The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the work farm where he has just served a year for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his fathe...(展开全部)

埃默·托尔斯（Amor Towles） 1964年出生于美国波士顿地区，本科毕业于耶鲁大学,后在斯坦福大学取得文学硕士学位。其后二十年间托尔斯在纽约一家投资公司任职。 他47岁出版第*一部小说《上流法则》，此书一鸣惊人，成为当年的书市黑马，并获得《华尔街日报》2011年度十大好书、2012年的菲茨杰拉德文学奖等多项殊荣。他的第二和第三部长篇小说《莫斯科绅士》《林肯公路》出版后也都高踞各大年度好书榜，被比尔·盖茨和美国前总统奥巴马列入个人喜爱书单。 目前他的三部作品已被翻译成三十多种语言。

The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the work farm where he has just served a year for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his fathe...(展开全部)

埃默·托尔斯（Amor Towles） 1964年出生于美国波士顿地区，本科毕业于耶鲁大学,后在斯坦福大学取得文学硕士学位。其后二十年间托尔斯在纽约一家投资公司任职。 他47岁出版第*一部小说《上流法则》，此书一鸣惊人，成为当年的书市黑马，并获得《华尔街日报》2011年度十大好书、2012年的菲茨杰拉德文学奖等多项殊荣。他的第二和第三部长篇小说《莫斯科绅士》《林肯公路》出版后也都高踞各大年度好书榜，被比尔·盖茨和美国前总统奥巴马列入个人喜爱书单。 目前他的三部作品已被翻译成三十多种语言。

An international bestseller, 'The Yacoubian Building' is a mesmerising and controversial novel that is at once an impasssioned celebration and a ruthless dissection of a society dominated by bribery and corruption. The Yacoubian Building -- once grand, but now dilapidated -- stands on one of Cairo's main boulevards. Taha, the doorman's son, has aspirations beyond the slum in t...(展开全部)

The Yacoubian Building holds all that Egypt was and has become over the 75 years since its namesake was built on one of downtown Cairo's main boulevards. From the pious son of the building's doorkeeper and the raucous, impoverished squatters on its roof, via the tattered aristocrat and the gay intellectual in its apartments, to the ruthless businessman whose stores occupy its g...(展开全部)

I may only be in fourth grade, but I know more than most adults. I take notes every day and read all kinds of books, so I have a solid grasp on the world around me. But suddenly, there are penguins in my town! I know it has something to do with the lady at the dentist and her weird powers, and I'm going to get to the bottom of it...

I may only be in fourth grade, but I know more than most adults. I take notes every day and read all kinds of books, so I have a solid grasp on the world around me. But suddenly, there are penguins in my town! I know it has something to do with the lady at the dentist and her weird powers, and I'm going to get to the bottom of it...

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.

A vivid, passionate and intensely moving novel from prize-winning author John Green. "In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla and on that thin-mooned night I could see little more than her silhouette, but even in the dark, I could see her eyes - fierce emeralds. And not just beautiful, but hot too." BEFORE. Miles Halter's whole life has been one big...(展开全部)