A true story based on Wang's experiences in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution, Love in a Small Town is also the author's personal exploration into human nature and sexuality. Written at a time when sex was still a taboo subject in China, the book's real innovation is not its sexual explicitness, but its acknowledgement of sexual love as a powerful force in human li...(展开全部)

The author of dozens of acclaimed novels including those in the Scudder and Keller series, Lawrence Block has long been recognized as one of the premier crime writers of our time. Now, the breathtaking skill, power, and versatility of this Grand Master are brilliantly displayed once again in a mesmerizing new thriller set on the streets of the city he knows and loves so well...(展开全部)

《芙蓉镇》描写了1963-1979年间我国南方农村的社会风情，揭露了左倾思潮的危害，歌颂了十一届三中全会路线的胜利。当三年困难时期结束，农村经济开始复苏时，胡玉青在粮站主任谷燕山和大队书记黎满庚支持下，在镇上摆起了米豆腐摊子，生意兴隆。1964年春她用积攒的钱盖了一座楼屋，落成时正值“四清”开始，就被“政治闯将”李国香和“运动根子”王秋赦作为走资本主义道路的罪证查封，胡玉音被打成“新富农”，丈夫黎娃娃自杀，黎满庚撤职，谷燕山被停职反省……

《芙蓉镇》描写了1963-1979年间我国南方农村的社会风情，揭露了左倾思潮的危害，歌颂了十一届三中全会路线的胜利。当三年困难时期结束，农村经济开始复苏时，胡玉青在粮站主任谷燕山和大队书记黎满庚支持下，在镇上摆起了米豆腐摊子，生意兴隆。1964年春她用积攒的钱盖了一座楼屋，落成时正值“四清”开始，就被“政治闯将”李国香和“运动根子”王秋赦作为走资本主义道路的罪证查封，胡玉音被打成“新富农”，丈夫黎娃娃自杀，黎满庚撤职，谷燕山被停职反省……

'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to' And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of trim and sunny place where the films of his youth were set. Instead, h...(展开全部)

From John Douglas—the legendary FBI criminal profiler, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration for the Netflix show Mindhunter —comes a chilling journey inside the mind and crimes of Larry Gene Bell, one of the most dangerous serial killers Douglas confronted, and the desperate effort to identify and catch him. On May 31, 1985, two days before her high school g...(展开全部)

From John Douglas—the legendary FBI criminal profiler, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration for the Netflix show Mindhunter —comes a chilling journey inside the mind and crimes of Larry Gene Bell, one of the most dangerous serial killers Douglas confronted, and the desperate effort to identify and catch him. On May 31, 1985, two days before her high school g...(展开全部)

桑顿·怀尔德（Thornton Wilder，1897年4月17日－1975年12月7日）出生于美国威斯康辛州麦迪逊，为美国小说家和剧作家，是唯一的一位用文学作品和戏剧作品获得双普利策奖的人。 1897年，怀尔德出生于美国威斯康辛州麦迪逊，父亲阿莫斯·帕克·怀尔德，是一位美国外交官，母亲伊莎贝拉·怀尔德·尼文。怀尔德的父亲被分配到清朝工作，任职美国驻香港与上海总领事，因此他的童年在清朝度过。1915，怀尔德从柏克莱高中毕业，1917，他考入耶鲁大学。第一次世界大战爆发后，怀尔德参加了美国军队，在军队中中服役8个月。1926年，怀尔德获得普林斯顿大学颁发的法国文学硕士学位，同年发表了他的处女作小说《奥秘》。

This beautiful new edition features an eye-opening Afterword written by Tappan Wilder that includes Thornton Wilder's unpublished notes and other illuminating photographs and documentary material. Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize–winning drama of life in the small village of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation...(展开全部)