An old woman is awoken in the dead of night by knocks at her front door. She opens it to find her daughter, Doruntine, standing there alone in the darkness. She has been brought home from a distant land by a mysterious rider she claims is her brother Konstandin. But unbeknownst to her, Konstandin has been dead for years. What follows is chain of events which plunges an Albanian...(展开全部)

They told him his uncle died in a car accident. Fourteen-year-old Alex knows that’s a lie, and the bullet holes in his uncle’s windshield confirm his suspicions. But nothing prepares him for the news that the uncle he always thought he knew was really a spy for MI6—Britain’s top secret intelligence agency. Recruited to find his uncle’s killers and complete his final mission, Al...(展开全部)

From the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers have evoked such a multitude of worlds, both exterior and interior, as powerfully as Katherine Anne Porter. This collection gathers together the best of her Pulitzer Prize-winning short fiction, including "Pale Horse, Pale Rider", where a young woman lies in a fever during the influenza epidemic, her childhood memor...(展开全部)

From the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers have evoked such a multitude of worlds, both exterior and interior, as powerfully as Katherine Anne Porter. This collection gathers together the best of her Pulitzer Prize-winning short fiction, including "Pale Horse, Pale Rider", where a young woman lies in a fever during the influenza epidemic, her childhood memor...(展开全部)

J. K. 罗琳（J. K. Rowling, 1965- ），英国女作家，自小喜欢写作，当过短时间的教师和秘书。二十四岁那年，她在前往伦敦的火车旅途中萌生了创作“哈利·波特”系列小说的念头。七年后，《哈利·波特与魔法石》问世，之后她陆续创作了《哈利·波特与密室》《哈 利·波特与阿兹卡班囚徒》《哈利·波特与火焰杯》《哈利-波特与凤凰社》《哈利·波特与“混血王子”》和《哈利·波特与死亡圣器》，完成了该系列的创作，在全球刮起一股股“哈利·波特”飓风，在世界范围内掀起规模宏大的“哈利·波特”阅读狂潮。另外，在此期间，她还因为慈善事业而先后完成了《神奇动物在哪里》和《神奇的魁地奇球》这两部与“哈利·波特”系列相关的图书，最新完成的作品是《诗翁彼豆故事集》。 J.K.罗琳与她的丈夫及三个孩子生活在爱丁堡，一边尽享家庭生活的幸福，一边文学创作。

【内容情報】（「BOOK」データベースより） 山田章博が描く、新しい“忍”の世界。映画『ＳＨＩＮＯＢＩ』は、このコンセプトデザインで作られた！『ＳＨＩＮＯＢＩ』公式コンセプトデザイン画集。新作カラー、コンセプトデザインイラスト、テキストなど山田章博の映画での全仕事を網羅！キャラクター、建築、美術、生活、文化、歴史など、細部に亘って“忍”の世界を精密な筆致で描き出す。 【目次】（「BOOK」データベースより） 総天然色化に際して／覚え書き―忍者の異称「乱破（らっぱ）」について／伊賀・鍔隠れのイメージ／甲賀・卍谷のイメージ／伊賀・鍔隠れ衆（初期設定）／甲賀・卍谷衆（初期設定）／伊賀・鍔隠れ／甲賀・卍谷衆（後期設定）／特別対談　映画、漫画を語る。原作を語る。―山田章博×せがわまさき／伊賀・甲賀、里のイメージ／その他の登場人物／『ＳＨＩＮＯＢＩ』のイメージ／...(展开全部)

【内容情報】（「BOOK」データベースより） 山田章博が描く、新しい“忍”の世界。映画『ＳＨＩＮＯＢＩ』は、このコンセプトデザインで作られた！『ＳＨＩＮＯＢＩ』公式コンセプトデザイン画集。新作カラー、コンセプトデザインイラスト、テキストなど山田章博の映画での全仕事を網羅！キャラクター、建築、美術、生活、文化、歴史など、細部に亘って“忍”の世界を精密な筆致で描き出す。 【目次】（「BOOK」データベースより） 総天然色化に際して／覚え書き―忍者の異称「乱破（らっぱ）」について／伊賀・鍔隠れのイメージ／甲賀・卍谷のイメージ／伊賀・鍔隠れ衆（初期設定）／甲賀・卍谷衆（初期設定）／伊賀・鍔隠れ／甲賀・卍谷衆（後期設定）／特別対談　映画、漫画を語る。原作を語る。―山田章博×せがわまさき／伊賀・甲賀、里のイメージ／その他の登場人物／『ＳＨＩＮＯＢＩ』のイメージ／...(展开全部)

Callout: My hope is that my work is in some way counter-pinup. A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person is and occupy yourself entirely with looking at the body, fantasizing about what you could do with that body, completely ignoring how the person might feel about it. People who make pinup photographs don't care who the woman is, what tragedies or triumphs that p...(展开全部)

"There are few great poets alive at any one time, and W.S. Merwin is one of them. Read him." —The Guardian "There are few great poets alive at any one time, and W.S. Merwin is one of them. Read him." —The Guardian "Merwin has attained a transcendent and transformative elevation of beaming perception, exquisite balance, and clarifying beauty." —Booklist, starred review of The Mo...(展开全部)