在线阅读本书 Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a completely unexpected child, a three-year-old American Indian girl named ...(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)

Clarice Bean’s beloved picture books are in paperback for the very first time! With dynamic new covers featuring flaps, die-cuts, foil, and more. When your annoying little brother shares your room, your older brother is in the tunnel of adolescence, your dad hides in his office swaying to Frank Sinatra, and your mother listens to foreign language tapes in the bathtub, what ca...(展开全部)

At the turn of the twentieth century, soybeans grew on so little of America’s land that nobody bothered to track the total. By the year 2000, they covered upward of 70 million acres, second only to corn, and had become the nation’s largest cash crop. How this little-known Chinese transplant, initially grown chiefly for forage, turned into a ubiquitous component of American farm...(展开全部)

芭芭拉·金索沃 Barbara Kingsolver，美国当代著名作家。美国人文领域最高荣誉“国家人文勋章”获得者。生于1955年，在肯塔基州乡间长大。迄今出版了7部长篇小说，其中有5部全美销量超100万册。作品被翻译成20多种语言，入选美国高中和大学文学课程。曾获英国橘子文学奖、南非国家图书奖、爱德华·艾比生态小说奖、戴顿文学和平奖等。代表作有《毒木圣经》《豆树青青》《纵情夏日》《罅隙》等。

彼得•德默兹 | Peter Demetz 捷克裔美国著名学者，耶鲁大学斯特林讲席日耳曼语言及比较文学荣休教授。1922年出生于布拉格，1949年离开故土，此后赴美，在耶鲁大学长期任教，直至1991年退休。2000年，捷克政府向他颁发荣誉勋章，以表彰他“向全世界介绍捷克文化”。

Clarice Bean's beloved picture books are in paperback for the very first time With dynamic new covers featuring flaps, die-cuts, foil, and more. When your annoying little brother shares your room, your older brother is in the tunnel of adolescence, your dad hides in his office swaying to Frank Sinatra, and your mother listens to foreign language tapes in the bathtub, what can ...(展开全部)