Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child is a searing tale about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes the life of the adult. At the center: a woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life; but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of lo...(展开全部)

Toni Morrison's fierce and provocative novel exposes the damage adults wreak on children, and how this echoes through the generations. Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to love her as a mother should. Bride, now glamorous, grown up, ebony-black and panther-like, wants to love her man, Booker, but she finds herself betrayed by a moment in her past, a mo...(展开全部)

托妮•莫里森，美国著名作家。1931年生于俄亥俄州，曾在兰登书屋担任高级编辑，后赴普林斯顿大学等校任教。代表作有《最蓝的眼睛》《所罗门之歌》《宠儿》《爵士乐》《爱》《恩惠》等，曾获普利策小说奖、美国书评家协会奖、美国国家图书奖等多项大奖。1993年获诺贝尔文学奖。

Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has go...(展开全部)

Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has go...(展开全部)

This is Alan Hollinghurst's first novel since "The Line of Beauty", winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize. In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at 'Two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Dap...(展开全部)

It was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set it in the image of a small human. For days, she carried it tucked beneath her arm, shaping it with the warmth of her flesh, giving it life. She fashioned for it eyes and ears that cannot open, and yet – it watches and listens. It looks on as Christenze is haunte...(展开全部)

Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glim...(展开全部)

[作者&主编简介] 积极心理学之父 马丁•塞利格曼  美国心理学家，“积极心理学之父”。  1998年，以最高票数当选美国心理协会（APA）主席。曾获美国心理协会两项大奖——威廉姆斯奖和詹姆斯卡特奖。  从“习得性无助”的研究中走出来，不再只关注人性黑暗、脆弱与痛苦的一面，发出了“积极心理学”的召唤——帮助普通人增加幸福感。 中国教育风云人物 孙云晓  中国具有广泛影响力的少年儿童研究学者、教育家、作家。  中国青少年研究中心研究员、副主任，中国家庭教育学会常务理事，《少年儿童研究》杂志总编辑，北京师范大学兼职教授。  曾被国务院表彰为有突出贡献的教育科学研究专家，被中国教育电视台等机构评为“中国教育风云人物”，  被中国家庭生活刊物发行量第一的《家庭》期刊集团等机构评为“推动中国家庭文明建设十大致敬人物”等等。

One dark night the Gruffalo's Child disobeys her father's warnings and ventures out into the snow. After all, the Big Bad Mouse doesn't really exist ...does he? This is the perfect companion to "The Gruffalo Big Book". It includes bonus activities ideal for classroom use.