A rhyming story of a mouse and a monster. Little mouse goes for a walk in a dangerous forest. To scare off his enemies, he invents tales of a fantastical creature called the Gruffalo. Imagine his surprise when he meets the real Gruffalo!

When Billy joins the Ladderless Window-Cleaning Company, he gets a lot more than a new job. First he makes three new friends, then it's time to get to work cleaning all 677 windows of the Duke of Hampshire's house. The Duke is not only the most wealthy man in the country, he's also the most generous. Can he make Billy's lifelong dream come true? "A captivating story and a wonde...(展开全部)

Mario Vargas Llosa's masterful, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals.""The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirteen years older, with whom he begins a secret affair. The second is a manic ra...(展开全部)

Mario Vargas Llosa's masterful, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals.""The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirteen years older, with whom he begins a secret affair. The second is a manic ra...(展开全部)

Hailed by Toni Morrison as "required reading", a bold and personal literary exploration of America's racial history by "the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States" (The New York Observer). "This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it." In a profound work that pivots from the biggest...(展开全部)

塔那西斯•科茨（1975— ）美国当代著名作家、记者，2015年获得麦克阿瑟“天才”奖，2016年入选《时代周刊》“全球最具影响力100人”。2008年出版《美丽的抗争》；2015年出版《在世界与我之间》，获得美国国家图书奖、美国有色人种促进会形象奖，并入围普利策奖、全美书评家协会奖终选名单。

Hélène has been inexplicably ostracized by the girls who were once her friends. Her school life is full of whispers and lies ? Hélène weighs 216; she smells like BO. Her loving mother is too tired to be any help. Fortunately, Hélène has one consolation, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Hélène identifies strongly with Jane's tribulations, and when she is lost in the pages of this w...(展开全部)

Hélène has been inexplicably ostracized by the girls who were once her friends. Her school life is full of whispers and lies ? Hélène weighs 216; she smells like BO. Her loving mother is too tired to be any help. Fortunately, Hélène has one consolation, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Hélène identifies strongly with Jane's tribulations, and when she is lost in the pages of this w...(展开全部)

塔那西斯•科茨（1975— ）美国当代著名作家、记者，2015年获得麦克阿瑟“天才”奖，2016年入选《时代周刊》“全球最具影响力100人”。2008年出版《美丽的抗争》；2015年出版《在世界与我之间》，获得美国国家图书奖、美国有色人种促进会形象奖，并入围普利策奖、全美书评家协会奖终选名单。

Hailed by Toni Morrison as "required reading", a bold and personal literary exploration of America's racial history by "the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States" (The New York Observer). "This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it." In a profound work that pivots from the biggest...(展开全部)