The shivering cold of winter. The fresh, new signs of spring. The toe-wiggling freedom of summer. The leaf-dropping days of fall. Each season is celebrated for many different reasons, but one never fails to roll right into the next. Jane Yolen's lilting verses and Lisel Jane Ashlock's sensitive portraits convey the cyclical nature of the seasons in this poetic tribute to the ch...(展开全部)

A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a jour...(展开全部)

A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a jour...(展开全部)

Desire, virtue, courtesans (also known as sing-song girls), and the denizens of Shanghai's pleasure quarters are just some of the elements that constitute Han Bangqing's extraordinary novel of late imperial China. Han's richly textured, panoramic view of late-nineteenth-century Shanghai follows a range of characters from beautiful sing-song girls to lower-class prostitutes and ...(展开全部)

"Come hear a song about a baby, a very special baby.Come hear a song about you."This affectionate tribute to the all-encompassing love of a child will touch parents' and grandparents' hearts at the same time that it satisfies children's requests to tell them about when they were little. Best-selling author Marion Dane Bauer's lyrical text and award-winning illustrator Dan Andre...(展开全部)

杰丝米妮·瓦德（Jesmyn Ward，1977- ），黑人女作家，密歇根大学艺术硕士，现任杜兰大学创意写作副教授。著有小说《哪里疼痛》（Where the Line Bleeds）及《拾骨》（Salvage the Bones），后者荣获2011年美国国家图书奖。非虚构作品包括为《纽约时报》编辑的畅销文集《这一次烈火》（The Fire This Time）及回忆录《我们收获的男人》（Men We Reaped）。2017年荣获麦克阿瑟天才奖，同年凭借第三部小说《唱吧！未安葬的魂灵》（Sing, Unburied, Sing）二度摘得美国国家图书奖，成为历史上第一位两次获得该奖项的女性。2018年获选《时代》百大影响人物。目前与家人居住于密西西比州。 孙麟，大学讲师，中国美国史研究会会员。从事美国非裔文学与文化的教学和研究。

盖伊·加夫里尔·凯： 生于1954年11月7日。加拿大文坛享有国际声誉的奇幻大师之一。 20世纪70年代，《魔戒之王》的作者托尔金去世后，凯应邀前往英国协助托尔金之子克里斯托弗·托尔金整理乃父留下的文稿。在此后的三年中，随着托尔金的遗作《精灵宝钻》顺利完成，凯自己也狂热地爱上了奇幻文学。数年之后，凯模仿托尔金风格而成的奇幻小说“费奥纳瓦织锦”三部曲上市，并获大奖。 之后，凯结合自己的兴趣开始创作“仿历史奇幻小说”，这种小说是将真实历史中的人和事进行改编，构建一个完整的架空世界，既具有结构紧凑、有理有序、容易被读者接受的优点，又能借此抒发悠远的历史情怀。在此之前，虽然也有人做过尝试，但凯却是获得突破性成就的第一人。现在与大家见面的《提嘉娜》、《阿拉桑雄狮》和《亚波娜之歌》，即是凯最具代表性的经典之作。 截至目前，凯已获得幻想文坛多个大奖，如世界幻想文学...(展开全部)

"A Song for Arbonne" is Guy Gavriel Kayas critically acclaimed fantasy of love, both courtly and forbidden, and of kingdoms endlessly opposedaone dominated by male rulers and their male god, the other guided by women and their goddess.

A Song for Arbonne is a novel by Canadian writer Guy Gavriel Kay published in 1992. It is set in a fantasy world with two moons and is loosely based on 12th-century Provence and the Albigensian Crusade. There were 25,000 copies of the book published in the first printing. Based on the troubadour culture that rose in Provence during the High Middle Ages, this panoramic, absorbin...(展开全部)

Based on the troubadour culture that rose in Provence during the High Middle Ages, this panoramic, absorbing novel beautifully creates an alternate version of the medieval world. The matriarchal, cultured land of Arbonne is rent by a feud between its two most powerful dukes, the noble troubador Bertran de Talair and Urte de Miraval, over long-dead Aelis, lover of one, wife of ...(展开全部)