A college student spends an evening out, unwittingly attracting the attention of various men whose paths she crosses. One in particular, an upperclassman who has been nursing a crush on her for some time, has chosen this night to make his true feelings known. Will the two come together, or will this girl just keep on walking...?

A college student spends an evening out, unwittingly attracting the attention of various men whose paths she crosses. One in particular, an upperclassman who has been nursing a crush on her for some time, has chosen this night to make his true feelings known. Will the two come together, or will this girl just keep on walking...?

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Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the "Roaring Twenties". A wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren, falls in love with Dick Diver - her psychiatrist. The resulting saga of the Diver's troubled marriage and their circle of friends, includes a cast of aristocratic and beautiful people, unhappy love affairs, a duel, incest, and the pr...(展开全部)

Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. “Jess and Jason,” she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she ...(展开全部)

宝拉•霍金斯 Paula Hawkins ——我对快乐、正常的角色丝毫不感兴趣。 宝拉•霍金斯出生成长于津巴布韦，1989年迁至伦敦。 曾任记者长达15年。定居伦敦后，为了谋生，她曾为人代笔创作都市女性小说。 她每天搭乘伦敦地铁通勤，其他上班族习以为常的经历，却给予她奇妙的灵感，《火车上的女孩》的故事框架由此诞生。 在小说写到一半时，她陷入经济困境，经纪人帮她寄出不到200页的书稿，开始四处寻觅合适的出版社。 出乎意料的是，稿件公开后，引起各国小说编辑的震惊，趋之若鹜，纷纷抛出橄榄枝，砸下重金竞标。 梦工厂更是慧眼识金，在故事还未完结的情况下，就先人一步，果断签下电影改编权。 《火车上的女孩》出版前数月，在英国一年一度的犯罪小说节发送试读本，先期读到的读者，给予了一边倒的如潮好评。 2015年1月，英美同步上市发行，十天内，迅速登上各大排行榜总榜冠军...(展开全部)

YOU DON'T KNOW HER. BUT SHE KNOWS YOU. Rear Window meets Gone Girl, in this exceptional and startling psychological thriller 'Gripping, enthralling - a top-notch thriller and a compulsive read' S J WATSON, bestselling author of Before I Go To Sleep Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of bac...(展开全部)

As a child and parent walk down the block to the bay and turn to walk back home, evening falls upon the neighborhood. As the walk begins, the squirrels are in the yards, the boys are mowing lawns, a neighbor is baking a pie, and someone is mailing a letter. When the child and parent turn to walk back home, the apple pie is down from the windowsill, the leaves are raked up, an...(展开全部)

Ranked 16 out of 100 on National Geographic Adventure's list of top 100 adventure books of all time Feeling restless in the world of London's high-fashion industry, Eric Newby asked an old friend to accompany him on a mountain-climbing expedition in the wild and remote Hindu Kush, in north-eastern Afghanistan. And so they went - although they did stop first for four days of...(展开全部)

A British high-fashion salesman and a diplomat, Newby and Hugh Carless, with four days' climbing lessons in the Welsh hills, walk into Afghanistan, climb mountains, run into Kafirs with rifles ("Here," one tells the pair happily, "we shoot people without permission"), have a grand time, and survive. The result? This witty, dry, and very English adventure book.