For a group of four New York friends, the past ten years have been defined by marriage and motherhood. Educated to believe that they and their generation would conquer the world, they nonetheless left high-powered jobs to stay at home with their babies. What was intended as a temporary time-out has turned into a decade. Now at forty, with their kids growing up, Amy, Jill, Rober...(展开全部)

梅格•沃利特兹（Meg Wolitzer，1959— ） 美国作家、编剧，1959年出生于纽约，毕业于美国布朗大学。目前在多所美国著名大学教授创意写作，迄今共发表小说十余部，擅长都市女性题材，曾数次荣登《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜，其中三部被改编成热门电影。

From the bestselling author of "The Wife" and "The Position," a feverishly smart novel about female ambition, money, class, motherhood, and marriage-and what happens in one community when a group of educated women chooses not to work. For a group of four New York friends, the past decade has been largely defined by marriage and motherhood. Educated and reared to believe that th...(展开全部)

For a group of four New York friends, the past decade has been largely defined by marriage and motherhood. Educated and reared to believe that they would conquer the world, they then left prestigious jobs to stay home with their babies. What was meant to be a temporary leave of absence has lasted a decade. Now, at age forty, with the halcyon days of young motherhood behind them...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Lazy Taro gets his comeuppance.

乔纳森·科恩（Jonathan Cohn） 密歇根大学福特公共政策学院的公共政策讲师，《赫芬顿邮报》的高级国内新闻记者，长期报道社会福利方面的政治和政策话题，被《华盛顿邮报》誉为“美国顶尖卫生政策专家之一”。他曾为《新共和》《美国展望》工作，并为《大西洋月刊》《纽约时报》杂志等刊物撰稿。他的新闻工作获得了西德尼·希尔曼基金会、医疗卫生记者协会、世界饥饿年、全国妇女政治核心小组等颁发的奖项。

"There will be ten teacups at number 4, Berwick Terrace, W. 8, on Wednesday, July 31, at 5 p.m. precisely. The presence of the Metropolitan Police is respectfully requested." Writing as Carter Dickson, the master of the locked room mystery John Dickson Carr returns to the Crime Classics series, pitching his series amateur detective Henry Merrivale against a seemingly watertight...(展开全部)

"There will be ten teacups at number 4, Berwick Terrace, W. 8, on Wednesday, July 31, at 5 p.m. precisely. The presence of the Metropolitan Police is respectfully requested." Writing as Carter Dickson, the master of the locked room mystery John Dickson Carr returns to the Crime Classics series, pitching his series amateur detective Henry Merrivale against a seemingly watertight...(展开全部)

This is the year you change your life. If you’re in a pivot period—if you’re still bridging the space between where you are and where you want to be—remember that the person you’re becoming is already within you. The journey is convincing your mind to act consistently on what your heart already knows it wants to do. The Pivot Year is a book of 365 daily meditations on finding t...(展开全部)

In this beginner's guide to amateur gardening, Geoffrey Newsome-the highly acclaimed translator of Capek's witty Letters from England-has captured the grace and irony of the original Czech to produce a volume that will be treasured equally by those who love gardening as a relaxation, those who loathe it as a chore, and those who have no interest in it whatsoever. For behind the...(展开全部)