It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader. In the beginning, almost every name and address was listed in a phone book, and everyone answered their landlines because you didn’t know who it was. By the end, exposing someone’s address was an act of emotional violence, and nobody picked up their new cell phone if they didn’t know who it was. The 90s brought about a revolution in the human condition we’re still groping to understand. Happily, Chuck Klosterman is more than up to the job.
Beyond epiphenomena like “Cop Killer” and Titanic and Zima, there were wholesale shifts in how society was perceived: the rise of the internet, pre-9/11 politics, and the paradoxical belief that nothing was more humiliating than trying too hard. Pop culture accelerated without the aid of a machine that remembered everything, generating an odd comfort in never being certain about anything. On a 90’s Thursday night, more people watched any random episode of Seinfeld than the finale of Game of Thrones. But nobody thought that was important; if you missed it, you simply missed it. It was the last era that held to the idea of a true, hegemonic mainstream before it all began to fracture, whether you found a home in it or defined yourself against it.
In The Nineties, Chuck Klosterman makes a home in all of it: the film, the music, the sports, the TV, the politics, the changes regarding race and class and sexuality, the yin/yang of Oprah and Alan Greenspan. In perhaps no other book ever written would a sentence like, “The video for ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ was not more consequential than the reunification of Germany” make complete sense. Chuck Klosterman has written a multi-dimensional masterpiece, a work of synthesis so smart and delightful that future historians might well refer to this entire period as Klostermanian.

When Katy’s mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn’t just Katy’s mom, but her best friend and first phone call. She had all the answers and now, when Katy needs her the most, she is gone. To make matters worse, their planned mother-daughter trip of a lifetime looms: to Positano, the magical town where Carol spent the summer right before she met Katy’s father. Katy has been waiting years for Carol to take her, and now she is faced with embarking on the adventure alone.
But as soon as she steps foot on the Amalfi Coast, Katy begins to feel her mother’s spirit. Buoyed by the stunning waters, beautiful cliffsides, delightful residents, and, of course, delectable food, Katy feels herself coming back to life.
And then Carol appears—in the flesh, healthy, sun-tanned, and thirty years old. Katy doesn’t understand what is happening, or how—all she can focus on is that she has somehow, impossibly, gotten her mother back. Over the course of one Italian summer, Katy gets to know Carol, not as her mother, but as the young woman before her. She is not exactly who Katy imagined she might be, however, and soon Katy must reconcile the mother who knew everything with the young woman who does not yet have a clue.
Rebecca Serle’s next great love story is here, and this time it’s between a mother and a daughter. With her signature “heartbreaking, redemptive, and authentic” (Jamie Ford, New York Times bestselling author) prose, Serle has crafted a transcendent novel about how we move on after loss, and how the people we love never truly leave us.

Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father, Eldon. He's sixteen years old and has had the most fleeting of relationships with the man. The rare moments they've shared haunt and trouble Frank, but he answers the call, a son's duty to a father. He finds Eldon decimated after years of drinking, dying of liver failure in a small town flophouse. Eldon asks his son to take him into the mountains, so he may be buried in the traditional Ojibway manner.
What ensues is a journey through the rugged and beautiful backcountry, and a journey into the past, as the two men push forward to Eldon's end. From a poverty-stricken childhood, to the Korean War, and later the derelict houses of mill towns, Eldon relates both the desolate moments of his life and a time of redemption and love and in doing so offers Frank a history he has never known, the father he has never had, and a connection to himself he never expected.
A novel about love, friendship, courage, and the idea that the land has within it powers of healing,
reveals the ultimate goodness of its characters and offers a deeply moving and redemptive conclusion. Wagamese's writing soars and his insight and compassion are matched by his gift of communicating these to the reader.

A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself.
The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings.
At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer.
With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail.

要是用一句话概括，本作品可说是一个丑女和爱着她的两个男人的故事。作家钟爱的大宇宙的战场，搬到了资本主义大机器正式启动的20世纪80年代中期的首尔，主人公也不是奇特的人而是奇丑无比、致使无法维持正常的社会生活的女孩子和有着帅气的外貌、却有着人所不知的心灵创伤的两个年轻人。在经历十几年的各种悲欢离合之后，两人终于感悟到生活的真谛，在机场相遇……

Park Min-gyu has been celebrated and condemned for his attacks upon what he perceives as the humorlessness of contemporary Korean literature. Pavane for a Dead Princess is his attack upon the beauty-fetish that reigns over popular culture, detailing the relationship between a man with matinee-idol good looks and "the ugliest woman of the century." To complicate matters further, Park also includes a so-called "writer's cut" of the same story, offering alternate versions of the facts, giving the reader the opportunity to imagine all the different ways this same novel might have been written.

Being You is not as simple as it sounds. Somehow, within each of our brains, billions of neurons work to create our conscious experience. How does this happen? Why do we experience life in the first person? After over twenty years researching the brain, world-renowned neuroscientist Anil Seth puts forward a radical new theory of consciousness and self. His unique theory of what it means to 'be you' challenges our understanding of perception and reality and it turns what you thought you knew about yourself on its head.

The majestic conclusion to Maggie Stiefvater’s Dreamer Trilogy.
The war between dreams and reality intensifies... with Ronan at its center.

Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annie's dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream come true. Thirty years later as a successful businesswoman, she did it, buying a 15-acre farm deep in the Pinelands of South Jersey. She was planning to relocate Annie and her caravan of ragtag rescues--horses and goats, dogs and cats, chickens and pigs--when Annie died, just two weeks before moving day. In her heartbreak, Laurie resolved to make her mother's dream her own. In 2001, she established the Funny Farm Animal Rescue outside Mays Landing, New Jersey. Today, she carries on Annie's mission to save abused and neglected animals.
is Laurie's story: of promises kept, dreams fulfilled, and animals lost and found. It's the story of Annie McNulty, who fled a nightmarish marriage with few skills, no money and no resources, dragging three kids behind her, and accumulating hundreds of cast-off animals on the way. And lastly, it's the story of the brave, incredible, and adorable animals that were rescued.

数十年前，一群不见容于社会、违反法律，或是无法继承家业之人，他们可以持着颁发的特许令，身无分文地渡海来到天谴海岸，凭借着勇气与决心，在缤城落地生根。这便是缤城商人的祖先。数十年来，旧商世家的辛勤耕耘，将缤城打造为重要的经济命脉，也为自己博得了受人尊重的身份与地位。
然而战火却在一夕之间燃烧到缤城，整座城市逐渐崩坏瓦解。同时，活船的秘密一步步揭开，薇瓦琪号将面对最恐怖的煎熬。真相如刀刃一般锋利，不仅伤害薇瓦琪，连爱护她的人也不免连带受害……

缤城旧商世家与雨野原商人立定承诺：凡欲拥有“活船”的缤城旧商世家，必须向因不明原因，全身长满肉瘤的雨野原商人订购。雨野原商人以巫木为旧商打造活船，索取巨款作为报酬。旧商世家运用活船进行贸易，以赚取定期偿还的借款，若无力承担债务，那么代价将是巨大的。
维司奇家族焦急地等待着家族活船——薇瓦琪号的归来。经历了一年的磨练，艾希雅·维司奇返回家门，誓要从姐夫的手中夺回爱船。然而她却发现，家族和薇瓦琪号的处境都远比她所能预料的更加危险。一个大胆的计划正在酝酿成型……

是什么让一件产品具有文化标签性？
来自瑞典的宜家家居是怎样做到征服中国市场的？
为何具有创新意识的设计师常常花费更多的时间去观察不同人的行为而不是埋头设计？
面对复杂多变的物质世界，“用户”（产品使用者）个性化、社群化的使用体验使设计师更加重视借用其他社会学科的理论，如人类学，来开拓自身的设计视野。这些和“用户”有关的物品文化问题都属于设计人类学关注的范围。
本书所汇编的文章都出自国际设计理论界著名学者之手，主要从设计人类学的角度，将设计相关的社会现象通过人类学的视角和方法纳入研究范畴，例如对澳大利亚原住民的生活行为、习俗等的调查，对海地金融扫盲设计的研究，对波兰蕾丝传统手工艺在商品社会“复活”的研究等，深化针对具体人群日常用品的设计实践，丰富设计物品本身的文化内涵。
设计学科和其他社会学科的交互研究，在国际设计学界已比较成熟，但在国内设计学界还处于起步阶段。希望本书能够有助于国内设计研究者和从业者开阔专业视野，思索什么样的设计才是从人类本身的行为与文化出发，同时也为人工智能的新技术未来祛魅。

1 hora y 47 minutos.
In January 2019, culture writer Anne Helen Petersen set the Internet on fire with her viral BuzzFeed essay diagnosing "millennial burnout"—a chronic state of stress and exhaustion that’s become a "base temperature" for young people today. Now, she continues this generation-defining conversation in a brand-new format, interviewing millennials around the country about their own deeply personal experiences with burnout and the culture that creates it. Listeners will hear about how this issue has affected Petersen’s own life as well as the lives of five very different subjects: Kevin, a musician and Marine veteran; Kate, a first-generation college graduate working to repay her formidable student debt; Haley and Evette, young writers at different career stages in the digital media industry; and John, a pastor and co-founder of a new Baptist church in North Carolina.
The conversations that comprise The Burnout Generation cover everything from debt to social media to the blurred boundaries between our professional and personal lives. In this illuminating and intimate audio project, listeners learn how and why this generation has been conditioned to "optimize" every aspect of our lives (Meal prep for the week! Find a side hustle! But practice self-care! And answer emails in bed!), and most importantly, how the consequences of this phenomenon play out in day-to-day life.
©2019 Anne Helen Petersen (P)2019 Audible Originals, LLC.

“make them rue the day they underestimated you.”
amanda lovelace, the bestselling & award-winning author of the “women are some kind of magic” poetry series, presents shine your icy crown, the second installment in her new feminist poetry series, “you are your own fairy tale.” this is a story about not letting society dictate the limits of your potential. it’s time to take back your power & realize that you don’t need a king in order to be a queen.

Amanda Gorman’s powerful and historic poem “The Hill We Climb,” read at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, is now available as a collectible gift edition.
“Stunning.” —CNN
“Dynamic.” —NPR
“Deeply rousing and uplifting.” —Vogue
On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Taking the stage after the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, Gorman captivated the nation and brought hope to viewers around the globe. Her poem “The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country” can now be cherished in this special gift edition. Including an enduring foreword by Oprah Winfrey, this keepsake celebrates the promise of America and affirms the power of poetry.

Some race to win. Others race to survive.
It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.
Some riders live.
Others die.
At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them.
Puck Connolly is different. She never meant to ride in the Scorpio Races. But fate hasn't given her much of a choice. So she enters the competition - the first girl ever to do so. She is in no way prepared for what is going to happen.
As she did in her bestselling Shiver trilogy, author Maggie Stiefvater takes us to the breaking point, where both love and life meet their greatest obstacles, and only the strong of heart can survive. The Scorpio Races is an unforgettable reading experience.
NARRATOR: TBA FORMAT: 9 CDs, Unabridged

匪夷所思的“无足迹密室”，一部非典型卡尔作品
“不可能犯罪”背后，隐藏着一出令人扼腕的古典悲剧。
约翰·迪克森·卡尔
与阿加莎·克里斯蒂、埃勒里·奎因并称 “黄金时代三大家”
两夺埃德加·爱伦·坡奖，美国侦探作家协会“终身大师奖”得主
卡尔一生设计出五十余种不同类型的密室，被誉为"密室之王"。
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瑞塔•韦恩莱特三十八岁，美艳成熟，对年轻男人有着致命的吸引力。她的丈夫亚力克是一位绅士，比她年长二十多岁。他沉迷战争新闻广播，却对妻子的风流韵事充耳不闻。瑞塔和年轻又英俊的美国演员巴里•苏利文打得火热，成为街坊邻居茶余饭后的谈资和笑柄。
瑞塔和巴里意图私奔，但广播剧《罗密欧与朱丽叶》似乎让他们改变了主意，决定双双殉情自杀。二人消失了。有两串脚印一直通往俯瞰大海的悬崖边。尸体在两天后被发现。然而，他们均死于近身枪杀，而凶手仿佛飘在空中，无影无踪。
正在附近做肖像画模特的亨利•梅里维尔爵士同意调查这桩诡异的案件。头戴月桂冠，身着古罗马长袍，这位传说中的天才律师坐着电动轮椅，把这座安静的英格兰海滨度假胜地搅得鸡犬不宁。
生与死，情欲与背叛，毁灭与救赎……战争的洪流裹挟着每一个人，奔赴这出无可避免的悲剧。