Fourteen-year-old Madeline lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a lost counter-culture world. Isolated at home and an outlander at school, Madeline is drawn to the enigmatic, attractive Lily and new history teacher Mr. Grierson. When Mr. Grierson is charged with possessing ...(展开全部)

艾米丽•福里德伦德 （Emily Fridlund）： 出生于美国明尼苏达州，拥有华盛顿大学创意写作硕士学位以及南加州大学创意写作博士学位。除了《软刺》（History of Wolves），她的短篇小说集《石弩》（Catapult）亦被提名玛丽·麦卡锡文学奖。现居纽约。

National Book Award finalist Kate Walbert's "A Short History of Women" is a profoundly moving portrayal of the complicated legacies of mothers and daughters, chronicling five generations of women from the close of the nineteenth century through the early years of the twenty-first.The novel opens in England in 1914 at the deathbed of Dorothy Townsend, a suffragette who starves h...(展开全部)

拉尔斯•布朗沃思 Lars Brownworth 英语世界公认最会讲历史故事的作家之一，著名播主、作家、教师，创立了最早的历史播客“拜占庭十二帝”。苹果公司认为，“拜占庭十二帝”是使其播客风格得以形成的50个播客之一。目前，布朗沃思一直更新着他的历史播客，拥有大量的忠实听众，并且在美国一所教会大学担任历史系主任。 《纽约时报》曾认为布朗沃思是一位杰出的历史普及作家。他著有畅销历史作品《诺曼风云：从蛮族到王族的三个世纪》《维京传奇：来自海上的战狼》和《拜占庭帝国：拯救西方文明的东罗马千年史》。书中的笔法延续了他播客中引人入胜的叙事风格和性格鲜明的人物描写，都曾登上《纽约时报》畅销书榜单。

Leo Gursky is barely surviving, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. But life wasn't always like this: 60 years ago, in the Polish village where he was born, Leo fell in love and wrote a book. And though Leo doesn't know it, that book survived, inspiring fabulous circumstances, even love.

Leo Gursky is barely surviving, tapping his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he's still alive. But life wasn't always like this: 60 years ago, in the Polish village where he was born, Leo fell in love and wrote a book. And though Leo doesn't know it, that book survived, inspiring fabulous circumstances, even love.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal • O: The Oprah Magazine • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews •Booklist • School Library Journal NAMED A FAVORITE READ BY GILLIAN FLYNN WINNER OF THE ALEX AWARD In this striking literary debut, Carol Rifka Brunt unfolds a moving story of love, grief, and renewal as two lonely people become the unlik...(展开全部)

WINNER OF THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a masterfully written novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s. On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine gun...(展开全部)

WINNER OF THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a masterfully written novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s. On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine gun...(展开全部)

The romance novel has the strange distinction of being the most popular but least respected of literary genres. While it remains consistently dominant in bookstores and on best-seller lists, it is also widely dismissed by the critical community. Scholars have alleged that romance novels help create subservient readers, who are largely women, by confining heroines to stories tha...(展开全部)