Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku lives on the ninth floor of a block of flats on an inner-city housing estate. The second best runner in the whole of Year 7, Harri races through his new life in his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat all around h...(展开全部)

帕特里克•聚斯金德（Patrick Süskind），德国当代知名作家。他的处女作《低音提琴》于1981年9月在慕尼黑首演，至今仍常演不衰。1984年，聚斯金德完成了他的第一部长篇小说《香水》，出版后轰动了德语文坛，后被译成多种语言。他还著有中篇小说《鸽子》，《夏先生的故事》及其他一些非虚构作品，在当代德语文学界具有显著的影响力。

帕特里克•聚斯金德（Patrick Süskind），德国当代知名作家。他的处女作《低音提琴》于1981年9月在慕尼黑首演，至今仍常演不衰。1984年，聚斯金德完成了他的第一部长篇小说《香水》，出版后轰动了德语文坛，后被译成多种语言。他还著有中篇小说《鸽子》，《夏先生的故事》及其他一些非虚构作品，在当代德语文学界具有显著的影响力。

When this classic collection of stories first appeared—in 1962, on the author’s thirtieth birthday—Arthur Mizener wrote in The New York Times Book Review: “Updike is a romantic [and] like all American romantics, that is, he has an irresistible impulse to go in memory home again in order to find himself. . . . The precise recollection of his own family-love, parental and marit...(展开全部)

Mo Willems (www.pigeonpresents.com), a number one New York Times best-selling author and illustrator, has been awarded a Caldecott Honor on three occasions (for Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale, and Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity). Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! was also an inaugural inductee into the Indies Choice Pictu...(展开全部)

"Some of the most beautiful writing in contemporary American literature is between the covers of this book . . ." BOSTON HERALD The triumphant collection of short stories by America's most acclaimed novelist.

When Pigeon finds a delicious hot dog, he can hardly wait to shove the entire thing in his beak. But . . . then a very sly and hungry duckling enters the scene and wants a bite. Who will be the more clever bird? In this hilarious follow-up to the acclaimed Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! Mo Willems has created another avian adventure that encourages children to share even t...(展开全部)

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When a bus driver takes a break from his route, a very unlikely volunteer springs up to take his place-a pigeon! But you've never met one like this before. As he pleads, wheedles, and begs his way through the book, children will love being able to answer back and decide his fate. In his hilarious picture book debut, popular cartoonist Mo Willems perfectly captures a preschooler...(展开全部)

From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War, to a career as a writer that took him from war-torn Cambodia to Beirut on the cusp of the 1982 Israeli invasion to Russia before and after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, le Carré has always written from the heart of modern times. In this, his first memoir, le Carré is as funny as he is incisive, reading into ...(展开全部)