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Meet Murakami in Vintage Classics – new, jazz-soaked, nostalgically surreal red spine editions of one of our great visionary storytellersKafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy.The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down.As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since World War II. There is a savage killing, but the identity of both victim and killer is a riddle - one of many which combine to create an elegant and dreamlike masterpiece.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR'Wonderful... Magical and outlandish' Daily Mail'Hypnotic, spellbinding' The Times'Cool, fluent and addictive' Daily Telegraph

《Wild Dark Shore》是《Once There Were Wolves》暢銷作者 Charlotte McConaghy 的全新生態驚悚小說，故事發生在即將被海平面上升吞沒的偏遠小島 Shearwater，島上種子庫守護者 Dominic Salt 與三個孩子獨自留守時，一場世紀風暴帶來神秘女子 Rowan，揭開無線電破壞、新挖墳墓等陰謀，充滿人性衝突與環境危機。THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICKA TIME MUST-READ OF 2025LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL'Breathtaking' HANNAH KENT'Spellbinding' Washington Post'Had me gripped from the very first page' RACHEL JOYCEA family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A storm gathering force.Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny weather-lashed island that is home to the world's largest seed bank. As Shearwater risks being lost to rising sea levels, the island's researchers have fled, and only the Salts remain.Until, during the worst storm in living memory, a stranger washes ashore. The family nurse the woman, Rowan, back to strength, but it seems she isn't telling the whole truth about why she's there. And when Rowan stumbles upon sabotaged rad

「James Shore運用新的工具、技巧與過去十年的經驗將第一版的內容全面翻新。第二版所蘊含的知識和經驗將協助將目前的工作模式，變得更加敏捷且有效率。」 －Bill Wake, XP123, LLC 大多數的軟體公司自認為善用「敏捷」的相關實務做法，但是對這些實務作法與理解，卻與敏捷的真諦和運用大相逕庭。如果您期望提升軟體開發團隊的敏捷力，本書將詳盡、清楚、具體地為您提供指引，告訴您該做些什麼，為什麼這麼做，以及何時該進行權衡取捨。 本書將傳統敏捷的實務指引進行全面更新。憑藉作者超過20年的敏捷經驗，針對如何採用敏捷，如何基於敏捷進行規畫、開發與管理，提供明確直接的建議。將極限編程(Extreme Programming)、Scrum、精實(Lean)、DevOps，以及其它最佳實務做法的新創見整合為連貫而緊密的整體。您將能從本書中了解如何成功將敏捷開發導入團隊與組織，或是理解敏捷可能並不適合您所處環境的原由。 本書為下列四個面向提供指引： ‧提升敏捷力：創造敏捷成功與規模化的必備條件 ‧專注價值：團隊合作、了解優先序、建立可視化、持續改善 ‧可靠地交付軟體：共有主導責任、降低開發成本、演進式設計、持續部署 ‧優化價值：產品規畫、預算與試驗的主導責任，以及打造領先市場的軟體

Set over the course of one summer, this perfect beach read follows a mother and her two daughters as they grapple with heartbreak, young love, and the weight of family secrets.Brian and Margot Dunne live year-round in Seaside, just steps away from the bustling boardwalk, with their daughters Liz and Evy. The Dunnes run a real estate company, making their living by quickly turning over rental houses for tourists. But the family's future becomes even more precarious when Brian develops a brain tumor, transforming into a bizarre, erratic version of himself. Amidst the chaos and new caretaking responsibilities, Liz still seeks out summer adventure and flirting with a guy she should know better than to pursue. Her younger sister Evy works in a candy shop, falls in love with her friend Olivia, and secretly adopts the persona of a middle-aged mom in an online support group, where she discovers her own mother's most vulnerable confessions. Meanwhile, Margot faces an impossible choice driven by

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