在线阅读本书 With Polaris , multiple Nebula Award-nominee Jack McDevitt reacquainted readers with Alex Benedict, his hero from A Talent for War. Now, Alex and his assistant, Chase Kolpath, return to solve a riddle that leads them to the edge of known space.

在线阅读本书 With Polaris , multiple Nebula Award-nominee Jack McDevitt reacquainted readers with Alex Benedict, his hero from A Talent for War. Now, Alex and his assistant, Chase Kolpath, return to solve a riddle that leads them to the edge of known space.

From the acclaimed author of The Drowning People (“A literary sensation” — The New York Times Book Review) and Natural Elements (“A magnum opus” — The New Yorker ), an opulent, romantic coming-of-age drama set at the height of Europe’s belle époque, written in the grand tradition with a lightness of touch that is wholly modern and original. The novel opens in Amsterdam...(展开全部)

'The adventures of adolescence had taught Piet Barol that he was extremely attractive to most women and to many men. He was old enough to be pragmatic about this advantage...' It is 1907. The belle epoque is in full swing. Piet Barol has escaped the drabness of the provinces for the grandest mansion in Amsterdam. As tutor to the son of Europe's wealthiest hotelier, he learns ...(展开全部)

'The adventures of adolescence had taught Piet Barol that he was extremely attractive to most women and to many men. He was old enough to be pragmatic about this advantage...' Piet Barol is an alluring and intelligent young man who has escaped his drab existence, living with his father in the university town of Leiden, and moved to Amsterdam to take up a job at a stunning mans...(展开全部)

这只是个关于光阴的故事。 满，十七岁，即将进入高三，终日耽于幻想。从十四岁开始构思莱克德大陆上的冒险与传奇，并且逐渐意识到，自己将会在那些故事里，消耗掉接下来的人生中大半的时间。 纱乐芙，十七岁，满笔下的女主角。尽管有着复杂的身世和强大的魔力，骨子里也依然不过是个成天惦记着恋爱、旅行、冒险、漫画和同人的倔强小女生。 十七岁生日那天，她恢复了一切记忆，想起六十五年前那场魔法事故，想起自己是如何被时光狠狠地抛下，想起她的养父曾经对她说“纱乐芙你要明白，抓得住的就不叫时间”，还想起她喜欢的那个傻瓜，和他的诺言。 她以为他现在一定幸福平和子孙满堂，却被告知他死于六十五年前的事故当场，而这个消息，反倒让她心里燃起了追回时间的希望…… 这是《SEEKER》系列的第一个故事，但也是一切历史与传说最后的终点。故事之外，满自己的追寻与守望，也在游轮船顶呼啸的江风中戛然...(展开全部)

From the top of the Blue Mountains of Jamaica for the perfect cup of coffee to the jungles of Thailand for an encounter with the abominably smelly “stinkfruit,” Robb Wals has traveled the globe, immersing himself in some of the world’s most interesting culinary phenomena. In Are You Really Going to Eat That? Walsh offers a collection of his best essays over the past ten years...(展开全部)