AN UNEXPECTED GRACE
Book ID/图书代码： 14780013B62998
English Summary/英文概要： Lila Elliot is a 35-year-old divorcee who is working at an office to sustain her painting career. When she becomes victim of a violent office shooting, her best friend Christina takes her in. During her recovery, Lila is drafted into taking care of Grace, an abused golden retriever. At first, Lila, who has a long-standing fear of dogs, is resentful of the burden of caring for a dog but over time, she recognizes a companion. Grace has suffered like Lila has, through no fault of their own. As Lila bonds with Grace, she meets Adam Spencer, the selfless dog-lover who saved Grace from her abuser. Bonding over their love for Grace, they find a healing connection of their own.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 莉拉•艾略特是一名三十五岁的失婚妇女，依靠着在一间办公室里的工作维持着她的绘画事业。当她不幸遭遇了一场暴力的办公室枪击案，她最好的朋友克里斯汀收留了她。在莉拉恢复的过程中，莉拉被要求照顾一只遭到遗弃的金毛寻回犬格蕾丝。起初，一直以来都很怕狗的莉拉十分的怨恨这份要让她照顾小狗的任务，然而随着时间的推移，她发现自己收获了一个同伴。格蕾丝和莉拉一样，因为别人的错误而遭遇了伤害。随着莉拉和格蕾丝联系的不断加深，她认识了亚当•斯宾塞，亚当是一名无私的狗狗爱好者，当时也正是他将格蕾丝从虐待她的主人手里救了下来。出于两人对格蕾丝共同的爱，两人之间也渐渐萌生出专属于他们的治愈系关系。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：出版至今已9刷
About the Author/作者介绍： 圣•弗朗西斯•阿西斯一生都致力于热爱动物和救治小动物们。她曾创作有关于小动物的畅销书作品，她曾对全美560多座城市里的人们发表于关于保护动物权益的演讲，并曾在美国之声上对1.23亿听众进行宣传普及。
她最近的一部作品《意外的格蕾丝》是一个关于一名女人和一只金毛寻回犬相互帮助扶持，并从暴力和虐待的阴影中恢复的故事。回忆录“FOR BEA”则是讲述了有关于克里斯汀的一只来自医药实验室的猎兔犬的故事，这只狗狗影响了她，最终使她成为了一名动物作家。作者的作品已被翻译为10种语言，她的第一部图书作品《动物热情》曾入选《读书俱乐部月刊》。
克里斯汀现住在华盛顿州的一个小岛上，她称生活在那里并在花园里进行劳作比呼吸还要幸福。她所终止的紫甘蓝长得十分茂盛和巨大，她的薰衣草和猫薄荷堪称是招蜂引蝶的女妖。
她可以从书桌上看到鄂鸟和海鸥，每过一小时左右便会有一艘轮渡经过。她和丈夫前不久刚刚翻新了一间维多利亚风格的农舍，那是她在小岛上的第一个“情人”，警长也曾经带着7个孩子在那里居住过。
在搬到小岛上之前，克里斯汀曾居住在加利福尼亚周，并在报刊杂志社担任自由职业者。她的文章曾出现在许多选集和杂志中，包括《华盛顿邮报》《洛杉矶时报》《基督教科学箴言报》《女性之日》和《读者文摘》，作者也曾在读者文摘进行工作。她现在夏威夷大学教授英语，并在加利福尼亚州立大学教授新闻学。
读书俱乐部：欲建立skype或预约会议，请发送邮件至kristin.von.kreisler@gmail.com或联系出版商。
Kristin von Kreisler was born on October 4, the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, and all her life she has loved and rescued animals. She writes bestselling books about them and has spoken about their welfare on Coast to Coast to 560 U.S. cities and on the Voice of America to 123 million people.
Her most recent book, AN UNEXPECTED GRACE, is a novel about a woman and a golden retriever helping each other recover from violence and abuse. A memoir, FOR BEA, is about Kristin’s beagle who came from a medical lab and influenced her to become an animal writer. Her books have been translated into ten languages, and her first book, THE COMPASSION OF ANIMALS, was a Book of the Month Club selection.
Kristin lives on an island in Washington, where, she says, she’d rather work in her garden than breathe. Her kale grows to looming giants, and her lavender and catmint are sirens calling bees. From her desk she watches ospreys and seals, and every hour a ferry passes by. She and her husband have just renovated a historic Victorian farmhouse, where the island’s first postmistress and sheriff once lived with their seven children.
Before moving to the island, Kristin lived in California and freelanced for magazines and newspapers. Her articles have appeared in anthologies and textbooks and in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Woman’s Day, and Reader’s Digest, where she was a staff writer. She has taught English at the University of Hawaii and journalism at California State University at San Jose.
Book clubs: To set up a Skype or conference call, send an email to kristin.von.kreisler@gmail.com or contact the publisher.
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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Rights Sold: Portuguese (in Brasil) and French
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