'There are things even love can't do... If the burden is too much and stays too long, even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking and sometimes does break. But even when it's in a thousand pieces around your feet, that doesn't mean it's no longer love...' Yejide is hoping for a miracle, for a child. It is all her husband wants, all her mother-in-law wants, and she has trie...(展开全部)

“Stunning and heart-gripping.” —André Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson—“the French Brokeback Mountain” (Elle)—about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France, translated with subtle beauty and haunting lyricism by the iconic and internationally acclaimed actress/writer Molly Ringwald. We drive at high ...(展开全部)

Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and Yejide have always agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage--after consulting fertility doctors and healers, trying strange teas and unlikely cures--Yejide is still not pregnant. She assumes she still has time--unti...(展开全部)

安德鲁·路米斯（Andrew Loomis） 著名美国插画家、作家、美术教育家。他曾就读于美国艺术学生联盟，19岁时师从乔治·伯里曼学习绘画，随后发展并且延伸了乔治·伯里曼的素描绘画体系，以独特的视角撰写了多本简单易懂的经典绘画教程，对当代素描教育产生了巨大影响。此外，他还是漫威、DC众多画师的启蒙导师，影响广泛而深远。 路米斯认为：好素描必须具有说服力和感染力。因此他从绘画原理方面训练读者，使之创作出“真实的”艺术作品。各绘画技法环节，他都主张作品应尽可能源于观察、实景写生和模特动态。正是由于其独特、着实有效的艺术理念，在他去世后很长一段时间，其绘画风格仍继续影响这一大批艺术家。

From Italy, an epistolary novel like no other, full of Tabucchi's special "enchantment, which trans-figures even as it captivates" ("TLS"). In "It's Getting Later All the Time," an epistolary novel with a twist, Antonio Tabucchi--"internationally acclaimed as the most original voice in the new generation of Italian writers" ("The Harvard Book Review")--revitalizes an illustriou...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 《Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics) (汤姆 琼斯)》讲述了：Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels.It is certainly the funniest.Tom Jones,the hero of the book,is introduced to the reader as the ward of a liberal Somerset squire.Tom is a generous but slightly wild and feckless country boy with a weakness for young women.Misfortune,followed ...(展开全部)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers. “Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature.” —The Guardian In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Mi...(展开全部)

In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship wi...(展开全部)