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類別：小說 永田正面臨家庭崩壞的問題，妻子美代子持續的與電話交友俱樂部的男子外遇，兒子廣樹則中學考試失敗而在家中施暴，永田自己也正面臨裁員的窘境。「真想死了算了」，正當有這種念頭時，永田遇見了橋本父子。橋本告訴他，其實自己是已經死掉的人，可以帶他去「重要的場所」。所以，像是時光機般，永田被帶往了過去。 小說的設定，一開始其實頗荒唐無稽。幽靈駕駛著車子，並且與主角對話。小貨車可以在過去與現在自由穿梭著，因病來日不多的父親與主角以相同年齡出現。 追溯著過去，永田漸漸瞭解美代子以及廣樹的想法。比起小說中非現實的設定，永田跟家族間的交錯以及衝突的樣子，更是描寫的鮮明寫實。 永田在穿越時空中，經歷困苦也毅然決定努力解決家族的問題。雖然這是預期中的結果，但，家族遭遇到的狀況的確一點一滴的在改善中。即使如此，一開始想死的男人，在認清現實狀況後也決定好好活下去。 |
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類別：心理醫學 Summary 作者
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類別：青少年小說 Summary The icy-hearted Mrs. Tifton is not as pleased with the Penderwicks as Jeffrey is, though, and warns the new friends to stay out of trouble. Which, of course, they will—won’t they? One thing’s for sure: it will be a summer the Penderwicks will never forget. Deliciously
nostalgic and quaintly witty, this is a story as breezy and carefree
as a summer day. Jeanne lives in Massachusetts with her husband, four cats, a rabbit, a pet snail, and a dog named Cagney. * 英國、德國、義大利圖書版權已售 |
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類別：青少年小說 學校圖書館期刊書評： Summary He may have been given a bit part in the school play… but Leo dreams he is the biggest star on Broadway. Sure, his big, noisy family makes him feel like a sardine squashed in a tin … but in his fantasy he gets all the attention he wants. Yes, his papa
seems sad and distracted … but Leo imagines him as a boy, tap-dancing
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類別：傳記、勵志 13歲那年，熱愛衝浪的Bethany Hamilton遭到鯊魚的致命攻擊，她失去了她的左臂，但是她從未失去她的信念... 2003年的萬聖節早上，在永遠風光明媚的夏威夷可愛島海上發生了一樁悲劇，一條14呎長的巨鯊攻擊少女Bethany，狠狠地吞噬了她的左手臂，也失去全身60%的血液。忍受著強烈的劇痛，Bethany勇敢、冷靜地用剩下的一條手臂當作槳，滑著被咬破的衝浪板回到岸邊。Bethany立刻被送到醫院，她同樣愛好衝浪運動的父親也正好在醫院等著動膝蓋手術，這樣的巧合令他們感受到上天似乎有意讓他們更加凝聚在一起以度過難關。令人不可置信的是，手術結束後，Bethany提出的第一個問題竟是: 我何時能夠再衝浪呢? 謙虛溫和的Bethany除了透過本書跟全世界分享她充滿勇氣與堅定信仰的不凡故事，並且受邀參加Oprah, The Tonight Show, People Magazine, Time Magazine等電視節目與媒體採訪、及獲選為ESPN頻道2004年年度最佳東山再起運動員、 2004 Teen Choice Awards 的最佳勇氣獎等等獎項，她的故事也被好萊塢相中將改編為電影... Summary 故事從住在夏威夷的13歲平凡少女Bethany Hamilton開始，開朗的她喜歡跟朋友笑笑鬧鬧，衝浪是她最大的樂趣與生活重心，Hamilton家族的特色是全家都是虔誠的基督徒及衝浪的愛好者。為了配合忙碌的衝浪競賽與練習，她採取在家自學的方式接受教育。 然而，大白鯊的殘酷攻擊改變了Bethany的生活。一般人可能在攻擊中喪生，但是她保持冷靜，用獨臂奮力划著衝浪板回到陸地；雖撿回了一命，可是已經無法改變失去一條臂膀的事實，她應該如何繼續她的人生？她在書中重新回憶那場血腥的攻擊及談論其所造成的影響，與她如何憑著自己對衝浪的熱情與宗教信仰的支持，重新展開新的人生。書中的彩色相片插頁提供讀者進一步分享Bethany的生活。 作者
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類別：勵志、個人成長 大部份的不快樂來自於常見的迷思. 只要避免以上這些陷阱及實行八項守則, 快樂就與我們常在 所以快樂不在於換工作, 上健身房, 做整型手術, 或是找財務顧問;
更不是找伴侶或買豪宅. 快樂密碼就在你自己... For more than three decades, attorney, financial consultant, and life coach Stephen M. Pollan has been advising clients and readers on the business of living -- everything from home buying and employment contracts to marriage and parenting. He has taught his clients and readers to Die Broke (use assets rather than build up an estate), to stage Second Acts (reinvent their lives), and, most recently, to Fire Your Boss (take charge of their own work lives). Throughout these books, Pollan stresses that attitudes as well as actions are essential to success. Indeed, over the years he realized that the happiest and most successful people he'd met were also those who were the most energetic and exuberant, regardless of their age. By noting these attributes and incorporating them in his own life, Pollan came to understand that our attitudes are not just one element of succeeding at the business of living, they are in fact the foundation of leading a happy life. Attitude is everything. Those attitudes most essential to our deepest satisfaction and happiness reflect what our spiritual leaders and philosophers from every major tradition have taught us. We don't have to look to external forces to validate us and give us self-worth. We already have within us all we need to find fulfillment and lead happy, satisfying lives -- lives without regrets. To
finally be happy we need to accept responsibility for our own happiness.
When we know the secrets are already inside us, all we have to do
is start living them. With this book, we can begin now. |
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類別：科學普及、數學 Summary * 本書獲 amazon 五顆星評鑑。 |
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類別：非文學
心理學
青少年壓力情緒管理 本書分為三部份, 第一部份由訪談的初中或高中生提出大家普遍面臨的問題. 第二部份則由不同的年青人提出如何管理情緒平撫青少年間常見的憤怒不滿,
放鬆的技巧等. 第三部份則為他們的見解和給父母, 同輩的意見, 每一章節後面都留有給讀者寫下心得的地方, 期望與讀者互動... |
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類別：小說、文藝復興、藝術 本書作者以十七世紀女畫家阿特米希婭•津迪勒奇（Artemisia
Gentileschi, 1593-1653）的生平為參考，創造了小說的女主角Sofonisba。她是16世紀佛羅倫絲的一個女畫家，憑藉著本身出色的才華，於17歲時逐漸接掌其父的繪畫工作室。不同於那個時代一般的女孩，Sofonisba決定以自己的天份，在那個只屬於男性的繪畫藝壇上，爭取到自己的位置(當時女性的地位都很低)。Sofonisba雖自視甚高，但她本能的女性情慾，卻被一位雕刻家Matteo
Tassi牽引著。Matteo身兼雕刻家及金匠，不修邊幅、放蕩不羈，深深吸引著Sofonisba。隨著故事發展，一位來自異國，有著奇異膚色的年輕女奴，進入了這些藝術家的生活。他們覺得這女奴所代表的異國文化有著複雜的魅力，使他們既有優越感的殘忍，又參雜著仁慈。而此迷戀所導致之後所發生的一連串事件，使最後大多數的人都深信這個女奴是城鎮上的一個詛咒。小說中的藝術家們，目擊了這個剖析人性，並以令人難忘的敘述，所說的一個關於探險的熱情、嫉妒與野心的故事。Hildstock
的文筆，讀來栩栩如生，勾勒出一個富裕、美麗的義大利文藝復興時期的繪畫，並且也毫不掩飾的寫出當代社會對女性對異族的殘酷，是在這富麗的佛羅倫絲中，令人吃驚的一景... 作者
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類別：傳記 Format: 精裝, 2004年出版 已經出版的書目包含 美國內戰英雄尤利塞斯·格蘭特（Ulysses S. Grant）將軍，美國獨立戰爭時期的武裝部隊總司令及第一任總統喬治•華盛頓，《獨立宣言》起草人湯馬斯•傑佛遜... Summary Born in 1571 near Milan, Michelangelo Merisi (da Caravaggio) moved to Rome when he was twenty-one years old. He became a brilliant and successful artist, protected by the influential Cardinal del Monte and other patrons. But he was also a man of the streets who couldn’t seem to free himself from its brawls and vendettas. In 1606 he fled Rome, apparently after killing another man in a dispute. He spent his last years in exile, in Naples, Malta, and Sicily, at once celebrated for his art and tormented by his enemies. Through it all, he produced masterpieces of astonishing complexity and power. Eventually he received a pardon from the Pope, only to die, in mysterious circumstances, on the way back to Rome in 1610. Balanchine's life story is a fascinating journey -- from his near-accidental enrollment, at the age of nine, in St. Petersburg's Imperial School of Ballet, through the deprivation and hunger of Bolshevik Russia, to Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, and finally, in 1933, to the United States and eventually to the New York City Ballet, to which his reputation is forever tied. As his fame spread around the world, Balanchine's ideas revolutionized ballet, extending the vocabulary of classical dance both through his teaching and through a series of great works, from his crucial collaboration with Stravinsky to his restagings of nineteenth-century classics, including the immensely popular Nutcracker. Even as he was championing classical ballet during the thirties and forties, Balanchine was expanding the possibilities of dance on Broadway, choreographing a series of major musicals (four Rodgers and Hart shows, including On Your Toes, with its famous "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue"). Meanwhile in Hollywood, beginning with The Goldwyn Follies, he was successfully exploring the possibilities of filmed dance. His personal life was as highly charged as his professional life, involving five dancer-wives, including Broadway stars Tamara Geva (On Your Toes) and Vera Zorina (I Married an Angel) and three great ballerinas, most notably Maria Tallchief. In
this loving biography, Robert Gottlieb chronicles the life and achievements
of ballet's foremost choreographer. Drawing on his own involvement
with the New York City Ballet and his relationships with Balanchine,
Lincoln Kirstein (who brought Balanchine to America), and many of
Balanchine's leading colleagues, Gottlieb has produced a compelling
portrait of a vital man, one of the creative masters of the twentieth
century. * HarperCollins UK將於2006年9月出版本系列，巴西的Objetiva出版社也將計畫出版。 |
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