Jeff Greene was only seven when Melody, his mother, left him with his reserved, undemonstrative father, the Professor. So when she reenters his life years later with an invitation to spend the summer with her in Charleston, Jeff is captivated by her free spirit and warmth, and he eagerly looks forward to returning for another visit the following year. But Jeff's second summer...(展开全部)

Jeff Greene was only seven when Melody, his mother, left him with his reserved, undemonstrative father, the Professor. So when she reenters his life years later with an invitation to spend the summer with her in Charleston, Jeff is captivated by her free spirit and warmth, and he eagerly looks forward to returning for another visit the following year.But Jeff's second summer in...(展开全部)

Grelet's solitary sailor is a radical theoretical figure, herald angel of an existential rebellion against the world and against philosophy's world-thought. Over a decade ago, Gilles Grelet left the city to live permanently on the sea, in silence and solitude, with no plans to return to land, rarely leaving his boat Théorème. An act of radical refusal, a process of undoing one ...(展开全部)

2014 Reprint of 1947 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Scholar, theologian and philosopher, Martin Buber is one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. He believed that the deepest reality of human life lies in the relationship between one being and another. "Between Man and Man" is the classic work ...(展开全部)

Cunningham's classic introduction to Wicca is about how to live life magically, spiritually, and wholly attuned with nature. It is a book of sense and common sense, not only about magick, but about religion and one of the most critical issues of today: how to achieve the much needed and wholesome relationship with our Earth. Cunningham presents Wicca as it is today: a gentle, E...(展开全部)

Small, mild-mannered Dr. Uzuki encounters a delirious gang-member with a gun-shot wound on his way home from his job at the University. The gentle doctor rises to the occasion and saves the man's life with command and vigor. The problem is that yakuza gang-member Nonami has sworn to make his savior his bride! Uzuki is terrified! What if Nonami were to discover that the 'saving ...(展开全部)

A milestone in American literature--a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the key writers o...(展开全部)

弗兰克·迈考特爱尔兰裔美籍教师，作家。1930年生于纽约，4岁时举家迁往爱尔兰，在贫民窟度过悲惨的童年。13岁辍学，19岁重返美国，当过兵，做过码头工人。“家国不幸诗人幸”，迈考特为这句话作了最好的诠释。苦难童年没有消磨他的斗志，反而让他学会在挫折中成长，在灰烬中微笑。1996年，处女作、自传体小说《安琪拉的灰烬》出版，一举获得普利策文学奖、全美书评奖、洛杉矶时报图书奖、美国年度好书奖等，连续117周雄踞<纽约时报》畅销书榜。之后陆续推出《就是这里了》和《教书匠》，好评如潮，使一个“教书匠”誉满全球。 《教书匠》于2005年11月出版，一周内即登上《纽约时报》畅销书榜首，后迅速被译成20多种文字，受到全世界教师、学生和广大读者的普遍好评：“自传体故事中最真诚的作品”、“教师的《圣经》”、“每个学生需要至少熟读10遍的温馨文字”。 《教书匠》以一个个生...(展开全部)

戴维·鲍尔达奇：美国《纽约时报》《出版人周刊》等权威媒体公认的畅销书作家，也是世界上最受欢迎的畅销书作家之一。 1996年以小说《绝对权力》在文学界名声大振。随后，作品被改编为电影，由伊斯特·伍德担任导演和主演。主要作品包括《黑日堡垒》《遗忘角》《记忆怪才》《职业杀手》《越狱者》等。戴维总共出版了30余部小说，均以不俗的口碑和优异的销量跻身国内外各大畅销书排行榜。他的小说被译为超过45种语言之多，在全球80多个国家和地区发行，全球销量1.1亿册销量。