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？
Meet Sugar, a nineteen-year-old prostitute innineteenth-century London who yearns for escape to a better life.From the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. Castaway, she begins herascent through society, meeting a host of lovable, maddening,unforgettable characters on the way. They begin with WilliamRackham, an egotistical perfume magnate whose empire is fueled byhis lust for Sugar; his unhinged, child-like wife Agnes; hismysteriously hidden-away daughter, Sophie; and his pious brotherHenry, foiled in his devotional calling by a persistentlyless-than-chaste love for the Widow Fox. All this is overseen byassorted preening socialites, drunken journalists, untrustworthyservants, vile guttersnipes, and whores of all stripes andpersuasions. Teeming with life, this is a big, juicy must-read of a novel thathas enthralled hundreds of thousands of readers-and will continueto do so for years to come.
Adultery us not a typical lane Austen theme, butwhen it disturbs the relatively peaceful householdat Mansfield Park. it has quite unexpected results. The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results,re-examining her own feelings while enduring thecheerful amorality, old-fashioned indifference andpriggish disapproval of those around her.
Throughout her years as schoolmistress, Miss Read has gatheredexcellent accounts of the rich and varied history of her belovedcountry village, often through neighborly conversation over thegate. Fairacre has garnered its share of odd incidents,entertaining episodes, and village folklore, from an unusual recipefor weight loss found in an old notebook -- and used with alarmingconsequences -- to the tragic story of the village ghost. Withcharacteristic grace and vigor, Miss Read retells many treasuredstories of Fairacre past and present.
Kenneth Trachtenberg, the witty and eccentric narrator of"More Die of Heartbreak," has left his native Paris for theMidwest. He has come to be near his beloved uncle, theworld-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described aplantvisionary.a While his studies take him around the world, Benn, arestless spirit, has not been able to satisfy his longings afterhis first marriage and lives from affair to affair and from ablissto breakdown.a Imagining that a settled existence will end hisanguish, Benn ties the knot again, opening the door to a flood ofnew torments. As Kenneth grapples with his own problems involvinghis unusual lady-friend Treckie, the two men try to figure out whygifted and intelligent people invariably find themselves aknee-deepin the garbage of a personal life.a
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With these words, Washington Irving expresses the dilemma ofevery American artist in the nineteenth century. The Sketch-Book(1820-1) looks simultaneously towards audiences on both sides ofthe Atlantic, as Irving explores the uneasy relationship of anAmerican writer to English literary traditions. He sketches aseries of encounters with the cultural shrines of the parentnation, and in two brilliant experiments with tales transplantedfrom Europe creates the first classic American short stories, 'RipVan Winkle' and 'The Legend of the Sleepy Hollow'. The result wasnot only a hugely successful travel book; it exerted a strongformative influence on American writers from Nathaniel Hawthorneand Edgar Allan Poe to Henry James, and is well worth rediscoveryin its own right today. Based on Irving's final revision of hismost popular work, this new edition includes comprehensiveexplanatory notes of The Sketch-Book's sources for the modernreader. In her introduction, Susan Manning suggests that the authorforged a new idiom
For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruledsupreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of therevolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--toa dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will lastthirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind,Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists andscholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of theGalaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a fututre generations. Hecalls his sanctuary the Foundation. But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy ofcorrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire.Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submitto the barbarians and be overrun--or fight them and bedestroyed.
★Mandy Pajeck had a tough childhood. Now 28,she feelsresponsible for the accident that took her younger brother's sight.But his complete reliance on her care is making them bothmiserable.When she meets handsome Zach Harrigan and his mini guidehorse,she thinks she's found the ticket to her brother'shappiness-and maybe her own
In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walkerspeaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist inthirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political. Amongthe contents are essays about other writers, accounts of the civilrights movement of the 1960s and the antinuclear movement of the1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring childhood injury and herdaughters healing words.
Tiny Patrick Henry College, a Christian school just outsidethe nations capital, grooms ambitious young evangelicals intotomorrows conservative elite. The future front lines of politics,entertainment, and science will be commanded by these idealisticgraduates, who plan to lead the battle in reclaiming a godlessnation. Hanna Rosins "superb work of extended reportage" (ChicagoSun Times)takes us into the halls and dorms and hearts of PatrickHenry, following students from the campus to the White House,Congress, conservative think tanks, Hollywood, and other keycenters of influence. Lively and evenhanded, her account revealsthe evangelical movement at a moment of crisis and climax, itsfuture leaders struggling to resist the temptations of modern lifeeven as they try to remake the world in their image. Hanna Rosinhas crafted a vibrant, insightful look at kids who may very well bein charge of our country someday.
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.
A treasury of Lewis’s thought, gathered from all of his morethan forty books and his uncollected essays, on subjects as variedas sin, hell and heaven, the Trinity, and love and sex. Edited andwith a Preface by Clyde S. Kilby.
Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with thescars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a verywealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he's divorced and re-married and whoends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazygangster are after Marlowe.
With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail fromEngland to find employment in a girls’ boarding school in the smalltown of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possessionin the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster,and her own complex feelings, first for the school’s English doctorand then for the dictatorial professor, Paul Emmanuel. CharlotteBront?’s last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfullymoving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love, narratedby a heroine determined to preserve an independent spirit in theface of adverse circumstances.
When Samantha Harrigan attends the local rodeo, she doesn'texpect to wind up in jail. But that's what happens when she triesto stop a drunkard from abusing his horse. Tucker Coulter, ahandsome local veterinarian, comes to her defense, and both of themare arrested. The charges are dropped, but Sam's troubles have onlystarted...
McCarthy's most celebrated novel portrays the experiences ofeight young women from Vassar College, Class of '33. As the storyopens, they meet in New York City for the wedding of Kay, one of"the group." The author then describes the lives, loves, andaspirations of these women until they reconvene seven years laterin the same city for Kay's funeral. "Juicy, shocking, witty, andalmost continually brilliant" (Cosmopolitan).
Kate was lissa’s best friend. they’ve shared everything for four years. then one night at a drunken party, Kate leaned in to kiss lissa, and lissa kissed her back. And now Kate is pretending lissa doesn’t exist. Confused and alone, lissa’s left questioning everything she thought she knew about herself, and about life. but with the help of a free-spirit new friend, lissa’s beginning to find the strength to realize that sometimes falling in love with the wrong person is the only way to find your footing.
A writer is held hostage by his number-one fan in the novel that"demand[s] that we take King seriously as a writer with a deeplyfelt understanding of human psychology" ( Publishers Weekly ).His deeply felt understanding of what terrifies us doesn't hurteither.
