Just after sunset, as darkness grips the imagination, is the time when you feel the unexpected creep into the every day. As familiar journeys take a different turn, ordinary objects assume extraordinary powers. A blind intruder visits a dying man -- and saves his life, with a kiss. A woman receives a phone call from her husband. Her late husband. In the emotional aftermath of h...(展开全部)

Luminous, passionate, expansive, an emotional tour de force Sunset Park follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysterious Miles Heller during the dark months of the 2008 economic collapse. An enigmatic young man employed as a trash-out worker in southern Florida obsessively photographing thousands of abandoned objects lef...(展开全部)

A Scots Quair is a trilogy of novels: Sunset Song (1932), Cloud Howe (1933), and Grey Granite (1934). Together, they trace the life of heroine Chris Guthrie as she grows from a child into adulthood through the early twentieth century.

In one volume, the screenplays to two contemporary classics, directed by Richard Linklater, and starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, about the immediate and life-altering attraction between two strangers. On a train from Budapest to Vienna, Jesse, a young American student, at the end of a romance and his European trip, meets Celine, a young French woman. They are immediately a...(展开全部)

The simple home is calm and uncluttered, with each item carefully chosen. Mark and Sally Bailey believe that good design means furniture and decoration that is useful, durable and honest. In the first part of the book, they explore calm Colors, Zen-inspired simplicity, and reclaimed or ethically sourced Materials, while Craft embraces the artisan's skill. Comfort means cozy tex...(展开全部)

作者 | [韩]黄晳暎 1943年出生于中国长春，童年经历战争，颠沛流离，有过流浪、打工、出家、当兵、坐牢、流亡的经历。他的一生可以说是韩国近代历史的缩影。苦难的经历和曲折的命运让黄晳暎和国家、民族保持历史的同步，并以磅礴的文学世界贯穿了韩民族乃至朝鲜半岛的命运，他也由此被认为是韩国文学巨匠和最有可能代表韩国文学摘取诺贝尔文学奖桂冠的作家。 年过八旬的黄晳暎仍在孜孜不倦地创作，他的主要作品有《客地》《去森浦的路》《韩氏年代记》《日暮时分》《熟悉的世界》《铁道员三代》等。曾获万海文学奖、大山文学奖等多项韩国权威文学奖项，其中《日暮时分》获2018爱弥尔·吉美亚洲文学奖，入围2019年国际布克奖，《铁道员三代》入围2024年国际布克奖。其作品被广泛译介到法国、美国、德国、意大利、瑞典等国家和地区，在国际享有盛誉。 上一代的过去变成业报，构成了年青一代的现...(展开全部)

Jack and Annie are whisked all the way back to the Ice Age in this compelling Magic Tree House time-travel adventure where they meet woolly mammoths, cave people...and fierce sabertooth tigers!

Now a major motion picture from USA Films starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Penn, and director Philip Haas (director of Angels and Insects). In Up at the Villa, W. Somerset Maugham portrays a wealthy young English woman who finds herself confronted rather brutally by the repercussions of whimsy. On the day her older and prosperous friend asks her to marry him, Mary Leonard...(展开全部)

In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines. Among the group is eighteen-year-old Anna Emmerich, the daughter of Prussian aristocrats. There is her lover, Callum Finella,...(展开全部)

Miss Jane Marple's passion for gossip leads to the investigation of a local man's murder. The victim was not liked in the least, and his death isn't raising eyebrows. But his recently revealed secrets are.