A thrillingly reimagined fairy tale from the truly magical combination of author Neil Gaiman and illustrator Chris Riddell - weaving together a sort-of Snow White and an almost Sleeping Beauty with a thread of dark magic, which will hold readers spellbound from start to finish. On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and follows her brave dwarf retainers into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom. This queen will decide her own future - and the princess who needs rescuing is not quite what she seems. Twisting together the familiar and the new, this perfectly delicious, captivating and darkly funny tale shows its creators at the peak of their talents. Lavishly produced, packed with glorious Chris Riddell illustrations enhanced with metallic ink, this is a spectacular and magical gift. Shortlisted for The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2016

An m/m World War II-era retelling of Beauty and the Beast.During a chance summer shower, an English country parson takes refuge in a country house. The house seems deserted, yet the table is laid with a sumptuous banquet such as the parson has not seen since before war rationing. Unnerved by the uncanny house, he flees, but stops to pluck a single perfect rose from the garden for his daughter - only for the master of the house to appear, breathing fire with rage. Literally. At first, the parson can't stand this dragon-man. But slowly, he begins to feel the injustice of the curse that holds the dragon captive. What can break this vengeful curse?

"The Wild Inside is an unusual love story and a creepy horror novel — think of the Brontë sisters and Stephen King." —John IrvingA promising talent makes her electrifying debut with this unforgettable novel, set in the Alaskan wilderness, that is a fusion of psychological thriller and coming-of-age tale in the vein of Jennifer McMahon, Chris Bohjalian, and Mary Kubica.A natural born trapper and hunter raised in the Alaskan wilderness, Tracy Petrikoff spends her days tracking animals and running with her dogs in the remote forests surrounding her family’s home. Though she feels safe in this untamed land, Tracy still follows her late mother’s rules: Never Lose Sight of the House. Never Come Home with Dirty Hands. And, above all else, Never Make a Person Bleed.But these precautions aren’t enough to protect Tracy when a stranger attacks her in the woods and knocks her unconscious. The next day, she glimpses an eerily familiar man emerge from the tree line, gravely injured from a vicious knife wound—a wound from a hunting knife similar to the one she carries in her pocket. Was this the man who attacked her and did she almost kill him? With her memories of the events jumbled, Tracy can’t be sure.Helping her father cope with her mother’s death and prepare for the approaching Iditarod, she doesn’t have time to think about what she may have done. Then a mysterious wanderer appears, looking for a job. Tracy senses that Jesse Goodwin is hiding something, but she can’t warn her father without explaining about the attack—or why she’s kept it to herself.It soon becomes clear that something dangerous is going on . . . the way Jesse has wormed his way into the family . . . the threatening face of the stranger in a crowd . . . the boot-prints she finds at the forest’s edge.Her family is in trouble. Will uncovering the truth protect them—or is the threat closer than Tracy suspects?

It is Midwinter's Eve, the night before Will's eleventh birthday. But there is an atmosphere of fear in the familiar countryside around him. Will is about to make a shocking discovery - that he is the last person to be born with the power of the Old Ones, and as a guardian of the Light he must begin a dangerous journey to vanquish the terrifyingly evil magic of the Dark.

A Taiwanese American woman’s coming of consciousness ignites eye-opening revelations and chaos on a college campus in this outrageously hilarious yet startlingly tender debut novel
29-year-old PhD student Ingrid Yang is desperate to finish her dissertation on the late canonical poet, Xiao-Wen Chou, and never read about “Chinese-y” things again. But after four years of painstaking research, she has nothing but anxiety and stomach pain to show for her efforts. When she accidentally stumbles upon a strange and curious note in the Chou archives, she convinces herself it’s her ticket out of academic hell.

But Ingrid’s in much deeper than she thinks. Her clumsy exploits to unravel the note’s message lead to an explosive discovery, one that upends her entire life and the lives of those around her. With her trusty friend Eunice Kim by her side and her rival Vivian Vo hot on her tail, together they set off a rollercoaster of mishaps and misadventures, from campus protests and OTC drug hallucinations, to book burnings and a movement that stinks of “Yellow Peril” propaganda.

In the aftermath, nothing looks quite the same to Ingrid—including her gentle and doting fiancé, Stephen Greene. When he embarks on a book tour with the “super kawaii” Japanese author he’s translated, doubts and insecurities creep in. At the same time, she finds herself drawn to the cool and aloof Alex Kim (even though she swears he’s not her type). As the events Ingrid instigated keep spiraling, she’ll have to confront her sticky relationship to white men and white institutions—and most of all, herself.

An uproarious and bighearted satire, alive with sharp edges, immense warmth, and a cast of unforgettable characters, Disorientation is both a blistering send-up of white supremacy in academia, and a profound reckoning of a Taiwanese American woman’s complicity and unspoken rage. In this electrifying debut novel from a provocative new voice, Chou asks who gets to tell our stories—and how the story changes when we finally tell it ourselves.

An international bestseller!

From the New York Times bestselling author of Sorcery of Thorns and An Enchantment of Ravens comes a thrilling, “dark coming-of-age adventure” (Culturess) about a teen girl with mythic abilities who must defend her world against restless spirits of the dead.

The spirits of the dead do not rest.

Artemisia is training to be a Gray Sister, a nun who cleanses the bodies of the deceased so that their souls can pass on; otherwise, they will rise as ravenous, hungry spirits. She would rather deal with the dead than the living, who whisper about her scarred hands and troubled past.

When her convent is attacked by possessed soldiers, Artemisia defends it by awakening an ancient spirit bound to a saint’s relic. It is a revenant, a malevolent being whose extraordinary power almost consumes her—but death has come, and only a vespertine, a priestess trained to wield a high relic, has any chance of stopping it. With all knowledge of vespertines lost to time, Artemisia turns to the last remaining expert for help: the revenant itself.

As she unravels a sinister mystery of saints, secrets, and dark magic, Artemisia discovers that facing this hidden evil might require her to betray everything she believes—if the revenant doesn’t betray her first.

作者一向主张对古代中国的研究要跨出传统的专业局限，从史学、考古、美术史、古地理学、思想理论等方面进行跨学科的整合，而此书正是他本人所做的一次最彻底的试验。本书利用考古学、人类学、历史学和神话学的各种材料，对中国文明的起源和它早期的特征作了精辟的阐述，可以看作是作者一生研究古代中国的综合性成果。近三十年来，先后有英、中、日三种文字的译本在世界各地流传。

“One of the great thinkers of our generation . . . I feel fresher and smarter and happier for sitting down with her.”—Jameela Jamil, iWeigh Podcast

The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the facts to debunk common anti-fat myths and with tools to take action for fat justice

The pushback that shows up in conversations about fat justice takes exceedingly predicable form. Losing weight is easy—calories in, calories out. Fat people are unhealthy. We’re in the midst of an obesity epidemic. Fat acceptance “glorifies obesity.” The BMI is an objective measure of size and health. Yet, these myths are as readily debunked as they are pervasive.

In “You Just Need to Lose Weight,” Aubrey Gordon equips readers with the facts and figures to reframe myths about fatness in order to dismantle the anti-fat bias ingrained in how we think about and treat fat people. Bringing her dozen years of community organizing and training to bear, Gordon shares the rhetorical approaches she and other organizers employ to not only counter these pernicious myths, but to dismantle the anti-fat bias that so often underpin them.

As conversations about fat acceptance and fat justice continue to grow, “You Just Need to Lose Weight” will be essential to ensure that those conversations are informed, effective, and grounded in both research and history.

Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate.

Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren't safe.

After a brutal accident entwines the three of them, this found family of survivors must navigate murderous TERFs, a sociopathic billionaire bunker brat, and awkward relationship dynamics—all while outrunning packs of feral men, and their own demons.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

“Stunning and heart-gripping.” —André Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name
The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson—“the French Brokeback Mountain” (Elle)—about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France, translated with subtle beauty and haunting lyricism by the iconic and internationally acclaimed actress/writer Molly Ringwald.
We drive at high speed along back roads, through woods, vineyards, and oat fields. The bike smells like gasoline and makes a lot of noise, and sometimes I’m frightened when the wheels slip on the gravel on the dirt road, but the only thing that matters is that I’m holding on to him, that I’m holding on to him outside.
Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back at the relationship he’s never forgotten, a hidden affair with a gorgeous boy named Thomas during their last year of high school. Without ever acknowledging they know each other in the halls, they steal time to meet in secret, carrying on a passionate, world-altering affair.
Dazzlingly rendered in English by Ringwald in her first-ever translation, Besson’s powerfully moving coming-of-age story captures the eroticism and tenderness of first love—and the heartbreaking passage of time.

She awoke in an alley to the splash of rain. She was naked, a foot-long gash in her back was still bleeding, and her identity implant was gone. Lore Van Oesterling had been the daughter of one of the world's most powerful families...and now she was nobody, and she had to hide.

Then out of the rain walked Spanner, predator and thief, who took her in, cared for her wound, and taught her how to reinvent herself again and again. No one could find Lore now: not the police, not her family, and not the kidnappers who had left her in that alley to die. She had escaped...but the cost of her newfound freedom was crime and deception, and she paid it over and over again, until she had become someone she loathed.

Lore had a choice: She could stay in the shadows, stay with Spanner...and risk losing herself forever. Or she could leave Spanner and find herself again by becoming someone else: stealing the identity implant of a dead woman, taking over her life, and creating a new future.

But to start again, Lore required Spanner's talents--Spanner, who needed her and hated her, and who always had a price. And even as Lore agreed to play Spanner's game one final time, she found that there was still the price of being a Van Oesterling to be paid. Only by confronting her family, her past, and her own demons could Lore meld together who she had once been, who she had become, and the person she intended to be...

An interior designer who is never without the perfect plan learns to renovate her love life without one in this new romantic comedy by Ashley Herring Blake, author of Delilah Green Doesn’t Care.
 
For Astrid Parker, failure is unacceptable. Ever since she broke up with her fiancé a year ago, she’s been focused on her career—her friends might say she’s obsessed, but she knows she’s just driven. When Pru Everwood asks her to be the designer for the Everwood Inn’s renovation, which will be featured on a popular HGTV show, Innside America, Astrid is thrilled. Not only will the project distract her from her failed engagement and help her struggling business, but her perpetually displeased mother might finally give her a nod of approval.
 
However, Astrid never planned on Jordan Everwood, Pru’s granddaughter and the lead carpenter for the renovation, who despises every modern design decision Astrid makes. Jordan is determined to preserve the history of her family’s inn, particularly as the rest of her life is in shambles. When that determination turns into some light sabotage to ruffle Astrid’s perfect little feathers, the showrunners ask them to play up the tension. But somewhere along the way, their dislike for each other evolves into something quite different, and Astrid must decide what success truly means. Is she going to pursue the life that she’s expected to lead or the one that she wants?

The instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller


The breakout poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman

Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and Other Poems, the luminous poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman captures a shipwrecked moment in time and transforms it into a lyric of hope and healing. In Call Us What We Carry, Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, this beautifully designed volume features poems in many inventive styles and structures and shines a light on a moment of reckoning. Call Us What We Carry reveals that Gorman has become our messenger from the past, our voice for the future.

**Don’t miss the new blockbuster thriller from Nell Pattison: HIDE – coming December 2021! Available to pre-order now...** If someone was in your house, you’d know ... Wouldn’t you? But the Hunter family are deaf, and don’t hear a thing when a shocking crime takes place in the middle of the night. Instead, they wake up to their worst nightmare: the murder of their daughter. The police call Paige Northwood to the scene to interpret for the witnesses. They’re in shock, but Paige senses the Hunters are hiding something. One by one, people from Paige’s community start to fall under suspicion. But who would kill a little girl? Was it an intruder? Or was the murderer closer to home? This mystery will keep you up all night – perfect for fans of The Silent Patient and Cara Hunter. Don’t miss Silent Night, the second book in the series. ‘Sinister, layered, atmospheric ... I couldn’t turn the pages quickly enough’ Debbie Howells ‘A nail-biting page-turner of a thriller ... The sense of a community isolated, and all the conflicts and tensions that brings, adds satisfying layers of complexity’ James Oswald ‘Delicate, brutal, impossible to put down. The Silent House is a disquieting thriller’ Ross Armstrong ‘A unique, chilling, fast-paced read that plunges you into a world of silence that has so much to say’ Deborah Masson ‘A superb innovation for the crime genre ... a brilliantly terrifying premise and a twisty, gripping tale’ Philippa East

We all play games. In every encounter with other people we are doing so. The nature of these games depends both on the situation and on who we meet. Eric Berne's classic "Games People Play" is the most accessible and insightful book ever written about the games we play: those patterns of behaviour that reveal hidden feelings and emotions. Wise and witty, it shows the underlying motivations behind our relationships and gives you the keys to unlock the psychology of others - and yourself. You'll become more honest, more effective, and a true team player.

◎《华氏451》《火星编年史》作者雷·布拉德伯里科幻惊悚故事集！
20个色彩斑斓的奇异想象，打开通往亿万宇宙的时空之门。
让人头皮发麻的不止恐怖小说，还有雷·布拉德伯里！
◎精装本×专色印刷，官方授权雷·布拉德伯里签名印签，随书附赠书签一枚。
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阁楼角落上锁的行李箱中，突然出现一具安静而美丽的死尸。
解剖台上一个独特的样本，将自己一生的故事娓娓道来。
巡回演出的马戏团中，扑朔迷离的罪案轮番上演。
没有人下车的小镇，一位陌生人打破了往日的平静。
腹语者，仿生人，以及栩栩如生的牵线木偶。
寂静无声的大宅子里，足不出户的屋主和诡异的笑面人。
过去、现在和未来在这里交汇，文学大师雷·布拉德伯里用20个色彩斑斓的惊悚故事，揭露潜藏在我们意识深处的恐惧、渴望和爱。
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◎大师作品×专家选篇！雷·布拉德伯里首部科幻惊悚、罪案主题的短篇小说集，揭开大师鲜为人知的创作轨迹！
雷·布拉德伯里，二十世纪最重要的美国作家之一，被誉为殿堂级科幻大师，被誉为“将现代科幻领入主流文学领域的重要人物”。他于1943年开始专职从事写作，除了最富盛名的代表作《华氏451》《火星编年史》，一生发表超过500部作品，包括短篇小说、长篇小说、剧本、诗歌，堪称想象力的杰出典范。
侦探推理、科幻、奇幻、惊悚小说都是布拉德伯里擅长的类型。早在他的科幻小说大放光彩之前，他独特的暗黑惊悚小说就已经在类型文学领域大受欢迎。
雷·布拉德伯里研究中心主任乔纳森·R.埃勒精心选编，将布拉德伯里创作生涯起步阶段最好的科幻惊悚、悬疑、罪案小说汇集起来，将大师不为人知的创作轨迹展现于大众眼前。正是这些光怪陆离、鲜少被读者独到的故事奠定了布拉德伯里写作的基调，使他成为这个时代最著名的作家之一。
◎20个色彩斑斓的奇异想象，揭露潜藏在我们意识深处的恐惧、渴望和爱。
夜半钟声、牵线木偶、仿生人、笑面人|……本书收录的作品曾刊登于《诡丽幻谭》《一角推理》《侦探故事》等类型文学刊物，三分之二为首次发表20个色彩斑斓的奇异想象，打开通往亿万宇宙的时空之门。
布拉德伯里的作品文笔优美，富有诗意与哲思，属于极少数能改变人们思考方式的作家，他的创造性探索触及了人类思想中最黑暗的区域，一篇篇充斥着怪诞、暗黑和寓言色彩的故事，揭露潜藏在我们意识深处的恐惧、渴望和爱。
◎难得一遇的珍贵资料！本书收录了乔纳森·R.埃勒对布拉德伯里创作轨迹的剖析，以及作者对自己写作生涯中最艰难的一段时期的思考和回望
本书由乔纳森·R.埃勒选篇，埃勒担任印第安纳大学文理学院英文校长教授，也是雷·布拉德伯里研究中心主任，就雷·布拉德伯里的生平和写作生涯创作过三部作品，分别是《成为雷·布拉德伯里》《雷·布拉德伯里：挣脱束缚》《布拉德伯里：超越阿波罗》。埃勒跨越了漫长的岁月，从布拉德伯里海量的作品中选出20篇最能代表其创作轨迹的佳作，亲自作序，深度剖析布拉德伯里在类型小说领域做出的尝试。
本书也收录了雷·布拉德伯里撰写的《哈米特？钱德勒？别担心！》自述文章，作者详细地介绍了自己的创作规律，揭秘创作生涯中最艰难的一段时期中难忘的经历。
◎超过半数作品为首次引进，带来全新的阅读体验！
《行李箱里的女人》《死人永不复生》《万物终结之地》《我的人生于昨日落幕》《无人下车的小镇》《笑面人》等超过半数的篇目为首次引进，揭开大师不为国内读者所知的一面，这是一段全新的旅程！
悬念迭起、涉猎面广、令人毛骨悚然。无论你是布拉德伯里的粉丝还是惊悚故事的拥趸，都应该读读这本书！——书评网站The Crime Review
◎收录了布拉德伯里自认创作生涯中最出色的作品，多篇改编为《希区柯克剧场》剧集！
◎精装本×专色印刷，官方授权雷·布拉德伯里签名印签，随书附赠书签一枚，兼具阅读和收藏的价值。
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在他尤为优秀的作品中，布拉德伯里的笔锋直抵美国暗黑深邃的哥特式内核。
——玛格丽特·阿特伍德
他的叙事才华重塑了我们的文化，拓宽了我们的世界。
——巴拉克·奥巴马
真正原始的想象力所蕴含的激越与力量让人振奋不已……布拉德伯里的想象力是一种了不起的、非凡的天资。
——克里斯托弗·伊舍伍德
布拉德伯里是我科幻事业的缪斯。在科幻、奇幻和想象力的世界中，他是不朽巨人。
——史蒂夫·斯皮尔伯格
布拉德伯里之于恐怖小说，正如D.H.劳伦斯之于性爱小说，没有布拉德伯里，就不会有现在的斯蒂芬·金。
——斯蒂芬·金
如果没有雷·布拉德伯里，我们生活的世界便少了一道风景。
——尼尔·盖曼
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雷•布拉德伯里具有超凡而神秘的想象力，这毫无疑问甚至能赢得埃德加•爱伦•坡的尊敬。
——《卫报》
他的散文和比喻中展现的活力，和他的想象力一起逸兴湍飞，让人无法不赞叹。
——《旁观者杂志》
布拉德伯里笔下的疯狂的世界，与我们的世界不无相似之处，在恐惧中引人入胜。
——《纽约时报》
悬念迭起、涉猎面广、令人毛骨悚然。无论你是布拉德伯里的粉丝还是惊悚故事的拥趸，都应该读读《杀手，回到我身边》！
——书评网站The Crime Review

"The mystery that Abughattas composes is always moving toward an impossible freeing of the self from its numerous frames. Yet frame by frame . . . she suspends our disbelief, catalogs those potentialities in an America always ready to shoot, direct, and produce the film of itself. Strip is 'in love with possibility, ' 'in praise of here I am, here I've been, ' USA style. Strip celebrates the body--its rise and fall, ebb and flow, in a carnival of parties--restlessly, shamelessly, searching for a way out.... Even as Abughattas claims that 'I can't believe sometimes I have a body, ' her poems teem with an awareness of the body's unavoidable centrality in our lives--in how we view our lives, and how others view them; in how they progress, and how they end; in how they become meaningful, and how they are stripped of meaning. And no stripping escapes memory. Whether in terms of dispossession or sexuality, admiration or pity, Abughattas renders her treatment of the body with candor and poignancy. . . . The most startling moments in Abughattas's poems, however, depend not on shocking or intimate details--but on the 'I' pulling away from the self, abandoning the ego, and gazing outward. She tries to see something else, to escape the body's restraints."
--Fady Joudah and Hayan Charara, from the Preface

A unique analysis of the numbers that came to define Chinese politics and how this quantification evolved over time.

For decades, a few numbers came to define Chinese politics-until those numbers did not count what mattered and what they counted did not measure up. Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts argues that the Chinese government adopted a system of limited, quantified vision in order to survive the disasters unleashed by Mao Zedong's ideological leadership. Jeremy Wallace explains how that system worked and analyzes how the problems that accumulated in its blind spots led Xi Jinping to take drastic action. Xi's neopolitical turn--aggressive anti-corruption campaigns, reassertion of party authority, and personalization of power--is an attempt fix the problems of the prior system, as well as a hedge against an inability to do so. The book argues that while of course dictators stay in power through coercion and cooptation, they also do so by convincing their populations and themselves of their right to rule. Quantification is one tool in this persuasive arsenal, but it comes with its own perils.

***NATIONAL BEST SELLER***

A vivid, surprising portrait of the civic and economic reinvention taking place in America, town by town and generally out of view of the national media. A realistically positive and provocative view of the country between its coasts.

For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have been traveling across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, they have met hundreds of civic leaders, workers, immigrants, educators, environmentalists, artists, public servants, librarians, business people, city planners, students, and entrepreneurs to take the pulse and understand the prospects of places that usually draw notice only after a disaster or during a political campaign.

The America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems--from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge--but itis also crafting solutions, with a practical-minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics. At times of dysfunction on a national level, reform possibilities have often arisen from the local level. The Fallowses describe America in the middle of one of these creative waves. Their view of the country is as complex and contradictory as America itself, but it also reflects the energy, the generosity and compassion, the dreams, and the determination of many who are in the midst of making things better. Our Towns is the story of their journey--and an account of a country busy remaking itself.