Gathering String

A grandfather lovingly teaches his grandchild a lesson about the centuries-old concept of tikkun olam. Gently told and gorgeously illustrated, this intergenerational picture book offers a soothing and

Kienzle's final novel, published posthumously, traces the lives of a group of six friends who intended to become priests and nuns, from the 1940s until the death of one of their number from carbon mon

In a future world reminiscent of that in The Giver, disadvantaged orphan Kira utilizes a seemingly magical talent to keep herself alive in a savage society that shuns and discards the weak, while she

The stunning continuation of the timeless classic The Phantom of the Opera.In The Phantom of Manhattan, acclaimed, bestselling suspense novelist Frederick Forsyth pens a magnificent work of historical fiction, rife with the insights and sounds of turn-of-the-century New York City, while continuing the dramatic saga which began with Gaston Leroux's brilliant novel The Phantom of the Opera...More than two decades have passed since Antoinette Giry, the mistress of the corps de ballet at the Paris Opera, rescued a hideously disfigured boy named Erik from a carnival and brought him to live in the labyrinthine cellars of the opera house. Soon thereafter, his intense, unrequited love for a beautiful chorus girl set in motion a tragic string of events, forcing him to flee Paris forever. Now, as she lies dying in a convent, Madam Giry tells the untold story of the Phantom and his clandestine journey to New York City to start anew, where he would become a wealthy entrepreneur and build the glori

In perhaps her strongest work to date, Lois Lowry once again creates a mysterious but plausible future world. It is a society ruled by savagery and deceit and that shuns and discards the weak. Left or

All photographs are to some extent about light. The eighty-five stunning color photographs in this book are a masterful exploration not only of the light falling on objects or filling spaces but of th

「21世紀的每一項科技，幾乎都深植於量子、電腦和分子生物革命。這三項革命不僅是下一個世紀科 技突破的關鍵，也是富裕繁榮背後的推動引擎。」本書分別就這三部份有系統地描繪未來人類生活的 面貌。作者Michio Kaku博士是建立「超弦理論」（string field theory）的知名科學家，他花費了十年的時間，訪問了150多位科學家，才完成此書。「NEXT」提出的，是科學界開始形共識的看法。

Meditative, meticulously-crafted poems that nonetheless take seriously the idea that all poetry is a form of praise, and that "the habit of sadness just isn't enough/ ... / because it isn't joy." Gath