Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships. Welcome to the life of a junior doctor. Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, comedian and former junior doctor Adam Kay’s This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line (with a foreword attempting to explain the National Health Service to a non-UK audience). Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking by turns, this is everything you wanted to know—and more than a few things you didn't—about life on and off the hospital ward. And yes, it may leave a scar.

他者の顔を奪う口紅とともに、舞台の上で輝き続けた累。累はその口紅の力を捨て、真実(ほんとう)の姿のまま舞台に立つ願いを羽生田に告げる。その提案を一笑に付した羽生田だったが、誘の手紙から己への想いを知り、素顔の累を演出することを決意する。再び始動する「宵暁の姫」、累が舞台の上で見せる演技とは――。美醜に翻弄されし“累”の物語――、最終巻。

《斯通纳》讲述了生命中最重要的部分：爱，认同，怜悯，志业，傲骨，信任与死亡。 一个勇者有过的失败不失意的人生：即使不能拥有完美的生活，所幸追求过完整的自我。 美国，密苏里州。来自偏远农场的农家子弟、19岁的威廉·斯通纳进入州立密苏里大学学习农学。自一堂选修文学课为起点， 他的一生就此悄然改变。未来的斯通纳成为了一名大学老师，结婚、生子、教学、退休、衰老、死亡。在他生命的尽头，或许他可以坦然面对这个问题：你的一生，还要期望别的什么吗？ 一部蕴含着真诚、激情与紧凑力量的小说，探究了历史洪流所忽视的人性之间的冲突、溃败与幸存，重新唤起思考每个个体独特存在的意义。作者约翰·威廉斯向世人展示了凡人中的勇者在如何生活。 ---------------------------------------- ◆威廉斯的写作就像被打磨光滑的橡木上反射出本色、持久的光泽。这本书的伟大之处在于，它以不带一丝一毫悲喜的冷静洞察了生活本质的全部。《斯通纳》迟到五十年后畅销，是献给被亏欠的艺术一次迟来的正名。 ——《纽约客》 ◆斯通纳活过，然后死去，如你我一样。他生活中发生的每一件事就发生在你我面前，看似平淡。然而，写出这种“简单”却需要天才才能完成。读这本书是一本令人难过却又美妙的阅读体验。 ——《星期日泰晤士报》 ◆约翰·威廉斯的《斯通纳》刻画了一个将追求智识当作对抗无意义的战争、拒绝与外部世界作廉价妥协的人的一生。它的意义或许不只是一部伟大的小说——它简直是一部几近完美的小说，机构精巧，语言优美，故事动人，展示着一种夺人心魄的完美。 ——《纽约时报》 ◆一件文学的珍宝。 ——《明镜周刊》 ◆拥有超乎寻常的力量……直击生活的真相，语言清澈优美。它是一部献给所有热爱文学之人的传奇。 ——伊恩·麦克尤恩 ◆一本精彩绝伦的小说，既丰富又忧郁，记录着伤痛与失去的同时也留存了美好温柔的时刻。这本小说完美展现了小说艺术的要素，它的叙事节奏与情节构架均堪称完美无缺。这本小说像一条河流，冷静而又流畅的平静笔调裹挟着磅礴延绵的力量。 ——亚当·福尔兹

布拉德（本·斯蒂勒 Ben Stiller 饰）一直以来都是一名坚定的理想主义者，如今，他和妻子梅兰妮（珍娜·费舍 Jenna Fischer 饰）共同抚养着儿子特洛伊（奥斯汀·艾布拉姆斯 Austin Abrams）饰，与此同时，他还在经营着一家非营利性的组织，该组织专门在有需要的人和资本家之间牵线搭桥，帮助这些人获得资本的支持。 某日，布拉德开始审视自己的这大半辈子，忽然产生了自己一文不值的感觉。他觉得他这么多年来所有的理念，所做出的的全部努力都没有任何的意义。他不能给人带来实质性的帮助，同时也无法给家人带来更优渥的生活条件，而和他同龄的那些大学同学们现在都成为了各领域内的中坚分子。布拉德的整个人生都被自己否定了。

2018 film directed by Bryan Singer

2019 film directed by Lu Qingyi

When his son dies while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, Tom flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for insights into his estranged child’s life, he decides to complete the 500-mile mountain trek to Spain. Tom soon joins up with other travelers and realizes they’re all searching for something.

A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.

古印度贵族青年悉达多英俊聪慧，拥有人们羡慕的一切。为了追求心灵的安宁，他孤身一人展开了求道之旅。他在舍卫城聆听佛陀乔答摩宣讲教义，在繁华的大城中结识了名妓伽摩拉，并成为一名富商。心灵与肉体的享受达到顶峰，却让他对自己厌倦、鄙弃到极点。在与伽摩拉最后一次欢爱之后，他抛弃了自己所有世俗的一切，来到那河边，想结束自己的生命。在那最绝望的一刹那，他突然听到了生命之河永恒的声音……经过几乎一生的追求，悉达多终于体验到万事万物的圆融统一，所有生命的不可摧毁的本性，并最终将自我融入了瞬间的永恒之中。

Every second of every day, from the moment he was born, for the last thirty years, Truman Burbank has been the unwitting star of the longest running, most popular documentary-soap opera in history. The picture-perfect town of Seahaven that he calls home is actually a gigantic soundstage. Truman's friends and family - everyone he meets, in fact - are actors. He lives every moment under the unblinking gaze of thousands of hidden TV cameras.

Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, a cantankerous middle-aged man who lives with his niece and her family.

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

1998 film by Giuseppe Tornatore

A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.