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From YouTube sensations Dan Howell (danisnotonfire) and Phil Lester (AmazingPhil) comes a laugh-out-loud look into the world created by two awkward guys who share their lives on the Internet. More tha

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Most fairytales end with a wedding and a happily-ever-after—but this is no fairytale. The updated and official translation ofUnder the Oak Tree, the #1 webnovel on MANTA, continues in this second volume.The gorgeous first edition hardcover ofUnder the Oak Tree: Volume 2 (The Novel)will feature designed sprayed page edges, full-color patterned endpapers, foil stamping on the cover, and a ribbon bookmark!As her first winter in Anatol turns to spring, Lady Maximilian finds herself confronting an unfamiliar feeling: hope. Her voice and her magic strengthen every day; the only parts of Calypse Castle left to refurbish are its gardens, which she plans to fill with blooming flowers; and the way her husband, the recalcitrant war hero Sir Riftan, looks at her from across their bedroom makes her feel, for the first time in her life, that she might be worthy of love and affection.However, Maxi's life is never that easy. Just as she begins to feel at home with Riftan, Maxi re

Will there be war with China? This book provides the most complete and accurate assessment of the probability of conflict between the United States and the rising Asian superpower. Equally important,

For fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Red Rising comes a gripping sci-fi adventure in which a group of teenagers wake up in a mysterious corridor with no knowledge of who they are or how they g

Rediscover the art of cooking and eating communally with a beautiful, simple collection of meals for friends and family. With her dinner series Sunday Suppers, Karen Mordechai celebrates the magic of

A sophisticated vegetarian cookbook with all the tools you need to be at home in your kitchen, cooking in the most nourishing and delicious ways--from the foundations of stocking a pantry and under

Pilgrimage took Annie Leibovitz to places that she could explore with no agenda. She wasn’t on assignment. She chose the subjects simply because they meant something to her. The first place was Emily Dickinson’s house in Amherst, Massachusetts, which Leibovitz visited with a small digital camera. A few months later, she went with her three young children to Niagara Falls. “That’s when I started making lists,” she says. She added the houses of Virginia Woolf and Charles Darwin in the English countryside and Sigmund Freud’s final home, in London, but most of the places on the lists were American. The work became more ambitious as Leibovitz discovered that she wanted to photograph objects as well as rooms and landscapes. She began to use more sophisticated cameras and a tripod and to travel with an assistant, but the project remained personal. Leibovitz went to Concord to photograph the site of Thoreau’s cabin at Walden Pond. Once she got there, she was drawn into the wider world of the C

本書是 Geisel 獎得主 Greg Pizzoli 的全新橋樑書系列，以輕快幽默的節奏，描寫兩位性格南轅北轍的鄰居──樂天的鳥兒 Earl 和喜歡安靜閱讀的 Worm。他們的友誼一開始並不順利：一方熱愛清晨的音樂，另一方則嚮往寧靜。但透過一杯檸檬水、一面牆的顏色、一首尚未寫完的詩，以及願意分享彼此的小故事，他們慢慢建立起難得的情誼。全書收錄三個短篇故事，節奏輕快，文字簡潔，特別適合剛從《Elephant and Piggie》畢業的初階讀者，笑聲與溫度兼具，是閱讀橋接期的理想選擇This giggle-inducing early reader kicks off a brand-new series featuring two unlikely friends, for fans of Frog and Toad, from beloved Geisel Award-winning author of The Watermelon Seed.Earl and Worm have been friends for a very, very long time, but their friendship had a rocky start. Earl is a happy go-lucky bird who plays saxophone to his plants because they love music in the morning. His neighbor Worm, on the other hand...well, Worm is the exact opposite. She would rather read in silence.How will these very different neighbors become the very best of friends? With some sweet lemonade, the right shade of paint, and an unfinished poem, and most of all, sharing a little bit about themselves.Award-winning creator Greg Pizzoli delivers three funny

Oh, Muses! Get ready for 20 brand-new, tongue-in-cheek tales from Greek mythology, as told by the team behind the smash hit podcast and New York Times best-selling book Greeking Out.Want to know the greatest feats and the funniest secrets of the gods and heroes of Greek mythology? You’re in the right place. Told in the hilarious, kid-friendly voice that’s sent the Greeking Out podcast to the top of the charts, these stories of heroic victories, perilous adventures, and plain old mischief are sure to delight kids and adults alike. Plus, fans of the Percy Jackson series will love discovering the real myths behind their favorite (and least favorite) characters.In this book, you’ll encounter a god kidnapped by pirates, sheep used as camouflage, a super-shiny fleece, some dangerous metalworking, the world’s most perfect animal, a really heavy boulder, and much more.Dynamic, playful illustrations coupled with laugh-out-loud storytelling and real information about ancient Greece—delivered by

"California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off

★ 熱門Podcast改編，讓希臘神話變得超好聽、超好讀！★ 幽默又有戲，經典神話重新詮釋，閱讀零壓力如果神話也能像朋友聊天一樣好玩，你會不會一口氣讀完？《Greeking Out》系列將古老的希臘神話，用輕鬆幽默的方式重新說給你聽。從眾神的誕生與爭鬥，到英雄的壯闊冒險，再到神秘詭譎的冥界傳說，每一冊都像一場節奏明快的故事秀，帶你走進既熟悉又全新的神話世界。不再是遙遠難懂的古典文本，而是充滿笑點、驚奇與人性的精彩故事。無論是宙斯的荒唐決定，還是英雄們的艱難選擇，都在生動敘事中躍然紙上。適合想輕鬆入門神話、或重新愛上這些經典故事的讀者。From the creators of National Geographic Kids’ wildly successful Greeking Out podcast, this New York Times best-selling tie-in book delivers a clever tongue-in-cheek retelling of 20 classic Greek myths.Greeking Out #1-3 (共3本)

本書由 National Geographic Kids 系列 Greeking Out 團隊打造，以輕鬆幽默的筆調，帶來20則來自世界各地的冥界故事。從希臘冥后被綁架的傳說，到埃及死神衡量心靈重量的試煉，再到北歐曲折的死亡之路，讀者能在驚悚與趣味之間，窺見古文明如何理解生死。插畫俏皮，搭配「Wi-Fi神諭者」的旁白，使艱深的神話變得易於親近。本書不僅提供神話奇談，更展現跨文化對死亡的想像，孩子與大人都適讀。Hold on tight as Greeking Out goes to the dark side, bringing you scary (and surprisingly funny) tales of life, death, and everything in between! Get ready for 20 bone-chilling stories of the Underworld--from ancient Greece and around the world--as told by the team behind the smash-hit podcast and New York Times best-selling book series. Venture to the edge of life itself from the safety of your living room! In these stories, you'll encounter a very ill-advised bid to kidnap the queen of the Underworld, an Egyptian god of death who weighs your heart against a feather, the treacherous and winding road to the Norse afterlife, and much more. Tales of fearsome gods, fantastical monsters, and literally death-defying heroes of the spirit world are told in the hilarious, kid-friendly voice

Ranking alongside George R. R. Martin as a groundbreaking master of fantasy,New York Times bestselling author Robin Hobb delivers the second book in her long-awaited Fitz and the Fool trilogy.The harr

The highly anticipated new standalone full-color graphic novel from Bryan Lee O’Malley, author and artist of the hugely bestselling Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series.Advance praise for Seconds “In S

Expanded and updated exclusively for graduates just entering the workforce, this extraordinary edition of Lean In includes a letter to graduates from Sheryl Sandberg and six additional chapters from e

An intimate, voyeuristic exploration into the private landscape of the unconscious from the Muybridge of sleep. In 1975, Ted Spagna began his voyeuristic venture into "inner space," exposing the se

Truman Capote’s masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the

From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote—also available are In Cold Blood, Portraits and Observations, and The Complete StoriesTogether in one vo

An instant American icon--the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court--tells the story of her life before becoming a judge in an inspiring, surprisingly personal memoir.With startling candor and inti

The newest Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection. The arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction. A debut of extraordinary distinction: Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the Great

Beautiful. Willful. Charming. Blunt. Grace Coddington’s extraordinary talent and fierce dedication to her work as creative director of Vogue have made her an international icon. Known through much of

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post ‧ O: The Oprah MagazineFrom Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction tha

The smell of a pie baking in the kitchen immediately conjures up feelings of comfort, nostalgia, and love. Michele Stuart vividly remembers standing at her grandmother’s apron hem as a child, as she f

GAME OF THRONES: A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO.Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martin’s monumental e

Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood; or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author

A monumental, genre-defying novel over ten years in the making, Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things is a masterwork from a writer in full command of his many talents. It begins with Peter, a

The incredible true story of the decade-long quest to bring down Paul Le Roux—the creator of a frighteningly powerful Internet-enabled cartel who merged the ruthlessness of a drug lord with the techno

Based on the Webby Award-winning Tumblr site, Things Organized Neatly is thoughtfully composed of everyday objects, all displayed beautifully for the neat-freak.Things Organ

For fans of Jennifer Egan, Jonathan Franzen, Lorrie Moore, and Curtis Sittenfeld,Among the Ten Thousand Things is a dazzling first novel, a portrait of an American family on the cusp of irrevocable ch

A hilarious celebration of the worst in baseball history: The boneheads, cheats, jerks and losers who make the grand old game so fun Libraries and Internet sites are filled to groaning with debates ab

Featuring beautiful design vignettes and arrangements from today’s top designers, Susanna Salk’sIt’s the Little Things inspires us to be personal and artful with our decorat

Feeling stuck? Get inspired by the Writer’s Block Journal. With over 300 blank pages, feel free to ramble on and on. And if you run out of things to say, it makes for a nifty paperweight.

When things really go wrong, what do you do with the feeling that God is to blame? A popular Coast to Coast radio host (and Episcopal clergy) provides some answers. In a first of its kind book, Ian Pu

Does your home tell the story of who you are? In The Things That Matter, Nate Berkus shares intimate stories from his life, introduces us to people who influenced him and helped him forge his sense o

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and A Spark of Light comes a riveting novel about the choices that alter the course of our lives.Everything changes in a single mome

A woman's disappearance shakes up a strange northern town that is stuck in the 1980s, in a wildly imaginative novel that combines elements of The Handmaid's Tale, Stranger Things and Twin Peaks.Why ca

In the tradition of The Things They Carried and Redeployment, a short story collection from a U.S. Navy veteran who completed five combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan--a remarkable portrait of the ab

“Here are some of the things I try to fight: undemocratic power, corruption, deception of the public, environmental destruction, injustice, inequality and the misallocation of resources, waste, denial

A haunting, illustrated account of gun violence throughout American history that shows us how little things have changedShocked by the epidemic of gun violence in the United States, acclaimed writer P

The leading art theorist takes on art in the age of the Internet In the early twentieth century, art and its institutions came under critique from a new democratic and egalitarian spirit. The notion o