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？
AT A CAFte TABLE IN LAHORE, a Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As dusk deepens to night, hebegins the tale that has brought them to this fatefulencounter... Changez is living an immigrant's dream of America. Aftergraduating at the top of his class at Princeton, he lands an elitejob in New York City. His budding romance with chic, beautifulErica promises entry into society at the same ex-alted level onceoccupied by his family in Pakistan. But in the wake of September11, Changez finds his new American life suddenly overturned and hisidentity in seismic shift, unearthing allegiances more fundamentalthan money, power, and maybe even love.
A collection of tales to invade and paralyse the mind as the safe light of day is infiltrated by the shadows of the night. As you read, the clutching fingers of terror brush lightly across the nape of the neck, reach round from behind to clutch and lock themselves, white-knuckled, around the throat. This is the horror of ordinary people and everyday objects that become strangely altered; a world where nothing is ever quite what it seems, where the familiar and the friendly lure and deceive. A world where madness and blind panic become the only reality.
Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of themworldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are Full Dark, NoStars; Under the Dome; Just After Sunset; DumaKey; Lisey's Story; Cell; and the last threenovels in the Dark Tower saga: Wolves of the Calla, Song ofSusannah, and The Dark Tower. His acclaimed nonfictionbook On Writing is also a bestseller. In 2003, he wasawarded the National Book Foundation Medal for DistinguishedContribution to American Letters, and in 2007 he received the GrandMaster Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives in Mainewith his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
The Stephen King Amusement Park - an unnerving experience, with rides every which way to hell . . . and a few to glory. A solitary finger pokes out of a drain. Novelty teeth turn predatory. The Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac. Meanwhile, the legend of Castle Rock returns . . . and grows on you. What does it all mean? What else could it mean? Stephen King is here with a powerful collection of stories - a vast, many-chambered cave of a volume. The long reach of Stephen King's imagination will take you on a roller coaster to places you've never been before. You will lose sleep. But Stephen King, writing to beat the devil, will do your dreaming for you.
The partners at Finley Figg often refer to themselves asa “boutique law firm.” Boutique, as in chic, selective, andprosperous. Oscar Finley and Wally Figg are none of these things.They are a two-bit operation of ambulance chasers who bicker likean old married couple. Until change comes their way—or, moreaccurately, stumbles in. After leaving a fast-track career andgoing on a serious bender, David Zinc is sober, unemployed, anddesperate enough to take a job at Finley Figg. Now the firm is ready to tackle a case that could make thepartners rich—without requiring them to actually practice much law.A class action suit has been brought against Varrick Labs, apharmaceutical giant with annual sales of $25 billion, allegingthat Krayoxx, its most popular drug, causes heart attacks. Wallysmells money. All Finley Figg has to do is find a handful ofKrayoxx users to join the suit. It almost seems too good to be true. . . and it is.
Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, The AmazingAdventures of Kavalier and Clay, sprang from an early passion forthe derring-do and larger-than-life heroes of classic comic books.Now, once more mining the rich past, Chabon summons the rollickingspirit of legendary adventures-from The Arabian Nights to AlexandreDumas to Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories-in awonderful new novel brimming with breathless action, raucous humor,cliff-hanging suspense, and a cast of colorful characters worthy ofScheherazade's most tantalizing tales. They're an odd pair, to besure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman, a moody, itinerantphysician fond of jaunty headgear, and ex-soldier Amram, agray-haired giant of a man as quick with a razor-tongued witticismas he is with a sharpened battle-ax. Brothers under the skin,comrades in arms, they make their rootless way through the CaucasusMountains, circa A.D. 950, living as they please and survivinghowever they can-as blades and thieves for hire and as pra
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.
For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty oneleft on the outside. He doesn’t understand how the police andprosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly doesn’t care. Hejust can’t believe his good luck. Time passes and he realizes thatthe mistake will not be corrected: the authorities believe in theircase and are determined to get a conviction. He may even watch thetrial of the person wrongly accused of his crime. He is relievedwhen the verdict is guilty. He laughs when the police andprosecutors congratulate themselves. He is content to allow aninnocent person to go to prison, to serve hard time, even to beexecuted. Travis Boyette is such a man. In 1998, in the small East Texascity of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular highschool cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never befound, then watched in amazement as police and prosecutors arrestedand convicted Donté Drumm, a local football star, and marched himoff to death row. Now nine years have
Nora Kelly, a young archaeologist in Santa Fe, receives aletter written sixteen years ago, yet mysteriously mailed onlyrecently. In it her father, long believed dead, hints at afantastic discovery that will make him famous and rich---the lostcity of an ancient civilization that suddenly vanished a thousandyears ago. Now Nora is leading an expedition into a harsh, remotecorner of Utah's canyon country. Searching for her father and hisglory, Nora begins t unravel the greatest riddle of Americanarcheology. but what she unearths will be the newest ofhorrors...
West From Singapore is a second collection of two-fistedadventure stores set in the Pacific at the outbreak of World WarII, by the author of the recent New York Times bestseller NightOver The Solomons and the #1 bestselling Last Of The Breed.
A word from Louis L'Amour: " Almost forty years ago, when myfiction was being published exclusively in 'pulp' westernmagazines, I wrote several novel-length stories, which my editorscalled 'magazine novels'. In creating them, I became so involvedwith my characters that their lives were still as much a part of meas I was of them long after the issues in which they appearedbecame collector's items. Pleased as I was about how I brought thecharacters and their adventures to life in the pages of themagazines, I still wanted the reader to know more about my peopleand why they did what they did. So, over the years, I revised andexpanded these magazine works into fuller-length novels that Ipublished in paperback under other titles. " These particular earlymagazine versions of my books have long been a source of greatspeculation and curiosity among many of my readers, so much so oflate, that I'm now pleased to collect three of them into book formfor the first time. " I hope you enjoy them."
First came the days of the plague. Then came the dreams. Dark dreams that warned of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down boot heels tramping the night roads. The warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil. His time is at hand. His empire grows in the west and the Apocalypse looms.
The Chinese vice-premier has been brutally slain by alegendary assassin. World leaders ask the same fearful questions: Why has Jason Bourne come back? Who is paying him? Who is thenext to die? But U.S. officials know the shocking truth: There is no Jason Bourne. The name was created as cover for DavidWebb on his search for the notorious killer Carlos. Someone elsehas taken the Bourne identity--and unless he is stopped, the worldwill pay a devastating price. So Jason Bourne must live again. Onceagain, Webb must utilize his lethal skills--because once again,like a nightmare relived, the woman he loves is suddenly torn fromhis life. To find her, trap his own impostor, and uncover anexplosive secret plan, Webb must lauch a desperate oddyssey intothe espionage killing fields. But this time, survival will not beenough. This time Bourne must reign supreme.
"I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but myself will muchlike," Jane Austen wrote, but young Emma Woodhouse, in spite of herweaknesses, has charmed generations of readers. Bossy, a littlespoilt, and too eager to control other's lives for what shebelieves is their own good, she creates misunderstandings withevery tactic she employs. But when her attempts to match-make goawry, she learns a hard lesson about life, love, and growing up.The world's greatest works of literature are now available inbeautiful keepsake volumes. Bound in real cloth, and featuring giltedges and ribbon markers, these beautifully produced books are awonderful way to build a handsome library of classic literature.These are the essential novels that belong in every home. They'lltransport readers to imaginary worlds and provide excitement,entertainment, and enlightenment for years to come. All of thesenovels feature attractive illustrations and have an unequalledperiod feel that will grace the library, the bedside table orbureau.
No one brings to life the Old West like Louis L'Amour. Collectedhere for the first time, these vintage frontier stories introduceyou to lawmen and loners, ranchers and renegades, gunslingers,cardsharps, bank robbers, etc. In these pages L'Amour brings tolife such classic characters as the Cactus Kid, Tensleep Mooney,One-Eared Tim, and the gunfighter Kim Sartain. These are frontiertales as only L'Amour can tell them--stories that surprise like thesharp crack of a Winchester and move like the lonely howl of thewind across an empty plain on the long ride home.
