"The war arrived in our village on the 18th of January. Obviously there were other wars going on, but they didn't have anything to do with us. There were wars for blacks. Wars for Arabs. Wars for Slavs. Our war started on the 18th of January, and in a few days, everything had changed." So recounts Giuliano, a loner among outsiders, one of threeyoungdrifters caught up in the wh...(展开全部)

When a young bear finds a scrap of an old letter, he is so curious about the mysterious marks that he searches out their source--a cabin in the woods. There he meets a young woman and is mesmerized by the sound of her voice. Though he cannot understand her words, he returns every day to hear the woman's stories of sailors, goddesses, and far-off lands. Dennis Haseley's magical...(展开全部)

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)

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)

邱妙津，台湾彰化人，一九六九年生，一九九一年毕业于台湾大学，一九九二年赴法国，留学巴黎第八大学心理系，一九九五年六月在巴黎自杀身亡，年仅二十六岁。邱妙津多方面的才华在大学时代就开始充分显现，曾获得时报文学奖推荐奖、《联合文学》中篇小说新人奖等，并拍摄有一部三十分钟的十六厘米影片《鬼的狂欢》。主要文学作品有《鬼的狂欢》《鳄鱼手记》《蒙马特遗书》《邱妙津日记》等。《鳄鱼手记》已被翻译成英语、法语、德语、土耳其语、西班牙语和意大利语等多种语言。 2014年，《蒙马特遗书》列入《纽约书评》“经典重现”（ NYRB Classics）出版，邱妙津是该书系继张爱玲之后第二位华语作者。 2015年，英文版《蒙马特遗书》入围美国最佳翻译图书奖长名单。 2017年，《鳄鱼手记》亦列入《纽约书评》经典书系出版。 2018年，英文版《鳄鱼手记》获卢西恩·斯泰克亚洲翻译奖。...(展开全部)

邱妙津，台湾彰化人，一九六九年生，一九九一年毕业于台湾大学，一九九二年赴法国，留学巴黎第八大学心理系，一九九五年六月在巴黎自杀身亡，年仅二十六岁。邱妙津多方面的才华在大学时代就开始充分显现，曾获得时报文学奖推荐奖、《联合文学》中篇小说新人奖等，并拍摄有一部三十分钟的十六厘米影片《鬼的狂欢》。主要文学作品有《鬼的狂欢》《鳄鱼手记》《蒙马特遗书》《邱妙津日记》等。《鳄鱼手记》已被翻译成英语、法语、德语、土耳其语、西班牙语和意大利语等多种语言。 2014年，《蒙马特遗书》列入《纽约书评》“经典重现”（ NYRB Classics）出版，邱妙津是该书系继张爱玲之后第二位华语作者。 2015年，英文版《蒙马特遗书》入围美国最佳翻译图书奖长名单。 2017年，《鳄鱼手记》亦列入《纽约书评》经典书系出版。 2018年，英文版《鳄鱼手记》获卢西恩·斯泰克亚洲翻译奖。...(展开全部)