類別：文學

與愛犬分離  ISBN:4901784536
作者：三田誠廣

從兩個月大開始飼養的西伯利亞哈士奇犬。 從第一次見面開始，每天的生活、到分離的日子，都是與愛犬快樂的度過，描寫一段無可取代15年生活的感動作品。

Summary
孫子出生的同時，龍之介去世了。似乎意味著，我們正因為孫子的誕生而高興的同時，不得不忍耐愛犬去世的悲傷。
有快樂，就一定有悲傷。這就是人生。（引自原文）

作者 About the Author
1948年生於大阪。畢業於早稻田大學文學部。1966年以「M的世界」出道。1977年以「我是什麼」得到芥川賞。 著作範圍十分廣泛，小說、評論、散文皆有代表作品。現在，擔任日本文藝家協會的常務理事以及日本文藝著作權中心的事務局長。

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類別：青少年冒險小說系列 (現共 13冊)

THE DRAGON SLAYERS' ACADEMY
屠龍學校歷險記（系列）
- by Kate McMullan
- Illustrator : Bill Basso

Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
http://www.penguinputnam.com/


小威有十二個虎背熊腰的兄弟，他比他們都矮小。大雪之夜，他遇到一名求宿的吟遊詩人，預言小威註定將成為曠世大英雄。於是小威決定報名就讀屠龍學校，卻一腳踏進令他永生難忘的學習之旅...

Summary
First a traveling minstrel tells Wiglaf that he was born to be a hero. Then he reads the D.S.A. ad posted on the village message tree. Now he's off to Dragon Slayers' Academy - and in for a first day of school he'll never forget!

作者 About the Author
Kate McMullan's books have been named The New York Times Best Picture Books of the Year, have appeared on state library award lists, and have received the Parents' Choice Award. She and her husband, noted illustrator, Jim McMullan, live in New York City and Sag Harbor with their daughter and their cats, George and Wendy.

繪者 About the Illustrator
Bill Basso lives in Englishtown, New Jersey , USA

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French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Serbian, Thai, Turkish, UK

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類別：漫畫 歷史 百科

COMIC BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA
- The Ultimate Guide to Characters, Graphic Novels, Writers, and Artists in the Comic Book Universe
漫畫大百科
- by Ron Goulart

精裝 全彩印刷 378頁 開本為 24 x 26.5cm

漫畫迷的必備書 收錄了歷史上傳頌的經典漫畫 漫畫角色 漫畫家作者與繪者等等 本書介紹漫畫自1930 年代開始至今七十年的發展 書中呈現許多膾炙人口經典漫畫的起源 如超人 蜘蛛人 X-MEN 丁丁歷險記等...

Summary
本書內容涵蓋:
- 四百多幅漫畫封面 內頁和人物造型
- 自1930 年代至今的漫畫發展大事記
- 收錄了最精選的漫畫小說
- 最受歡迎的漫畫角色
- 暢銷精選漫畫家作者與繪者生平介紹

作者 About the Author
Ron Goulart是一位科幻及神秘小說的獲獎作者,並是國際公認的漫畫專家,本身也為漫畫編劇 並有許多論述漫畫的著作

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類別：歷史

Envy of the Gods: Alexander the Great's Ill-fated Journey Accross Asia
眾神的嫉妒: 亞歷山大帝橫越亞洲不幸的旅程
- by John Prevas

亞歷山大二十六歲時，已經征服了當時世界上最強盛的波斯帝國，擁有希臘人夢寐以求的財富，他成為眾神嫉妒的對象。然而他對希臘人有更高的期待，決定帶領軍隊展開萬里長征，橫越亞洲，翻越阿富汗，印度的高山。在旅程中，他的個性從原本開明的理想家逐漸轉變成性情多變的暴君，走向毀滅，以三十三歲的壯年結束精彩卻短暫的一生。本書作者帶領讀者走過這位傳奇人物一生中，最具決定性的萬里長征，作者帶領讀者重返當年亞歷山大帝一路橫越亞洲的旅程，包括今天的伊朗，阿富汗，巴基斯坦等地，瞭解亞歷山大帝國的興...

Summary
作者帶領讀者重返當年亞歷山大帝一路橫越亞洲的旅程，包括今天的伊朗，阿富汗，巴基斯坦等地，瞭解亞歷山大帝國的興亡。

作者 About the Author
John Prevas, writer and adventurer, holds degrees in history, political science, psychology, and forensics and has taught the classics for the last fifteen years. He is the author of Hannibal Crosses the Alps and Xenophon's March. He lives in Florida. His previous works are
Xenophon's March: Into The Lair Of The Persian Lion
Hannibal Crosses The Alps: The Invasion Of Italy And The Punic Wars

*The book will be released in January 2005. Followings are editorial reviews.

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類別：非小說/ 歷史

Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
正義的曲線 （爵士樂時代關於種族，民權和謀殺的冒險傳說）
- by Kevin Boyle

美國爵士樂時代，一九五二年底特律市一樁謀殺案的審理，涉及敏感的黑白種族議題，幾乎分裂了這個城市，點燃民權之爭的戰火...

Summary
以史實為背景 作者 Kevin Boyle 以一九五二年底特律市一樁 謀殺案的審理過程，還原事件多重面向，並探討分析此案對美國種族衝突及爭取民權的影響。

作者 About the Author
Kevin Boyle
a professor of history at Ohio State University, is the author of The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945-1968. A former associate professor at the University of Massachusetts, he is also the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. He lives in Bexley, Ohio.

*本書獲得2004年美國「國家書卷獎」非小說類獎, Amazon 網站讀者予以五顆星的評鑑

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類別：生活情趣

SYLVIA'S FARM: The Journal of an Improbably Shepherd
席薇雅的農場
- by Sylvia Jorrin

作者以紐約州三百個牧場中唯二女性之一的身份 寫出自己的故事 從誤打誤撞開創牧場, 什麼都不懂, 到十五年後的今天一百二十匹羊及其它眾多動物. 書中揉合了幽默詼諧 冒險 及生命的律動...

Summary
This is the story of the life here, written as it is being lived. It is about the rhythm of the days and their attendant nights, the flow of the seasons and their gifts of joy and sorrow. About all, it is the story of all of us, my flock, my beloved dogs, the marmalade barn cats, the cows, goats, chickens, geese, pigs, ad Guiseppe Nunzio Patrick MacBuire, the donkey. We have together created something far more than any of us could done. This is our story.

作者 About the Author
Sylvia Jorrin has been a farmer in Delaware County for the past fifteen years. She is one of two women livestock farmers in the three hundred farms of the New York city Watershed. Over the past decade, she has published a weekly column about life on the farm in the Delaware County Times.

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類別：小說

THE NEWS FROM PARAGUAY
來自巴拉圭的消息
- by Lily Tuck

A historical epic that tells an unusual love story, this novel offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of nineteenth-century Paraguay.
第55屆美國「國家書卷獎」2004年11月17日在紐約市揭曉，作家莉莉•塔克（Lily Tuck）以《來自巴拉圭的消息》（Th e News from Paraguay），奪得今年度的最佳小說獎。這位出生於巴黎的作家已出版兩部長篇小說，得獎作品《來自巴拉圭的消息》是部史詩型的創作，塔克藉由19世紀巴拉圭獨裁者的情婦Ella Lynch之口，描述這個南美小國的流離與動盪，評審主席Rick Moody讚許本書具有「驚人的特色」

Summary
THE NEWS FROM PARAGUAY, a compelling historical novel set in mid-19th century Paraguay which follows the life and times of dictator Francisco Solano L?pez (”Franco”) and the infamous courtesan who was his companion from 1855-1870. Filled with sly humor and grisly war scenes, it is an unflinching portrayal of love and cruelty, imbued with a richness of character and period detail that calls to mind the work of Joseph Conrad, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Barbara Kingsolver.

1854 Paris: it begins with a bright blue parrot feather that falls out of Ella Lynch’s hat during her afternoon ride in the Bois de Boulogne, and captures the attention of the 27-year-old future dictator of Paraguay. A raunchy courtship commences -- featuring a poncho, a Paraguayan band, and a horse named Mathilde -- and concludes with the fair-haired, Irishborn Ella sailing to a new life on the South American continent with Franco and his vast fortune, pregnant with his first son and heir Pancho. The novel progresses via a series of entries in Ella's diary -- letters to her friend back in Paris (the Princess Mathilde Bonaparte) which serve to underline the obscurity of Paraguay in world affairs at the time -- and short vignettes that follow the fortunes of a panoply of colorful characters surrounding the couple, including Ella's French maid, a Scottish engineer, an English doctor, a superstitious Spanish tutor, an American ambassador, a Guarani Indian wet nurse, Ella and Franco's children, and a host of Paraguayan locals.

Their love story and mutual rise to power and riches is set against the backdrop of a South American country subject to the diminutive Franco’s outsized and ill-fated imperial ambitions. Meanwhile, Ella -- loathed by the Spanish aristocracy in Asunci?n, snubbed by Franco's family and the wives of foreign diplomats -- opportunistically plunders the country's wealth and holds sway over Paraguayan society from her beautiful pink palace modeled on the Palais Garnier, in which she bears him six children and becomes influential in matters of state and politics. Increasingly unstable and paranoid, Franco decides war is the only way to establish respect for Paraguay as a major power. Following in the footsteps of his hero Napoleon, Franco imports European personnel, transportation, and ammunition into Paraguay to confront a coalition that included all the other South American states, and their allies (USA, France and Great Britain). He launches an attack on Brazil, antagonizes Argentina, and alienates his erstwhile ally along the Rio de la Plata, the Banda Orientale (the future Uruguay).

A terrible and hopeless struggle against the Triple Alliance ensues -- and Paraguay, a charming land of oranges, yerba mate, brightly colored parrots, and cigar-smoking Guarani Indian lacemakers, will never be the same.

THE NEWS FROM PARAGUAY is based on actual historical events. The War of the Triple Alliance (1865-1870) was waged by megalomaniac L?pez in an attempt to increase Paraguay's prestige. Instead, it left the country in ruins -- with more than half of the population dead, the economy destroyed, and Franco killed during the retreat. His beautiful and refined mistress Ella Lynch (Eliza Lynch), believed to have pushed Franco towards war as his best bid for immortality, was widely despised by locals and expelled from the country after his death. Yet ironically, her memory has been mythologized to Evita-like proportions, and nearly 100 years later her body was exhumed in Paris and brought to Paraguay where she was proclaimed a national heroine.

The urgency of Tuck's narrative, the clarity and vividness of its detail, and the wealth of characters, whose stories are skillfully layered and developed, give this novel both an epic scope and an intimate feel.

作者 About the Author
Born in Paris, Lily Tuck is the author of three previous novels: Interviewing Matisse or the Woman Who Died Standing Up, The Woman Who Walked on Water, and Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man, which was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, and are collected in Limbo, or Other Places I Have Lived. She divides her time between Maine and New York City.

*Hebrew rights to Ledory Publishing House
*Turkish rights to Kuraldisi Yayinlari
*Spanish rights were sold to Grijalbo.

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類別：勵志 、傳記 (Health)

Into the Blue : A Father's Flight and a Daughter's Return
生命的藍天
- by Susan Edsall

飛行員 Wayne Edsall因一次突發性的重度中風，導致喪失說、寫、讀的能力，醫生的診斷是他從此無法再飛行了。對父親而言，這是比死亡還嚴厲的判決，Wayne的女兒自有一套復健方式，要將父親帶回他最愛的藍天...

Summary
From the Inside Flap
Three years ago, Susan Edsall's father, a rebuilder and pilot of antique airplanes, suffered a devastating stroke that left him unable to read, write, speak, tell time, understand the alphabet--or fly. The doctors told Susan the best her family could hope for was that he would learn to play checkers. Susan knew if her dad couldn't fly, he'd just as soon not breathe, so she chose another path. Battling the pessimistic conclusion of the experts--and her own looming fears--she and her sister, Sharon, aka the Blister Sisters, decided to take matters into their own hands. With no medical training but double doses of determination, they bushwhacked their own rehab program and got their father back behind the controls of his beloved open-cockpit biplane and into the air.

作者 About the Author
Susan Edsall took her first airplane flight with her dad when she was four years old. A pilot herself, she lives with her husband in Vershire, Vermont, and still flies regularly with her father in Montana.

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類別：經濟

The Power of Productivity : Wealth, Poverty, and the Threat to Global Stability
生產力
- by William W. Lewis

貧窮造成國力不均，全球仍有六分之五的人口生活在貧困的國家，外來鉅額的金援與關注仍無濟於事，問題與解決的方案究竟是什麼？                                  

Summary
William W. Lewis—founding director of the McKinsey Global Institute and former partner at McKinsey & Company—here offers a sweeping, practical look at why some countries are rich, why others are poor, and what we can do about it.

The Power of Productivity is based on years of research on the economies of thirteen nations—an analysis that asked fundamental questions about what products are purchased by consumers, how (or if) people and corporations pay taxes, even how large or small a country’s retail stores are. From Russia and India to Brazil and the United States, the McKinsey Global Institute studied national economies from the ground up, and here Lewis brings together the results and formulates them into a broad and applicable set of solutions for ameliorating economic disparity, which at base holds that the key to improving economic conditions is increasing productivity through intense, fair competition and the protection of consumer rights

作者 About the Author
William W. Lewis was a partner at McKinsey and Company for twenty years and the Founding Director of the McKinsey Global Institute. He held several policy-making positions in the U.S. Departments of Defense and Energy and also served in the World Bank for four years earlier in his career. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Economist.

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類別：社科、科普

Animals in Translation : Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
解析動物的肢體語言
- by Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson

恆久以來哲學家與科學家們致力於探索動物的心智狀況，動物行為研究專家將帶您一探究竟...                                                                  
Summary
Temple Grandin's Animals in Translation speaks in the clear voice of a woman who emerged from the other side of autism, bringing with her an extraordinary message about how animals think and feel.

Temple's professional training as an animal scientist and her history as a person with autism have given her a perspective like that of no other expert in the field. Standing at the intersection of autism and animals, she offers unparalleled observations and groundbreaking ideas about both.

Autistic people can often think the way animals think -- in fact, Grandin and co-author Catherine Johnson see autism as a kind of way station on the road from animals to humans -- putting autistic people in the perfect position to translate "animal talk." Temple is a faithful guide into their world, exploring animal pain, fear, aggression, love, friendship, communication, learning, and, yes, even animal genius. Not only are animals much smarter than anyone ever imagined, in some cases animals are out-and-out brilliant. (quoted from Amazon)

作者 About the Author
Temple Grandin
Catherine Johnson

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