Simon Bolivar was a revolutionary who freed six countries, an intellectual who argued the principles of national liberation, and a general who fought a cruel colonial war. His life, passions, battles and great victories became embedded in Spanish American culture almost as soon as they happened. This is the first major English-language biography of 'The Liberator' in half a cen...(展开全部)

玛丽·阿拉纳(Marie Arana)是作家、编辑、记者和文学评论家，同时还是美国国会图书馆的高级顾问和美国国家图书节的文学总监。 阿拉纳出生于秘鲁利马，9岁移居美国。她的职业生涯始于图书出版，曾任Harcourt Brace以及Simon & Schuster两家出版公司的副总裁兼编审。她连续10多年担任《华盛顿邮报》文学栏目“图书世界”的主编，目前是该报纸的自由撰稿人，还为《纽约时报》《国家地理》《时代周刊》《国际先驱论坛报》、西班牙的《国家报》、哥伦比亚的《时代报》和秘鲁的《商业报》等多家媒体撰文。她同时从事虚构和非虚构写作，创作了多部小说和历史著作。

玛丽·阿拉纳(Marie Arana)是作家、编辑、记者和文学评论家，同时还是美国国会图书馆的高级顾问和美国国家图书节的文学总监。 阿拉纳出生于秘鲁利马，9岁移居美国。她的职业生涯始于图书出版，曾任Harcourt Brace以及Simon & Schuster两家出版公司的副总裁兼编审。她连续10多年担任《华盛顿邮报》文学栏目“图书世界”的主编，目前是该报纸的自由撰稿人，还为《纽约时报》《国家地理》《时代周刊》《国际先驱论坛报》、西班牙的《国家报》、哥伦比亚的《时代报》和秘鲁的《商业报》等多家媒体撰文。她同时从事虚构和非虚构写作，创作了多部小说和历史著作。

Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, th...(展开全部)

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, re...(展开全部)

"A Quiet Life" is narrated by Ma-chan, a young woman who at the age of 20 gets caught up in an unusual family situation. Her father is a famous novelist; her older brother is brain-damaged but possesses a gift for music; and her mother's life is devoted to caring for them both. When her father is offered a visiting professorship in an American university, Ma-chan finds herself ...(展开全部)

Beethoven biographer Solomon here presents a revisionist biography of Mozart, which his publisher claims is the first full-scale biography in nearly 40 years. Certainly it is a major work in terms of heft and range. Solomon will have none of the "divine child" approach, limning instead a man growing up under the shadow of an impossibly demanding father who was at once overprote...(展开全部)

A Village Life, Louise Gluck's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village, a Mediterranean world of no definite moment or place: " ""All the roads in the village unite at the fountain.""Avenue of Liberty, Avenue of the Acacia Trees--""The fountain rises at the center of the plaza;""on sunny days, rainbows in the piss of the cherub.""--from "tributaries"...(展开全部)