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……

More than thirty million Americans live in small, out-of-the-way places. Many of them could have chosen to join the vast majority of Americans who live in cities and suburbs. They could live closer to better paying jobs, more convenient shopping, a wider range of educational opportunities, and more robust health care. But they have opted to live differently. In Small-Town Ameri...(展开全部)

罗伯特·伍斯诺（Robert Wuthnow），美国著名社会学家，普林斯顿大学教授和社会学系主任，宗教研究中心主任，美国艺术与科学院院士，著述丰硕且关注社会问题，享有崇高知名度。作品有《小镇美国》、《被遗忘之地：美国农村的衰落与愤怒》（The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America）、《粗野的国家》（Rough Country）、《同情的行为》（Acts of Compassion）等。其中，《同情的行为》曾获普利策奖提名。

'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)

The dramatic story of Methamphetamine as it comes to the American Heartland-a timely, moving, account of one community's attempt to confront the epidemic and see their way to a brighter future. The bestselling book that launched meth back into the nation's consciousness. Based on Reding's four years of reporting in the agricultural town of Oelwein, Iowa, and tracing the connect...(展开全部)

What is fueling rural America’s outrage toward the federal government? Why did rural Americans vote overwhelmingly for Donald Trump? And is there a more nuanced explanation for the growing rural-urban divide? Drawing on more than a decade of research and hundreds of interviews, Robert Wuthnow brings us into America’s small towns, farms, and rural communities to paint a rich por...(展开全部)

一个动物会有多大影响力？ 一只猫能感动多少人？ 一只遭遗弃的小猫，如何能改变一个小图书馆，拯救一个典型的美国小镇，最终闻名世界？ 如果没听说衣阿华州斯潘塞镇图书馆小猫杜威的故事，也许根本无从回答。 小猫杜威的故事，说来好似极其不可能。 那年最冷的一个晚上，小猫杜威出生只有几周，就被丢进斯潘塞图书馆的还书箱。图书馆馆长薇奇·麦仑是个单身妈妈，有过一个酒鬼丈夫，遭受着失去家庭农场和罹患乳腺癌的痛苦，但仍然坚强地生活着。第二天早晨，她发现了小猫杜威。 小猫杜威获救后勉强撑起一瘸一拐的腿，以充满感激和温爱的姿势，磨蹭每一只抚摸它的手，赢得了薇奇的心，也赢得了图书馆所有人的心。 在随后的十九年里，小猫杜威用热情、温暖、谦虚，和敏锐的第六感（小猫杜威总是知道谁最需要它），感动和吸引着小镇居民。 小猫杜威的名气，从一个小镇传到另一个小镇，从一个国家到另一个国家，最...(展开全部)