《1984动物农场(珍藏版)》中描述的是对极权主义恶性发展的预言人性遭到扼杀,自由遭到剥夺,思想受到钳制,生活极度贫乏、单调。特别可怕的是:人性已堕落到不分是非善恶的程度。一段写于五十年前的绝妙政治寓言让人不寒而栗:如果有一天这一切再重现……从未在任何极权国家生活过的英国人奥威尔,何以有如此天才般的预见和洞察?其实就象丁春秋的逍遥派、东方不败的日月神教,作家们不过是透视了人性中最原始而丑陋的东西。
From a tropical resort where visitors can become temporaryzombies, to a newly-made zombie determined to protect those heloves, to a cheerleader who won't let death kick her off the team,to a zombie seeking revenge for the ancestors who died on anAfrican slave ship-- Zombiesque invites readers to take awalk on the undead side in these tales from a zombie's point ofview.
Book De*ion Let number-one New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts flyyou into Lunacy, Alaska, and into a colorful, compelling new novelabout two lonely souls who find love - and redemtion... Lunacy was Nate Burke's last chance. As a Baltimore cop, he'dwatched his partner die on the street - and the guilt still hauntshim. With nowhere else to go, he accepts the job as chief of policein this tiny, remote Alaskan town, where the peace provides a balmfor his shattered soul - and an unexpected affair with pilot MegGalloway warms his nights... But other things in Lunacy are heating up. Nate suspects thekiller in an unsolved murder still walks the snowy streets. Hisinvestigation will unearth the secrets and suspicions that lurkbeneath the placid surface, as well as bring out the big-citysurvival instincts that made him a cop in the first place. And hisdiscovery will threaten the new life - and the new love - that hehas finally found for herself. "Roberts is among the best popul
Colonel Utah Blaine, held captive by the Army of theRevolution, broke out of jail and headed north from Mexico withnothing but the clothes on his back. Then he found new troublestruggling at the end of a noose-and stepped in just in time tosave the life of a Texas rancher. The would-be executioners werethe rancher's own men, looking to steal his land. Now Utah has aunique proposition: Have the wealthy Texan play dead, introducehimself as the spread's new foreman, and take care of the outlawsone by one. The wage to fight another man's war? A hundred a monthplus expenses. The cost of falling in love while he earns thatwage? It wasn't exactly part of the original agreement, but Utahwill soon find out-unless the bad guys get to him first.
Everyone's favorite supernatural detective steps in to thwartunchivalrous deeds at a Renaissance fair With Penguin's Fall 2009publication of "Introducing Aunt Dimity, Paranormal Detective"certain to attract new readers to the popular cozy series, "AuntDimity Slays the Dragon" is poised as the perfectly irresistiblegem that will leave them eager for more. After living in the smallEnglish village of Finch for eight years, Lori Shepherd longs forsome excitement to spice up her all-too-familiar routine. So when aRenaissance festival complete with wizards, wenches, knights, andjesters sets up in town for the summer, Lori gets her wish-andmore. She soon discovers a sinister stalker, a jealous saboteur,and an evil assassin behind the scenes of King Wilfred's Faire, andit's up to Lori-with Aunt Dimity's otherworldly guidance-to preventthe medieval revelry from ending in modern-day tragedy.
Skeeve must deal with myth guided desires, fairy godfathers,and an offer he can't refuse in two of Robert Asprin's mostdelightful myth adventures.
In this bestselling tale of deceit, murder, and romance,Kelsey Byden is shocked when she hears from her supposedly deadmother-and discovers she's really been in prison for murder.
When sexy Nightkeeper Dez goes rogue, the bounty hunterenlisted to catch him is Reese, his former lover. The sexual energybetween them is hotter than ever-but the life-and-death stakesattached to the chase may pull them apart for good.
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个
Revolution is in the air. The king's court sorcerer is beingeyed with suspicion. Not for dabbling in the black arts...not forconsorting with a demon...not for having a dragon as a pet...noteven for being mobbed up. But for the greatest crime of all:raising taxes. Who is this terrible tyrant? None other than Skeevethe Great. Oh, how the mighty have fallen...
Lawman, manhunter, peacemaker--it takes a hard breed of man tosurvive as a Texas Ranger, but Chick Bowdrie stands head andshoulder above the rest. The rough trails are his home, from theBig Thicket to the Pecos to the border. He's dried by the desertsun and wind, scarred and toughened by uncounted gun battles, andwhen you look into his black eyes it's like looking down thebarrels of two .44s with their hammers drawn back. He rides in thename of justice, but he lives by his own law--Bowdrie's Law. And ifyou're thinking about walking on the wrong side of Bowdrie Law,you'd better start running. Fast.
Drafted into working for the Order of Merciful Aid, mercenaryKate Daniels has more paranormal problems than she knows what to dowith. And in Atlanta, where magic comes and goes like the tide,thatas saying a lot. But when Kateas werewolf friend Derek isdiscovered nearly dead, she must confront her greatest challengeyet.
When telepathic cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse sees anaked man on the side of the road, she doesn't just drive on by.Turns out the poor thing hasn't a clue who-or what-he is, butSookie knows. It's the vampire Eric Northman-but now he's a kinder,gentler Eric. And a very frightened Eric, because it soon becomesobvious that whoever took his memory now wants his life.
In this new edition of his first young adult novel, Gary Sotopaints a moving portrait of seventeen-year-old Jesse, who has lefthis parents' home to live with his older brother. These MexicanAmerican brothers hope junior college will help them escape theirheritage of tedious physical labor. Their struggles are humorous,true to life, and deeply affecting. Young adults will sympathizewith the brothers as they come to terms with what is possible foreach of them in an imperfect world."Includes a reader's guide."
He was a tough enforcer for a New York gang. But when youngTom Shanaghy made one too many enemies, he skipped town on afast-moving freight. He landed in a small Kansas town that had bigdreams, no name, and the need for an honest lawman. Tom figuredthat a knuckle-and-skull man from Five Points would be perfect forthe job. He didn't know that a high-stakes cattle drive was headedhis way and that leading it was a vindictive rancher bent onsettling an old score, even if he had to destroy the town to do it.Tom had himself stuck in the middle of the feud before sunset onhis first day in town. All he could do was hope that his years onthe Bowery had left him with the smarts he needed to keep himselfalive.
WThen an infected bolt of cloth carries plagae from London toan isolated mountain viilage, a housemaid named Anna' Frith emergesas an unlikely heroine and healer. ThroUgh Anna s eyes we followthe story" of the plague vear, I666, as her fellow viliagers makean extraordinan choice: convinced by a visionary young, ministerthey elect to quarantine themselves within the village boundariesto arrest the spread of the disease. But as death reaches intoevery household.faith flays. When villagers turn from prayers tomurderous witch-hunting, Anna must confront the deaths of family,,the disintegration of her community, and the lure of illicit love.As she struggles to survive, a year of plague becomes instead arumsmirabilis, a year of wonders."
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Margo Sullivan had everything she could ask for. The daughterof the Templetons' stern housekeeper, she was treated like a memberof the family. But money could not buy the thing she cravedmost-her mother's acceptance...
Book De*ion A secret Arctic experiment turns into a frozen nightmare when ateam of scientists, stranded on a drifting iceberg with a massiveexplosive charge, battle the elements for survival, only todiscover that one of them is a murderer.
Swept from the World War II Pacific into an alternate world,Lietenant Commander Matthew Patrick Reddy and the crew of the USS"Walker" have allied with the peaceful Lemurians in their struggleagainst the warlike, reptilian Grik. But the greatest threat is yetto come. For the massive Japanese battleship that "Walker" wasfleeing back in the Pacific also came through the rift, and it's inthe hands of the Grik.
In this sexy series based around the Mayan doomsday prophecy,a group of magic- wielding warrior heroes called the Nightkeepersare ready to fight the demon creatures of the underworld to preventannihilation... When prominent Mayanist Ambrose Ledbetter goesmissing, his daughter Sasha tracks his remains down to an ancienttemple. Before she can recover from the shock, she is kidnapped.Slick and charming recruit Michael Stone rescues Sasha from herimprisonment and feels an instant attraction. But he doesn't dareget involved, with the threat of his dark side growing stronger andthe powers of sorcery on the rise. Both Michael and Sasha willdiscover a new passion together and one they have to admit to inorder to change their worlds...
Tell Sackett had been lured into the Apache's mountainstronghold by the icy beauty of his brother's wife. Hedidn't go alone. John J. Battles, Spanish Murphy and thehalf-breed Tampico rode beside him. Each was driven byhis past to test his speed and cunning against an enemy who couldsmell a white man a mile away-and then shoot his eyes out at a deadgallop. It was a contest few men could enter-and fewerstill could hope to win.
In an effort to remove a family curse and humor her grandfather,MacKenzie Sinclair heads for the Guatamalan jungle to return anancient amulet that her great-great grandfather, PeregrineSinclair, had taken from the Mayan ruins of Tikal during one of hisexpeditions. She ends up being catapulted back in time and into thelife of Liam O'Shea, Peregrine's partner and a man who neverreturned from the original expedition. Effective characterizationpropels the occasionally complex story (there is a smallwhite-slavery subplot) from the steamy Central American jungles tothe restrictive, glittering 1884 San Francisco social scene withall the grace and sensuality readers have come to expect fromKrinard. Krinard has written a number of alternative realityromances and is especially known for her sensual, mysticaldepiction of werewolves (Prince of Shadows, Bantam, 1996). Shelives in Concord, California. Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.