在线阅读本书 Hello Room Service, this is me Eloise. We're going to Paris. France goodbye! And so, our favourite enfant terrible (sporting her foreign identification travel tag) says au revoir to the Plaza and embarks with Nanny and Weenie on a Parisian adventure, which is rawther extraordinaire. While whizzing through the streets, sights, and shops of Paris, Eloise comes to a few im...(展开全部)

Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice, an inspiring debut about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures. When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more d...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly A resolute yet naïve Chinese girl confronts poverty and culture shock with equal zeal when she and her mother immigrate to Brooklyn in Kwok's affecting coming-of-age debut. Ah-Kim Chang, or Kimberly as she is known in the U.S., had been a promising student in Hong Kong when her father died. Now she and her mother are indebted to Kimberly's Aunt Paula, who...(展开全部)

郭珍芳（Jean Kwok） 最受瞩目的华人作家之一。 5岁移民美国，童年时代在唐人街的制衣厂度过。她被哈佛大学提前录取，大学时期身兼4份工作。在哥伦比亚大学取得小说艺术硕士学位后，她在荷兰莱顿大学教授英文、从事英-荷语翻译，目前全职写作。 郭珍芳花10年时间写就《中国女孩耶鲁梦》，一举登上《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜，已被介绍到17个国家，成为多所学校的必读书目。

Kimberly Chang has her world turned upside-down when she moves with her mother from their home in Hong Kong to New York. But their new life doesn't quite live up to their expectations - living in a vermin-ridden apartment in Brooklyn, the pair only have a sometimes working oven to keep warm. They have nothing but debt and neither of them speaks a word of English. While her moth...(展开全部)

On a mild midwestern night in the early 1940s, Johnny Marr leans against a drugstore wall. He’s waiting for Dorothy, his fiancée, and tonight is the last night they’ll be meeting here, for it’s May 31st, and June 1st marks their wedding day. But she’s late, and Johnny soon learns of a horrible accident—an accident involving a group of drunken men, a low-flying charter plane, an...(展开全部)

Never before published in English, these essayistic writings enlarge our understanding of one of the twentieth centrury's most beloved authors. In evocations of Italo Calvino's tumultuous teenage years--his life during Mussolini's rule, at the time of the liberation, and during the Cold War--we learn the story of the author's generation as it confronted moral, civil, and artis...(展开全部)

From one of modern literature’s most captivating and elusive masters comes a posthumous volume of thoughtful, elegant, and quick-witted autobiographical writings, all previously unpublished in English. Here is Italo Calvino paying homage to his literary influences and tracing the evolution of his signature style. Here are his reminiscences of Italy’s antifascist resistance and ...(展开全部)