Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: A Novel

Olga Tokarczuk
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WINNER OF THE 2018 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

"A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune

"Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." —Annie Proulx

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . .

A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?

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尖沙咀海濱：歷史、城市發展及大眾集體記憶

蔡思行
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尖沙咀海濱曾經是香港海陸空交通的樞紐，1960年代起逐步成為九龍半島以至整個香港的旅遊、消費、商業、文化及康樂活動中心的龍頭。1970年代，香港政府更發展尖沙咀為文化中心，尖沙咀海濱的文化設施包括香港文化中心、太空館、博物館等，較中環更多元化。

時至今日，尖沙咀海濱仍然是市民及遊客常到之處，其承載了豐富的歷史和大眾記憶，也是代表着香港的文化符號。本書引用了不同的檔案資料及珍貴的圖片，詳細記述尖沙咀海濱的歷史變遷，闡述從公用九龍倉碼頭到今日海港城的發展，並討論尖沙咀海濱和尖沙咀東部為什麼滿載了如此大量的集體記憶。過去尖沙咀海濱曾有多座具歷史價值的建築物，如尖沙咀火車站、舊水警總部等，本書深入探討了當年社會對保留、拆卸、重建和保育的爭議；同時又分析市民與遊客、康樂與商業對尖沙咀海濱公共空間的競逐和爭議。

香港寸金尺土，城市發展政策、大眾記憶、歷史建築保育等都是社會十分關心的議題，期望本書可為香港的歷史留下一筆紀錄，亦為將來的發展提供一些參考。

(摘錄自cp1897.com.hk)

The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity

Lynda Gratton, Andrew Scott.
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Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, The 100-Year Life explores how living to 100 will have a profound effect on society and the economy, and result in a complete restructuring of everyone's professional and personal lives.

Drawing on the unique pairing of their experience in psychology and economics, Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott offer an analysis to help you rethink retirement, your finances, your education, your career, and your relationships to create a fulfilling 100-year life.

Many of us have been raised on the traditional notion of a three-stage approach to our working lives: education, followed by work and then retirement. But this well-established pathway is already beginning to collapse--life expectancy is rising, final-salary pensions are vanishing, and increasing numbers of people are juggling multiple careers. Whether you are 18, 45, or 60, you will need to do things very differently from previous generations and learn to structure your life in completely new ways.

The 100-Year Life is a wake-up call that describes the choices and options that you will face in the age of longevity. It is also fundamentally a call to action for individuals, politicians, firms, and governments and offers the clearest demonstration that a 100-year life can be a wonderful and inspiring one.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

溪澗的旅次 : 劉克襄精選集

劉克襄
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劉克襄獲得2019聯合報文學大獎;《溪澗的旅次》是評審推薦代表作之一。

劉克襄說：「《牧羊少年奇幻之旅》裡小男孩旅行多年，去尋找寶藏，最後才發現，原來寶藏就在自家的腳下。」細細品味作者對每一次行旅的觀察和寫作，句句顯露他對自然旅行、自然教育的熱愛。帶孩子徜徉山水，無須跋涉遠方，就近探索也能得到一方天地的啟示。

追隨他在溪澗的王國賞鳥的旅次，感覺也跟著溪鳥一直不斷移動尋覓食物；閱讀他在住家附近對小綠山的觀測紀錄，令人彷彿經歷了他們父子的探險，看到麻雀、褐頭鷦鶯在芒花間飛躍穿梭；＜旅次札記＞中，作者描述站崗的時候，對岸走出一位十歲的小女孩，以及手持細長竹枝、邊哭邊擦淚的男童，詢問後才知道，爸爸要他們一天捉二十隻紅尾伯勞……

本書收錄三十四篇劉克襄二十年來的精選文章，看似知性散文的質地，卻時常透露出感性的層面，內容不乏詩的情懷，也充滿對生態問題的省思。透過他平實的文字和獨特的觀點，我們得以用不同角度欣賞萬物之美，聆聽他與台灣這塊土地和人物的精采對話。且讓我們跟著作者綠色旅遊的足跡，穿越溪流，背起行囊，來一趟活潑有趣的生物觀察之旅吧！

(摘錄自博客來網路書店)

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Italo Calvino
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Italo Calvino imagines a novel capable of endless mutations in this intricately crafted story about writing and readers.

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers, a male and a female, pursue both the story lines that intrigue them and one another.

(Excerpt from amazon.com)

快樂就是 ...... : 500個生活裡的小幸福 (Happiness Is . . .: 500 Things to Be Happy About)

麗莎‧史瓦琳 (Lisa Swerling), 拉夫‧羅拉薩 (Ralph Lazar)
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每一天，都是幸福的發現！

快樂就是……

一個週五的夜晚、一句來自陌生人的讚美、一首帶你回到往日時光的歌曲、一道清爽的陽光灑進你的窗、一口香甜的吻在狹小的車裡擺盪，甚至是一顆新鮮的檸檬！

可愛又充滿魅力的插圖佐以妙趣橫生的短句，重新拾回生活的熱情與甜蜜。

晴天讀了心情更美麗，陰天讀著覺得溫馨，雨天讀後揮別憂鬱；難過就翻一翻，開心時看一看！

陪伴你走過分分秒秒、度過春夏秋冬，永遠守候與提醒──

日常裡的簡單快樂，就是專屬於你的小幸福。

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