Thirteen-year-old Meg envies her sister Molly's beauty and popularity, and these feelings make it difficult for her to cope with Molly's illness and death.

在线阅读本书 Barbara Kingsolver's fifth novel is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. It weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives amid the mountains and farms of southern Appalachia. Over the course of one humid summer, this novel's intriguing protagonists face disparate predicaments but...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

It's summer and nothing much is happening in Rathmoye. So it doesn't go unnoticed when a dark-haired stranger appears on his bicycle and begins photographing the mourners at Mrs. Connulty's funeral. Florian Kilderry couldn't know that the Connultys are said to own half the town: he has only come to Rathmoye to photograph the scorched remains of its burnt- out cinema. A few mil...(展开全部)

Four young ladies enter London society with one common goal: they must use their feminine wit and wiles to find a husband.So a daring husband-hunting scheme is born. Annabelle Peyton, determined to save her family from disaster, decides to use her beauty and wit to tempt a suitable nobleman into making an offer of marriage. But Annabelle's most intriguing--and persistent--admir...(展开全部)

"A contentious, deeply moving ode to friendship, love, and urban life in the spirit of Fierce Attachments A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance encounters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who has lived out her conflicts, ...(展开全部)

"A contentious, deeply moving ode to friendship, love, and urban life in the spirit of Fierce Attachments A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance encounters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who has lived out her conflicts, ...(展开全部)

One Odd Day is a humorous, rhythmic, read-aloud story about a boy who awakens to find that everything around him is "odd." His shirt has three sleeves and his dog has five legs. . . Things are no better at school either. Will his odd day end when he goes to bed that night? Children will delight in finding all the "odd" items and numbers hidden in the art This great introductio...(展开全部)

One Odd Day is a humorous, rhythmic, read-aloud story about a boy who awakens to find that everything around him is "odd." His shirt has three sleeves and his dog has five legs. . . Things are no better at school either. Will his odd day end when he goes to bed that night? Children will delight in finding all the "odd" items and numbers hidden in the art This great introductio...(展开全部)

弗雷德里克•瑞肯 美国著名作家，已出版三部长篇小说，获得过多项文学奖，现于美国波士顿爱默生学院教授写作。《奇异海》是他的处女作与成名作，畅销全美，获霍克尼文学奖，并被译成多种文字出版。他也是《纽约客》等杂志的短篇小说作者，2010年被《伦敦每日电讯报》列入“2010年度 十大文坛新秀”。 小汉 七十年代生，曾于《南方周末》、《城市画报》发表游记及影评多篇，译有保罗•奥斯特《红色笔记本》。