Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin - two women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful family legacy. When Ella and her husband move to a small town in France, Ella hopes to brush up on her French, qualify to practice as a midwife, and start a family of her own. Village life turns out to be less idyllic than she expected, however, and a peculiar dream of the color blu...(展开全部)

This beautiful and sad first novel, recently adapted for a major motion picture, tells of a band of teenage sleuths who piece together the story of a twenty-year old family tragedy begun by the youngest daughter's spectacular demise by self-defenstration, which inaugurates 'the year of the suicides.'

This beautiful and sad first novel, recently adapted for a major motion picture, tells of a band of teenage sleuths who piece together the story of a twenty-year old family tragedy begun by the youngest daughter’s spectacular demise by self-defenstration, which inaugurates “the year of the suicides.”

★比尔•克林顿（Bill Clinton） 1992年当选为美国总统，他一直任职到2001年。在离开白宫后，他建立了克林顿基金会，帮助改善全球健康状况，为女童和妇女创造更多机会，减少儿童肥胖和可预防疾病，创造经济机会，促进经济增长，并解决气候变化的影响。他创作了许多非小说 作品，包括国际畅销书《我的生活》。本书是他的第一部小说。 ★詹姆斯•帕特森（James Patterson） 获得过国家图书基金会颁发的美国文学界杰出服务文学奖。他拥有《纽约时报》最畅销书籍的吉尼斯世界纪录，他的书在世界范围内已经卖出了超过3.75亿本。帕特森孜孜不倦地捍卫书籍和阅读的力量，他创建了吉米•帕特森儿童图书出版公司，其使命很简单：“我们想让每一个孩子读完一本吉米公司出版的书，还可以说，‘请再给我一本。’”

The publishing event of 2018: Bill Clinton and James Patterson's The President Is Missing is a superlative thriller . . . one that can really happen, and one that must not be missed. The President Is Missing confronts a threat so huge that it jeopardizes not just Pennsylvania Avenue and Wall Street, but all of America. Uncertainty and fear grip the nation. There are whispers of...(展开全部)

A novel in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy intersect richly and unpredictably. The events in this tale revolve around an eccentric family and the staging of a play about Elizabeth I.

A novel which combines enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy. It is a tale of a brilliant and eccentric family, fatefully divided.

A novel which combines enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy. It is a tale of a brilliant and eccentric family, fatefully divided.

A novel in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy intersect richly and unpredictably. The events in this tale revolve around an eccentric family and the staging of a play about Elizabeth I.

白修德 Theodore H. White (1915-1986)，美国著名政治记者、历史学家和小说家。1915年出生于波士顿，1938年毕业于哈佛大学，师从费正清，之后受聘《时代周刊》担任驻东亚记者，报道了举世震惊的1942年河南大饥荒，1945年任中国分社社长。这一经历为他的首部著作《中 国的惊雷》（Thunder Out of China，与贾安娜合著）提供了素材。在短期担任《新共和》（The New Republic）杂志编辑期间，白修德编辑出版了《史迪威日记》（The Stilwell Papers）。1948年，他移居欧洲，驻欧洲记者的经历为1953年出版的《浴火重生》（Fire in the Ashes）提供了素材。同年，他回到美国先后担任《记者报》（The Reporter）和科利尔杂志（Collier’s Magazine）的国内记...(展开全部)