The Lost Bride

★ 《遜咖日記》作者Jeff Kinney大力推薦的爆笑橋梁書★ 從繪本跨入橋梁書的好選擇★ 全彩插圖＋日記式敘事，趣味滿滿★ 兩隻最小英雄，展開拯救學校的大任務！在布恩小學教室裡，兩隻個性截然不同的小老鼠相遇——安靜的Tina與精力過剩的Tuck。當學校面臨關閉危機，他們意外得知校園裡藏著一筆神祕寶藏。為了守護共同的家，兩隻小小英雄踏上充滿笑料與意外的尋寶冒險。Meet Tuck and Tina, two mice pals on a quest to save their elementary school! This is the first book in an all-new, adorable, and colorful series that's perfect for young readers who are ready to make the leap from picture books to chapter books, from bestselling creators Jess Brallier and Jack Keely.Tina and Tuck are two unlikely class pets who are ready for adventure! Tina lives at Boone School. She loves listening to lessons and seeing all the kids having fun with their friends. She just wishes she had a real friend of her own. So when a new class pet arrives, Tina wonders if her wish might come true. However, Tuck is a ball of energy, causing chaos wherever he goes. But when the school faces closure, Tina and Tuck must put aside their differences and work together to find a secret fortune rumored to be

A son searches for his father, only to grow uncomfortable--and even miserable--with what he exhumes. Where, he asks, are the limits of forgiveness? Is failure a badge of honor? Are we free to share the secrets of the dead? In Return of the Lost Son, a vivid, tightly paced memoir, Christopher Gonzales attempts to understand a man who, due to early-onset Alzheimer's, was unable to share his own memories. At the outset of his exploration, Gonzales hopes to discover a benevolent father figure, someone he could imagine guiding him through the difficult terrain of life. Instead, he is met with shadowy fragments of his father's habits--drinking, womanizing, and aloofness--as well as a hidden marriage, which all force Gonzales to acknowledge that he might never uncover the angel he hoped to find. Constructed with clear-eyed prose and abounding with colorful travel stories, wending inner journeys, and psychological intricacies, Return of the Lost Son emerges from a committed project of asking