<b>A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family--and a new love--changes the course of her life.</b><br /><br />As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don't mingle and draw attention. And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised by strangers, she's used to being alone and she follows the rules...with one exception: an online account, where she posts videos pretending to be a witch. She thinks no one will take it seriously.<br /><br />But someone does. An unexpected message arrives, begging her to travel to the remote and mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic. It breaks all of the rules, but Mika goes anyway, and is immediately tangled up in the lives and secrets of not only her three charges, but also an absent archaeologist, a retired actor, two long-suffering caretakers, and...Jamie. The handsome and prickly librarian of Nowhere House would do anything to protect the children, and as far as he's concerned, a stranger like Mika is a threat. An irritatingly appealing threat.<br /><br />As Mika begins to find her place at Nowhere House, the thought of belonging somewhere begins to feel like a real possibility. But magic isn't the only danger in the world, and when a threat comes knocking at their door, Mika will need to decide whether to risk everything to protect a found family she didn't know she was looking for....<br />

Lou never believed in superstitions or magic--until her teenage aunt Neela is kidnapped to the goblin market.
The market is a place Lou has only read about--twisted streets, offerings of sweet fruits and incredible jewels. Everything--from the food and wares, to the goblins themselves--is a haunting temptation for any human who manages to find their way in.
Determined to save Neela, Lou learns songs and spells and tricks that will help her navigate this dangerous world and slip past a goblin's defenses--but she only has three days to find Neela before the market disappears and her aunt becomes one of them forever.
If she isn't careful, the market might just end up claiming her too.

New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts.
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“An enchanting tale of Pinocchio in the end times.” ―P. Djèlí Clark
In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots―fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They’re a family, hidden and safe.
The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled “HAP,” he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio–a past spent hunting humans.
When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio’s former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together, the rest of Vic’s assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming.
Along the way to save Gio, amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap, Vic must decide for himself: Can he accept love with strings attached?
Inspired by Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, and like Swiss Family Robinson meets Wall-E, In the Lives of Puppets is a masterful stand-alone fantasy adventure from the beloved author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door.
★ “An epic quest of rescue and discovery [with] the author’s trademark charm, heart, and bittersweetness.” ―Library Journal, starred review
Praise for TJ Klune’s previous work: "Like being wrapped up in a big gay blanket." ―V.E. SCHWAB • “Very close to perfect.” ―SEANAN McGUIRE • “Utterly absorbing.” ―GAIL CARRIGER • "It will renew your faith in humanity.” ―TERRY BROOKS • “It healed me.” ―CASSANDRA KHAW • “Compassionate.” ―RYKA AOKI

Call them transcripts of dreams or deadly accurate maps of the tremor zones of the psyche, the seven stories in this collection engage and implicate us in the most fearful ways imaginable. A two-timing pornographer becomes an unwilling object in the fantasies of one of his victims. A jaded millionaire buys himself the perfect mistress and plunges into a hell of jealousy and despair. And in the course of a weekend with his teenage daughter, a guilt-ridden father discovers the depths of his own blundering innocence. At once chilling and beguiling, and written in prose of lacerating beauty, In Between the Sheets is a tour de force by one of England's most acclaimed practitioners of literary unease.

Three stories and two poems written and read by the author.<br />01. Daughter of Owls<br />02. Instructions<br />03. The Price<br />04. The Sea Change<br />05. The Facts In The Case of The Departure Of Miss Finch

Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality.

<strong>An evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two very different women--from the <em>New York Times </em>bestselling author of <em>Searching for Sylvie Lee </em>and <em>Girl in Translation</em>.</strong> <br /><br />Jasmine Yang arrives in New York City from her rural Chinese village without money or family support, fleeing a controlling husband, on a desperate search for the daughter who was taken from her at birth--another female casualty of China's controversial One Child Policy. But with her husband on her trail, the clock is ticking, and she's forced to make increasingly desperate decisions if she ever hopes to be reunited with her daughter. <br /><br />Meanwhile, publishing executive Rebecca Whitney seems to have it all: a prestigious family name and the wealth that comes with it, a high-powered career, a beautiful home, a handsome husband, and an adopted Chinese daughter she adores. She's even hired a Chinese nanny to help her balance the demands of being a working wife and mother. But when an industry scandal threatens to jeopardize not only Rebecca's job but her marriage, this perfect world begins to crumble and her role in her own family is called into question. <br /><br /><em>The Leftover Woman </em>finds these two unforgettable women on a shocking collision course. Twisting and suspenseful and surprisingly poignant, it's a profound exploration of identity and belonging, motherhood and family. It is a story of two women in a divided city--separated by severe economic and cultural differences yet bound by a deep emotional connection to a child.

In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.<br /><br /><i>Tom Lake</i> is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.

The novel that defined the Beat generation, this exuberant tale of two men traversing America is as fresh and fantastic as ever.

本书借隋末大将军李靖和杨素家妓红拂的风流韵事为蓝本，以现代人的眼光去观照历史，表现知识分子在反智社会中的尴尬处境。在历史与现实，虚幻与真实的纷繁交错中，小说看似荒诞，却处处体现着对现实的反讽，对自由、趣味的向往。正如王小波在序言中所言：“我写的是内心而不是外形，是神似而不是形似。”

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author<br /><br />On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.<br /><br />Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and Eilish can only watch helplessly as the world she knew disappears. When first her husband and then her eldest son vanish, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a collapsing society.<br /><br />How far will she go to save her family? And what – or who – is she willing to leave behind?<br /><br />Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality, offering a devastating vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother’s fight to hold her family together.

《生活在别处》是一个年轻艺术家的肖像画。昆德拉以其独到的笔触塑造出雅罗米尔这样一个形象，描绘了这个年轻诗人充满激情而又短暂的一生，具有“发展小说”的许多特点。就其题材而言，表现一个艺术家（或知识分子）是本世纪文学的一个重要领域，因为展示我们这个复杂的时代也只有复杂的人物才能承担。在这部作品中，作者对诗人创作过程的分析是微妙而精细的。创作过程当然不仅指下笔写作的过程，而且更广义地指一个诗人的全部成长过程。用作者自己的话说，这部小说是“对我所称之为抒情态度的一个分析。”正是在这样的创作意图下，这部书最初曾被题名为《抒情时代》。作者所要表现和所要探究的是，人的心灵所具有的激情，它的产生和它的结果。因而这本书又是一本现代心理小说，表现了一个诗人的艺术感觉的成长。书中每一章　节的名称都展示了诗人生命历程的一个阶段。他的童年、少年和青年时代，他怎样读书，怎样恋爱，以及怎样做梦等等。关于时代的全貌和他人的活动都迟到了远处，一切观察的焦点都集中在主人公身上，并且与他的内心活动有关。有如激情的涧水，在时间的乱山碎石中流过，两岸的景致并不重要，重要的是溪流将流向沃野还是沙漠。换句话说，作者在这里所关心的是诗人心理和精神上的发育。为了潜入到人物意识中最隐秘的角落，作者采用了一种我们可以称之为客观意识流的叙述方式：时间与空间交织（不同时期不同地点所发生的事常常出现在同一段叙述中），现实与梦幻交织（第二章《泽维尔》完全是一个梦套一个梦），情节的跳宏，思考的猝然与不连贯，故意模糊主语的陈述，这些都使此书更接近于诗歌而不是小说。假如我们把书中这些抒情性的因素去掉，这部作品的内容就剩不下什么了。这种形式使我们更能切近诗人的内心活动，感触到诗人的激情是怎样产生和燃烧的。

《不能承受的生命之轻》是米兰·昆德拉最负盛名的作品。小说描写了托马斯与特丽莎、萨丽娜之间的感情生活。但它不是一个男人和两个女人的三角性爱故事，它是一部哲理小说，小说从“永恒轮回”的讨论开始，把读者带入了对一系列问题的思考中，比如轻与重、灵与肉。
《不能承受的生命之轻》是一部意象繁复的书，其中装载了多种涵义：被政治化了的社会内涵的揭示、人性考察、个人命运在特定历史与政治语境下的呈现，以及对两性关系本质上的探索等。昆德拉将这些元素糅合在一起，写成一部非同凡响的小说——其中既有隐喻式的哲学思考，也有人的悲欢离合的生命历程的展现。

“我也同样清楚，一旦越过那条界线，我就不再晚了，我会变成另外一个人，一个不知什么样的人。这种可怕的变化使我担战心惊，所以我一直在强烈的失落感中拼命寻求爱情。这种爱情，应该让我能继续生活在往昔与今日一致的爱情憧憬、爱情理想之中，因为我不愿意把我的生活从中间分割，我要它自始至终贯穿如一。
个人历史除了它本身的发生之外，也还告示什么吗？尽管我抱着怀疑，但我仍然残留着一丝非理性的迷信，例如坚信落在我身上的一切事件总有它的含义，它表明某个东西；还有生活通过它本身的历史，在向我们说话，给我们渐次揭示某个秘密，它就像一幅字谜画让你去猜，我们所经历过的各种历史同时组成一部生活的神话，而这一部神话中就藏着解开奥秘和真理的钥匙。这是幻觉吗？可是甚至是真实可信的，但我无法抑制想要持续不断地解开我自己生活之谜的愿望。”
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作者介绍：米兰·昆德拉(1929～ )
捷克小说家，生于捷克布尔诺市。父亲为钢琴家、音乐艺术学院的教授。生长于一个小国在他看来实在是一种优势，因为身处小国，“要么做一个可怜的、眼光狭窄的人”，要么成为一个广闻博识的“世界性的人”。童年时代，他便学过作曲，受过良好的音乐熏陶和教育。少年时代，开始广泛阅读世界文艺名著。青年时代，写过诗和剧本，画过画，搞过音乐并从事过电影教学。总之，用他自己的话说，“我曾在艺术领域里四处摸索，试图找到我的方向。”50年代初，他作为诗人登上文坛，出版过《人，一
座广阔的花园》（1953）、《独白》（1957）以及《最后一个五月》等诗集。但诗歌创作显然不是他的长远追求。最后，当他在30岁左右写出第一个短篇小说后，他确信找到了自己的方向，从此走上了小说创作之路。
1967年，他的第一部长篇小说《玩笑》在捷克出版，获得巨大成功，连出三版，印数惊人，每次都在几天内售罄。作者在捷克当代文坛上的重要地位从此确定。但好景不长。1968年，苏联入侵捷克后，《玩笑》被列为禁书。昆德拉失去了在电影学院的职务。他的文学创作难以进行。在此情形下，他携妻子于1975年离开捷克，来到法国。
移居法国后，他很快便成为法国读者最喜爱的外国作家之一。他的绝大多数作品，如《笑忘录》（1978）、《不能承受的存在之轻》（1984）、《不朽》（1990）等等都是首先在法国走红，然后才引起世界文坛的瞩目。他曾多次获得国际文学奖，并多次被提名为诺贝尔文学奖的候选人。
除小说外，昆德拉还出版过三本论述小说艺术的文集，其中《小说的艺术》(1986)以及《被叛卖的遗嘱》（1993）在世界各地流传甚广。
昆德拉善于以反讽手法，用幽默的语调描绘人类境况。他的作品表面轻松，实质沉重；表面随意，实质精致；表面通俗，实质深邃而又机智，充满了人生智慧。正因如此，在世界许多国家，一次又一次地掀起了“昆德拉热”。
昆德拉原先一直用捷克语进行创作。但近年来，他开始尝试用法语写作，已出版了《缓慢》（1995）和《身份》（1997）两部小说。

《一九八四》和《动物农场》是奥威尔的传世之作，堪称世界文坛上最著名的政治讽喻小说。他在小说中他创造的“老大哥”、“双重思想”、“新话”等词汇都已收入权威的英语词典，甚至由他的姓衍生了一个形容词“奥威尔式”不断出现在报道国际新闻的记者笔下，足见其作品在英语国家影响之深远。“多一个人看奥威尔，就多了一份自由的保障”，有评家如是说。

小说中的故事发生在1861年美国南北战争前夕。生活在南方的少女郝思嘉从小深受南方文化传统的熏陶，可在她的血液里却流淌着野性的叛逆因素。随着战火的蔓廷和生活环境的恶化，郝思嘉的叛逆个性越来越丰满，越鲜明，在一系列的的挫折中她改造了自我，改变了个人甚至整个家族的命运，成为时代时势造就的新女性的形象。
作品在描绘人物生活与爱情的同时，勾勒出南北双方在政治，经济，文化各个层次的异同，具有浓厚的史诗风格，堪称美国历史转折时期的真实写照，同时也成为历久不衰的爱情经典。

相遇那年，她6岁，他36岁；
结婚那年，她23岁，他31岁；
离别后再度重逢时，她82岁，他43岁。
相对于如此真实、强烈的感觉，时间，微不足道……
亨利，一位年轻帅气、爱冒险的图书管理员，可是他有慢性时间错位症，会不知不觉地游离在时间之间。
克莱尔，亨利的妻子，一位生活秩序很规律的艺术家。
亨利以为他在28岁时第一次遇到他20岁的妻子克莱尔，而克莱尔却说：“我从小就认识你了”。和克莱尔结婚多年的亨利，却又突然发现自己回到了童年，遇见了他6岁的妻子。
如果生命是一场旅行，亨利的旅程肯定比常人更迂回更深刻，那些不由自主地消失，不得不一再体验曾经遭受的经历，他只能旁观、重复品味着那些快乐、悲伤和痛苦。可是在时间的正常旅途中行走的克莱尔呢？她只能被亨利远远抛在了后面，渴望，焦急，等着爱人回到她的身边。她虽然拥有时间，却只能通过捉摸亨利来触摸时间。
时间过滤着这一对恋人炙热的爱意，他们在时间与爱的复杂交错中勇敢地探索，最终谱写了一曲高昂的颂歌，踏上常人不可思议的浪漫之旅。

夏洛蒂和传记作者告诉我们，爱米丽生性独立、豁达、纯真、刚毅、热情而又内向。她颇有男儿气概，酷爱自己生长其间的荒原，平素在离群索居中，除去手足情谊，最喜与大自然为友，从她的诗和一生行为，都可见她天人合一宇宙观与人生观的表现，有人因此而将她视为神秘主义者。其实人与自然的关系，从来就是人类文明史上重要的命题，爱米丽不过是步历代哲人、隐者、科学家、艺术家后尘，通过生活和创作，身体力行地探寻人与自然的关系。
由于爱米丽一生经历简短，她既未受完整系统教育，又没有爱情婚姻实际体验，人们对于她能写出《呼啸山庄》这样深刻独特的爱情绝唱也曾疑惑不解。对这一问题，早有人以“天才说”
做出解释，而经过百余年的研考据，传记作者和评论家又提出了更加令人信服的凭据。爱米丽以及她的姐妹，虽然生长在苦寒单调的约克郡，她们的父亲帕特里克・勃朗特却来自北爱尔兰，母亲玛丽亚・勃兰威尔是威尔士人。这一对父母所属民族的祖先，同属具有冲动浪漫气质的凯尔特人，而且二人都不乏写诗为文的天分：帕特里克又一向怀有文学抱负，曾自费出版诗集；玛丽亚出嫁前写给帕特里克的情书，也是文采斐然。继承了父母的遗传基因，又受到荒原精神的陶冶哺育，爱米丽的艺术天才无疑并非无源之水；而且她家那座荒原边缘上的牧师住宅，外观虽然冷落寒酸，内里却因几个才智过人的子女相亲相携而温馨宜人。他们自幼相互鼓励、切磋，以读书写作为乐。这一方面大大冲淡了物质匮乏之苦；同时也培养锻炼了他们的写作功力。
爱米丽的写作，从诗开始，她在着手创作《呼啸山庄》之前十六七年间，陆续写出习作诗文《贡代尔传奇》和短诗，如今所见，仅近二百首诗。姑且不论它们本身的艺术价值，这些文字起码也是创作《呼啸山庄》这部不朽之作的有益准备。换言之，她写《呼啸山庄》，是她写诗的继续。她的诗，真挚、雄劲、粗犷、深沉、高朗，这也是《呼啸山庄》的格调。

本书写的是关于一个音乐天才与自身、与艺术以及与社会之间的斗争，追溯了一个德国音乐家在许多艺术斗争中演变的历程。主人公约翰·克利斯朵夫是一个充满矛盾和不协调的性格，一位满怀生命热情却又遭到敌对世界误解的极其诚恳的艺术家。爱德蒙·高斯称此书为20世纪的最高贵的小说作品。
整个作品分为四册，相当于交响乐的四个乐章：
第一册包括克利斯朵夫少年时代的生活（黎明，清晨，少年），描写他的感宫与感情的觉醒，在家庭与故乡那个小天地中的生活，——直到经过一个考验为止，在那个考验中他受了重大的创伤，可是对自己的使命突然得到了启示，知道英勇的受难与战斗便是他的命运。
第二册（反抗，节场）所写的，是克利斯朵夫像年轻的齐格弗里德”一样，天真，专横，过激，横冲直撞的去征讨当时的社会的与艺术的谎言，挥舞着唐·吉诃德式的长矛，去攻击骡大，小吏，磨坊的风轮和德法两国的节场。这些都可以归在反抗这个总题目之下。
第三册（安多纳德，户内，女朋友们）和上一册的热情与憎恨成为对比，是一片温和恬静的气氛，咏叹友谊与纯洁的爱情的悲歌。
第四册（燃烧的荆棘，复旦）写的是生命中途的大难关，是“怀疑”与破坏性极强的“情欲”的狂飙，是内心的疾风暴雨，差不多一切都要被摧毁了，但结果仍趋于清明高远之境，透出另一世界的黎明的曙光。

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