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？
In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns ashocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumpingtoxic waste into a small town's water supply, causing the worst"cancer cluster" in history, in this powerful, timely, and shockingstory of political and legal intrigue.
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.
They're freelance pilots and full-time troubleshooters fordemocracy. They're men like Steven Cowan, Mike Thorne, and TurkMadden who face danger every day of their lives and fight liketigers for what they believe in. With the world on the brink ofwar, they're on the front lines, wherever there's action. From thedangerous South Seas islands, to steaming South American jungles,to the other islands of Japan, you'll find these man ready to fightthe enemies of freedom—in a battle to the death.
Dan Brown’s record-breaking novel The Lost Symbol weavesa breathtaking trail through the hidden artwork, chambers, tunnels,and temples of our nation’s capital. Now the fascinating visualsappear right before your eyes, making for a sumptuous readingexperience that brings alive Robert Langdon’s heart-stopping racethrough a little-known Washington, D.C. Revealing a world ofancient mysteries, stunning history, and secret societies, thisSpecial Illustrated Edition unveils a whole new level of intrigueand fascination within The Lost Symbol . Over one hundredfull-color images are featured throughout this lavishly illustratedgift edition—an essential companion to the original.
本书讲述的是一名美国足球国手不能再在国家队踢球，而不得不去意大利的球队效命，在意大利发生了 ... Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the ClevelandBrowns. In the deciding game at the climax of the season, to thesurprise and dismay of virtually everyone, Rick actually got intothe game. With a 17-point lead and just minutes to go, Rickprovided what was arguably the worst single performance in thehistory of the NFL. Overnight, he became a national laughing stockand, of course, was immediately dropped by the Browns and shunnedby all other teams.But all Rick knows is football, and he insiststhat his agent, Arnie, finds a team that needs him. Againstenormous odds, Arnie finally locates just such a team and informsRick that, miraculously, he can in fact now be a startingquarterback. Great says Rick - for which team? The mighty Panthersof Parma, Italy. Yes, Italians do play American football, to onedegree or another, and the Parma Panthers desperately want
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
In Victorian England, an orphan girl is sent to a countryestate to work for-and ultimately woo-its young heiress, on behalfof a mysterious benefactor known as Gentleman.
“Philip Roth has become an American Master,a writercertainlyin出e upper rank of artistic achievement．1ikeJohn Coltrane in musicor Jackson Pollock in artThe prolific Roth is athe height of hisconsiderablepowers，and his work transcends much of hiscontem—poraries’output in psychological insight，pure intelli—genceand even readability,”
A relentless page-turner. A terrifying evocation of a paranoid world where no one can betrusted. A surprising, unexpected story of love and family, of hope andresilience. CHILD 44 is a thriller unlike any you have ever read. "There is no crime." Stalin's Soviet Union strives to be a paradise for its workers,providing for all of their needs. One of its fundamental pillars isthat its citizens live free from the fear of ordinary crime andcriminals. But in this society, millions do live in fear . . . of the State.Death is a whisper away. The mere suspicion of ideologicaldisloyalty-owning a book from the decadent West, the wrong word atthe wrong time-sends millions of innocents into the Gulags or totheir executions. Defending the system from its citizens is theMGB, the State Security Force. And no MGB officer is morecourageous, conscientious, or idealistic than Leo Demidov. A war hero with a beautiful wife, Leo lives in relative luxury in
Undeniably powerful, an enormously affecting and intenselyhuman story. --The Washington Post Book World "A GUT-WRENCHING PIECE OF WORK. . . Carcaterra's graphic narrativegrips like gunfire in a dark alley." --The Atlanta Journal Constitution "In his controversial memoir SLEEPERS, Carcaterra remembersharrowing months in the Wilkinson Home for Boys and the elaboratevengeance he and his friends exacted against the guards. He tellsit all in spare, stylish prose . . . [with] relentless momentum andsheer drama. . . . SLEEPERS is a thriller, to be sure, but it isequally a wistful hymn to another age." --The Washington Post Book World "A TERRIFYING ACCOUNT OF BRUTALITY AND RETRIBUTION, searing in itsemotional truth, peopled with murderers, sadists, and thugs, butbiblical in its passion and scope." --People "SLEEPERS is so many things: a Dickensian portrait of coming of agein Hell's Kitchen, a terrifying and heartbreaking account of thebrutalization of youth, a shocking--and disturbinglysatisfying--climax worthy of
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.
A beautifully polished, utterly knowing and palpitatingbook. TIME Enter the new world of post Cold War espionage. Penetrate thesecret world of ruthless arms dealers and drug smugglers who haverisen to unthinkable power and wealth. The sinister master of themall is an untouchable Englishman named Roper. Slipping into thismaze of peril is a former British soldier, Jonathan Pine, who knowsRoper well enough to hate him more than any man on earth. NowPersonal vengeance is only part of why Pine is willing to help themen at Whitehall try to bring Roper down.... A Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club
"There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before TheLord of the Rings, and the story told in this book is set in thegreat country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West: landswhere Treebeard once walked, but that were drowned in the greatcataclysm that ended the First Age of the World. "In that remotetime Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in the vast fortress ofAngband, the Hells of Iron, in the North; and the tragedy of Turinand his sister Nienor unfolded within the shadow of the fear ofAngband and the war waged by Morgoth against the lands and secretcities of the Elves. "Their brief and passionate lives weredominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bore them as thechildren of Hurin, the man who had dared to defy and to scorn himto his face. Against them he sent his most formidable servant,Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragonof fire. Into this story of brutal conquest and flight, of foresthiding-places and pursuit, of resistance with lessening hope, theD
Welcome to Desperation. Once a thriving copper mining town in the middle of the Nevada desert, Desperation is now eerily abandoned. It's the last place that travellers like the Carver family, bound for vacation, and writer Johnny Marinville, astride his Harley, would expect to be stopped and charged. But Desperation still has a local cop - a unique regulator who patrols the wilderness highway. The secrets buried in Desperation are as terrifying as the forces summoned to encounter them. A terrifying transformation is taking place and the travellers will soon discover the true meaning of desperation ...
He gave up the money. He gave up the power. Now all he hasleft is the law. Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushingrelentlessly to the top of Drake Sweeney, a giant D.C. lawfirm. One step away from partnership, Michael has it all. Then, inan instant, it all comes undone. A homeless man takes nine lawyers hostage in the firm's plushoffices. When it is all over, the man's blood is splattered onMichael's face--and suddenly Michael is willing to do theunthinkable. Rediscovering a conscience he lost long ago, Michaelis leaving the big time for the streets where his attacker oncelived--and where society's powerless need an advocate forjustice. But there's one break Michael can't make: from a secret that hasfloated up from the depths of Drake Sweeney, from aconfidential file that is now in Michael's hands, and from aconspiracy that has already taken lives. Now Michael's formerpartners are about to become his bitter enemies. Because to them,Michael Brock is the most d
Vicki Forman gave birth to Evan and Ellie, weighing just a poundat birth, at twenty-three weeks gestation. During the delivery shebegged the doctors to "let her babies go" she knew all too wellthat at twenty-three weeks they could very well die and, if theysurvived, they would face a high risk of permanent disabilities.However, California law demanded resuscitation. Her daughter diedjust four days later; her son survived and was indeed multiplydisabled: blind, nonverbal, and dependent on a feeding tube. ThisLovely Life tells, with brilliant intensity, of what became of theForman family after the birth of the twins the harrowing medicalinterventions and ethical considerations involving the sanctity oflife and death. In the end, the longdelayed first steps of afive-year-old child will seem like the fist-pumping stuff of atriumph narrative. Formans intelligent voice gives a sensitive,nuanced rendering of her guilt, her anger, and her eventualacceptance in this portrait of a mothers fierce love for herchildren.
In one of the most acclaimed and original novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.
The President's son and daughter are abducted, and DetectiveAlex Cross is one of the first on the scene. But someone veryhigh-up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him offthe case and in the dark. A deadly contagion in the water supply cripples half of thecapital, and Alex discovers that someone may be about to unleashthe most devastating attack the United States has everexperienced. As his window for solving both crimes narrows, Alex makes adesperate decision that goes against everything he believes--onethat may alter the fate of the entire country. KILL ALEX CROSS isfaster, more exciting, and more tightly wound than any Alex Crossthriller James Patterson has ever written!
The suicide of an elderly German Jew explodes into revelationafter revelation: of a Mafia-like organization called "Odessa"...of a real-life fugitive known as the "Butcher of Riga.."of ayoung German journalist tumed obsessed avenger.......and,ultimately, of brilliant, ruthless plot to reestablish theworldwide power of SS mass murderers and to carry out Hitler'schilling "Final Solution."
