In a tour-de-force tapestry of science fiction and historical fiction, Andromeda Romano-Lax presents a story set in Japan and Taiwan that spans a century of empire, conquest, progress, and destruction
When Sarah and her younger brother Charlie go to stay with their grandparents, it rains for days. At first, they have fun exploring inside the big, old house, but eventually they want to explore outsi
In the paperback of The Last Chance for Logan County, the third Legendary Alston Boys mystery from Edgar Award nominee Lamar Giles, Otto and Sheed team up with the Epic Ellisons against a corporation that wants Logan County's weirdness for itself!Otto and Sheed are back in yet another legendary adventure that just might take all their deduction skills, and a little help, to solve.With their journey through the last mirror on the left behind them, Otto and Sheed are ready for things to get back to normal. But their trip to that other dimension had side effects, and they come on quickly--starting with a thunderstorm that rains carnivorous frogs!And that's only the beginning. When a suspicious company called GOO, obsessed with Logan County's weirdness, shows up and starts buying all the property in town--and threatening to take Sheed away from Otto--some of the adults start acting stranger than usual, almost... zombie-like?With the help of Otto's mom, Sheed's dad, and the Epic Ellison twi
One day it rains hearts, and Cornelia Augusta catches them. Each heart is special in its own way, and Cornelia Augusta knows exactly who to send them to.
From New York Times bestselling authors Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle, and Emily Jenkins comes more upside-down fun in the fifth book of this hilarious series.When Willa's upside-down magic rains, it pours. Clouds form under ceilings. Classrooms get flooded. Nory and the kids in Ms. Starr's Upside-Down Magic class always have umbrellas nearby, just in case. Willa hates being the source of such sogginess. And yet the more she rains, the worse she feels . . . and the worse she feels, the more she rains. Nory, meanwhile, can't wait to celebrate her first Bing Day-her town's magical holiday. There's even a parade! Too bad she's stuck doing her Bing Day class project with drippy Willa. To make things worse, Elliott seems to be taking Willa's side on everything. All the storminess is threatening to flood the UDM friendships. Will they drown in misery? Or can they use their magic to make the storm clouds disappear?
我們的島，位於亞洲的海。現在就讓我們跟隨作者，離開習以為常的亞洲陸地，來一趟深度亞洲海洋之旅吧！我們應該都聽過下面這個故事。十五世紀初，明朝鄭和七次下西洋，可能曾遠抵非洲東南外海的馬達加斯加島。其中一次航程，東非麻林國向來訪使團獻上神獸「麒麟」。神獸隨艦隊一路飄洋過海，最後順利抵達中國，站在永樂皇帝面前。今日我們知道，那不是麒麟，而是我們熟悉的長頸鹿。本書作者達瑞克（Eric Tagliacozzo）指出，鄭和下西洋其實是沿著古老的海上貿易路線前進，這些路線長期以來將東北亞與印度洋、中東乃至東非連結起來；因此，當這頭長頸鹿昂首闊步走在南京城街道上供民眾瞻仰圍觀，如同是以其肌膚、筋脈與血肉，對亞洲海上航道的連繫效用，做最飽滿且具象的呈現。《亞洲海洋大歷史》全面探討亞洲海上航道如何形塑地球上一個無比廣大的地區：時間跨度從史前時代的南島民族遷徙，到今日南海的緊張局勢；空間範圍從非洲東部海岸、東南亞群島，一直延伸到北方的日本海。作者以跨海域和跨學科的寬闊視野，描述人員、商品、宗教、文化、科技與觀念，如何藉由亞洲海路大規模流動，為這座全世界最大的洲創造歷史，也為現代世界留下深刻印記。全書用主題架構，以展現亞洲海洋所蘊含的歷史經驗多樣性。內容方面不僅融會大量史料與研究成果，作者更時不時現身說法，穿插自己的旅遊見聞和實地訪談，佐證海洋連結真實存在且歷久不衰，寫法令人耳目一新。我們的島，位於亞洲的海。現在就讓我們跟隨作者，離開習以為常的亞洲陸地，來一趟深度亞洲海洋之旅吧！我們將對這個世界產生全新看法，這也是本書的最大企圖。專文導讀鄭維中｜中央研究院臺灣史研究所副研究員國際讚譽▲ 藉助於長時間的旅行、豐富的檔案、無數場碼頭對話，達瑞克的傑作讓我們看到海洋亞洲環環相扣的歷史，如何形塑今日我們的世界。這是一部既壯闊又切身的亞洲海洋史：洋溢著港口城市的活色生香，由一位天生的說書人以優雅與同理心娓娓道來。──阿姆瑞斯（Sunil Amrith），《失控的水域：降雨、河川、海岸、海洋如何形塑亞洲歷史》（Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia’s History）作者▲ 達瑞克輕車熟路，穿梭在層層疊疊的主題之間：環境、宗教、帝國強權與科技、都市主義與貿易，寫出一部精采的亞洲海洋史。《亞洲海洋大歷史》帶
In a tour-de-force tapestry of science fiction and historical fiction, Andromeda Romano-Lax presents a story set in Japan and Taiwan that spans a century of empire, conquest, progress, and destruction
In the tradition of Rick Yancey's The 5th Wave, the first YA page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz. In one terrifying night, the peaceful community of Creek's Cause turns in
In a tour-de-force tapestry of science fiction and historical fiction, Andromeda Romano-Lax presents a story set in Japan and Taiwan that spans a century of empire, conquest, progress, and destruction
This fourth-smallest county in Texas was created in December 1870 from parts of Wood, Hunt, Van Zandt, and Hopkins Counties. The county and the county seat are named after the founding father, Emory R
My body, suddenly, carries two stories of loss . . . One is easy for people to recognise. My mother died of cancer. I watched her age twenty-five years in eight weeks . . . My other story marks me as
She left, heavily weighted with secrets.But God reveals all things, in His timing. And He redeems them. Suzanne Zimmerman was only seventeen and pregnant when her shamed mother quietly sent her away f
Restless and bored with the lightweight stories she continues to be assigned, reporter Cait Whyte seizes upon the opportunity to cover the gruesome murder of a fifteen-year-old girl in her own neighbo
Late in Claude Rains's distinguished career, a reverent film journalist wrote that Rains "was as much a cinematic institution as the medium itself." Given his childhood speech impediments and his orig
'I believed that if I moored myself to Charlie, I would know tranquility interspersed with organized adventure. He would stay in Zambia because he loved the romance of it. I could remain here, safely.
