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Highlighting the iconic visuals, powerful themes, and unforgettable characters that make Wicked a cultural phenomenon, this unique collector's item pays tribute to the unlikely friendship between Elphaba and Glinda and their journeys exploring identity, power, and the complexities of good versus bad.

《Everything in Its Place》是神經科醫師奧利佛．薩克斯晚年的思想結晶。他透過醫療現場的故事，探討人類大腦與心靈的奧祕，從妥瑞氏症、失智到幻覺，也誠實面對憂鬱與精神疾病。此外，書中也流露他對自然、園藝與當代生活的關懷，展現出一位醫者的多面人生。From the bestselling author of On Gratitude, On the Move and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.In this spirited volume, neurologist Oliver Sacks examines the many passions of his own life – both as a doctor engaged with the central questions of human existence, and as a polymath conversant in all the sciences. Why do humans need gardens? How, and when, does a physician tell his patient she has Alzheimer’s? What is social media doing to our brains?In several of the compassionate case histories collected here, Sacks considers for the first time the enigmas of depression, psychosis and schizophrenia, and in others he returns to conditions that have long fascinated him: Tourette’s syndrome, ageing, dementia and hallucinations. In counterpoint to these elegant investigations of what makes us human, this volume also includes pieces that celebrate Sacks’s lo

薩克斯結合醫學與人文，講述音樂如何影響大腦與心靈。《Musicophilia》中有無法辨認旋律的人，也有記憶受損卻仍能演奏樂曲的患者。透過這些故事，他溫和地提醒我們，音樂不只是藝術，更深刻連結著人的自我與存在。With his trademark compassion and erudition, Dr Oliver Sacks examines the power of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people.Among them: a surgeon who is struck by lightning and suddenly becomes obsessed with Chopin; people with ‘amusia’, to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans; and a man whose memory spans only seven seconds – for everything but music.Dr Sacks describes how music can animate people with Parkinson’s disease who cannot otherwise move, give words to stroke patients who cannot otherwise speak, and calm and organize people who are deeply disoriented by Alzheimer’s or schizophrenia.Musicophilia alters our conception of who we are and how we function, and shows us an essential part of what it is to be human.Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.

薩克斯以真實病歷為線索，探索大腦如何改變我們對世界的感受與自身的認識。《An Anthropologist on Mars》記錄七位不同病患的故事，從色盲畫家到妥瑞症醫師，呈現科學之外，面對陌生與困惑時，人的韌性與適應力。In An Anthropologist on Mars Oliver Sacks uses case studies to illustrate the myriad ways in which neurological conditions can affect our sense of self, our experience of the world, and how we relate to those around us.Writing with his trademark blend of scientific rigour and human compassion, he describes patients such as the colour-blind painter or the surgeon with compulsive tics that disappear in the operating theatre; patients for whom disorientation and alienation – but also adaptation – are inescapable facts of life.'An inexhaustible tourist at the farther reaches of the mind, Sacks presents, in sparse, unsentimental prose, the stories of seven of his patients. The result is as rich, vivid and compelling as any collection of short fictional stories' – Independent on SundayNow part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry is a powerful, triumphant, Pulitzer-winning tribute to the American West. Immerse yourself in the gritty realism of the American frontier in this masterful epic from the screenwriter of Brokeback Mountain. This is the story of a group of audacious cowboys on a perilous cattle drive across the sprawling wilderness, from Texas to Montana, bound by duty and hardened by the relentless frontier.The third novel in McMurtry’s ‘Lonesome Dove’ quartet depicts an enduring American experience with its triumphs and betrayals, embodying the spirit and drama of the Wild West. Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.

☆歷史×奇幻×推理完美交織：以日本長野雙村為舞台，結合神話傳說、家族恩怨與本格推理，展開一場橫跨時空的謎題。☆情感厚度×人物深描：每個角色皆有背負的過去與掙扎，從農藝師到宮司，從年輕調查者到沉默守秘者，情節層層遞進。☆異能兵器「無常」×東洋哲學：具靈性的兵器不僅是解謎的鑰匙，也是探索「力量與自我控制」的隱喻。三百年的秘密，兩個時代的約定。在日本長野深山的雙生村落，霍士圖與王萬里踏上探尋真相的旅程，揭開纏繞三百年的愛情悲劇、家族宿怨與神祕異能的謎團。當歷史與傳說交織，當禁忌的機關一一啟動——亡靈的低語、兵器的回聲，指向那棵古老的「願望樹」。這不僅是一部扣人心弦的推理小說，更是一曲關於記憶、認同與寬恕的詩。跨越時間的邊界，誰能在願望樹下實現最後的約定？——如果真相與希望只能選一個，你會選擇哪一個？【三百年的秘密，在桃花盛開之地甦醒】在日本長野縣群山環繞的偏遠村落，上村與下村自古以來以一座吊橋相連，卻世代沉默對峙。傳說中，只要情侶在「願望樹」下許下誓言，便能終生相守。然而，三百年前的一場悲劇——武將須賀一馬與幕府將軍之女凜姬的愛戀，以死亡與離散劃下句點，也為村落留下揮之不去的陰影。來自美國的記者搭檔霍士圖與王萬里，原本只為了履行友人之託前來，卻意外捲入層層迷霧。他們追查的，不僅是失落的墓穴與傳說兵器「無常」，更牽動著橫跨數百年的家族糾葛、權力陰謀與禁忌之愛。隨著時間線在現代與過去之間交錯，五大守護機關接連啟動，外來者相繼遇害，歷史的幽靈似乎在低語：真相的代價，未必是所有人承擔得起的。小說巧妙融合歷史、奇幻與推理元素，在充滿東洋民俗風情的背景中，鋪陳出一幅細膩的卷軸畫。無論是古老的打鐵世家、神社宮司、還是尋求答案的年輕世代，每個角色都背負著血脈的責任與個人的抉擇。在扣人心弦的解謎過程中，也探討了記憶、身份認同與寬恕等深層主題。《三百年後，能在願望樹下見到你嗎？》不僅是一場智力的挑戰，更是一段情感與靈魂的療癒之旅。當過去的亡靈甦醒，當禁忌被打破，你是否願意在願望樹下，為真相與希望做出最後的選擇？

A haunting and tragicomic modern Western ?from the twice Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees, James and Erasure.‘Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock out comedy’ – The New York TimesDavid Larson can never go home.His parents are dead. His sister and her hippie husband, staunchly anti-war, won't even have the newly returned Vietnam veteran in the house. So Larson takes his chances on the road, travelling west from Georgia until he breaks down in the nowhere town of Slut’s Hole, Wyoming.There he finds lodging with Chloë Sixbury, a one-legged sexagenarian widow, and her disabled son. Their ersatz family is complete when Larson takes in Butch, a Vietnamese girl abandoned at the highway rest stop where he works, but at the edge of this tableau lingers the unmistakable spectre of violence.Blending the grotesquerie of the Southern Gothic with the Western's codes of frontier justice, in Walk Me to the Distance Percival Everett renders a vivid and haun

The debut novel by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of James and The Trees, republished in the Picador Collection.‘American literature’s philosopher king – and its sharpest satirist’ – The New YorkerCraig Suder, third baseman for the Seattle Mariners, is in a slump. His batting average is shocking, his marriage somehow worse, and he secretly fears he’s inherited his mother’s insanity. Ordered to take a midseason rest, Suder instead takes his LP of Charlie Parker’s “Ornithology” and flees.A dazzling tale of madness, confinement and the need for escape, Suder introduced Percival Everett to the world as a writer already fully capable of conjuring whole lives and worlds on the page.Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.Read Percival's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel James in paperback now.