在线阅读本书 Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a completely unexpected child, a three-year-old American Indian girl named ...(展开全部)

Percival Everett’s The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist White townsfolk. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scen...(展开全部)

The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist White townsfolk. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second...(展开全部)

When the rural town of Money, Mississippi is beset by a series of brutal murders, a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive. They're greeted with resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a mob of racist white townsfolk. This, they expect. Less predictable, however, is the second corpse which appears at each crime scene: that...(展开全部)

From "master storyteller"* John Shors, bestselling author of Beneath a Marble Sky , comes a remarkable novel about a father and daughter on a life-changing journey they never intended to take.... Almost a year after the death of his wife, Kate, former high-tech executive Ian finds a letter that will change his life. It contains Kate's final wish-a plea for him to take the...(展开全部)

芭芭拉·金索沃 Barbara Kingsolver，美国当代著名作家。美国人文领域最高荣誉“国家人文勋章”获得者。生于1955年，在肯塔基州乡间长大。迄今出版了7部长篇小说，其中有5部全美销量超100万册。作品被翻译成20多种语言，入选美国高中和大学文学课程。曾获英国橘子文学奖、南非国家图书奖、爱德华·艾比生态小说奖、戴顿文学和平奖等。代表作有《毒木圣经》《豆树青青》《纵情夏日》《罅隙》等。

Everyone knows what a tree looks like, right? But have you ever really seen the delicate flowers of a red maple? The emerging leaves of a tulip poplar? The twigs of a beech? When you look at a tree up close, a whole new world of form and detail emerges-you encounter beauty that you never knew existed, and you begin to appreciate trees in a whole new way.

Everyone knows what a tree looks like, right? But have you ever really seen the delicate flowers of a red maple? The emerging leaves of a tulip poplar? The twigs of a beech? When you look at a tree up close, a whole new world of form and detail emerges-you encounter beauty that you never knew existed, and you begin to appreciate trees in a whole new way.