The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the w...(展开全部)

Unique among pew Bibles, this editions's bold black typeface redefines the meaning of "easy-to-read." Senior citizens, people with vision difficulties, and beginning readers alike will appreciate the visible advantage of the Boldface Pew Bible. Constructed of high-quality materials, this Bible will give you years of faithful service. Choose from three pairs of classics colors t...(展开全部)

The Sympathizer is the 2015 debut novel by Vietnamese American professor Viet Thanh Nguyen. It is a best-selling novel, and recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Its reviews have generally recognized its excellence and it was named a New York Times Editor's Choice. The novel fits the expectations of a number of different novel genres: immigrant, mystery, political, ...(展开全部)

Just before dawn on a Sunday morning, three teenage boys go surfing. While driving home exhausted, the boys are involved in a fatal car accident on a deserted road. Two of the boys are wearing seat belts; one goes through the windshield. The doctors declare him brain-dead shortly after arriving at the hospital, but his heart is still beating. The Heart takes place over the twen...(展开全部)

A charmingly eccentric hotel maid discovers a guest murdered in his bed. Solving the mystery will turn her once orderly world upside down in this utterly original debut. Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misinterprets the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could l...(展开全部)

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award An American Library Association Notable Book Jonathan Franzen's third novel, The Corrections, is a great work of art and a grandly entertaining overture to our new century: a bold, comic, tragic, deeply moving family drama that stretches from the Midwest at mid-century to Wall Str...(展开全部)

保罗·比第（Paul Beatty），生于1962年，美国当代著名作家、诗人，先后获得波士顿大学心理学学士学位、布鲁克林大学艺术硕士学位。 20世纪90年代，保罗·比第以诗人身份崭露头角，出版诗集《大银行收了小银行》《小王，大王，2》等；90年代中期投入小说创作，1996年出版小说处女作《白人男孩曳步舞》，被《纽约时报》称赞为“天赋之作”，随后出版《岩石》《梦乡》。 2015年，出版耗时五年写就的小说《背叛》，于当年捧回全美书评家协会奖，横扫《纽约时报》等数十家媒体年度书榜，次年一举拿下布克奖，成为美国历史上第一位获得布克奖的作家。 保罗·比第现居纽约，在哥伦比亚大学教授创意写作。

A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begin...(展开全部)

From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes The Women―at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided. Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and she...(展开全部)

《朗读者》演绎被禁忌的罪责之爱，采用关乎人性的严肃题材，贯穿全书的却是一个让人唏嘘的爱情故事。《朗读者》被列为年度好书口碑之选。同名影片荣膺金球奖，并获奥斯卡五项核心大奖提名。 伟大的爱情是用来唏嘘的。为了守护秘密，你会走多远？ 战后的德国萧条破败，一个15岁的少年在电车上病倒了，他独自下车，行走在滂沱大雨中，最后在一个逼仄的过道里吐得一塌糊涂，一个36岁的陌生女人帮助了他•••••• 3个月后，少年伯格从突如其来的猩红热侵袭中恢复过来，他只是为了去感谢那个曾经在他生病时给予过他帮助的女人，但是，情欲，或者是爱情，在15岁的少年伯格心中渐渐燃烧起来。 电车售票员汉娜总是让伯格为她朗读，《荷马史诗》、《带小狗的女人》、《战争与和平》，在伯格的朗读中，汉娜像个孩子似的时而痛哭，时而大笑，那个夏天，是他们一生中最短暂最快乐并最终影响了后来岁月的时光。 不久...(展开全部)