We should have known the end was near. So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of cleanup and...(展开全部)

We should have known the end was near. So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells of a people living in fear amid environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of cleanup and...(展开全部)

From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination. Born in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, more than twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London society; yet the investigative expertise that has ga...(展开全部)

Lisa Wingate is a former journalist, an inspirational speaker, and the bestselling author of more than twenty novels. Her work has won or been nominated for many awards, including the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize, the Oklahoma Book Award, the Carol Award, the Christy Award, and the RT Reviewers’ Choice Award. Wingate lives in the Ouachita Mountains of southwest Arkansas. （via...(展开全部)

From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination. Born in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, more than twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London society; yet the investigative expertise that has ga...(展开全部)

Lisa Wingate is a former journalist, an inspirational speaker, and the bestselling author of more than twenty novels. Her work has won or been nominated for many awards, including the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize, the Oklahoma Book Award, the Carol Award, the Christy Award, and the RT Reviewers’ Choice Award. Wingate lives in the Ouachita Mountains of southwest Arkansas. （via...(展开全部)

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward comes a “powerfully affecting” (People) family story that asks: Can love make a broken person whole? “Another tender tearjerker . . . Napolitano chronicles life’s highs and lows with aching precision.”—The Washington Post William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents co...(展开全部)

Sequoia Nagamatsu is a Japanese-American writer and managing editor of Psychopomp Magazine, an online quarterly dedicated to innovative prose. Originally from Hawaii and the San Francisco Bay Area, he holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Southern Illinois University and a BA in Anthropology from Grinnell College. His work has appeared in such publications as Conjunctions, The ...(展开全部)

E. 洛克哈特（E. Lockhart），哥伦比亚大学文学博士，现于哈姆莱大学教授创意写作。E. 洛克哈特是她的笔名，洛克哈特是母亲家的姓氏。洛克哈特在坎布里奇和西雅图长大。高中时她在西北大学参加暑假戏剧表演学校， 并为明尼波利斯的儿童戏剧公司工作。之后她在瓦萨学院学习绘本创作，毕业于哥伦比亚大学。目前她住在纽约地区。 洛克哈特创作了一系列畅销小说，包括《我们都是撒谎者》、《吉玛拉玛》、《窥探者》、鲁比•奥利弗四部曲等。她还以艾米丽•詹金斯的本名创作了《看不见的暗示》系列以及许多获奖绘本。她的小说《弗兰基•兰道•班克斯声名狼藉的历史》曾获得Michael L. Printz奖荣誉图书大奖、Cybils最佳青春小说奖，并且入围美国国家图书奖决选。

E. 洛克哈特（E. Lockhart），哥伦比亚大学文学博士，现于哈姆莱大学教授创意写作。E. 洛克哈特是她的笔名，洛克哈特是母亲家的姓氏。洛克哈特在坎布里奇和西雅图长大。高中时她在西北大学参加暑假戏剧表演学校， 并为明尼波利斯的儿童戏剧公司工作。之后她在瓦萨学院学习绘本创作，毕业于哥伦比亚大学。目前她住在纽约地区。 洛克哈特创作了一系列畅销小说，包括《我们都是撒谎者》、《吉玛拉玛》、《窥探者》、鲁比•奥利弗四部曲等。她还以艾米丽•詹金斯的本名创作了《看不见的暗示》系列以及许多获奖绘本。她的小说《弗兰基•兰道•班克斯声名狼藉的历史》曾获得Michael L. Printz奖荣誉图书大奖、Cybils最佳青春小说奖，并且入围美国国家图书奖决选。