公元2012年10月11日，一次超高能量的强子对撞机实验引发了无人能够想象的后果。世界范围内，时间场被扭曲，每隔二十个小时，一切都会还原到10月11日早上6点47分的状态，除了人们的记忆之外。时间的循环无穷无尽，一个不可思议的新纪元由此开始。韩方，北京一名最普通的大学生，和朋友们一起经历了这个新纪元最初的震惊和灾难。在每况愈下的混乱局势中，他们必须设法自救。此后的世界被疯狂和愚昧所席卷，他们的生活分崩离析，在黑暗的时代中仍坚守着希望。经历种种劫难后，一个自称受到时间之神指引的神秘教派又在全球范围兴起，教主保罗似乎掌握了幕后真相，通过精心安排的计划把人类带向不可知的未来。 当令人窒息的真相逐步揭开时，韩方发现，在这片时间的废墟上，他和一个神秘的少女竟然肩负着世界最后的希望，可他们将如何拯救这

男人就怕不把他当回事的女人，因为他不知道该对这样的女人怎么办。人生是不是很奇怪，得到的人追求过程而在过程中奋斗的人却无时不刻的想看到结果到底是什么。谁都知道大泡泡是要破的，可是泡泡越吹越大的时候非常诱人，人们宁可相信它会无限制的大。这个世界当然有正义，但她是深藏不露的。

In this gripping novel, Saint-Exupery tells about the brave menwho piloted night mail planes from Patagonia, Chile, and Paraguayto Argentina in the early days of commercial aviation. Preface byAndre Gide. Translated by Stuart Gilbert.

When Woolf debuted in 1961, audiences and critics alike couldnot get enough of Edward Albee's masterful play. A dark comedy, itportrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night ofdangerous fun and games. By the evening's end, a stunningrevelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years.With the play's razor-sharp dialogue and the stripping away ofsocial pretense, Newsweek keenly foresaw Who's Afraid ofVirginia Woolf? as "a brilliantly original work of art-anexcoriating theatrical experience, surging with shocks ofrecognition and dramatic fire that will be igniting Broadway forsome time to come."

Publisher's Note It is Christmas Eve. Sitting on the steps of the village church infront of an enormous bonfire lit in celebration of the season, afather and his son exchange stories. The father speaks of life asan emigrant from Italy, in perpetual limbo between departure andreturn, between France and his home. The son tells of a life marredby his father's long absences but also of an otherwise idyllicchildhood spent in a vivid, enchanting land. Each hides an awfulsecret concerning the fate of a mysterious man whose affair withthe boy's older sister changed their lives. On this night ofnights, as the long-buried details seep through each man's story, ashared truth will finally emerge.Set in an Arb?resh? town insouthern Italy and told in alternating first-person voices, TheHomecoming is simultaneously a coming-of-age novel, a love story,and a heartfelt cry against the atrocious standards of living thatforce so many southern Italians to seek a better life elsewhere.Here is an intense and moving novel about the

Advance praise for A Strong West Wind “I loved A Strong West Wind. [Caldwell] writes of her adventuresin the sixties and seventies, and the quest for truth inCalifornia, with the authentic voice of the children who once madelife hell for the ‘Greatest Generation’ and in the process turnedout pretty great themselves.” –Russell Baker “Gail Caldwell’s quiet, burnished memoir is a story of a life’saffections—for her Texas parents, for the sere landscape of thepanhandle, and for the road paved with book upon precious book thatruns in both directions: far away and home again.” —Richard Ford “Gail Caldwell's book measures the sweep of one life againstliterature, history, legends of Texas, and the infallible truth ofreal feeling. This is a brave and moving work.” —James Carroll “An elegant memoir. Gail Caldwell performs something likealchemy—taking the base metals of the Texas Panhandle badlands andturning the

Assistant DA Hammond Cross has his sights set on the DA'soffice. Prosecuting a high-profile murder case practically ensureshim the job. But a Saturday night encounter with a mysterious womanis the start of a living nightmare.

I am crazy. But maybe I am not. For most of her life, thesethoughts plagued Amy Wilensky as her mind lurched and veered inways she didn't understand and her body did things she couldn'tcontrol. While she excelled in school and led an otherwise "normal"life, she worried that beneath the surface she was a freak, thatthere was something irrevocably wrong with her. Passing for Normalis Wilensky's emotionally charged account of her lifelong strugglewith the often misunderstood disorders Tourette's syndrome andobsessive-compulsive disorder. A powerful witness to her owndysfunction, Wilensky describes the strain it bore on herrelationships with the people she thought she knew best: herfamily, her friends, and herself. Confronting the labels we applyto ourselves and others--compulsive, crazy, out of control--Amydescribes her symptoms, diagnosis, and her treatment with courageand a healthy dose of humor, gradually coming to terms with theabsurdities of a life beset by irrational behavior. This compellingnarrati

In this collection of five Christmas-themed stories, belovedauthor Mary Balogh brings together tales of love, marriage,friendship, loneliness, and healing. Includes four Balogh holidayclassics, "The Star of Bethlehem," "The Best Gift," "PlayingHouse," and "No Room At the Inn," as well as "A Family Christmas,"which is only available in this anthology.

Renegade artist Harp Spillman is lower than a bow-legged fireant. Because of an unhealthy relationship with the bottle, hesruined his reputation as one of the Souths preeminent commissionedmetal sculptors. And his desperate turn to ice sculpting nearly ledto a posse of angry politicians on his trail. With the help of hislevelheaded and practical potter wife, Raylou, Harp understandsthat its time to return to the mig welder. Yes, its time to provethat he can complete a series of twelve-foot-high metalangelswelded completely out of hex nutsfor the city of Birmingham.Is it pure chance that the Elbow Boys, their arms voluntarily fusedso they cant drink, show up in order to help Harp out in a varietyof ways? And why did his neighbor smuggle anteaters into desolateEmber Glow? Is it true that theres no free will?

An odd, amusing and still provocative fantasy. The narrator is aSquare who lives in a world of two dimensions, and whose vision ofa third gets him into grave trouble with the authorities. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition ofthis title.

On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, researchersdiscover the wreckage of a mysterious World War II-era aircraft, adiscovery that forces the Russian Federation into a shockingadmission. The unmarked plane is a Soviet strategic bomber thatdisappeared with its crew more than fifty years ago while carryingtwo metric tons of weaponized anthrax. Desperate to prevent a political and diplomatic firestorm, theU.S. president dispatches a Covert-One team led by LieutenantColonel Jon Smith to the crash site. But others have reached thefrigid, windswept island first, including an international armsdealer and his crew of vicious mercenaries. As for the Russians,they are lying: a second, even deadlier secret rests within thehulk of the lost bomber, a secret the Russians are willing to killto protect. Trapped in a polar wilderness, Smith and his team findthemselves fighting a savage war on two fronts-against an enemythey can see and another hiding within their own ranks.

The Orchard is an exquisitely beautiful and poignant memoir ofa young woman's single-handed struggle to save her New England farmin the depths of the Great Depression. Recently discovered by theauthor's daughter, it tells the story of Adele "Kitty" Robertson,young and energetic, but unprepared by her Radcliffe education forthe rigors of apple farming in those bitter times. Alone at the endof a country road, with only a Great Dane for company, plagued bydebts, broken machinery, and killing frosts, Kitty revives the oldorchard after years of neglect. Every day is a struggle, but everyday she is also rewarded by the beauty of the world and theunexpected kindness of neighbors and hired workers.

In this third self-contained volume of her autobiography,which began with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angeloumoves into the adult world. Maya struggles to support herself andher son through a series of odd jobs and weathers a failed marriageto a white man before landing a gig singing in one of the mostpopular nightclubs on the San Francisco coast. From there, she iscalled to New York to join the cast of Porgy and Bess. Maya soonfinds herself on a joyous and dramatic adventure, touring abroadthrough Italy, France, Greece, Yugoslavia, and Egypt with spiritedcast members, and performing for large, enthusiastic audiences. Theexciting experience is dampened only by Maya’s nagging guilt thatshe has abandoned the person she loves most in life, her son, whosereentrance into her world reveals to Maya the healing power ofdevotion and love. Charged with Maya Angelou’s remarkable sense of life and love,Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas is a uniquecelebration of the hum

Trudier Harris will tell you that African Americans whoconsider themselves Southern are about as rare as summer snow. ButHarris has always embraced the South, and in Summer Snow sheexplores her experience as a black Southerner and how it has shapedher into the writer and intellectual she has become.

Tosavethetwovampirebrotherswholoveher,ElenaGilbertsacrificedherlife. NowthatasupernaturalforcehasbroughtElenabackfromthedead,allhandsome,broodingStefanwantsistokeephersafe.ButwhenheisluredawayfromFell'sChurch,sleek,powerfulDamonseizeshischancetowinElenaover,unawareofthedangerthey'rebothin.Amalevolentbeinghasinfiltratedthetownandisgrowingstronger.AbletopossessDamonatwill,thecreatureisalsodrawntoElenaandthenewpowershehasacquired.Butit'saftermorethanElena'spower:Itthirstsforherdeath.

AgathaChristie’sworld-famousmysterythriller,reissuedwithastrikingnewcoverdesignedtoappealtothelatestgenerationofAgathaChristiefansandbooklovers.Tenstrangers,apparentlywithlittleincommon,areluredtoanislandmansionoffthecoastofDevonbythemysteriousU.N.Owen.Overdinner,arecordbeginstoplay,andthevoiceofanunseenhostaccuseseachpersonofhidingaguiltysecret.Thatevening,formerrecklessdriverTonyMarstonisfoundmurderedbyadeadlydoseofcyanide.Thetensionescalatesasthesurvivorsrealisethekillerisnotonlyamongthembutispreparingtostrikeagain…andagain… 十个相互陌生、身份各异的人受邀前往德文郡海岸边一座孤岛上的豪宅。客人到齐后，主人却没有出现。 当晚，一个神秘的声音发出指控，分别说出每个人心中罪恶的秘密。接着，一位客人离奇死亡。暴风雨让小岛与世隔绝，《十个小士兵》——这首古老的童谣成了死亡咒语。如同歌谣中所预言的，客人一个接一个死去……杀人游戏结束后，竟无一人生

Frank Abagnale was possibly the world's most talented conartist. A high school dropout, Abagnale amassed millions of dollarsby passing bad checks, playing the role of an airline pilot(including actually flying commercial airplanes), a pediatrician, alawyer who worked for the state attorney general, and a collegeprofessor at Columbia University. He tells his own story here,detailing his outrageous scams with candor, gusto, and a wickedsense of humor.