For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare - poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes. The only man in history to compl...(展开全部)

李欧·李奥尼（Leo Lionni） 绘本作家、画家、艺术家。1910年5月出生于荷兰阿姆斯特丹，父亲是一位会计师，母亲是一位歌剧演员，两位叔叔都是艺术品收藏家。 浸润在这样浓郁的艺术氛围之中，李奥尼很早就对绘画萌生了兴趣，立志成为一名艺术家，他常常去家附近的博物馆、美术馆欣赏大师的作品。 14岁，李奥尼随父母定居意大利热那亚，在那里度过了少年和青年时代。1935年，李奥尼获得热那亚大学经济学博士学位，几年之后，他举家 搬到了美国费城，正式投身广告设计行业并取得了辉煌的成就。 1960年，处于事业巔峰期的他回到了意大利。他原本打算全身心投入绘画和雕塑创作，结果却走上了绘本作家的道路。尽管李奥尼49岁才开始 创作绘本，却开创了一个绘本的新时代。《纽约时报》曾这样评价他“如果绘本是我们这个时代一种新的视觉艺术，李欧·李奥尼则是这种风格的大家。” 李奥尼一...(展开全部)

A charming exploration of the seasons with some of Caldecott-winner Leo Lionni's beloved mice. In January, two mice, Willie and Winnie, make a new friend: a tree. The tree tells them her name is Woody, and the mice promise to visit her all year round. As the months tick by, Willie and Winnie watch Woody soak up the rain, bloom buds into flowers and leaves, and bear fruit. By th...(展开全部)

From Peter Mayle, a wonderful new novel steeped in wine—and the business of wine?and set in, bien sûr, Provence. Max Skinner is not exactly setting the London financial world on fire?and when his supervisor steals his biggest client, it’s definitely time to inspect the vineyard in Provence that his recently departed uncle left him. Heartily and happily distracted upon his...(展开全部)

《A Good Year》已改編為同名電影「A Good Year 美好的一年」，由名導雷利史考特(Ridley Scott)、金獎影帝羅素克洛(Russell Crowe)與法國凱撒獎女星瑪莉柯提拉(Marion Cotillard)合作，電影在法國普羅旺斯酒莊取景，即將於2006年底在台灣上映，強力問鼎問鼎明年奧斯卡之作！ 這個簡單、輕柔、如微風拂過的故事，是 Mayle 的第五本小說作品，主角 Max 從倫敦的金融職場回到法國的葡萄園，在假期中與 Henry 叔叔一起在葡萄園裡生活。當他漸漸溶入這種生活之後，過去的種種迷人記憶也開始回歸... Mayle 簡單、但契合人心的故事，帶著一貫的光明心態，溫暖所有讀者的心靈。 失意的英國上班族碰上開朗美麗的美國女孩，,一段相遇在普羅旺斯的愛情正在緩緩醞釀…… 馬克斯史基納在倫敦剛剛被上司擺了一道，一氣...(展开全部)

Managing the Value Lodge in her hometown was not what Anna Gordon had in mind when she set out in the hospitality industry. But it's a safe choice for a woman whose childhood was anything but stable.

John Allen Paulos在威斯康星大学获得数学博士学位。现任坦普尔大学数学教授。他在数理逻辑、概率论和科学哲学方面写过许多论文，也是畅销书《数盲：数学文盲及其后果》《数学与幽默》《超越数》以及《一名数学家读报》的作者。他与夫人及两个孩子生活在费城。

A hermit knows the magic to change a small mouse into a cat, a dog, and a majestic tiger -- and Marcia Brown's magical woodcuts bring this Indian fable to life with the mastery that won her her second Caldecott Medal.

"No one shall tell me that I was once a mouse!" roars the tiger. But an old hermit, mighty at magic, does tell him; for it was he who first changed the tiger from a wretched little mouse to a stout cat, to a big dog, and finally, to his proud and royal self. Youngest readers will take special delight in seeing these changes take place in Marcia Brown's dramatic picturing of ...(展开全部)