'All I did was go to the library to borrow some books'. On his way home from school, the young narrator of The Strange Library finds himself wondering how taxes were collected in the Ottoman Empire. He pops into the local library to see if it has a book on the subject. This is his first mistake. Led to a special 'reading room' in a maze under the library by a strange old man, h...(展开全部)

From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami—a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library. A lonely boy, a mysterious girl, and a tormented sheep man plot their escape from the nightmarish library of internationally acclaimed, best-selling Haruki Murakami's wild imagination.

'All I did was go to the library to borrow some books'. On his way home from school, the young narrator of The Strange Library finds himself wondering how taxes were collected in the Ottoman Empire. He pops into the local library to see if it has a book on the subject. This is his first mistake. Led to a special 'reading room' in a maze under the library by a strange old man, h...(展开全部)

From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami—a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library. A lonely boy, a mysterious girl, and a tormented sheep man plot their escape from the nightmarish library of internationally acclaimed, best-selling Haruki Murakami's wild imagination.

作者：雷蒙·斯尼奇（本名丹尼尔·汉德勒） 是位编故事的高手。1970年，他出生于美国，1998年开始用雷蒙·斯尼奇这个笔名创作《波特莱尔大遇险》系列小说，并一举成名，盘踞《纽约时报》畅销榜长达600多周，受到《纽约时报》《美国新闻和世界报道》等一众主流媒体的高度评价。而由此系列小说改编的电影《雷蒙·斯尼奇的不幸历险》上映后，更是受到读者观众的追捧。从此，他便用小说里的这个人物的名字开始一系列的创作。他不仅会写故事，在音乐和电影方面也有很高的造诣。因此他的作品所呈现的画面感极强，阅读时经常会有身临其境的感觉。他了解孩子的内心世界，所以才能把儿童的心理活动及感受描写的那么透彻。 绘者：乔恩·克拉森 出生于1981年的加拿大新锐画家。他的第一本自写自画图画书《我要把我的帽子找回来》，一经面世，便受到了读者的喜爱。被《纽约时报书评》评为“2011年度10本最...(展开全部)

New York Times Best Illustrated 2014 Charlotte Zolotow Award Winner A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year ALSC Notable Books for Children *"With his command of language, tone, and pacing, Snicket creates the perfect antidote to a universal fear. Klassen's spare gouache and digital illustrations in a quiet black, brown, and whit...(展开全部)

作者：雷蒙·斯尼奇（本名丹尼尔·汉德勒） 是位编故事的高手。1970年，他出生于美国，1998年开始用雷蒙·斯尼奇这个笔名创作《波特莱尔大遇险》系列小说，并一举成名，盘踞《纽约时报》畅销榜长达600多周，受到《纽约时报》《美国新闻和世界报道》等一众主流媒体的高度评价。而由此系列小说改编的电影《雷蒙·斯尼奇的不幸历险》上映后，更是受到读者观众的追捧。从此，他便用小说里的这个人物的名字开始一系列的创作。他不仅会写故事，在音乐和电影方面也有很高的造诣。因此他的作品所呈现的画面感极强，阅读时经常会有身临其境的感觉。他了解孩子的内心世界，所以才能把儿童的心理活动及感受描写的那么透彻。 绘者：乔恩·克拉森 出生于1981年的加拿大新锐画家。他的第一本自写自画图画书《我要把我的帽子找回来》，一经面世，便受到了读者的喜爱。被《纽约时报书评》评为“2011年度10本最...(展开全部)

作者：雷蒙·斯尼奇（本名丹尼尔·汉德勒） 是位编故事的高手。1970年，他出生于美国，1998年开始用雷蒙·斯尼奇这个笔名创作《波特莱尔大遇险》系列小说，并一举成名，盘踞《纽约时报》畅销榜长达600多周，受到《纽约时报》《美国新闻和世界报道》等一众主流媒体的高度评价。而由此系列小说改编的电影《雷蒙·斯尼奇的不幸历险》上映后，更是受到读者观众的追捧。从此，他便用小说里的这个人物的名字开始一系列的创作。他不仅会写故事，在音乐和电影方面也有很高的造诣。因此他的作品所呈现的画面感极强，阅读时经常会有身临其境的感觉。他了解孩子的内心世界，所以才能把儿童的心理活动及感受描写的那么透彻。 绘者：乔恩·克拉森 出生于1981年的加拿大新锐画家。他的第一本自写自画图画书《我要把我的帽子找回来》，一经面世，便受到了读者的喜爱。被《纽约时报书评》评为“2011年度10本最...(展开全部)

Growing up in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a young Kurdish boy named Kerim has ample opportunity to witness the murderous repression that defined the era for thousands of Iraqis. In Sherko Fatah's "The Dark Ship", we experience an extraordinary new voice in fiction, which tells us the story of the kind of trauma and striving that leads a man from religious extremism to a vain hope fo...(展开全部)

Brunhild was a foreign princess, raised to be married off for the sake of alliance-building. Her sister-in-law Fredegund started out as a lowly palace slave. And yet-in sixth-century Merovingian France, where women were excluded from noble succession and royal politics was a blood sport-these two iron-willed strategists reigned over vast realms, changing the face of Europe. The...(展开全部)