Nora Webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest novelists writing today. It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. She is fiercely intelligent, at times difficult and impatient, at times kind, but she is trapped by her circumstances, an...(展开全部)

It's tough being the middle mouse. No one's paying any attention to Nora, so she decides to do something her family can't ignore: make noise. Nora slams windows, bangs doors, and upsets furniture, to no avail. It's not until she crashes out the door--and the house goes strangely silent--that her family realizes: a noisy Nora is much better than no Nora at all. Awards: An ALA ...(展开全部)

It's tough being the middle mouse. No one's paying any attention to Nora, so she decides to do something her family can't ignore: make noise. Nora slams windows, bangs doors, and upsets furniture, to no avail. It's not until she crashes out the door--and the house goes strangely silent--that her family realizes: a noisy Nora is much better than no Nora at all. Awards: An ALA ...(展开全部)

Nora Webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest novelists writing today. It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. She is fiercely intelligent, at times difficult and impatient, at times kind, but she is trapped by her circumstances, an...(展开全部)

Korean-born, New York-based conceptual artist Nikki S. Lee once hoped to be an actress. Now she examines the construction and interpretation of identity in works that combine performance and photography. Her acclaimed Projects document her transformation (sometimes drastic) and assimilation into a wide range of subcultures and social and ethnic groups--from sophisticated ladies...(展开全部)

科尔姆·托宾是具有国际声誉的爱尔兰当代著名作家。他1955年生于爱尔兰东南部一个积极投身爱尔兰独立运动的家庭，毕业于都柏林大学，主修历史和英文。 自1990年发表处女作小说《南方》以来，托宾已出版七部长篇小说、两部短篇小说集、一部中篇小说、两个戏剧和多部游记、散文集。《黑水灯塔船》（1999）、《大师》（2004）、《玛利亚的自白》（2012）先后入围布克奖决选名单，《大师》荣获2006年度IMPAC都柏林国际文学奖等多个文学奖项。《布鲁克林》获2009年度英国科斯塔最佳小说奖。他的最新作品是长篇小说《诺拉·韦伯斯特》（2014）。2011年，英国《观察家报》将其选入“英国最重要的三百位知识分子”，同年，他获得爱尔兰笔会文学奖，以表彰他对爱尔兰文学做出的贡献。2014年，他当选美国艺术与文学院外籍荣誉院士。 托宾的作品主要描写爱尔兰社会、移居他乡者的...(展开全部)

科尔姆·托宾是具有国际声誉的爱尔兰当代著名作家。他1955年生于爱尔兰东南部一个积极投身爱尔兰独立运动的家庭，毕业于都柏林大学，主修历史和英文。 自1990年发表处女作小说《南方》以来，托宾已出版七部长篇小说、两部短篇小说集、一部中篇小说、两个戏剧和多部游记、散文集。《黑水灯塔船》（1999）、《大师》（2004）、《玛利亚的自白》（2012）先后入围布克奖决选名单，《大师》荣获2006年度IMPAC都柏林国际文学奖等多个文学奖项。《布鲁克林》获2009年度英国科斯塔最佳小说奖。他的最新作品是长篇小说《诺拉·韦伯斯特》（2014）。2011年，英国《观察家报》将其选入“英国最重要的三百位知识分子”，同年，他获得爱尔兰笔会文学奖，以表彰他对爱尔兰文学做出的贡献。2014年，他当选美国艺术与文学院外籍荣誉院士。 托宾的作品主要描写爱尔兰社会、移居他乡者的...(展开全部)

Evvie Drake Starts Over meets Beach Read in this heartwarming and hilarious novel about a divorced romance channel screenwriter whose script about her marriage’s collapse just might help her reclaim her life and find love. Nora’s life is about to get a rewrite… Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than anyone. As a romance channel screenwriter, it’s her job. But wh...(展开全部)

The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'. Uncompromising, angry and yet full of hope, this collection of her essential prose - essays, speeches, letters, interviews - explo...(展开全部)

Audre Lorde is a revolutionary Black feminist. Lorde's poetry was published very regularly during the 1960s — in Langston Hughes' 1962 New Negro Poets, USA; in several foreign anthologies; and in black literary magazines. During this time, she was politically active in civil rights, anti-war, and feminist movements. Her first volume of poetry, The First Cities (1968), was publi...(展开全部)