The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel

Mary Robinette Kowal
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Mary Robinette Kowal's science fiction debut, 2019 Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Award for best novel, The Calculating Stars, explores the premise behind her award-winning "Lady Astronaut of Mars."

Winner 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novel
Winner 2019 Locus Award for Best Novel
Winner 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novel
Finalist 2019 Campbell Memorial Award

On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share of humanity to take part in the process.

Elma York’s experience as a WASP pilot and mathematician earns her a place in the International Aerospace Coalition’s attempts to put man on the moon, as a calculator. But with so many skilled and experienced women pilots and scientists involved with the program, it doesn’t take long before Elma begins to wonder why they can’t go into space, too. Elma’s drive to become the first Lady Astronaut is so strong that even the most dearly held conventions of society may not stand a chance against her.

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自由如綠

香港文學館
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榮獲2019年第二屆「香港出版雙年獎」文學及小說類別的「最佳出版獎」 

《自由如綠》乃二十四位重量級香港著名作家，就二十四種植物創作的結集，是一前所未有的嘗試。本書作者屢獲獎項，包括香港書獎、香港文學雙年獎、中文文學創作獎、聯合文學小說獎等。書中內容包含詩、散文、小說、劇本；題材從私人世界到城市、時代、歷史的公共維度，風格各異，豐富多元。植物、文學，兩者對照結合，再搭配本地著名畫家姚柱東繪製精美插畫，更附種籽紙書籤，是視覺藝術與文學的跨界結晶，極具收藏價值。 

二十四篇，每篇附以植物的基本資料，書寫植物的種種照面，閱讀一花一草，體會自由如綠的意義。許廸鏘引言，朗天作跋。 

作者：（合集）董啟章、曹疏影、謝曉虹、袁兆昌、鄧小樺、黃碧雲、盧勁馳、何福仁、鄭單衣、周思中、陳麗娟、黃怡、馮睎乾、鍾國強、胡燕青、王良和、陳慧、洪曉嫻、韓麗珠、張婉雯、淮遠、劉芷韻、甄拔濤、陳曦靜

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Stress Management for Dummies

Allen Elkin
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Tired of letting stress have a negative impact on your life? Easy.

It's impossible to get through life without encountering stress. And unfortunately, most of us learn the incorrect ways to cope with it. Thankfully, Stress Management For Dummies gives you trusted, time-tested guidance on teaching your body and mind to properly cope with stress while keeping your sanity intact.

Whether it's love, work, family, or something else that has you in the red zone, this updated edition of Stress Management For Dummies will help you identify the stress triggers in your life and cut them down to size — all without losing your cool.

• Shows you how to use stress in a positive, motivational way instead of letting it negatively affect your life
• Teaches you to retrain your body and mind to react positively to stress
• Helps you overcome common stresses faced in modern life

If you want to manage stress and get back to living a normal life, Stress Management For Dummies has you covered.

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校長畢業了 : 亦師亦友心底話 (The Principal's Graduation My Heartfelt Words)

沈祖堯
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榮獲2019年第二屆「香港出版雙年獎」心理勵志類別的「出版獎」

大學教育的價值和理念，談何容易？怎樣做一個儉樸、高尚和謙卑的人？提倡人文關懷、高舉道德，往往與今天的市場價值、競爭排名背道而馳。大學的校長面對著校園內外的爭論與風波，便需要在各種張力之間找出平衡點。

就任大學校長之後，沈教授身體力行，與老師和學生近距離享受大學生活，同憂同樂。《校長畢業了》收錄了沈祖堯擔任香港中文大學第七任校長期間在大學網頁發佈的57 篇網誌，就大學的教育理念與社會責任，年青人的成長路與抉擇，校長的使命與挑戰、價值觀和生命觀等話題，以情理兼備的真摯筆觸，跟他一代又一代的學生與關心年青人的人娓娓道來。

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The Overstory: A Novel

Richard Powers
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018

"The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." ―Ann Patchett

The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of―and paean to―the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours―vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

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我們都是地球人 : 被遺忘的孩子

陳美齡
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榮獲2019年第二屆「香港出版雙年獎」心理勵志類別的「最佳出版獎」

有些地方，小孩子不滿十歲就加入軍隊，被迫殺人。
有些地方，小孩子為了一餐一宿，被迫出賣身體。
有些地方，小孩子沒飯吃，要撿地上的小麥碎屑。

難以相信這是發生在同一個地球上的故事，無論天災還是人禍，首當其衝的永遠是小孩子。

陳美齡一直對兒童問題非常關注，從上世紀八十年代起，曾多次出訪世界各地不同國家，視察當地兒童的生活，包括戰禍、饑荒、童兵、買春、割禮、愛滋病等不忍卒睹的問題，1998年起更出任聯合國兒童基金會大使。

本書是她幾十年來視察各地的經驗總結，記錄了一個個悲慘中透著堅強和人性光輝的孩子們的故事，及這些見聞帶給她的衝擊和感悟。

世界上還有很多孩子需要我們伸出援手，因為我們都是地球人。

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