Six years after the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning Empire Falls, Richard Russo returns with a novel that expands even further his widely heralded achievement. Louis Charles (“Lucy”) Lynch has spent all his sixty years in upstate Thomaston, New York, married to the same woman, Sarah, for forty of them, their son now a grown man. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an...(展开全部)

Two boys grow up in Thomaston, upstate New York. Louis Charles Lynch, aka Lucy, marries his childhood sweetheart and settles down to run a small empire of convenience stores. He's a good man, but he isn't always as reliable as he seems, and secretly longs for what he can't have...His best friend Bobby escapes to Italy and becomes an artist, trading in past and family for a life...(展开全部)

Two boys grow up in Thomaston, upstate New York. Louis Charles Lynch, aka Lucy, marries his childhood sweetheart and settles down to run a small empire of convenience stores. He's a good man, but he isn't always as reliable as he seems, and secretly longs for what he can't have...His best friend Bobby escapes to Italy and becomes an artist, trading in past and family for a life...(展开全部)

An unforgettable and sweeping family saga from Markus Zusak, the storyteller who gave us the extraordinary bestseller THE BOOK THIEF, lauded by the New York Times as "the kind of book that can be lifechanging." The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult ...(展开全部)

Bridge of Clay is about a boy who is caught in the current - of destroying everything he has, to become all he needs to be. He's a boy in search of greatness, as a cure for memory and tragedy. He builds a bridge to save his family, but also to save himself. It's an attempt to transcend humanness, to make a single, glorious moment: A miracle and nothing less.

黑历史，别看，求你了。

黑历史，别看，求你了。

在线阅读本书 A secret world of their own Jess Aaron's greatest ambition is to be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. He's been practicing all summer and can't wait to see his classmates' faces when he beats them all. But on the first day of school, a new kid, a new girl, boldly crosses over to the boy's side of the playground and outruns everyone. That's not a very promisin...(展开全部)

凯瑟琳佩特森（Katherine Paterson，又译作凯塞琳帕特森）是享有国际声誉的美国儿童作家，著有许多流行全世界的作品，是全美图书协会最佳书目中的常备书，并受到广泛称颂。 她的著作已被翻译成22种语言，并多次荣获各种国际性大奖。她三次获得纽伯瑞大奖，两次获得美国儿童文学国家图书奖，1998年和2006年先后获得童书界的两个至高奖项——国际安徒生大奖和国际林格伦纪念奖，可算是当代最杰出的美国儿童文学作家之一。 凯瑟琳佩特森的很多故事都来源于她的生活经历，她的故事也的确给人一种真实的感觉，无论背景是在美国，古代日本或是近代中国，她的故事反映的都是现实生活。在现实生活中，没有长久的幸福，每件事情也不一定都有美好的结局。凯瑟琳的作品也是如此，她故事的主人公面对困难的环境，有时可以感到生活幸福，但下一刻，一切就会变得一团糟。他们会遇到不同的人，对世界有...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 A secret world of their own Jess Aaron's greatest ambition is to be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. He's been practicing all summer and can't wait to see his classmates' faces when he beats them all. But on the first day of school, a new kid, a new girl, boldly crosses over to the boy's side of the playground and outruns everyone. That's not a very promisin...(展开全部)