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2005-11-20新到書目
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類別：繪本/日文書
四季村的春
SHIKISHIKI
MURA NO HARU
作者：木阪涼
繪者：山村浩二
ISBN:4001153076
岩波書店（2005-04-26出版）
可以與住在四季村的小狗、小貓、小烏龜、小蝸牛等四人好友與一同體會春天的聲音及顏色的繪本...
Summary
四季村裡處處充滿著大自然的氣息。小狗、小貓、小烏龜、小蝸牛等四個好友，一邊散步一邊進行探險，這是本可以體會自然的聲音以及顏色變化的繪本。
對年幼的小孩來說，或許還沒有春夏秋冬這樣的概念。對他們來說，可能只有鬱金香開花的時節，可以抓甲蟲的時節，可以撿栗子的時節這樣的分別。
這本繪本，藉由這些小孩們周遭可以看到感覺到觸碰到的花、雨、光、草花、蟲、食物等來講述四季的概念。
像詩歌般的木?涼的文章，搭配上動畫作家山村浩二的畫作，創造出這些可愛的伙伴們！有一天，日常的散步也可以變的很快樂！
作者
About the Author
木阪涼〔KISAKA RYO〕
1958年生於崎玉縣。詩人。活躍於繪本創作以及翻譯。作品有「沙沙地」（現代詩椿賞）、「金色的網」（藝術選獎文部大臣新人賞）等詩集作品。
繪者
About the Illustrator
山村浩二〔YAMAMURA KOJI〕
1964年生於愛知縣。以多樣的技巧製作了「KARO 與 piyopuputo」、「pacusi」、「baberu 的書」等短篇動畫。以「頭山」（2002年）陸續獲得annecy
、Zagreb、廣島等六個獎項、並為第75屆學院獎提名。除此之外，以插畫家、設計師多重身份活躍於各業界。
* 本系列另有同作者、繪者的夏、秋、冬三本書
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類別：童話書/日文書
童話國的郵便切手
作者：安野光雅
郵票結合著童話，童話因郵票而新生， 一本難得的東西合璧的童話書...
Summary
從前從前, 有一個國家的大臣, 向國王提出這樣的建言,
{有必要推行郵政, 只要把信寫好, 裝進信封, 貼上郵票. 投進郵筒, 就可以把信送到對方手裏, 郵票是一張小小的紙. 貼上它就能夠讓信去旅行}
大臣找了一位還沒出師的繪畫學生, 但畫家的功力無法被大臣所接受. 於是倆人間的對話令人莞爾，呈現出東方人的思考哲學
作者
About the Author
1926年生於日本島根縣津和野町，曾任小學美術教師十年。1968年創作第一本圖畫書即深獲國內外好評。此後，作品在日本和世界圖畫書界屢獲大獎：1947年獲藝術選獎文部大臣新人獎，產經兒童文化獎首獎、格林威獎特別獎（英國）、紐約科學院獎（美國）、BIB金蘋果獎（捷克）、波隆那國際兒童書展設計大獎（義大利）等等，1985年更榮獲國際安徒生插畫家大獎，成為了現今最受西方矚目的日本圖畫書大師。
除了圖畫書，安野也活躍在寫生、繪畫、插畫、海報、封面設計等美術創作，以及散文、隨筆寫作上。安野光雅在日本發行過的出版品共275種，其中143種仍熱銷中。台灣出版品有《狐說伊索寓言》、《旅之繪本》等等。
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類別：青少年小說
DRAGON
FIRE
龍火
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by Charles Ashton
史派洛是個來自奇幻世界的男孩，天賦異秉有著三項魔法能力；凱蒂，一個尋常人家的女孩，卻在一場由飛龍釀災的空難後，深陷於魔法世界中。相遇的兩人，將在古怪魔法師巴克的協助下，穿梭於兩個世界，展開一場冒險旅程...
《龍火》是JET SMOKE AND DRAGON FIRE、INTO THE SPIRAL和THE
SHINING BRIDGE三部曲的合輯，三個故事流暢、緊湊。其中JET SMOKE AND DRAGON FIRE更曾獲得英國《衛報》兒童小說獎的提名...
Summary
Extraordinary
events transform the life of Sparrow after an encounter on the mountain
with the wizard Puckel, who gives the boy three magical gifts: the
ability to fly, to understand the speech of birds and beasts, and
to take the shape of any creature or thing. Now Sparrow needs all
the magical help he can get, for he and his friends Bull and Goggs,
Kittel, Ormand and Lissie find themselves up against many elusive,
cunning adversaries – including the Polymorphs – as they seek to
free their world from the power of the dragon.
作者
About the Illustrator
Charles Ashton is a highly
respected author whose books include the DRAGON FIRE Trilogy, as
well as the novels TIME GHOST and BILLY’S DRIFT. His stories for
younger readers include RUTH AND THE BLUE HORSE, THE GIANT’S BOOT,
THE BOY WHO WASN’T A BEAR and THE SNOW DOOR.
The landscape
and characters of his home in Scotland play a huge part in his work
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類別：青少年小說
BLOODSONG
血之頌
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by Melvin Burgess
正如同第一輯BLOODTIDE，《血之頌》的靈感源自於冰島十三世紀的沃爾松格傳說。故事場景設在未來世界的英國，當時浩劫過後、遍地荒涼，一群十五歲的席格戰士，半人半獸，正被派出前往已被夷為平地的倫敦，執行擊倒類龍怪獸的死亡任務...
《血之頌》架構了一個反面烏托邦的世界，古老的傳說與現代心理融合其間；年輕的主人翁存活在一個文化崩落的時代，依然手持著魔戒與寶劍，追求著他們的真理與愛恨...
Summary
Sigurd
has a fabulous but frightening future predicted: even to start,
he must leave everything he knows to go and fight a dragon, and
from there descend into the Underworld. Sounds bad enough, but when
you know that the dragon lives on a futuristic, industrially-ruined
moonscape that was once Hampstead Heath, the scene is set for a
staggeringly brutal fight on an epic scale. Unhappily for him, he
meets the love of his life in the underworld, and Sigurd's efforts
to rescue his lover will cause huge heartache and grief for both
of them, and also far everyone who ever meets them.
作者
About the Illustrator
Melvin Burgess is justly
regarded as the Godfather of Young Adult fiction in the UK. Since
winning the Carnegie Medal for JUNK, the seminal teen drugs and
love novel, he has produced a body of work both challenging and
thrilling. His books have been adapted for stage, television and
cinema and are widely translated. Most recently LADY: MY LIFE AS
A BITCH and DOING IT have put him in the public eye, but BLOODTIDE
is considered by many to be his masterpiece. BLOODSONG, which stands
as a bold and brilliant novel in its own right, is a worthy successor
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類別：小說
A
Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies
優雅仕女的私秘旅館
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by Ellen Cooney
二十世紀初期的波士頓，Charlotte Heath 在嫁入 Heath 家族的豪門之前，
儘管出身微寒卻是相當獨立的女性。久病臥床後頭一次出門，竟然意外偷窺到丈夫公然公開場合親吻另一個女人，雖不知何去何從，她依然選擇放棄豪門優渥的生活，離家出走，來到
一間所謂「專為優雅仕女提供的旅館」，Charlotte 意外發現自己身處在一個特殊的地方，每天晚上總有高大英俊的「門房」來到這裡，造訪這些仕女旅客，Charlotte
在這裡邂逅了形形色色的男性，展開心靈和肉體上的新體驗，甚至還無意間遇見她丈夫的阿姨，一位德高望重的女醫師，竟然也是這間旅館的常客。在這令她時而炫迷時而又困惑的靈、性的啟蒙經驗中，Charlotte
開始一場始料未及的自我覺醒。本書作者先前的作品均由小出版社出版，這是她第六本小說，由於其優雅洗鍊的文字得到許多讀者的迴響，被Pantheon
出版社看好，首次納入旗下重點作家...
Summary
It
is 1900 in a small, prosperous Massachusetts town. Charlotte Heath,
a lively, independent redhead of humble beginnings, is married to
the scion of the powerful Heath family. When, on her first outing
after a long illness, she spies her husband, Hays, bending to kiss
another woman in the village square, impulsive Charlotte heads her
horses straight out of town. Unsure where to go but certain that
she wants to leave both Hays and the stifling, if luxurious, life
of the Heath household behind, Charlotte makes her way to Boston
and checks in at “The Beechmont: A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies,”
where she makes another startling discovery: the classy Beechmont
is a rather unique institution, where handsome porters make discreet,
late-night visits to its all-female clientele. Charlotte finds herself
surrounded by a cast of characters that will delight the reader
as she settles into life at this reverse brothel: Harry Alcorn,
the hotel’s dashing and prescient proprietor; Miss Berenice Singleton,
the bohemian painter who holds a kind of salon in her rooms; the
scowling cook, Mrs. Petty, who once worked for the Heaths and is
determined that Charlotte not stay on at the Beechmont; the charming
and handsome “porter” Arthur, who both gives pleasure and makes
trouble; and the venerable lady doctor Lily Heath, her husband’s
aunt, whom Charlotte is amazed to find among the hotel’s regulars.
In
the midst of a dizzying sexual enlightenment, Charlotte must puzzle
out why she really left Hays and why he seems to have left her first.
Her task is to determine whether she can forgive him and to discover
where, if anywhere, she truly belongs–an adventure that takes her
farther afield than she could ever have imagined.
Ellen
Cooney has given us a remarkable portrait of a historical moment
and an irresistible protagonist. Fresh, high-spirited, and wonderfully
seductive in the telling, A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies carries
the reader along on a woman’s unforgettable journey to self-enlightenment.
作者
About the Author
Ellen Cooney is the author
of five previous novels, most recently Gun Ball Hill. Her short
stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Glimmer Train, The Literary
Review, and Ontario Review, among other publications. She has taught
creative writing at MIT, Boston College, and Harvard. She lives
in Phippsburg, Maine, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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類別：戰爭，歷史
BATTLE:
A
History Of Combat And Culture
旌鼓齊鳴-
從古希臘到近代美國的戰爭和文化
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by John A. Lynn
此書討論了一個屬於全球且包含整個人類文明史的關於戰爭之議題。議論主題廣及歐洲、中東、南亞、東亞及美國。書內作者挑戰一個傳統且普遍被相信的觀念，即科技(technology)在從古到今的大小戰事中，是站在主導與支配的地位。作者相信在戰事中，策略與觀念(idea)的重要性絕對遠遠大於槍砲及子彈。克勞塞維茲(1780~1831，普魯士的將軍，著有「戰爭論」)曾表明，「戰爭是政治，但基本上，戰爭更接近於文化。」武裝衝突背後的真相往往是基於不同文化的不同價值觀，或是文化傲慢所產生對侵略、征服的期待及合理化。作者專致於研究發生戰事國家內的社會情況及當時背後的文化思想，且著重於兩者間相互的影響上。本書否認現今一個流行的觀點:「各種戰事的西方化」，並欲以不同文化原型的差異及其所自然形成的不同戰事型態來取代此觀點。Lynn在本書中完整的呈現他的新觀念，先從人類過去數千年的歷史，最後聚焦於現今的軍事戰役，分析使世人惶惶不安的恐怖主義與美國對此之回應，更括及目前在阿富汗及伊拉克的戰事...
Summary
Without
denying the existence of such constants as fear and courage, Lynn,
a historian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, seeks
in this volume to refute "universal" models of interpreting
warfare. Classical Greece, he argues, sought decisive battle because
of its particular values emphasizing individual worth and independence,
while in ancient India and China, the dominant values emphasized
deception and diplomacy. Medieval Europe balanced a brutal reality
of highly destructive mutual raiding with an artificial form of
war in the tournament and an idealized form in the crusade. The
European wars of the 18th century were defined by style and aesthetics,
manifestations of the conscious mixture of fashion and function
that reflected general European taste. Similarly, 19th-century Europe's
concept of the decisive battle, argues Lynn (The Wars of Louis XIV),
was influenced more by a Romantic high culture than by specifically
military factors such as weapons systems or mass armies. Even the
U.S.-Japanese conflict from 1941 to 1945, Lynn contends, was shaped
by a profound contrast in military cultures, one emphasizing survival
and the other self-immolation. The final chapter discusses the Egyptian
army's conscious and rejection in 1973 of maneuver warfare in favor
of a set-piece approach more congruent with its supporting cultures.
作者
About the Author
John A.
Lynn, an expert on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century warfare professor,
is a professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
and an adjunct professor at Ohio State University. He lives in Champaign,
Illinois.
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類別：文學，懸疑/驚悚
CODEX
古抄本
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by Lev Grossman
Format: 精裝, 368頁, 2004年3月出版
《古抄本》探索書在中世紀與現代的神祕力量，它邀請你逃脫平凡的每一天，躲進對於愛情、神秘、金錢、冒險或書的迷戀...
Summary
當愛德華?渥茲尼即將前往度他幾年來的第一個假期的時候，這個當紅的25歲投資銀行家，被送去協助公司最重要和神秘的二位客戶：包溫瑞公爵和公爵夫人。他原以為他的客戶需要的是金融專業服務，但他卻被要求拆箱取出和整理他們的善本藏書，愛德華先是感到憤怒，然後卻逐漸轉為對掩藏在群書中的一份中世紀古抄本的著迷，因為這古抄本是件為了諸多原因而被保存多年的寶藏。愛德華又接到一個特別的緊急任務，他被要求找出14
世紀修士Gervase Langford一份神秘的古抄本，多數學者相信，該書並不存在，可是書中其實可能預言啟示錄的降臨， 而且還藏有公爵的家族秘辛；只有頑固的研究生瑪格麗特•奈皮爾和他分享相同見解。此時愛德華的朋友引領他進入一個古怪又令人上癮的電腦遊戲MOMUS，
他慢慢發現虛擬的遊戲和古抄本之間竟存在著驚人的關聯，愛德華不禁為之更加著迷...
作者
About the Author
LEV GROSSMAN 是作家和 "TIME" 的書評家。他經常在紐約時報、Salon, Lingua Franca,
Entertainment Weekly, Time Out New York and the Village Voice發表文章。目前住在布魯克林。《古抄本》是他的第二本小說。
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年3 月 出版，已有樣書可提供審閱 。目前已授權英、法等多國版權
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類別：非文學
社科類
US
AND THEM
我們與他們:
了解我們歷經演化存留下的部落心靈
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by David
Berreby
Format: 精裝 384頁, Little Brown
將於2005年年底出版
有千百種方式來把”人”歸類.
小至請誰來晚餐, 到嫁給誰的人生決定, 甚至於與誰為戰的歷史轉捩點, 都是一個又一個把人框住的小圈圈. 這本書試圖解釋人類為何認為他們屬於不同的群體,
且如何解釋這種行為. 從遠古部落時代遺留下來的一些分類, 例如人種, 民族, 國家, 宗教, 階級, 街頭幫派等等, 為何我們今日仍介意這些?
作者試圖用科學觀點來解釋這個”族群認同”的問題. 由人類學, 神經科學的新發現, 作者認為這種部落意識乃是人性的一部份,
表現在我們生活的點點滴滴上...
作者
About
the Author
David Berreby生於法國 在美國成長 受教於耶魯大學. 專職為紐約時報, The New Republic,
Slate, Lingua Franca, The Science, Discover, 撰寫有關科學與文化之議題...
作者設有網站與部落格 歡迎各位編輯大人一訪: www.davidberreby.com
FOREIGN
SALES: BLINDSIGHTED
UK rights/Century/Random House
German rights/Wunderlich/Rowholt
French rights/ Grasset
Italian rights/ Sonzogno
Danish rights/Wangels (Damm)
Norwegian rights/ Hjemmets
Dutch rights/De Bezige Bij
Spanish rights/Emece Editores
Czech rights/Domino
Hebrew rights/ Modan
Japanese rights/Hayakawa
Polish rights/Zysk
Turkish rights/ Everest Yayinlari
Finnish rights/Helmi
Swedish rights/Prisma
FOREIGN
SALES: KISSCUT
UK rights: Century/Random House
German: Wunderlich/Rowholt
French: Grasset
Dutch: de Bezige Bij
Czech: Domino
Polish: Zysk
Finnish: Helmi
Norwegian: Damm
Swedish: Prisma
Italian: Piemme
Turkish: Alfa
FOREIGN SALES: A FAINT COLD FEAR
*UK rights
sold to CENTURY/RANDOM HOUSE
*French
rights sold to GRASSET
*French
book-club rights sold to FRANCE LOISIRS for publication in January
2004 as a premiere selection
*German
rights sold to WUNDERLICH/ROWOHLT
*Dutch
rights sold to DE BEZIGE BIJ
*Italian
rights sold to PIEMME
*Czech
rights sold to DOMINO
*Turkish
rights sold to ALFA
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類別：小說
/ Thriller
A
FAINT COLD FEAR
不寒而憟
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by Karin
Slaughter
Format: 精裝 352頁
本書為紐約時報暢銷作家Karin Slaughter 讓讀者腎上腺素激升 的 Grant County 系列第三集, 前兩本為BLINDSIGHTED
及 KISSCUT.
居住於Heartdale小鎮的法醫Sara Linton, 應警察之請, 對發生在地方學院看似自殺的案件進行驗屍.
殘缺的屍體只能提供少許線索,加上學院當局為避免醜聞, 僅願提供有限資訊. 但對Sara 和警察局長Jeffrey Tolliver來說,
有些事就是不對勁.
兩件更加可疑的自殺案件隨後而來, 一名年輕婦女且被殘酷地攻擊. 警察局長Jeffrey發現前警察偵探Lena
亞當斯, 現任校園保全警衛, 也許是擁有關鍵的資訊. 一連串看似自殺的案件, 背後郤有著錯綜複雜的關係. 到底誰才是兇手...
Summary
In the coldly captivating
tradition of Cornwell and Reichs, Slaughter (Blindsighted; Kisscut)
returns to Grant County, Ga., to offer a third installment in the
adventures of smalltown pediatrician and part-time medical examiner
Sara Linton. Called in to investigate the apparent suicide of a
male Grant Tech student, Sara brings along her pregnant sister,
Tessa, who wanders away from the scene and is brutally attacked.
The distraught Sara must work side by side with her ex-husband,
Det. Jeffrey Tolliver, whom she loves despite his past infidelity,
but it's Lena Adams, formerly a cop and now a campus security guard,
whose story the novel follows most closely. Still mourning the murder
of her sister and recovering from her own torture and rape by the
same man, Lena is looked on with suspicion by her ex-boss, Jeffrey.
With reason: she's hiding a few key facts. The dead boy's mother
is her therapist and Lena is involved with an abusive young man
with a shady past. Campus gossip Richard Carter further confuses
investigators; meanwhile, police discover the bodies of two more
students, their deaths potentially suicides but more likely murder.
Slaughter provides grisly variations on the themes of sibling rivalry,
sexual abuse and campus politics in a story not for the faint of
heart. Readers who can stomach gruesome details and like fitting
together multiple stories of physical and psychological abuse will
savor the way Slaughter can evoke sympathy for perverse, even criminal,
behavior by tracing its origins, and those who make it through the
complexities and the gore will be rewarded with a satisfyingly chilling
ending. (Oct.)
Forecast: A Faint Cold Fear was recently selected as the second
International Book of the Month (Harlan Coben's No Second Chance
was the first), so look for this thriller to hit bestseller lists
both here and overseas.
作者
About the Author
作者Karin
Slaughter為受大西洋兩岸讀者及評論家熱愛的驚悚小說家. 她的第一本小說, BLINDSIGHTED,
已售出15種語文版權. 第二本小說, KISSCUT, 也已有11種語文版本.
作者曾任法醫, 現從事小說創作
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類別：勵志
The
One Decision
決定
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by Judith Wright
享受幸福快樂的人生只取決於一個決定！我們都曾訂定達不到的目標，在爭取工作升遷機會、改變外表、建立人際關係、投資理財方面等等，在某方面有所成就，卻又在另一方面有所失落。要改善生活始終有所缺陷的困頓，關鍵不在方法，而在於動機。書中亦提供”30日課程”，帶領讀者步入”自覺””行動”到”運用”三階段，決定自己的人生...
Summary
This
New Year why make resolutions you know you won't keep when you can
make THE ONE DECISION that will positively transform your life forever?
Have
you ever wondered why relatively few people lead truly great lives?
The answer: great lives are founded on what author Judith Wright
calls The One Decision. In this powerful book, Wright reveals that
each of us must make a personal decision about the kind of life
we want to live-and allow this simple yet profound choice to become
the guiding force for everything we do.
Many
of us spend years searching for meaning in our lives, exploring
numerous paths in our quest for happiness-we change careers, lose
weight, take up art, attend seminars, read books, buy bigger houses
and fancier cars, or even get rid of it all. Yet, Wright explains,
the problem lies not in what we are doing but rather why we are
doing it. What, in other words, is our purpose?
Drawing
on her twenty-five years as an educator and seminar leader, Wright
shows us that, while there are many choices we can make in our lives,
there is only One Decision. Sure, we can make any number of moves
toward bettering our lives-we can quit smoking, start exercising,
watch less TV-but the attainment of real life satisfaction will
never come from any action or step but rather, requires a fundamental
shift in perspective-that will completely transform the fabric of
one's life. For many this decision flows naturally out of a personal
tragedy or a "bottoming out" that was only a matter of
time. Yet, says Wright, you don't have to wait for crisis to figure
out how you want to live your life. You only need to make a commitment
to live according to your true purpose. Culling from her work at
the Wright Institute, she relates the common denominators that have
led her thousands of students to this crossroads, and offers a thirty-day
program for forming our own personal vision. This illuminating book
reveals that the key to true happiness is just a decision away.
作者
About the Author
Judith Wright is an internationally
recognized speaker, educator, trainer, lifestyles expert, and seminar
leader. She founded the Wright Institute with her husband, Bob,
after twenty years of developing innovative education and personal-growth
programs. Her previous book, There Must Be More Than This, appeared
on several national bestseller lists.
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