Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world. Arthur Parnassus is the master of the orphanage. He would do anything to keep the children safe, even if it means the world will burn. And his secrets will come to light. The Ho...(展开全部)

Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world. Arthur Parnassus is the master of the orphanage. He would do anything to keep the children safe, even if it means the world will burn. And his secrets will come to light. The Ho...(展开全部)

梅·萨藤（May Sarton），美国著名诗人、小说家、日记体作家。出生于比利时，四岁时因一战爆发随父母移民美国。梅·萨藤继承了科学史作家父亲的勤奋严谨，和艺术家母亲的创造力，在近六十年的写作生涯里，创作了五十余部作品。曾在包括哈佛大学在内的多所高校任教，作品被美国各地 高校用作教材。1958年当选美国人文与科学院院士。 梅·萨藤写作半生，声誉正隆之际，选择隐居避世，侍弄花草，思考创作，以日记与自己对话。这些日记的出版将梅·萨藤的写作推至一个新的高度，为她赢得国际性声誉。其中以《独居日记》《海边小屋》为代表之作，《独居日记》更被认为是“现代女性自传的里程碑”。

The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Played out against a vividly rendered landscape and filled with allusions to myth and magic, Murdoch's novel exposes the jumble of motivations that drive her characters - the human vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguis...(展开全部)

The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Played out against a vividly rendered landscape and filled with allusions to myth and magic, Murdoch's novel exposes the jumble of motivations that drive her characters - the human vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguis...(展开全部)

Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years. None of his plans work out, and his memoir evolves into ...(展开全部)

"Here is the key to the house." Inside the house are nighttime things both comforting and intriguing—a bed, many books—and outside, too, there are sources of light and joy—the moon, the sky—that reveal a reassuring order in the universe. This timeless bedtime tale takes readers through the house in the night, up into the sky, and back home again, all the while reminding us of t...(展开全部)

A spare, patterned text and glowing pictures explore the origins of light that make a house a home in this Caldecott Medal-winning bedtime book for young children. Naming nighttime things that are both comforting and intriguing to preschoolers—a key, a bed, the moon—this timeless book illuminates a reassuring order to the universe.

"Here is the key to the house." Inside the house are nighttime things both comforting and intriguing—a bed, many books—and outside, too, there are sources of light and joy—the moon, the sky—that reveal a reassuring order in the universe. This timeless bedtime tale takes readers through the house in the night, up into the sky, and back home again, all the while reminding us of t...(展开全部)

In the Heart of the Sea brings to new life the incredible story of the wreck of the whaleship Essex --an event as mythic in its own century as the Titanic disaster in ours, and the inspiration for the climax of Moby-Dick . In a harrowing page-turner, Nathaniel Philbrick restores this epic story to its rightful place in American history. In 1820, the 240-ton Essex set sail...(展开全部)