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？
Spirited, beautiful young American Isabel Archer journeys toEurope to, in modern terms, "find herself." But what she findsthere may prove to be her undoing, especially when an infinitelysophisticated lady plots against her.
Once upon a time people described Ray Bradbury as aparticularly gifted writer of science fiction. Today he seems morelike a magical realist, a small-town American cousin to Borges andGarcia Marquez. A writer whose vision of the world is so intensethat the objects in it sometimes levitate or glow with otherworldlyauras. Who but Bradbury could imagine the playroom in whichchildren's fantasies become real enough to kill? The beautifulwhite suit that turns six down-and-out Chicanos into their idealselves? Only Bradbury could make us identify with a man who livesin terror of his own skeleton. And if a generic science fictionwriter might describe a spaceship landing on Mars, only Bradburycan tell us how the Martians see it-and the and dreamlike visitorsfrom Planet Earth.
He gave up the money. He gave up the power. Now all he hasleft is the law. Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushingrelentlessly to the top of Drake Sweeney, a giant D.C. lawfirm. One step away from partnership, Michael has it all. Then, inan instant, it all comes undone. A homeless man takes nine lawyers hostage in the firm's plushoffices. When it is all over, the man's blood is splattered onMichael's face--and suddenly Michael is willing to do theunthinkable. Rediscovering a conscience he lost long ago, Michaelis leaving the big time for the streets where his attacker oncelived--and where society's powerless need an advocate forjustice. But there's one break Michael can't make: from a secret that hasfloated up from the depths of Drake Sweeney, from aconfidential file that is now in Michael's hands, and from aconspiracy that has already taken lives. Now Michael's formerpartners are about to become his bitter enemies. Because to them,Michael Brock is the most d
Nora Roberts continues the romantic saga: the story of threewomen who shared a home and a childhood -- but grew to fulfilltheir own unique destinies.
**DEBUT FICTION** Mary Todd Lincoln is one of history's mostmisunderstood and enigmatic women. The first president's wife to becalled First Lady, she was a political strategist, a supporter ofemancipation, and a mother who survived the loss of three childrenand the assassination of her beloved husband. Yet she also ran herfamily into debt, held seances in the White House, and wascommitted to an insane asylum. In Janis Cooke Newman's debut novel,Mary Todd Lincoln shares the story of her life in her own words.Writing from Bellevue Place asylum, she takes readers from hertempestuous childhood in a slaveholding Southern family through theyears after her husband's death. A dramatic tale filled withpassion and depression, poverty and ridicule, infidelity andredemption, Mary allows us entry into the inner, intimate world ofthis brave and fascinating woman.
★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
Two of Conrad’s BEST-KNOWN works—in a single volume In this pair of literary voyages into the inner self, Joseph Conrad has written two of the most chilling, disturbing, and noteworthy pieces of fiction of the twentieth century.
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.
Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to aparallel universe called The Territories to save his mother and herTerritories "twinner" from a premature and agonizing death thatwould have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is aretired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearlynonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, WI. He has no recollection of hisadventures in the Territories and was compelled to leave the policeforce when an odd, happenstance event threatened to awaken thosememories. When a series of gruesome murders occur in westernWisconsin that are reminiscent of those committed several decadesearlier by a real-life madman named Albert Fish, the killer isdubbed "The Fisherman" and Jack's buddy, the local chief of police,begs Jack to help his inexperienced force find him. But is thismerely the work of a disturbed individual, or has a mysterious andmalignant force been unleashed in this quiet town? What causesJack's inexplicable waking dreams, if that is what they are, ofrobins' eggs
An odd, amusing and still provocative fantasy. The narrator is aSquare who lives in a world of two dimensions, and whose vision ofa third gets him into grave trouble with the authorities. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition ofthis title.
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.
"LITERATE AND SAVVY . . . BRIMS WITH WARTIME INTRIGUE."--TheWashington Post Book WorldEngland 1943. Much of the infamous NaziEnigma code has been cracked. But Shark, the impenetrableoperational cipher used by Nazi U-boats, has masked the Germans'movements, allowing them to destroy a record number of Alliedvessels. Feeling that the blood of Allied sailors is on theirhands, a top-secret team of British cryptographers works feverishlyaround the clock to break Shark. And when brilliant mathematicianTom Jericho succeeds, it is the stuff of legend. . . ."A TENSE ANDTHOUGHTFUL THRILLER."--San Francisco ChronicleUntil the unthinkablehappens: the Germans have somehow learned that Shark has beencracked. And they've changed the code. . . ."SUSPENSEFUL ANDFASCINATING."--The Orlando SentinelAs an Allied convoy crosses theU-boat infested North Atlantic . . . as Jericho's ex-lover Clairedisappears amid accusations that she is a Nazi collaborator . . .as Jericho strains his last resources to break Shark again, hecannot esca
Four friends come together in a hot contemporary erotic novelfrom the author of Chain Reaction. Meet the friends: Free spirited Jamie is not one to be tieddown—unless it’s in the bedroom. Caleb is Jamie’s sexuallyadventurous lover who has no desire to domesticate her. Mia isJamie’s naive friend whose sexual fulfillment has depended solelyon her first and only lover. Aidan thinks he knows what Mia wants.That’s because he’s the only man she’s ever gone to, to getit. This weekend, four best friends at the crossroads of theirrelationships have decided to do something different. But as sexualpartners shift, Jamie, Caleb, Mia, and Aidan will discover moreabout themselves and each other than they ever imagined.
Published in 1934, Tender Is the Night was one of the mosttalked-about books of the year. "It's amazing how excellent much ofit is," Ernest Hemingway said to Maxwell Perkins. "I will say now,"John O'Hara wrote Fitzgerald, "Tender Is the Night is in the earlystages of being my favorite book, even more than This Side ofParadise." And Archibald MacLeish exclaimed: "Great God,Scott...You are a fine writer. Believe it -- not me." Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Nightis the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and thestylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant youngpsychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband anddoctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not hisown, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise.A profound study of the romantic concept of character -- lyrical,expansive, and hauntingly evocative -- Tender Is the Night, MabelDodge Luhan remarked, raised F. Scott Fitzgerald to the heights of"a mode
"FURIOUS IN ACTION...TAKES US BY THE NECK ON PAGE ONE ANDNEVER LETS GO."--Chicago Sun-TimesWith the Cold War fought and won,British spymaster Tim Cranmer accepts early retirement to ruralEngland and a new life with his alluring young mistress Emma. Butwhen both Emma and Cranmer's star double agent and lifelong rival,Larry Pettifer, disappear, Cranmer is suddenly on the run,searching for his brilliant protege, desperately eluding his formercolleagues, in a frantic journey across Europe and into thelawless, battered landscapes of Moscow and southern Russia, to savewhatever of his life he has left...."IRRESISTIBLE...A sinuous plot,leisurely introduced, whose coils become increasingly constricting.There is crisp, intelligent dialogue, much of it riding anundercurrent of menace. And there is a hero who does not seehimself as heroic but who struggles with inner demons as much aswith the forces arrayed against him."--Time"AS THRILLING AS LECARRE GETS...The novel has the heartstop duplicity of A Perfect Spyand
