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？

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

Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, arich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracksand martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly romantic, The ThinMan is a murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated comedy ofmanners.

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.

In the second novel of King's bestselling fantasy masterpiece, Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger, encounters three doors which open to 1980s America. Here he joins forces with the defiant Eddie Dean and courageous, volatile Odetta Holmes. And confronts deadly serial killer Jack Mort. As the titanic forces gather, a savage struggle between underworld evil and otherworldly enemies conspire to bring an end to Roland's quest for the Dark Tower...Masterfully weaving dark fantasy and icy realism, THE DRAWING OF THE THREE compulsively propels readers toward the next chapter. And the Tower is closer...

From universally beloved author Alexander McCall Smith, comesthis seventh installment in the bestselling No. 1 Ladies' DetectiveAgency series featuring Botswana's best-loved detective. Life isgood for Mma Ramotswe as she sets out with her usual resolve tosolve people's problems, heal their misfortunes, and untangle themysteries that make life interesting. And life is never dull onTlokweng Road. A new and rather too brusque advice columnist isappearing in the local paper. Then, a cobra is found in the officesof the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Recently, the Mokolodi GamePreserve manager feels an infectious fear spreading among hisworkers, and a local doctor may be falsifying blood pressurereadings. To further complicate matters, Grace Makutsi may havescared off her own fiance. Mma Ramotswe, however, is always up tothe challenge. And "Blue Shoes and Happiness" will not fail toentertain Alexander McCall Smith's oldest fans and newest convertswith its great wit, charm, and great good will.

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...

There was a new shop in town. Run by a stranger. Needful Things, the sign said. The oddest name. A name that caused some gossip and speculation among the good folks of Castle Rock, Maine, while they waited for opening day. Eleven-year-old Brian Rusk was the first customer and he got just what he wanted, a very rare 1956 Sandy Koufax baseball card. Signed. Cyndi Rose Martin was next. A Lalique vase. A perfect match for her living room decor. Something for everyone. Something you really had to have. And always at a price you could just about afford. The cash price that is. Because there was another price. There always is when your heart's most secret, true desire is for sale ...

" Roberts] is at her best here" ("Publishers Weekly," starredreview) in the first book in her enchanting trilogy set in Ardmore,Ireland.

To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part. A good place to live. It was the children who saw - and felt - what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes IT reached up, seizing, tearing, killing ...The adults, knowing better, knew nothing. Time passed and the children grew up, moved away. The horror of IT was deep-buried, wrapped in forgetfulness. Until they were called back, once more to confront IT as IT stirred and coiled in the sullen depths of their memories, reaching up again to make their past nightmares a terrible present reality.

Stealing her abusive ex-husband's expensive stallion, MollyWells shows up at known horse whisperer Jake Coulter's Oregon horseranch. Fearful of her ex-husband, Molly escapes with no clothes ormoney, but she's willing to risk everything to save Sonora Sunset,little realizing she needs to save herself as well. Hoping Jack'stalents work their magic on the horse, Molly doesn't expect them towork on her.

Coming down from his carefree youth and unwanted fame, JackKerouac undertakes a mature confrontation of some of his mosttroubling emotional issues: a burgeoning problem with alcoholism,addiction, fear, and insecurity. He dutifully records hisever-changing states of consciousness, which culminate in apowerful religious experience. Big Sur was written some time afterJack Kerouac's best-known works, following a visit to northernCalifornia and the first feelings of midlife crisis. Kerouac stayedfor several weeks in a cabin in Big Sur, California, and withfriends in San Francisco. Upon returning home, he wrote thisaccount in a two-week period. Critic Richard Meltzer referred toBig Sur as Kerouac's 'masterpiece, and one of the great, greatworks of the English language.' --This text refers to the AudioCassette edition.

He saw her across the Piazza San Marco and fell in love fromafar. When he sees her again in a Venice café a year later, heknows it is fate. He knows little English; and she, a divorcedAmerican chef, speaks only food-based Italian. Marlena thinks sheis incapable of intimacy, that her heart has lost its capacity forromantic love. But within months of their first meeting, she haspacked up her house in St. Louis to marry Fernando—“the stranger,”as she calls him—and live in that achingly lovely city in whichthey met. Vibrant but vaguely baffled by this bold move, Marlena isoverwhelmed by the sheer foreignness of her new home, its ritualsand customs. But there are delicious moments when Venice opens upits arms to Marlena. She cooks an American feast of Mississippicaviar, cornbread, and fried onions for the locals . . . and takesthe tango she learned in the Poughkeepsie middle school gym to acandlelit trattoría near the Rialto Bridge. All the while, she andFernando, two disparate souls, build

When a Washington, D.C. police detective is targeted by Henry Loving, he and his family are immediately put under government protection. Loving is a ruthless 'lifter', hired to extract information from his victims, and he will use whatever means necessary including kidnapping, torturing or killing their family. Assigned to the Kesslers is protection officer Corte: uncompromising, relentlessly devoted to protecting those in his care and a brilliant game strategist. He also knows just how brutal the lifter can be - six years earlier, Loving killed someone close to him. The situation soon escalates into a deadly contest between protector and lifter as each tries to outwit the other ...

Known for her amazing talent, the "New York Times" bestsellingauthor of "Only by Your Touch" and "Always in My Heart" delivers anextraordinary new tale of two people who, in the most unexpected ofcircumstances, discover the healing power of love...

When the burnt headless body of a young woman is found on thesteps of a Baptist Church in Harlem, Assistant DA Alexandra Cooperis one of the first on the shocking scene. Alex has seen somegruesome crimes committed in New York, but the barbarity of thislatest discovery leaves her nauseous. With NYPD cop Mike Chapman,Alex begins to investigate, but before long another woman isslaughtered and found on the steps of a Catholic church in LittleItaly; her throat slashed and her tongue cut out. It becomes clearthere is a zealous serial killer on the loose. Now Alex and Mikemust keep one step ahead of a religious fanatic bent on silencingthe women he believes are bringing shame to his beliefs - before hekills anyone else.

Oscar is a sweet but fat sci-fi obsessed introvert who -- fromthe New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother andrebellious sister -- dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R.Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But Oscar may never getwhat he wants. Blame the fuku -- a curse that has haunted Oscar'sfamily for generations, following them on their epic journey fromNew Jersey to Washington Heights and back to Santo Domingo.Encapsulating Dominican American history, Oscar's story open oureyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary Americanexperience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere --and risk it all -- in the name of love. Pulitzer Prize winning novel

A deluxe omnibus edition of the "New York Times" bestsellingseries. Featuring three complete novels: Lightsabers Darkest KnightJedi Under Siege

Wentworth, Ohio: a small friendly town where the Carver children bicker over sweets in the E-Z shop and writer Johnny Marinville is the only resident who minds his own business. On Poplar Street, apart from the impending storm, it's just a normal summer's day - with Frisbees flying, lawn mowers humming and barbeques grilling. As the paperboy makes his round, he is unaware of the chrome red van idling up the hill ...Soon the residents will be caught up in a game of wills as the regulators arrive in force to face a child whose powers of expression are just awakening. If you like THE REGULATORS, don't miss DESPERATION, written as an unidentical pair.

Schuyler's hunt for the Gates is becoming more intense as thevampire world is beginning to show cracks. The New York Coven'sancient lore and the desires of young vampires keep coming intodangerous conflict that could have repercussions worldwide. Thecourse of forbidden love never did run smooth...

A brand new CONTEMPORARY series from the New York Timesbestselling author whose novels are: Born with second sight, Loni MacEwen must warn the handsomerancher Clint Harrigan that his son is in danger-except he doesn'teven have a son. Then the drama Loni predicted unfolds on the news:an orphaned boy is lost in the wilderness. As Loni and Clint helpin the search for the boy, they begin to form a bond of theirown...