★恐怖小说大师托马斯·里戈蒂成名作
爱伦·坡、洛夫克拉夫特之后，惊人黑暗想象力之重现
★编辑推荐
◎ 托马斯·里戈蒂，布拉姆·斯托克终身成就奖、奇幻奖、国际恐怖文学协会奖得主，当今最为杰出的超自然恐怖小说家，是为数不多生前作品即已收入“企鹅经典”丛书的作者。
◎ 《 死梦者之歌与阴郁的抄写员》，汇集奠定里戈蒂在恐怖小说界一流作者地位的两部短篇集，全方位展现作者恐怖小说写作的精妙笔触。译自“企鹅经典”丛书新版，主要评论刊物《纽约时报书评》《华盛顿邮报》《纽约客》等盛赞。
◎ 小说曾被多次改编为影视、漫画等，对音乐及亚文化圈也有深刻影响。2014 年火爆网络的美剧《真探》，主角的部分台词被指源自里戈蒂的小说，编剧尼克·皮佐拉托后坦陈深受里戈蒂影响，无怪乎该剧和里戈蒂的小说基调极为相似。
★内容简介
《死梦者之歌与阴郁的抄写员》，汇集了处女作小说集《死梦者之歌》（1986）和之后的《阴郁的抄写员》（1991），是作者恐怖小说的成名作，因其独特风格超出了类型小说的范畴，有论者称之为“超自然恐怖”“哲学恐怖”。小说多描写隐藏在我们生活中隐秘的事，通过一些古怪的事件，试图重新审视现代社会，探究其中的薄弱之处，给我们探究生活内涵的别样目光。比如第一篇《欢闹》，场景设定在晚上戴维·芒克医生家的客厅，他刚到诺尔盖特小镇监狱任职，他和妻子莱斯莉闲聊一个病人某约翰，这个病人做小男孩模样的工艺品。
★媒体推荐
◎里戈蒂，三次布拉姆·斯托克奖得主，最好的短篇恐怖小说家……理解作者不停歇的恐惧风暴的世界，本书是最佳入门。 ——《纽约时报书评》
◎《死梦者之歌》充满了不可言喻的、令人震惊的乐趣……把这本书放在书架上洛夫克拉夫特和爱伦·坡之间吧，它属于那里。 ——《华盛顿邮报》
◎实验性和荒诞性，他编织出腐朽的人性、不可企及的疯狂以及不同于任何恐怖电影的噩梦世界……读完这些，你可能再也睡不着了，但这是值得的。 ——《名利场》
◎作为当代恐怖小说的被崇拜者或“秘密”，里戈蒂将随着这本集子的发行而成为一个家喻户晓的名字，这本集子汇集了他的前两本“哲学恐怖”作品。 ——Flavorwire
◎（一位）隐秘的恐怖大师……里戈蒂写的是哲学性的恐怖作品，摒弃了喷涌而出的血腥，而聚焦于存在性恐惧的洪流。几十年来，里戈蒂一直是恐怖作家的恐怖作家，但他可能终于得到了应有的回报。——Men's Journal
◎里戈蒂是一位出色的散文家，他的沉浸式哥特式小说使大多数恐怖故事看起来像发条玩具一样无害。——《西雅图时报》
◎这两本（集子）都是开创性的作品，是宇宙恐怖小说迷的必读之作……此外，不仅仅是恐怖小说读者（包括我自己）可以欣赏托马斯·里戈蒂，因为他也表现出了华丽的文学感觉，他的散文是那种经常需要多次重读才能充分品味其结构之优雅和余味的，甚至是感官的愉悦。他完全当得起乔伊斯·卡罗尔·欧茨、威廉·盖伊，甚至非流派作家乔纳森·勒瑟姆和村上春树等人得到的赞扬。 ——Lit Reactor
◎在恐怖小说史上，托马斯·里戈蒂拥有一个最为安静、最为精彩的写作生涯。他是一位精练、睿智又极富创造力的作家。 ——《费城询问报》
★名人推荐
◎托马斯·里戈蒂是一位不同等级的大师，实际上是一个不同的物种。要是他试过，他可能无法伪装，然而他从未尝试过。他的写作就像恐怖的化身。 ——特伦斯·拉弗蒂，《纽约时报书评》
◎被誉为唯一能与爱伦·坡和洛夫克拉夫特齐名的当代美国作家......无论所描述的事件多么可怕，里戈蒂的行文总是精练又恰到好处。 ——迈克尔·德里达（普利策奖得主，专栏作家）

♦当代俄罗斯科幻之神 谢尔盖·卢基扬年科经典作品
♦被一代俄罗斯读者评为精神安慰剂的国民科幻
♦文明会碾碎文明，但碾不碎个体！
※小说简介※
对于人类而言，进入星辰大海，到底意味着什么？
是走向广阔无垠的未来，还是沦为高等文明的马前卒？
宇航员彼得苦苦寻找人类在宇宙中的位 置，他冲破几何文明温柔的蚕茧，穿过暗影文明虚幻的大门，却发现自由和秩序都是陷阱。
文明的前进方向握于一人之手，哪里才是出路？这副血肉之躯，是致命弱点，也是人类崛起的关键……
※名人推荐※
我认为，谢尔盖·卢基扬年科理应是当代俄罗斯最受欢迎的科幻作家。
——俄罗斯著名科幻作家 鲍里斯·斯特鲁伽茨基
卢基扬年科是当前俄罗斯最受欢迎、也是最好的作家之一！
──美国《纽约时报》
这是一部精彩的史诗，我在任何一本小说里都没有读到过像几何学家和暗影族那样的外星文明。
——俄罗斯读者
♦北京俄罗斯文化中心 推荐阅读

A novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence.
Isaiah was Samuel’s and Samuel was Isaiah’s. That was the way it was since the beginning, and the way it was to be until the end. In the barn they tended to the animals, but also to each other, transforming the hollowed-out shed into a place of human refuge, a source of intimacy and hope in a world ruled by vicious masters. But when an older man—a fellow slave—seeks to gain favor by preaching the master’s gospel on the plantation, the enslaved begin to turn on their own. Isaiah and Samuel’s love, which was once so simple, is seen as sinful and a clear danger to the plantation’s harmony.
With a lyricism reminiscent of Toni Morrison, Robert Jones, Jr. fiercely summons the voices of slaver and the enslaved alike to tell the story of these two men; from Amos the preacher to the calculating slave-master himself to the long line of women that surround them, women who have carried the soul of the plantation on their shoulders. As tensions build and the weight of centuries—of ancestors and future generations to come—culminate in a climactic reckoning, The Prophets masterfully reveals the pain and suffering of inheritance, but is also shot through with hope, beauty, and truth, portraying the enormous, heroic power of love.

为华丽而荒芜的世纪末认真悲伤
华语文学领军人物骆以军短篇代表作
《红字团》+《降生十二星座》合集
♈️编辑推荐
《我们自夜暗的酒馆离开》是台湾“小说一哥”骆以军一九九〇年代的出道早期短篇小说合集，这次是初次引进大陆。作家写作生涯早期的幽默感、生动活泼的语言、天马行空的想 象力、驳杂跳跃的叙事方式，在本书收录作品中表现得淋漓尽致。
收录的短篇小说《降生十二星座》是骆以军的成名作，被视为是二十世纪末中文小说经典作品。星座、电玩、酒吧、三角恋等元素在作家笔下不只反映都市生活的多彩，更深入触碰到人们感情疏离的孤独和无法摆脱自身命运的恐惧，追寻在光鲜表面之下深藏在人心幽微处的心灵样貌。
受到现代主义文学、后现代主义文学风格的影响，不同于传统小说着重于诉说一个完整的故事，通过虚构文本展示作家对创作本质的探讨和现代人对自身身世的追寻，是这些小说的核心课题。
本书书末收录了两篇骆以军十几二十年前为当时作品出版所写的序，展现了作家创作的心路历程和面对自己早期作品的感悟。
♈️名人推荐
《降生十二星座》这篇短篇杰作业已是世纪末台湾中文小说经典之一。
——作家 黄锦树
《降生十二星座》叙述着杨延辉对电动世界的耿耿一念，其令我感动惊异的程度完全不逊于诸多前人伟大作品中对大价值的重量级辩证。
——作家 朱天心
骆以军是以笑：讪笑、苦笑、不明所以的笑，来回应生命的悲伤。
——哈佛大学教授 王德威
于骆以军的《降生十二星座》中，“道路十六”是我最喜欢的段落之一……没有入口。无法进入。人终究是孤独的……这是“道路十六”极其成功的意象与情节设计。而类似主题则反复出现在骆以军的作品之中
——作家 伊格言
♈️获奖记录
☆ 台湾省巡回文艺营创作奖小说奖（《红字团》）
☆ 联合文学小说新人奖推荐奖（《底片》）
☆ 时报文学奖甄选奖（《手枪王》）
☆《降生十二星座》获选尔雅出版社1993年短篇小说选
作者曾获：
☆ 第五届联合报文学大奖
☆ 2019 年台北书展大奖小说奖
☆ 2018 年 OPENBOOK 年度好书
☆ 第二届北京大学王默人-周安仪世界华文文学奖
☆ 第三届红楼梦奖：世界华文长篇小说奖首奖
☆ 时报文学奖短篇小说甄选奖
☆ 台湾文学奖长篇小说金典奖
☆ 开卷年度十大好书
☆ 亚洲周刊中文十大好书
☆ 读书人年度十大好书

金鼎奖作品，跨越半个世纪呈现李渝完整创作轨迹。
收录代表作“温州街”系列，学者钟秩维专论评述。
一篇篇往下坠落的日常，记忆着向上的个人救赎。
🔹编辑推荐
☆　本书是李渝生前最后出版的作品。从 1965 年实验性质浓厚的青春少作，经反思家国历史的代表作“温州街”系列，再到 2010 年晚期以流畅文字回归传统故事，收录篇章的时间将近半世纪，是一部全面呈现其创作轨迹的小说集。
☆　李渝走过生死幽谷后交付的这部珍重之作，字里行间的搏斗，不仅是美学上的，更比以往作品逼近其生命情境。融入自身经验，让现实与幻梦如曼陀罗般纠缠于故事之中，并在日常塌陷的边缘，展现艺术向上升华的可能。
🔹内容简介
十五篇小说，述说着那以想象、自然、动物、宗教、艺术力量所拯救的人生。疯魔的内心、生死的交关，我们看着一个个受困现实之人，遭逢挫败，但也走向救赎。是啊，如果你注意，将有美的善的真的物事引领前路，就算你的心神躯体再灰暗败毁、低荡无告，存活下去，总会留下一点为生命而努力的痕迹。
从透露青春气息的冒险少作，到跋涉人生幽谷之后的回首，始终不散的，是文学，也是李渝的坚韧意志：“如果文学依旧可以使人面对逆境，从生命的无奈中振作起精神，把日子好好地过下去，那么写小说，或者写作，就仍是一座坚守的壁垒，一道顽强的防线，一种不妥协或动摇的信念。”
🔹名人推荐
☆　李渝小说中的人物总在面对伦理世界的倾斜与失衡。李渝总是淡淡的，在深渊之前，总要维持一种生命的优雅。总有一个人会理出生命庄严的本质，告诉你，再怎么难堪，人总可以活下去。就有人可以在失衡的边缘，以一种抒情的姿态抵住那些无可回避无可名状无可掌握的人生难题。
——范宜如（台湾师范大学教授）
☆　曾在抛掷与安定、怀疑与重信中走过，李渝总是辩证着一个问题：现实中的丑恶与不满，由什么，或谁，来拯救？《待鹤》即以八个小节，出入真实与改写，病与梦，生者的幻境与亡者的旅程，仿佛是散文又仿佛是小说，从遥远的事情说起，让鹤的隐喻翱翔串联，回到了挚爱的人身上，回来把心重新安放。
——杨佳娴（台湾诗人）
☆　李渝糅合了古典艺术和异国情调，现代行旅和私人告白，几乎像是要试验多重渡引作为一种叙事技术的极限可能。这些素材彼此承接对应，又彼此抗颉纠缠，然而经过李渝娓娓道来，俨然形成一种起承转合的顺序。离题是为了回归做准备，幻相投射出实相，轻描淡写埋藏了至深难言的创痛。
——王德威（哈佛大学教授）
☆ 在《九重葛与美少年》后记《最后的壁垒》中，李渝自觉而且非常沉重地表达了在新媒体时代的当前此刻，写小说，或许也包括了读小说，它的其实不是非如此不可。不过正是因为坦然接受了“小说”，以至于“文学”的可有可无，仍坚持走在写作的道路上所意味的，遂也就是自己对于文学不随时空条件改变而消失的使命与信任。在这个意义上，“最后的壁垒”不啻为一个小说家之风骨的比喻。
——钟秩维（台湾大学文学院博士后研究员）
🔹获奖记录
☆ 本书荣获 2014 年“金鼎奖”图书类出版奖文学图书奖并入围“台北书展大奖”小说类。

在这本引人入胜的小书中，米歇尔•高罗探讨了法国现当代诗歌中的身体主题。他将身体视为一种重要的文化特征，这种特征引起了思想家和作家的多元反应。
——《法国研究》
三十多年来，米歇尔•高罗一直致力于现当代诗歌的研究，他以罕见的诗歌直觉在现象学、精神分析学和语言学之间游走。本书首先是对19世纪和20世纪法国诗歌中身体的表现与经验的研究，同时也是高罗自己的一系列非常私密的思考，这些思考为他的创作实践提供了迷人的洞察力。
——《法国论坛》
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身体是现代性最重要的表现对象之一。不论在大众文化中还是在先锋文化中，对身体的崇拜早已成为共识。法国知名教授、诗人米歇尔•高罗从现代身体诗学的内部区分了两种相互竞争的趋势：一种将身体与精神对立，一种则把身体视为精神与世界的中介。作者通过剖析建立身体•宇宙形象的典范作品，以及自己的写作实践，结合现象学“肉身”概念，提取出一种“肉身化诗学”的特质与艺术倾向，阐明身体在当代诗学与哲学中的中心地位，从而将身体与灵魂、自我与世界、文字与精神紧密结合起来，为我们进入现代诗歌的深邃之处指出了一条明路。

From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt.
Here are six pieces written in 1968 from the "Points West"
column Joan Didion shared from 1964 to 1969 with her husband, John Gregory Dunne about: American newspapers; a session with Gamblers Anonymous; a visit to San Simeon; being rejected by Stanford; dropping in on Nancy Reagan, wife of the then-governor of California, while a TV crew filmed her at home; and an evening at the annual reunion of WWII veterans from the 101st Airborne Association at the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas. Here too is a 1976 piece from the
magazine on "Why I Write"; a piece about short stories from
in 1978; and from
, a piece on Hemingway from 1998, and on Martha Stewart from 2000. Each one is classic Didion: incisive, bemused, and stunningly prescient.

From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today.
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times.
In his introduction, Saunders writes, “We’re going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn’t fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art—namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?” He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity.
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.

Hailed as "breathtakingly suspenseful," Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot is a propulsive read about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it.
Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he’s teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what’s left of his self-respect; he hasn’t written―let alone published―anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn’t need Jake’s help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then . . . he hears the plot.
Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own career and braces himself for the supernova publication of Evan Parker’s first novel: but it never comes. When he discovers that his former student has died, presumably without ever completing his book, Jake does what any self-respecting writer would do with a story like that―a story that absolutely needs to be told.
In a few short years, all of Evan Parker’s predictions have come true, but Jake is the author enjoying the wave. He is wealthy, famous, praised and read all over the world. But at the height of his glorious new life, an e-mail arrives, the first salvo in a terrifying, anonymous campaign: You are a thief, it says.
As Jake struggles to understand his antagonist and hide the truth from his readers and his publishers, he begins to learn more about his late student, and what he discovers both amazes and terrifies him. Who was Evan Parker, and how did he get the idea for his “sure thing” of a novel? What is the real story behind the plot, and who stole it from whom?

ABOUT OUR COUNTRY FRIENDS
“A perfect novel for these times and all times, the single textual artifact from the pandemic era I would place in a time capsule as a representation of all that is good and true and beautiful about literature.”—Molly Young, "The New York Times"
Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation—a novel about love, friendship, family, and betrayal hailed as “a masterpiece” (Andrew Sean Greer) and “a powerful fable of our broken time” (Salman Rushdie)
It’s March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next six months, new friendships and romances will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most. The unlikely cast of characters includes a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American writer; a wildly successful Korean American app developer; a global dandy with three passports; a Southern flamethrower of an essayist; and a movie star, the Actor, whose arrival upsets the equilibrium of this chosen family. Both elegiac and very, very funny, "Our Country Friends" is the most ambitious book yet by the author of the beloved bestseller "Super Sad True Love Story."
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/606647/our-country-friends-by-gary-shteyngart/

Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where they've come from--and what they've left behind.
"Elizabeth Strout is one of my very favorite writers, so the fact that Oh William! may well be my favorite of her books is a mathematical equation for joy. The depth, complexity, and love contained in these pages is a miraculous achievement."--Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House
I would like to say a few things about my first husband, William.
Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she confesses, has always been a mystery to me. Another mystery is why the two have remained connected after all these years. They just are.
So Lucy is both surprised and not surprised when William asks her to join him on a trip to investigate a recently uncovered family secret--one of those secrets that rearrange everything we think we know about the people closest to us. What happens next is nothing less than another example of what Hilary Mantel has called Elizabeth Strout's "perfect attunement to the human condition." There are fears and insecurities, simple joys and acts of tenderness, and revelations about affairs and other spouses, parents and their children. On every page of this exquisite novel we learn more about the quiet forces that hold us together--even after we've grown apart.
At the heart of this story is the indomitable voice of Lucy Barton, who offers a profound, lasting reflection on the very nature of existence. "This is the way of life," Lucy says: "the many things we do not know until it is too late."

The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America
In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the work farm where he has just served a year for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother and head west where they can start their lives anew. But after the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm had hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they hatch an altogether different plan for Emmett's future.
Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes.

Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn't hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child. But then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Now Reese is caught in a self-destructive pattern: avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men.
Ames isn't happy either. He thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier, but that decision cost him his relationship with Reese—and losing her meant losing his only family. Even though their romance is over, he longs to find a way back to her. When Ames's boss and lover, Katrina, reveals that she's pregnant with his baby—and that she's not sure whether she wants to keep it—Ames wonders if this is the chance he's been waiting for. Could the three of them form some kind of unconventional family—and raise the baby together?
This provocative debut is about what happens at the emotional, messy, vulnerable corners of womanhood that platitudes and good intentions can't reach. Torrey Peters brilliantly and fearlessly navigates the most dangerous taboos around gender, sex, and relationships, gifting us a thrillingly original, witty, and deeply moving novel.

A wrenching debut memoir of familial grief by a National Book Award finalist--and a defining account of what it means to love and lose a difficult parent.
When Christopher Sorrentino's mother died in 2017, it marked the end of a journey that had begun eighty years earlier in the South Bronx. Victoria's life took her to the heart of New York's vibrant mid-century downtown artistic scene, to the sedate campus of Stanford, and finally back to Brooklyn--a journey witnessed by a son who watched, helpless, as she grew more and more isolated, distancing herself from everyone and everything she'd ever loved.
In examining the mystery of his mother's life, from her dysfunctional marriage to his heedless father, the writer Gilbert Sorrentino, to her ultimate withdrawal from the world, Christopher excavates his own memories and family folklore in an effort to discover her dreams, understand her disappointments, and peel back the ways in which she seemed forever trapped between two identities: the Puerto Rican girl identified on her birth certificate as Black, and the white woman she had seemingly decided to become. Meanwhile Christopher experiences his own transformation, emerging from under his father's shadow and his mother's thumb to establish his identity as a writer and individual--one who would soon make his own missteps and mistakes.
Unfolding against the captivating backdrop of a vanished New York, a city of cheap bohemian enclaves and a thriving avant-garde--a dangerous, decaying, but liberated and potentially liberating place--Now Beacon, Now Sea is a matchless portrait of the beautiful, painful messiness of life, and the transformative power of even conflicted grief.

I don't keep a journal, not after the first week, James Merrill asserted in a letter while on a trip around the world. Letters have got to bear all the burden. A vivacious correspondent, whether abroad, where avid curiosity and fond memory frequently took him, or at home, he wrote eagerly and often, to family and lifelong friends, American and Greek lovers, confidants in literature and art about everything that mattered--aesthetics, opera and painting, housekeeping and cooking, the comedy of social life, the mysteries of the Ouija board and the spirit world, and psychological and moral dilemmas--in funny, dashing, unrevised missives, composed to entertain himself as well as his recipients. On a personal nemesis: the ambivalence I live with. It worries me less and less. It becomes the very stuff of my art; on a lunch for Wallace Stevens given by Blanche Knopf: It had been decided by one and all that nothing but small talk would be allowed; on romance in his late fifties: I must stop acting like an orphan gobbling cookies in fear of the plate's being taken away; on great books: they burn us like radium, with their decisiveness, their terrible understanding of what happens.
Merrill's daily chronicle of love and loss is unfettered, self-critical, full of good gossip, and attuned to the wicked irony, the poignant detail--a natural extension of the great poet's voice.

Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl: charming, confident, and SO cute. There's just one problem: Laura Dean is maybe not the greatest girlfriend.
Reeling from her latest break up, Freddy's best friend, Doodle, introduces her to the Seek-Her, a mysterious medium, who leaves Freddy some cryptic parting words: break up with her. But Laura Dean keeps coming back, and as their relationship spirals further out of her control, Freddy has to wonder if it's really Laura Dean that's the problem. Maybe it's Freddy, who is rapidly losing her friends, including Doodle, who needs her now more than ever. Fortunately for Freddy, there are new friends, and the insight of advice columnists like Anna Vice to help her through being a teenager in love.

A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this incredible new science-based thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Martian.
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.
Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.
All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, he realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Alone on this tiny ship that's been cobbled together by every government and space agency on the planet and hurled into the depths of space, it's up to him to conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
And thanks to an unexpected ally, he just might have a chance.
Part scientific mystery, part dazzling interstellar journey, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian--while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.

《浴紫而生》一共收录了九篇K.J.帕克的故事，它们之间相互独立，同时又共享一个世界设定，如果仔细看，就能发现千丝万缕的联系。这是作家才能提供的阅读体验：一边享受故事，一边探索彩蛋。

《规则》——他打架、酗酒、出卖灵魂、与恶魔签订契约……但他是世界上伟大的作家。

《看得见风景的房间》—— 一心在狗的脑袋里找恶魔，却从来没注意过身边人，是天赋异禀还是术士之耻？

《鸣唱的小代价》“我的第十六协奏曲，”他微笑着对我说，牢房里光线很暗，我刚好能看见他，“就目前而言，我觉得应该称之为未完成之曲。”

《瓶中恶魔》——金鳞寺秘藏的瓶中卷轴，是济世良方还是潘多拉魔盒？

《栖息之所》——屠龙少年会变成恶龙吗？不一定。但世上不乏头脑精明之人，会想尽办法圈养它们。

《胜于刀剑》又一份珍贵的罗珀语文献面世！让我们看看在帝国覆灭之前，这里经历过怎样的王朝更迭。

《我的美丽人生》从贱到贵，扶摇直上的人生有多顺遂？不，开挂都是要付出代价的。

《浴紫而生》——乞丐做皇帝？不，这是路人混混翻身做主角。

《最后的证人》——如果一切可怕、可憎的记忆都可以抹除，那保管记忆的人，也就成了后的证人。

The Ambassadors, which Henry James considered his best work, is the most exquisite refinement of his favorite theme: the collision of American innocence with European experience. This time, James recounts the continental journey of Louis Lambert Strether--a fiftysomething man of the world who has been dispatched abroad by a rich widow, Mrs. Newsome. His mission: to save her son Chadwick from the clutches of a wicked (i.e., European) woman, and to convince the prodigal to return to Woollett, Massachusetts. Instead, this all-American envoy finds Europe growing on him. Strether also becomes involved in a very Jamesian "relation" with the fascinating Miss Maria Gostrey, a fellow American and informal Sacajawea to her compatriots. Clearly Paris has "improved" Chad beyond recognition, and convincing him to return to the U.S. is going to be a very, very hard sell. Suspense, of course, is hardly James's stock-in-trade. But there is no more meticulous mapper of tone and atmosphere, nuance and implication. His hyper-refined characters are at their best in dialogue, particularly when they're exchanging morsels of gossip. Astute, funny, and relentlessly intelligent, James amply fulfills his own description of the novelist as a person upon whom nothing is lost. --Rhian Ellis --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutalizing millions — until its divine protectors were killed. Now, Bulikov’s history has been censored and erased, its citizens subjugated. But the surreal landscape of the city itself, forever altered by the thousands of miracles its guardians once worked upon it, stands as a haunting reminder of its former supremacy.

Into this broken city steps Shara Thivani. Officially, the unassuming young woman is just another junior diplomat sent by Bulikov’s oppressors. Unofficially, she is one of her country’s most accomplished spies, dispatched — along with her terrifying “secretary”, Sigrud — to solve a murder.

But as Shara pursues the killer, she starts to suspect that the beings who ruled this terrible place may not be as dead as they seem, and that Bulikov’s cruel reign may not yet be over.

A tale of vast conspiracies, dead gods, and buried histories, City of Stairs is at once a gripping spy novel and a stunningly original work of fantasy.