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."
There was a new shop in town. Run by a stranger. Needful Things, the sign said. The oddest name. A name that caused some gossip and speculation among the good folks of Castle Rock, Maine, while they waited for opening day. Eleven-year-old Brian Rusk was the first customer and he got just what he wanted, a very rare 1956 Sandy Koufax baseball card. Signed. Cyndi Rose Martin was next. A Lalique vase. A perfect match for her living room decor. Something for everyone. Something you really had to have. And always at a price you could just about afford. The cash price that is. Because there was another price. There always is when your heart's most secret, true desire is for sale ...
Come close, children, and see the living crocodile. A vintage '54 Buick Roadmaster. At least, that's what it looks like ...There is a secret hidden in Shed B in the state police barracks in Statler, Pennsylvania. A secret that has drawn troopers for twenty years - terrified yet irresistibly tempted to look at its chrome fenders, silver grille and exotic exhaust system. Young Ned Wilcox has started coming by the barracks: mowing the lawn, washing the windows, shovelling snow; it's a boy's way of holding on to his father - recently killed in a strange road accident by another Buick. And one day Ned peers through the windows of Shed B and discovers the family secret. Like his father, Ned wants answers. He deserves answers. And the secret begins to stir ...
1996 wurde das Teatro La Fenice in Venedig vom Feuer zerst?rt.Ausgehend von dieser Trag?die gestaltet der Autor einbeeindruckendes historisches Portr?t einer einzigartig sch?nenStadt und seiner Bewohner und prominenten G?ste.
In The Sackett Brand, Louis L'Amour spins the story of acourageous man who must face overwhelming odds to track down akiller. Tell Sackett and his bride Ange came to Arizona to build ahome and start a family. But on Black Mesa something goes terriblywrong. Tell is ambushed and badly injured. When he finally managesto drag himself back to where he left Ange, she is gone. Desperate,cold, hungry, and with nothing to defend himself, Tell is stalkedlike a wounded animal. Hiding from his attackers, his rage andfrustration mount as he tries to figure out who the men are, whythey are trying to kill him, and what has happened to his wife.Discovering the truth will be risky. And when he finally does, itwill be their turn to run.
“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.
Tommy Phan is a successful detective novelist living theAmerican Dream in southern California. One evening he comes home tofind a small rag doll on his doorstep. It's a simple doll, coveredentirely in white cloth, with crossed black stitches for the eyesand mouth, and another pair forming an X over the heart. Curious,he brings it inside. That night Tommy hears an odd popping soundand looks up to see the stitches breaking over the doll's heart.And in minutes the fabric of Tommy Phan's reality will be tornapart. Something terrifying emerges from the pristine white cloth,something that will follow Tommy wherever he goes. Something thathe can't destroy. It wants Tommy's life, and he doesn't know why.He has only one ally, a beautiful, strangely intuitive waitress hemeets by chance--or by a design far beyond his comprehension. Hehas too many questions, no answers, and very little time. Becausethe vicious and demonically clever doll has left this warning onTommy's computer screen: "The deadline is dawn."Tickt
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
When Edgar Freemantle moves to the remote island of Duma Key to escape his past, he doesn't expect to find much there. But Duma has been waiting for him, and something in the view from his window urges him to discover a talent he never knew he had. Edgar Freemantle begins to paint. And as he paints, the island's secrets begin to stir. Secrets of children lost in the undertow, of a ghost ship riding the distant horizon - and a family's buried past reaching long hands into the present.
With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail fromEngland to find employment in a girls’ boarding school in the smalltown of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possessionin the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster,and her own complex feelings, first for the school’s English doctorand then for the dictatorial professor, Paul Emmanuel. CharlotteBront?’s last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfullymoving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love, narratedby a heroine determined to preserve an independent spirit in theface of adverse circumstances.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag comes aclassic novel of mismatched lovers who give a whole new meaning tothe phrase “Fake it till you make it.” Sensible corporate lawyer Alaina Montgomery has been frustratingher matchmaking friends for years. But this time they’ve reallytried to set her up with the wrong guy: Dylan Harrison, afree-spirited single dad who runs a ramshackle bar and bait shop.Appropriately enough, she meets him on the way to ascience-fiction-themed masquerade party. When cops mistake the costumed pair for a lady of the eveningand her client, Alaina and Dylan end up in jail together. And soonthey hatch a plan to foil the matchmakers once and for all bypretending to be a couple. What begins as a good-natured rusequickly blossoms into a real romance, as these two polar oppositesdiscover that desire can’t be so easily disguised.
To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part. A good place to live. It was the children who saw - and felt - what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes IT reached up, seizing, tearing, killing ...The adults, knowing better, knew nothing. Time passed and the children grew up, moved away. The horror of IT was deep-buried, wrapped in forgetfulness. Until they were called back, once more to confront IT as IT stirred and coiled in the sullen depths of their memories, reaching up again to make their past nightmares a terrible present reality.
One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore themysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman wastransformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space,frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. Butnow Poole has returned to life, awakening in a world far differentfrom the one he left behind--and just as the Monolith may bestirring once again . . .
Julie Barenson's young husband left her two unexpected giftsbefore he died-a Great Dane puppy named Singer and the promise thathe would always be watching over her. Now, four years have passed.Still living in the small town of Swansboro, North Carolina,twenty-nine-year-old Julie is emotionally ready to make acommitment to someone again. But who? Should it be RichardFranklin, the handsome, sophisticated engineer who treats her likea queen? Or Mike Harris, the down-to-earth nice guy who was herhusband's best friend? Choosing one of them should bring her morehappiness than she's had in years. Instead, Julie is soon fightingfor her life in a nightmare spawned by a chilling deception andjealousy so poisonous that it has become a murderous desire...
★Mandy Pajeck had a tough childhood. Now 28,she feelsresponsible for the accident that took her younger brother's sight.But his complete reliance on her care is making them bothmiserable.When she meets handsome Zach Harrigan and his mini guidehorse,she thinks she's found the ticket to her brother'shappiness-and maybe her own
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.
" Roberts] is at her best here" ("Publishers Weekly," starredreview) in the first book in her enchanting trilogy set in Ardmore,Ireland.
The phenomenal #1 bestseller is now a major motion picture:"Startling and addictive. . . . An epic story of love, family, andloyalty." - USA Today Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. Our world has been invaded by an unseen enemy that takes over theminds of human hosts while leaving their bodies intact. ButWanderer, the invading "soul" who occupies Melanie's body, findsits former tenant refusing to relinquish possession of hermind. As Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of Jared, ahuman who lives in hiding, Wanderer begins to yearn for a man she'snever met. Soon Wanderer and Melanie-reluctant allies-set off tosearch for the man they both love. Featuring one of the most unusual love triangles in literature, THE HOST is a riveting and unforgettable novel about thepersistence of love and the essence of what it means to behuman. THE HOST movie opens in theaters on March 29, 2013.
On its mysterious voyage through interstellar space, a massivealien starship carries its human passengers to the end of agenerations-long odyssey. But the great experiment designed by theRamans has failed, and Rama III has become a battleground. Fleeinga tyrant, a band of humans ventures into the nether regions of theship, where they encounter an emerald-doomed lair ruled by thefabulously advanced octospiders. As the octospiders lure the humansdeeper into their domain, the humans must decide whether thecreatures are their allies of enemies. All the while, Rama IIIcontinues its inexplorable journey towards the node, where theclimax of their voyage awaits the stunning revelation of the trueidentity of the beings behind this glittering trek across thecosmos.
"Good riddance", is the response of every Pecan Springsresident to the murder of local real estate shark Edgar Coleman. itdoesn't take long for China to learn that Coleman was havingnumerous affairs -- and was blackmailing City Council members fortheir votes on a bad land development deal. With her fianceimmersed in the murder investigation -- and the suspect listgrowing longer by the minute -- China can forget about a honeymoon,unless she can find the killer...
Lieutenant Commanders Matthew Reddy of USS Walker has found anunlikely ally in Commodore Jenks of the New Britain Imperial Navy.Now they are searching for a traitor who abducted nurse SandraTicker and young Princess Rebecca of the New British Empire. It issoon obvious that the New Britain Company is attempting tooverthrow the throne. And Reddy must navigate through a tempest ofpolitics, deception, and betrayal if he is ever going to save thehostages and live to fight another day...
