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Behind the Scenes at the Museum： A Novel

《博物館背后：一部小說》

Author： Kate AtkinsonPublisher： Picador； 1st edition

A deeply moving family story of happiness and heartbreak， Behind the Scenes at the Museum is bestselling author Kate Atkinson's award-winning literary debut.

National Bestseller

Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year

Ruby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception， and from there takes us on a whirlwind tour of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of an English girl determined to learn about her family and its secrets. Kate Atkinson’s first novel is “a multigenerational tale of a spectacularly dysfunctional Yorkshire family and one of the funniest works of fiction to come out of Britain in years” （The New York Times Book Review）.

這是一個關于家族史的動人故事，其作者是暢銷書作家凱特·阿特金森。

本書通過一個決心要了解她的家庭和其秘密的英國女孩的視角來呈現二十世紀。凱特·阿特金森的第一部小說記述了“一個約克郡家庭的故事，同時也是近幾年英國出現的最有趣的作品之一”（《紐約時報》書評）。

And the Mountains Echoed

《山谷的回響》

Author： Khaled Hosseini

Publisher： Riverhead Hardcover

Khaled Hosseini， the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of ‘The Kite Runner’ and ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’， has written a new novel about how we love， how we take care of one another， and how the choices we make resonate through generations. In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters， cousins and caretakers， Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture， wound， betray， honor， and sacrifice for one another； and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us， at the times that matter most. Following its characters and the ramifications of their lives and choices and loves around the globe—from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos—the story expands gradually outward， becoming more emotionally complex and powerful with each turning page.

這是一個在別人身上尋找自我的故事。

作為卡勒德·胡賽尼的新書，這本小說講述了有關我們如何愛和關心他人，以及我們所做的選擇如何影響子孫后代的故事。此書不僅涉及父母子女，還有兄弟姐妹，甚至看門人。胡賽尼探究了家庭成員之間的關系：養育、受傷、背叛和犧牲。很多時候，我們會驚異于這些最親近人的做法。從喀布爾到圣弗朗西斯科，再到蒂諾的希臘島嶼，故事層層展開，書中每一頁都充滿了復雜而強有力的情感。

The Future： Six Drivers of Global Change

《未來：改變全球的六大驅動力》

Author： Al Gore Publisher： Random House LLC

From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come.

Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history. With the same passion he brought to the challenge of climate change， and with his decades of experience on the front lines of global policy， Al Gore surveys our planet’s beclouded horizon and offers a sober， learned， and ultimately hopeful forecast in the visionary tradition of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock and John Naisbitt’s Megatrends. In The Future， Gore identifies the emerging forces that are reshaping our world.

From his earliest days in public life， Al Gore has been warning us of the promise and peril of emergent truths—no matter how “inconvenient” they may seem to be. As absorbing as it is visionary， The Future is a map of the world to come， from a man who has looked ahead before and been proven all too right.

這本書的作者——美國前副總統和《紐約時報》排名首位的暢銷書《不愿面對的真相》作者，真實又清醒的評估了未來幾十年改變全球的六大重要驅動力。

當今時代正經歷著前所未有的革命性變革。懷著應對氣候變化挑戰時一樣的熱情，奮戰在全球政治前沿數十年的戈爾，這次深入分析了這個氤氳遮蔽的星球的未來，提供了一個清醒而又博學，最終語調卻是樂觀的預測，沿襲了阿爾文·托夫勒《未來的沖擊》和約翰·奈斯比特《大趨勢》的富有遠見的風格。在本書中，戈爾找到了重塑世界的新興力量。

早在從政早期，戈爾就告誡人們意料之外的真相，盡管這種真相我們“不想面對”，但是它們既會帶來希望也會帶來危險。這本書既富有遠見又引人入勝，就像一張未來的世界地圖，前人的預測都已被證實。