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Since childhood, Sabriel has lived outside the walls of the Old Kingdom, away from the power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who refuse to stay dead. But now her father, the Mage Abhorson, is missing, and Sabriel must cross into that world to find him. With Mogget, whose feline form hides a po...

At the beginning of Amy Tan's fourth novel, two packets of papers written in Chinese calligraphy fall into the hands of Ruth Young. One bundle is titled Things I Know Are True and the other, Things I Must Not Forget. The author? That would be the protagonist's mother, LuLing, who has been diagnosed ...

My darling. I'm waiting for you. How long is a day in the dark? Or a week? The fire is gone now. And I'm cold, horribly cold. I really want to drag myself outside but then there'd be the sun. I'm afraid I waste the light on the paintings, and I'm not writing these words. We die. We die,we die rich w...

Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's saying the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call the...

This brief and poignant novel from Germany explores existential questions as its 46-year-old narrator reflects on broken relationships and other failures, and struggles to come to terms with life.

The Shoe Tester of Frankfurt by Wilhelm Genazino, 2004 recipient of the Georg-Büchner-Preis, Germanys h...

The Tale of Peter Rabbit is the first in the series of children's books written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter, and is perhaps her best-known work. The book was written for private amusement, but publication was urged by Potter's friends.

The Tale of Peter Rabbit has sold more than 40 million cop...

從小在父親的古舊書店幫忙的姑娘瑪格麗特，愛好讀經典小說和傳記。一天，她突然收到著名女作家維達·溫特的來信。溫特性格古怪而低調，常常編造自己的各種離奇故事糊弄記者，但誰也不知道她的真正來歷。可她居然寫信邀請默默無聞的瑪格麗特來為她寫傳。

出於好奇，同樣深居簡出的瑪格麗特來到偏僻的溫特家。如溫特所述，她的母親伊莎貝拉美麗任性，父親和哥哥完全聽命於她，伊莎貝拉生下的一對雙胞胎女兒卻行為怪異。瑪格麗特對女作家的故事既著迷，又困惑。半信半疑中，她開始調查這個家族，依照自己的調查結果將溫特講述的家族故事拼接起來。然而，尋找真相的過程令人膽戰心驚，也徹底改變了瑪格麗特自己的命運……