Winter, 1945. Four teenagers. Four secrets. Each one born of a different homeland; each one hunted, and haunted, by tragedy, lies…and war. As thousands of desperate refugees flock to the coast in the midst of a Soviet advance, four paths converge, vying for passage aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff, a ship that promises safety and freedom. Yet not all promises can be kept. Inspired b...(展开全部)

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From Publishers Weekly Once again O'Dell turns to the Native American for his subject， and in this novel he brings to life the mysterious Shoshone girl Sacagawea， interpreter and guide for Lewis and Clark. Told from Sacagawea's point of view ，this is an honest， unsparing account of Indian life and the approaching whites. From the beginning， Sacagawea is calm and practical but ...(展开全部)

In this redesigned edition of Scott O'Dell's classic novel, a young Native American woman, accompanied by her infant and her cruel husband, experiences joy and heartbreak when she joins the Lewis and Clark expedition seeking a way to the Pacific.

The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Played out against a vividly rendered landscape and filled with allusions to myth and magic, Murdoch's novel exposes the jumble of motivations that drive her characters - the human vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguis...(展开全部)

In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled family with whom he experience...(展开全部)

媒體推薦 人類無法逃脫他必須承受的命運安排，Max Morden在生命中的十字路口，他必須把他混亂生活理出個頭緒，他罹患癌症的太太剛剛過世，他想逃離現實生活中面對的失落，卻回到當年受到創傷的所在。他回到的他還是小男孩時生活的海邊小鎮，他記得當時Grace家庭的雙胞胎Myles與Chloe。不過在Max Morden試著重新在此地展開新生活的同時，卻又陷入與雙胞胎的奇怪關係。John Banville以《The Sea》以一位年過五旬的中年男子的心態，討論懷鄉的渴望與對於記憶的冥思，討論人面對的死亡與記憶，Banville優美的文字與嚴謹的風格架構讓該書在傳媒界一致認為是文字藝術的臻品，《The Sea》入圍了今年的英國布克獎，可說是呼聲相當高的一部作品。 【94年11月好讀推薦】二○○五年布克獎得主 John Banville，儘管在初審時擊退伊恩．...(展开全部)

Trapped in a boring, dead-end day job in a department store, stage designer Therese Belivet finds her life forever changed when she encounters--and falls in love with--Carol Aird, an alluring suburban housewife in the midst of a divorce, as they set out on a cross-country odyssey, pursued by a private investigator who forces Carol into choosing between her daughter and her love...(展开全部)

To the Ends of the Earth, William Golding's great sea trilogy, presents the extraordinary story of a warship's troubled journey to Australia in the early 1800s. Told through the pages of Edmund Talbolt's journall--with equal measure of wit and disdain--it records the mounting tensions and growing misfortunes aboard the ancient ship. An instant maritime classic, and one of Goldi...(展开全部)

On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island in the Indian Ocean. With him he has a small bag in which there lies his most precious possession - a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father, but now he is an asylum seeker from paradise; silence his only protect...(展开全部)