布兰登·桑德森，美国奇幻作家，其续写的罗伯特·乔丹的《时光之轮》系列，打败丹·布朗的新书《失落的密符》，空降《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜并成为头号畅销书。其处女作《诸神之城：伊岚翠》出版当年便获得Romantic Times奇幻史诗大奖，并连续入选2006、2007年美国科幻/奇幻界地位最高的新人奖项。布兰登才思敏捷，风格多样， 其代表作《迷雾之子》系列全球销量数百万，确立了他在新生代奇幻作家中的领军地位。

在线阅读本书 On the war-ravaged world of Azeroth, a young blue dragon's quest for a mysterious power has led him and his companions to the remote mountains of northern Lordaeron. In that frozen, treacherous wasteland, they find themselves caught in a battle of life, death--and undeath! Jae-Hwan Kim, artist of the best-selling King of Hell series, and Richard A. Knaak, the New York ...(展开全部)

Isabel Allende transports us to a Latin American country in the grip of a military dictatorship, where Irene Beltran, an upperclass journalist, and Francisco Leal, a photographer son of a Marxist professor together discover a hideous crime. They also discover how far they dare go in search of the truth in a nation of terror . . . and how very much they risk. "From the Paperback...(展开全部)

格雷格·贝尔（1951- ） 美国当代硬科幻大师，出生于加利福尼亚州圣迭戈市，毕业于圣迭戈大学，获文学学士学位。两次荣获“雨果奖”，五次荣获“星云奖”。 贝尔的科幻作品涉及星际冲突、人工智能、生物进化等诸多主题。他善于在小说中为当下的科学和文明难题提供解决方案。 《天使女王》中，他的这一特点展现得淋漓尽致，此书因而获得了雨果奖、轨迹奖和约翰•坎贝尔纪念奖三项提名。

格雷格·贝尔（1951- ） 美国当代硬科幻大师，出生于加利福尼亚州圣迭戈市，毕业于圣迭戈大学，获文学学士学位。两次荣获“雨果奖”，五次荣获“星云奖”。 贝尔的科幻作品涉及星际冲突、人工智能、生物进化等诸多主题。他善于在小说中为当下的科学和文明难题提供解决方案。 《天使女王》中，他的这一特点展现得淋漓尽致，此书因而获得了雨果奖、轨迹奖和约翰•坎贝尔纪念奖三项提名。

"ONE OF THE GREAT SERIES OF MODERN DETECTIVE STORIES" So wrote Ellery Queen in the late 1940's when he introduced American readers to the writings of Vincent Cornier (1898-1976). Cornier's detective, Barnabas Hildreth, created for a British magazine in 1933, was not only an agent of the British Secret Service but was also known as "The Black Monk," and he faced (and solved) s...(展开全部)

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descriptions of laquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure.

Here is a tale of love and political commitment that centers on the unconventional, naive daughter of a wealthy family and the son of a Spanish exile, with whom she becomes involved. Together, as reporter and photographer, they uncover a hideous crime that puts their love and lives at risk. Previously published by Knopf.

An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descriptions of laquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure.