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  • On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down

    by James Fell ...
    Sh!t happens. Every day.Mae West was sent to jail for “corrupting the morals of youth” with her first Broadway play. When participation in the Hitler Youth became mandatory in Germany, groups of teen “pirates” rebelled. Muhammad Ali refused to “drop bombs and bullets on brown people” in Vietnam. A dog sled relay carried life-saving medicine 674 miles through –50 temperatures to rescue children ... Read more

    $2.33 USD

  • A Writer's Workbook

    Daily Exercises for the Writing Life

    Aspiring doctors have medical school. Karate students have belts of different colors. Pianists have scales and arpeggios. But what system do writers have for getting and staying "in shape," to help them focus, practice, and make progress?A Writer's Workbook is Caroline Sharp's ingenious collection of exercises to inspire, encourage, warm up, and jump-start anyone who writes. A wise and funny ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • 說故事的技藝:普立茲獎評審親傳美國大學非虛構寫作聖經【增訂版】

    Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction Second Edition

    Translated by 謝汝萱 ...
    Series series TOP
    ★★★多所美國大學非虛構寫作課指定教材★★★★★★直擊世界頂尖媒體寫作殿堂★★★★★★有影響力的說故事結構拆解★★★會說故事的人有福了,優秀的說故事能力所發揮的影響力,甚至超過大眾媒體,活用敘事弧,幫助你觸及廣大而熱情的觀眾。  本書初版書名:《敘事弧》  ★殿堂級──指導多篇敘事作品獲普利茲獎殊榮!  ★普遍性──想說好故事、想寫好文章者都適用!  ★最實用──迎向趨勢,納入數位媒體章節與數十個新案例!    ◤無論你是寫作初心者、還是說故事老手,  《說故事的技藝》在手,人人都可以「非虛構寫作」!◢  「從前從前……過著幸福快樂的日子……」等等,你還在用老哏說故事?  別誤會,老哏並不可怕,主題創新... ... Read more

    $11.52 USD

  • In Deep Water

    by Elle Blair ...
    Series Book 1 - DI Rachel Harlow
    Happy Valley meets The Woman in Cabin 10 in this gripping, twisty thriller from debut author Elle Blair. A perfect summer read!‘A wonderful opening to the Rachel Harlow series' Abigail Dean'Twisty and entertaining' Sarah Turner'Dangerously addictive' Will Dean'More twists and turns than a packet of fusilli' Daily MirrorA murder at sea. One detective... ... Read more

    $9.39 USD

  • The Bride of Anguished English

    A Bonanza of Bloopers, Blunders, Botches, and Boo-Boos

    For years wordsmith and punster Richard Lederer has charmed and delighted fans with his bestselling "Anguished English" series. In his funniest book yet, readers will again cherish the author's latest chronicle of the goofs and gaffes and fluffs and flubs of our anguished language. And the best part? Everything in here actually occurred! Nothing has been made up!Bloopers from foreign restaurants ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Wreckers

    Disaster in the Age of Discovery

    by Simon Park ...
    Wreckers sinks the old narratives of imperialism, revealing the violent, chaotic and improvised reality of empire-building from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries.'Clever and compelling book. The storytelling and the scholarship fairly spark off each other. It could be a model for how academics should write history for a general audience' The Times‘A flowing, gripping narrative, Wreckers is ... Read more

    $7.39 USD

  • The Hangman

    by Louise Penny ...
    On a cold November morning, a jogger runs through the woods in the peaceful Quebec village of Three Pines. On his run, he finds a dead man hanging from a tree. The dead man was a guest at the local Inn and Spa. He might have been looking for peace and quiet, but something else found him. Something horrible. Did the man take his own life? Or was he murdered? Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is called ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • How to Sell a Genocide

    The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza

    “Vivid and meticulous ... Through painstaking documentation, Johnson shows how anti-Palestinian racism among elite liberals and liberal institutions primed Western audiences for genocide” from the foreword by Noura Erakat, author of Justice for SomeAs bombs rained down on Gaza in October 2023, images of mass death and destruction gripped the world, and openly genocidal statements from Israeli ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Poor

    The Award-Winning Memoir of Grit, Courage, and the Life-Changing Value of Self-Belief

    From an impoverished childhood shaped by her parents' addictions to becoming a prize-winning academic, this is the incredible memoir from an inspiring voice, told with devastating candour, humour and warmth.THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLERWINNER OF BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR, IRISH BOOK AWARDS‘Hands down, definitely, one of the best books I’ve ever read. It’s an amazing story and brilliantly written as well’ ... Read more

    $6.79 USD

  • Cribsheet

    A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

    by Emily Oster ...
    Series Book 2 - The ParentData Series
    **From the author of Expecting Better, The Family Firm, and The Unexpected an economist's guide to the early years of parenting.“Both refreshing and useful. With so many parenting theories driving us all a bit batty, this is the type of book that we need to help calm things down.” —LA Times**“The book is jampacked with information, but it’s also a delightful read because Oster is such a good ... Read more

    $8.19 USD

  • The Art of X-Ray Reading

    How the Secrets of 25 Great Works of Literature Will Improve Your Writing

    One of America's most influential writing teachers offers writing lessons we can draw from twenty-five great texts.Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Peter Clark calls X-ray reading, a form of reading that lets you penetrate beyond the surface of a text to see how meaning is actually being made.In The Art of X-Ray Reading, Clark invites you to don your X-ray ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 抄寫英語的奇蹟:1天10分鐘,英語和人生都起飛

    Series series Happy Language
    外籍名師親自編寫,最道地的正能量英語!涵蓋人生最重要的10大主題,每10天輪動一次,不僅勵志,更能喚醒潛能,復甦活力。每天輕鬆抄寫10分鐘,將為你帶來驚人的改變!★任何年齡和各種專業的讀者都適用!★作者親錄QR CODE音檔,可以邊寫邊讀、也可以隨時跟讀,自然而然學會母語人士發音1天10分鐘,連續抄寫100天,不僅英語自然而然突飛猛進,還為生命帶來神奇改變!每天帶給你一個新主題、新視角全書以10天為一階段,每階段由10個主題(感恩、克服逆境、學習、目標與夢想、愛、恆毅力、快樂、成長、自我關懷、人生觀)輪替。多重感官同步運用,練就出色的英文能力!</stron... ... Read more

    $8.42 USD

  • Flow

    The Psychology of Optimal Experience

    Series Book 6 - Harper Perennial Modern Classics
    “Csikszentmihalyi arrives at an insight that many of us can intuitively grasp, despite our insistent (and culturally supported) denial of this truth. That is, it is not what happens to us that determines our happiness, but the manner in which we make sense of that reality. . . . The manner in which Csikszentmihalyi integrates research on consciousness, personal psychology and spirituality is ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Meadow's Law

    The true story of Kathleen Folbigg and the science that set her free by an award winning journalist, shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Awards Best True Crime 2025

    The remarkable story of a battle between science and the law, and a mother's fight for justiceShortlisted for the Ned Kelly Awards Best True Crime 2025Shortlisted for Book of the Year at The True Crime Awards 2026 (UK)Longlisted for the Walkley Award 2025In 2003, Kathleen Folbigg was found guilty of smothering her four young children to death, one by one. Medical experts told her trial that ... ... Read more

    $15.59 USD

  • She Comes First

    The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman

    by Ian Kerner ...
    Series Book 3 - Kerner
    "She Comes First is quite simply the best guide to oral sex out there." —AskMen.comThe essential guidebook to oral sex, She Comes First offers a radical new philosophy for pleasuring womenAs women everywhere will attest, men are "ill-cliterate." But in the pages of this must-read sex guide, the mystery of female satisfaction is solved, and the tongue is proven mightier than the sword. According to ... Read more

    $12.19 USD

  • Tudo o Que Sei Sobre o Amor — Edição Especial

    Quando se trata das provações e triunfos da jornada até à idade adulta, a jornalista e ex-colunista do Sunday Times, Dolly Alderton, já viu e experimentou de tudo. Ela descreve-nos vividamente o processo por que passamos quando nos apaixonamos, a luta contra a autossabotagem, a procura de um emprego, o que é dar uma festa desastrosa cuja temática é o RodStewart, apanhar uma bebedeira, levar com os ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Flinders

    The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map from the award winning author of BANJO, BANKS and HUDSON FYSH

    The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the mapIn 1810, Matthew Flinders made his final voyage home to his beloved wife, Ann, his body ravaged by the deprivations of years of imprisonment by the French. Four years later, at the age of just 40, he would be dead - a premature, tragic end to one of the world's greatest maritime adventurers who circumnavigated and ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

    A fiftieth-anniversary edition of the cult classic of gonzo journalism, hailed as “the best book on the dope decade” (The New York Times Book Review), featuring Ralph Steadman’s original drawings and an introduction by Caity WeaverThe inspiration for the major motion picture directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro“A scorching epochal sensation!”—Tom WolfeFirst ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Una Excursión a los Indios Ranqueles

    Un militar de élite abandona la civilidad para adentrarse en las peligrosas y desconocidas tierras dominadas por tribus indígenas. A través de un testimonio vívido y visceral, desmitifica al "salvaje" y descubre una compleja sociedad oculta en la inmensidad de la pampa. El choque de culturas, el respeto ganado a sangre y la inminente desgracia del exterminio resuenan en cada página. Sus memorias ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The War of Art

    Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

    "A vital gem...a kick in the ass." -- Esquire"Amazingly cogent and smart on the psychology of creation." -- Jay McInerney"As I closed THE WAR OF ART, I felt a surge of positive calm. I now know I can win this war. And if I can, so can you." -- Robert McKee, bestselling author of STORYDO YOU:- Dream about writing a great novel?- Regret not finishing your paintings, poems, or screenplays?- Want to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure

    Top Gear, Grand Tour and Twenty Years of Magic and Mayhem

    by Andy Wilman ...
    Lift the bonnet on 20 years of magic and mayhem on Top Gear and The Grand Tour - from the mysterious man behind the camera . . .The perfect gift for fans of fast cars, big laughs and full-throttle TV adventures!--Top Gear turned gloomy Sunday nights into celebratory Friday nights.It made household names of presenters Clarkson, Hammond and May, their unique chemistry and bud... ... Read more

    $6.79 USD

  • N5-N1新日檢文法大全【修訂版】

    精選出題頻率最高的考用文法,全級數一次通過!

    by 金星坤 ...
    Translated by 潘采思 ...
    Series Book 8 - 日語檢定系列
    日語能力測驗應考班講師+日文語言學博士聯手編撰,超詳細的詞性分類及圖表、例句說明,從初級到高級系統化整理,只要一本就能幫助你一次考過JLPT所有級數,史上最完整的日檢文法大全!清楚的分門別類,輕鬆看懂日語文法,簡明的文字、豐富的表格、大量的例句,內容最詳盡、功能性最強的日語文法學習書!日檢搶分,最重要的就是文法!文法是語言的基礎,遠比「聽力」、「會話」、「單字」要來的重要得多。為什麼呢?因為當你不懂「動詞變化」、不懂「句型」時,就會因為無法理解句子的意思而導致找不到答案,搞不好連題目都看不懂!簡單來說文法貫穿了 JLPT 的「文字‧語彙」、「聽解」、「讀解‧文法」全部的項目,是最能拿分的致勝關鍵!但問題又來了,市面上琳瑯滿目的文法書,到底要怎麼選擇自己適合的?如果你想要準備新日檢考試,不想要浪費時間學一些較少用、較困難的文法,那麼你需要的是一本專為新日檢量身打造的文法書 ... Read more

    $10.67 USD

  • Tiny Humans, Big Emotions

    How to Navigate Tantrums, Meltdowns, and Defiance to Raise Emotionally Intelligent Children

    New York Times BestsellerThe Future is Emotionally IntelligentFrom two early childhood experts, an essential parenting guide for toddler behavior that empowers parents to help their little ones navigate their big feelings—including tantrums, outbursts, and separation anxiety—while laying the groundwork for a lifetime of emotional intelligence.We’re in the midst of a parenting revolution that is ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

  • 如果這樣,會怎樣?(10週年增訂版):胡思亂想的搞怪趣問,正經認真的科學妙答

    What If? 10th Anniversary Edition: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

    Series series 科學天地
    ★《紐約時報》暢銷榜 TOP 1 ★★ 銷售突破100萬冊 ★★週年10倍強勢回歸 ★廣受歡迎的xkcd網站作者蘭德爾.門羅的熱銷名著《如果這樣,會怎樣?》,出版歷時10年,銷售突破100萬冊!書中充滿各種奇思怪想的問題,以及作者一本科學的幽默正經回覆。10週年版《如果這樣,會怎樣?》內容全面更新,外加全新的一章,有更多趣味漫畫,還有10倍極限的情境設定,讓你對世界的理解與想像更加10倍開展!.開車撞到減速坡仍安然存活的最快車速是多快? 如果所有減速坡都變成10倍高,又會怎麼?.從多高的地方把牛排丟下,能讓牛排在著地時煮熟? 如果高度增加10倍,又會怎麼?.你想過1莫耳的鼴鼠有多大嗎? 如果是10莫耳</... ... Read more

    Was $11.87 USD Now $10.10 USD