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？
Paul Theroux, the author of the train travel classics "TheGreat Railway Bazaar" and "The Old Patagonian Express", takes tothe rails once again in this account of his epic journey throughChina. He hops aboard as part of a tour group in London and setsout for China's border. He then spends a year traversing thecountry, where he pieces together a fascinating snapshot of aunique moment in history. From the barren deserts of Xinjiang tothe ice forests of Manchuria, from the dense metropolises ofShanghai, Beijing, and Canton to the dry hills of Tibet, Therouxoffers an unforgettable portrait of a magnificent land and anextraordinary people.
In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliantinventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle,determined to build a civilization better than the one they'veleft. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism andconformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life. But his utopianexperiment takes a dark turn when his obsessions lead the familytoward unimaginable danger.
This swashbuckling tale, beloved around the world, follows the fortunes of d'Artagnan, a country boy who travels to Paris to join the Musketeers, save his Queen from scandal, and outwit the devious Cardinal Richelieu.
From the early Soviet period, the impassioned short fictionof the great Russian-Jewish writer One of the most powerful short-story writers of the twentiethcentury, Isaac Babel expressed his sense of inner conflict throughdisturbing tales that explored the contradictions of Russiansociety. Whether reflecting on anti-Semitism in stories such as“Story of My Dovecote” and “First Love,” or depicting Jewishgangsters in his native Odessa, Babel’s eye for the comical laidbare the ironies of history. His masterpiece, “Red Cavalry,” set inthe Soviet-Polish war, is one of the classics of modern fiction. Byturns flamboyant and restrained, this collection of Babel’sbest-known stories vividly expresses the horrors of his age. “Amazing not only as literature but as biography.” —RichardBernstein, The New York Times “Marvelously subtle, tragic, and often comic.” —James Wood, The New Republic
Spanning a period of almost 50 years, the stories of Henry Jamesrepresent one of the most remarkable feats of sustained literarycreation in modern times -- a body of work that, for sheerrichness, variety, and intensity, is unsurpassed in its genre. Thiscollection includes all the major stories as well as many that areunfamiliar but equally fascinating and memorable.Volume II includesthe magnificent works of James's maturity -- "The Figure in theCarpet", "The Turn of the Screw", "The Beast in the Jungle", amongmany others -- in which the deepening darkness of the author's ownlife casts a tragic but heroic shadow on the themes of hisyouth.
It was as if I had privately discovered life on another planet,or a paralldl universe where life was at once fecognizably similar but entirely different.I can't tell you how exciting it waw.Insofar as I had accumulatde any expectations of Australia at all in the intervening years,I had thought of it as a kind of a lternative southern California,a place of constant sunshine and the cheerful vapidity of a beach lifestyle,but wish a slightly British bent-a sort of Baywatch wish cricket.
Following the death of their eldest son, Ellie and TuckerGrant divorce and gradually make the transition into separatelives. But their two sons Zach and Kody are convinced that theirparents are still meant to be together. The brothers hatch a planto run away from home into the Oregon wilderness. Surely Ellie andTucker will come to their rescue--and their senses.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag comes aclassic novel of mismatched lovers who give a whole new meaning tothe phrase “Fake it till you make it.” Sensible corporate lawyer Alaina Montgomery has been frustratingher matchmaking friends for years. But this time they’ve reallytried to set her up with the wrong guy: Dylan Harrison, afree-spirited single dad who runs a ramshackle bar and bait shop.Appropriately enough, she meets him on the way to ascience-fiction-themed masquerade party. When cops mistake the costumed pair for a lady of the eveningand her client, Alaina and Dylan end up in jail together. And soonthey hatch a plan to foil the matchmakers once and for all bypretending to be a couple. What begins as a good-natured rusequickly blossoms into a real romance, as these two polar oppositesdiscover that desire can’t be so easily disguised.
Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle ofthe Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one ofour greatest storytellers.In The Warrior's Path, Louis L'Amourtells the story of Yance and Kin Sackett, two brothers who are thelast hope of a young woman who faces a fate worse than death. WhenYance Sackett's sister-in-law is kidnapped, he and Kin race northfrom Carolina to find her. They arrive at a superstitious town rifewith rumors--and learn that someone very powerful was behindDiana's disappearance. To bring the culprit to justice, one brothermust sail to the exotic West Indies. There, among pirates,cutthroats, and ruthless "businessmen," he will apply the skills helearned as a frontiersman to an unfamiliar world--a world where onefalse move means instant death.
Cattlemen ride alone across the open range under the deadlyaim of roving desperadoes--Gamblers stake their fortunes and theirlives on a deck of cards--Strong-willed senoritas seek independencethrough an enticing combination of beauty, audacity, andspirit--Lawmen and outlaws walk the same dusty streets and speak acommon language: Colt, Winchester, Smith and Wesson. Gritty, tough,and unflinchingly authentic, here is the West as it really was: aland where for every friend there is an enemy, for every handshakea fist, for every dispute a resolution--usually in an explosiveshowdown of blood and bullets. In these remarkable tales, LouisL'Amour--like the very heroes he depicts--blazes a trail across theAmerican frontier and takes us on an unforgiving journey into theheart of our western heritage.
So begins the ageless epic of Aeneas and his men, who areseemingly destined to wander the ancient world endlessly, theplaythings of wrathful gods. Fleeing the ruins of Troy, Aeneas mustfight his battles with little notion that Jupiter has ordained thatthe Trojan champion shall promulgate a race that will be theforebears of Rome.
