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'Brenda Bowen's Enchanted August is a perfect summer read – for any time of the year' Everyone needs a place like Hopewell Cottage – a romantic holiday rental on a small, sunny island. For Rose and L

The diaries of August G”llerich, secretary and student of Franz Liszt, provide a first-hand account of the Master's approach to piano teaching, his preferences and prejudices both musical and social,

“A surprisingly fresh take on the classic children's ABCs book.” A “Best Book of 2019.” —Vanity FairA fun way to inspire children’s imagination and creativity!” —Serena Williams“Art connects us all on

People Pick • O Magazine Title to Pick Up Now • Vanity Fair Hot Type • Glamour New Book You’re Guaranteed to Love This Summer • LitHub.com Best Book about Books • Buzzfeed Book You Need to Read This S

The original series from the Master of Fright--now a major motion picture in theaters August 7, 2015!The original books featuring the scariest creatures from the Goosebumps movie, in theaters August 7

August Chalmin feels the weather like no one else. A large awkward recluse, with bright orange hair and sun-shy eyes, August hides himself away behind the counter of a Shepherd's Bush deli. One winter

Learn more about Richard Nixon—one of America’s most unpopular presidents and the only one to resign from the position.On August 8, 1974, millions sat stunned as they watched Richard Nixon on TV when

The history-making, ground-breaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today'In August 2018 a fifte

The story of Greta Thunberg, the schoolgirl who inspired a worldwide climate change movement.It’s 20 August 2018, late summer in Stockholm, and it feels incredibly hot in the city. The TV news reports

In August 1994, Manic Street Preachers released The Holy Bible, a dark, fiercely intelligent album that explored such themes as mental illness, murder and war. Richey Edwards, the band's lyricist and

Publishing simultaneously in PB, HC and eBook editions.CONTINUING OUR STELLAR SCIENCE SERIES: Lucy's Lab kicked off with Nuts About Science and Solids, Liquids, Guess Who's Got Gas? in August 2017, an

On August 15, 1969, a music festival called "Woodstock" transformed one small dairy farm in upstate New York into a gathering place for over 400,000 young music fans. Concert-goers,

On August 25th, 2005, one of the deadliest and most destructive hurricanes in history hit the Gulf of Mexico. High winds and rain pummeled coastal communities, including the City of New Orleans, which

It's a hot August Saturday on Nantucket Island. Over the course of the next 24 hours, two lives will be transformed forever.Marguerite Beale, former chef of culinary hot spot Les Parapluies, has been

The morning of August 24, AD 79, seemed like any other in the Roman city of Pompeii. So no one was prepared when the nearby volcano Mount Vesuvius suddenly erupted, spouting ash that buried the city a

On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 people gathered in Washington, DC, to demand equal rights for all races. It was there that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, and it wa

August 1845 in New York; enter the dark, unforgiving city underworld of the legendary Five Points... After a fire decimates a swathe of lower Manhattan, and following years of passionate political dis

Don’t miss The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, soon to be a major motion picture in theaters August 2013.True love is shrouded in secrets and lies in the #1 New York Times bestselling second book o

In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo, four teenage girls drift through a hot smoggy August and tedious summer school classes. There's dependable Toshi; brainy Terauchi; Yuzan, grief-stricken and conf

Since its hardcover publication in August of 1995, Buffett has appeared on the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, Newsday and Business Week

"Of all Lepage's magic boxes, this is the masterpiece" -Independent on SundayEarly one August morning in 1945, several kilos of uranium dropped over Japan changed the course of human history. Fifty ye

“The definitive account of how the world’s richest man, in a fit of unbridled vanity and arrogance, took over and destroyed our digital town square.” —John Carreyrou, author of Bad Blood​"Astonishing. Kate Conger and Ryan Mac’s meticulous, comprehensive reporting turns an opaque mess brutally transparent." —Jia Tolentino, author of Trick MirrorRising star New York Times technology reporters, Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tell for the first time the full and shocking inside story of Elon Musk’s unprecedented takeover of Twitter and the forty-four-billion-dollar deal’s seismic political, social, and financial falloutThe billionaire entrepreneur and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has become inextricable from the social media platform that until 2023 was known as Twitter. Started in the mid-2000s as a playful microblogging platform, Twitter quickly became a vital nexus of global politics, culture, and media—where the retweet button could instantly catapult any idea to hundre

Kathleen Glasgow 三部動人YA小說首度集結成套，收錄《Girl in Pieces》《How to Make Friends With the Dark》《You’d Be Home Now》。從創傷、喪親到成癮家庭，三個女孩在黑暗中面對失去、孤單與自我懷疑，卻也一步步學會重新站起。寫實、深刻、充滿情感力量，適合喜歡心理成長與療癒小說的讀者。From New York Times bestseller and author of the TikTok phenomenon Girl in Pieces comes a boxed set including all three of Kathleen Glasgow's critically acclaimed novels: Girl in Pieces, How to Make Friends With the Dark, and You'd Be Home Now."Impossibly moving...suffused with light." --Vanity FairA girl struggling to put herself back together after a lifetime of hardship. A daughter grieving the loss of her mother. A family broken apart by addiction, but hiding behind a perfect facade. For the first time ever, all three of Kathleen Glasgow's important and moving novels are collected in this three-book box set, which includes paperback editions of the New York Times bestseller Girl in Pieces, as well as How to Make Friends With the Dark and You'd Be Home Now.Girl in Pieces:Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At se

Fans everywhere will love reading this exciting novelization of a thrilling new superhero adventure from Paramount Pictures premiering August 5, 2022! Charlie Kincaid is an average kid, just hanging around with his friends, worrying about perfecting his pitching skills and who he should ask to the school dance. That is, until the day he discovers a secret headquarters that seems to belong to a superhero. Now suddenly, nothing is the same. What should he do next, and who can he trust?

在中國近代出版史、中西文化交流史上，普魯士新教傳教士郭實獵（Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff，1803～1851）編譯的《萬國地理全集》佔有一席重要地位。這部1844年由香港刊行、「世所鮮見」（魏源語）的世界地理書，在清廷被迫簽下城下之盟《江寧條約》（即《南京條約》）二三年後，在特殊歷史條件下，它闖進儒家典籍牢固統治的晚清士人學者的閱讀世界裡，成爲一扇軒敞的窗牖。它拓寬

在中國近代史上，普魯士新教傳教士郭實獵（Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff，1803-1851）是個頗為重要和具爭議性的人物。其後半生“二十年裡幾乎參與過中國沿海每一個重大事件”，對中英兩國的外交紛爭扮演著舉足輕重的角色。他一生譯著中文書刊凡 63 種，對晚清經世學者的世界史地，以及太平天國的宗教思想有著顯著的影響。1867 年刊行的偉烈亞力《基

貝琪是個聰明的女孩，但身無分文，孤苦無依，她的好友艾蜜莉拉來自富裕的家庭，與軍官相戀。貝琪一心追求時髦與虛華，她能找到幸福的婚姻嗎？這兩個年輕女強人最後命運如何呢？Level 3/ 1200 headwords/ Pre-Intermediate/ Classic/ British English/ Number of words(excluding activities): 23566

WINNER OF THE NEWBERY MEDALA FINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDA NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERAN INDIE BESTSELLERWhen twelve-year-old Michael Rosario meets a mysterious boy from the future, his life is changed forever. From bestselling author Erin Entrada Kelly, winner of the Newbery Medal for Hello, Universe and a Newbery Honor for We Dream of Space, this novel explores themes of family, friendship, trust, and forgiveness. The First State of Being is for fans of Rebecca Stead's When You Reach Me.It's August 1999. For twelve-year-old Michael Rosario, life at Fox Run Apartments in Red Knot, Delaware, is as ordinary as ever--except for the looming Y2K crisis and his overwhelming crush on his fifteen-year-old babysitter, Gibby. But when a disoriented teenage boy named Ridge appears out of nowhere, Michael discovers there is more to life than stockpiling supplies and pining over Gibby.It turns out that Ridge is carefree, confident, and bold, things Michael wishes he could be. Unlike Mi

ANEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER and ONE OF THENEW YORK TIMES’S NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEARANEW YORK TIMES "BEST THRILLER" and "BEST CRIME NOVEL" OF THE YEARPEOPLE MAGAZINE’S #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR“Extraordinary . . . Reminds me of Donna Tartt’s 1992 debut,The Secret History. . . I was so thoroughly submerged in a rich fictional world, that for hours I barely came up for air.” —Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air, NPR“This expertly paced thriller …has the kineticism of a well-crafted miniseries.” —The New YorkerWhen a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collideEarly morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found.As a panicked sea

一位來自未來的少年，打亂了麥可平凡的生活。他們在1999年相遇，跨越時代的友情逐漸展開。但當麥可發現未來的書可能改變命運，他開始質疑什麼才是真正重要的。榮獲紐伯瑞獎與國家圖書獎決選，本書結合時間旅程與青春探索，是一部深具情感與想像力的佳作。WINNER OF THE NEWBERY MEDALA FINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDA NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERAN INDIE BESTSELLERMichael Rosario, a twelve-year-old Filipino boy living with his single mother in an apartment complex in Delaware, meets a mysterious boy from the future in this suspenseful stand-alone novel by the award-winning and bestselling Erin Entrada Kelly. For fans of Rebecca Stead’s When You Reach Me.It's August 1999. For twelve-year-old Michael Rosario, life at Fox Run Apartments in Red Knot, Delaware, is as ordinary as ever—except for the looming Y2K crisis and his overwhelming crush on his sixteen-year-old babysitter, Gibby. But when a disoriented teenage boy named Ridge appears out of nowhere, Michael discovers there is more to life than stockpiling supplies and pining over Gibby.It turns out that Ridge is carefree, confident, and bold, things Michael wish

A hilariously funny new illustrated children’s novel from the multi-million bestselling author of SPACEBOYMillion-copy bestseller David Walliams’ funniest book yet – a laugh-out-loud tale of the most blundering and lovable family in history. This paperback edition includes a hilarious NEW STORY.Meet the Blunders: Bertie, Betsy, their children, Brutus and Bunny, along with their beloved grandma Old Lady Blunder, and their pet ostrich, Cedric. An ostrich is not a sensible pet, but then the Blunders are not sensible people.This family of upper-class twits lives in a crumbling country house named Blunder Hall. When their home comes under threat, they must embark on a series of comic misadventures to save it.Absurd and hilarious, The Blunders is David Walliams’ funniest book yet. A laugh-out-loud tale of the most blundering and lovable family in history.David Walliams was most recently Children’s number one bestseller with The World’s Worst Monsters (TCM Chart, 22 August 2023).

Flamingo 發現一頂閃閃發亮的泳帽，瞬間覺得自己帥翻了！結果泳帽一戴，竟召來一位氣質非凡的「氣氣仙女教母」，宣布他有機會成為充氣界的超級明星──擁有金馬桶、專屬管家、豪華充氣城堡的一切榮耀！但要繼承這一切，他得接受一連串奇妙任務：從拔劍、打龍到對抗瘋狂羊駝，每一關都笑料百出。Flamingo 能否撐到底、實現他的閃亮明星夢？The Inflatables don't get pumped. They stay pumped! Inflata-pals and bouncy BFFs Cactus, Flamingo, Donut, and Watermelon are ready for a fresh wave of drama in this hilariously action-packed graphic novel series that's perfect for fans of Dog Man and The Bad Guys!When Flamingo finds a bejeweled swim cap, he knows he will look fiiiiine in it. But when it fits perfectly, he gets a surprise visit from an Airy Godmother with some mind-blowing inflata-news! The inflata-head that fits his bejewelled swim cap will be the air to a celeb style inflatable estate -- complete with glittery bouncy castle, solid-gold bathroom, and inflata-staff for everything!Flamingo is pumped! Capes! Giant birthday parties! Being on the cover of Vanity Air! BUT as the Airy Godmother explains he'll need to complete a number of challenges first. Pull an

A timely and important illustrated nonfiction guide for middle-grade readers about the history of the fight against climate change, and how young people today can rise to action.Inspired by Nathaniel Rich’s Losing Earth: A Recent History, the acclaimed book that grew out of an August 2018 issue of The New York Times Magazine soley dedicated to it, Saving Earth tells the human story of the climate change conversation from the recent past into the present day. It wrestles with the long shadow of our failures, what might be ahead for today’s generation, crucial questions of how we understand the world we live in—and how we can work together to change the outlook for the better. Featuring the inspiring voices of climate change activists from the past and present, as well as illustrations by Tim Foley, this book is both a call to action for young people and a riveting dramatic history.

最強新托福版本整合規劃 包含六大學習法以經典小說為閱讀主題具備更多人生智慧迎戰未來考驗經典小說反映各種人生現況且歷久不衰主題包含愛情和人生規劃等重大課題讓你在20-30中做出合適且聰明的決定 人生有一手好牌卻搞砸了：在《Of Human Bondage》中，即使有父親的遺產和後來伯母的積蓄資助留法等，菲利普卻因為一系列連續的錯誤決定而必須中斷醫學系課業。 投資：在《Vanity Fair》中，薩德利先生儘管人生早年獲取可觀財富和贏得成功，卻因為一次投資上的錯誤決定，頓時一無所有。 出身並未影響到後來人生際遇：在《Vanity Fair》中，儘管蓓琪家境貧寒、缺乏背景，艾美麗雅出身豪門，就擁有一萬英鎊的身價，而蓓琪卻是一無所有，但蓓琪在逆境和殘酷命運面前卻有著令人欽佩的特質，後來甚至超越了她的同學艾美麗雅…。（更多話題請見書籍內容）閱讀文章精要所在省錢+省時間一次掌握多部小說掌握小說大意能迅速用於找尋報告專題方向 許多國外國、高中生也會因為要突然撰寫像是《遠大前程》等小說的報告，在有限時間內要迅速閱讀確實需要，因為牽涉到小說長度、鋪陳和理解等，而你僅需要閱讀一篇文章就能掌握到所有故事脈絡…。部分主題更涵蓋了法律英文主題，提高思考等學習能力！六項學習步驟，而非僅仰賴不斷刷TPO（刷TPO僅在熟悉題型和檢測當下寫試題所具備的語文能力）Step 1: 資訊歸納題：聽和讀整合能力強化Step 2: 聽力填空題Step 3: 字彙實力檢測Step 4: 摘要能力題Step 5: 影子跟讀和中譯Step 6: 新托福全真模擬試題學習順序均可進行更動並根據程度、個人偏好進行調整 建議初、中階考生先進行聽力填空題和字彙實力檢測後，再進行其他部分的學習規劃，降低學習上的挫折感，並從中累積各種字彙和語句。接著進行影子跟讀和中譯，中英對照觀看並進行跟讀練習提升聽力實力。 具備一定程度的考生，例如新托福100-110左右的考生，可以先進行新托福全真模擬試題，並完成資訊歸納題和摘要能力題。  資訊歸納題：閱讀和聽力整合規劃，閱讀試題後答題+播放音檔答閱讀試題，同步演練聽力和閱讀並強化分類和歸納能力。 摘要能力題：閱讀文章後，撰寫一篇摘要或是閱讀文章後以口述摘要一段話，能快速強化新托福口說和寫作整合題答題能力，並且提升就業力。在外商等需英文開會的公司工作更需要具備這項能力。十大新

A gripping middle-grade history that offers a fresh look at the groundbreaking 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom by spotlighting the protest's radical roots and the underappreciated role of Black women--includes a wealth of contemporary black-and-white photos throughout. Six decades ago, on August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom--a moment often revered as the culmination of this Black-led protest. But at its core, the March on Washington was not a beautiful dream of future integration; it was a mass outcry for jobs and freedom NOW--not at some undetermined point in the future. It was a revolutionary march with its own controversies and problems, the themes of which still resonate to this day. Without diminishing the words of Dr. King, More Than a Dream looks at the march through a wider lens, using Black newspaper reports as a primary resource, recognizing the overlooked wo

全書共收入瓦爾特‧本雅明於20世紀30年代寫就的《攝影小史》(1931)、《機械複製時代的藝術作品》(1936)、《繪畫與攝影》(1936)和《法國國家圖書館中國畫展》(1938)4篇論文。其中，《攝影小史》和《機械複製時代的藝術作品》均為本雅明享譽世界的佳作名篇。作為對攝影、電影的批評實踐中的豐碑，它們不僅為人們理解這兩個媒介提供了一種全新且富於啟發的視角，對尼塞福爾‧尼埃普斯(Nicéphore Niépce)、歐仁‧阿特熱(Eugène Atget)乃至奧古斯特‧桑德(August Sander)這樣的攝影先驅及他們的美學、技術成就做出了令人印象深刻的評判，也極為深入地討論了攝影、電影與繪畫之間糾纏不清、若即若離的關係。

A #1 New York Times bestseller and a #1 Indie bestseller!"Good dog Bob. Great to have a best friend.”—Danny DeVitoReturn to the unforgettable world of the Newbery Medal-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling novel The One and Only Ivan in this incredible sequel, starring Ivan’s friend Bob! Catch up with these beloved friends before you see the star-studded film adaptation of The One and Only Ivan, now available on Disney+!Bob sets out on a dangerous journey in search of his long-lost sister with the help of his two best friends, Ivan and Ruby. As a hurricane approaches and time is running out, Bob finds courage he never knew he had and learns the true meaning of friendship and family.Bob, Ivan, and Ruby have touched the hearts of millions of readers, and their story isn’t over yet. Catch up with these beloved friends before the star-studded film adaptation of The One and Only Ivan hits theaters in August 2020!One and Only Bob is an instant #1 New York Times bestseller, embraced by n