英文原版
Flowers for Algernon Google Books Douban Skybridge
★ 8.8 (44 ratings) author: Daniel Keyes publishing house: Mariner Books 2004 - 6
With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment seems to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance-until Algernon begins his sudden, unexpected deterioration. Will the same happen to Charlie?
An American classic that inspired the award-winning movie Charly, Flowers for Algernon now returns to Harcourt as a Harvest paperback.
Mockingjay
Mockingjay
★ 7.1 (23 ratings) author: [美] Suzanne Collins publishing house: Scholastic Press 2010 - 9 other title: Mockingjay
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she’s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she’s still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what’s worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss’s family, not her friends, not the people of District 12. Powerful and haunting, this thrilling final installment of Suzanne Collins’s groundbreaking The Hunger Games trilogy promises to be one of the most talked about books of the year.
The Reader Douban
author: Bernhard Schlink translator: Carol Brown Janeway publishing house: Vintage International 2008 - 11
《朗读者》演绎被禁忌的罪责之爱,采用关乎人性的严肃题材,贯穿全书的却是一个让人唏嘘的爱情故事。《朗读者》被列为年度好书口碑之选。同名影片荣膺金球奖,并获奥斯卡五项核心大奖提名。
伟大的爱情是用来唏嘘的。为了守护秘密,你会走多远?
战后的德国萧条破败,一个15岁的少年在电车上病倒了,他独自下车,行走在滂沱大雨中,最后在一个逼仄的过道里吐得一塌糊涂,一个36岁的陌生女人帮助了他••••••
3个月后,少年伯格从突如其来的猩红热侵袭中恢复过来,他只是为了去感谢那个曾经在他生病时给予过他帮助的女人,但是,情欲,或者是爱情,在15岁的少年伯格心中渐渐燃烧起来。
电车售票员汉娜总是让伯格为她朗读,《荷马史诗》、《带小狗的女人》、《战争与和平》,在伯格的朗读中,汉娜像个孩子似的时而痛哭,时而大笑,那个夏天,是他们一生中最短暂最快乐并最终影响了后来岁月的时光。
不久后一天,汉娜突然不辞而别,8年后再次见到汉娜的时候,她成了一名站在法庭上的纳粹罪犯,她并没有像其他一同被指认的罪犯一样,否认自己的罪行,而是坚定异常地坦诚一切。直到审判席上,汉娜不愿提笔在白纸上写下黑字做笔迹比较,并因此背负罪名被判终身监禁时,伯格终于明白了原因,明白了汉娜为什么不看他的旅行计划,为什么会在拿到菜单时神色紧张,为什么总是不厌其烦地听他朗读,汉娜是一个根本不会认字读书的文盲,但她拒绝向任何人袒露自己的缺陷,即使替他人受过而终身监禁,也要隐藏她是文盲这个秘密。伯格说:因为她感到羞愧。伯格是可以说出真相替她减轻罪与罚的,但却最终选择了和汉娜一样,用生命去捍卫这个卑微的秘密……
为了守护秘密,你会走多远?
内容简介:
本书是一个侦探小说家写的爱情故事,但也有人说它其实和爱情无关;它是德国每间中学课程讨论的话题;它是第一本登上纽约时报排行榜冠军的德语书。本书封面采用了艺术纸印银和烫银以体现书的情调和品位;装饰性腰带则别出心裁地设计成女子形体状。据悉,本书特地选在岁末年终推出,是想在承前启后的时刻,以一个不平凡的故事启动新年的感动与思考。(随书附送朗读版光盘)
少年伯格与比他大21岁的女人,公共汽车售票员汉娜发生了一场终生难忘的爱情。他很久以后才知道,汉娜曾经身为纳粹集中营的女看守,而后者宁愿坐牢也要保守一个秘密……
朗读,是我跟这个大我21岁的女人约会时的常规节目……我是她的朗读者,从我十五岁开始,一直到她坐牢也没有间断过。
它是一个侦探小说家写的爱情故事,但也有人说它其实和爱情无关;它是德国每间中学课堂讨论的话题;它是第一本登上纽约时报排行榜冠军的德语书。
Into Thin Air Douban
author: Jon Krakauer publishing house: Villard Books 1997 - 4
When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top.  No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with clouds. Six hours later and 3,000 feet lower, in 70-knot winds and blinding snow, Krakauer collapsed in his tent, freezing, hallucinating from exhaustion and hypoxia, but safe. The following morning, he learned that six of his fellow climbers hadn't made it back to their camp and were desperately struggling for their lives. When the storm finally passed, five of them would be dead, and the sixth so horribly frostbitten that his right hand would have to be amputated.
Into Thin Air is the definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed journalist and author of the bestseller Into the Wild. On assignment for Outside Magazine to report on the growing commercialization of the mountain, Krakauer, an accomplished climber, went to the Himalayas as a client of Rob Hall, the most respected high-altitude guide in the world.  A rangy, thirty-five-year-old New Zealander, Hall had summited Everest four times between 1990 and 1995 and had led thirty-nine climbers to the top. Ascending the mountain in close proximity to Hall's team was a guided expedition led by Scott Fischer, a forty-year-old American with legendary strength and drive who had climbed the peak without supplemental oxygen in 1994. But neither Hall nor Fischer survived the rogue storm that struck in May 1996.
Krakauer examines what it is about Everest that has compelled so many people -- including himself -- to throw caution to the wind, ignore the concerns of loved ones, and willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense. Written with emotional clarity and supported by his unimpeachable reporting, Krakauer's eyewitness account of what happened on the roof of the world is a singular achievement.
Into the Wild is available on audio, read by actor Campbell Scott.