The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of findingthe Northwest Passage. When the expedition's leader, Sir JohnFranklin, meets a terrible death, Captain Francis Crozier takescommand and leads his surviving crewmen on a last, desperateattempt to flee south across the ice. But as another winterapproaches, as scurvy and starvation grow more terrible, and as theTerror on the ice stalks them southward, Crozier and his men beginto fear there is no escape. A haunting, gripping story based onactual historical events, The Terror is a novel that will chill youto your core.
Christopher Snow is the best-known resident of 12,000-strongMoonlight Bay, California. This is because 28-year-old Chris hasxeroderma pigmentosum (XP)--a light-sensitivity so severe that hecannot leave his house in daylight, cannot enter a normally-litroom, cannot sit at a computer. Chris's natural element is thenight, and his parents, both academics, chose to live in MoonlightBay because in a small town Chris can make the nightscape hisown--roaming freely through the town on his bike, surfing in themoonlight, exploring while most people sleep. But Chris's brilliantmother, a scientist, was killed in a car accident 2 years ago, andas the book opens his father, Steven Snow, is dying of cancer;Chris's protected life is about to change forever. We meet Chris ashe is carefully preparing himself to go out in the late-afternoonsun to visit the hospital. In his last moments of life his fathertells Chris he is "sorry" and that Chris should "fearnothing"--cryptic words that Chris cannot really relate to. StevenS
The author of such classics as Tell Me Your Dreams and The Other Side of Midnight, Sidney Sheldon has sold more than 300 million copies of his books in 51 languages. The only writher to have won an Oscar, a Tony, and an Edgar award, he is—according to the Guinness Book of World Records—the most translated author in the world. Now this incomparable storyteller is back with another dazzling blockbuster guaranteed to enthrall fans everywhere. When five members of America's most illustrious family are all killed in separate accidents in less than a year, Dana Evans, a beautiful young anchorwoman for a Washington, D.C., television network, becomes suspicious. Investigating the deaths, the determined journalist uncovers a trail of blood that takes her to half a dozen countries around the world in search of a killer. In a startling turn of events, Dana becomes the hunted, and the terrible secret she's learned puts her and her young son into dire jeopardy from which they may not be able to escape
When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the smallNorth Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raisesquestions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seemsdetermined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of eventsdraws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, awidowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; andanother with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite herreservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, puttingdown roots in the close-knit community and becoming increasinglyattached to Alex and his family. But even as Katie begins to fall in love, she struggles with thedark secret that still haunts and terrifies her . . . a past thatset her on a fearful, shattering journey across the country, to thesheltered oasis of Southport. With Jo's empathic and stubbornsupport, Katie eventually realizes that she must choose between alife of transient safety and one of riskier rewards . . . and thatin the darkest hour, lo
A collection of nine classic Salinger short stories.
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaurDNA has been discovered. Creatures once extinct now roam JurassicPark, soon-to-be opened as a theme park. Until something goeswrong...and science proves a dangerous toy.... "Wonderful...Powerful." THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
In his newest adventure, Indiana Jones travels to Indiaaccompanied by a female torch singer named Willie Scott and aneleven-year-old boy named Short Round, his self-appointedside-kick.
In this wickedly funny novel, Robert Ludlum combines theexplosive pacing of The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacywith a bitingly witty send-up of everything from governmentbureaucrats and pandering military men to the mob, the law, andorganized religion. War hero and infamous ladies' man, GeneralMacKenzie Hawkins is a living legend. His life story had even beensold to Hollywood. But now he stands accused of defacing a historicmonument in China's Forbidden City. Under house arrest in Peking,with a case against him pending in Washington, it looks like theend of Mac's illustrious career. But he has a plan of his own--andit includes kidnapping the Pope. What's the ransom? Just oneAmerican dollar--"for every Catholic in the world." Add to the mixa slew of shady "investors," Hawkins's four persuasive,well-endowed ex-wives, and a young lawyer and fellow soldier whowants nothing more than to return to private life--and you've gotone relentlessly irreverent page-turner.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag comes thispowerful novel of passion, heartbreak, and redemption--a story thatcelebrates our capacity to love one time, for all time, even in theface of adversity and change. They say that each of us becomes anentirely new person every seven years. But Rebecca Bradshaw doesn'tfeel any different when an old lover shows up severely injured atthe hospital where she runs the physical therapy department. Sevenyears ago baseball player Jace Cooper left her without a secondthought or the chance to share the life-changing secret she sworeshe'd keep from him forever. Now he was back, wanting both her helpand a second chance. Becca hadn't changed, and she didn't believeJace had either, but as she helped him repair his broken body andhis fractured past, she would find she was wrong on both counts.The only thing that had stayed the same was the most importantthing of all--and now suddenly time was running out.
一部用智慧构建和平的心灵秘史??????上世纪初，“改土归流”在康区已接近尾声，地处藏、汉、回交汇地的具有开放意识的云登格龙同康巴的所有土司一样，正经历着沉浮、恐慌与彷徨。和其他土司不同的是，他意识到土司制度必然被新的制度取代。这种悲剧式的觉醒让他了悟，如果要在多民族聚居地保住生存位置，相互间就必须学会宽容和尊重。然而，诱惑使他难以改变惯有的权力欲，于是，绝望、挣扎、希望交替出现在他的生命中……??????一曲由鲜血和忏悔谱就的人性赞歌??????彻骨的仇恨让大商人尔金呷走入了藏地世代不变的家族仇杀的怪圈。终，仇人降央土司被灭族，尔金呷家族也只有阿满初一人幸免。皈依天主教的她，多年后为父兄、为仇人唱起了《为罪人诵》……??????一段因追求爱情而开启的传奇人生??????回族青年郑云龙为情杀人，逃到康巴藏地后，才
七万年前，原始人类在濒临灭绝的严峻情况下勉强幸存，七万年后，拥有先进文明与高端科技的人类又再一次面临灭绝危机……瘟疫虽然有了终的解药，伊麻里组织却依旧进逼着全世界，阿瑞斯更是引爆了遍布在南极洲周围的水雷，融化的古代冰层形成一场大洪水，迅速侵袭世界各地。此时，凯特跟大卫收到一组来自外层空间的加密信号，他们知道这段信号是阻止伊麻里的关键，必须尽快解开密码，于是，一行人穿过传送门来到了亚特兰蒂斯的烽火系统……随着亚特兰蒂斯记忆拼图的逐渐完成，人类世界起源的面纱即将揭开，过去与现在相互角力，的结局，人类将何去何从？
Night Shift—Stephen King’s first collection of stories—is anearly showcase of the depths that King’s wicked imagination couldplumb. In these 20 tales, we see mutated rats gone bad(“Graveyard Shift”); a cataclysmic virus that threatens humanity(“Night Surf,” the basis for The Stand); a smoker who will tryanything to stop (“Quitters, Inc.”); a reclusive alcoholic whobegins a gruesome transformation (“Gray Matter”); and manymore. This is Stephen King at his horrifying best.
"Somewhere," muses Noah Calhoun, while sitting on his porch inthe moonight, "there were people making love." The Notebook, aSouthern-fried story of love-lost-and-found-again, revolves arounda single time-honored romantic dilemma: will beautiful AllisonNelson stay with Mr. Respectability (to whom she happens to beengaged), or will she choose Noah, the romantic rascal she left somany years ago?
Book De*ion About Dean Koontz's Frankenstein Dean Koontz's Frankenstein is the collective title of a series ofnovels co-written by Dean Koontz. Though technically of the mysteryor thriller genres, the novels also feature the trappings ofhorror, fantasy, and science fiction. From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerfulreworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you thinkyou know the story, you know only half the truth. Get ready for themystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of… Dean Koontz's Prodigal Son Every city has secrets. But none as terrible as this. His name isDeucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, asleight-of-reality artist who’s traveled the centuries with asecret worse than death. He arrives as a serial killer stalks thestreets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for thehumanity that is missing in himself. Detective Carson O’Connor iscool, cynical, and every bit as tough as she looks
From award-winning author Tami Hoag comes a warm, movingstory of two cultures in conflict and two hearts in love. Matt Thorne had come to his sister's rural inn to recover from aninjury far from the city and his fast-paced life as an emergencyroom physician. Drifting between sleep and waking, Matt didn'ttrust his eyes when he saw the young woman who sat at his bedsidein her plain cotton dress and apron, her chestnut hair tuckeddemurely beneath a white bonnet, like a beautiful vision from thepast century. Sarah Troyer had been warned about the womanizing Dr. Throne, butnothing prepared her for the shiver of desire that shook her to hercore when she gazed at him. Though her life was bound by the simpleAmish way, Sarah had always longed for the world outside. Her jobat the inn already branded her as a rebel in her community, andfalling in love with a stranger would mean the loss of her familyand the only life she knew. Yet something sparked within her withevery touch of his hand, each glance fr
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，北京一名普通的大学生，和朋友们一起经历了这个新纪元初的震惊和灾难。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后的希望，可他们将如何拯救这个支离破
His heart is broken. His partner is in jail. And someone istrying to kill him. Then Myron Bolitar gets some really badnews.... For sports agent Myron Bolitar, it seemed like the perfectvacation. A tropical beach. A warm breeze. A little uncomplicatedpassion with a woman he barely knows. Myron is almost in heavenwhen his friend Win shows up with a message that blasts him back toreality: Esperanza is in trouble. It's time to come home. Now Myronis back in New York, determined to help Esperanza, his best friendand partner, who's been accused of killing one of their clients.But Esperanza isn't talking. Neither is her lawyer. And to provehis friend's innocence, Myron must trace the rise and fall of thevictim, a pitcher who had been making a comeback with the Yankees.Suddenly the investigation is leading Myron to places he'd rathernot go: into a family's agony, through the city's sexualunderground, and to a moment buried on the dark side of a brilliantsports career.... Twelve years ago a young agent named Bolitart
Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young womanfinds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters addressedominously to 'My dear and unfortunate successor'. Her discoveryplunges her into a world she never dreamed of - a labyrinth wherethe secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fateconnect to an evil hidden in the depths of history. In those fewquiet moments, she unwittingly assumes a quest she will discover isher birthright - a hunt for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, themedieval ruler whose barbarous reign formed the basis of theDracula myth. Deciphering obscure signs and hidden texts, readingcodes worked into the fabric of medieval monastic traditions, andevading terrifying adversaries, one woman comes ever closer to thesecret of her own past and a confrontation with the very definitionof evil. Elizabeth Kostova's debut novel is an adventure of monumentalproportions - a captivating tale that blends fact and fantasy,history and the present with an assurance
一部用智慧构建和平的心灵秘史??????上世纪初，“改土归流”在康区已接近尾声，地处藏、汉、回交汇地的具有开放意识的云登格龙同康巴的所有土司一样，正经历着沉浮、恐慌与彷徨。和其他土司不同的是，他意识到土司制度必然被新的制度取代。这种悲剧式的觉醒让他了悟，如果要在多民族聚居地保住生存位置，相互间就必须学会宽容和尊重。然而，诱惑使他难以改变惯有的权力欲，于是，绝望、挣扎、希望交替出现在他的生命中……??????一曲由鲜血和忏悔谱就的人性赞歌??????彻骨的仇恨让大商人尔金呷走入了藏地世代不变的家族仇杀的怪圈。终，仇人降央土司被灭族，尔金呷家族也只有阿满初一人幸免。皈依天主教的她，多年后为父兄、为仇人唱起了《为罪人诵》……??????一段因追求爱情而开启的传奇人生??????回族青年郑云龙为情杀人，逃到康巴藏地后，才
A memorable, mesmerizing heroine Jennifer -- brilliant, beautiful, an attorney onthe way up until the Mafia's schemes win her the hatred of animplacable enemy -- and a love more destructive than hate. A dangerous, dramatic world The Dark Arena of organized crime and flashbulblit courtrooms where ambitious prosecutors begin their climb topolitical power.
