[美] 查尔斯·波蒂斯：美国当代小说家，生于1933年。大学攻读新闻专业，毕业后从事了六年记者工作。1964年，他从报社辞职，自此专注于小说创作，出版了五部长篇小说。他的作品犀利幽默，很多文学评论家将他的风格与马克•吐温的创作相提并论。 他广为流传的作品是《大地惊雷》。这部小说曾两次被改编成电影，其中2010年版由科恩兄弟执导，斩获奥斯卡10项提名。

Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's foremost comic writers. True Grit is his most famous novel--first published in 1968, and the basis for the movie of the same name starring John Wayne and now the film by the Coen brothers starring Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by t...(展开全部)

Genuine art has the power to awaken and liberate. The renowned meditation master and artist Chögyam Trungpa called this type of art “dharma art”—any creative work that springs from an awakened state of mind, characterized by directness, unselfconsciousness, and nonaggression. Dharma art provides a vehicle to appreciate the nature of things as they are and express it without any...(展开全部)

Disaffected computer wizard "Mr. Slippery" (True Name Roger Pollack) is an early adopter of a new full-immersion virtual reality technology called the Other Plane. He and the other wizards form a cabal to keep their true identities — their True Names — secret to avoid prosecution by their "Great Adversary" — the government of the United States. The lines that define us are not ...(展开全部)

克里斯汀•汉娜(Kristin Hannah)：美国新一代爱情小说天后，《纽约时报》畅销书作者。已出版18部小说，多部作品登上《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜。 本作品2010年最新上市，是作者迄今最具吸引力的小说，充满了姐妹情、复仇、嫉妒、背叛等各种元素。故事唯美曲折，引人入胜，令人不忍释卷。

Comedy / 3m, 1f / Int. Recently revived at New York's Circle in the Square, where Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly alternated playing the roles of the brothers, this American classic explores alternatives that might spring from the demented terrain of the California landscape. Sons of a desert dwelling alcoholic and a suburban wanderer clash over a film script. Austin, the ac...(展开全部)

In this instant New York Times bestseller, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed—be it parents, students, educators, athletes, or business people—that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls “grit.” Drawing on her own powerful story as the daughter of a scientist who frequen...(展开全部)

A New York Review Books Original Deception—the lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell others—is the subject of this, Tove Jansson’s most unnerving and unpredictable novel. Here Jansson takes a darker look at the subjects that animate the best of her work, from her sensitive tale of island life, The Summer Book , to her famous Moomin stories: solitude and community, art a...(展开全部)

托芙·扬松（Tove Jansson，1914—2001） 芬兰著名作家与画家，世界儿童文学大师，出生于赫尔辛基的一个说瑞典语的艺术家家庭，以其杰出的文学与艺术成就在国际上享有盛誉。扬松最广为人知的作品是“姆明”系列故事，以幽默和温情的笔触创造了一个美丽的幻想世界，深受全世界读者的喜爱。此外，她还创作了大量面向成人读者的短篇与长篇小说，通过轻快、明澈的文字传达了关于自由的人生哲学，代表作有《真诚的骗子》《夏日书》《公平竞争》等。扬松一生获奖无数，包括世界儿童文学最高荣誉国际安徒生奖、瑞典学院奖、芬兰国家勋章等。 【译者简介】 王梦达 北京外国语大学欧洲语言文学硕士，曾任上海外国语大学瑞典语讲师，现为自由译者。译有《平安小猪》《长袜子皮皮》《唯余细节》等作品。