One of America’s premier writers, the bestselling author of Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The Book of Daniel, and World’s Fair turns his astonishing narrative powers to the short story in five dazzling explorations of who we are as a people and how we live. Ranging over the American continent from Alaska to Washington, D.C., these superb short works are crafted with all the wei...(展开全部)

These dazzling short works are crafted with all the weight and resonance of the novels for which E. L. Doctorow is famous. You will find yourself set down in a mysterious redbrick house in rural Illinois ('A House on the Plains'), working things out with a baby-kidnapping couple in California ('Baby Wilson'), living on a religious-cult commune in Kansas ('Walter John Harmon'), ...(展开全部)

E.L.多克托罗（1931— ），美国当代著名作家，生于纽约犹太人家庭，在哥伦比亚大学攻读戏剧硕士学位时参军。退伍后相继担任哥伦比亚电影公司审读员、新美国文库出版社编辑、日晷出版社总编辑，1969年起专事写作，并在美国多所大学执教。 多克托罗自1961年发表小说《欢迎来到艰难时代》至今笔耕不辍。主要作品还包括《但以理之书》、《雷格泰姆音乐》、《卢恩湖》、《诗人的生活》、《世界博览会》、《比利•巴思盖特》、《大进军》、《纽约兄弟》等。作品被翻译成三十多种文字。 多克托罗获得美国国家图书奖、两次国家书评人协会小说奖、美国笔会/福克纳小说奖，伊迪丝•沃顿小说奖，美国艺术与人文学院威廉•迪恩•豪斯奖，以及由美国总统颁发的国家人文奖章。 多克托罗现居于纽约，任纽约大学英美文学讲席教授。

Gripping and compassionate, Land of Big Numbers traces the journeys of the diverse and legion Chinese people, their history, their government, and how all of that has tumbled—messily, violently, but still beautifully—into the present. Cutting between clear-eyed realism and tongue-in-cheek magical realism, Chen’s stories coalesce into a portrait of a people striving for opening...(展开全部)

Gripping and compassionate, Land of Big Numbers traces the journeys of the diverse and legion Chinese people, their history, their government, and how all of that has tumbled—messily, violently, but still beautifully—into the present. Cutting between clear-eyed realism and tongue-in-cheek magical realism, Chen’s stories coalesce into a portrait of a people striving for opening...(展开全部)

Alex and Conner Bailey's world is about to change, in this fast-paced adventure that uniquely combines our modern day world with the enchanting realm of classic fairytales. The Land of Stories tells the tale of twins Alex and Conner. Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, they leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder ...(展开全部)

克里斯·柯尔弗(Chris Colfer)《纽约时报》畅销书作家，著名演员，也是第68届金球奖得主。他凭借在当红美剧《欢乐合唱团》中饰演科特·汉默尔一举成名，2011年入选美国《时代》周刊年度最具影响力100人。克里斯著有一系列畅销小说，包括《命中雷霆：卡森日记》《异世界童话之旅：许愿魔咒》《异世界童话之旅：女巫归来》《异世界童话之旅：格林警告》《异世界童话之旅：王国之上》 媒体评论 ⊙克里斯·柯尔弗打造的魔法王国让迪士尼都望尘莫及。 ——《今日美国》 ⊙在《异世界童话之旅》中，克里斯展现出两个高超天赋：编织极具想象力的情节和塑造多面化的人物。 ——《洛杉矶时报》 ⊙克里斯·柯尔弗是位出类拔萃的作家，他的作品中包含了孩子们钟爱的各种元素——回味深长的人物，怦然心动的...(展开全部)

简介：“我们这不是变异，我们不是怪物！这是进化……”“进化……吗？”“跟我走吧，一起去寻找和我们一样的人，人类，是永远不会待见我们的。”“好……我跟你走！”————————————“喂，也有不会伤害人类的怪物啊！”“那有不会伤害怪物的人类吗？”————————————“车贤秀，来，说出你的欲望吧……然后幸福的留在这里……”“我的欲望是……看卡塔·琪利亚的最终章啊！”

伊恩•麦克尤恩，1948年生，英国当代著名作家。1976年以处女作短篇小说集《最初的爱情，最后的仪式》成名，并获当年毛姆奖。此后佳作不断，迄今已出版十几部既畅销又获好评的小说，其中《阿姆斯特丹》获布克奖，《时间中的孩子》获惠特布莱德奖，《赎罪》获全美书评人协会奖。近年来，随着麦克尤恩在主流文学圈获得越来越高的评价，在图书市场上创造越来越可观的销售记录，他已经被公认为英国的“国民作家”，他的名字已经成为当今英语文坛上“奇迹”的同义词。

Middle school is hard enough without problems like these... Toshihiko Ota is mocked by his peers for his smooth, hairless body, but his life changes forever when he meets a young woman in swim club with the opposite problem: Ayako Goto, poised for swim-meet glory but too ashamed of her body hair to compete. After Ota happens on her trying unsuccessfully to shave in the locker r...(展开全部)