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
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.
First came the days of the plague. Then came the dreams. Dark dreams that warned of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down boot heels tramping the night roads. The warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil. His time is at hand. His empire grows in the west and the Apocalypse looms.
The Chinese vice-premier has been brutally slain by alegendary assassin. World leaders ask the same fearful questions: Why has Jason Bourne come back? Who is paying him? Who is thenext to die? But U.S. officials know the shocking truth: There is no Jason Bourne. The name was created as cover for DavidWebb on his search for the notorious killer Carlos. Someone elsehas taken the Bourne identity--and unless he is stopped, the worldwill pay a devastating price. So Jason Bourne must live again. Onceagain, Webb must utilize his lethal skills--because once again,like a nightmare relived, the woman he loves is suddenly torn fromhis life. To find her, trap his own impostor, and uncover anexplosive secret plan, Webb must lauch a desperate oddyssey intothe espionage killing fields. But this time, survival will not beenough. This time Bourne must reign supreme.
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.
Barrie Mayer, a beautiful Washington literary agent, finds hertrip to Budapest cut short -- when her body turns up dead. But herbest friend, Colette Cahill, a CIA agent, knows that Barrie wascarrying something else in her briefcase, and she suspects theworst. When the Agency instructs her to investigate, Colette couldlose her own life in the high-stakes search.... "Smooth...seductive." ASSOCIATED PRESS
Welcome to Newport Beach, California--a community often foundglittering in the spotlight, but one that isn't always as glamorousas we imagine. Through the lives of waiters and waitresses,divorced and single parents, and alienated teens, VictoriaPatterson's "Drift" offers a rare and rewarding view into the reallife of this nearly mythical place, all the while plumbing thedepths of female friendship and what it means to be an outsider.Fresh, energetic, deceptively powerful and delightfully frank, hersis a voice you won't be able to stop reading.
Back in print after more than tenyears. Torn between the white and Comanche worldsof her parents, Indigo Wolf has grown up estranged from thetownspeople of Wolf's Landing, Orgeon. Bo one understands herelusive spirit-until Jake Rand comes to town to act as foreman ofher family's ranch. But Jake's real motives are as secret as histrue identity, and as personal as his growing attraction toIndigo.
It was as if I had privately discovered life on another planet,or a paralldl universe where life was at once fecognizably similar but entirely different.I can't tell you how exciting it waw.Insofar as I had accumulatde any expectations of Australia at all in the intervening years,I had thought of it as a kind of a lternative southern California,a place of constant sunshine and the cheerful vapidity of a beach lifestyle,but wish a slightly British bent-a sort of Baywatch wish cricket.
A new edition of one of the greatest allegorical stories everwritten A masterpiece of the English Puritan tradition, "ThePilgrimas Progress" is rich in its imaginative power and its vividand heartfelt language. It recounts the story of Christian, whoappears to the author in a dream, and his journey to Heaven throughthe trials and tribulations of life. He meets many like-mindedpilgrims on his way, such as Faithful and Hopeful, but before theyattain their goal they encounter the Giant Despair and the River ofDeath itself. Translated into more than one hundred languages, "ThePilgrimas Progress" continues to have an immeasurable influence onEnglish literature.
Book De*ion About Dean Koontz's Frankenstein Dean Koontz's Frankenstein is the collective title of a series ofnovels co-written by Dean Koontz. Though technically of the mysteryor thriller genres, the novels also feature the trappings ofhorror, fantasy, and science fiction. From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerfulreworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you thinkyou know the story, you know only half the truth. Get ready for themystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of… Dean Koontz's Prodigal Son Every city has secrets. But none as terrible as this. His name isDeucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, asleight-of-reality artist who’s traveled the centuries with asecret worse than death. He arrives as a serial killer stalks thestreets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for thehumanity that is missing in himself. Detective Carson O’Connor iscool, cynical, and every bit as tough as she looks
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.
Misery Chastain was dead. Paul Sheldon had just killed her -- with relief, with joy. Misery had made him rich; she was the heroine of a string of bestsellers. And now he wanted to get on to some real writing. That's when the car accident happened, and he woke up in pain in a strange bed. But it wasn't hospital. Annie Wilkes had pulled him from the wreck, brought him to her remote mountain home, splinted and set his mangled legs. The good news was that Annie was a nurse and had pain-killing drugs. The bad news was that she had long been Paul's Number One Fan. And when she found out what Paul had done to Misery, she didn't like it. She didn't like it at all. And now he had to bring Misery back to life. Or else ...
Did J. Edgar die a natural death?...or was he murdered? InverBrass--a group of high-minded and high-placed intellectuals who seea monstrous threat to the country in Hoover's unethical use of hisscandal-ridden private files. They decide to do away withhim--quietly, efficiently, with no hint of impropriety. Untilbest-selling thriller writer Peter Chancellor stumbles ontoinformation that makes his precious books like harmless fairytales. Now Chancellor and Inver Brass are on a deadly collisioncourse, spiraling across the globe in an ever-widening arc ofviolence and terror. Hurtling toward a showdown that will ripWashington's intelligence community apart--leaving only one damningdocument to survive . . .
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
In her latest thriller, "New York Times" bestselling authorTami Hoag takes readers on a suspense-filled ride of shocks andtwists leading to an explosive finish. It is the story of anex-cop, a missing girl, and a killer locked in a race where therecan be only one winner--and the losers die trying. In a trailer ina Florida swamp, time is running out for eighteen year-old ErinSeabright. A pawn in a kidnapper's terrifying game for a ransom noone can pay, her last hope is a washed-up ex-cop who has alreadylost it all-not once, but twice. The wealthy world of the PalmBeach horse set seems a long way from a cop's world in thenarcotics division. A lifetime ago, undercover sheriff's detectiveElena Estes worked the mean streets and BackTop alleys, living byher wits and playing the long odds until she took one risk toomany. Now Estes lives on the ragged edge of lost hope andself-hatred, hiding from the past and believing she doesn't deserveto have a future. But the past is about to come back with avengeance, and
Stock up on the first three novels in the series -- the livesand loves of three brothers on the windswept shores of theChesapeake Bay...
Following the death of their eldest son, Ellie and TuckerGrant divorce and gradually make the transition into separatelives. But their two sons Zach and Kody are convinced that theirparents are still meant to be together. The brothers hatch a planto run away from home into the Oregon wilderness. Surely Ellie andTucker will come to their rescue--and their senses.
The first part of the publishing phenomenon that has sold more than 3.5 million copies across Europe - now available in paperback. Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history.
