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 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 ...

Back in print after more than tenyears. Torn between the white and Comanche worldsof her parents, Indigo Wolf has grown up estranged from thetownspeople of Wolf's Landing, Orgeon. Bo one understands herelusive spirit-until Jake Rand comes to town to act as foreman ofher family's ranch. But Jake's real motives are as secret as histrue identity, and as personal as his growing attraction toIndigo.

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...

In the third novel in King's epic fantasy masterpiece, Roland, the Last Gunslinger, is moving ever closer to the Dark Tower, which haunts his dreams and nightmares. Pursued by the Ageless Stranger, he and his friends follow the perilous path to Lud, an urban wasteland. And crossing a desert of damnation in this macabre new world, revelations begin to unfold about who - and what - is driving him forward. A blend of riveting action and powerful drama, The Waste Lands leaves readers breathlessly awaiting the next chapter. br /And the Tower is closer...

Michael Crichton as you've never seen him -- an irresistibletale of swashbuckling pirates in the New World, a classic story oftreasure and betrayal. Jamaica in 1665 is a rough outpost of theEnglish crown, a minor colony holding out against the vastsupremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, Jamaica's capital, acut-throat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses, is devoidof London's luxuries; life here can end swiftly with dysentery or adagger in your back. But for Captain Edward Hunter it is a lifethat can also lead to riches, if he abides by the island s code. Inthe name of His Majesty King Charles II of England, gold in Spanishhands is gold for the taking. And law in the New World is made bythose who take it into their hands. Word in port is that theSpanish treasure galleon El Trinidad, fresh from New Spain, isstalled in nearby Matanceros harbor awaiting repairs. Heavilyfortified, the impregnable Spanish outpost is guarded by theblood-swiller Cazalla, a favorite commander of King Philip IVhims

The world's two deadliest spies in the ultimate showdown. At asmall-town carnival two men, each mysteriously summoned bytelegram, witness a bizarre killing. The telegrams are signed JasonBourne. Only they know Bourne's true identity and understand thetelegram is really a message from Bourne's mortal enemy, Carlos,known also as the Jackal, the world's deadliest and most elusiveterrorist. And furthermore, they know that the Jackal wants: afinal confrontation with Bourne. Now David Webb, professor ofOriental studies, husband, and father, must do what he hoped hewould never have to do again -- assume the terrible identity ofJason Bourne. His plan is simple: to infiltrate the politically andeconomically Medusan group and use himself as bait to lure thecunning Jackal into a deadly trap -- a trap from which only one ofthem will escape.

Introducing Gideon Crew: trickster, prodigy, masterthief GIDEON'S SWORD At twelve, Gideon Crew witnessed his father, a world-classmathematician, accused of treason and gunned down. At twenty-four, summoned to his dying mother's bedside, Gideonlearned the truth: His father was framed and deliberatelyslaughtered. With her last breath, she begged her son to avengehim. Now, with a new purpose in his life, Gideon crafts a one-timemission of vengeance, aimed at the perpetrator of his father'sdestruction. His plan is meticulous, spectacular, andsuccessful. But from the shadows, someone is watching. A very powerful someone,who is impressed by Gideon's special skills. Someone who has needof just such a renegade. For Gideon, this operation may be only the beginning . . .

Nothing is quite as it seems. Expect the unexpected in this veritable treasure trove of enthralling, witty, dark tales that could only come from the imagination of the greatest storyteller of our time. In this eerie, enchanting compilation, Stephen King takes readers down a road less travelled (for good reason) in the blockbuster e-book 'Riding the Bullet'. Terror becomes deja vu all over again when you get 'That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French'. 'LT's Theory of Pets' will make you stop and think before giving a dog to a loved one. And there are eleven more stories that will keep you awake until dawn.

WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11.22.63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless ...King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life - a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time. With extraordinary imaginative power, King weaves the social, political and popular culture of his baby-boom American generation into a devastating exercise in escalating suspense.

Creating George Stark was easy. Getting rid of him won't be ...The sparrows are flying again. The idea - unbidden, inexplicable - haunts the edge of Thad Beaumont's mind. Thad should be happy. For years now it is his secret persona 'George Stark', author of super-violent pulp thrillers, who has paid the family bills. But now, Thad is writing seriously again under his own name, and his menacing pseudonym has been buried forever. And yet ...the sparrows are flying again, and something is terribly wrong in Thad Beaumont's world.

All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire's richestcitizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the lastdays of summer. The world's largest navy lies peacefully at anchorin Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in the seasideresorts of Baiae, Herculaneum, and Pompeii. But the carefreelifestyle and gorgeous weather belie an impending cataclysm, andonly one man is worried. The young engineer Marcus Attilius Primushas just taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the enormous aqueductthat brings fresh water to a quarter of a million people in ninetowns around the Bay of Naples. His predecessor has disappeared.Springs are failing for the and#64257;rst time in generations. Andnow there is a crisis on the Augusta's sixty-mile mainline--somewhere to the north of Pompeii, on the slopes of MountVesuvius. Attilius--decent, practical, and incorruptible--promisesPliny, the famous scholar who commands the navy, that he can repairthe aqueduct before the reservoir runs dry. His plan is to travelto

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.

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.

Hold tight. We are going into a number of dark places, but I think I know the way. Just don't let go of my arm . . . Unrivalled master of suspense Stephen King takes the unsuspecting reader on a fantastic journey through the dark shadows of our innermost fears. Do the dead sing? In this bumper collection of chilling tales, which includes the brilliant story adapted into the acclaimed movie The Mist, we meet: a woman who has never crossed The Reach, the water dividing her from the mainland; a gramma who only wants to hug little George, even after she is dead; an innocent looking toy with sinister powers; and a primeval sea creture with an insatiable appetite.

Things keep getting brighter for fans... "The New York Times"bestselling author of "Blue Skies" is back with a brand-new lovestory The novels of Catherine Anderson have been praised as "richlyemotional and] deeply satisfying" ("Booklist"). Now, in Anderson'slatest Coulter family story, serious-minded Zeke Coulter's lifebegins to sizzle when he finally meets his match...

'Turn off the television - in fact, why don't you turn off all the lights except for the one over your favourite chair? - and we'll talk about vampires here in the dim. I think I can make you believe in them.' Stephen King, from the Introduction. 'Salem's Lot is a small New England town with the usual quota of gossips, drinkers, weirdos and respectable folk. Of course there are tales of strange happenings - but not more than in any other town its size. Ben Mears, a moderately successful writer, returns to the Lot to write a novel based on his early years, and to exorcise the terrors that have haunted him since childhood. The event he witnessed in the house now rented by a new resident. A newcomer with a strange allure. A man who causes Ben some unease as things start to happen: a child disappears, a dog is brutally killed - nothing unusual, except the list starts to grow. Soon surprise will turn to bewilderment, bewilderment to confusion and finally to terror ...

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

Strange things were happening in Drake House: A perfect roseappearing on a pillow...an antique dress materializing out ofnowhere...a mysterious spirit roaming the halls... Five years afterRachel Lindquist had left California to chase her dreams, shereturned home to care for her aging mother, only to find herselfchasing a ghost Addie Lindquist insisted a presence haunted DrakeHouse and had hired noted parapsychologist Bryan Hennessy toinvestigate, but Rachel knew better than to believe in what shecouldn't see-- or to surrender to the strong current of desirepulling her towards Bryan. Bryan had dealt with skeptics before,but convincing Rachel was the biggest challenge of his life. Theenchanting beauty had lost faith in everything that wasn'tpractical, and that included matters of the heart. As Bryan foughther reluctance to succumb to feelings she couldn't control, asecond, more sinister force began to stalk them, threatening todrive them from Drake House and from each other-- a force thatcould be banished only