Turtle is in a big hurry. And that’s hard for turtles to do. But he’s off to see something red and he can’t be late. But is it red like Rabbit’s roses? Or Goat’s socks? Or Fox’s roof? All the neighbors want to know, so off they go in a long parade to follow Turtle. But when he finally stops, there’s nothing red in sight. Until all at once they see red, red, red. Yet another tr...(展开全部)

The tragicomedy of a young man in NYC, struggling with the reality of his mother's death, alienation and the seductive pull of drugs.

迈克尔•柯林斯 大学毕业后开过出租车，做过建筑工人，一次偶然的经历让他有了成为医生的梦想。在芝加哥洛约拉大学医学院毕业后，到梅奥医疗研究中心实习，直至担任梅奥的骨外科住院总医生。后来回到家乡芝加哥开办了自己的医院，与妻子帕蒂和12个子女一起生活在那里，业余时光用来写作，还会参与The Narrowbacks乐队的表演。

杰伊·麦金纳尼（Jay McInerney，1955— ） 美国作家。1955年生于康涅狄格州哈特福德，曾任职于美国《纽约客》杂志。 1981年师从雷蒙德·卡佛和托拜厄斯·沃尔夫学习写作。1982年在《巴黎评论》上发表第一部短篇小说《现在清晨六点，你知道你在哪吗？》，从此走上作家道路。1984年，他的短篇小说集《如此灿烂，这个城市》出版，创造了口碑奇迹，畅销至今。这部书被誉为“1980年代的《麦田里的守望者》”。此后，他又陆续出版了《赎金》《我生活的故事》《最后一个野蛮人》《他们是怎样玩完的》等著作，均大获好评，奠定了他当代美国文坛优秀作家的地位。他最新的作品是2016年出版的《闪亮而珍贵的日子》。

In his customary pose as the grumpiest of grumpy old men, Raymond Briggs contemplates old age and death… and doesn’t like them much. Illustrated with Briggs’s inimitable pencil drawings, Time for Lights Out is a collection of short pieces, some funny, some melancholy, some remembering his wife who died young, others about the joy of grandchildren, of walking the dog… He looks b...(展开全部)

After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him, Locke and his trusted sidekick, Jean, fled the island city of their birth and landed on the exotic shores of Tal Verrar to nurse their wounds. But even at this westernmost edge of civilization, they can't rest for long — and are soon back to what they do best: stealing from the undeserving rich and pocketing th...(展开全部)

In his highly acclaimed debut, The Lies of Locke Lamora , Scott Lynch took us on an adrenaline-fueled adventure with a band of daring thieves led by con artist extraordinaire Locke Lamora. Now Lynch brings back his outrageous hero for a caper so death-defying, nothing short of a miracle will pull it off. After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him,...(展开全部)

菲利帕·格里高利是一位全职作者及电台、电视台主持人，拥有爱丁堡大学十八世纪文学研究博士学位，尤其偏爱创作以都铎王朝及16世纪英国为背景的小说，被称作“历史小说女王”。作品《另一个波琳家的女孩》发行全球26个国家，仅在英国就发行量破百万。后被好莱坞搬上银幕。《玫瑰战争》系列也将由BBC改编为电视剧，预计在2013年8月上映。菲利帕·格里高利的历史小说系列仍在不断更新中，每有新作面世便长期占据美英各大畅销书榜单前位，受到读者广泛好评。

After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him, Locke and his trusted sidekick, Jean, fled the island city of their birth and landed on the exotic shores of Tal Verrar to nurse their wounds. But even at this westernmost edge of civilization, they can't rest for long — and are soon back to what they do best: stealing from the undeserving rich and pocketing th...(展开全部)