罗伯特·海因莱因（1907-1988），美国最有影响力的科幻作家。他因高超的叙述技巧、精巧的科幻构思、极具时代感的激进思想，以及对美国历史与文化的独特科幻化阐释，赢得了无数读者的喜爱，被誉为“美国现代科幻小说之父”。他同时也是世界科幻“三巨头”之一，其作品被译成数十种语言，在世界范围内广泛流传，是最受中国、日本以及俄罗斯读者欢迎的美国科幻作家之一。 海因莱因一生著作颇丰，多次获得各种科幻大奖，是第一位被美国科幻与奇幻作家协会授予“科幻大师”殊荣的科幻作家，其代表作包括《傀儡主人》《双星》《星船伞兵》《异乡异客》《严厉的月亮》《时间足够你爱》等。

In a museum far from home a man stumbles onto a painting of a woman for whom he once, long ago, risked everything and who then mysteriously disappeared from his life. As a young lawyer, the nameless protagonist of "The Woman on the Stairs" became entangled in the affairs of three people mired in a complex and destructive relationship. An artist, the woman whose portrait he had ...(展开全部)

水辺の遊びに、こんなにも心惹かれてしまうのは、これは絶対、アーサー・ランサムのせいだ―そう語り始められる本書は、カヤックで湖や川に漕ぎ出して感じた世界を、たゆたうように描いたエッセイ。土の匂いや風のそよぎ、虫たちの音。様々な生き物の気配が、発信され受信され、互いに影響しあって流れてゆく。その豊かで孤独な世界は、物語の根源を垣間見せる。

One of the first things I was told when I arrived in Kabul was never to walk... When Indian journalist Taran Khan arrived in Kabul in 2006, she imagined it as a homecoming – a return to the land from where her Pashtun forebears hailed. Falling in with poets, doctors and other journalists, she began exploring the city on foot and discovered a Kabul quite different from the one s...(展开全部)

One of the first things I was told when I arrived in Kabul was never to walk... When Indian journalist Taran Khan arrived in Kabul in 2006, she imagined it as a homecoming – a return to the land from where her Pashtun forebears hailed. Falling in with poets, doctors and other journalists, she began exploring the city on foot and discovered a Kabul quite different from the one s...(展开全部)

The incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from isolation to the world stage. Haben grew up spending summers with her family in the enchanting Eritrean city of Asmara. There, she discovered courage as she faced off against a bull she couldn't see, and found in herself an abiding strength as she absorbed ...(展开全部)

弗朗索瓦丝·萨冈 Françoise Sagan（1935—2004） 法国天才女作家，一代人的青春同义词。拥有漂亮的外表、敏感的心灵和避重就轻的天赋，喜欢写作、赛马、飚车、酗酒，结交演艺界、政界的朋友，任由官司缠身。 十八岁时，她凭借小说《你好，忧愁》获得了法国批评家奖。一生中发表了二十部长篇小说、十一部剧作、若干短篇小说及散文，也参与创作电影和歌曲。 六十三岁时，她撰写了自己的悼词：“一九五四年，她以一本薄薄的小说《你好,忧愁》出道，这部小说成为了一桩世界性丑闻。她的一生和她的作品同样愉快而又轻率，她的隐没则成为一个只属于她自己的丑闻。”

弗朗索瓦丝·萨冈 Françoise Sagan（1935—2004） 法国天才女作家，一代人的青春同义词。拥有漂亮的外表、敏感的心灵和避重就轻的天赋，喜欢写作、赛马、飚车、酗酒，结交演艺界、政界的朋友，任由官司缠身。 十八岁时，她凭借小说《你好，忧愁》获得了法国批评家奖。一生中发表了二十部长篇小说、十一部剧作、若干短篇小说及散文，也参与创作电影和歌曲。 六十三岁时，她撰写了自己的悼词：“一九五四年，她以一本薄薄的小说《你好,忧愁》出道，这部小说成为了一桩世界性丑闻。她的一生和她的作品同样愉快而又轻率，她的隐没则成为一个只属于她自己的丑闻。”

"The Water Hole" is a fusion of counting book, puzzle book, storybook and art book. Graeme Base takes the reader on a journey of discovery, from the plains of Africa and the jungles of the Amazon to the woodlands of North America and the deserts of the Australian outback. As one rhino gives way to two tigers, with three toucans waiting in the wings, the tale unfolds on many lev...(展开全部)

Even among Fleur Jaeggy’s singular and intricate works, The Water Statues is a shiningly peculiar book. Concerned with loneliness and wealth’s odd emotional poverty, this early novel is in part structured as a play: the dramatis personae include the various relatives, friends, and servants of a man named Beeklam, a wealthy recluse who keeps statues in his villa’s flooded baseme...(展开全部)