A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still...(展开全部)

A chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather, and the moving, intimate story of a poet coming into her own in the wake of a tragedy At age nineteen, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still...(展开全部)

萨拉·佩里，Sarah Perry 萨拉·佩里在12岁之前，一直与美丽乐观的单身妈妈共同生活。 她12岁那年，在深夜半梦半醒间，目睹母亲被人残忍奸杀。 案发后的十多年中，萨拉孤身一人，辗转被多名亲戚抚养，也一次次被抛弃。那段时间，她迷失过，抑郁过，不过最终还是通过读书与工作勇敢地走出了困境。 萨拉24岁那年，凶手在另一场谋杀案中意外落网，交代了曾杀害萨拉母亲的犯罪事实。 在亲眼见证凶手在法庭接受制裁后，萨拉终于能和以往发生的一切和解，并在30岁那年完成《日食之后》的写作。 萨拉·佩里目前在戴维森学院担任创意写作教授。

在线阅读本书 Miss Eyre listened in silence, perplexed but determined to be obedient to the directions of the doctor, whose kindness she and her family had good cause to know. She made strong tea; she helped the young men liberally in Mr Gibson's absence, as well as in his presence, and she found the way to unloosen their tongues, whenever their master was away, by talking to them ...(展开全部)

Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England.? At its core are family relationships -- father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father and step-daughter -- all tested and strained by the romantic entanglements that ensue. Despite its underlying seriousness, the prevailing tone is one ...(展开全部)

Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England.? At its core are family relationships -- father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father and step-daughter -- all tested and strained by the romantic entanglements that ensue. Despite its underlying seriousness, the prevailing tone is one ...(展开全部)

With Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters, Susan Forward, Ph.D., author of the smash #1 bestseller Toxic Parents, offers a powerful look at the devastating impact unloving mothers have on their daughters—and provides clear, effective techniques for overcoming that painful legacy. In more than 35 years as a therapist, Forward has worked with large numbers of wom...(展开全部)

作者： 凯瑟琳•柯里森（Catherine Kerrison，1953—），历史学博士，美国维拉诺瓦大学历史系副教授，教授殖民地历史、美国革命史以及妇女和性别史课程。她的第一本著作《笔的诉求：美国早期的南方女性及其智识生活》（Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South）获美国教育史学会杰出著作奖。 译者： 吴秀杰、白岚玲，合译有《技术、性别、历史：重新审视帝制中国的大转型》《工开万物：17世纪中国的知识与技术》等；吴秀杰另有译作《人类的群星闪耀时》《昨日的世界：一个欧洲人的回忆》等。 丛书主编： 林鹤，清华大学建筑历史与理论硕士，后留校任教，之后转为自由作者。著译作品有《西方20世纪别墅二十讲》《流水别墅传：赖特、考夫曼与美国最杰出的别墅》《水晶之...(展开全部)

In 2000, Tom Zoellner purchased a diamond engagement ring and proposed. His girlfriend said "Yes" and then suddenly, walked out of his life and made Tom the owner of a used engagement ring. Instead of hitting the self-help shelves of his local bookstore, he hit the road travelling to diamond mines in Africa, Canada, India, Brazil, and Russia to discover the true worth of this s...(展开全部)