公元2012年10月11日，一次超高能量的强子对撞机实验引发了无人能够想象的后果。世界范围内，时间场被扭曲，每隔二十个小时，一切都会还原到10月11日早上6点47分的状态，除了人们的记忆之外。时间的循环无穷无尽，一个不可思议的新纪元由此开始。韩方，北京一名最普通的大学生，和朋友们一起经历了这个新纪元最初的震惊和灾难。在每况愈下的混乱局势中，他们必须设法自救。此后的世界被疯狂和愚昧所席卷，他们的生活分崩离析，在黑暗的时代中仍坚守着希望。经历种种劫难后，一个自称受到时间之神指引的神秘教派又在全球范围兴起，教主保罗似乎掌握了幕后真相，通过精心安排的计划把人类带向不可知的未来。 当令人窒息的真相逐步揭开时，韩方发现，在这片时间的废墟上，他和一个神秘的少女竟然肩负着世界最后的希望，可他们将如何拯救这
这是陕西作家李晓兵标志性作品，2005年中国以民工为题材的同名电视剧的文学脚本，它讲述了一群游走在现代都市的社会层的城市边缘人——农民工生活的故事。该小说真实地记录了现代都市里一群被忽视的农民工合法追讨微薄的血汗钱，却被诱拐、诱骗、致残、致死的一些鲜为人知的真相；不加掩盖地暴露了黑心包工头纠党结伙、非法牟取暴利、欺骗压榨农民工的暴戾面目。这里是一个真实的世界，没有夸张，没有矫情，一切的一切都是他们生活的血泪史，看了，你一定会流泪。
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 ...
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...
It begins in Geneva. There American lawyer Joel Converse meets aman he hasn't seen in twenty years, a covert operative who diesviolently at his feet, whispering words that hand Converse astaggering legacy of death: " THE GENERALS...THEY'REBACK...AQUITAINE " Suddenly Converse is running for his life, alonewith the world's most shattering secret. Pursued by anonymousexecutioners to the dark corners of Europe, he is forced to play agame of survival by blood rules he thought he'd long left behind.One by one, he traces each thread of a deadly progression to thehear of every major government-- a network of coordinated globalviolence that no one believes possible. No one but Converse and thewoman he once loved and lost. The only two people on earth who canwrest the world from the iron grasp of Aquitaine.
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.
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...
Alex McAuliff has received an offer he can't refuse: twomillion dollars for a geological survey of Jamaica's dark interior.All Dunstone, Limited, requires is his time, his expertise, and hisabsolute secrecy. No one--not even McAuliff's handpicked team--canknow of Dunstone's involvement. But British Intelligence is aware of the deal and they've letAlex in on a secret of their own: the last survey team Dunstonedispatched to Jamaica vanished without a trace. Now it's too lateto turn back. Alex already knows about Dunstone...which means heknows too much. From the moment he lands in Jamaica, Alex is a marked man. Butwho wants him dead? Dunstone? A rival company? Or BritishIntelligence? Here in anisland paradise where even a beautifulwoman might be a spy, every move could be his last, and his onlyclue to survival is a single mysterious word: Halidon.
'The world has teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. Trisha McFarland discovered this when she was nine years old. Lost in the woods.' Trisha has only veered a little way off the trail. But in her panic to get back to the path, Trisha takes a turning that leads into the tangled undergrowth. Deeper and deeper in the terrifying woods. At first it's just the bugs, midges and mosquitoes. Then comes the hunger. For comfort she tunes her Walkman into broadcasts of the Red Sox baseball games and the performances of her hero Tom Gordon. As darkness begins to fall, Trisha realises that she is not alone. There's something else in the woods - watching. Waiting ...
There is a reason why Stephen King is one of the bestselling writers in the world, ever. Described in the Daily Express as 'a fabulous teller of stories', Stephen King writes books that draw you in and are impossible to put down. Everything is familiar. But everything has changed. Coming back to the little community is like walking into a nightmare for Jim Gardener, poet, drunk, potential suicide. It all looks the same, the house, the furniture, Jim's friend Bobbi, her beagle (though ageing), even the woods out at the back. But it was in the woods that Bobbi stumbled over the odd, part-buried object and felt a peculiar tingle as she brushed the soft earth away. Everything is familiar. But everything is about to change.
"A very funny book... no character is minor: they're allhilarious." --"Houston Chronicle." "In The Road To Gandolfo,"Robert Ludlum introduced us to the outrageous General MacKenzieHawkins and his legal wizard, Sam Devereaux, whose plot to kidnapthe Pope spun wildly out of control into sheer hilarity. NowLudlum's two wayward heroes return with a diabolical scheme toright a very old wrong -- and wreak vengeance on the (expletivedeleted) who drummed the hawk out of the military. Their outragedopposition will be no less than the White House. ByzantineTreachery. Discovering a long-buried 1878 treaty with an obscureIndian tribe, the hawk -- a.k.a. Chief Thunder Head -- hatches abrilliant plot that will ultimately bring him and his reluctantlawyer Sam before the Supreme Court. Their goal: to reclaim achoice piece of American real estate -- the state of Nebraska.Which just happened to the headquarters of the U.S. Strategic AirCommand Will they succeed against the powers that be? Will theWopotami tribe ever hav
A game. A husband and wife game. Gerald's Game. But this time Jesse didn't want to play. Lying there, spreadeagled and handcuffed to the bedstead while he'd loomed and drooled over her, she felt angry and humiliated. So she'd kicked out hard. Aimed to hit him where it hurt. He wasn't meant to die, leaving Jesse alone and helpless in a lakeside holiday cabin. Miles from anywhere. No-one to hear her screams. Alone. Except for the voices in her head that had begun to chatter and argue and sneer ...
Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark. Lisey knew it when she first fell for Scott. And now he's dead, she knows it for sure. Lisey was the light to Scott Landon's dark for twenty-five years. As his wife, only she saw the truth behind the public face of the famous author - that he was a haunted man whose bestselling novels were based on a terrifying reality. Now Scott has gone, Lisey wants to lock herself away with her memories. But the fans have other ideas. And when the sinister threats begin, Lisey realises that, just as Scott depended on her strength - her light - to live, so she will have to draw on his darkness to survive.
In this wickedly funny novel, Robert Ludlum combines theexplosive pacing of The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacywith a bitingly witty send-up of everything from governmentbureaucrats and pandering military men to the mob, the law, andorganized religion. War hero and infamous ladies' man, GeneralMacKenzie Hawkins is a living legend. His life story had even beensold to Hollywood. But now he stands accused of defacing a historicmonument in China's Forbidden City. Under house arrest in Peking,with a case against him pending in Washington, it looks like theend of Mac's illustrious career. But he has a plan of his own--andit includes kidnapping the Pope. What's the ransom? Just oneAmerican dollar--"for every Catholic in the world." Add to the mixa slew of shady "investors," Hawkins's four persuasive,well-endowed ex-wives, and a young lawyer and fellow soldier whowants nothing more than to return to private life--and you've gotone relentlessly irreverent page-turner.
While evidence is gathered, and the land of Delain mourns, Flagg the King's magician, unscrupulous, greedy and powerful, plots. Soon the King's elder son, Peter, is imprisoned in the needle, the top of a high tower, for his father's murder. And Thomas inherits the throne. Only Peter knows the truth of his innocence, and the true evil that is Flagg. Only Peter can save Delain from the horror the magician has in store. He has a plan, but it is rife with danger. And if he fails, he won't get a second chance ...A captivating tale of heroic adventure, of dragons and princes, of mysterious mice and men from the pen of the master storyteller.There is a reason why Stephen King is one of the bestselling writers in the world, ever. Described in the Daily Express as 'a fabulous teller of stories', Stephen King writes books that draw you in and are impossible to put down. The King is dead, murdered by an unusual poison.
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