Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other Works

Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other WorksBy: Aphra Behn "We are bought and sold like apes or monkeys, to be the sport of women, fools, and cowards, and the support of rogues"When Prince Oroonokos passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonokos noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his destruction. Inspired

and transported the sick and elderly over treacherous mountain terrain

The Houdini Girl transcends sleight-of-hand trickery for a stunning tale of love

Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking

and the town couldn't be more amused by the mysterious buccaneers

she decides she’s earned one wild night before she has to move back home to her overprotective family

Roz Chast   A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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and gangsters of yesteryear while reprinting some of the most notorious pre-Code comics of all time

and the high-stakes

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who says he lived in the time of William Shakespeare -- and had a very tangled history with the famous playwright

將近30年來，他針對天文學和太空方面寫書、編書，至今已累積十多本給兒童讀者的天文學相關童書。不僅在報章雜誌和網誌社群上刊登專欄文章、在BBC等電臺開設廣播節目說著有關星空的故事，艾特金森也經常到學校和孩子一起分享他對星空的知識與探索，是位將孩子的視野擴大到無窮宇宙的天文教育者。