Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is unlike anything you have ever read. The final book opens like a door to the uttermost reaches of Stephen King's imagination. You've come this far. Come a little farther. Come all the way. The sound you hear may be the slamming of the door ...(展开全部)

Grade 1-6. Thompson creates a futuristic world in which the Earth is shrouded in a yellow, polluted mist and only the "weakest wash of sunshine" comes through. The richest man in the world and his grandson set out to penetrate the fog in order to see the sun. Collecting buildings from every continent, they spend years fabricating a tower. Finally, the leaning tower of Pisa is s...(展开全部)

The Witcher returns in this action-packed sequel to Baptism of Fire, in the New York Times bestselling series that inspired The Witcher video games. The world has fallen into war. Ciri, the child of prophecy, has vanished. Hunted by friends and foes alike, she has taken on the guise of a petty bandit and lives free for the first time in her life. But the net around her is closi...(展开全部)

Set in the popular tourist attraction in present-day London, The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise is an exquisite story of love, loss, and a one-hundred-eighty-one-year-old pet. Balthazar Jones has lived and worked in the Tower of London for the past eight years. Being a Beefeater is no easy job, and when Balthazar is tasked with setting up an elaborate menagerie of the many...(展开全部)

At the heart of Babel Tower are two law cases, twin strands of the Establishment's web, that shape the story: a painful divorce and custody suit and the prosecution of an "obscene" book. Frederica, the independent young heroine, is involved in both. She startled her intellectual circle of friends by marrying a young country squire, whose violent streak has now been turned aga...(展开全部)

Babel Tower is the third novel in Byatt's highly acclaimed Frederica quartet. Frederica is embroiled in two law cases, twin strands of the Establishment's web, a painful divorce and custody suit and the prosecution of an 'obscene' book. Frederica's personal and legal crises mirror an age; alongside Frederica's intellectual life teaching at art school in London are the diverging...(展开全部)

A.S.拜厄特（A.S.BYATT）， 英国小说家、诗人、布克奖得主，2008年被《泰晤士报》评为1945年以来英国50位伟大作家之一。 1990年凭借天才之作《占有》获得布 克奖，一举 轰动世界文坛；1990年和1999年，先后被授予大英帝国司令勋章和大英帝国女爵士勋章。 拜厄特以令人叹为观止的博学和绮丽高超的修辞艺术闻名。她的作品主题涉及生物学、达尔文主义、绘画艺术，体裁包含戏剧、诗歌、书信，兼之以丰富的隐喻和超凡的想象力，磅礴壮丽，又洞悉人性之微。 拜厄特的成长四部曲（《花园中的少女》《静物》《巴别塔》《吹口哨的女人》）是她耗时近30年写就的颇负盛名的代表作，以一位英国知识女性弗雷德丽卡的成长史诗，串连起二战后几十年英国的历史变迁。 = 译者简介 = 王一鸣，毕业于澳大利亚蒙纳士大学新闻系，全职记者，主攻文化、艺术。曾专访坂本龙一、伊东丰雄、杉...(展开全部)

Brimming with charm and whimsy, this exquisite novel set in the Tower of London has the transportive qualities and delightful magic of the contemporary classics Chocolat and Amélie . Balthazar Jones has lived in the Tower of London with his loving wife, Hebe, and his 120-year-old pet tortoise for the past eight years. That’s right, he is a Beefeater (they really do live t...(展开全部)

斯蒂芬·金（Stephen King）为恐怖小说大师的代表。 斯蒂芬·金1947年9月21日出生于美国缅因州的波特兰一贫困家庭。在州立大学学习英国文学，毕业后因工资菲薄而走上写作道路。70年代中期声名渐起，被《纽约时报》誉为“现代恐怖小说大师”。自80年代至90年代以来，历年的美国畅销书排行榜，他的小说总是名列榜首，久居不下。他是当今世界读者最多的美国小说家。 1979年，在他32岁时，成为全世界作家中首屈一指的亿万富翁。斯蒂芬·金的作品超越于传统的恐怖小说，他不靠具体的意象来获得恐怖效果，而是通过对事件气氛的营造来震慑读者。

Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread amongst us, shaping our culture through infection, disease, and pandemic. At the same time, our changing human culture has itself influenced the evolutionary path of microbes. Dorothy H. Crawford here shows th...(展开全部)