页数： 320 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2019-12-26

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英文简介: A friend who brings light at the darkest of times...

Oliver the cat is a timid little thing, and rarely ventures from his home in the Foresters’ Arms.

Then his life changes dramatically when a fire breaks out in the pub kitchen and he is left homeless and afraid. But, with the kindness of the humans around him, he soon learns to trust again – and, in his own special way, he helps them heal.

However, it isn’t until he meets a little girl in desperate need of a friend that he realises this village needs a Christmas miracle...

A warm and uplifting novel, this is the tale of a little cat with a big heart. Perfect for fans of A Streetcat Named Bob and Alfie the Doorstep Cat.

页数： 0 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2016-11-17

中文概要: 她像天使一样骑着车，她是一个性格缺陷的人。而莉莉斯塔尔决心要在圣诞节前领导一群无助的弃儿从密苏里州到怀俄明州，其中还包括一名孕妇，她的幸福正在向她靠近。因此，在危险的道路上遇到英俊的索普•Turlow是一件令人意外的礼物，因为他的矜持令人生畏。另外，理解这个温柔的、秘密受伤的男人是另一个挑战，但是莉莉不会抗拒……

在他被发现的心碎之后，索普想要回到他的和平鸽溪牧场。但他从未见过像莉莉那样足智多谋和直率的人。不知怎么的，她重新燃起了他的信念，给了他再次信任的勇气。如果他们在艰难的旅途中幸存下来，他会尽一切可能给她一生的快乐和爱。（WYL）

英文简介: She rides like an angel and she s a crack shot. And Lily Starr is determined to shepherd a helpless group of outcasts from Missouri to Wyoming by Christmas including a pregnant woman whose blessed event is drawing near. So encountering handsome Thorpe Turlow along the dangerous trail is a welcome unexpected gift, for he’s as formidable as he is reserved. Besides, understanding this gentle, secretly wounded man is another challenge Lily isn’t about to resist...

After the heartbreak he’s found, Thorpe just wants to retreat to his peaceful Dove Creek ranch. But he’s never met anyone as resourceful and straightforward as Lily. Somehow, she’s reigniting his faith and giving him the courage to trust again. And if they survive the arduous trip ahead, he’ll do whatever it takes to give her a lifetime of joy and love "

页数： 288 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2015-9-23

中文概要: 小说的三个人物——母亲茱莉亚、18岁的女儿海莉、10岁的女儿伊西——均以第一人称的形式进行叙述。故事发生在海莉造成的一场交通事故害死了16岁的妹妹凯特琳2个月之后。每个角色的叙述口吻都各有特色，三个人物的故事交织在一起，呈现出一个正在愈合伤口的破碎家庭。 因为妹妹的死而感到非常自责的海莉踏上了叛逆、自残的道路，但沉浸在悲伤之种的茱莉亚并没有注意到。直到海莉被学校开除，茱莉亚才发现海莉一直在进行自残。最终，茱莉亚从抑郁中走了出来，并决定带着海莉和伊西开始一段越野旅行。这个决定看似草率，却成功地令她们三人重新变得亲近，并开始修复彼此之间的关系。（LYR）

英文简介: The story follows three first-person perspectives: mother JULIA, her 18-year-old daughter HALEY and her 10-year-old daughter IZZY two months after Haley caused a car crash that resulted in the death of her 16-year-old sister Caitlin. Each narrative has a distinct voice and the three weave together beautifully to portray a broken, but healing, family.

Blaming herself for her sister’s death, Haley begins to rebel and self-destruct, but trapped in her own sadness, Julia doesn’t even notice until Haley is expelled from school and she realizes that Haley has been cutting herself. Finally propelled out of her own depression, Julia makes the impromptu decision to take Haley and Izzy on a cross-country road trip. While it may seem rash, the forced closeness brings the women out of their shells and starts to bring back their relationship.

What I love most about JULIA’S DAUGHTERS is how honest and relatable the voices are. While it shows a family in the midst of tragedy, it does have its real-life moments of levity that keep the momentum and believability going (like Izzy sneaking their cat, Mr. Cat, onto the trip with them). I am attaching the catalog page and final PDF here. Please let me know if you have any additional questions.

页数： 400 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2014-11-11

中文概要:

英文简介: Eva was once a legendary fashion designer until, mysteriously, she retired. Now widowed, she lives with her family in Salix House, the home she’s owned and loved for forty years. When the family announces it’s time to sell, Eva is deeply reluctant. The house contains memories and secrets that are part of her, although she never shares them. Megan is a fashion journalist working in London who interviewed Eva for a magazine. Torn apart by the brutal end of a love affair, Megan is drawn back to Salix House and Eva.

Decades apart in age, the two women share a bond. Both are hiding something, but perhaps together they can confront their fears, their past pain and their uncertain futures - and discover the truth of Salix House’s secrets.

页数： 288 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2014-11-4

中文概要:

英文简介: Forty-two year-old McKenzie Arnold wants to spend one last summer with her best friends in the world, her soul mates. She’s been coming to Albany Beach, to the same cottage, with Aurora, Janine, and Lilly since she was eleven. This will be McKenzie’s last because she’s been diagnosed with terminal cancer; she has less than a year to live.

The four women are determined to make the most of the time they have left together, but the beach cottage is haunted with past memories, secrets, and emotions long swept beneath the old carpets. Through tears, and with laughter, old wounds are healed and new memories are made. As their time together draws to an end, McKenzie knows that with the love and support of her friends, she can face her death with courage. Nothing, however, has prepared the four life-long friends for how the summer will end.

页数： 136 到书日期： 2016-1-29 上传日期： 2014-9-15

中文概要: 《百歲老人翹家去》芬蘭版！
系列上市至今已售超過20萬冊
改編舞台劇多達14齣
改編電影2014年首映於芬蘭影展及多倫多影展

爆笑、感人、又充滿智慧的故事
世界在改變，老爹古輪普永遠不變！

現代人什麼事情都要低頭滑一下螢幕，而經歷過二戰的老爹古輪普(the Grump)則是習慣什麼粗活都要自己做。但如今太太住院，自己也快被兒子丟包安養院，生活的界線不斷限縮，這位古怪老人與現代世界的戰爭開始升溫。

古輪普每日到醫院照顧太太，但他絕不讓自己落得同樣下場，也絕不要別人同情。他要穿自己的靴子離開人世，而不要在醫院等死。為此他決定開始準備自己的葬禮，他用木頭釘一具自己專用的棺材，還寫了回憶錄。當然，告別式上用的音樂以及手冊也要準備好。就在古輪普準備親筆寫下遺囑時，他發現傳家筆居然沒墨水了，於是他與兒子開始坐車四處尋找墨水，卻進入雷射印表機早已盛行的現代世界。

原來這段時間，人們已經用儲值卡取代現金。 用筷子取代湯匙。 用紅酒取代酪乳。 而且女人也做男人的工作。

現代生活也有美好的事物。古輪普學到，原來可以用手持電視來趟時光旅行，平板螢幕能將古早時代立即展現在他眼前，在那時代，芬蘭在奧運會上的表現還很亮眼……現代生活的美好不只如此，古輪普一輩子都窩在芬蘭小鎮，現在居然能透過網路到海參崴和耶路撒冷的街道上探險。 這趟旅行中，他開始回想自己的出生、他的童年以及他所愛之人的生命。他發現，既使物換星移，最重要的事情永不會改變：小孩、愛、人與人互相關懷的心。

故事最後，古輪普將自己的棺材改造成嬰兒床，迎接他們家的新成員：「我會親手完成這份禮物，讓小傢伙開心地在板子上蹦跳、睡覺，享受所有屬於他的美好時光。」

英文简介: A FUNNY, MOVING, WISE BOOK The world changes; the Grump doesn’t. Nowadays folks and touch screens demand a bit of delicacy, while the Grump belongs to the heavy-handed generation. He lived through the war (WWII), shortages and reconstruction, and he’s used to doing everything for himself. But now the Grump’s beloved wife is lying in the inpatient ward at the local hospital and his son wants to put him in a nursing home. As the boundaries of life shrink, this old codger’s battle against modernity grows. Every day the Grump goes and feeds and cares for his demented wife, but there’s no way he’ll suffer the same fate. The Grump will not put himself at the mercy of others. He intends on leaving this world wearing his own boots, not a pair of hospital booties. Which is why he has to prepare for his funeral in plenty of time. He builds a coffin, writes his memoirs, and of course plans the menu and music for the memorial service. He also needs to get his last will and testament down on paper, but the ink in his heirloom pen has run dry. The Grump and his son head out to crisscross Finland by car, hunting for ink in a world that has moved on to laser printers. These days, folks pay with bonus cards instead of cash. Spoons have been replaced by chopsticks. Buttermilk by red wine. And women do men’s work. Old folks are rehabilitated as if they were world-class athletes, but they’re spoken to as if they were children. Which isn’t to say there aren’t a few good things about modern times, too. The Grump learns that you can use one of those handheld televisions to journey into the past, that flat screens show news from the era when news anchors were still gentlemen and Finland did well in the Olympics. The Grump, who has spent his whole life in his own neck of the woods, is able to explore the streets of Vladivostok and Jerusalem online. During his travels, the Grump reflects back on the beginnings of his life and the lives of loved ones, to birth and childhood. He realizes that the most important things never change. Babies, love, taking care of each other. He even admits to having been wrong during the course of his life. Twice. At the end of the story, the old man decides turn his coffin into a crib for a new-born member of his family: “I’ll make a gift, one where a little feller’ll be happy banging on the slats and sleeping and just having him all kindsa happy times.” The humour of Tuomas Kyrö’s Happy Days of the Grump springs from the main character’s inimitable attitude and tenacious resistance to modern vanities. It is a book that is fun, moving, and wise.

页数： 96 到书日期： 1900-1-1 上传日期： 2014-6-5

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英文简介: Phoebe’s Way is the story of a Saint John Ambulance therapy dog whose unsentimental lessons on aging propel this powerful work of fiction from author Pamela Ditchoff. Phoebe’s cross is carried throughout the rooms of Mersey House, a nursing home in Safe Harbour, Nova Scotia. Each chapter represents a station of the journey and an insight into the emotional weight born by the residents and those who care for them. Layered with symbolism in the precise and poetic language of Phoebe, this poignant story is for anyone who has felt the burden of time slowing them down, who has watched elderly loved ones live more in their memories than in the present, or who has ever loved a dog and witnessed how naturally they break through barriers with the promise of hope.

页数： 353 到书日期： 2014-6-4 上传日期： 2014-6-4

中文概要: 两个紧密的家庭花一个夏天准备婚礼的欢乐庆典，南•罗斯特的新小说将他们的生活交织在一起。莱尼•科尔曼和她的丈夫诺亚有五个儿子。诺亚很忙，但同时也在科德角的一个小教堂担任牧师职务。当诺亚的弟弟麦卡问诺亚能不能不仅主持他的婚礼还主持他的家庭的婚礼，忙碌的科尔曼家庭已经天翻地覆了。诺亚踊跃同意了，但莱尼非常生气，因为她的生活和家庭会天翻地覆。当婚礼筹备的如火如荼时， 莱尼注意到她的公公亚撒的微妙变化，很快家庭必须面对关于他的健康和他们的未来的真相。(LNL)

英文简介: Nan Rossiter’s new novel weaves together the lives of two close-knit families as they spend one summer preparing for the joyous celebration of a wedding. Laney Coleman and her husband Noah have five sons. Noah is the harried but capable minister of a small church on Cape Cod. The hectic Coleman household is turned upside down when Noah’s younger brother Micah asks if he will not only officiate at his wedding but host it at his home as well. Noah enthusiastically agrees but Laney is more than a little upset at having her life and home turned upside down. As wedding preparations swing into full gear Laney notices subtle changes in her father-in-law, Asa, and soon the family must face the truth about his health and about their futures.

页数： 245 到书日期： 2014-5-19 上传日期： 2014-5-22

中文概要: 婚姻美满的艾莉森和马克聊起自己即将到来的假日。她去厨房准备晚餐。当她走出来时，他已经消失的无影无踪，没有留下任何信息。她再也没有见过他。17年后，一封律师的来信开启了她寻找答案的旅程。为了找出答案，继续生活，她需要拼凑出整个拼图。

这本婴儿潮时代的女性小说是“南希尔传奇”的第一部，背景设置在伦敦南部的萨里郡。这个故事以两条主要的线索交叉讲述，一个是马克的消失，另一个是当艾莉森收到律师信，穿插着倒叙了她与马克在更早时候生活的快乐时光。(LNL)

英文简介: Happily married Alison and Mark are chatting about their coming holiday. She goes to the kitchen to finish supper preparations. When she comes out he has disappeared without a trace, taking nothing with him. She never sees him again. Then 17 years later a solicitor’s letter starts her on a search for answers. She needs to piece together the whole puzzle in order to put it behind her and get on with her life.

This Baby Boomer women’s fiction book is the first of the Southhill Sagas, set in leafy Surrey, to the south of London. The story is told in two main interleaving threads, one from when Mark vanishes, the other from when Alison receives the letter from the solicitor, interspersed with flashbacks to her life with Mark and earlier happier times.

页数： 403 到书日期： 2014-1-24 上传日期： 2014-1-23

中文概要:

英文简介: A touching and hilarious novel from the fabulous Stacey Ballis about best friends, true love, and the joy of food—for fans of Jen Lancaster, Jennifer Weiner, and Emily Giffin...

Jenna has lost her best friend.
With Aimee gone so tragically young, Jenna barely knows where to turn. Aimee was the one who always knew what to do—not to mention what to wear. The two built a catering company together and had so much in common—well, except their taste in men. Jenna never understood what the successful, sophisticated Aimee saw in Wayne, with his Star Wars obsession and harebrained business schemes.

And gained her best friend’s husband…
But Aimee has left a shocking last request: Jenna now has financial custody of the not-so-merry widower. True, Wayne needs someone sensible around to keep him under control, but what was her dear departed friend thinking?

The thing is, as she gets to know Wayne better, his latest moneymaking idea actually starts to intrigue her. Her attractive new lawyer boyfriend doesn’t approve of it—but then, Wayne doesn’t approve of her attractive new lawyer boyfriend. Now Jenna has to figure out what direction her life is going to take next. And she can’t help asking herself: What would Aimee do?