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？
Paul Theroux, the author of the train travel classics "TheGreat Railway Bazaar" and "The Old Patagonian Express", takes tothe rails once again in this account of his epic journey throughChina. He hops aboard as part of a tour group in London and setsout for China's border. He then spends a year traversing thecountry, where he pieces together a fascinating snapshot of aunique moment in history. From the barren deserts of Xinjiang tothe ice forests of Manchuria, from the dense metropolises ofShanghai, Beijing, and Canton to the dry hills of Tibet, Therouxoffers an unforgettable portrait of a magnificent land and anextraordinary people.
She's on the glinting edge of East-West confrontation, a beautiful and accomplished scholar who has suddenly become our newest ambassador to an Iron Curtain country, a woman who is about to dramatically change the course of world events -- if she lives. For Mary Ashley has been marked for death by the world's most proficient and mysterious assassin, and plunged into a nightmare of espionage, kidnapping, and terror. Here, only two people -- both powerfully attractive and ultimately enigmatic men -- can offer her help. And one of them wants to kill her.
Lawyer Atticus Finch defends the real mockingbird of HarperLee's classic, Puliter Prize-winning novel--a black man chargedwith the rape of a white woman. Through the eyes of Atticus'schildren, Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humorand unanswering honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes towardrace and class in the Deep South of the 1930's.
The #1 New York Times bestseller is available with a striking movie tie-in cover. Readers captivated by Twilight and New Moon will eagerly devour the paperback edition Eclipse, the third book in Stephenie Meyer's riveting vampire love saga. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob --- knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more decision to make: life or death. But which is which?
IN THE CORRIDORS OF CHICAGO'S TOP LAW FIRM: A young lawyer stands on the brink of a brilliant career. Now twenty-six-year-old Adam Hall is risking it all for a death-row killer and an impossible case. MAXIMUM SECURITY UNIT, MISSISSIPPI STATE PRISON: Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman and unrepentant racist facing the death penalty for a fatal bombing in 1967. Cayhall has run out of chances-except for one: a young, liberal Chicago lawyer who just happens to be his grandson. While the executioners prepare the gas chamber, while the protesters gather and the TV cameras wait, Adam has only days, hours, minutes to save his client. For between the two men is a chasm of shame, family lies, and secrets—including the one secret that could save Sam Cayhall's life...or cost Adam his.
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. Black maids raise the white children, but no one trusts them not to steal the silver. Black maids clean the toilets, but they have their own at the back of the house. There are lines, and no one crosses them. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home from college: she may have a degree, but her mother won't be happy until Skeeter has a ring on her finger. She would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared. Aibileen is a black maid, a smart woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her since the death of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. Aibileen's best friend is Minny, short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue. Seemingly as different as can be, these women will come together for a clandestine project that will put them
The Holy Qur'an (also known as The Koran) is the sacred book of Islam. It is the word of God whose truth was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad through the angel Gabriel over a period of 23 years. As it was revealed, so it was committed to memory by his companions, though written copies were also made by literate believers during the lifetime of the Prophet. The first full compilation was by Abu Bakar, the first Caliph, and it was then recompiled in the original dialect by the third Caliph Uthman, after the best reciters had fallen in battle. Muslims believe that the truths of The Holy Qur'an are fully and authentically revealed only in the original classical Arabic. However, as the influence of Islam grows and spreads to the modern world, it is recognised that translation is an important element in introducing and explaining Islam to a wider audience. This translation, by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, is considered to be the most faithful rendering available in English.
A man with a faded, well-worn notebook open in his lap. A woman experiencing a morning ritual she doesn't understand. Until he begins to read to her. The Notebook is an achingly tender story about the enduring power of love, a story of miracles that will stay with you forever. Set amid the austere beauty of coastal North Carolina in 1946, The Notebook begins with the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural Southerner returned home from World War II. Noah, thirty-one, is restoring a plantation home to its former glory, and he is haunted by images of the beautiful girl he met fourteen years earlier, a girl he loved like no other. Unable to find her, yet unwilling to forget the summer they spent together, Noah is content to live with only memories....until she unexpectedly returns to his town to see him once again. Allie Nelson, twenty-nine, is now engaged to another man, but realizes that the original passion she felt for Noah has not dimmed with the passage of time. Still, the obstacles that once ended their previous r
In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliantinventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle,determined to build a civilization better than the one they'veleft. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism andconformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life. But his utopianexperiment takes a dark turn when his obsessions lead the familytoward unimaginable danger.
? Richard Abernethie est décédé brusquement chezlui d’une crise cardiaque. ? C’est ce qu’ont écrit les journaux.Tous les proches sont accourus pour les obsèques et tout se seraitpassé très correctement si cette écervelée de Cora n’avait bêtementdemandé : ? Il a bien été assassiné, n’est-ce pas ? ? Cettequestion incongrue jette, évidemment, un froid dans la réunion defamille. Six ou huit coups de hache assenés, dès le lendemain, sur le cr?nede la bavarde, et un peu d’arsenic fourré dans le g?teau de sa damede compagnie, justifieront l’intervention d’Hercule Poirot. Sonfameux sens de la déduction prouvera que l’innocente question deCora n’était pas si sotte…
Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and thepainting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. Whenrenowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the NationalGallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that orderdestroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments thegenius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives ofthe women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of FrenchImpressionism. Kostova's masterful new novel travels from American cities to thecoast of Normandy, from the late 19th century to the late 20th,from young love to last love. THE SWAN THIEVES is a story ofobsession, history's losses, and the power of art to preserve humanhope.
The Ambassadors, which Henry James considered his best work, is the most exquisite refinement of his favorite theme: the collision of American innocence with European experience. This time, James recounts the continental journey of Louis Lambert Strether--a fiftysomething man of the world who has been dispatched abroad by a rich widow, Mrs. Newsome. His mission: to save her son Chadwick from the clutches of a wicked (i.e., European) woman, and to convince the prodigal to return to Woollett, Massachusetts. Instead, this all-American envoy finds Europe growing on him. Strether also becomes involved in a very Jamesian "relation" with the fascinating Miss Maria Gostrey, a fellow American and informal Sacajawea to her compatriots. Clearly Paris has "improved" Chad beyond recognition, and convincing him to return to the U.S. is going to be a very, very hard sell. Suspense, of course, is hardly James's stock-in-trade. But there is no more meticulous mapper of tone and atmosphere, nuance and implication. His hype
