Nancy Kress, one of the leading writers of science fiction today, has written a number of provocative and award-winning stories and novels. But it is with the Beggars trilogy that she has reached the pinnacle of her success. Developed out of her Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novella, "Beggars in Spain," the trilogy was launched with <i>Beggars in Spain</i><b> </b>(1993), also a...(展开全部)

An in-depth stylistic examination and detailed physical analysis of the famed tenth-century "Riverbank, as well as other Chinese old master paintings.

Once there was a river flowing through a forest. The river didn't know it was capable of adventures until a big bear came along. But adventures aren't any fun by yourself, and so enters Froggy, Turtles, Beaver, Racoons, and Duck. These very different animals take off downstream, but they didn't know they needed one another until thankfully, the river came along. This hilarious ...(展开全部)

The new book from the acclaimed author of The Crossing Place and The Bronski House. In Moscow, a man points on a map to the place where he was born. He is a Doukhobor, a 'spirit-wrestler', a member of a group of radical Russian sectarians. He is pointing to a village beyond the southern steppe, at the far south of the old Russian empire: 'I was born here,' he says. 'On the edg...(展开全部)

简介：来自不同空间的碰撞，产生了里世界和表世界。（第一次写，不好见谅）

Welcome to an amusement park unlike any you’ve seen before. With this eye-popping, astounding debut, Mark Rogalski guides us through an amazing menagerie of one-of-a-kind attractions. From Alligators in the Air, through to the Zebra Zeppelin, the reader is provided with an elegant ticket that admits them onto rides at turns thrilling, mysterious, spectacular—and always breathta...(展开全部)

Ira Levinson is in trouble. At ninety-one years old, in poor health and alone in the world, he finds himself stranded on an isolated embankment after a car crash. Suffering multiple injuries, he struggles to retain consciousness until a blurry image materializes and comes into focus beside him: his beloved wife Ruth, who passed away nine years ago. Urging him to hang on, she fo...(展开全部)

大卫·威斯纳，出生于美国新泽西州，毕业于罗德岛设计学院，专攻插画。从中学时代开始，他便对用图画书讲故事的方式产生了浓厚兴趣，并开始尝试拍默片和创作没有文字的漫画。他上学时绘制过长达274厘米的作品，该作被视为《梦幻大飞行》的最初灵感来源。 大卫·威斯纳热衷于无字图画书的创作领域，他认为：无字书能为图画书留下神秘；能让想象有奔驰的空间；能让读者更接近这些插画，并能随心所欲地参与其中，用自己内在的声音创作自己的故事。 作为美国顶尖插画家，也是得奖常胜军。他的作品向来广受各方瞩目，多次赢得美国凯迪克大奖评审青睐，其作品曾获得美国图书馆学会推荐童书、蓝缎带好书榜、《号角》杂志评选最佳童书、纽约市立图书馆好书100、《纽约时报》年度推荐童书、《亲子》杂志阅读魔力奖、《出版人周刊》杂志年度最佳好书、《学校图书馆》杂志年度最佳好书等奖项。 大卫·威斯纳的作品获凯迪...(展开全部)

When he falls asleep with a book in his arms, a young boy dreams an amazing dream-about dragons, about castles, and about an unchartered, faraway land. And you can come along.</p>