英文电子书

书名：The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight《王牌飞行员》

作者：Winston Groom

简介：Written by gifted sto

书名：The White Darkness《白夜孤旅》

作者：David Grann

简介：Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who belie

作者：Ari Shapiro

书名：This Is NPR: The First Forty Years

简介：Always put the listener first has been NPR's mantra since its inception in 1970. Now celebrati

A gripping first-hand account of the devastating "last chapter" of the Holocaust, written by a privileged eyewitness, the secretary of the Hungarian Judenrat, and a member of Budapest's Jewish elite, How It Happened is a unique testament to

Prisons in the deep South, with chain gangs, shotguns, and bloodhounds, have been immortalized in movies, blues music, and fiction. Mississippi's Parchman State Penitentiary was the grandfather of them all, a hellhole where conditions were brutal. Th

作者：Yuval Noah Harari

标题：21 Lessons for the 21st Century《今日简史》

简介：In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of

作者：Jodi Picoult

书名：The Storyteller《说故事的人》

简介：Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day’s breads and pastries, tr

In the captivating sequel to The Moon in the Palace, Mei must protect her people from a murderous empress

The second book in this stunning duology, The Empress of Bright Moon follows Mei as she struggles for power within the Emperor's palace, risk

There is no easy path for a woman aspiring to power. . . .

A concubine at the palace learns quickly that there are many ways to capture the Emperor’s attention. Many paint their faces white and style their hair attractively, hoping to lure in the One A

In Japanese-occupied Shanghai, two people from different cultures are drawn together by fate and the freedom of music...
1940. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub. Ernest Reismann is a pennile

With his last breath, China’s First Emperor, Q’in She Huang, entrusts his followers with a sacred task. Scenes intricately carved into a narwhal tusk show the future of a city “at the Bend in the River,” and The Emperor’s chosen three—his favourite concub

作者：Geoffrey C. Ward

书名：A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt《一流气质》

简介：This notable biography concentrates on character and p

作者：Geoffrey C. Ward

书名：All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes

简介：All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elis

作者：Geoffrey C. Ward

书名：Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson《罪无可赦:拳王杰克·强生沉浮录》

简介：He was the first black heavyweig

作者：Robert Cowley

书名：What If? 2: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

简介：What if Lincoln didn't abolish slavery? What if an assassin succeed

作者：Geoffrey C. Ward

书名：The Vietnam War: An Intimate History《越战》

简介：From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War,

作者：Geoffrey C. Ward

书名：The Civil War: An Illustrated History《内战》

简介："The Civil War defined us as what we are & it opened us to being what we became, go

作者：Robert Dugoni

书名：The World Played Chess

简介：In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer money and enj

作者：Robert Dugoni

书名：The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell《Sam Hell的非凡生活》

简介：Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils,

France, 1940. The once glittering boulevards of Paris teem with spies, collaborators, and the Gestapo now that France has fallen to Hitler's Wermacht. For André Breton, Max Ernst, Victor Serge, Marc Chagall, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, Remedios Varo,

“Terrific...compelling...an intoxicating blend of mystery, history, and romance, this book is hard to put down.” —Real Simple

On the eve of the Second World War, the last surviving specimen of a camellia plant known as the Middlebury Pink lies secreted

A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous break up.

Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the real reason why they split at the

“Riveting, heart-wrenching, and full of Old Hollywood glamour, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is one of the most captivating reads of 2017.” —BuzzFeed

“The epic adventures Evelyn creates over the course of a lifetime will leave every reader mesmeriz

England in the middle of World War II, a war that seems fated to go on forever, a war that has become a way of life. Heroic resistance is old hat. Everything is in short supply, and tempers are even shorter.

Overwhelmed by the terrors and rigors of the

Patrick Robinson, coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Lone Survivor and “preeminent writer of modern naval fiction” (The Florida Times Union) shares the gripping untold story of Mohammed Gulab, the Afghani warrior who defied the Taliban and saved

THEY JUST CAPTURED IRAQ’S MOST WANTED TERRORIST.
NOW THEY HAD TO DEFEND THEIR HONOR.

On a daring nighttime raid in September 2009, a team of Navy SEALs grabbed the notorious terrorist Ahmad Hashim Abd al-Isawi, the villainous “Butcher of Fallujah,” ma

作者：Dwight D. Eisenhower

书名：Crusade in Europe《欧洲十字军》

简介；Five-star General Dwight D. Eisenhower was arguably the single most important military figu

Swashbuckling British adventurers find triumph and tragedy in nineteenth-century Afghanistan in this novella J. M. Barrie called “the most audacious thing in fiction.”
 
While on tour in India, a British journalist encounters Daniel Dravot and Peachey C

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as par

In an effort to redeem her reputation, Ida Elisabeth imprudently marries her teenage sweetheart, Frithjof. Early in their marriage, she realizes that her charming husband is too irresponsible to support the family and sews dresses to make ends meet. When

Powerfully written and filled with magnificent vignettes of the daily life of a medieval estate, 'The Son Avenger' suggests a Greek tragedy whose vision of fate coexists with a Christian sense of suffering and forgiveness. And in the somber, twi

It is Norway in the thirteenth century, a land rent by unremitting warfare and feebly lit by Christianity. Olav Audunsson was once an outlaw; now he is a man of wealth and stature. But he is haunted by the memory of crimes for which there is no easy atone

Set in medieval Norway, the books follow Olav and Ingunn, who, though raised as brother and sister, have become lovers in a world caught between the fading sphere of pagan worship and vendettas and the expansion of Christianity.

Set in thirteenth-century Norway, a land racked by political turmoil and bloody family vendettas, The Axe is the first volume in Sigrid Undset's epic tetralogy, The Master of Hestviken. In it we meet Olav Audunsson and Ingunn Steinfinnsdatter, who we

In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset tells the life story of one passionate and headstrong woman. Painting a richly detailed backdrop, Undset immerses readers in the day-to-day

作者：Patrick Radden Keefe

书名：Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland《噤声》

中文简介:在这本精心叙述的书中——步调精巧犹

This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak's complete rejection by Soviet author

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“The Pasha’s Concubine” (1931) is the story of a young girl who catches the eye of a Turkish army officer and is summoned to his house. She appeals to him because of her extreme youth – she is not quite sixteen and the reason he gives

A string of newly translated as well as already published stories by a real classic of East European literature. Andrić, novelist and short story writer of Croatian descent who identified himself as a Serbian, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Litera

Omer Pasha Latas is set in nineteenth-century Sarajevo, where Muslims and Christians live in uneasy proximity while entertaining a common resentment of faraway Ottoman rule. Omer is the seraskier, commander in chief of the Sultan’s armies, and as the book