英文电子书

A stunning collection of stories from one of New Zealand's favourite authors.

* A young woman utters her favourite mantras to take on the world.
* An old woman lives like a diva, re-enacting Casablanca.
* In a rewrite of a play, a singer becomes

This is the second volume of memoir by this remarkable Maori writer and of the living myths that inspired him at the beginning of his career.

Look at him, the young man on the cover. The year is 1972, he is 28, his first book is about to be published,

Striding Both Worlds illuminates European influences in the fiction of Witi Ihimaera, Aotearoa New Zealand's foremost Māori writer, in order to question the common interpretation of Māori writing as displaying a distinctive Māori world-view and liter

Michael Mahana's personal disclosure to his parents leads to the uncovering of another family secret-about his uncle, Sam, who had fought in the Vietnam War.
Now, armed with his uncle's diary, Michael goes searching for the truth about his uncl

A medicine woman — a giver of life — is asked to hide a secret that may protect a position in society, but could have fatal consequences. When she is approached by the servant of a wealthy woman, three very different women become players in a head-on clas

On the East Coast of New Zealand two patriarchs fight to be proclaimed king. Tamihana is the leader of the great Mahana family of shearers and sportsmen. Rupeni Poata is his arch-enemy. They will fight to win the title of Bulibasha and be proclaimed the K

In his introduction to this anthology, Witi Ihimaera describes Auckland, Tamaki makau rau, as the place desired by many. The variety in this absorbing collection of short stories, poetry and extracts from novels and memoirs shows that while Auckland may n

Stroppy teenager Skylark O'Shea is on holiday with her mother at a town on the coast. But all is not what it seems. What is the threat facing the town and the birds of the forest? Where do the two old charismatic Maori women Hoki and Bella fit in? Sk

Richly imaginative and original, weaving together fact and fiction, The Parihaka Woman sets the remarkable story of Erenora against the historical background of the turbulent and compelling events that occurred in Parihaka during the 1870s and 1880s.

The matriarch is a woman of intelligence, wit, beauty and ruthlessness, and has become a mythical figure through her fight to repossess the land and sustain her people against the ravages wrought by the Pakeha. Priestess of the Ringatu faith, she has been

作者：Lauren Weisberger

标题：When Life Gives You Lululemons(The Devil Wears Prada #3)《若生活给了你酸的柠檬》

简介：New York Times bestselling author Lauren Weisbe

作者：Lauren Weisberger

标题：The Devil Wears Prada(The Devil Wears Prada #1)《穿普拉达的女王》

简介：A delightfully dishy novel about the all-time most impossible

书评：关于这本书的几个关键词：金融危机、焦虑、抢劫、Stockholm、自杀、死亡、被迫长大成人承担责任。

某一个新年夜的前一天，一位带着面具的劫匪持枪冲进一家银行打劫。失败

作者：Cameron Díaz, Sandra Bark

书名：The Longevity Book: The Science of Aging, the Biology of Strength, and the Privilege of Time《长寿书》

简介：Cameron Di

作者：Emily St. John Mandel

书名：The Glass Hotel《玻璃旅馆》

简介：From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering int

作者：Clancy Sigal

书名：Hemingway Lives!《海明威活着》

简介："Because I love Italy and write novels about it, I am fascinated by Clancy Sigal's compelling take

作者：Cho Nam-Joo, Jamie Chang (Translator)

书名：Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982《82年生的金智英》

简介：A fierce international bestseller that launched Korea’s n

作者：Rachel Joyce

书名：The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy(Harold Fry #2)《奎妮夫人的情歌》

简介：When Queenie Hennessy discovers that Harold Fry is walking

作者：Rachel Joyce

书名：The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry(Harold Fry #1)《一个人的朝圣》

简介：Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small Englis

作者：Marina Lewycka

书名：A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian《乌克兰拖拉机简史》

简介：A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian was bestselling author Mar

作者：Fredrik Backman,Henning Koch (Translator)

书名：A Man Called Ove《一个叫欧维的男人》

简介：A grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its

作者：Elsa Peralta, Marta Anico

书名：Heritage and Identity: Engagement and Demission in the Contemporary World《在当代世界遗产和身份参与和辞职》

简介：Heritage an

作者：Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt (translator)

书名：The Republic of Wine《酒国》

简介：When special investigator Ding Gou'er hears persistent rumors that there is

作者：Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt (Translation)

书名：Sandalwood Death《檀香刑》

简介：This powerful novel by Mo Yan—one of contemporary China’s most famou

作者 ：Clare Chambers

书名 ：A Dry Spell《干旱的咒语》

简介 ：In 1976 four students took a trip to the desert. Now the repercussions of that fateful summer are c

作者 ：Robert Edric

书名 ：The Kingdom of Ashes《灰烬王国》

简介 ：Germany, spring 1946. The Nuremberg Trials are underway. Three hundred miles north, in the Rehstadt Institute, a British "Assessment and Evaluation" centre, Alex Foster interrogates a

作者 ：Mykel Mitchell

书名 ：Word: For Everybody Who Thought Christianity Was for Suckas《文字：对于每一个认为基督教是为了乳酪的人来说。》

简介 ：Growing up, Mykel Mitchell found more truth in the words of Run DMC than any preacher’s sermon. He saw more prosperity in the lives o

作者 : Lawrence Block

书名 : In Sunlight or In Shadow: Stories Inspired by the Paintings of Edward Hopper《在阳光下还是在阴影下：爱德华·霍珀绘画的故事启发》

简介：A truly unprecedented literary achievement by author and editor Lawrence Block, a newly-commissioned anthology of

作者 : Imogen Edwards-Jones

书名 : Restaurant Babylon《餐厅巴比伦》

简介 ：What makes a restaurant hot? Whose name do you need to drop to get a table? Why is one place booked solid for the next nine months while somewhere equally delicious is as empty and in

作者 : Tess Stimson

书名 : The Lying Game《说谎游戏》

简介 ：There are some things we are never meant to know . . .

Harriet Lockwood has never really bonded with her daughter, Florence, the way she has with her three sons. Then one day, she discovers why.

作者:Emma Donoghue

书名:Frog Music: A Novel 《青蛙音乐：小说》

简介：From the author of the worldwide bestseller Room: "Her greatest achievement yet...Emma Donoghue shows more than range with Frog Music -- she shows genius."- Darin Strauss, author of Hal

作者:Emma Donoghue

书名:Kissing the Witch 《亲吻女巫》

简介：In Kissing the Witch, Emma Donoghue (author of the Man Booker and Orange prize shortlisted novel Room) unwinds thirteen fairy tales and writes them anew: Cinderella forsakes the handsome prince and run

作者: Su Tong

书名: Su Tong Binu and the Great Wall of China《碧奴和中国长城 》

简介：In Peach Village, crying is forbidden. But as a child, Binu never learnt t

作者：Emma Donoghue

书名：Room


简介：A major film starring Brie Larson.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize.

With an introduction by John Boyne.

Today I'm five. I was four l

作者: Edith Pearlman

书名：How to Fall: Stories《如何跌倒：故事》

英文简介：Edith Pearlman manages to combine subtlety with extravagance, understatement with specta

作者: Edith Pearlman

书名：Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories《望远镜里的视野:故事集》

英文简介：ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE, SUNDAY TIMES, LONDON

作者：Emma Donoghue

书名：Life Mask《生者面具》

简介：A love story. A gamble. A battle. Let the games begin.

It's an era of looming war, and the erosion of fre

作者: Jane Gardam

书名：Through the Doll's House Door《穿过洋娃娃家的门》

英文简介：When Mary and her friend Claire were younger they spent many happy times p

作者: Jane Gardam

书名：The Sidmouth letters《西德茅斯书信》

英文简介：Jane Austen's love life — long the subject of speculation — is finall

作者: Jane Gardam

书名：The Stories of Jane Gardam《简·加德姆的故事》

英文简介：From the inimitable Jane Gardam, whose 'Old Filth' trilogy cemented