If you're a dinosaur, all of your friends are dead. If you're a pirate, all of your friends have scurvy. If you're a tree, all of your friends are end tables. Each page of this laugh-out-loud illustrated humor book showcases the downside of being everything from a clown to a cassette tape to a zombie. Cute and dark all at once, this hilarious children's-book-for-adults teaches ...(展开全部)

From the authors of the breakout national bestseller All My Friends Are Dead (more than 100,000 copies in print) comes a brand new illustrated compendium of the humourous existential ruminations of people, animals, legendary monsters, and inanimate objects. Readers will appreciate the plight of the light bulb whose only friends are burnouts, the caterpillar whose friends have a...(展开全部)

One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those words—and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zowa—Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life o...(展开全部)

When Kamryn Ryn Matika gets a call from college friend Adele Del Brannon, she reluctantly heads to the hospital where Adele is dying of cancer. The two had been odd couple friends (working-class Ryn is black, posh Adele is white) while attending Leeds University, but their friendship did not survive Del's admission of an affair with Ryn's fiancé Nate Turner, which also ended Ry...(展开全部)

#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman, who “captures the messy essence of being human” (The Washington Post), returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a stranger’s life twenty-five years later. Most people don’t even notice them—three tiny figures sitting at the end of a ...(展开全部)

One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those words—and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zowa—Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life o...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The best of friends From writing letters to going swimming, telling stories to finding lost buttons, Frog and Toad are always there for each other -- just as best friends should be.

Illus. in color. A baby bird is hatched while his mother is away. Fallen from his nest, he sets out to look for her and asks everyone he meets -- including a dog, a cow, and a plane -- "Are you my mother?" From the Hardcover edition.

A classic I Can Read about finding a friend—a good match for 3- to 6-year-olds looking for a friendship story, especially during or after a move. He likes his new room and his new street. The police officer and the mail carrier are very nice. But what Freddy really needs are friends—and he looks everywhere until he finds them! Syd Hoff created the Danny and the Dinosaur and Sam...(展开全部)

不是十全十美，在我的世界，却是唯一的珍宝。 不管我心里翻涌起多少愤世嫉俗的怨念，无处排遣。只要看见你，就像看见了光。你让我心中所有微小的声音都在外部世界找到确切的落点。 如此真实，如此笃定。 这本文集，起名《笃定》是因为，其中的每个短篇都在讨论人物内心世界与外部世界产生冲突后的出路，这个集子中所展示的正确的选择多为一种对自我的可贵坚持。 我们每个人都渴望成为睿智有担当的成人，但在社会上找到自己的合适位置却又往往困难。在写作中，我在努力尝试着寻求社会与个人、理性与感性、主观与客观之间的平衡，如果大家也能从主人公们身上找到自己，从他们的生活经历中悟出对自己实现社会认知与自我认知、建立个人身份与人生价值有所帮助的一点东西，对写作者而言，这便是最幸福的事。