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……瘟疫虽然有了最终的解药,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?
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded malls, no corny officeparties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That’s just whatLuther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just thisonce, they’ll skip the holiday altogether. Theirs will be the onlyhouse on Hemlock Street without a rooftop Frosty, they won’t behosting their annual Christmas Eve bash, they aren’t even going tohave a tree. They won’t need one, because come December 25 they’resetting sail on a Caribbean cruise. But as this weary couple isabout to discover, skipping Christmas brings enormousconsequences—and isn’t half as easy as they’d imagined. A classic tale for modern times, Skipping Christmas offers ahilarious look at the chaos and frenzy that have become part of ourholiday tradition.
FBI Special Agent Pendergast is taking a break from work to takeConstance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to give her closure anda sense of the world that she's missed. They head to Tibet, wherePendergast intensively trained in martial arts and spiritualstudies. At a remote monastery, they learn that a rare anddangerous artifact the monks have been guarding for generations hasbeen mysteriously stolen. As a favor, Pendergast agrees to trackand recover the relic. A twisting trail of bloodshed leadsPendergast and Constance to the maiden voyage of the Britannia , the world's largest and most luxurious oceanliner---and to an Atlantic crossing fraught with terror.
2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states ofwhat used to be California. Here the millenium has come and gone,leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, BerryRydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bountyhunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turnedpickpocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-lookingsunglasses. But these are no ordinary shades. What you can seethrough these high-tech specs can make you rich--or get you killed.Now Berry and Chevette are on the run, zeroing in on thedigitalized heart of DatAmerica, where pure information is thegreatest high. And a mind can be a terrible thing to crash...
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
Bestselling author Frederick Forsyth follows the success ofhis latest work, The Negotiator, with this major thriller rich incolor and suspense. Longtime British Intelligence operative SamMcCready must recount the most intricate cases of his career at acredibility hearing, after he is abruptly handed his walkingpapers. "A rolling good read".--New York Times Book Review.
From #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Tami Hoagcomes this romance classic about a man in love--and the woman who'sdetermined to prove it to him... Maggie McSwain should have beenthrilled when Rylan Quaid asked her to marry him. Instead, she wascrushed. After all her romantic fantasies, Ry's proposal wasmissing one crucial element: "love. "But Maggie would prove to Rythat he had a heart--and then she'd use every teasing, temptingounce of seductive power she had to capture it. The next time heproposed to her--and there would be a next time--common sense wouldbe the last thing on his mind. As far as Ry was concerned, solidpartnerships made for lasting marriages--and that's what he couldhave with Maggie. Of course he wanted her, as any man with eyeswould want her. But he couldn't love her...because he'd vowed neverto fall in love again. Now it seemed that the only way to make herhis wife was to use reverse psychology. He'd just retract hisproposal--and pretend to be immune to her charms. He had no
WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11.22.63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless ...King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life - a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time. With extraordinary imaginative power, King weaves the social, political and popular culture of his baby-boom American generation into a devastating exercise in escalating suspense.
Kyle McAvoy possesses an outstanding legal mind. Good-lookingand affable, he has a glittering future. He also has a dark secretthat could destroy his dreams, his career, even his life. One nightthat secret catches up with him. The men who accost Kyle have acompromising video they'll use to ruin him-unless he does exactlywhat they say. What they offer Kyle is something any ambitiousyoung lawyer would kill for: a job in Manhattan as an associate atthe world's largest law firm. If Kyle accepts, he'll be on the fasttrack to partnership and a fortune. But there's a catch. Kyle won'tbe working for the firm but against it in a dispute between twopowerful defense contractors worth billions. Now Kyle is caughtbetween the criminal forces manipulating him, the FBI, and his ownlaw firm-in a malignant conspiracy not even Kyle with all hisintellect, cunning, and bravery may be able to escape alive.
Frederick Forsyth, master of the international thriller,retums with an electrifying story of a man of immense power and aconspiracy to crush the President of the United States. Only oneman--Forsyth's most unforgettable hero yet--can prevent the planfrom succeeding. His name is Quinn. He is the Negotiator.PresidentCormack is bent on a signing a sweeping U.S.-Soviet disarmamenttreaty, and the master conspirator is determined to stop him. Thekidnapping of a young man on a country road in Oxfordshire is butthe first brutal step in the explosive plot engineer thepresident's destruction. Enter Quinn. Quinn plays the kidnapperslike a master musician. . . until, in a shocking tumabout, hediscovers that ransom was not their objection after all--and thathe has been lured into a cunningly woven web. Now he must draw uponhis deepest strengths--to save not only the victim but the entirefree world.
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
The FBI doesn't believe it. The Governor wants the problem todisappear. But agent Judy Maddox knows the threat is real: anextreme group of eco-terrorists has the means and the know-how toset off a massive earthquake of epic proportions. For California,time is running out. Now Maddox is scrambling to hunt down a petty criminal turnedcult leader turned homicidal mastermind. Because Judy knows thatthe dying has already begun. And soon, the earth will violentlyshift, bolt, and shake down to its very core. . . .
He's got a plan. But he hasn't got a clue. Clayton Blaisdell's capers are strictly small-time until he meets George Rackley. With Blaze's brawn and George's brains, they pull off a hundred successful cons. Then George plans the one big score every small timer dreams of: kidnapping the infant heir to a family fortune. The trouble is that by the time the deal goes down, the brains of the operation has died. Or has he? Now Blaze is running into the white hell of the Maine woods with a baby as hostage. The crime of the century just turned into a race against time . . .
In the fourth powerful novel in Stephen King's bestselling fantasy quest, The Dark Tower beckons Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and the four companions he has gathered along the road. And, having narrowly escaped one world, they set out on a terrifying journey across the scarred urban wasteland to brave a new world where hidden dangers lie at every junction: a malevolent computer-run monorail hurtling towards self-destruction, Roland's relentlessly cunning old enemy, and the temptation of the wizard's diabolical glass ball, a powerful force in Roland's first love affair. A tale of long-ago love and adventure involving a beautiful and quixotic woman named Susan Delgado. And the Tower is closer...
It begins in Geneva. There American lawyer Joel Converse meets aman he hasn't seen in twenty years, a covert operative who diesviolently at his feet, whispering words that hand Converse astaggering legacy of death: " THE GENERALS...THEY'REBACK...AQUITAINE " Suddenly Converse is running for his life, alonewith the world's most shattering secret. Pursued by anonymousexecutioners to the dark corners of Europe, he is forced to play agame of survival by blood rules he thought he'd long left behind.One by one, he traces each thread of a deadly progression to thehear of every major government-- a network of coordinated globalviolence that no one believes possible. No one but Converse and thewoman he once loved and lost. The only two people on earth who canwrest the world from the iron grasp of Aquitaine.
Come back to the Ringworld . . . the most astonishing feat ofengineering ever encountered. A place of untold technologicalwonders, home to a myriad humanoid races, and world of some of themost beloved science fiction stories ever written! The human, Louis Wu; the puppeteer known as the Hindmost;Acolyte, son of the Kzin called Chmeee . . . legendary beingsbrought together once again in the defense of the Ringworld.Something is going on with the Protectors. Incoming spacecraft arebeing destroyed before they can reach the Ringworld. Vampires aremassing. And the Ghouls have their own agenda--if anyone daresapproach them to learn. Each race on the Ringworld has always had its own Protector. Nowit looks as if the Ringworld itself needs a Protector. But who willsit on the Ringworld Throne? "Niven's work has been an intriguing and consistent universe, andthis book is the keystone of the arch. . . . [His] technique iswonderfully polished, his characters and their situations arenicely drawn . .
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
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