本书从一个侧面反映了第二次世界大战中，盟国和纳粹德国之间尖锐复杂的间谍斗争。其中收入的二十七篇故事都是作者亲自处理的间谍案件。通过这些真实的故事，平托从各个不同的角度阐述了自己对反间谍工作的理论和实践，诸如审讯工作应遵循的原则；如何对待嫌疑犯；重证据不轻信口供；反对用刑、变相体罚和精神折磨等的看法。（原书“内容提要”）

本书全3册，收录了阿瑟·克拉克104个璀璨夺目的经典短篇，从对科技极限的拷问、核能浩劫的警示到太空远征的畅想，饱含着他对宇宙和人类的爱。
在阿瑟·克拉克的宇宙里，文明的真义是来自外星文明的黑石板启智，是日暮一代与黎明一代时空交错间的邂逅，是来自遥远母星的一曲挽歌，是历史残迹上的一声叹息。
在阿瑟·克拉克的宇宙里，人类是浩瀚星辰中的一粒微沙，却有着熊熊燃烧的欲望，梦想飞向群星，解开命运的终极密码，贪婪而悲壮，渺小而伟大。
像克拉克一样凝视宇宙，直面人类的渺小与伟大。
本册收录阿瑟·克拉克代表作：
《我们是怎么去火星的》（雨果奖杰作）：人类旅行团槽点满满的火星一日游
《岗哨》（《2001：太空漫游》短篇原型）：一块黑石板，揭开人类起源之谜
《守护天使》（《童年的终结》短篇原型）：人类历史上最著名的尾巴
《暗中行路》：“想象力”是zui恐怖的怪兽吗？
《破裂应变》：太空飞船上的谋杀案
【编辑推荐】
▲《三体》作者刘慈欣：“我所有作品都是对阿瑟·克拉克的拙劣模仿！”
▲史上最全！阿瑟·克拉克104个短篇全3册完整收录，中文版首次出版！
▲阿瑟·克拉克和阿西莫夫、海因莱因并称“科幻三巨头”，撑起一个黄金时代。
▲阿瑟·克拉克被誉为伟大的太空预言家：成功预言互联网、搜索引擎、人类登月、地球通信卫星……
▲短篇科幻之神，科幻小说的完美范式：浓缩脑洞*神级展开*浪漫畅想*科幻哲思。
▲像克拉克一样凝视宇宙，直面人类的渺小与伟大。
【媒体名人评价】
▲阿瑟•克拉克和阿西莫夫的作品，让我走上了成为科幻作家的道路。 ——雨果奖、星云奖得主，特德•姜
▲阿瑟·克拉克不仅受到科幻迷的敬重，也受到科学家们的爱戴，他几乎包揽了适合他的每一项奖项。——科幻巨匠，艾萨克•阿西莫夫
▲是克拉克为我们的登月提供了最重要的知识动力。——美国宇航局（NASA）
▲克拉克给了我们一种全新的视野，让我们看到人类从地球摇篮向自己在星海间的未来张开双手。——美国著名电影导演 斯坦利·库布里克
▲（本书有）一种漫长而不朽的视角，在这种视角下，人类短暂的生命要么变得无关紧要，要么变得更有意义、更完整。——《卫报》
▲（书中）阿瑟·克拉克那令人敬畏的创造力、对科学原理的准确把握、可读性、开放性，并且（对人性）没有丝毫恶意揣测，让我们很容易理解他为什么会成为二战后最著名、最具影响力的非美国科幻作家。——科克斯书评

“你看着友邻，大家都一样，清洁、独立并光明。你们的历史已成碎片，此时散落在新的历史中，陈列在新的历史中，供新历史中的小个子人类去谈论。你如此被展出。你看不见旧朋友，两次喝问你的人，不在这个房间……你们不能随意拨开同时代的人向对方走过去，再交谈一次。假如再一次被问，一切都是徒劳吗？你要如何回答？”
★ 受广大上班族喜爱的沈大成继《小行星掉在下午》后最新作品集。以奇崛的构思、秀异的想象讲述十五个失去导航的“宇宙人”故事。
本书是作家沈大成最新作品集。过去几年来她的作品持续引发广大上班族“打工人”的共鸣，发现这些看似荒诞的奇人奇事均能在现实中找到对应。收录于前作《小行星掉在下午》中的故事《盒人小姐》甚至意外地“预言”了一个社交隔离、打疫苗成为常态的世界。
新作《迷路员》聚焦十五个失去导航的“宇宙人”故事，再次呈现我们时代的异样日常：在星空剧场打瞌睡醒来却洞悉了宇宙奥义的人，早已废弃却始终与居民共生的小镇百货公司，世界上最后一个移动部落缩小巨人，在办公楼花园中躲藏数年的离职员工，不满足被固定在一个地方的人行天桥，负责看管星球大战战备物资的仓库值班员……这些非科幻非外星非奇幻非魔幻的故事，关注的均是宇宙中的各种存在。
“我们走来走去也不知道在干什么，当然也有点知道在干什么，说我们不占有任何身份也不对，我们起码是迷路员。迷路员就像一个工种，得认认真真地干好它。”小职员作家沈大成有条不紊地想、仔仔细细地编织，又一次完成了非比寻常的想象之旅。
★ 两次入围青年文学奖短名单。作家苏童、唐诺推荐，“我是沈大成的读者”。
沈大成以出版的两部小说集《屡次想起的人》《小行星掉在下午》两次入围宝珀理想国文学奖短名单，获得两届多位评委专家的肯定。她的作品在同代作家中风格鲜明、独树一帜，以专属的奇思妙想描写当代的生活现状和心理困境，关怀这个我们唯一真正拥有的世界里那些“人”、那些物。
作家苏童认为《迷路员》“想象力放松、开阔，摸不到边”。作家、评论家唐诺为《迷路员》手写数百字推荐语：“……沈大成的想象文字不惊不乍，总是如博尔赫斯所说用平静的话语讲一个一个神奇的故事。神奇发生了，但人是真的、实的。仍保有几乎全部人的生命基本细节。因此，她的文字时时处处自成隐喻，给我们一种屡屡回首的感觉。这个真实世界也许并不值得人如此眷顾，但终究，这是我们唯一真正有的。”“我是沈大成的读者。”
【名家推荐】
这一回，沈大成秀异的想象似乎又多朝前走了几步；或者说，她好像更自在了。她安静地、有条不紊地想，仔仔细细地编织，比之前更不怕进入那些难有答案的徒劳想象。把想象一个一个如此编织起来，便是一次又一次非比寻常的旅程了——是的，想象应该是路，突围之路，而不仅仅只是一阵烟花而已。
……她的文字不惊不乍，总是如博尔赫斯所说用平静的话语讲一个一个神奇的故事。神奇发生了，但人是真的、实的，仍保有几乎全部人的生命基本细节，因此，时时处处自成隐喻，给我们一种屡屡回首的感觉。这个真实世界也许并不值得人如此眷顾，但终究，这是我们唯一真正有的。
——唐诺
沈大成的写作有一种训练有素的戏剧感、角色感、舞台感，小说中编织的所有冲突、文学矛盾都仿佛舞台矛盾、戏剧矛盾。有些看起来是荒诞的叙述，在现实当中却非常对称，她的风格在同代作家中非常鲜明，独树一帜，对现实和超越现实故事的处理时常让人惊讶。想象力放松、开阔，摸不到边。
——苏童

本书荣获世界科幻大奖“雨果奖”。
恢弘的大宇宙，无数神奇的种族。当灾难爆发时。这一切神奇都将坠入万劫不复的黑暗之中。千百万个世界的生死存亡。这副千钧重担落在一个不起眼的种族——人类身上。一个男人，一个女人，两个孩子。
以此为线索，弗诺·文奇想象出一个又一个奇异的外星种族，以及种族问的激烈冲突。这位以想象力闻名的科幻作家在本书中充分展示了自己驾驭复杂情节的能力，不仅对大宇宙作鸟瞰式纵览，还细致入微地描绘了一个处于中世纪文明的外星种族爪族方方面面的生活。
冲突、逃亡、阴谋、复仇。构成波澜壮阔的银河英雄史诗。美国著名科幻编辑多佐伊斯将这类小说称为“大场景科幻壮剧”。正是由于弗诺·文奇的创作，这一类型的作品才能在林林总总的科幻作品中占据一席之地。

On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster,
. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.
Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin's
is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.

<em>Abigail</em>, the story of a headstrong teenager growing up during World War II, is the most beloved of Magda Szabó’s books in her native Hungary. Gina is the only child of a general, a widower who has long been happy to spoil his bright and willful daughter. Gina is devastated when the general tells her that he must go away on a mission and that he will be sending her to boarding school in the country. She is even more aghast at the grim religious institution to which she soon finds herself consigned. She fights with her fellow students, she rebels against her teachers, finds herself completely ostracized, and runs away. Caught and brought back, there is nothing for Gina to do except entrust her fate to the legendary Abigail, as the classical statue of a woman with an urn that stands on the school’s grounds has come to be called. If you’re in trouble, it’s said, leave a message with Abigail and help will be on the way. And for Gina, who is in much deeper trouble than she could possibly suspect, a life-changing adventure is only beginning.<br /><br />There is something of Jane Austen in this story of the deceptiveness of appearances; fans of J.K. Rowling are sure to enjoy Szabó’s picture of irreverent students, eccentric teachers, and boarding-school life. Above all, however, <em>Abigail</em> is a thrilling tale of suspense.

欲望的客体无法直视，拉康的理论亦需“斜目而视”。在《斜目而视:透过通俗文化看拉康》中，齐泽克一方面透过通俗作品解析拉康的理论，揭示“无意识的逻辑”，勾勒“欲望的原理”；另一方面借助拉康理论解读通俗作品，这既包括希区柯克、安东尼奥尼、大卫•林奇、赛乔尔•莱昂、弗里茨•朗、雷利•史考特、乔治.米勒等著名导演的电影，又包括阿加莎•克里斯蒂、斯蒂芬，金、帕特里西娅•海史密斯等通俗作家的小说，以及柯南.道尔塑造的福尔摩斯、雷蒙•钱德勒塑造的菲利普•马娄等人物形象。作者对通俗作品的解读，彰显了“通俗”作品的“非通俗”之维，展示了“通俗”作品的现代乃至后现代蕴味。

飞于山河之上，隐于草芥之中。这一次，李娟带着全新的自己和的神秘亲笔信呼啸而来，翻开书，看马陷落沼泽，心流浪天堂，打开耳朵听牧草在合唱。
茅盾文学奖、人民文学奖、朱自清散文奖得主，经典之作羊道系列最新版。阅读远在世界边缘的游牧民族的真实生活，领略他们深深根植大地、与自然紧密相依的生存环境和生活态度，了解他们的艰辛、他们所面对的残酷的自然和他们的乐观，探寻人生的意义和生命的本质。随书附赠有声书，扫描二维码即可收听。李敬泽、梁文道、柴静、王安忆赞赏推荐。
【编辑推荐】
★茅盾文学奖、人民文学奖、朱自清散文奖得主李娟，经典之作羊道系列最新版。随书附赠神秘亲笔信，有声书同步上市，扫描二维码即可收听。李敬泽、梁文道、柴静、王安忆联合推荐。
★入选哈佛大学“中国文化创新领袖”项目，哈佛大学精选5位中国作家之一，作为“书写当代中国”的代表，非虚构写作的杰出典范。灵性的抒情，充满了诗的韵味。李娟以充满灵性的白描手法，怀着对生存本能的感激与新奇，一个人面对整个的山野草原，写出不一样的天才般的鲜活文字。“飞于山河之上，隐于草芥之中”，她的文字被惊为天人。
★边缘才是阐释世界的地方。阅读远在世界边缘的游牧民族的真实生活，领略他们深深根植大地、与自然紧密相依的生存环境和生活态度，了解他们的艰辛、他们所面对的残酷的自然和他们的乐观，探寻人生的意义和生命的本质。让每一个阅读的人，发现纯洁、坚强和乐观的力量，成为更真实的自己。李娟的作品，有直击人心的力量。

A beautifully written suite of personal essays on the value of not knowing.

Moments of clarity are rare and fleeting; how can we become comfortable outside of them, in the more general condition of uncertainty within which we make our lives? Written by English professor Emily Ogden while her children were small, On Not Knowing forays into this rich, ambivalent space. Each of her sharply observed essays invites the reader to think with her about questions she can’t set aside: not knowing how to give birth, to listen, to hold it together, to love.

Unapologetically capacious in her range of reference and idiosyncratic in the canon she draws on, Ogden moves nimbly among the registers of experience, from the operation of a breast pump to the art of herding cattle; from one-night stands to the stories of Edgar Allan Poe; from kayaking near a whale to a psychoanalytic meditation on drowning. Committed to the accumulation of knowledge, Ogden nonetheless finds that knowingness for her can be a way of getting stuck, a way of not really living. Rather than the defensiveness of willful ignorance, On Not Knowing celebrates the defenselessness of not knowing yet—possibly of not knowing ever. Ultimately, this book shows how resisting the temptation of knowingness and embracing the position of not knowing becomes a form of love.

A moving, cross-national account of working mothers' daily lives--and the revolution in public policy and culture needed to improve them The work-family conflict that mothers experience today is a national crisis. Women struggle to balance breadwinning with the bulk of parenting, and stress is constant. Social policies don't help. Of all Western industrialized countries, the United States ranks dead last for supportive work-family policies: No federal paid parental leave. The highest gender wage gap. No minimum standard for vacation and sick days. The highest maternal and child poverty rates. Can American women look to European policies for solutions? Making Motherhood Work draws on interviews that sociologist Caitlyn Collins conducted over five years with 135 middle-class working mothers in Sweden, Germany, Italy, and the United States. She explores how women navigate work and family given the different policy supports available in each country. Taking readers into women's homes, neighborhoods, and workplaces, Collins shows that mothers' desires and expectations depend heavily on context. In Sweden--renowned for its gender-equal policies--mothers assume they will receive support from their partners, employers, and the government. In the former East Germany, with its history of mandated employment, mothers don't feel conflicted about working, but some curtail their work hours and ambitions. Mothers in western Germany and Italy, where maternalist values are strong, are stigmatized for pursuing careers. Meanwhile, American working mothers stand apart for their guilt and worry. Policies alone, Collins discovers, cannot solve women's struggles. Easing them will require a deeper understanding of cultural beliefs about gender equality, employment, and motherhood. With women held to unrealistic standards in all four countries, the best solutions demand that we redefine motherhood, work, and family. Making Motherhood Work vividly demonstrates that women need not accept their work-family conflict as inevitable.
"Collins, a sociology professor, draws on interviews with working mothers in four different countries in this evenhanded, discerning exploration of work-family balance. Organizing her research by country, Collins finds that balance requires a harmonious confluence of workplace accommodations, government policies, and supportive cultural attitude. . . . Collins suggests that policies must be passed in packages, rather than piecemeal--for example, making sure that daycare is available for children at the age when parental leave ends--to be most useful. This study, whose comparative approach illuminates how cultural norms affect policies and economic results, is intelligent, thought-provoking, and clarifying."--Publishers Weekly, starred review "Making Motherhood Work is destined to become a classic. Caitlyn Collins conducted in-depth interviews with 135 employed, middle-class mothers in the United States and in three European countries. She finds that mothers face conflict between their work and family responsibilities in all four countries, even gender-egalitarian Sweden. Collins points to European policies that could positively impact mothers and families in the United States. Yet she notes the pervasive influence of cultural expectations of mothers that are coercive and unattainable. All four countries need a cultural redefinition of motherhood that describes and honors what is possible."--Mary Blair-Loy, author of Competing Devotions: Career and Family among Executive Women "Comparing women in Europe and the United States and how they combine work and motherhood, Making Motherhood Work is the first cross-cultural investigation of what it feels like to live within different cultural and policy worlds. Mothers (and fathers)--even future ones--need to read this fascinating, thought-provoking, and illuminating book."--Allison J. Pugh, author of The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of Insecurity "Through insightful interviews with employed mothers living in diverse national contexts, Caitlyn Collins demonstrates clearly and convincingly that our growing caregiving crisis stems from unjust social arrangements, not irresponsible individuals. The breadth and depth of Making Motherhood Work make it a unique and invaluable contribution that calls for nothing less than a worldwide movement for work-family justice."--Kathleen Gerson, author of The Unfinished Revolution: Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family "This ambitious and beautifully written book considers how women manage work and family in varying contexts. Carrying out wide-scale interviews in multiple settings and countries, Making Motherhood Work shows how differences in work-family policies lead to differences in the challenges that women face. An impressive contribution."--Joya Misra, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

On New Year's Day, a dog finds a bone in the Hollywood Hills--and unearths a murder committed more than twenty years earlier. It's a cold case, but for Detective Harry Bosch, it stirs up memories of his childhood as an orphan. He can't let it go. As the investigation takes Bosch deeper into the past, a beautiful rookie cop brings him alive in the present. No official warning can break them apart--or prepare Bosch for the explosions when the case takes a few hard turns. Suddenly all of L.A. is in an uproar, and Bosch, fighting to keep control, is driven to the brink of an unimaginable decision.

A luminous, powerful novel that establishes Rachel Cusk as one of the finest writers in the English language
A man and a woman are seated next to each other on a plane. They get to talking—about their destination, their careers, their families. Grievances are aired, family tragedies discussed, marriages and divorces analyzed. An intimacy is established as two strangers contrast their own fictions about their lives.
Rachel Cusk’s Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during one oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner and discourse. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her neighbor from the plane. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves: their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face a great loss.
Outline takes a hard look at the things that are hardest to speak about. It brilliantly captures conversations, investigates people’s motivations for storytelling, and questions their ability to ever do so honestly or unselfishly. In doing so it bares the deepest impulses behind the craft of fiction writing. This is Rachel Cusk’s finest work yet, and one of the most startling, brilliant, original novels of recent years.

'A dazzling, heartbreaking debut collection' Guardian'Kennedy's voice, and her unforgiving gaze, are electric' Sunday Times'These stories sing, haunt and inspire laughter ... One of the best collections I've read in years' Sinead GleesonA SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARThe secrets people kept, the lies they told.In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories, people are effortlessly cruel to one another, and the natural world is a primitive salve. Here, women are domestically trapped by predatorial men, Ireland's folklore and politics loom large, and poverty - material, emotional, sexual - seeps through every crack.A wife is abandoned by her new husband in a ghost estate, with blood on her hands; a young woman is tormented by visions of the man murdered by her brother during the Troubles; a pregnant mother fears the worst as her husband grows illegal cannabis with the help of a vulnerable teenage girl; a woman struggles to forgive herself after an abortion threatens to destroy her marriage.Announcing a major new voice in literary fiction for the twenty-first century, these sharp shocks of stories offer flashes of beauty, and even humour, amidst the harshest of truths.

Set amid the corrupt glamour and multiplying intrigues of Alexandria in the 1930s and 1940s, the novels of Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet" (of which this is the first) follow the shifting alliances - sexual, cultural and political - of a group of quite varied characters.

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical resource—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in conflict.
You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips. Virtually everything—from missiles to microwaves, smartphones to the stock market—runs on chips. Until recently, America designed and built the fastest chips and maintained its lead as the #1 superpower. Now, America's edge is slipping, undermined by competitors in Taiwan, Korea, Europe, and, above all, China. Today, as Chip War reveals, China, which spends more money each year importing chips than it spends importing oil, is pouring billions into a chip-building initiative to catch up to the US. At stake is America's military superiority and economic prosperity.
Economic historian Chris Miller explains how the semiconductor came to play a critical role in modern life and how the U.S. become dominant in chip design and manufacturing and applied this technology to military systems. America's victory in the Cold War and its global military dominance stems from its ability to harness computing power more effectively than any other power. But here, too, China is catching up, with its chip-building ambitions and military modernization going hand in hand. America has let key components of the chip-building process slip out of its grasp, contributing not only to a worldwide chip shortage but also a new Cold War with a superpower adversary that is desperate to bridge the gap.
Illuminating, timely, and fascinating, Chip War shows that, to make sense of the current state of politics, economics, and technology, we must first understand the vital role played by chips.

A NEW YORK TIMES "TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2022"An Oprah’s Book Club Selection • An Instant New York Times Bestseller • An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller • A #1 Washington Post Bestseller "Demon is a voice for the ages—akin to Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield—only even more resilient.” —Beth Macy, author of Dopesick"May be the best novel of 2022. . . . Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the story of an irrepressible boy nobody wants, but readers will love.” (Ron Charles, Washington Post)From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero’s unforgettable journey to maturitySet in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens’ anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can’t imagine leaving behind.

The sexy, action-packed first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Court of Thorns and Roses series from Sarah J. Maas. When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world. At least, he's not a beast all the time. As she adapts to her new home, her feelings for the faerie, Tamlin, transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie she's been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But something is not right in the faerie lands. An ancient, wicked shadow is growing, and Feyre must find a way to stop it, or doom Tamlin--and his world--forever. From bestselling author Sarah J. Maas comes a seductive, breathtaking book that blends romance, adventure, and faerie lore into an unforgettable read.

“A splendid series.”
&#8211;Anne McCaffrey
“Naomi Novik has done for the Napoleonic Wars what Anne McCaffrey did for science fiction: constructed an alternate reality in which dragons are real in a saga that is impressively original, fully developed, and peopled with characters you care about.”
&#8211;David Weber, author of the Honor Harrington series
After their fateful adventure in China, Capt. Will Laurence of His Majesty’s Aerial Corps and his extraordinary dragon, Temeraire, are waylaid by a mysterious envoy bearing urgent new orders from Britain. Three valuable dragon eggs have been purchased from the Ottoman Empire, and Laurence and Temeraire must detour to Istanbul to escort the precious cargo back to England. Time is of the essence if the eggs are to be borne home before hatching.
Yet disaster threatens the mission at every turn&#8211;thanks to the diabolical machinations of the Chinese dragon Lien, who blames Temeraire for her master’s death and vows to ally herself with Napoleon and take vengeance. Then, faced with shattering betrayal in an unexpected place, Laurence, Temeraire, and their squad must launch a daring offensive. But what chance do they have against the massed forces of Bonaparte’s implacable army?

A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of International Booker Prize winner The Vegetarian.
"Now and then, language would thrust its way into her sleep like a skewer through meat, startling her awake several times a night..."
In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but can't. Accustomed to her silence, the teacher is sympathetic—day by day he is losing his eyesight. But beyond their losses, a deeper pain binds them. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son. For him, it's the pain of growing up between Korea and Germany, being torn between two cultures and languages.
Greek Lessons tells the stories of two ordinary people, their lives heightened by private anguish—where the light of a man losing his vision meets the silence of a woman who has lost her language. Yet these are the very things that draw them to one another. Slowly the two slowly find one another through a sense of connection—their voices intersecting with startling beauty, as they move from darkness to light, from silence to breath.
Greek Lessons is a book to awaken the senses, one that vividly conjures the essence of what it means to be alive, and a remarkable love letter to human contact and tenderness.

Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident—or that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court.
Now, Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue herself, and save her Station from Teixcalaan's unceasing expansion—all while navigating an alien culture that is all too seductive, engaging in intrigues of her own, and hiding a deadly technological secret—one that might spell the end of her Station and her way of life—or rescue it from annihilation.