Following Bridge of Sighs —a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as “an astounding achievement” and “a masterpiece”—Richard Russo gives us the story of a marriage, and of all the other ties that bind, from parents and in-laws to children and the promises of youth. Griffin has been tooling around for nearly a year with his father’s ashes in the trunk, but his mot...(展开全部)

Do you want to write stories that catch your readers and never let go? Have you ever wondered how to create a book as magical as "Ella Enchanted," as touching as "Dave at Night," as captivating as "Fairest"? Well, now you can find out In "Writing Magic," Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine shares her secrets of great writing. She shows how you, too, can get terrific ideas...(展开全部)

Cape Light, Joel Meyerowitz's series of serene and contemplative color photographs taken on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, quickly became one of the most influential and popular photobooks in the latter part of the 20th century after its publication in 1978, breaking new ground both for color photography and for the medium's acceptance in the art world. Now, more than 35 years later,...(展开全部)

Cape Light, Joel Meyerowitz's series of serene and contemplative color photographs taken on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, quickly became one of the most influential and popular photobooks in the latter part of the 20th century after its publication in 1978, breaking new ground both for color photography and for the medium's acceptance in the art world. Now, more than 35 years later,...(展开全部)

In That Old Ace in the Hole, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx has written an exhilarating story brimming with language, history, landscape, music, and love. The novel, Proulx's fourth, is told through the eyes of Bob Dollar, a young Denver man trying to make good in a bad world. Dollar is out of college but aimless, and he takes a job with Global Po...(展开全部)

"Magical Mathematics" reveals the secrets of amazing, fun-to-perform card tricks - and the profound mathematical ideas behind them - that will astound even the most accomplished magician. Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham provide easy, step-by-step instructions for each trick, explaining how to set up the effect and offering tips on what to say and do while performing it. Each card...(展开全部)

[美]凯文·汉克斯 著/绘 著名童书作家、插画家，《纽约时报》畅销书作家，荣获三次凯迪克大奖、两次纽伯瑞儿童文学奖、两次苏斯博士奖及2020年美国儿童文学遗产奖。1960年出生于美国威斯康星州，19岁时创作了处女作All Alone，从此笔耕不辍。他一直以真实的生活为素材，用自己对生活的感悟力，创作了一部又一部滋养儿童心灵的优秀作品，因作品极为贴合孩子的内心世界、反映了孩子的心声而深受喜爱，被誉为“能读懂孩子内心世界的天才作家”。代表作有图画书“小老鼠莉莉”系列和《小猫咪追月亮》《阿文的小毯子》《大熊》《我的花园》《小白兔》《鸟》，儿童小说《奥莉芙的海洋》《神奇的一年》等。 孙莉莉 / 译 童书作者、译者，幼儿阅读专家。北京师范大学儿童心理发展与教育硕士，台湾台东大学儿文所博士候选人，百千幼儿阅读研究院院长。著有《早期阅读与幼儿教育》《欢迎走进图画书...(展开全部)

托马斯•沙兹（Thomas Schatz），美国德克萨斯大学传播学教授，主要研究领域为好莱坞电影和制片厂制度。作为知名电影评论人，著有：《旧好莱坞•新好莱坞：仪式、艺术与工业》《繁荣与衰败：1940年代的美国电影》《体系的特质：制片厂时代的好莱坞电影制作》《好莱坞电影类型》等。他还参与了多部电影及电视纪录片的创作，如美国公共电视台的纪录片系列《美国电影》等。

"Old Masters (1985)" is Thomas Bernhard's devilishly funny story about the friendship between two old men. For over thirty years Reger, a music critic, has sat on the same bench in front of a Tintoretto painting in a Viennese museum, thinking and railing against contemporary society, his fellow men, artists, the weather, even the state of public lavatories. His friend Atzbacher...(展开全部)

Sixteen all-new stories by science fiction’s top talents, collected by bestselling author George R. R. Martin and multiple-award-winning editor Gardner Dozois From pulp adventures such as Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Carson of Venus to classic short stories such as Ray Bradbury’s “The Long Rain” to visionary novels such as C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra, the planet Venus has loomed almost...(展开全部)