目前分類：英美文學 (16)
- Jun 13 Fri 2014 10:34
推薦-雪豹：一個自然學家的性靈探索之路
- Jun 13 Fri 2014 10:33
推薦-The Maze Runner
推薦-The Maze Runner
When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is blank. But he’s not alone. When the lift’s doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade—a large, open expanse surrounded by stone walls.
Just like Thomas, the Gladers don’t know why or how they got to the Glade. All they know is that every morning the stone doors to the maze that surrounds them have opened. Every night they’ve closed tight. And every 30 days a new boy has been delivered in the lift.
- Jun 13 Fri 2014 10:33
推薦-The Scorch Trials
推薦-The Scorch Trials
The Scorch Trials picks up where The Maze Runner left off. The Gladers have escaped the Maze, but now they face an even more treacherous challenge on the open roads of a devastated planet.
And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them.
- Jun 13 Fri 2014 10:33
推薦-Delicacy
推薦-Delicacy
Reminiscent of Nick Hornby, Muriel Barbery, and Jonathan Tropper, internationally acclaimed novelist David Foenkinos delivers a heartfelt and deftly comedic tale of new love brightening the dark aftermath of loss--and of wounded hearts finding refuge in the strangest of places. After her husband’s unexpected death, Natalie has erected a fortress around her emotions; and Markus, clumsy and unassuming, will never be her knight in shining armor. Yet slowly but surely, an offbeat romance begins between these two mismatched, complex souls, and contrary to everything Natalie knows of affection, her perfect suitor may turn out to be love’s most unlikely candidate: the fool, not the hero, who is finally able to reach her heart.
作者簡介：
David Foenkinos is a French novelist and screenwriter. His novels have been translated into 25 languages and garnered 10 awards around the world. Delicacy, which was first published in France, garnered nominations for all five major French literary prizes and has sold one million copies. David lives in Paris.
- Jun 13 Fri 2014 10:33
推薦-The Color of Law
推薦-The Color of Law
A partner at a prominent law firm is forced to choose between his enviable lifestyle and doing the right thing. Former college football star Scott Fenney has worked his way to the top of the heap at the Dallas firm of Ford Stevens. But when Clark McCall, wayward son of a Texas politician, gets himself murdered after a night of booze, drugs, and rough sex, Scott is assigned to defend the prime suspect, a heroine-addicted hooker named Shawanda Jones. The powers that be want her convicted—and Scott’s future at the firm may depend on it. But unfortunately for Scott, Shwanada claims she’s innocent, and he believes her.
作者簡介：
Born and educated in Texas, Mark Gimenez attended law school at Notre Dame, Indiana and practised with a large Dallas law firm. He is married with two sons. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Jun 13 Fri 2014 10:33
推薦-The Postcard Killers
推薦-The Postcard Killers
been found dead. Little connects the murders, other than a postcard to the local newspaper that precedes each new victim. Now Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter Dessie Larsson, who has just received a postcard in Stockholm - and they think they know where the next victims will be.
他用彎曲的左手臂托住男人的前額，讓他的頭保持朝上。
- Jun 13 Fri 2014 10:32
推薦-在你曾在的地方
- Jun 13 Fri 2014 10:31
推薦-我不親愛的家人
- Jun 13 Fri 2014 10:30
推薦-Mirror Mirror: The Movie Novel
- Jun 13 Fri 2014 10:30
推薦-Week at the Airport
推薦-Week at the Airport
From the bestselling author of The Art of Travel comes a wittily intriguing exploration of the strange "non-place" that he believes is the imaginative center of our civilization.
Given unprecedented access to one of the world’s busiest airports as a “writer-in-residence,” Alain de Botton found it to be a showcase for many of the major crosscurrents of the modern world—from our faith in technology to our destruction of nature, from our global interconnectedness to our romanticizing of the exotic. He met travelers from all over and spoke with everyone from baggage handlers to pilots to the airport chaplain. Weaving together these conversations and his own observations—of everything from the poetry of room service menus to the eerie silence in the middle of the runway at midnight—de Botton has produced an extraordinary meditation on a place that most of us never slow down enough to see clearly. Lavishly illustrated in color by renowned photographer Richard Baker, A Week at the Airport reveals the airport in all its turbulence and soullessness and—yes—even beauty.
- Jun 13 Fri 2014 10:24
推薦-The Night Circus
- Jun 13 Fri 2014 10:23
推薦-A Fine Balance
推薦-A Fine Balance
With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village--will be thrust together, forced to share one cramped apartment and an uncertain future.
As the characters move from distrust to friendship and from friendship to love, A Fine Balance creates an enduring panorama of the human spirit in an inhuman state.
- Jun 13 Fri 2014 10:23
推薦-愛的百種名字
- Jun 13 Fri 2014 10:23
推薦-男孩的世界
推薦-男孩的世界
一九七○年代末期：一個汽油短缺、迷幻藥品店和迪士可舞蹈流行的時代。在紐澤西州的郊區，當同世代的青少年面對青春期的騷動，「普通男孩」投注時間在汽車、體育和霸凌同學時，羅賓‧麥肯齊卻對自己的身分認同感到不安；他跟其他人不同，沉浸於和母親的親密互動中，喜歡與他優雅的母親一同周遊紐約城，聽她訴說曲折離奇的故事。儘管他內心徬徨疑惑於自己的性混亂和痛苦的自我懷疑，但對他典型的美國父親來說，羅賓忠實地扮演了好兒子的角色。一切在悲慘的意外事件中改變，喚醒了他們一家人典型的美國中產階級夢，讓他們的夢想逐漸毀滅。
當羅賓的家庭慢慢瓦解，幾乎要四分五裂時，他發現自己試著遠離那早已鋪設好的正常道路，他想要過自己的生活。細微的叛逆行為，啟發他思考更重要的問題：何謂自主。他掉進難以自拔的三角關係，糾纏在另外兩個也遭傳統社會摒棄的人：陶德‧史派塞和史考特‧史崔斯之間。羅賓展開漫長的性自我發現之旅：一趟將帶領他遠離住在市郊的家人，遠離即將四分五裂的家庭，並超越「普通男孩」世界的探索之旅。
