In the final volume of the bestselling Peapod Farm series, a city kid turned country girl whose life has been changing nonstop is settling into her new place in the family—only for unexpected drama to strike between sisters. “Understated and full of heart.”—Kirkus Reviews Jen couldn't be more excited to spend time on Peapod Farm with her stepsisters, Andy and Reese. For months,...(展开全部)

劳拉·亚当斯·阿默（1874—1963），美国著名作家和艺术家，纽伯瑞儿童文学奖金奖得主。她曾在加利佛尼亚设计学院读书，1924年，移居亚利桑那州。1928年，她担任《Mountain Chant》的制片。劳拉·亚当斯·阿默在摄影方面颇具建树，印第安传统文化都在她的创作中留下明显印记。 1932年，她的小说《荒泉山》获得当年的纽伯瑞金奖。

Written in the 1930s by an authority on Native American life and lore, this Newbery Medal winner chronicles a boy's journey toward finding his vocation as a medicine man. Younger Brother's coming-of-age story and his tutelage by his priestly Uncle form the basis for a vivid portrait of Navajo beliefs and traditions.

Darren Shan, the vampire's assistant, is forced to march to Vampire Mountain where he will be judged by the vampire princes. Darren Shan and Mr Crepsley make a long and dangerous trek to the vampire's stronghold in the mountains. The trek is a test of skill and endurance - one which sees Darren's vampire nature develop, and a new understanding of the mysterious blue-robed serva...(展开全部)

iDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the violence and hate of the old gang at the Forgotten Works, they lead gentle lives in watermelon sugar. In this book, Richard Brautigan discovers and expresses the mood of the counterculture generation.

理查德•布劳提根（Richard Brautigan，1935—1984），1935年1月生于华盛顿州塔科马市，幼年随生母和继父辗转多地，1944年定居俄勒冈州尤金市。高中毕业后因向警察局窗户投掷石块被捕，后被确诊为偏执型精神分裂和抑郁症入院治疗。1956年出院后前往旧金山，并在那里度过一生大部分时间，1984年在旧金山家中自杀身亡。他最初以写诗步入文坛，曾先后出版诗集《搭顺风车的加利利人》《摆上大理石的茶》《避孕药与春山矿难》等。20世纪六十年代，随着其三部小说《从大苏尔来的邦联将军》（1964）、《在美国钓鳟鱼》（1967）、《在西瓜糖里》（1968）的相继出版，布劳提根的文学事业迎来高峰期，他由此成为美国20世纪六七十年代的文学偶像，并在世界范围内获得巨大声誉。 译者简介：王伟庆（笔名少况），毕业于北京外国语大学。上世纪九十年代翻译出版了唐纳德...(展开全部)

作者簡介 彼得‧Peter Boardman 彼得．博德曼出生於1950年聖誕節，其後成為英國最受敬重的高海拔登山家之一。他曾是凱恩戈姆國家公園格蘭莫爾山屋（Glenmore Lodge）的登山指導員，也是英國登山協會的全國事務官，之後被任命為瑞士萊辛（Leysin）國際登山學校總監。 他是1975年克里斯．鮑寧頓聖母峰遠征隊的一員，1976年他與喬．塔斯克成功登上難度幾近無法攀越的強卡邦峰，接著又攀登了干城章嘉峰（Kangchenjunga），並且嘗試攻克K2的峰頂，但惡劣天氣加上體力耗竭而功敗垂成。 隨後是1981年的公格爾峰（Mount Kongur），並在1982年3月參加克里斯．鮑寧頓、喬．塔斯克和迪克．阮修的小型遠征隊，他試圖首攀高難度的聖母峰東北脊，途中與喬．塔斯克兩人不幸喪命。 彼得和喬留下了兩則傳奇。一則是他們偉大的努力，以大膽、輕...(展开全部)

The sweep of a century, the hand of history, three women whose lives will never be the same again. As the twentieth century dawns, so begins one of the most dramatic periods in the history of South America. Women are emancipated, Che Guevara and Fidel Castro free Cuba, the Perons take power in Argentina, and three generations of Firielli women are to live, love, and fight for ...(展开全部)

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps--a community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irrationality. The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that p...(展开全部)

The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of the Cairngorms. It is a work deeply rooted in Nan Shepherd's knowledge of the natural world, and a poetic and philosophical meditation on our longing for high and holy places. Drawing on different perspectives of the mountain environment, Shepherd makes the familiar strange and the strange awe-inspiring. Her sensitivity a...(展开全部)