A New York Times Best Illustrated Book Hailed by Entertainment Weekly and the Wall Street Journal as a best book of the year, this gorgeous and imaginative story—part picture book, part graphic novel—is utterly transporting and original. USA Today declared it “a compelling and melancholy debut from an important new talent" as well as "an expansive and ageless book full of wonde...(展开全部)

Readers of Jodi Picoult and Liane Moriarty will also like this tenderhearted debut about healing and family, narrated by an unforgettable six-year-old boy who reminds us that sometimes the littlest bodies hold the biggest hearts and the quietest voices speak the loudest. Squeezed into a coat closet with his classmates and teacher, first grader Zach Taylor can hear gunshots rin...(展开全部)

Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question. First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn’t know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he’s proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention. As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by lo...(展开全部)

Most of us have only one story to tell. I don't mean that only one thing happens to us in our lives: there are countless events, which we turn into countless stories. But there's only one that matters, only one finally worth telling. This is mine. One summer in the sixties, in a staid suburb south of London, Paul comes home from university, aged nineteen, and is urged by his mo...(展开全部)

His name is Smitty Tibbs, but everyone calls him the Alien. Ginny is convinced there's more to the Alien than his muted exterior. But as she attempts to break into his safe and emotionless world, she realizes her efforts might be causing more harm than good. Has she gone too far, or not far enough? "Utterly compelling - totally satisfying. A fast-moving, unusual contemporary ...(展开全部)

恋の成就は望んでいない――ただ好きでいるだけで良かった。部下の須藤を密かに想う真木。ある夜、行きずりの男に身を任せる姿を、須藤に見られてしまう。そして、好奇心で須藤から身体の関係を持ちかけられ、抱かれるようになり…。カラダだけでいい――でも、彼の好奇心が一日でも長く続きますように。危うく淫らなオフィスラブ。

It was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set it in the image of a small human. For days, she carried it tucked beneath her arm, shaping it with the warmth of her flesh, giving it life. She fashioned for it eyes and ears that cannot open, and yet – it watches and listens. It looks on as Christenze is haunte...(展开全部)

Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glim...(展开全部)

This is Alan Hollinghurst's first novel since "The Line of Beauty", winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize. In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at 'Two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but it is on George's sixteen-year-old sister Dap...(展开全部)

一部关于被指控的女巫们令人震撼的幽灵故事——一本施展巫术的书——出自备受赞誉的《明日雇员停摆事件》(The Employees) 和《我的工作》(My Work) 的作者之手。 在十七世纪的丹麦，贵族女子克里斯坦泽·克鲁考，一位未婚女性，被指控施行巫术。她和其他几名女性被谣传为魔鬼附身——魔鬼以一个高大无头男子的形态出现在她们面前，赋予她们黑暗力量：她们能偷走人们的幸福，她们行过不敬神的邪行，她们能引发瘟疫或死亡。她们都面临着被处以火刑的危险。 《蜡孩》由克里斯坦泽·克鲁考制作的蜡像娃娃讲述，是一部令人不安的恐怖故事，探讨了残酷与权力、自然与巫术，背景设定在前现代欧洲的脆弱社群中。 《蜡孩》基于十七世纪发生在日德兰半岛北部的一系列真实巫术审判案件，研究深入，浸透着令人身临其境、充满氛围感的细节。奥尔加·拉文不仅以其华丽的叙事和令人惊异的丰沛想象力，还...(展开全部)