Sometimes you get only one chance. A good introduction can create connections and open doors. A bad one can make conversation fizzle and opportunities fade. What you need is a story that tells who you are—authentically, compellingly, and concisely—and can be adapted to fit any situation.

Sometimes you get only one chance. A good introduction can create connections and open doors. A bad one can make conversation fizzle and opportunities fade. What you need is a story that tells who you are—authentically, compellingly, and concisely—and can be adapted to fit any situation.

The fast-paced new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Best Laid Plans, Morning, Noon & Night and Bloodline. Someone was following her. She had read about stalkers, but they belonged in a different, faraway world. She had no idea who it could be, who would want to harm her. She was trying desperately hard not to panic, but lately her sleep had been filled ...(展开全部)

"Someone was following her. She had read about stalkers, but they belonged in a different, faraway world. She had no idea who it could be, who would want to harm her. She was trying desperately not to panic, but lately her sleep had been filled with nightmares, and she had awakened each morning with a feeling of impending doom." Thus begins Sidney Sheldon's haunting new nov...(展开全部)

A moving, hopeful, and refreshingly candid memoir by the husband of former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg about growing up gay in his small Midwestern town, his relationship with Pete, and his hope for America’s future. Throughout the past year, teacher Chasten Glezman Buttigieg has emerged on the national stage, having left his classroom in South Bend, Indian...(展开全部)

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world. With her “extraordinary capacity for radical empathy” (The Boston Globe), remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Ma...(展开全部)

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world. With her “extraordinary capacity for radical empathy” (The Boston Globe), remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Ma...(展开全部)

写给老师、家长、图书馆员的儿童阅读分享指南 入选深圳“十万教师阅读行动”首批推荐阅读书目 ·英国学校图书馆协会主席、卡内基文学奖得主艾登·钱伯斯经典之作，专为儿童阅读活动写就的实用手册。 ·如何带着孩子深入阅读，进行讨论，培养孩子评论的能力？如何组织一场阅读讨论会？如何提问才能让孩子畅所欲言？什么样的游戏会让孩子爱上阅读？写给每一位热心儿童阅读的成年人。 ·令无数老师、儿童阅读研究者、阅读推广人赞不绝口的儿童阅读指导书。凝结艾登·钱伯斯多年阅读理论与经验，文字深入浅出，轻松引领成人领悟儿童阅读讨论与分享的真谛。特别奉献读书讨论会实例，将阅读理论化为操作性强的实用方法。 ·全国语文特级教师、儿童阅读推广人周益民特别推荐。

In the thirteen stories in her remarkable second collection, Alice Munro demonstrates the precise observation, straightforward prose style, and masterful technique that led no less a critic than John Updike to compare her to Chekhov. The sisters, mothers and daughters, aunts, grandmothers, and friends in these stories shimmer with hope and love, anger and reconciliation, as the...(展开全部)

艾丽丝•门罗（Alice Munro，1931— ） 加拿大女作家，2013年诺贝尔文学奖得主。一生专注于中短篇小说创作，讲述小地方普通人特别是女性隐含悲剧的平常生活，以细腻透彻又波澜不惊的话语，洞见人性的幽微处。在获得诺奖之前，门罗就被誉为“我们时代的契诃夫”;诺贝尔文学奖颁奖词称她为“当代短篇小说大师”。