This is the compelling story of the life of internationally acclaimed cello virtuoso, Yo-Yo Ma, from the cradle to his entering Harvard University at the age of seventeen. It is told by his mother and written by Dr. John A. Rallo.</P> Written in fluent, warm and conversational style, the book highlights the events in the development of this young music talent and is enriched...(展开全部)

Platero and I, the most popular work by the great Spanish writer Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881-1958), is a series of autobiographical prose poems about the wanderings in Andalusia of a poet and his donkey. This new, accurate English translation is drawn from the complete edition published in 1917. This is the only dual-language edition of this classic of Spanish literature, with an ...(展开全部)

奥古斯托•罗亚•巴斯托斯，巴拉圭著名小说家，20世纪最重要的拉丁美洲作家之一，拉丁美洲“文学爆炸”时期代表人物，著有多部小说、电影剧本与诗集，代表作有《人子》《至上者》《检察官》等，1989年获西语文学大奖“塞万提斯奖”。巴斯托斯的作品多写于流亡期间，以巴拉圭的政治压迫和社会斗争为背景，尝试捕捉祖国人民内在的脆弱性和悲剧因素。他的作品多使用瓜拉尼语化的西班牙语，其充满幻想的叙述与巴拉圭本土的文化和神话符号相融合，形成了独具特色的魔幻现实主义风格。

Platero and I, the most popular work by the great Spanish writer Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881-1958), is a series of autobiographical prose poems about the wanderings in Andalusia of a poet and his donkey. This new, accurate English translation is drawn from the complete edition published in 1917. This is the only dual-language edition of this classic of Spanish literature, with an ...(展开全部)

Taking place during Batman's early days of crime fighting, this new edition of the classic mystery tells the story of a mysterious killer who murders his prey only on holidays. Working with District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant James Gordon, Batman races against the calendar as he tries to discover who Holiday is before he claims his next victim each month. A mystery tha...(展开全部)

It's refreshing when you find a Batman story that both is epic and successfully explores the core of a resolutely explored character. Taking as its catalyst a sub-plot from the seminal Batman: Year One, the story revolves around murders occurring on national holidays, the victims connected to Mob boss "The Roman." Dubbed "Holiday," the killer uses an untraceable handgun and lea...(展开全部)

The unexpected finding of an old photograph will make Montse Cambra, a forty-four year old doctor, leave her native Barcelona in search for her first love. Thus a trip begins that will take her all the way to the Sahara. The need for survival and the passion to live in a forgotten town in the desert will help her discover her true destiny. Mira si yo te querr? is a love story t...(展开全部)

The unexpected finding of an old photograph will make Montse Cambra, a forty-four year old doctor, leave her native Barcelona in search for her first love. Thus a trip begins that will take her all the way to the Sahara. The need for survival and the passion to live in a forgotten town in the desert will help her discover her true destiny. Mira si yo te querr? is a love story t...(展开全部)

Loeb produces and writes for the hit TV series Heroes; Sale paints the prophetic paintings that figure prominently in it. Before their small-screen work, they collaborated on comic books that viewed with imaginative new eyes the early exploits of iconic superheroes. This ambitious Batman caper ran for 13 months, from Halloween 1993 to Halloween 1994. In it, the Caped Crusader j...(展开全部)

Christmas. St. Patrick’s Day. Easter. As the calendar’s days stack up, so do the bodies littered in the streets of Gotham City. A murderer is loose, killing only on holidays. The only one who can stop this fiend? The Dark Knight. A murder mystery taking place during Batman’s early days of crime-fighting, Batman: The Long Halloween is one of the greatest Dark Knight stories ever...(展开全部)