页数： 320 到书日期： 2024-4-24 上传日期： 2024-4-23

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英文简介: Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—by Nebula Award-winning debut author John Wiswell

Shesheshen has made a mistake fatal to all monsters: she’s fallen in love.

Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on murdering her, she constructs a body from the remains of past meals: a metal chain for a backbone, borrowed bones for limbs, and a bear trap as an extra mouth.

However, the hunters chase Shesheshen out of her home and off a cliff. Badly hurt, she’s found and nursed back to health by Homily, a warm-hearted human, who has mistaken Shesheshen as a fellow human. Homily is kind and nurturing and would make an excellent co-parent: an ideal place to lay Shesheshen’s eggs so their young could devour Homily from the inside out. But as they grow close, she realizes humans don’t think about love that way.

Shesheshen hates keeping her identity secret from Homily, but just as she’s about to confess, Homily reveals why she’s in the area: she’s hunting a shapeshifting monster that supposedly cursed her family. Has Shesheshen seen it anywhere?

Eating her girlfriend isn’t an option. Shesheshen didn’t curse anyone, but to give herself and Homily a chance at happiness, she has to figure out why Homily’s twisted family thinks she did. As the hunt for the monster becomes increasingly deadly, Shesheshen must unearth the truth quickly, or soon both of their lives will be at risk.

And the bigger challenge remains: surviving her toxic in-laws long enough to learn to build a life with, rather than in, the love of her life.

页数： 0 到书日期： 2024-4-18 上传日期： 2024-4-18

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英文简介: The wellness retreat to die for – and maybe you will . . .

No one in Lily Lennox’s life can understand why each of the past five summers, she has shut her successful business and chosen instead to be paid minimum wage life-guarding at the exclusive Riovan Wellness Resort on a sun-soaked Caribbean island.

Fortunately for her, they also aren’t aware of the mysterious deaths that have occurred on the island every time she’s there.

Lily always does her best not to attract attention. After all, if your mission is murder, it’s best not to draw suspicious eyes. But this year a very attractive guest and podcaster, Daniel Black, is asking a few too many inconvenient questions.

Is he there to hunt her down? And if so, how will she manage her growing attraction towards him at the same time as getting away with murder?

页数： 200 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2024-3-29

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英文简介: A coming-of-age story set during the liberation of the Dutch East Indies.

At the end of the war, Nell is released from a Japanese internment camp in Java. While searching for her father in the chaos, she meets Tim, a young man who is looking for his family too.

Nell’s journey takes her first to Singapore then to a new life and new friends in Sydney, Australia. But although Tim may well be the love of her life, her father puts her on a passenger liner bound for the Netherlands. Will Nell really be able to settle in a country she’s never known – and will she ever see Tim again?

Based on the true story of Nora Valk, this is an exciting tale of courage and friendship, hope and determination, about the search for love and a place to finally call home.

页数： 350 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2024-3-29

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英文简介: 1858: The Malay Archipelago. In the remote tropics a young British naturalist, Alfred Wallace, toils in obscurity. He collects specimens: beetles, moths, ants and birds that sell for pennies apiece in England.

One night, suffering from fever and hallucination, Wallace solves the greatest mystery of the era: the origin of species. To circulate his discovery, he contacts a distant acquaintance Charles Darwin. Unbeknownst to Wallace, Darwin has been secretly penning a near-identical version of the same evolutionary theory for twenty years. Darwin soon achieves world-renown and Wallace earns, if nothing else, widespread grudging respect. But then Wallace returns to England where his advocacy for ideas ranging from socialism to spiritualism launches him on a collision course with the men at the very heart of the scientific establishment, including Darwin.

The Evolutionist tells of one man’s determination to seek out his own truths in his own unique way and the price he pays. From oppressive jungle to mid-Victorian London, this is a disturbing tale of money, class, faith and discrimination.

页数： 274 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2024-3-29

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英文简介: A unique anthology of short stories and poetry by feminist contemporaries of Virginia Woolf, who were writing about work, discrimination, war, relationships, sexuality and love in the early part of the 20th Century.

Includes works by English and American writers Zelda Fitzgerald, Charlotte Perkins Gillman, Radclyffe Hall, Katherine Mansfield, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf, alongside their recently rediscovered ‘sisters’ from around the world. This book offers a diverse and international array of over 20 literary gems from women writers living in Bulgaria, Chile, China, Egypt, France, Italy, Palestine, Romania, Russia, Spain and Ukraine.

List of authors and works included:

A Woman by Fani Popova-Mutafova (translated by Petya Pavlova)
Thoughts by Myra Viola Wilds
The Little Governess by Katherine Mansfield
Villa Myosotis by Sorana Gurian (translated by Gabi Reigh)
The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf
Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself [extract] by Radclyffe Hall
I sit and sew by Alice Dunbar Nelson
First Steps [extract] by Dorka Talmon (translated by Mira Glover)
Coming Home by Maria Messina (translated by Juliette Neil)
Vegetal Reverie by Magda Isanos (translated by Gabi Reigh)
The Iceberg by Zelda Fitzgerald
The Russian Princess by Carmen de Burgos (translated by Slava Faybysh)
Bring to Me All… by Marina Tsvetaeva (translated by Nina Kossman)
Autres Temps by Edith Wharton
Unheard by Yente Serdatsky (translated by Dalia Wolfson)
Fog by Gabriela Mistral (translated by Stuart Cooke)
Natalia [extract] by Fausta Cialente (translated by Laura Shanahan)
What makes this century worse? by Anna Akhmatova (translated by Olga Livshin)
Broken by Nataliya Kobrynska (translated by Hanna Leliv & Slava Faybysh)
Sunset by Antonia Pozzi (translated by Sonia di Placido)
Once Upon A Time by Ling Shuhua (translated by Leilei Chen)
Their Religions and our Marriages: Herland [extract] by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Goodbye Lebanon by May Ziadeh (translated by Rose DeMaris)

页数： 304 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2024-3-23

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英文简介: Sensual, magnetic, wild

The long-awaited novel by Małgorzata Lebda

May. End of the world. It’s a long way from here. Two women come here, leaving their previous lives behind. But they are not greeted by an idyllic reality. Róża is ill, and her husband, in order to save her, slowly dismantles the order that he has built throughout his life.

Maja is affected by a change that is difficult to tame. The visitors cannot, or perhaps do not want to, prevent the inevitable catastrophe that is slowly spreading to the entire village. Memories mix with the here and now, human with animal, concern with fury. The living desperately opposes death.

Małgorzata Lebda’s spare, sensual novel combines sensitivity to nature, of which humans are a part, with linguistic mastery. The author creates a multi-layered story about the power of the elements, greed for life and the private cosmos in a moment of trial.

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Sensualna, magnetyczna, dzika

Wyczekiwana powieść Małgorzaty Lebdy

Maj. Koniec świata. Stąd wszędzie jest daleko. Dwie kobiety przyjeżdżają tu, zostawiając za sobą dotychczasowe życie. Ale nie wita ich sielska rzeczywistość. Róża choruje, a jej mąż, by ją ratować, powoli rozmontowuje porządek, który konstruował całe życie.

Maja dotyka zmiana, którą trudno oswoić. Przyjezdne nie mogą, a może nie chcą, zapobiec nieuchronnej katastrofie, powoli rozprzestrzeniającej się na całą wieś. Wspomnienia mieszają się z tym, co tu i teraz, ludzkie ze zwierzęcym, troska z furią. Żywe rozpaczliwie sprzeciwia się śmierci.

Oszczędna, oddziałująca na zmysły czytających powieść Małgorzaty Lebdy łączy wrażliwość na naturę, której częścią jest człowiek, z maestrią językową. Autorka tworzy wielowarstwową opowieść o sile żywiołów, zachłanności na życie i prywatnym kosmosie w momencie próby.

页数： 368 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2024-3-23

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英文简介: A bored socialite becomes a cunning amateur sleuth in this wildly entertaining, Agatha Christie¬inspired mystery of murder and mayhem set in nineteenth-century Poland¶“An ingenious marriage of comedy and crime.”―Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel laureate and author of the Man Booker International Prize winner Flights¶ Cracow, 1893: Zofia Turbotynska―professor’s wife, socialite, and bored homemaker―has little more to do than plan a charity auction sponsored by the wealthy residents of a local nursing home and the nuns who work there. But when one of those residents is found dead, Zofia finds a calling: solving crime. Ridiculed by the police, who have declared the deaths of natural cause, she starts her own murder investigation, unbeknownst to anyone but her loyal cook Franciszka and one reluctant nun. With her husband blissfully unaware of her secret, Zofia remakes herself into one the most surprising, and maybe even effective, detectives combing the city streets. But what will it take for her to find the killer. . .before she becomes the next victim?

页数： 300 到书日期： 2024-3-21 上传日期： 2024-3-21

中文概要: 一部无可挑剔的历史小说，博关经典，故事情节充斥着阴谋、爱情和可怕的欺骗，风格迷人而精致，带领读者穿越皇宫的金碧辉煌的寝宫和气势恢宏的花园，向读者展示东方城市的神秘一面。

约翰一世·齐米斯克斯和他的叔叔菲卡斯一起长大，随着时间的推移，他成为了一名英勇的领袖，并与他那个时代最杰出的将军尼克弗洛斯二世和利奥·菲卡斯一起勇敢地为拜占庭帝国而战。战争是他唯一的人生方向:妻子死于难产，他父亲的亲戚库尔库亚斯(Kurkuas)认为他是叛徒。当乔凡尼似乎除了与佛卡斯人并肩作战之外没有其他选择时，三个女巫预言他将成为皇帝。但是，既然他的导师尼克福洛斯坐在宝座上，而他就是抚养他的人，这怎么可能呢?

当尼克福洛斯背弃了他，迷人的西奥帕诺对他暗送秋波时，齐米斯克斯必须要对他自己的未来作出抉择：对皇帝保持忠诚，坚守他从小就遵循的原则，还是取代他的位置，完全接受他的Collana Le strade 命运?

战争、谋杀、阴谋和背叛：索尼娅·阿乔(Sonia Aggio)在处女作《颂歌》(Magnificat)之后，带着一本扣人心弦、充满曲折的小说强势回归，追溯了一个非凡男人的故事，他从一个普通的士兵开始，出人意料地夺取了王位，成功改变了他的帝国的命运。在这本书中，作者以卓越的才华和精准的笔 调，通过约翰一世齐米斯克斯登上王位的史诗故事，重构了他的存在寓言，描述了世界上有史以来最广为流传的所谓‘天命所归’。(Sandy)

英文简介: An impeccable historical novel, with the flavor of a classic with a plot full of intrigues, loves and terrible deceptions, and an engaging and refined style, which takes the reader through the glittering rooms of the imperial palaces and their magnificent gardens, showing us the secret sides of the cities of the East.

John i Tzimiskes who grew up with his maternal uncles, the Phokas, over the time became a valiant leader and fought courageously for the Byzantine Empire alongside Nikephoros II, the most brilliant general of his era, and Leo Phokas. War is all he has left: his wife died during childbirth and his father’s relatives, the Kurkuas, consider him a traitor. When it seems that Giovanni has no other purpose than fighting alongside the Phokas, three witches prophesy that he will become emperor. But how can this be possible, given that Nikephoros, his mentor, sits on the throne and he is the man who raised him and for whom he would give his life?

When Nikephoros turns his back on him and the charming Theophano knocks on his door, Tzimiskes has to decide what he wants to do with his future: remain faithful to the emperor, supporting the principles he grew up with, or take his place, definitively accepting his destiny?

Wars, murders, conspiracies and betrayals: after her debut with Magnificat, Sonia Aggio returns to bookstores with a gripping novel full of twists and turns, retracing the events of an extraordinary man who, starting from a simple soldier, managed to change the fate of his Empire by unexpectedly conquering the crown. In this book, with great talent and accuracy, the author reconstructs the existential parable of John I Tzimiskes through the epic tale of his rise to the throne, describing the daily reality of one of the most extensive dominations the world has ever known.

页数： 0 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2024-3-1

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