<b>Amber: A kingdom beyond imagination - where brother fights brother to succeed to the throne...</b><br /><br />When Corwin awoke in the hospital he remembered very little. Except that he'd been in an automobile accident that wasn't an accident at all. Then he discovered his name and the fact that his strength was superhuman. And that was enough to send him on a journey that s...(展开全部)

Science FictionLarge Print EditionFantasy of a superior order. Washington Post Exiled to the Shadows for centuries, a man more than mortal awakens in an Earth hospital with no memory of his past and is surrounded by enemies who hunger for his destruction. For Corwin is the rightful successor to the throne of the real world. But to rule, he must conquer impossible realities an...(展开全部)

A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons the princely rulers of Italy's dynastic states and their families. From the late Middle Ages, the independent Italian city-states were taken over by powerful families who installed themselves as dynastic rulers. Inspired by the humanists, the princes of fift...(展开全部)

Every building tells a story, but in the jungles of Mumbai, one building - and one man- stand on the borderline between India's past and its future. Ask any Bombaywallah about Vishram Society - Tower A of the Vishram Co-operative Housing Society - and you will be told that it has been pucca for some fifty years despite its location under the flight path and border of slums. But...(展开全部)

阿拉文德•阿迪加1974年出生于印度海港城市马德拉斯，后移居澳大利亚，求学于哥伦比亚大学与牛津大学。他在长篇小说处女作《白老虎》中，以一位印度班加罗尔的企业家给中国总理温家宝写信讲述自己人生故事的形式，反映了当今印度经济“奇迹”表相下的真实面貌，凭借独一无二的原创性获二○○八年曼布克奖。另外他还出版有短篇小说集《两次暗杀之间》。阿迪加曾任《时代周刊》驻印度通讯记者，并为《纽约客》、《格兰塔》、《金融时报》、《独立报》、《星期日泰晤士报》等媒体撰稿。现居印度。

Searing. Explosive. Lyrical. Compassionate. Here is the astonishing new novel by the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The White Tiger, a book that took rage and anger at injustice and turned it into a thrilling murder story. Now, with the same fearlessness and insight, Aravind Adiga broadens his canvas to give us a riveting story of money and power, luxury and deprivation, ...(展开全部)

Aravind Adiga’s first novel since his Man Booker Prize–winning best seller The White Tiger (“Amazing . . . One of the most powerful books I’ve read in decades” —Deirdre Donahue, USA Today): a stunning, darkly comic story of greed and murder that lays bare the teeming metropolis of Mumbai. Real estate developer Dharmen Shah’s offer to buy out the residents of Vishram Society—a f...(展开全部)

Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is unlike anything you have ever read. The final book opens like a door to the uttermost reaches of Stephen King's imagination. You've come this far. Come a little farther. Come all the way. The sound you hear may be the slamming of the door ...(展开全部)

Grade 1-6. Thompson creates a futuristic world in which the Earth is shrouded in a yellow, polluted mist and only the "weakest wash of sunshine" comes through. The richest man in the world and his grandson set out to penetrate the fog in order to see the sun. Collecting buildings from every continent, they spend years fabricating a tower. Finally, the leaning tower of Pisa is s...(展开全部)

The Witcher returns in this action-packed sequel to Baptism of Fire, in the New York Times bestselling series that inspired The Witcher video games. The world has fallen into war. Ciri, the child of prophecy, has vanished. Hunted by friends and foes alike, she has taken on the guise of a petty bandit and lives free for the first time in her life. But the net around her is closi...(展开全部)