As told, or rather retold second-hand, by the narrator, Take It or Leave It relates the hilarious and amorous adventures of a young Frenchman who has been drafted into the U.S. Army and is being shipped Overseas to fight in Korea. The obsessed narrator retells, as best as he can, what the young man supposedly told him as they sat under a tree. He recounts how the young man esca...(展开全部)

After leading anything but a fashionable collegiate life, Kaitani is entering his third year at a major cosmetics company. His boss is that redolent Adonis, Fujiwara. Although any number of women have had their eyes on Fujiwara, Kaitani can't think of him as anything but an ill-mannered snob. To make matters worse, Kaitani clashes with Fujiwara over the marketing of a new line ...(展开全部)

Lulu and Merry's childhood was never ideal, but on the day before Lulu's tenth birthday their father propels them into a nightmare. He's always hungered for the love of the girls’ self-obsessed mother; after she throws him out, their troubles turn deadly. Lulu had been warned not let her father in, but when he shows up drunk, he's impossible to ignore. He bullies his way past L...(展开全部)

Madras plaid, Top-Siders, seersucker shorts, highwater trousers, tweed jackets, Brooks Brothers, J. Press, and J. Crew. What comes to mind? Described by The New York Times as, “a treasure of fashion insiders,” Take Ivy was originally published in Japan in 1965, setting off an explosion of American-influenced “Ivy Style” fashion among students in the trendy Ginza shopping distri...(展开全部)

After landing a job at a major cosmetics company through a connection of his, Kaitani has finally gotten the chance to experience real work. But while his eagerness for the new product is admirable, he's utterly discouraged by Fujiwara, his rotten boss from hell! Kaitani plots to find Fujiwara's weakness, but though a colleague's misunderstanding, matter's take an unexpected tu...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Miss Eyre listened in silence, perplexed but determined to be obedient to the directions of the doctor, whose kindness she and her family had good cause to know. She made strong tea; she helped the young men liberally in Mr Gibson's absence, as well as in his presence, and she found the way to unloosen their tongues, whenever their master was away, by talking to them ...(展开全部)

Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England.? At its core are family relationships -- father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father and step-daughter -- all tested and strained by the romantic entanglements that ensue. Despite its underlying seriousness, the prevailing tone is one ...(展开全部)

Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteenth century rural England.? At its core are family relationships -- father, daughter and step-mother, father and sons, father and step-daughter -- all tested and strained by the romantic entanglements that ensue. Despite its underlying seriousness, the prevailing tone is one ...(展开全部)

New York Times Bestseller: A ';monumental' saga of four ordinary American women from the author of The Blackboard Jungle (The New York Times Book Review). Amanda, a small-town minister's daughter with