在线阅读本书 Synopsis: Jack and Annie travel back to the morning of the great San Francisco earthquake. While they are there, they meet a reporter and help get some kids to safety. From Amazon.com The year is 1906, the place is San Francisco. Annie and her brother, Jack, have just traveled here in their magic tree house, on a mission from Morgan le Fay, the mysterious magical lib...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Synopsis: Jack and Annie travel back to the morning of the great San Francisco earthquake. While they are there, they meet a reporter and help get some kids to safety. From Amazon.com The year is 1906, the place is San Francisco. Annie and her brother, Jack, have just traveled here in their magic tree house, on a mission from Morgan le Fay, the mysterious magical lib...(展开全部)

Jack and Annie travel back to the morning of the great San Francisco earthquake of the early 1900s. While they are there, they meet a reporter and help get some kids to safety. Illustrations.

The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. For centuries, gleemen have told of The Great Hunt of the Horn. Now the Horn itself is found: the Horn of Valere long thought only legend, the Horn which will raise the dead heroes of the ages. And it is stolen.

The Prussian king Frederick II (1712–1786) is perhaps best known for successfully defending his tiny country against the three great European powers of France, Austria, and Russia during the Seven Years’ War (1756–1763), a feat that allowed Great Britain to limit its engagement on the Continent and emerge as the world’s leading colonial power, as summed up in William Pitt’s fam...(展开全部)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATE WILLIAMS Frederick II of Prussia attempted to escape his authoritarian father as a boy, but went on to become one of history's greatest rulers. He loved the flute, and devoted hours of study to the arts and French literature, forming a long-lasting but turbulent friendship with Voltaire. He was a military genius and enlarged the borders of his empir...(展开全部)

1904年11月28日，南希•米特福德出生于伦敦。她是里兹代尔男爵二世家族的长女，下面有五个妹妹，包括戴安娜•莫斯利夫人、德文郡公爵夫人黛博拉（Deborah）和杰西卡。在自传《荣耀与背叛》（Hons and Rebels）一书中，杰西卡向世人描述了米特福德家族的历史。米特福德姐妹在“咆哮的20年代”（Roaring Twenties）和伦敦的战火中长大成人，并因她们的美貌，她们身上那股上流社会的玩世作风以及政治方面的忠贞不二而闻名于世。南希曾为《女士》（The Lady）和《星期日泰晤士报》（Sunday Times）撰写过专栏文章，也曾创作过一系列流行小说，其中包括《追逐爱情》和《恋恋冬季》。这两部作品详细叙述了拉德利特（Radlett）六姐妹各自的上流社会恋情。在20世纪50年代，南希开始创作历史人物传记。她的作品《太阳王》记述了路易十四的生平...(展开全部)

1904年11月28日，南希•米特福德出生于伦敦。她是里兹代尔男爵二世家族的长女，下面有五个妹妹，包括戴安娜•莫斯利夫人、德文郡公爵夫人黛博拉（Deborah）和杰西卡。在自传《荣耀与背叛》（Hons and Rebels）一书中，杰西卡向世人描述了米特福德家族的历史。米特福德姐妹在“咆哮的20年代”（Roaring Twenties）和伦敦的战火中长大成人，并因她们的美貌，她们身上那股上流社会的玩世作风以及政治方面的忠贞不二而闻名于世。南希曾为《女士》（The Lady）和《星期日泰晤士报》（Sunday Times）撰写过专栏文章，也曾创作过一系列流行小说，其中包括《追逐爱情》和《恋恋冬季》。这两部作品详细叙述了拉德利特（Radlett）六姐妹各自的上流社会恋情。在20世纪50年代，南希开始创作历史人物传记。她的作品《太阳王》记述了路易十四的生平...(展开全部)

Inspired as a boy by the multiple meanings to be found for a single word in the dictionary, Kohei Araki is devoted to the notion that a dictionary is a boat to carry us across the sea of words. But after thirty-seven years creating them at Gembu Books, it’s time for him to retire and find his replacement. He discovers a kindred spirit in Mitsuya Majime—a young, disheveled squar...(展开全部)

"Enthralling...As fascinating as any novel and more so than most!" THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great. He brought Russia from the darkness of its own Middle Ages into the Enlightenment and transformed it into the power that has its legacy in the R...(展开全部)