From actor Constance Wu, a powerful and poignant memoir-in-essays. Growing up in the friendly suburbs of Richmond, Virginia, Constance Wu was often scolded for having big feelings or strong reactions. “Good girls don’t make scenes,” people warned her. And while she spent most of her childhood suppressing her bold, emotional nature, she found an early outlet in local community t...(展开全部)

A brilliantly original and funny novel about a sex therapist’s transcriptionist who falls in love with a client while listening to her sessions. When they accidentally meet in real life, an explosive affair ensues. Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house, built in 1737, is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta ...(展开全部)

A brilliantly original and funny novel about a sex therapist’s transcriptionist who falls in love with a client while listening to her sessions. When they accidentally meet in real life, an explosive affair ensues. Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house, built in 1737, is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta ...(展开全部)

Build an Exceptional Plot, One Scene at a Time! Think of your favorite story--the one that kept you turning pages late into the night, the one with a plot so compelling, so multilayered, so perfect that you couldn't put it down. How can you make your own plots--in your novels, short stories, memoirs, or screenplays--just as irresistible? "Plot Perfect" provides the answer. This...(展开全部)

Build an Exceptional Plot, One Scene at a Time! Think of your favorite story--the one that kept you turning pages late into the night, the one with a plot so compelling, so multilayered, so perfect that you couldn't put it down. How can you make your own plots--in your novels, short stories, memoirs, or screenplays--just as irresistible? "Plot Perfect" provides the answer. This...(展开全部)

To be an American is, as Henry James famously observed, a "complex fate." But complexity was that rococo master's stock-in-trade, which may explain why he returned to his native country in 1904 after an absence of more than 20 years. To be sure, he was interested in a Jamesian walk down memory lane, with its full quota of meditative hairsplitting. Yet he also meant to take adva...(展开全部)

From perfectly formed potatoes to adulterous US presidents, and from domestic upsets to millennial fever, Bill Bryson just cannot resist airing his opinions and standing up for his (mostly) law-abiding fellow American citizens. But of course after twenty years in England, he is now back on the other side of the pond, and is obviously having a little trouble finding his true Ame...(展开全部)

From perfectly formed potatoes to adulterous US presidents, and from domestic upsets to millennial fever, Bill Bryson just cannot resist airing his opinions and standing up for his (mostly) law-abiding fellow American citizens. But of course after twenty years in England, he is now back on the other side of the pond, and is obviously having a little trouble finding his true Ame...(展开全部)

文/图：安娜·沃克 澳大利亚重量级画家，从事了12年的插画艺术工作，作品在世界范围具有极高人气，深受孩子和年轻父母们的喜爱。其作品获得多项大奖，包括年度CBC大奖、澳大利亚总督文学奖、澳大利亚书业奖、昆士兰文学奖 、家庭奖童书等。其作品主题涉及启蒙、友谊、幽默、习惯、校园生活规范等多方面。画风多为温和、粉嫩的色泽，一眼望去明媚温柔、清新细腻的色调和氛围让人仿佛生活在彩虹般的糖果世界里。文字风格简单而充满韵律，适合幼儿园和小学初级的孩子大声朗读。

文/图：安娜·沃克 澳大利亚重量级画家，从事了12年的插画艺术工作，作品在世界范围具有极高人气，深受孩子和年轻父母们的喜爱。其作品获得多项大奖，包括年度CBC大奖、澳大利亚总督文学奖、澳大利亚书业奖、昆士兰文学奖 、家庭奖童书等。其作品主题涉及启蒙、友谊、幽默、习惯、校园生活规范等多方面。画风多为温和、粉嫩的色泽，一眼望去明媚温柔、清新细腻的色调和氛围让人仿佛生活在彩虹般的糖果世界里。文字风格简单而充满韵律，适合幼儿园和小学初级的孩子大声朗读。