In her first two books, Byron Katie showed how suffering can be ended by questioning the stressful thoughts that create it, through a process of self-inquiry she calls The Work. Now, in A Thousand Names for Joy , she encourages us to discover the freedom that lives on the other side of inquiry.Stephen Mitchell—the renowned translator of the Tao Te Ching—selected provocative ex...(展开全部)

Winner of the 1980 United Daily Literature Competition, this novel about love, betrayal, family life, and the power of tradition in small-town Taiwan was an instant bestseller when first published in Taiwan. At once a bittersweet romance and a vividly detailed portrait of life in a southern Taiwanese coastal town in the 1970s, A Thousand Moons on a Thousand Rivers captures th...(展开全部)

"Come hear a song about a baby, a very special baby.Come hear a song about you."This affectionate tribute to the all-encompassing love of a child will touch parents' and grandparents' hearts at the same time that it satisfies children's requests to tell them about when they were little. Best-selling author Marion Dane Bauer's lyrical text and award-winning illustrator Dan Andre...(展开全部)

A thousand acres, a piece of land of almost mythic proportions. Upon this fertile, nourishing earth, Jane Smiley has set her rich, breathtakingly dramatic novel of an American family whose wealth cannot stay the hand of tragedy. It is the intense, compelling story of a father and his daughters, of sisters, of wives and husbands, and of the human cost of a lifetime spent trying ...(展开全部)

A successful Iowa farmer decides to divide his farm between his three daughters. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will. This sets off a chain of events that brings dark truths to light and explodes long-suppressed emotions. An ambitious reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear cast upon a typical American community in the late twentieth century, A Thousand Acre...(展开全部)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling novel from one of America's greatest contemporary writers. Larry Cook's farm is the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa, and a tribute to his hard work and single-mindedness. Proud and possessive, his sudden decision to retire and hand over the farm to his three daughters, is disarmingly uncharacteristic. Ginny and Rose, the two eldest, are...(展开全部)

Amazon.com Aging Larry Cook announces his intention to turn over his 1，000-acre farm--one of the largest in Zebulon County， Iowa--to his three daughters， Caroline， Ginny and Rose. A man of harsh sensibilities， he carves Caroline out of the deal because she has the nerve to be less than enthusiastic about her father s generosity. While Larry Cook deteriorates into a pathetic dr...(展开全部)

In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective. This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of all of them. . . In the middle of the night, Creusa wakes to find her beloved Troy engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of brutal conflict between the Greeks and the Troja...(展开全部)

格雷厄姆·麦克尼尔已经为黑图书馆执笔了大量小说，包括《猩红君王》《复仇之魂》，还有登上了纽约时报畅销书榜的《千子》，以及收录在《基因原体》短篇集里的《碎裂倒影》。格雷厄姆的极限战士系列小说以乌瑞尔·文翠斯连长为叙事中心，如今已有六部小说，并且与同样由他执笔的“钢铁战士”系列故事联系紧密，其中《钢铁风暴》一书更是受到了黑图书馆读者们的多年热爱。他撰写了围绕机械教的《火星铸造厂》三部曲，以及战锤恐怖故事短篇《上校的专论》。他还撰写了战锤编年史三部曲《西格玛传奇》，其中第二部在 2010年赢得了大卫·格美尔传说奖。