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Going Buck Wild
Going Buck Wild
Foxx, Nina
¥84.16
Let's go crazy!Successful Claudia Barrett seems to be doing it all right. She's a vice president at her firm, with an engagement ring on her finger from the man who's loved her since high school. So what if she's been wearing it for five years -- and her classic, expensive, dull everyday outfits make her look like someone fatally allergic to a good time?What exactly is wrong with the girl?She's bored, for one thing. She's thirty years old and in a rut -- and best friend, Pam, thinks it's time Claudia got her freak on. It's time to inject a little action, adventure, and good old-fashioned lust into this sister's life. But practicing what Pam is preaching and going buck wild could have some serious consequences, especially when tall, dark, and dangerous Cody is added to the mix.
The Ladies' Lending Library
The Ladies' Lending Library
Keefer, Janice Kulyk
¥90.77
It is August of 1963, the year of the Taylor/Burton film epic Cleopatra, showcasing a passion too grand to be contained on the movie screen. The women of the Kalyna Beach cottage community gather for gin and gossip, trading the current racy bestsellers among themselves as they seek a brief escape from the predictable rhythms of children and chores. But dramatic change is coming this summer as innocence falters and the desire for change reaches a boiling point, threatening to disrupt the warm, sweet, heady days and the lives of parents and children, family and friends, forever.
Like a Dog With a Bone
Like a Dog With a Bone
Kelley, Lee Charles
¥48.91
Returning to Maine after a blissful honeymoon in Mexico, kennel owner Jack Field and his smart and sexy bride, chief medical examiner Dr. Jamie Cutter, are ready to fulfill a promise made to a new friend they met there. The daughter of retired general Lamar MacLeary asked dog expert Jack to help her father "rewire" his wired wire-haired fox terrier, Molly, whose incessant digging is driving the general crazy. But Jack arrives to find Molly's most recent excavation has unearthed something nobody expected: the bones of a human hand belonging to the general's wife, who supposedly ran off to Mexico twenty years ago.The police think the distraught World War II hero killed her in a jealous rage, but Jack and Jamie aren't so sure. And in their dogged determination to dig up the truth, the newlyweds begin unearthing hints of corporate fraud, high-level corruption, the terrifying return of a cold-blooded killer, and some buried MacLeary family skeletons that could lead to more death . . . Jack's and Jamie's included.
The Miracles of Prato
The Miracles of Prato
Albanese, Laurie
¥84.16
Italy, 1456. The Renaissance is in glorious bloom. A Carmelite monk, the great artist Fra Filippo Lippi acts as chaplain to the nuns of the Convent Santa Margherita. It is here that he encounters the greatest temptation of his life, beautiful Lucrezia Buti, who has been driven to holy orders more by poverty than piety. In Lucrezia's flawless face Lippi sees the inspiration for countless Madonnas and he brings the young woman to his studio to serve as his model. But as painter and muse are united in an exhilarating whirl of artistic discovery, a passionate love develops, one that threatens to destroy them both even as it fuels some of Lippi's greatest work.
Noise
Noise
Wild, Peter
¥85.05
For more than twenty-five years, the antimelodic “noise” of Sonic Youth has assaulted us, exhilarated us, inspired us. Why?Katherine Dunn says it's because they operate in the foggy world between the real and the surreal. Mary Gaitskill says that Sonic Youth caught her, years ago, when she was falling. J. Robert Lennon says it's because Sonic Youth rip it apart. Emily Maguire was hooked because once she was in love with chaos. Their sound is caustic, elemental, nihilistic—and quite unlike any other cult band ever to achieve rock godhood. In Noise, twenty-one great literary voices offer short fiction based on or inspired by songs from Sonic Youth—a raucous coupling of music and literature featuring marrow-colored goo, severed hands and abandoned babies, Patty Hearst watching the apocalypse on TV, and other unruly images of the Zeitgeist.Contributors Hiag Akmakjian Christopher Coake Katherine Dunn Mary Gaitskill Rebecca Godfrey Laird Hunt Shelley Jackson J. Robert Lennon Samuel Ligon Emily Maguire Tom McCarthy Scott Mebus Eileen Myles Catherine O'Flynn Emily Carter Roiphe Kevin Sampsell Steven Sherrill Matt Thorne Rachel Trezise Jess Walter Peter Wild
On a Raven's Wing
On a Raven's Wing
Kaminsky, Stuart
¥90.77
Twenty contemporary writers commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe with chilling stories inspired by the master himself.Nearly two centuries after they were penned, Edgar Allan Poe's macabre tales are still working their eerie magic on readers of every stripe—thrill-seekers, filmmakers, even fellow writers of suspense. Collected here to honor and celebrate Poe's genius are original stories by some of the best mystery writers at work today.A son attempts to connect with his dying father in Thomas H. Cook's "Nevermore." John Lutz's "Poe, Poe, Poe" combines elements from several of Poe's stories in a twisted tale of madness and mayhem. "Poe, Jo, and I," by Don Winslow, examines the curious bond literature can form between the most unlikely of friends. And in Jon L. Breen's "William Allan Wilson," getting even has never felt so good.With contributions by Mary Higgins Clark, Jeremiah Healy, Peter Lovesey, P. J. Parrish, Daniel Stashower, and Angela Zeman, among others, On a Raven's Wing is a fitting tribute to the one and only Edgar Allan Poe. The Mystery Writers of America, founded in 1945, is the foremost organization for mystery writers and other professionals dedicated to the field of crime writing. Don't miss In the Shadow of the Master, a new collection of Poe's stories, edited by Michael Connelly and featuring essays from Stephen King, Sue Grafton, and others.
Our Lives Are the Rivers
Our Lives Are the Rivers
Manrique, Jaime
¥78.32
Based on actual events, this sweeping novel tells the life story of a woman who was willing to risk it all for her country and her lover—in whose legacy lies the history of an entire continent.Our Lives Are the Rivers tells the story of beautiful young freedom fighter Manuela Sáenz, and the epic tale of her long love affair with liberator Simón Bolívar. A novel of intoxicating love, passion, and adventure, Jaime Manrique vividly captures a dynamic continent struggling for its own identity.
Spiral Hunt
Spiral Hunt
Ronald, Margaret
¥55.91
Some people have the Sight. Genevieve Scelan has the Scent.They call her "Hound," and with her unique supernatural sense Evie can track nearly anything—lost keys, vanished family heirlooms . . . even missing people. And though she knows to stay out of the magical undercurrent that runs beneath Boston's historic streets, a midnight phone call from a long-vanished lover will destroy the careful boundaries she has drawn. Now, to pay a years-old debt, Evie must venture into the shadowy world that lies between myth and reality, where she will find betrayal, conspiracies, and revelations that will shatter all she believes about herself and the city she claims as home.When the Hunt is on, the Hound must run . . .
The Girls' Almanac
The Girls' Almanac
Franklin, Emily
¥85.05
The Girls' Almanac chronicles the lives of Jenna and Lucy—two thirty-something women who desperately long for a true friend—as well as the lives of the women and men who have touched them: friends, lovers, parents, and neighbors. Set across the Northeast—through suburban neighborhoods, preppy camps, island resorts, and Ivy League colleges—as well as far flung locales like Ecuador and Iceland, The Girls' Almanac traces the friendships of women willing to risk both self-consciousness and intimacy, loss and betrayal, in pursuit of a proper best friend. Exploring the fascinating closeness and distance that female friendships encompass, The Girls' Almanac reveals the map of Jenna and Lucy's interconnected lives, and ultimately their pathways to each other.
Impossibly Tongue-Tied
Impossibly Tongue-Tied
Brown, Josie
¥84.16
All over Hollywood, men are dialing O—for orgasms. Her steamy naughty talk fills them with lust and longing, and helps them perform like the studs they claim to be.In truth, the industry's favorite "erotic phone operatrix" is Nina Harte, a struggling actress who has put her career on hold so that her husband, Nathan, can pursue his own dreams of stardom. When Nathan's career takes off, so does he, leaving Nina and their four-year-old son, Jake, for his diva costar, Katerina McPherson. Then "Kat 'n' Nat" are crowned the media's newest celebrity sweethearts, and Kat labels Nina an unfit mother in order to win custody of Jake, just so that she can have that highly-coveted celebrity accessory—an adorable child—sans any unsightly stretch marks. The one person who does care about Nina is Nathan's agent, Sam Godwin. In fact, he's in love with her. And because he has both a heart and a conscience, Sam feels guilty for having put Nat in Kat's path in the first place . . . Then again, how will he feel when he learns that Nina and O are one and the same?
Balancing Acts
Balancing Acts
Fishman, Zoe
¥88.56
A poignant debut novel about the transformative powers of yoga and friendship for four women on the verge of realizing their dreamsWith beauty, brains, and a high-paying Wall Street position, Charlie was a woman who seemed to have it all—until she turned thirty and took stock of her life, or lack thereof. She left it all behind to pursue yoga, and now, two years later, she's looking to drum up business for her fledgling studio in Brooklyn. Attending her college's alumni night with fliers in tow, she reconnects with three former classmates whose post-graduation lives, like hers, haven't turned out like they'd hoped.Romance book editor Sabine still longs to write the novel that's bottled up inside her. Once an up-and-coming photographer and Upper East Side social darling, Naomi is now a single mom who hasn't picked up her camera in years. And Bess, who dreamed of being a serious investigative journalist a la Christiane Amanpour, is stuck in a rut, writing snarky captions for a gossip mag. But at a weekly yoga class at Charlie's studio, the four friends, reunited ten years after college, will forge new bonds and take new chances—as they start over, fall in love, change their lives...and come face-to-face with haunting realities.
我的第一本基础日语学习书
我的第一本基础日语学习书
程楠
¥4.99
日文可易可难。日文逐渐受到人们青睐,因为其上手简单。但简单入门后,你会发现,越往里面钻研,就越复杂,出现的新问题也越多。在这段瓶颈期,你面对的是繁冗的词汇、变幻的语法、复杂的敬语等等。
我的第一本日语单词学习书
我的第一本日语单词学习书
渠培娥
¥4.99
现今,互联网资源十分发达,相信大家对日语都不是那么陌生。若你真正想学好日语,认真选择入门书籍的话,这本《我的本日语单词学习书》*是*。其实任何语言的学习都是一样,只要努力学习记忆,发现其中的乐趣,一切难题就都会迎刃而解。
日本大街小巷都在用的日语会话书
日本大街小巷都在用的日语会话书
程楠
¥4.99
语言是交流的工具,而口语尤为重要。现代社会,不善于交流将失去许多机会,也无法很好地与别人的协作。可以说,人际矛盾的产生大多数都可归于交流不畅,而避免这种矛盾的有效的办法就是熟悉对方语言,增加共识,进行有效的交流沟通。
每满100减50 从零开始学日语,这本就够
从零开始学日语,这本就够
程楠
¥12.99
这本《从零开始学日语,这本就够》满足了初学者的所有要求。不仅封面大方美观,内容更是丰富多彩。从基础的“五十音图”入门,到日常生活、青春校园、职场风云、诗歌、歌词等,几乎涵盖了所有你能想到的,以及你若是有机会去日本旅游生活或是工作能够用到的所有方面。
Mastering Android NDK
Mastering Android NDK
Sergey Kosarevsky
¥90.46
Master the skills you need to develop portable, highly-functional Android applications using NDK About This Book Develop portable games using Android NDK and debug them on your desktop Familiarise yourself with different popular C++ libraries on Android and use them in your games Write multi-threaded code with graphics, sound, networking, and resource storage Who This Book Is For If you want to leverage your C++ skills in mobile development and increase the performance of your Android applications, then this is the book for you. Knowledge of C or C++ is assumed, including pointer manipulation, multi-threading, object-oriented programming concepts, and the basics of C++11. It would be an added advantage if you know how to develop applications without any IDE. What You Will Learn Explore popular C++ libraries and use them on Android Write portable, multithreaded native networking code Create portable audio framework using OpenAL Implement portable rendering framework using OpenGL ES 3 Debug mobile applications on your desktop machine Access resources from APK archives Render text with FreeType In Detail Android NDK is used for multimedia applications that require direct access to system resources. NDK is also the key for portability, which in turn allows a reasonably comfortable development and debugging process using familiar tools such as GCC and Clang toolchains. This is a hands-on guide to extending your game development skills with Android NDK. The book takes you through many clear, step-by-step example applications to help you further explore the features of Android NDK and some popular C++ libraries and boost your productivity by debugging the development process. Through the course of this book, you will learn how to write portable multi-threaded native code, use HTTP networking in C++, play audio files, use OpenGL ES 3, and render high-quality text. Each chapter aims to take you one step closer to building your application. By the end of this book, you will be able to create an engaging, complete gaming application. Style and approach This book adopts a step-by-step approach and each chapter is based on the material from the previous ones. The book focuses on putting to your knowledge of C++ use while you develop Android applications of your own.
香港美食大全
香港美食大全
施莉雅
¥33.52
書中食譜的選取原則是以簡便易做又美味可口為重,基本上在四五個步驟內即可完成。除幾十款西式糕餅甜點外,書中介紹的大多數均屬家中常吃的中菜和小食,每個食譜都列明食材、調味和製法,並按主要的烹製技法編排,讓你一目瞭然。
糖尿病治療與中醫調養
糖尿病治療與中醫調養
徐大基
¥73.33
糖尿病不能根治,病徵亦不明顯,確診後可能數十年沒有病況,也有患者突然出現多種嚴重併發症,病情一發不可收拾,令人防不勝防。糖尿病的嚴重性更不在糖尿病本身,而在其多變的併發症上,例如高血壓、視網膜病變、心臟病、高脂血症等。要有效控制病情,減少或減輕併發症,保持生活質素,關鍵在於及時與合理的診治。本書作者為腎臟病的專家學者,現職於香港浸會大學中醫藥學院。他在書中詳述適切的中西藥療法,在飲食調理、挑選運動、心理調適等方面提供具體建議,強調中醫療法、健康管理與病情監測的重要意義,更解答患者常見的生活疑難,例如可不可以吃水果?多久應檢測血糖一次?運動前血糖低怎麼辦?
香港茶點
香港茶點
蔡潔儀
¥33.52
作者多年的教授經驗如材料份量、比例、溫度變化和氣候,以至造型等技巧,如草草了事,可能難以成型,破壞效果。在課堂上我也常常提醒學生們必須謹慎一點,才不會浪費了食材和自己的心機。此外,熟識和耐性也很重要,多學多做,屢敗屢戰,才能盡善盡美。外國諺語有說:“練習導致完美”。這是一本讀者容易學習的書籍,書中某些比較複雜的食譜會有連環圖片解畫,相對簡單的食譜作重點式提點製作竅門。值得一提,本書由材料開始至完成的每一環節,言簡意賅,都能使讀者清楚明白和掌握竅門。
天心月圓悟禪機:李叔同說佛(插圖本)
天心月圓悟禪機:李叔同說佛(插圖本)
李叔同
¥65.99
佛經裡問佛觀心 塵世中修身養性李叔同是近代極具傳奇色彩而又頗有爭議的人物。前半生,閱盡繁華,是濁世中的翩翩佳公子;後半世,超然塵外,是玄門中的潛心念佛人。本書從李叔同的著作、演講稿中,輯錄了他自述的生平經歷,關於佛學入門和日常修持的文章,以及對《華嚴經》、《無常經》、《地藏經》等佛教經典經文的專門論述。
圖解非常心理學
圖解非常心理學
楊甫德
¥46.11
為你揭曉日常“騎呢”怪行的心理根源!為什麼恐怖片越怕越愛看?為什麼越等不到巴士越要等下去?為什麼有人可以與鬼魂交流?為什麼燈光暗淡的酒吧艷遇多?為什麼明星走紅之後就離婚?……生活中稀奇古怪的行為、詭計多端的騙局和匪夷所思的超自然現象,比比皆是,令人摸不著頭腦。但怪誕行為並非無法解釋,複雜的人心亦非難以忖測。本書運用眾多卓越心理學家的研究成果,深入剖析各種“非常”現象,揭示隱藏在背後的心理玄機。