Moose Flannagan moves with his family to Alcatraz so his dad can work as a prison guard and his sister, Natalie, can attend a special school. But Natalie has autism, and when sheas denied admittance to the school, the stark setting of Alcatraz begins to unravel the tenuous coping mechanisms Mooseas family has used for dealing with her disorder. When Moose meets Piper, the cute...(展开全部)

珍妮弗·乔尔登科（Gennifer Choldenko）来自一个热闹的大家庭，是家里四个孩子当中的老幺。“鼻涕虫”是她在家里的绰号。童年的大部分时光，她几乎都是骑着马在南加州的岩丘峭壁间探险。在珍妮弗还很小的时候，她奇特的幽默感已常常在晚餐餐桌上亮相。从此以后，只要是古怪、好笑的事物，都被她的家人称之为“珍妮弗式笑话”。　 珍妮弗毕业于布兰戴斯大学（Brandeis University），之后进入罗得岛设计学院（Rhode Island School of Design）学习插画。她创作的第一本绘本是《发狂：那只跳月亮的牛》（Moonstruck：The True Story of the Cow Who Jumped Over the Moon）。美国《学校图书馆期进》（School Library Journal）称这本书“热闹非凡”；美国《国...(展开全部)

Moose Flannagan moves with his family to Alcatraz so his dad can work as a prison guard and his sister, Natalie, can attend a special school. But Natalie has autism, and when she's denied admittance to the school, the stark setting of Alcatraz begins to unravel the tenuous coping mechanisms Moose's family has used for dealing with her disorder. When Moose meets Piper, the cute ...(展开全部)

杀人犯，黑帮头子，判刑犯……通常这样的人不会是你的邻居，但是住在阿尔卡特拉斯岛就得另当别论了。1935年，12岁的穆斯·弗拉纳根随家人搬到这座不光彩的岛。岛上住着臭名昭著的逃犯罗伊·加德纳，“机关枪”凯利，当然还有大头目奥尔·卡蓬。穆斯想努力融入新的学校生活，一面要避开学监女儿数不尽的小圈套，一面还要照看与众不同的妹妹娜塔丽。穆斯一心只想保护好妹妹，不辜负父母的期望，离麻烦事越远越好。可是在阿尔卡特拉斯，麻烦是怎么躲也躲不掉的。< Murderers, mob bosses, and convicts . . . these guys are not your average neighbors. Unless you live on Alcatraz. Its 1935 and twelve-year-old Moose Flanagan an...(展开全部)

We have a problem with Stuff. With just 5 percent of the world’s population, we’re consuming 30 percent of the world’s resources and creating 30 percent of the world’s waste. If everyone consumed at U.S. rates, we would need three to five planets! This alarming fact drove Annie Leonard to create the Internet film sensation The Story of Stuff, which has been viewed over 10 mill...(展开全部)

We have a problem with Stuff. With just 5 percent of the world’s population, we’re consuming 30 percent of the world’s resources and creating 30 percent of the world’s waste. If everyone consumed at U.S. rates, we would need three to five planets! This alarming fact drove Annie Leonard to create the Internet film sensation The Story of Stuff, which has been viewed over 10 mill...(展开全部)

"The Google Story" (using logo) is the definitive account of one of the most remarable organizations of our time. Every day over sixty-four million people use Google in more than one hundred languages, running billions of searches for information on everything and anything. Through the creative use of cutting-edge technology and a series of groundbreaking business ideas, Google...(展开全部)

"Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a favorite brand and a standard verb recognized around the world. Its stock is worth more than General Motors’ and Ford’s combined, its staff eats for fr...(展开全部)

Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question. First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn’t know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he’s proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention. As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by lo...(展开全部)