MAGIC HOUR

Book ID/图书代码： 01240005B08816

English Summary/英文概要： Deep in the Pacific Northwest lies the Olympic National Forest– nearly one million acres of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. Even in this modern age, much of it remains undiscovered and uncharted. From the heart of this old forest, a six-year-old girl appears. Speechless and alone, she can give no clue as to her identity, no hint of her past. . . .

Until recently, Dr. Julia Cates was one of the preeminent child psychiatrists in the country, but a scandal shattered her confidence, ruined her career, and made her a media target. When she gets a desperate call from her estranged sister, Ellie, a police chief in their small western Washington hometown, she jumps at the chance to escape.

In Rain Valley, nothing much ever happens–until a girl emerges from the deep woods and walks into town. She is a victim unlike any Julia has ever seen: a child locked in a world of unimaginable fear and isolation.

When word spreads of the “wild child” and the infamous doctor who is treating her, the media descend on Julia and once again her competence is challenged. State and federal authorities want to lock the girl away in an institution until an identification can be made.

But to Julia, who has come to doubt her own ability, nothing is more important than saving the girl she now calls Alice. To heal this child, Julia will have to understand that she cannot work alone and must look to others–the people in the town she left long ago, the sister she barely knows, and Dr. Max Cerrasin, a handsome, private man with secrets of his own. Then a shocking revelation forces Julia to risk everything to discover the truth about Alice. The ordeal that follows will test the limits of Julia’s faith, forgiveness, and love, as she struggles to ascertain where Alice ultimately belongs.

In her most ambitious novel to date, Kristin Hannah delivers an incandescent story about the resilience of the human spirit, the triumph of hope, and the mysterious places in the heart where love lies waiting.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在太平洋的西北面的深处，坐落着奥林匹克国家森林---一个大约一百万公顷的，不透一点阳光，阴森森的地方。即使在这个现代化的时代，那里大部分的地方仍然不被人所发现甚至连海图上都找不到。从这个森林中走出来一个6岁的女孩，她不说话，一直是孤独地，因此没有人知道她的她的身份，没人知道她的过去。直到现在，JULIA CATES 博士的出现，她是国内的一位著名的儿童心理医生，但是流言蜚语粉碎了她的自信，毁灭了她的职业生涯，使她成为了众矢之的。而当她从平日里并不多来往的姐姐—一名华盛顿西区的警察局长那里接过电话时，她几乎想逃走… 在RAIN VALLEY 里面,一切都很平静,这个6岁女孩的出现.她是JULIA 以前从来没有看到过的病人.一个被深锁在一个难以想象的恐惧和孤立的世界里的女孩.当”野孩子”和”治疗她的臭名昭住的心理医生的消息传出,,媒体再一次开始袭击JULIA,她的能力再次受到挑战.国家和联邦政府准备把女孩关到一所机构里面直到她的身份被确认,但是对逐渐也开始怀疑自己能力的JULIA来说,没有什么比救这个现在被她叫做ALICE的女孩更重要的事了.为了救这个孩子,她将不得不明白她不能再单独工作了,她必须求助与他人的帮助---她离开以久的镇上的人们,她并不了解的姐姐,和Dr. Max Cerrasin,一个英俊潇洒,有着许多自己机的秘密的人.之后一个令人振奋的发现驱使JULIA去冒任何险来发现ALICE背后的真相.然而在她努力探求ALICE的来历的过程中，接下来的种种折磨将会考验她的忠诚、宽恕，爱心的限度。在她至今的畅销书中，作者传递了一个关于人的灵魂的可塑性，希望所带来的胜利和在人们心里的一个神秘的地方—那里有爱存在并为此等待。(XMM)

Awards/获奖情况：Hannah’s melodramatic 15th novel (after The Things We Do for Love) tells the addictive soap opera story of a feral child and the adults who rally to help her. The cast of stock characters is led by child psychiatrist Dr. Julia Cates, whose reputation was ruined when she failed to prevent a teen patient from staging a Columbine-style massacre. Her sister, Ellie Barton, a smalltown former homecoming queen–turned–chief of police, summons Julia from Los Angeles to their Pacific Northwest hometown of Rain Valley to take on the case of a mysterious lost child, who appeared one day on the edge of town, presumably raised by wolves. With the dashing doctor Dr. Max Cerrasin at her side, Julia works diligently to tame the mute girl, whom she names Alice. Max, like Julia, is running from demons of his own. Though she initially rebuffs his overtures ("When I love, I risk my heart. All or nothing," Julia declares), their romance inevitably blossoms while they work to solve the mystery of Alice’s parentage. The novel’s real love story, though, is the passion between Alice and Julia, and it’s hard not to root for the vulnerable little Wolf Girl. (Mar.) ---From Publishers Weekly

“A wonderful novel–wild, radiant, and vivid. Kristin Hannah writes with great heart.”---Luanne Rice, author of Summer of Roses

Although a judge rules in her favor, child psychiatrist Dr. Julia Cates is found guilty of incompetence in the press. Her entire life has centered on her exclusive practice, and now all her patients have abandoned her. Salvation comes unexpectedly at the behest of her estranged sister, Ellie, the chief of police in their hometown of Rain Valley, Washington. Julia never wanted to go back to their small logging town, where she was the scrawny bookworm and Ellie was the homecoming queen, but now, even though they refuse to admit it, the sisters need each other as they try to save a young girl found in a forest in the company of a wolf. She behaves like an animal and doesn’t speak. Julia works hard to break the mute silence of the mysterious little girl; Ellie tries to find out where she belongs; and both of them defend the girl they decide to call Alice against those who would exploit her. Through helping this young lost soul, Julia and Ellie learn a lot about themselves and about their relationships in one of this perennially best-selling writer’s most compelling and riveting novels to date. Magic Hour will enhance Hannah’s popularity and affirm her dominance in women’s fiction.---Patty Engelmann, From Booklist

About the Author/作者介绍： Kristin Hannah’s books have received numerous awards, including being named among the best books of the year by both Publishers Weekly and Library Journal. She lives in a small town in Washington state with her husband and son.
Kristine Hannah的书获得过无数奖项，其中包括Publishers Weekly 和Library Journal 的年度最佳出版图书称号。她同她的丈夫、儿子一起居住在华盛顿的一个小镇上。

Format:HARDCOVER

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