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。
After the Berlin Wall came down and opened up new changes ineastern Europe, John le Carre's stunning novel, The Secret Pilgrim,takes us behind the scenes into the former Cold War world. Nothing is as it was. Old enemies embrace.The dark staging grounds of the Cold War, whose shadows barelyobscured the endless games of espionage, are flooded with light;the rules are rewritten, the stakes changed, the futureunfathomable. John le Carre has seized this momentous turning pointin history to give us the most disturbing experience we have yethad of the frail and brutal world of spydom. The man called Ned speaks to us. All hisadult life he has been in British Intelligence--the Circus--aloyal, shrewd, wily officer of the Cold War. Now, approaching theend of his career, he revisits his own past. He invites us on atour of his three decades in the Circus, burrowing deep into thetwilight world where he ran spies--'joes'--from Poland, Estonia,Hungary.
"A high-octane thrill ride that kept me on the edge of my seatand up far too late at night!" --Lisa Jackson When a teenage girl dies in a suspicious fire, Detective OliviaSutherland is assigned to track down the arsonist. Then shediscovers something more sinister: a vicious blackmailer who preyson young people and murders without hesitation. Making her workeven harder is sexy firefighter David Hunter. He's not only sharingthe case but sparking memories of their long-ago night of passion,when feelings were left unspoken and hearts were broken. David has his own ghosts, and a million regrets. But while he andOlivia try to face the wall of pain between them, a diabolicalpuppet master is pulling strings to make a group oftwentysomethings do his bidding. Soon Olivia and David are scouringthe city for a calculating criminal who seems tantalizinglyclose--and is moving in for the kill.
Columbus is a small, fading town, untouched by thetwenty-first century. But when three young women are found dead -victims of what appear to be ritual murders - things start to getvery dark, and very dangerous ...Private investigator SavannahLevine can handle 'dark and dangerous'. As the daughter of a blackwitch, she has a lot of power running through her veins, and she'snot afraid to use it. But her arrival in Columbus has not goneunnoticed. Savannah may think she's tracking down a murderer, butcould she be the killer's next target? Of course she could alwaysask her old friend (and half-demon) Adam Vasic for back up. ButSavannah has her own - very personal - reasons for keeping Adamwell away from Columbus. And in any case, she can rely on her ownpowers. Can't she ...?
The pivotal sixth instalment in King's bestselling epic fantasy saga provides the key to the quest that defines Roland's life. In the next part of their journey to the tower, Roland and his band of followers face adversity from every side: Susannah Dean has been taken over by a demon-mother and uses the power of Black Thirteen to get from the Mid-World New York City. But who is the father of her child? And what role will the Crimson King play? Roland sends Jake to break Susannah's date with destiny, while he himself uses 'the persistence of magic' to get to Maine in the Summer of 1977. It is a terrible world: for one thing it is real and bullets are flying. For another, it is inhabited by the author of a novel called 'SALEM'S LOT. SONG OF SUSANNAH is driven by revelation and by suspense. It continues THE DARK TOWER series seamlessly from WOLVES OF THE CALLA and the dramatic climax will leave readers desperate to read the quest's conclusion.
Jane Margaux is a lonely little girl. Her mother, a powerfulBroadway producer, makes time for her only once a week, for theirSunday trip to admire jewelry at Tiffany's. Jane has only onefriend: a handsome, comforting, funny man named Michael. He'sperfect. But only she can see him. Michael can't stay forever,though. On Jane's ninth birthday he leaves, promising her thatshe'll soon forget him. Years later, in her thirties, Jane is justas alone as she was as a child. And despite her own success as aplaywright, she is even more trapped by her overbearing mother.Then she meets someone-a handsome, comforting, funny man. He'sperfect. His name is Michael . . .
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.
Eve Wilson's face was once marred by a vicious assault.Terrified and ashamed, she retreated to the virtual realm where noone could see her. Now, years later, her outer scars faded andinner scars buried, she's fought her way back to the real world,and is determined to help others do the same. Then her testsubjects on the addictive powers of the Internet start turning upas "suicides." Detective Noah Webster is one of the few people who believe thedeaths are connected murders. To find the twisted killer, he mustrely on Eve. Together, they enter an intoxicating world ofalternate identities and secret passions . . . and find themselvestrapped in the fight of their lives.
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
Four men and a woman are reduced to a microscopicfraction of their original size, sent in a miniaturized atomic subthrough a dying man's carotid artery to destroy a blood clot in hisbrain. If they fail, the entire world will be doomed.
The partners at Finley Figg often refer to themselves asa “boutique law firm.” Boutique, as in chic, selective, andprosperous. Oscar Finley and Wally Figg are none of these things.They are a two-bit operation of ambulance chasers who bicker likean old married couple. Until change comes their way—or, moreaccurately, stumbles in. After leaving a fast-track career andgoing on a serious bender, David Zinc is sober, unemployed, anddesperate enough to take a job at Finley Figg. Now the firm is ready to tackle a case that could make thepartners rich—without requiring them to actually practice much law.A class action suit has been brought against Varrick Labs, apharmaceutical giant with annual sales of $25 billion, allegingthat Krayoxx, its most popular drug, causes heart attacks. Wallysmells money. All Finley Figg has to do is find a handful ofKrayoxx users to join the suit. It almost seems too good to be true. . . and it is.
Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller, The AmazingAdventures of Kavalier and Clay, sprang from an early passion forthe derring-do and larger-than-life heroes of classic comic books.Now, once more mining the rich past, Chabon summons the rollickingspirit of legendary adventures-from The Arabian Nights to AlexandreDumas to Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories-in awonderful new novel brimming with breathless action, raucous humor,cliff-hanging suspense, and a cast of colorful characters worthy ofScheherazade's most tantalizing tales. They're an odd pair, to besure: pale, rail-thin, black-clad Zelikman, a moody, itinerantphysician fond of jaunty headgear, and ex-soldier Amram, agray-haired giant of a man as quick with a razor-tongued witticismas he is with a sharpened battle-ax. Brothers under the skin,comrades in arms, they make their rootless way through the CaucasusMountains, circa A.D. 950, living as they please and survivinghowever they can-as blades and thieves for hire and as pra
Pendergast-the world's most enigmatic FBI SpecialAgent-returns to New York City to investigate a murderouscult. William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife NoraKelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutallyattacked in their apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side.Eyewitnesses claim, and the security camera confirms, that theassailant was their strange, sinister neighbor-a man who, by allreports, was already dead and buried weeks earlier. While CaptainLaura Hayward leads the official investigation, Pendergast andLieutenant Vincent D'Agosta undertake their own private-anddecidedly unorthodox-quest for the truth. Their serpentine journeytakes them to an enclave of Manhattan they never imagined couldexist: a secretive, reclusive cult of Obeah and vodou which nooutsiders have ever survived.