No growing pains have ever been more hilarious than those suffered loudly by the riotous Gilbreth clan. First, there are a dozen red-haired, freckle-faced kids to contend with. Then there's Dad, a famous efficiency expert who believes a family can be run just like a factory. And there's Mother, his partner in everything except discipline. How they all survive such escapades as ...(展开全部)

<p align="left">What do you get when you put twelve lively kids together with a father -- a famous efficiency expert -- who believes families can run like factories, and a mother who is his partner in everything except discipline? You get a hilarious tale of growing up that has made generations of kids and adults alike laugh along with the Gilbreths in Cheaper by the Dozen. </p...(展开全部)

V.S.奈保尔（V.S.Naipaul） 英国著名作家。1932年生于特立尼达岛上一个印度移民家庭，1950年进入牛津大学攻读英国文学，毕业后迁居伦敦。50年代开始写作，作品以小说、游记、文论为主，主要有《毕司沃斯先生的房子》、《米格尔街》、《自由国度》、《河湾》与“印度三部曲”等。作品在全球享有盛誉，半个世纪里，将里斯奖、毛姆奖、史密斯奖、布克奖、大卫•柯恩文学奖等一一收入囊中。1990年，被英女王封为爵士。2001年，荣获诺贝尔文学奖。同年《半生》出版。

In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity. The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows up sensing the hollowness at the core of his father's self-denial and vo...(展开全部)

Duration: 11:34:06 AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick! "Bennett's tone and style recalls James Baldwin and Jacqueline Woodson, but it's especially reminiscent of Toni Morrison's 1970 debut novel, The Bluest Eye." —Kiley Reid, Wall Street Journal "A story of absolute, universal timelessness ...For any era, it's an accomplished, affectin...(展开全部)

The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern...(展开全部)

Jeannette Walls's memoir The Glass Castle was "nothing short of spectacular" ( Entertainment Weekly ). Now, in Half Broke Horses , she brings us the story of her grandmother, told in a first-person voice that is authentic, irresistible, and triumphant. "Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did." So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls's no nons...(展开全部)

英国著名当代奇幻作家，新史诗奇幻流派领军 人物，曾为电影剪辑师。他以《第一律法》三部曲 一战成名，善于将高度现实主义的人物描绘和高度 戏剧化的情节转折相结合，在欧美幻想文坛上打下 了深深的烙印。其作品风格独特，特点鲜明，多次 入围各类幻想文学大奖，迄今为止《第一律法》系 列已被翻译为数十国语言，《破碎之海》系列图书 更是斩获了美国2015年轨迹奖。

英国著名当代奇幻作家，新史诗奇幻流派领军 人物，曾为电影剪辑师。他以《第一律法》三部曲 一战成名，善于将高度现实主义的人物描绘和高度 戏剧化的情节转折相结合，在欧美幻想文坛上打下 了深深的烙印。其作品风格独特，特点鲜明，多次 入围各类幻想文学大奖，迄今为止《第一律法》系 列已被翻译为数十国语言，《破碎之海》系列图书 更是斩获了美国2015年轨迹奖。

英国著名当代奇幻作家，新史诗奇幻流派领军 人物，曾为电影剪辑师。他以《第一律法》三部曲 一战成名，善于将高度现实主义的人物描绘和高度 戏剧化的情节转折相结合，在欧美幻想文坛上打下 了深深的烙印。其作品风格独特，特点鲜明，多次 入围各类幻想文学大奖，迄今为止《第一律法》系 列已被翻译为数十国语言，《破碎之海》系列图书 更是斩获了美国2015年轨迹奖。