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？
Here is the classic--and true--story of Vyry, the child of awhite plantation owner and his black mistress, a Southern Civil Warheroine to rival Scarlett O'Hara. Vyry bears witness to the South'sprewar opulence and its brutality, to its wartime ruin and thesubsequent promise of Reconstruction. It is a story that MargaretWalker heard as a child from her grandmother, the real Vyry'sdaughter. The author spent thirty years researching the novel sothat the world might know the intelligent, strong, and brave blackwoman called Vyry. The phenomenal acclaim this best-selling bookhas achieved from readers black and white, young and old, atteststo her success.
Perhaps the most famous of Lawrence's novels, the 1928 LadyChatterley's Lover is no longer distinguished for theonce-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--theadulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-classmarried woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned byher wheelchaired husband. Now that we're used to reading about sex,and seeing it in the movies, it's apparent that the novel ismemorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterfuland lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world ofits characters. --This text refers to an alternate Paperbackedition.
Sam Spade, a slightly shop-worn private eye with his ownsolitary code of ethics, stars in Hammett's detective fiction, anovel that has haunted 2 generations of readers.
Karen Wynn Fonstad's THE ATLAS OF MIDDLE-EARTH is an essentialvolume that will enchant all Tolkien fans. Here is the definitiveguide to the geography of Middle-earth, from its founding in theElder Days through the Third Age, including the journeys of Bilbo,Frodo, and the Fellowship of the Ring. Authentic and updated --nearly one third of the maps are new, and the text is fully revised-- the atlas illuminates the enchanted world created in THESILMARILLION, THE HOBBIT, and THE LORD OF THE RINGS. Hundreds oftwo-color maps and diagrams survey the journeys of the principalcharacters day by day -- including all the battles and keylocations of the First, Second, and Third Ages. Plans andde*ions of castles, buildings, and distinctive landforms aregiven, along with thematic maps describing the climate, vegetation,languages, and population distribution of Middle-earth throughoutits history. An extensive appendix and an index help readerscorrelate the maps with Tolkien's novels.
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.
Gr. 6-9. Lost and lonely when she moves in with her stepfather's family in Philadelphia, Raisin Rodriguez, 13, talks on her blog to her two best friends back in Berkeley, California. Her daily, sometimes hourly, narrative is frank, needy, hilarious, intimate, and crude. On one level it's the usual diary about the new kid trying to fit in with the cool group. But Raisin, who admits she's way beyond Judy Blume, also writes about examining her intimate body parts, comparing what she sees with the wrinkled "face of Mervis the librarian." There's also the teacher who looks as if he has "pubic hair coming out of his ears." When she forgets to log out at school, someone prints her blog for all to read. Blogs tend to be ephemeral, but what will last here is the close-up of peer cruelty, personal intimacy, and public embarrassment. Raisin can't help wondering if the word embarrassment comes from the root words bare and ass. Hazel Rochman.
This true account of coming of age in an English boardingschool, by an acclaimed young writer, is reminiscent of such booksas A Separate Peace and The Catcher in the Rye. "Strong andevocative. . . smoothly written. . . romantic."--The New York TimesBook Review.
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaurDNA has been discovered. Creatures once extinct now roam JurassicPark, soon-to-be opened as a theme park. Until something goeswrong...and science proves a dangeroustoy...."Wonderful...Powerful."THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD "Fromthe Paperback edition."
With one glance, wealthy Crystal Falls, Oregon rancher, RyanKendrick falls hard -- and fast -- for lovely Bethany Coulter. Abeguiling mix of sass and shyness, naivete and maturity, she shareshis passion for horses, has a great sense of humor and can light upa room with her beautiful smile. She is absolutely perfect -- inevery way but one. A long ago barrel-racing accident has leftBethany confined to a wheelchair. In the years since, she has knownboth betrayal and heartbreak -- and vowed never to open her heartto a man again. She has even accepted the possibility that she'llnever be able to enjoy a healthy intimate relationship or havechildren of her own. But there's something about handsome RyanKendrick. Something that makes her believe she can overcome everyobstacle. Something that makes her believe in lifelong, lastinglove . . .
Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is a divorced, depressed historyteacher. To lift his spirits, a colleague suggests he rent acertain video. Tertuliano watches the film, unimpressed. But duringthe night, when he is awakened by noises in his apartment, he goesinto the living room to find that the VCR is replaying the video.He watches in astonishment as a man who looks exactly like him-or,more specifically, exactly like he did five years before,mustachioed and fuller in the face-appears on the screen. He sleepsbadly. Against his better judgment, Tertuliano decides to pursuehis double. As he roots out the man's identity, what begins as awhimsical story becomes a "wonderfully twisted meditation onidentity and individuality" (The Boston Globe). Saramago displayshis remarkable talent in this haunting tale of appearance versusreality.
Three Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights Adventures. One SpecialPrice The million-copy "New York Times" bestselling trilogy, now inone deluxe omnibus edition. Volume One includes the complete novels"Heirs of the Force," "Shadow Academy," and "The Lost Ones."
andquot; PUZO IS IN TOP FORM.andquot; *Time The Last Don isMario Puzo at his finest, thrilling us with his greatest Mafianovel since The Godfather *a masterful saga of the last greatAmerican crime family and its powerful reach into Hollywood and LasVegas. andquot; THE MOST ENTERTAINING READ SINCE THEGODFATHER.andquot; *The New York Times Book Review The Last Don isDomenico Clericuzio, a wise and ruthless old man who is determinedto see his heirs established in legitimate society but whose visionis threatened when secrets from the family's past spark a viciouswar between two blood cousins. andquot; SKILLFULLY CRAFTED . . . ITGIVES US HOLLYWOOD, LAS VEGAS, AND THE MOB IN ONE SWEETDISH.andquot; *Los Angeles Times Book Review The Last Don is amesmerizing tale that takes us inside the equally corrupt worlds ofthe mob, the movie industry, and the casinos *where beautifulactresses and ruthless hitmen are ruled by lust and violence, wheresleazy producers and greedy studio heads are drunk on power, wherecrooked cops
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
“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 REVEALING AND DRAMATIC LOOK AT THE INSIDE OF THE AMERICAN SPACE PROGRAM FROM ONE OF ITS PIONEERS. This is the astronaut story never before told--about the fear, love, and sacrifice demanded of the few men who dared to reach beyond the heavens for the biggest prize of all: the Moon.
During the grand opening celebration of the new Americanheadquarters of an immense Japanese conglomerate, the dead body ofa beautiful woman is found. The investigation begins, andimmediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze ofindustrial intrigue and a violent business battle that takes noprisoners. During the grand opening celebration of the new Americanheadquarters of an immense Japanese conglomerate, the dead body ofa beautiful woman is found. The investigation begins, andimmediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze ofindustrial intrigue and a violent business battle that takes noprisoners.
"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the gloves herself. Big Benwas striking as she stepped out into the street. It was eleveno'clock and the unused hour was fresh as if issued to children on abeach." -from "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street" The landmark modernnovel Mrs. Dalloway creates a portrait of a single day in the lifeof Clarissa Dalloway as she orchestrates the last-minute details ofa grand party. But before Virginia Woolf wrote this masterwork, sheexplored in a series of fascinating stories a similar revelry inthe mental and physical excitement of a party. Wonderfullycaptivating, the seven stories in Mrs. Dalloway's Party create adynamic and delightful portrait of what Woolf called "partyconsciousness." As parallel expressions of the themes of Mrs.Dalloway, these stories provide a valuable window into Woolf'swriting mind and a further testament to her extraordinarygenius.
'What we were after was lashings of ultraviolence'. In thisnightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and hisfriends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture andmurder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the Statetries to reform him - but at what cost? Social prophecy? Blackcomedy? Study of freewill? "A Clockwork Orange" is all of these. Itis also a dazzling experiment in language, as Burgess creates a newlanguage - 'nadsat', the teenage slang of a not-too-distantfuture.
