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
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'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 ...
Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and collegeyears oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brinkof fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choiceson a child's behalf-his casual questioning took on an urgency Hisquest for answers ultimately required him to visit factory farms inthe middle of the night, dissect the emotional ingredients of mealsfrom his childhood, and probe some of his most primal instinctsabout right and wrong. Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy,literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, EatingAnimals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eatinghabits-from folklore to pop culture to family traditions andnational myth-and how such tales can lull us into a brutalforgetting. Marked by Foer's profound moral ferocity and unvaryinggenerosity, as well as the vibrant style and creativity that madehis previous books, Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close , widely loved, EatingAnimals is a cel
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 ...
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
Set in early nineteenth-century Paris, Cousin Bette is the sexy yet compassionate story of the exploits of the aristocratic Hulot family and their poor but honorable cousin. Baroness Adeline Hulot's dying wish is that her sister, Bette, take care of her husband, Baron Hector Hulot, and her children. The saintly Adeline is unaware, however, of the resentment that the always disregarded Bette harbors against her, When Baron Huiot rapidly depletes the family fortune on his mistresses and his beautiful daughter marries the penniless young sculptor whom Bette secretly loves, her bitterness becomes unbearable. Bette is determined to receive her just reward, even if she must wrestle fate in order to do it. 作者简介: Honoré de Balzac was born at Tours in 1799,the son of a civil servant.Marion Ayton Crawford taught English Language and Literature in the Technical College at Limavady,North-ern Ireland until she died in 1973.She translated five volumes of Balzac for Penguin Classics:Cousin Bette,Domesti
"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
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?
Assistant DA Hammond Cross has his sights set on the DA'soffice. Prosecuting a high-profile murder case practically ensureshim the job. But a Saturday night encounter with a mysterious womanis the start of a living nightmare.
If you work nonstop without a break...worry about offendingothers and back down too easily...explain too much when asked forinformation....or "poll" your friends and colleagues before makinga decision, chances are you have been bypassed for promotions andignored when you expressed your ideas. Although you may not beaware of it, girlish behaviors such as these are sabotaging yourcareer! Dr. Lois Frankel reveals why some women roar ahead in theircareers while others stagnate. She's spotted a unique set ofbehaviors--101 in all--that women learn in girlhood that sabotagethem as adults. Now, in this groudbreaking guide, she helps youeliminate these unconscious mistakes that could be holding youback--and offers invaluable coaching tips you can easilyincorporate into your social and business skills. If you recognizeand change the behaviors that say "girl" not "woman", the resultswill pay off in carrer opportunites you never thought possible--andin an image that identifies you as someone with the power a
Deep in the Hausruck Mountains of Austria, there is a remotehideaway--the fortress-like nerve center of an ominous movement,the Brotherhood of the Watch. American agent Harry Latham haspenetrated the movement, a neo-Nazi organization that was born inthe days after the Third Reich's defeat and whose deadly tentacleshave spread to the United States and beyond. Now, after three yearsin deep cover, and on the eve of his most spectacular success,Harry Latham has disappeared. Drew Latham, Special Officer forConsular Operations in Paris, is frantic to discover his olderbrother's fate. But when he receives the sudden good news thatHarry has surfaced, gut-twisting doubts arise. Has Harry's coverbeen blown? And if so, why has the Brotherhood of the Watch let himlive? For Harry Latham has emerged with an explosive list: thesecret supporters of the movement, among them some of thehighest-ranking officials in the United States and its allies,names synonymous with honorable service to their nations. It is adocument that c
In the second novel of King's bestselling fantasy masterpiece, Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger, encounters three doors which open to 1980s America. Here he joins forces with the defiant Eddie Dean and courageous, volatile Odetta Holmes. And confronts deadly serial killer Jack Mort. As the titanic forces gather, a savage struggle between underworld evil and otherworldly enemies conspire to bring an end to Roland's quest for the Dark Tower...Masterfully weaving dark fantasy and icy realism, THE DRAWING OF THE THREE compulsively propels readers toward the next chapter. And the Tower is closer...