Desert Solitaire

Twelve-year-old Lucy Desberg is a natural problem-solver. At her family's struggling pharmacy, she has a line of makeover customers for every school dance and bat mitzvah. But all the makeup tips in the world won't help save the business. If only she could find a way to make it the center of town again—a place where people want to spend time, like in the old days. Lucy dreams up a solution that could resuscitate the family business and help the environment, too. But will Lucy's family stop fighting long enough to listen to a seventh-grader? In a starred review, Kirkus said this novel "successfully delivers an authentic and endearing portrait of the not-quite-teen experience," and Booklist called it "a warm, uplifting debut." Readers everywhere have responded to Lucy's independence and initiative—not to mention her great style.

Fans of fractured fairy tales will be delighted to discover the fantasy, mystery, adventure, and humor in the beloved New York Times bestselling Sisters Grimm series by Michael Buckley, now with new cover art. The nine wildly popular books are favorites around the world. They were among the first books to bring a distinctly girl-power spin to fairy tales—a trend followed by hit television series and movies such as Grimm and Maleficent; the bestselling book series the Land of Stories; and more. Now, books one through six in this smash-hit series appear with new covers, with books seven, eight, and nine available as revised editions soon.

The second volume of Harold Pinter's collected work includes The wkkk.net CaretakerIt was with this play that Harold Pinter had his first major success. The obsessive caretaker, Davies, is a classic comic creation, and his uneasy relationship with the enigmatic Aston and Mick a landmark in twentieth-century drama.'The play remains a masterpiece.' Daily Telegraph The Collection This one-act play for television explores the sexual manoeuvres between two couples in the clothing trade. 'Taps the adrenal flow of contemporary guilt and anxiety.' Time The Lover Richard and Sarah conduct themselves with apparent respectability in the mornings, whilst living out a sequence of erotic rituals in the afternoons. 'Beautifully written... the sexiest play I remember seeing on the television.' Sunday Times The volume also includes Night School and The Dwarfs, plus five revue sketches written during the same period.

This short novel that is told with almost fable-like simplicity: Matt Harper is a first-time counselor at a boy's summer camp when he witnesses a casual brutality that leads to murder. The bullying, gluttonous headman Ed Nolan (who has "reduced Camp Pleasant to a microcosm of the Third Reich") is portrayed as one stereotype that the reader is not sorry to see killed off. Instead, all of our sympathy is reserved for the possible suspects: Merv Loomis, the homosexual counselor Nolan humiliates into quitting; the troubled ten-year-old Tony Rocca; Nolan's meek wife, Ellen; and several others. The setting and tone have the distinct feel of the early 1950s, but a casual reference to actress Catherine Deneuve places the action in the mid-60s or later.

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李长声著的《况且况且况（李长声自选集）》系旅日华人作家李长声的三卷本自选集中的文化与历史篇。“知日”渐成潮流，然而大半个世纪以来，我们几乎只从一个位置、一种角度去品评这个邻居的种种，作者则建议我们动动步子，调适距离。此书汇集了作者关于日本文化众多切近又深远的描摹，从幽玄的枯山水到别具一格的赏花姿态，从能乐的变迁到日本人的审美与自我反思，将文化与历史熔于一炉，同时阐释了日本文化与中国文化之间繁复的历史勾连，也澄清了诸多误会。文字之间，作者自身的文化史观也恍然可见。

一个雨天傍晚，我揣着小如猫咪的行李袋敲开了那所房子。房子有些黯淡，湿乎乎的药水味儿弥漫了整个房间。狭长的暗白色的横棱格木窗隐约透出的光映穿了她的半边脸。她用有些嘶哑的声音唤我道：“进来吧。”说的是中文。放下行李袋，随着她穿过走廊去盥洗室洗脚洗脸。那么小的房子，走廊却长得惊人。脱了鞋，光着脚跟着她白色的奥黛裙裾走动时，直让人觉得像是穿过了沁凉的长颈鹿脖子。我的房间在长颈鹿脖子的另一头。“澡，你会洗？”“会。”我说。

科普读物从来不拒绝科学性、知识性、艺术性三者的完美统一，它强化生动性与现实感；不仅要让青少年朋友欣赏科学世界的无穷韵律，更关注技术对现实生活的改变，以及人类所面对的问题和挑战。本书的出发点正是用科学的眼光追寻青少年心中对这个已知和未知世界的热情和关注，共同了解军事科技的相关知识，帮助他们认识自然界的客观规律，了解人类社会，插上科学的翅膀， 去探索科学的奥秘，勇攀科学的高峰。

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