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Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV--everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come...
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English
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"How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us. On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000 acre wildfire, threatening her century old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the...
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Series
Wen xue sen lin volume LF0103
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
中文(繁體)
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The author uses the delicate words to open the skins of modern life. As she writes about desires, loneliness, the emotional wasteland of thirst and ignorance, and the original alienation and silent social violence that cannot be avoided. Many followers think that she is an idol to the single, self-satisfied, snowy and intelligent age." She only said, "I wrote the emotions and life of ordinary people."
李維菁寫給癡心不悔少女們的62封信...
24) Happy-go-lucky
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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The best-selling author offers a new collection of satirical and humorous essays that chronicle his own life and ordinary moments that turn beautifully absurd, including how he coped with the pandemic, his thoughts on becoming an orphan in his seventh decade, and the battle-scared America he discovered when he resumed touring.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
中文(繁體)
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This book collects 40 classic prose of the author from his four books. They combine the articles with color pictures to bring the refreshing colors of the nature. It can help people calm their hearts in the midst of noisy world and allow readers to experience the tastes of a meal, drink, and the joy of comfort.
愿你永葆童真,并乐此不疲,去生活 一个人,在面对变化莫测的世界时,怀揣的不是无处可逃的感慨,而是“不如喜悦、不如清心、不如释然”的心态,以一颗童心过生活,这样的人,必定是懂得生活真正滋味的人,也是内心极其强大的人。...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"From "one of his generation's most inventive and gifted writers" (The New York Times), intimate and sharply observed commentary on life, art, politics, and "the war on terror." Mohsin Hamid's brilliant, moving, and extraordinarily clever novels have not only made him an international bestseller, they have earned him a reputation as a "master critic of the modern global condition" (Foreign Policy). His stories are at once timeless and of-the-moment,...
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English
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A literary alchemist, Ann Patchett plumbs the depths of her experiences to create gold: engaging and moving pieces that are both self-portrait and landscape, each vibrant with emotion and rich in insight. Turning her writer's eye on her own experiences, she transforms the private into the universal, providing us all a way to look at our own worlds anew, and reminds how fleeting and enigmatic life can be.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Español
Description
"Si piensas que predecir el futuro es difícil, intenta ignorarlo". "Es tan importante y útil saber cuáles son tus ideales como aquello que no va contigo". "En los negocios, como en la guerra, lo más sencillo es casi siempre lo más complicado". "La suerte suele acompañar a aquellos que andan buscándola, a los que tienen valor pero, sobre todo, a quienes trabajan y se esfuerzan en un proyecto". "El trabajo es la gran puerta que conduce...
30) Silk parachute
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English
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A WONDROUS NEW BOOK OF MCPHEE'S PROSE PIECES- IN MANY ASPECTS HIS MOST PERSONAL IN FOUR DECADES
The brief, brilliant essay "Silk Parachute," which first appeared in The New Yorker a decade ago, has become John McPhee's most anthologized piece of writing. In the nine other pieces here- highly varied in length and theme-McPhee ranges with his characteristic humor and intensity through lacrosse, long-exposure view-camera photography, the weird foods...
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Pub. Date
©2016.
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English
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In recognition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection, including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated by the author herself. “A writer who never seems tired, who has never plodded her way through a page or sentence, Dillard can only be enjoyed by a wide-awake reader,” warns Geoff Dyer in his introduction to this stellar collection. Carefully culled...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
中文(繁體)
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Jiang Xun believes that solar terms are the wisdom of time continuation. This book is a good book that can be carried with you every day, from the Manzhong (Corn on ear) to the dōngzhì (Winter Solstice). This is the year of the pandemic, the most reassuring gift of life. Jiang Xun: It turns out that isolation is not isolation. The solar terms come one after another. We have not missed anything, and we have not missed every day of "Don't Be Quiet".
美學大師蔣勳繼《歲月靜好》,再度依節氣生活,書寫人生感悟。...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Empty, does not mean that there is nothing "The Lonely Gourmet", "Late Night Cafeteria", "Miss Cat Village Today" Matsu Shigetoyo's first creation with the theme of "Actor" 12 short stories of second-tier actors complaining series + 25 short stories Notes, behind-the-scenes and daily life sketches What role am I playing now? The first half is a short story novel "The Courageous Words of a Fool", which was written by Matsushigetoo during the filming...
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English
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Hailed by David Sedaris as "perfectly, relentlessly funny" and by Colson Whitehead as "sardonic without being cruel, tender without being sentimental," from the author of the new collection Look Alive Out There.
Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory.
From despoiling an exhibit at the Natural History Museum to provoking...
Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory.
From despoiling an exhibit at the Natural History Museum to provoking...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Written during the early months of lockdown, Intimations explores ideas and questions prompted by an unprecedented situation. What does it mean to submit to a new reality--or to resist it? How do we compare relative sufferings? What is the relationship between time and work? In our isolation, what do other people mean to us? How do we think about them? What is the ratio of contempt to compassion in a crisis? When an unfamiliar world arrives, what...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This collection represents part of the enduring legacy of Barry Lopez, ... when he died in December 2020. [A] ... steward of the land, fearless traveler, and unrivaled observer of nature and culture in all its forms, Lopez lost much of the Oregon property where he had lived for over fifty years when it was consumed by wildfire, likely caused by climate change. Fortunately, some of his papers survived, including four never-before published pieces...
38) Du wan li lu
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Focuses on author's penchant for Zhuang zi's philosophy. This belief prompted him to read a great deal, live this life well, and live with a broad view.
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
This personal narrative surveys the panorama of our world, past and present. Here is a natural history of sand, a catalogue of clouds, a batch of newborns on an obstetrical ward, a family of Mongol horsemen. Here is the story of Jesuit paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin digging in the deserts of China. Here is the story of Hasidic thought rising in Eastern Europe. Here are defect and beauty together, miracle and tragedy, time and eternity. Dillard...
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