From Ron Rash, PEN / Faulkner Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena, comes a new collection of unforgettable stories set in Appalachia that focuses on the lives of those haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear—spanning the Civil War to the present day. The darkness of Ron Rash’s work contrasts with its unexpected sensitivity and stark beauty i...(展开全部)

2005年～2013年之间八年七篇的浮世绘绘本故事作品：《存我》《小王子》《眼睑之界》《迷宫梦鱼》《石头》《七宗罪》《淚桥》。其中《存我》为2013年全新创作未发表，《眼睑之界》收录在讲谈社《パンドラ》杂志中，并由郭敬明配文，此次首度在国内露面。

2005年～2013年之间八年七篇的浮世绘绘本故事作品：《存我》《小王子》《眼睑之界》《迷宫梦鱼》《石头》《七宗罪》《淚桥》。其中《存我》为2013年全新创作未发表，《眼睑之界》收录在讲谈社《パンドラ》杂志中，并由郭敬明配文，此次首度在国内露面。

In these spellbinding stories, Yiyun Li, Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner and acclaimed author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Vagrants , gives us exquisite fiction filled with suspense, depth, and beauty, in which history, politics, and folklore magnificently illuminate the human condition. In the title story, a professor introduces her middle-aged son to...(展开全部)

Otis has an antique shop crammed to the gills with stuff. So he's delighted when someone comes in and buys it all. Next day, Suzie Gump arrives, the shop is empty, full of nothing, and Suzy loves it—and takes it all.Suzie has set a trend, and soon everybody is craving nothing—the stores are full of it. It's only when there's not even a towel for drying offafter a bath that Suzi...(展开全部)

In tracing the history of gold through the ages, this beautiful book showcases the multifarious uses to which the precious metal has been put. Drawing on her own long experience investigating the art and science of metallurgy, Susan La Niece guides readers through the rich history of gold. In detailed images and descriptive text, her book shows us gold over the millennia as coi...(展开全部)

Gold has been valued in many cultures because it is rare, resists the corrosion that affects other metals and particularly because of its attractive brightness and colour. Gold is the most malleable of all metals, which means that it can be beaten to a leaf so thin it is translucent, and a single gram can be drawn into a fine wire 2.5 km long. It is used to reflect light and to...(展开全部)

Nothing but the Now is a collection of seven stories, most of them about chance encounters in the world, the consequences of greed and temptation, the inescapable past, and moral dilemmas that seem to be tailored to each character’s flaws and foibles. The book explores the larger and more fundamental issues of life, death, love, and desire, and further interrogates the inter-re...(展开全部)

The Vampire Chronicles continue with Anne Rice's spellbinding new novel, in which the great vampire Marius returns. The golden-haired Marius, true Child of the Millennia, once mentor to The Vampire Lestat, always and forever the conscientious foe of the Evil Doer, reveals in his own intense yet inti-mate voice the secrets of his two-thousand-year existence. Once a proud Senator...(展开全部)

The Vampire Chronicles continue with Anne Rice's spellbinding new novel, in which the great vampire Marius returns. The golden-haired Marius, true Child of the Millennia, once mentor to The Vampire Lestat, always and forever the conscientious foe of the Evil Doer, reveals in his own intense yet inti-mate voice the secrets of his two-thousand-year existence. Once a proud Senator...(展开全部)