展开全部)

Book Description Nathaniel Philbrick became an internationally renowned author with his National Book Award– winning In the Heart of the Sea, hailed as “spellbinding” by Time magazine. In Mayflower, Philbrick casts his spell once again, giving us a fresh and extraordinarily vivid account of our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymou...(展开全部)

A box is just a box . . . unless it's not a box. From mountain to rocket ship, a small rabbit shows that a box will go as far as the imagination allows. Inspired by a memory of sitting in a box on her driveway with her sister, Antoinette Portis captures the thrill when pretend feels so real that it actually becomes real—when the imagination takes over and inside a cardboa...(展开全部)

The only ant with his own name, Douglas is born into the wonderful Antworld and dreams of one day joining the line to hunt out food. But his superiors have other plans for him: Douglas is to be a soldier. They tell him his job is all about parading, waving flags and wearing a uniform, but Douglas is about to discover that there is no glory in war. A humbling perspective on the ...(展开全部)

九十九名精銳美國軍人身陷於一個具有敵意的城市中，當夜幕低垂時，他們被數以千計的敵人槍手所包圍，其等傷勢令之流血而亡，彈藥補給也正行減少之中。這是一個他們怎樣會進入該城市作戰─又怎樣殺出一條血路出來的故事。 這是一個真實的戰爭故事！ 《黑鷹計畫》把你與美軍特戰部隊一起丟進索馬利亞首府摩加迪修市中心一個擁擠的市場─同時也把你丟進美國軍人自從越戰以來所曾作戰過的最為綿密的砲火之中。 一九九三年十月三日星期天下午四點左右，特遣部隊遊騎兵被送進去擔負一項逮捕一個軍閥組織內兩名高階官員並返回到基地的任務，原本其僅需花上一個小時左右的時間。 相反地，他們在該具有敵意城市中卻遭致圍困而經歷了一長夜的恐怖時間，陷入不是殺人就是被殺的拼命掙扎狀況中，當奮戰單位最終於次日晨被救出時，美軍士兵陣亡者有十八名、重傷者幾十名，索馬利亞方面的死亡人數更為糟糕：被打死者超過有五百名...(展开全部)

In this family, everyone is keeping secrets--especially the dead. Brecken Hill in upstate New York is an expensive place to live. You have to be rich to have a house there. And they don't come much richer than Fred and Sheila Mercer. But even all their money can't protect them when a killer comes to call. The Mercers are brutally murdered the night after an Easter Dinner with t...(展开全部)

‘I too wanted to forget that girl. Really forget her, that is, stop yearning to write about her. Stop thinking that I have to write about the girl and her desire and madness, her idiocy and pride, her hunger and her blood that ceased to flow. I have never managed to do so.’ In A Girl’s Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the summer of 1958, her first away from home, when she worked as...(展开全部)