Neversink

Around Neversink: From the Rondout Reservoir to the Neversink Reservoir takes readers back to rural life in the Catskill Mountains not long after its first settlers arrived. Before the land was commis

When owls threaten the puffins' way of life on the small island of Neversink along the Arctic Circle, Lockley J. Puffin, helped by a hummingbird and a walrus, set out to save it. A debut novel.

When owls threaten the puffins' way of life on the small island of Neversink along the Arctic Circle, Lockley J. Puffin, helped by a hummingbird and a walrus, sets out to save it.

The Neversink River in New York’s Catskill Mountains, with its plunges and gorges, is one of the world’s great trout streams. So it’s no surprise that this diverse and fecund waterway has compelled th

女性敘事者的生命回望。故事以 Nora 的回望與自述為核心，描繪她在人生不同階段中，如何在家庭、感情與自我之間反覆試探方向。旁人眼中的她或許顯得輕率、疏離，但敘事聲音卻展現出敏銳而幽默的洞察力。文字看似平易，卻層層鋪展出時間、記憶與選擇交織的重量。多家媒體高度評價本書的成熟度與魅力，認為它既浪漫又冷靜，能細膩呈現那些在世界中感到格格不入的人，如何一步步理解自己的人生位置。One of Australia’s most celebrated novels: one woman’s journey from Australia to LondonNora Porteous, a witty, ambitious woman from Brisbane, returns to her childhood home at age seventy. Her life has taken her from a failed marriage in Sydney to freedom in London; she forged a modest career as a seamstress and lived with two dear friends through the happiest years of her adult life.At home, the neighborhood children she remembers have grown into compassionate adults. They help to nurse her back from pneumonia, and slowly let her in on the dark secrets of the neighborhood in the years that have lapsed.With grace and humor, Nora recounts her desire to escape, the way her marriage went wrong, the vanity that drove her to get a facelift, and one romantic sea voyage that has kept her afloat during her dark

A timeless and enchanting children's fantasy classic by the author of The King of the Copper MountainsOne morning, after a fierce storm, the people of the harbour come down to find a strange ship called the Neversink stuck fast on top of the sand dunes. Inside is only a small boy with a big cap - The Little Captain. He and his ship stay marooned on top of the dunes until one day a giant wave sweeps the Neversink to freedom. And so The Little Captain sets sail once more, this time with three of the town's children, Podgy, Marinka and Thomas, as his crew mates. Together they are determined to find the island of Evertaller, where legend has it children turn into grown-ups overnight and never have to go to school again...This enchanting seafaring adventure is beloved by generations of children in the Netherlands.

"A haunting, slim novel which has the mesmeric inevitability of a classical tragedy." --Independent on SundayLa Femme de Gilles tells the story of a fatal love triangle—written on the eve of World War

A rare eyewitness account by an important author of fleeing the Nazis’ march on Paris in 1940, featuring a never-before-published introduction by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.In June of 1940, Leon Werth a

A hilarious spoof on the classic country-house murder mystery, from the Russian masters of sci-fi—never before translatedWhen Inspector Peter Glebsky arrives at the remote ski chalet on vacation, the

“He has an evening suit, but never an occasion to wear it, so he puts it on when he paints his pictures.”Insel, the only novel by the surrealist master Mina Loy, is a book like no other—about an impos

“I’ll croak before I write ads or sell bonds—or do anything except write.”James Agee’s father died when he was just six years old, a loss immortalized in his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, A Death in t

Catskill Rivers is the story of the ?birthplace of the American fly fishing.” Readers will discover this birthplace in such hallowed trout streams as the Beaverkill, the Willowemoc, the Neversink, the

In its first-ever unexpurgated edition, a sci-fi landmark that's a comic and suspenseful tour-de-force, and puts distraction in a whole new light: It's not you, it's the universe!Certain he is on the

"One woman's beauty fells the whole of Oxford in this sidesplitting classic campus novel. Nobody could predict the consequences when ravishing Zuleika Dobson arrives at Oxford, to visit her grandfath

The stirring, never-before-translated story of a single, pregnant, and wickedly nervy young secretary making her way through a Germany succumbing to the Nazis.Irmgard Keun's first novel Gilgi was an o

One of the most significant novels in Latin American literature, written by Cuba's most important modern novelist—to win a bet with Gabriel Garcia Marquez.In the early 1970s, friends Gabriel Garcia Ma

Set in Communist Poland in the 1950s, the harrowing story of one man's unraveling after a drunken slip of the tongue lands him in jail.One of the most significant postwar Polish novels, this is the st

The restored, unbowdlerized text of Raspe’s slapstick travel epic featuring the classic illustrations from Strang & Clark (1895) No one has journeyed to as many foreign lands as Baron von Muncha

Orwell meets Vonnegut in the simultaneously hilarious and chilling masterpiece from the man who invented the word “robot”This legendary but previously hard-to-get novel is a hilarious dystopian satire

A vagrant de Tocqueville gives an eloquent, dry-eyed report of his tramping adventures in the violent underworld of late 19th century America and BritainAn untutored Welsh tramp who became a popular p

Restored to print for the first time in more than forty years, The President was hailed by the New York Times as a “tour de force”At 82, the former premier lives in alert and suspi

Port Jervis celebrates the city located at the junction of the Neversink and Delaware Rivers, where the states of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania meet. With vintage and contemporary images, it

The Beaverkill, Willowemoc, Neversink, Esopus, Schoharie, and Delaware-the rivers of angling pioneers Thaddeus Norris, Robert Barnwell Roosevelt, Theodore Gordon, and many others-are celebrated in thi

Whitman’s uniquely revealing impressions of the people, places, and events of his time.One of the most creative and individual poets America has produced, Walt Whitman was also a prolific diarist, not

This long-awaited re-publication of the first Arab-American novel—inspiration for Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet—deals with Arab/American relations, religious conflict and the American immigrant experience.Told with great good humor and worldly compassion, and with illustrations by Kahlil Gibran, The Book of Khalid recounts the adventures of two young men, Khalid and Shakib, who leave Lebanon for the United States to seek their fortune in turn-of-thecentury New York. Together, they face all the difficulties of poor immigrants—the passage by ship, admittance through Ellis Island and the rough immigrant life. Khalid, always the dreamer, tries to participate in the political and cultural life of the teeming city—to often humiliating and comic result.Tiring of their sojourn, he convinces Shakib they should return to Lebanon. But their heads are now full of New World ideas. And Khalid, trying to improve his brethren, turns his understanding of Western thought into a call for political progress

This revised and updated guide to a classic fly fishing destination gives anglers the information they need to: . Fish legendary rivers like the Esopus, Beaver Kill, Neversink, Schoharie, and Willowem