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
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?
年轻貌美、气性高傲的芭思希芭·埃弗汀来到威瑟伯里,继承她叔叔的农场。农场主波德伍德以及年轻英俊的中士特洛伊先后爱上了她,错综复杂的爱情纠葛导致了一出发生在远离尘嚣之地的悲剧。 ??
年轻貌美、气性高傲的芭思希芭·埃弗汀来到威瑟伯里,继承她叔叔的农场。农场主波德伍德以及年轻英俊的中士特洛伊先后爱上了她,错综复杂的爱情纠葛导致了一出发生在远离尘嚣之地的悲剧。 ??
A serial killer is turning New Orleans into his personal playground. The victims are killed in pairs - no connection, no apparent motive, no real clues. It's a very sick game, and it's only just begun. Abby Chastain left New Orleans long ago and for good reason. Now she's back where she feels watched, as if the devil himself is scraping a fingernail along her spine. It doesn't help that Detective Reuben Montoya is convinced she's somehow the key to unlocking the murders - a mystery that has something to do with Our Lady of Virtues Mental Hospital, a decaying old asylum where unspeakable crimes were once committed and a human predator may still wait. As more bodies are found in gruesome, staged scenarios, Montoya and Abby are in a desperate race to stop a killer whose terrifying crimes are bringing them ever nearer to a shocking revelation. For the past is never completely gone. Its sins must be avenged ...
Hired by a Massachusetts grand dame to prove the innocence of her grandson, who has been implicated in a school shooting during which seven people were killed, Spenser wonders why the boy seems unconcerned about his possible wrongful imprisonment and faces difficult obstacles in the wake of unhelpful school officials and a blackmail conspiracy.
Justine is a renowned photojournalist with an interest in architecture. Adam fled his English country mansion after an argument led to the death of his brother. Adam now lives in the desolate wasteland that is Namibia's coast, while Justine has retreated to brooding Paradine Park--which just happens to be Adam's ancestral home--after the devastating loss of her beloved elder brother in a fire. The resulting hauntingly elegant tale of a doomed love between two lost souls is rife with Eastern mysticism and concepts of destiny, reincarnation, and redemption. But readers of traditional romance, be warned: Mostert's novel of suspense features palpably evil characters who wantonly destroy baby animals, and there is no blissful union at the tale's conclusion--although happiness together in another life is clearly indicated. Lynne Welch
In the recent war in Iraq, the 7th Armored Brigade—bearers of the Desert Rats insignia—was engaged in some of the fiercest early fighting and ultimately took Basra for the Allies. The war in Iraq revived public focus on the Desert Rats, whose famous battles of World War II helped turn the tide of German dominance. After World War II the Desert Rats reemerged as part of the NATO forces during the Cold War years, and participated in major deployments in the 1991 Gulf War, Bosnia, and Kosovo. This gripping history draws heavily upon the drama of first-hand accounts to tell the story of a seminal brigade in military history.
In this literary tour de force, novelist Arthur Golden enters a remote and shimmeringly exotic world. For the protagonist of this peerlessly observant first novel is Sayuri, one of Japan's most celebrated geisha, a woman who is both performer and courtesan, slave and goddess. We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village, where in 1929, she is sold to a representative of a geisha house, who is drawn by the child's unusual blue-grey eyes. From there she is taken to Gion, the pleasure district of Kyoto. She is nine years old. In the years that follow, as she works to pay back the price of her purchase, Sayuri will be schooled in music and dance, learn to apply the geisha's elaborate makeup, wear elaborate kimono, and care for a coiffure so fragile that it requires a special pillow. She will also acquire a magnanimous tutor and a venomous rival. Surviving the intrigues of her trade and the upheavals of war, the resourceful Sayuri is a romantic heroine on the order of Jane Eyre and
Jane Smith is charming, sexy, successful, and intelligent, a rare combination of domestic goddess and savvy business woman. John Smith is wealthy, daring, athletic, and smart,a guy who drinks his scotch the way he's climbed to the top of the construction business: straight up. Together they seem to be the ideal couple, though lately the spark has gone out of their marriage-until they win free sessions with a counselor. What they keep hidden from their therapist and each other, they confide in the journals they've been coaxed to keep.
In four cities across the world, four people die violently and mysteriously. The dead share a single crucial link: each was connected to an all-powerful environmental think tank. Two of the victims' widows-accomplished artist Diane Stevens and international supermodel Kelly Harris-may hold the key to their husbands' demise. Terrified for their lives, suspicious of each other, and armed only with their own wits and guile, they must join forces in a nightmare cycle of hunt-and-kill. At stake is the shattering truth about the tragedies that robbed them of the men they loved...and about an awesome conspiracy whose ultimate target is as big as the earth and as close as the air we breathe.
Robb's style is so edgy and raw that at times it's hard to believe that she is also best-selling romancer Nora Roberts. Shortly after wealthy older men with no known enemies start being poisoned, detective Eve Dallas determines that Julianna Dunne, a wily ex-con, is the perpetrator. The beautiful but chameleonlike murderess is using the killings to get to Eve, who had put her behind bars nearly a decade earlier. Eve's pursuit takes her back to her own traumatic roots, thus providing fans of the series with a more detailed de*ion of her horrendous childhood. In addition, Eve mentors her protege, Peabody, with gritty advice: "And when you step down there, you remember you're one bad bitch cop, and you drink blood for breakfast." Fourteenth in the futuristic romantic suspense series, this novel takes place as the lusty marriage of Eve and her husband, the fabulously wealthy Rourke, approaches the one-year mark. Diana Tixier Herald Copyright American Library Association. All rights reserved
When Atlantic Monthly Press relaunched her Commissario GuidoBrunetti series. Donna Leon was hailed as "the best mystery writeryou've never heard of...She uses the relatively small andcrime-free canvas of Venice for riffs about Italian life, sexualstyles and--best of all--the kind of ingrown business and politicalcorruption that seems to lurk just below the surface" ("ChicagoTribune). Now "Blood from a Stone brings her celebrated characterCommissario Guido Brunetti back on the scene: On a cold Venetiannight shortly before Christmas, a street vendor is killed in ascuffle in Campo San Stefano. The closest witnesses to the eventare the tourists who had been browsing the man's wares before hisdeath--fake handbags of every designer label. The dead man had beenworking as a "vu cumpra, one of the many African immigrantspurveying goods outside normal shop hours, trading without workpermits. Commissario Brunetti's response is that of everybodyinvolved: Why would anyone kill an illegal immigrant? With fewsocial c
'Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live and go to school and play and sleep - sometimes with each other. We're smart, we've inherited classic good looks, and we know how to party. It's a luxe life, but someone's got to live it.' "The Gossip Girl" series is the ultimate in glamour and cool - set in New York's glamorous Upper East Side the narrative follows the thrills and spills (with Jimmy Choo shoes and shopping at Barneys mixed in along the way) of its richest and most beautiful teenage residents.
Au détour de ces fables, vous croiserez certainement le loupavide, le renard rusé, le héron dédaigneux, le lièvre présomptueuxou le rat ingénu... Ne tentez pas de les tromper, ou la pareillevous attend ! Méfiez-vous des apparences et ne les jugez pas sur lamine : en leur ?tant plumages et ramages, ce sont des hommes quevous découvrirez... Car le fabuliste se sert des animaux pourinstruire ses semblables et peindre leurs défauts. De vers en vers,laissez-vous surprendre par tant de fantaisie. Organisée en sixgroupements thématiques, l'édition, richement illustrée, met enperspective les plus célèbres fables de La Fontaine. Le dossierinvite à parcourir les textes en étudiant moralités etversification. Il signale l'héritage antique des Fables (?sope,Phèdre) et souligne la modernité d'une ?uvre sans cesse réécrite(Robert Desnos, Raymond Queneau, Jacques Roubaud, Gudule).