Johannes Cabal the Necromancer
Jonathan L. Howard
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A charmingly gothic, fiendishly funny Faustian tale about a brilliant scientist who makes a deal with the Devil, twice. Johannes Cabal sold his soul years ago in order to lear
The Unbearable Lightness of Scones
Alexander McCall SMith
Word Power Made Easy
Norman Lewis
评分 9.5分
Norman Lewis (born December 30, 1912 in Brooklyn, New York – died September 8, 2006 in Whittier, California) was an author, grammarian, lexicographer, and etymologist. Lewis was a leading auth
Crazy Rich Asians
Kevin Kwan
评分 6.4分
Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most mass
The Lexus and the Olive Tree
Thomas L. Friedman
评分 7.5分
在线阅读本书 From one of our most perceptive commentators and winner of the National Book Award, a comprehensive look at the new world of globalization, the international system that
The Art of the Personal Essay
Phillip Lopate
评分 9.8分
For more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essa
The Hidden Dimension
Edward T. Hall
评分 8.8分
Hall examines the various cultural concepts of space and how differences among them affect modern society. The Hidden Dimension demonstrates how man s use of space can affect personal and business
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Erving Goffman
评分 9.0分
A study of human behavior in social situations and the way we appear to others. Dr. Goffman has employed as a framework the metaphor of theatrical performance. Discussions of social techniques are
Eiger Dreams
Jon Krakauer
Into the Wild
After graduating from Emory University in Atlanta in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitc
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
评分 8.6分
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Harold S. Kushner
The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen
Nella Larsen
In The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen , whose career flamed brightly but briefly in the 1920s, we rediscover one of the most gifted writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Nell
Enduring Love
Ian Mcewan
评分 8.2分
On a windy spring day in the Chilterns, the calm, organized life of science writer Joe Rose is shattered when he witnesses a tragic accident: a hot-air balloon with a boy trapped in its basket is b
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
评分 8.4分
From the bestselling author of Alias Grace and the MaddAddam trilogy, here is the #1 New York Times bestseller and seminal work of speculative fiction from the Booker Prize-winning author. <
Nine Parts of Desire
Geraldine Brooks
In this captivating book, award-winning journalist Geraldine Brooks offers an intimate, often shocking portrait of the lives of modern Muslim women, and shows how male pride and power have warped t
