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
《寄居者》的故事发生在抗战期间的上海，由女主人公玫在晚年讲述给一位传记作者听：玫在1939年的上海，爱上一名刚刚逃离集中营上岸的犹太男子。那时赶上约瑟夫·梅辛格臭名昭著的“解决方案”就要实施，为让爱人去美国，玫临时在上海抓了个救星另一位美国青年做自己的丈夫。乱世中，小人物们开始一串连环套式的命运救助，，玫用“爱人”的钱赎救了“丈夫”，用“丈夫”的护照让“爱人”脱险，同时，以毁掉对爱情的原始理解和信念的方式，去实现了爱情……故事结局在爱情的部分出人意料，令人叹惋。这部作品是严歌苓在题材、写作手法和女性角色塑造上又一次新鲜成功的尝试。同时，小说延续了作者独特的自述式与视觉化的叙事风格。
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。 ??
玫瑰，你知道我DI一次见你是什么感受吗？??什么啊？??我觉得你美丽过美丽，??但是忧郁过忧郁。??我以后一定要让你快乐过快乐。???黄玫瑰，一个有着倾城容颜的女子。??见过她的男人都为之颠倒，见过她的男人都再无爱人之心。??她的美丽，亦的执着，她存在仿佛就是为了爱情，带给人快乐也给人莫大的痛苦。??她追寻着自己心中的爱情，却忘了，虽然爱情是人们都向往的，执着的，干净的，天空一样的，可也是毁灭性的。??四个与之命运纠缠的男人，奏出黄玫瑰绚烂又迷离的一生。???岁月悠长，韶光易逝，怪你过分美丽，怪你过分执迷。??很多时候，人们爱的是一些人，与之结婚生子的又是另外一些人。???亦舒“DU家畅销?旧欢如梦辑”收录了亦舒ZUI经典、ZUI知名的5部作品，包括《喜宝》《我的前半生》《玫瑰的故事》《圆舞》《人淡如菊》。该套书经DU家授权，
Tyrant, blackmailer, racketeer, murderer - his influence reaches every level of American society. Meet Don Corleone, a friendly man, a just man, a reasonable man. The deadliest lord of the Cosa Nostra. The Godfather. A modern masterpiece, "The Godfather" is a searing portrayal of the 1940s criminal underworld. It is also the intimate story of the Corleone family, at once drawn together and ripped apart by its unique position at the core of the American Mafia. Still shocking forty years after it was first published, this compelling tale of blackmail, murder and family values is a true classic.
According to Mayan doomsday prophecy, 12/21/12 marks the endof the world in a global cataclysm that can only be prevented bythe Nightkeepers, magical warriors enlisted to fight the rise ofthe underworld demons. To fulfill the final prophecy theNightkeepers must find their mates, but when Lucius and Jade arecharged with rescuing the Mayan sun god, they try to ignore theirgrowing attraction. Unless they can confront their own demons andaccept that love isn't a weakness, even destiny might not be ableto save them...
"LITERATE AND SAVVY . . . BRIMS WITH WARTIME INTRIGUE."--TheWashington Post Book WorldEngland 1943. Much of the infamous NaziEnigma code has been cracked. But Shark, the impenetrableoperational cipher used by Nazi U-boats, has masked the Germans'movements, allowing them to destroy a record number of Alliedvessels. Feeling that the blood of Allied sailors is on theirhands, a top-secret team of British cryptographers works feverishlyaround the clock to break Shark. And when brilliant mathematicianTom Jericho succeeds, it is the stuff of legend. . . ."A TENSE ANDTHOUGHTFUL THRILLER."--San Francisco ChronicleUntil the unthinkablehappens: the Germans have somehow learned that Shark has beencracked. And they've changed the code. . . ."SUSPENSEFUL ANDFASCINATING."--The Orlando SentinelAs an Allied convoy crosses theU-boat infested North Atlantic . . . as Jericho's ex-lover Clairedisappears amid accusations that she is a Nazi collaborator . . .as Jericho strains his last resources to break Shark again, hecannot esca
A passionate, epic writer, the author of Before Night Falls,concludes his five-novel sequence--a "secret history of Cuba" and awriter's autobiography--with this allegorical satire. Arenas paintsa harrowing yet boldly entertaining Kafka-esque picture of adehumanized people and the despair of an observer/narrator clingingto sanity.
Crispin Mayo was a reckless young brawler who'd left his tinyfishing village for the vast American frontier. Headed west to joina railroad construction crew, he came upon an isolated station--anda mystery. The shack was abandoned, but fresh blood spattered thefloor, and the telegraph was clicking away unattended. When Mayostepped inside and put a hand on the telegraph key, he had no wayof knowing the course of his life would change forever--and that hewould become entangled with a band of Civil War veterans with ascore to settle against the government...and a feisty young womanwho'd risk anything to save the people she loved. Cris Mayo, whohad never backed away from a fight in his life, was about to havehis courage put to the ultimate test.
The daughter of a diplomat disappears on a school fieldtrip–lured into the Santa Monica mountains and killed in coldblood. Her father denies the possibility of a political motive.There are no signs of struggle, no evidence of sexual assault,leaving psychologist Alex Delaware and his friend LAPD homicidedetective Milo Sturgis to pose the disturbing question: Why? Working together with Daniel Sharavi, a brilliant Israeli policeinspector, Delaware and Sturgis soon find themselves ensnared inone of the darkest, most menacing cases of their careers. And whendeath strikes again, it is Alex who must go undercover, alone, toexpose an unthinkable conspiracy of self-righteous brutality andtotal contempt for human life.
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.
After one troubled college-age student disappears and two are found slashed to death, Lucas Davenport finds himself hunting what appears to be a modern-day Jack the Ripper. But Lucas keeps getting the sneaking suspicion that there is something else involved. Something very bad, very dark, and as elusive as a phantom.
A "suspenseful" novel by the #1 "New York Times" bestsellingauthor-now in a French flap trade edition. Nora Roberts delivers anexciting tale that takes readers to the depths of the Caribbean-andthe heights of passion and suspense-as a marine archaeologist and asalvager join forces to search for a legendary treasure.
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
Intelligence: high. Body: hard. Mission: what no oneelse can do. It's been a year since ex-Navy SEALEthan Kelly saw his wife Rachel alive. Now he's received ananonymous phone call claiming Rachel is alive. To find her, Ethanwill have to doge bullets, cross a jungle, and risk falling captiveto a deadly drug cartel that threatens his own demise.
Despite nurse-midwife Patsy Harman’s own financial andpersonal medical trials, including her private battle with uterinecancer, she devotes herself to her patients’ well-being in allaspects of their lives. They, in turn, tell her intimate storiesboth heartbreaking and uplifting.
Stealing her abusive ex-husband's expensive stallion, MollyWells shows up at known horse whisperer Jake Coulter's Oregon horseranch. Fearful of her ex-husband, Molly escapes with no clothes ormoney, but she's willing to risk everything to save Sonora Sunset,little realizing she needs to save herself as well. Hoping Jack'stalents work their magic on the horse, Molly doesn't expect them towork on her.
They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. And the third, for a career-ending drunken joyride. Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice, and contemplate where their lives went wrong.
Mayan lore and modern science warn that 12/21/2012 will bringa global cataclysm. Dark forces stand poised to crush mankind. Theonly hope rests with a secret group of modern magic-wielders calledthe Nightkeepers. But as Patience White-Eagle and her husband,Brandt, team up as a mated warrior pair, they will face a deadlythreat that will test their powers-and their love...
Book De*ion Dean Koontz’s uniquetalent for writing terrifying thrillers with a heart and soul isnowhere more evident than in this latest suspense masterpiece thatpits one man against the ultimate deadline. If there were speedlimits for the sheer pulse-racing excitement allowed in one novel,Velocity would break them all. Get ready for the ride of yourlife. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. A diabolic killer plays a harrowing game of catand mouse with a reclusive bartender in Koontz's latest grippingsuspense thriller. Billy Wiles, a 30-something bartender and formerwriter, is content with his solitary Napa County existencelistening to "beer-based psychoanalysis" from tavern regulars;visiting his hospitalized, comatose fiancée, Barbara; and carvingwood sculptures. But the simple life gets mighty complicated whenhe finds a note with a deadly, time-sensitive ultimatum: he mustchoose between the death of a young schoolteacher or an elderlyhumanitarian in six hours. Reluctant local s
Oscar is a sweet but fat sci-fi obsessed introvert who -- fromthe New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother andrebellious sister -- dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R.Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But Oscar may never getwhat he wants. Blame the fuku -- a curse that has haunted Oscar'sfamily for generations, following them on their epic journey fromNew Jersey to Washington Heights and back to Santo Domingo.Encapsulating Dominican American history, Oscar's story open oureyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary Americanexperience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere --and risk it all -- in the name of love. Pulitzer Prize winning novel
Drafted into working for the Order of Merciful Aid, mercenaryKate Daniels has more paranormal problems than she knows what to dowith. And in Atlanta, where magic comes and goes like the tide,thatas saying a lot. But when Kateas werewolf friend Derek isdiscovered nearly dead, she must confront her greatest challengeyet.
No more than a dark pencil line on a blank page. A horizon line, maybe. But also a slot for blackness to pour through... A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a "geographic cure," a new life distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. And Kamen suggests something else. "Edgar, does anything make you happy?" "I used to sketch." "Take it up again. You need hedges...hedges against the night." Edgar leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico and the tidal rattling of shells on the beach
Brown(Chains of Command)shamelessly promotes himself and his previous works in his eighth aeronautical techno-thriller.Thus,this unwieldy tale of domestic terrorism includes forces and characters (notably maverick Coast Guard Rear Admiral Ian Hardcastle) from prior books,as well as gratuitious self-references ("They had gotten that idea from a techno-thriller novel published a few years back...called ammerheads ";or,"This is not some Dale Brown novel,this is real-life").Supervillain Henri Cazaux,rich beyond measure from drug- and gun-running,has vowed revenge upon the U.S.government for abuse he suffered at the hands of Air Force security police when,as a youth,he was caught dealing hashish to American troops.He begins by bombing major civilian airports;the government,which must predict his next targets and outwit him,eventually has to employ military forces over the skies of our largest cities.Although Brown raises some provocative issues,such as the problem of interagency rivalries and the appropriateness o
