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American Prometheus 豆瓣
作者: Kai Bird / Martin J. Sherwin Vintage Books 2006 - 5
J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this magisterial, acclaimed biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer’s life and times, from his early career to his central role in the Cold War. This is biography and history at its finest, riveting and deeply informative.
杀死一只知更鸟 豆瓣
To Kill a Mocking Bird
9.0 (269 个评分) 作者: [美国] 哈珀·李 译者: 高红梅 译林出版社 2012 - 9
成长总是个让人烦恼的命题。成长有时会很缓慢,如小溪般唱着叮咚的歌曲趟过,有时却如此突如其来,如暴雨般劈头盖脸……三个孩子因为小镇上的几桩冤案经历了猝不及防的成长——痛苦与迷惑,悲伤与愤怒,也有温情与感动。这是爱与真知的成长经典。
《杀死一只知更鸟》获1961年普利策奖。
美国图书馆借阅率最高的书,英国青少年最喜爱的小说之一。
美国中学推荐课外读物。
由小说改编的电影获第25届奥斯卡三项大奖。
美国电影协会评选的“100名银幕英雄与恶人”中,派克主演的芬奇律师名列英雄第一位。
作为史上最受喜爱的小说之一,《杀死一只知更鸟》已获得显赫声誉。它赢得过普利策奖,被翻译成四十多种语言,在世界范围内售出超过三千万册,并曾被拍成,备受欢迎的电影。
——哈珀•柯林斯出版集团
斯塔尔六月对北卡罗来纳州律师协会发表演说时,自比为《杀死一只知更鸟》中勇敢的南方白人律师阿蒂克斯•芬奇。斯塔尔凭着他的道德优越感,不把规则、秩序和正直放在眼里,这样一个人居然自比为芬奇,实在令我和比尔难以忍受。
——希拉里•克林顿
年轻时看过《梅岗城故事》(即《杀死一只知更鸟》),对片中法律人为弱势者争取权益奋斗,为恶法非法或恶法亦法辩论的故事感到澎湃不已,更加确定要成为法律人的心愿。
——许宗力(台大法学院院长)
假如给我三天光明 豆瓣
作者: [美国] 海伦·凯勒 华文 2004 - 4
《假如给我三天光明》讲述了20世纪,一个独特的生命个体以其勇敢的方式震撼了世界,她就是海伦·凯勒——一个生活在黑暗中却又给人类带来光明的女性,一个度过了生命的88个春秋,却熬过了87年无光、无声、无语的孤独岁月的弱女子。然而,正是这么一个幽闭在盲聋哑世界里的人,竟然毕业于哈佛大学德吉利夫学院,并用生命的全部力量处处奔走,建起了一家家慈善机构,为残疾人造福,被美国《时代周刊》评选为20世纪美国十大英雄偶像。创造这一奇迹,全靠一颗不屈不挠的心。海伦接受了生命的挑战,用爱心去拥抱世界,以惊人的毅力面对困境,终于在黑暗中找到了光明,最后又把慈爱的双手伸向全世界。
Red, White & Royal Blue 豆瓣 谷歌图书
Red, White & Royal Blue: A Novel
6.5 (16 个评分) 作者: Casey McQuiston St. Martin's Griffin 2019 - 5
A big-hearted romantic comedy in which First Son Alex falls in love with Prince Henry of Wales after an incident of international proportions forces them to pretend to be best friends...
First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic. With his intrepid sister and the Veep’s genius granddaughter, they’re the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. International socialite duties do have downsides—namely, when photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis Prince Henry at a royal wedding leak to the tabloids and threaten American/British relations.
The plan for damage control: staging a fake friendship between the First Son and the Prince. Alex is busy enough handling his mother’s bloodthirsty opponents and his own political ambitions without an uptight royal slowing him down. But beneath Henry’s Prince Charming veneer, there’s a soft-hearted eccentric with a dry sense of humor and more than one ghost haunting him.
As President Claremont kicks off her reelection bid, Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret relationship with Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations. And Henry throws everything into question for Alex, an impulsive, charming guy who thought he knew everything: What is worth the sacrifice? How do you do all the good you can do? And, most importantly, how will history remember you?
2022年6月25日 已读
最近看了太多压抑的书,读来放松一下也没啥要求,当个甜甜的政治恋爱同人文已经比很多 AO3 的作者写得好了。作为全程追 2020 选举周期的人阅读体验可能好点,毕竟有的政治梗看懂了还能被尬住,看不懂就只能一头雾水。比如男主一开始和王子邮件通讯我就知道后面会被泄露,简直太好预测了……

P.S. 我看爱情故事没有虐的情节是不完整的,这个虐得像在挠痒痒,看得我索然无味
lqbtq 爱情 美国 虚构
Flowers for Algernon 豆瓣
8.8 (38 个评分) 作者: Daniel Keyes 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.
2022年1月9日 已读
人的意义在于我们的人生中所做的事情、所经历的感情和离别,更在于我们曾经来过这个世界,如此热切地活过
科幻 美国 虚构
Thirteenth Child 豆瓣
作者: Wrede, Patricia C. 2009 - 4
Eff was born a thirteenth child. Her twin brother, Lan, is the seventh son of a seventh son. This means he's supposed to possess amazing talent -- and she's supposed to bring only bad things to her family and her town. Undeterred, her family moves to the frontier, where her father will be a professor of magic at a school perilously close to the magical divide that separates settlers from the beasts of the wild. With wit and wonder, Patricia Wrede creates an alternate history of westward expansion that will delight fans of both J. K. Rowling and Laura Ingalls Wilder.
怦然心动 豆瓣 Goodreads
Flipped
9.1 (13 个评分) 作者: 文德琳·范·德拉安南 译者: 陈常歌 百花洲文艺出版社 2016 - 12
布莱斯全家搬到小镇,邻家女孩朱莉前来帮忙。她对他一见钟情,心愿是获得他的吻。两人是同班同学,她一直想方设法接近他,但是他避之不及。她喜欢爬在高高的梧桐树上看风景。但因为施工,树要被砍掉,她誓死捍卫,希望他能与她并肩作战,但是他退缩了。
她的事迹上了报纸,外公对她颇有好感,令他十分困惑。她凭借鸡下蛋的项目获得了科技展第一名,成了全场焦点,令他黯然失色。
她把自家鸡蛋送给他,他听家人怀疑她家鸡蛋不卫生,便偷偷把鸡蛋丢掉。她得知真相,很伤心,两人关系跌入冰点。她跟家人诉说,引发争吵。原来父亲一直攒钱照顾傻弟弟,所以生活拮据。她理解了父母,自己动手,还得到了他外公的鼎力相助。他向她道歉,但是并未解决问题。他开始关注她。鸡蛋风波未平,家庭晚宴与午餐男孩评选又把两人扯在了一起……
China 豆瓣
中国新史
作者: [美国] 费正清 Harvard University Press 1992 - 4
Recognized for decades as the West's doyen on China, John King Fairbank here offers the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast, ancient civilization. Fairbank's masterwork, China: A New History, is without parallel as a concise, comprehensive, and authoritative account of China and its People over four millennia.
2021年11月13日 已读
Prof 拿来做课本,TA 拿来教我们评判。不管从哪个角度来讲都是有其意义的作品。
历史 美国 非虚构