One day, William discovers that the tree outside his window has been sculpted into a wise owl. In the following days, more topiaries appear, and each one is more beautiful than the last. Soon, William’s gray little town is full of color and life. And though the mysterious night gardener disappears as suddenly as he appeared, William—and his town—are changed forever. With breath...(展开全部)

By the author-and-illustrator team of the bestselling The LibraryLydia Grace Finch brings a suitcase full of seeds to the big gray city, where she goes to stay with her Uncle Jim, a cantankerous baker. There she initiates a gradual transformation, bit by bit brightening the shop and bringing smiles to customers faces with the flowers she grows. But it is in a secret place that...(展开全部)

There was once a little gardener and his garden meant everything to him. He worked hard, very hard, but he was just too little (or at least he felt he was). In this beautifully gentle tale Emily Hughes, the celebrated author of Wild, departs from the larger than life Wild-girl of her debut to pursue a little-r than life Gardener, in a tale that teaches us just how important it ...(展开全部)

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLE Frightening, heartbreaking and exquisitely calibrated, The Constant Gardener is a profoundly moving story of a man ennobled by his wife’s tragic murder, and a magnificent exploration of the dark side of unbridled capitalism. “Another classic narrative. Nobody writing today manipulates suspense better. Nobody constructs a more tantalizingly complex...(展开全部)

Now a major motion picture from Fernando Meirelles, the Academy Award-nominated director of City of God The Constant Gardener is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time. The novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of Tessa Quayle--young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin. Wh...(展开全部)

Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of ...(展开全部)

A novel of relationships set in 1940s London that brims with vivid historical detail, thrilling coincidences, and psychological complexity, by the author of the Booker Prize finalist Fingersmith. Sarah Waters, whose works set in Victorian England have awards and acclaim and have reinvigorated the genres of both historical and lesbian fiction, returns with novel that marks a...(展开全部)

Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C., this powerful novel explores themes of love and death with lightness and gravity and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of ...(展开全部)

康奈尔•伍尔里奇 Cornell Woolrich 一九零三年十二月四日诞生于纽约，悬疑小说大师、“黑色电影之父”，二十世纪二十年代在哥伦比亚大学时开始小说创作，视F.S.菲茨杰拉德为标杆。三十年代起转型尝试写作中短篇悬疑小说，四十年代起开始出版长篇作品，写出《后窗》、《深渊中的华尔兹》和《我嫁给了一个死人》等名作，成为推理界一代巨擘。 劳伦斯•布洛克 Lawrence Block 一九三八年六月二十四日生于纽约水牛城，当代美国冷硬派侦探小说大师，纽约犯罪行吟诗人。十九岁发表处女座《你不可错过》，之后将近五十年笔耕不辍，至今已有三十多部小说问世，“马修•斯卡德书系”、“雅贼书系”等为其赢得巨大声誉，获奖无数，被称为当代欧美侦探推理小说第一人。目前定居纽约。

本书描述了上世纪40年代英国伦敦女同性恋、男同性恋和直人（异性恋）的生活。 《守夜》，故事跨越了上个世纪整个四十年代的伦敦，重点以1947，1944 和1941 年为时空背景，描绘了空袭、灯火管制下黑漆漆的街道，偷偷摸摸的违法关系和性冒险，最后回到其起点 1941 年，可说是极具吸引力。故事围绕着四个伦敦人——三个女人和一个年轻男人而推开，他们都有着不为人知的过去。Kay 在战争时期是开救护车的，生活紧张压抑，现在她却穿着男人装，带着不安定的心和无休止的渴望在大街小巷徘徊并寻觅着；Helen，聪明、可爱，讨人喜欢，却深藏着令人痛苦的秘密；Viv，迷人的姑娘，固执地甚至是愚蠢地忠贞于她那个士兵情人；Duncan ，外表纯真无邪，却在战争中发现了自己内心深藏的邪恶并与之搏斗。在小说中，莎拉·沃特斯一如既往的以她纤细的笔调、写实的技巧，编织出一部结构严谨、...(展开全部)