Follows the adventures of the Arabian stallion brought to England to become one of the founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed and the mute Arab stable boy who tended him with loyalty and devotion all his life. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

在线阅读本书 Coryn and the Band have returned to the Great Ga'Hoole Tree and restored order. With the Ember safely hidden away, the tree shakes off its gaudy golden glow and recovers its natural majesty. Meanwhile, deep in the Palace of Mists, Bess finds an ancient map fragment that reveals that there are not 5 owl kingdoms -- as has been thought since time immemorial -- but 6. Cor...(展开全部)

The "New York Times" bestselling novel. This is the riveting first-person narrative of Kvothe, a young man who grows to be one of the most notorious magicians his world has ever seen. From his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic,...(展开全部)

Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the cemetery of lost books , a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves and pulls out La Sombra del Viento by Julian Carax. But as he grows up...(展开全部)

Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the cemetery of lost books , a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves and pulls out La Sombra del Viento by Julian Carax. But as he grows up...(展开全部)

奈杰尔•肯纳（Nigel Kerner）身兼记者、电影剧本作家和电影制片人等多个角色。他接受过生物医学和人类行为心理学方面的正规教育。他父亲曾是蒙巴顿（Mountbatten）将军的部下，在英国皇家海军舰队航空部队担任军官，第二次世界大战期间曾在锡兰（现斯里兰卡）服役。肯纳家族中有位前辈乃是杰出人物，他就是18世纪伟大的德国医生兼作家杰斯丁尼斯•肯纳（Justinus Kerner）。此人信奉神秘主义，也是诗人。 奈杰尔•肯纳对外星文明的研究使其赢得了广泛的声誉。他一直对当今世界的凡尘俗事与科学，以及科学与宗教和神学之间的联系极为着迷。自孩提时代起，他就觉得自己受到某种力量推动，要去揭穿当代科学和宗教思想中包藏的谎言和伪善。地球上存在不明飞行物现象，令人费解，疑团重重，这深深吸引了肯纳。这类现象与他的很多观点都不谋而合，于是便有了他的两部影响甚广的大...(展开全部)

The great French/Frank epic poem, the Song of Roland, stemmed out of an actual event. There really was a Roland--he was a nobleman of some kind. He and his party were ambushed and killed during Charlemagne's lifetime. But they were not fighting Saracen pagans. They were actually killed by a party of Basques. Also, Roland was not a major factor in this battle, but rather merely ...(展开全部)

The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan Wisconsin and Minnesota.

In the summer of 1854, Longfellow wrote in his diary "I have at length hit upon a plan for a poem on the American Indians, which seems to me the right one and the only. It is to weave together their beautiful traditions as whole." What emerged the next year was "The Song of Hiawatha," a composite of legends, folklore, myth, and characters that presents, in short, lilting lines ...(展开全部)

米歇尔·拉巴利亚蒂 Michel Rabagliati 加拿大漫画家，1961年出生于蒙特利尔，1998年开始创作半自传体系列漫画，逐渐成为加拿大法语漫画界的重要人物。魁北克省文化与艺术委员会曾授予他魁北克艺术与文学勋章，以突显他对魁北克文化活力和影响力的杰出贡献。 2010年，《当尘埃落尽》获得安古兰漫画节蕞受公众欢迎奖。该系列漫画曾获得安古兰国际漫画节蕞佳系列作品奖、美国哈维奖、加拿大乔·舒斯特漫画奖和魁北克漫画大奖等奖项。