From the bestselling author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a haunting, heart wrenching novel of three sisters navigating queer love and faith at the end of the world. There’s no way to bury a body in earth which is flooded It is a fact consigned to history along with almost everything else It’s been raining for a long time now, for so long that the lands have reshaped themselves. ...(展开全部)

The lights of a yacht on the French Riviera are reflected in the water and in the eyes of four hilariously mismatched lovers. Perhaps Coward's greatest comedy, Private Lives shimmers with wit, romance, desire and bittersweet truth.

Starred Review. Grade 7 Up–At 15, Thomas Peaceful, like many other English soldiers in World War I, is too young to fight, but he lies about his age. Now at the front in France with his older brother Charlie he stands a lonely nighttime vigil for reasons that are not explained until the book's end, watching the minutes tick by and reflecting on his past. Using first-person narr...(展开全部)

The great 17th-century Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn left us so many arresting self-portraits, painted at every stage in his eventful life, that his distinctive face and bearing are a familiar part of the 20th-century cultural landscape, a recognizable presence in galleries across Europe and North America. Nonetheless, the artist himself remains an enigma. Rembrandt was a not...(展开全部)

"Animal Eyes" aims to provide a comprehensive account of all known types of eye. It takes the diversity of optical mechanisms as a framework, but many other aspects of the structure and function of eyes are examined. Visual ecology, for example, the way that eyes are specifically adapted to the lifestyles of the animals that bear them, is another important theme. The 'design ph...(展开全部)

Marguerite Duras about her films, filming, film aesthetics, cinema and spectators, about Godard, Chaplin, Woody Allen and Tati, Renoir, Bresson and Cocteau, on May 1968, about books in general and about her own books.

きっ和、それらはぜんぶここにあるべきも的たち。完璧なバランス、そしてすぐにこわされるも的。

Tall, soft-spoken Natsume used to work with troubled kids at a reformatory but resigned mid-career to become a police detective. Those who’ve known him wonder why the gentlest of men, whose vocation had been to have faith in humans, now doubts them professionally. The truths of his path unfold over seven carefully crafted chapters, each of which stands on its own as a short sto...(展开全部)

Don’t Trust This Book Don’t Trust These People Don’t Trust Yourself And whatever you do, DON’T give away that ending… Behind Her Eyes has been called the new Girl on the Train and Gone Girl . This is one psychological thriller you will not want to miss. Louise Since her husband walked out, Louise has made her son her world, supporting them both with her part-time job. But all t...(展开全部)

林伍德·巴克利，国际畅销小说家。 巴克利自幼便对侦探小说很感兴趣，从特伦特大学获得英语文学学位后，辗转至加拿大发行量第一的主流媒体《多伦多星报》，担任记者、编辑，并撰写幽默专栏，广受好评。 2007年，出版推理小说《无暇道别》，在全球迅速畅销百万册，获得亚瑟·埃利斯奖、巴瑞奖、国际惊悚作家协会最佳小说等多项大奖。巴克利一跃成为加拿大最成功的当代作家之一，此后便退休专职写作。 《目击症人》是巴克利的代表作之一，被评为《图书馆杂志》年度之书，《波士顿环球报》年度最佳犯罪小说，获美国巴瑞奖年度最佳小说提名。