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?
《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。
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。
You'll lose a lot of sleep ...Ralph does. At first he starts waking up earlier. And earlier. Then the hallucinations start - the colours, shapes and strange auras. Not to mention the bald doctors who always turn up at the scene of a death. That's when Ralph begins to lose a lot more than sleep. When he begins to understand why his hitherto mild-mannered friend, Ed, is getting out of control - dangerously so. And why his home town is about to become the new Armageddon ...
There is a reason why Stephen King is one of the bestselling writers in the world, ever. Described in the Daily Express as 'a fabulous teller of stories', Stephen King writes books that draw you in and are impossible to put down. Everything is familiar. But everything has changed. Coming back to the little community is like walking into a nightmare for Jim Gardener, poet, drunk, potential suicide. It all looks the same, the house, the furniture, Jim's friend Bobbi, her beagle (though ageing), even the woods out at the back. But it was in the woods that Bobbi stumbled over the odd, part-buried object and felt a peculiar tingle as she brushed the soft earth away. Everything is familiar. But everything is about to change.
In this wickedly funny novel, Robert Ludlum combines theexplosive pacing of The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacywith a bitingly witty send-up of everything from governmentbureaucrats and pandering military men to the mob, the law, andorganized religion. War hero and infamous ladies' man, GeneralMacKenzie Hawkins is a living legend. His life story had even beensold to Hollywood. But now he stands accused of defacing a historicmonument in China's Forbidden City. Under house arrest in Peking,with a case against him pending in Washington, it looks like theend of Mac's illustrious career. But he has a plan of his own--andit includes kidnapping the Pope. What's the ransom? Just oneAmerican dollar--"for every Catholic in the world." Add to the mixa slew of shady "investors," Hawkins's four persuasive,well-endowed ex-wives, and a young lawyer and fellow soldier whowants nothing more than to return to private life--and you've gotone relentlessly irreverent page-turner.
While evidence is gathered, and the land of Delain mourns, Flagg the King's magician, unscrupulous, greedy and powerful, plots. Soon the King's elder son, Peter, is imprisoned in the needle, the top of a high tower, for his father's murder. And Thomas inherits the throne. Only Peter knows the truth of his innocence, and the true evil that is Flagg. Only Peter can save Delain from the horror the magician has in store. He has a plan, but it is rife with danger. And if he fails, he won't get a second chance ...A captivating tale of heroic adventure, of dragons and princes, of mysterious mice and men from the pen of the master storyteller.There is a reason why Stephen King is one of the bestselling writers in the world, ever. Described in the Daily Express as 'a fabulous teller of stories', Stephen King writes books that draw you in and are impossible to put down. The King is dead, murdered by an unusual poison.
Advance praise for A Strong West Wind “I loved A Strong West Wind. [Caldwell] writes of her adventuresin the sixties and seventies, and the quest for truth inCalifornia, with the authentic voice of the children who once madelife hell for the ‘Greatest Generation’ and in the process turnedout pretty great themselves.” –Russell Baker “Gail Caldwell’s quiet, burnished memoir is a story of a life’saffections—for her Texas parents, for the sere landscape of thepanhandle, and for the road paved with book upon precious book thatruns in both directions: far away and home again.” —Richard Ford “Gail Caldwell's book measures the sweep of one life againstliterature, history, legends of Texas, and the infallible truth ofreal feeling. This is a brave and moving work.” —James Carroll “An elegant memoir. Gail Caldwell performs something likealchemy—taking the base metals of the Texas Panhandle badlands andturning the
“Interested in getting the hell scared out of you? Buy this book on a Friday ... lock all doors and windows. And by Monday, you might just be able to sleep without a night-light.” You remember Hannibal Lecter: gentleman, genius, cannibal.Hes's back and hungrier than ever in a masterpiece of suspense a dazzling feast for the imagination…… 作者简介: A native of Mississippi,Thomas Harris began his writing career covering crime in the United States and Mexico,and was a reporter and editor for the Associated Press in New York City.His first novel,Black Sunday,was published in 1975,followed by Red Dragon in 1981 and The Silence of the Lambs in 1988.
Innocence and beauty ignite with evil and terror as a younggirl exhibits signs of a wild and horrifying force.
Following the instant #1 New York Times bestseller StoneCold, Oliver Stone and the Camel Club return in David Baldacci's mostastonishing thriller yet. DIVINE JUSTICE Known by his alias, "Oliver Stone," John Carr is the most wantedman in America. With two pulls of the trigger, the men whodestroyed Stone's life and kept him in the shadows were finallysilenced. But his freedom comes at a steep price: The assassinations hecarried out prompt the highest levels of the U. S. government tounleash a massive manhunt. Yet behind the scenes, master spyMacklin Hayes is playing a very personal game of cat and mouse. He,more than anyone else, wants John Carr dead. With their friend andunofficial leader in hiding, the members of the Camel Club riskeverything to save him. Now as the hunters close in, Stone's flightfrom the demons of his past will take him from the power corridorsof Washington, D.C., to the coal-mining town of Divine,Virginia-and into a world every bit as bloody and lethal as the onehe
This "New York Times" bestseller tells the harrowing true storyof nine American airmen shot down over the Pacific. One of them,George H.W. Bush, was miraculously rescued. This edition featuresthe same Afterword by the author that appeared in the tradepaperback edition.
Deep in Indian country, Major Mark Devereaux and his men finda grisly scene: a wagon train savagely attacked, with no survivors.One of the wagons originally with the group is missing; in it is afortune in gold and Devereaux's daughter, Mary. The slaughter,Devereaux learns, was not the work of Indians but of a murderousoutlaw band. With the stakes rising in a deadly game, the only wildcard is Lieutenant Tenadore Brian, who is riding with the missingwagon--against orders. Devereaux knows Brian is a good soldier, butis he good enough to protect a saddlebag full of gold . . . and thelife of his daughter?
Known for her amazing talent, the "New York Times" bestsellingauthor of "Only by Your Touch" and "Always in My Heart" delivers anextraordinary new tale of two people who, in the most unexpected ofcircumstances, discover the healing power of love...
An odd, amusing and still provocative fantasy. The narrator is aSquare who lives in a world of two dimensions, and whose vision ofa third gets him into grave trouble with the authorities. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition ofthis title.
Things keep getting brighter for fans... "The New York Times"bestselling author of "Blue Skies" is back with a brand-new lovestory The novels of Catherine Anderson have been praised as "richlyemotional and] deeply satisfying" ("Booklist"). Now, in Anderson'slatest Coulter family story, serious-minded Zeke Coulter's lifebegins to sizzle when he finally meets his match...
WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11.22.63, the date that Kennedy was shot - unless ...King takes his protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, 2011, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phones and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake's life - a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time. With extraordinary imaginative power, King weaves the social, political and popular culture of his baby-boom American generation into a devastating exercise in escalating suspense.
" Over the years I have been proud to write about the men andwomen of the American frontier. But I have written many storieswith entirely different settings which I have long wanted to sharewith my readers. " I have collected some of these in YONDERING.They are glimpses of what my own life was like during the earlyyears. Those were the rough years; often I was hungry, out of workand facing situations such as I have written about. " Althoughthese stories take place in a variety of locales, they are storiesof people living under conditions similar to the way they mighthave lived on the frontier. I hope you'll enjoy YONDERING." --LouisL'Amour