在第一次世界大战的硝烟中，每一个迈向死亡的生命都在热烈地生长——威尔士的矿工少年、刚失恋的美国法律系大学生、穷困潦倒的俄国兄弟、富有英俊的英格兰伯爵，以及痴情的德国特工… 从充满灰尘和危险的煤矿到闪闪发光的皇室宫殿，从代表着权力的走廊到爱恨纠缠的卧室，五个家族迥然不同又纠葛不断的命运逐渐揭晓，波澜壮阔地展现了一个我们自认为了解，但从未如此真切感受过的20世纪。

现代人内心流失的东西，这家杂货店能帮你找回——
僻静的街道旁有一家杂货店，只要写下烦恼投进卷帘门的投信口，第二天就会在店后的牛奶箱里得到回答。
因男友身患绝症，年轻女孩静子在爱情与梦想间徘徊；克郎为了音乐梦想离家漂泊，却在现实中寸步难行；少年浩介面临家庭巨变，挣扎在亲情与未来的迷茫中……
他们将困惑写成信投进杂货店，随即奇妙的事情竟不断发生。
生命中的一次偶然交会，将如何演绎出截然不同的人生？
如今回顾写作过程，我发现自己始终在思考一个问题：站在人生的岔路口，人究竟应该怎么做？我希望读者能在掩卷时喃喃自语：我从未读过这样的小说。——东野圭吾

In a faraway land where members of the royal family are named for the virtues they embody, one young boy will become a walking enigma.

Born on the wrong side of the sheets, Fitz, son of Chivalry Farseer, is a royal bastard, cast out into the world, friendless and lonely. Only his magical link with animals - the old art known as the Wit - gives him solace and companionship. But the Wit, if used too often, is a perilous magic, and one abhorred by the nobility.

So when Fitz is finally adopted into the royal household, he must give up his old ways and embrace a new life of weaponry, scribing, courtly manners; and how to kill a man secretly, as he trains to become a royal assassin.

Day Two: The Wise Man's Fear. "There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man." An escalating rivalry with a powerful member of the nobility forces Kvothe to leave the University and seek his fortune abroad. Adrift, penniless, and alone, he travels to Vintas, where he quickly becomes entangled in the politics of courtly society. While attempting to curry favor with a powerful noble, Kvothe discovers an assassination attempt, comes into conflict with a rival arcanist, and leads a group of mercenaries into the wild, in an attempt to solve the mystery of who (or what) is waylaying travelers on the King's road. All the while, Kvothe searches for answers, attempting to uncover the truth about the mysterious Amyr, the Chandrian, and the death of his parents. Along the way, Kvothe is put on trial by the legendary Adem mercenaries, forced to reclaim the honor of the Edema Ruh, and travels into the Fae realm. There he meets Felurian, the faerie woman no man can resist, and who no man has ever survived. Under her tutelage, Kvothe learns much about true magic and the ways of women. In "The Wise Man's Fear" Kvothe takes his first steps on the path of the hero and learns how difficult life can be when a man becomes a legend in his own time.

Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek God. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. That's when things started really going wrong. Now I spend my time fighting with swords, battling monsters with my friends, and generally trying to stay alive. This is the one where Zeus, God of the Sky, thinks I've stolen his lightning bolt - and making Zeus angry is a very bad idea. Can Percy find the lightning bolt before a fully-fledged war of the Gods erupts?

<b>My name is Katniss Everdeen.<br />Why am I not dead?<br />I should be dead.</b><br /><br />Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Katniss's family is safe. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. District 13 really does exist. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding.<br /><br />It is by design that Katniss was rescued from the arena in the cruel and haunting Quarter Quell, and it is by design that she has long been part of the revolution without knowing it. District 13 has come out of the shadows and is plotting to overthrow the Capitol. Everyone, it seems, has had a hand in the carefully laid plans—except Katniss.<br /><br />The success of the rebellion hinges on Katniss's willingness to be a pawn, to accept responsibility for countless lives, and to change the course of the future of Panem. To do this, she must put aside her feelings of anger and distrust. She must become the rebels' Mockingjay—no matter what the personal cost.

American Gods is Neil Gaiman's best and most ambitious novel yet, a scary, strange, and hallucinogenic road-trip story wrapped around a deep examination of the American spirit. Gaiman tackles everything from the onslaught of the information age to the meaning of death, but he doesn't sacrifice the razor-sharp plotting and narrative style he's been delivering since his Sandman days.
Shadow gets out of prison early when his wife is killed in a car crash. At a loss, he takes up with a mysterious character called Wednesday, who is much more than he appears. In fact, Wednesday is an old god, once known as Odin the All-father, who is roaming America rounding up his forgotten fellows in preparation for an epic battle against the upstart deities of the Internet, credit cards, television, and all that is wired. Shadow agrees to help Wednesday, and they whirl through a psycho-spiritual storm that becomes all too real in its manifestations. For instance, Shadow's dead wife Laura keeps showing up, and not just as a ghost--the difficulty of their continuing relationship is by turns grim and darkly funny, just like the rest of the book.
Armed only with some coin tricks and a sense of purpose, Shadow travels through, around, and underneath the visible surface of things, digging up all the powerful myths Americans brought with them in their journeys to this land as well as the ones that were already here. Shadow's road story is the heart of the novel, and it's here that Gaiman offers up the details that make this such a cinematic book--the distinctly American foods and diversions, the bizarre roadside attractions, the decrepit gods reduced to shell games and prostitution. "This is a bad land for Gods," says Shadow.
More than a tourist in America, but not a native, Neil Gaiman offers an outside-in and inside-out perspective on the soul and spirituality of the country--our obsessions with money and power, our jumbled religious heritage and its societal outcomes, and the millennial decisions we face about what's real and what's not. --Therese Littleton, Amazon.com

From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. The originality of Rothfuss's outstanding debut fantasy, the first of a trilogy, lies less in its unnamed imaginary world than in its precise execution. Kvothe ("pronounced nearly the same as 'Quothe' "), the hero and villain of a thousand tales who's presumed dead, lives as the simple proprietor of the Waystone Inn under an assumed name. Prompted by a biographer called Chronicler who realizes his true identity, Kvothe starts to tell his life story. From his upbringing as an actor in his family's traveling troupe of magicians, jugglers and jesters, the Edema Ruh, to feral child on the streets of the vast port city of Tarbean, then his education at "the University," Kvothe is driven by twin imperatives—his desire to learn the higher magic of naming and his need to discover as much as possible about the Chandrian, the demons of legend who murdered his family. As absorbing on a second reading as it is on the first, this is the type of assured, rich first novel most writers can only dream of producing. The fantasy world has a new star. (Apr.)
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From Booklist
Travelers to the village where Kote runs an inn are rare, but those who've shown up lately have brought bad news. A sort of demonic spider attacks a local, and then Kote rescues a wandering scholar, bringing him to the inn to recover. The man recognizes Kote as the legendary hero Kvothe and begs him to reveal the reality behind all the legends. Most of the novel is Kvothe's autobiography, that of a young genius growing up in a troupe of elite traveling players, tutored by an old arcanist, until marauders (mere marauders?) destroyed it, after which he made his way to the great university and petitioned for admission. Rothfuss skillfully handles the change of Kvothe's voice from child to youth to student, and the voice of the mature Kvothe in retrospective interjections. Hints of further adventures are strewn about in this series opener, whose one problem lies in its naturally slow, unfortunately sometimes draggy pacing. Not exactly a page-turner, but fanciers of long, intricate plots will be pleased. Frieda Murray
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TIME Magazine’s #1 Fiction Book of 2012!
“The Fault in Our Stars is a love story, one of the most genuine and moving ones in recent American fiction, but it’s also an existential tragedy of tremendous intelligence and courage and sadness.” —Lev Grossman, TIME Magazine
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning-author John Green’s most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.
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Rose loves Dimitri, Dimitri might love Tasha, and Mason would die to be with Rose... It's winter break at St. Vladimir's, but Rose is feeling anything but festive. A massive Strigoi attack has put the school on high alert, and now the Academy's crawling with Guardians--including Rose's hard-hitting mother, Janine Hathaway. And if handto- hand combat with her mom wasn't bad enough, Rose's tutor Dimitri has his eye on someone else, her friend Mason's got a huge crush on her, and Rose keeps getting stuck in Lissa's head while she's making out with her boyfriend, Christian! The Strigoi are closing in, and the Academy's not taking any risks....This year, St. Vlad's annual holiday ski trip is mandatory. But the glittering winter landscape and the posh Idaho resort only create the illusion of safety. When three friends run away in an offensive move against the deadly Strigoi, Rose must join forces with Christian to rescue them. But heroism rarely comes without a price...

★第一屆小學館GAGAGA文庫大賞得主神崎紫電最新作。
★描述人類面臨滅亡的困境，風格獨特的黑色作品。
★近現代的未來，充滿動感的戰鬥描寫。
★近期公布動畫化消息。
第三次關東會戰的騷動落幕後，天童民間警備公司恢復了寧靜的日常生活。
蓮太郎與木更、延珠，此外還有蒂娜享受著愉快的和平時光。
然而蓮太郎的身邊，卻以小學時代久違的友人拜訪為開端，使他的生活急轉直下……
無妄之災的殺人嫌疑被加諸在蓮太郎身上。
儘管處於孤立無援狀態下的他拚死展開逃亡，但前所未有的強敵卻陸續襲來──
期盼已久的第五集，緊張感更勝以往、毫無冷場的動作場面！
蓮太郎是否能夠活下去!?

St. Vladimir’s Academy isn’t just any boarding school—it’s a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They’ve been on the run, but now they’re being dragged back to St. Vladimir’s—the very place where they’re most in danger. . . . Rose and Lissa become enmeshed in forbidden romance, the Academy’s ruthless social scene, and unspeakable nighttime rituals. But they must be careful lest the Strigoi—the world’s fiercest and most dangerous vampires—make Lissa one of them forever.

★第一屆小學館GAGAGA文庫大賞得主神崎紫電最新作。
★描述人類面臨滅亡的困境，風格獨特的黑色作品。
★近現代的未來，充滿動感的戰鬥描寫。
★面臨最大危機的東京地區，蓮太郎的活躍不容錯過。
守護東京地區，防止恐怖原腸動物入侵的龐大巨石碑，有一部分終於崩潰了。
一切如同預期，階段Ⅳ畢宿五率領的無數原腸動物入侵東京地區。
佈署於最前線的自衛隊精銳部隊也展開迎擊。
激烈的交鋒聲響徹戰場，然而過不了多久，令人喘不過氣的緊繃寂靜就此降臨。
出現在自衛隊後方待命的蓮太郎等人眼前的是──
令人心痛戰慄，話題性十足的近未來英雄動作小說第四集！

★第一屆小學館GAGAGA文庫大賞得主神崎紫電最新作。
★描述人類面臨滅亡的困境，風格獨特的黑色作品。
★近現代的未來，充滿動感的戰鬥描寫。
蓮太郎、延珠、木更，再加上擁有強大狙擊能力的蒂娜，
原本茫然不安的前途總算穩定下來。
然而卻在某一天，發現部分守護東京地區，防止原腸動物入侵的巨石碑瀕臨崩塌的危機。
如果不採取行動，在東京地區隨時準備蹂躪人類的無數原腸動物，便會一口氣入侵……
究竟還有什麼能拯救東京地區的手段呢!?
此外蓮太郎、延珠、木更，以及蒂娜的命運又將如何──!!
高潮迭起緊張刺激的近未來英雄動作小說，期盼已久的第三集！

★第一屆小學館GAGAGA文庫大賞得主神崎紫電最新作。
★描述人類面臨滅亡的困境，風格獨特的黑色作品。
★近現代的未來，充滿動感的戰鬥描寫。
蓮太郎打倒1隻階段Ⅴ的原腸動物之後，
東京地區周邊的原腸動物活動暫時沉靜下來。
這個時候，大阪地區的統治者齊武宗玄，為了進行高鋒會談造訪東京。
出面迎接對方的聖天子，指名蓮太郎擔任自己的護衛。
蓮太郎帶著延珠一同進行護衛工作，
但是前往會場的他們，卻遭受超乎想像的狙擊手偷襲。
面對看不見蹤影的敵人，兩人束手無策──
佳評如潮的近未來英雄動作小說第二集，火速登場！
超越悲傷的蓮太郎將會看到什麼……？

★第一屆小學館GAGAGA文庫大賞得主神崎紫電最新作。
★描述人類面臨滅亡的困境，風格獨特的黑色作品。
★近現代的未來，充滿動感的戰鬥描寫。
不久的未來，人類在與病毒性寄生生物「原腸動物」的戰爭中敗北，
被驅逐至狹窄的領土，帶著恐懼與絕望苟且偷生。
在如此封閉幽暗的世界──
居住於東京地區的少年──蓮太郎，為對抗原腸動物的專家「民警」一員，從事危機的工作。
他的搭檔則是有點早熟的小女孩──延珠。
以特殊能力戰鬥的兩人，某天接獲政府的特別命令，內容則是避免東京毀滅的高度機密任務……
以近未來為舞台，充滿戰慄氣息的英雄動作鉅作，就此開幕！

It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by his unbearable longing for his mother, he clings to one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the underworld of art.
As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love-and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.
The Goldfinch combines vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and suspense, while plumbing with a philosopher's calm the deepest mysteries of love, identity, and art. It is an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention, and the ruthless machinations of fate.

This manual is both a guide and aid to users of The Art of Electronics. It is carefully organized to follow the chapters of the main text, providing extra explanatory notes, worked examples, solutions to selected exercises and laboratory exercises. Learning aids such as glossaries, reading assignments, objectives, data sheets and summaries are also included. The manual is a product of many years' teaching at Harvard University, which has given the authors direct knowledge of concepts that students find difficult. The extra explanatory detail makes this manual an essential purchase for students using The Art of Electronics.