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
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。 ??
这是陕西作家李晓兵标志性作品,2005年中国以民工为题材的同名电视剧的文学脚本,它讲述了一群游走在现代都市的社会层的城市边缘人——农民工生活的故事。该小说真实地记录了现代都市里一群被忽视的农民工合法追讨微薄的血汗钱,却被诱拐、诱骗、致残、致死的一些鲜为人知的真相;不加掩盖地暴露了黑心包工头纠党结伙、非法牟取暴利、欺骗压榨农民工的暴戾面目。这里是一个真实的世界,没有夸张,没有矫情,一切的一切都是他们生活的血泪史,看了,你一定会流泪。
In the winter of 1913, high in the Canadian Arctic, twoCatholic priests set out on a dangerous mission to reach a group ofEskimos and convert them. Upon reaching their destination, thepriests were murdered. Over the next three years, one of theArctic’s most tragic stories became one of North America’sstrangest and most memorable police investigations and trials. Anear-perfect parable of late colonialism, as well as a richexploration of the differences between European Christianity andEskimo mysticism, Bloody Falls of the Coppermine possesses theintensity of true crime and the romance of wildernessadventure.
The hair-raising suspense of The General's Daughter... the wrywit of The Gold Coast...this is vintage Nelson DeMille at the peakof his originality and the height of his powers...Wounded in theline of duty, NYPD homicide cop John Corey is convalescing in ruraleastern Long Island when an attractive young couple he knows isfound shot to death on the family patio. The victims werebiologists at Plum Island, a research site rumored to be anincubator for germ warfare.Suddenly, a local double murder takes onshattering global implications -- and thrusts Corey and twoextraordinary women into a dangerous search for the secret of PLUMISLAND....
Creating George Stark was easy. Getting rid of him won't be ...The sparrows are flying again. The idea - unbidden, inexplicable - haunts the edge of Thad Beaumont's mind. Thad should be happy. For years now it is his secret persona 'George Stark', author of super-violent pulp thrillers, who has paid the family bills. But now, Thad is writing seriously again under his own name, and his menacing pseudonym has been buried forever. And yet ...the sparrows are flying again, and something is terribly wrong in Thad Beaumont's world.
Michael Havelock's world died on a moonlit beach on the CostaBrava. He watched as his partner and lover, Jenna Karats, doubleagent, was efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There wasnothing left for him but to quit the game, get out. Until, in onefrantic moment on a crowded railroad platform in Rome, Havelock sawhis Jenna alive. From then on, he was marked for death by both U.S.and Russian assassins, racing around the globe after his beautifulbetrayer, trapped in a massive mosaic of treachery created by atop-level mole with the world in his fist-- Parsifal.
Thinner' - the old gypsy man barely whispers the word. Billy feels the touch of a withered hand on his cheek. Billy Halleck, prosperous if overweight citizen, happily married, shuddered then turned angrily away. The old woman's death had been none of his fault. The courts had cleared him. She'd just stumbled in front of his car. Now he simply wanted to forget the whole messy business. Later, when the scales told him he was losing weight, it was what the doctor ordered. His wife was pleased - as she should have been. But . . . 'Thinner' - the word, the old man's curse, has lodged in Billy's mind like a fattening worm, eating at his flesh, at his reason. And with his despair, comes violence.
'Turn off the television - in fact, why don't you turn off all the lights except for the one over your favourite chair? - and we'll talk about vampires here in the dim. I think I can make you believe in them.' Stephen King, from the Introduction. 'Salem's Lot is a small New England town with the usual quota of gossips, drinkers, weirdos and respectable folk. Of course there are tales of strange happenings - but not more than in any other town its size. Ben Mears, a moderately successful writer, returns to the Lot to write a novel based on his early years, and to exorcise the terrors that have haunted him since childhood. The event he witnessed in the house now rented by a new resident. A newcomer with a strange allure. A man who causes Ben some unease as things start to happen: a child disappears, a dog is brutally killed - nothing unusual, except the list starts to grow. Soon surprise will turn to bewilderment, bewilderment to confusion and finally to terror ...
Her weapons: Money and Power. Her target: The most dangerousman in the world--her son. Elizabeht Wyckman Scarlatti has aplan--a desperate, last-minute gamble--designed to save the worldfrom her own son, Ulster, an incalculably dangerous man who isworking under the name of Heinrich Kroeger: Unless she can stophim, he is about to give Hitler's Third Reich the most powerfutriumph on earth.
Perennial bestseller and acknowledged master of thepsychological thriller, Jonathan Kellerman has created his mostriveting and memorable work to date in the Alex Delaware novelabout a troubled and elusive young woman whose brutal murder forcesthe brilliant psychologist-detective to confront his ownfallibility. Lauren Teague is a beautiful, defiant,borderline-delinquent teenager when her parents bring her to AlexDelaware's office. But for all Alex's skill and effort, Laurenresists--angrily, provocatively. Reluctantly, the psychologistchalks Lauren up as one of the inevitable failures of a challengingprofession. But years later, when Alex encounters Lauren as a stagparty's featured entertainment, both doctor and patient are stickenwith shame. And the ultimate horror takes place when, soon after,Lauren's brutalized corpse is found dumped in an alley. Alexdisregards the advice of his trusted friend, LAPD detective MiloSturgis, and jeopardizes his relationship with longtime lover,Robin Castagna, in order to pursu
Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates character andexploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of the Geats, a people ofsouthern Sweden. Narrative combines mythical elements, Christianand pagan sensibilities, actual historical figures and events tocreate a striking work of great power and beauty. Genealogies.
"A Bewitching mystery--first in the new paranormal chick-litmystery series." Antiques-shop clerk Maggie O'Neill was a littleweirded out when she discovered her new boss Felicity was a witch.But when Felicity becomes the suspect in a local murder, Maggiemust enlist Felicity's wiccan friends for help--and discover herown spellbinding talent.
With over eight million copies of her beloved books in print,Sophie Kinsella is a true phenomenon. Now Becky Brandon (neeBloomwood) is back, in a hilarious new" "Shopaholic novel Becky'slife is blooming She's working at London's newest big store, TheLook, house-hunting with husband Luke (her secret wish is a ShoeRoom)...and she's pregnant She couldn't be moreoverjoyed--especially since discovering that shopping cures morningsickness. Everything has got to be perfect for her baby: from thedesigner nursery...to the latest, coolest pram...to the celebrity,must-have obstetrician. But when the celebrity obstetrician turnsout to be Luke's glamorous, intellectual ex-girlfriend, Becky'sperfect world starts to crumble. She's shopping for two...but arethere three in her marriage?
Praise for A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: 'In the grand epic fantasy tradition, Martin is by far the best …tense, surging, insomnia-inflicting' Time Magazine ‘An absorbing, exciting read … Martin’s style is so vivid that youwill be hooked within a few pages’ The Times ‘The sheer mind-boggling scope of this epic has sent other fantasywriters away shaking their heads …Its ambition: to construct theTwelve Caesars of fantasy fiction, with characters so venomous theycould eat the Borgias’ Guardian ‘Colossal, staggering … Martin captures all the intoxicatingcomplexity of the Wars of the Roses or Imperial Rome in hisimaginary world … The writing is always powerful …' SFX
The workplace is changing.From the boardrooms to non-profitorganizations to the military, the typical male management style isnow obsolete.There is a new generation of employees who rejecthierarchical leadership and respond to the behaviors andcharacteristics that women traditionally exhibit.In other words,the time for woment to take charge is now! In SEE JANE LEAD, Dr.Frankel provides a blueprint for women who want to tap theirnatural leadership abilities and manage with greater ease andconfidence in the business world, on the soccer field, at home, andbeyond.With the same sharp insight that she demonstrated in NiceGirls Don't Get Rich and Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office,Dr. Frankel shows women how they can overcome sabotaging childhoodbehaviors that hold them back, while offering practical advice andreal-life examples of strong female leaders who have succeeded--inmale dominated fields--beyond their wildest dreams.