Ira Levinson is in trouble. At ninety-one years old, in poor health and alone in the world, he finds himself stranded on an isolated embankment after a car crash. Suffering multiple injuries, he struggles to retain consciousness until a blurry image materializes and comes into focus beside him: his beloved wife Ruth, who passed away nine years ago. Urging him to hang on, she fo...(展开全部)

This is the first time I'm taking the bus by myself. Mom packed me a snack --- and had me bring my sweater in case I get cold.? But Mom likely didn't imagine the adventure her little girl would have as she rides to her grandmother's house in this sweet picture book. While the bus is taking her down the streets, through a forest and into a pitch-black tunnel, the little girl enc...(展开全部)

Ira Levinson is in trouble. At ninety-one years old, in poor health and alone in the world, he finds himself stranded on an isolated embankment after a car crash. Suffering multiple injuries, he struggles to retain consciousness until a blurry image materializes and comes into focus beside him: his beloved wife Ruth, who passed away nine years ago. Urging him to hang on, she fo...(展开全部)

Nancy Kress, one of the leading writers of science fiction today, has written a number of provocative and award-winning stories and novels. But it is with the Beggars trilogy that she has reached the pinnacle of her success. Developed out of her Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novella, "Beggars in Spain," the trilogy was launched with <i>Beggars in Spain</i><b> </b>(1993), also a...(展开全部)

Welcome to an amusement park unlike any you’ve seen before. With this eye-popping, astounding debut, Mark Rogalski guides us through an amazing menagerie of one-of-a-kind attractions. From Alligators in the Air, through to the Zebra Zeppelin, the reader is provided with an elegant ticket that admits them onto rides at turns thrilling, mysterious, spectacular—and always breathta...(展开全部)

Welcome to an amusement park unlike any you’ve seen before. With this eye-popping, astounding debut, Mark Rogalski guides us through an amazing menagerie of one-of-a-kind attractions. From Alligators in the Air, through to the Zebra Zeppelin, the reader is provided with an elegant ticket that admits them onto rides at turns thrilling, mysterious, spectacular—and always breathta...(展开全部)

Julius Evola's final major work, which examines the prototype of the human being who can give absolute meaning to his or her life in a world of dissolution - Presents a powerful criticism of the idols, structures, theories, and illusions of our modern age - Reveals how to transform destructive processes into inner liberation The organizations and institutions that, in a traditi...(展开全部)