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？

Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of themworldwide bestsellers. Among his most recent are Full Dark, NoStars; Under the Dome; Just After Sunset; DumaKey; Lisey's Story; Cell; and the last threenovels in the Dark Tower saga: Wolves of the Calla, Song ofSusannah, and The Dark Tower. His acclaimed nonfictionbook On Writing is also a bestseller. In 2003, he wasawarded the National Book Foundation Medal for DistinguishedContribution to American Letters, and in 2007 he received the GrandMaster Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He lives in Mainewith his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

Grade 9 Up–Johnson begins this exceptional novel in a lightweight fashion but quickly segues into more serious issues that affect the three young women who make up the Bermudez Triangle. It is the summer before their senior year in Saratoga Springs, NY. At first, organized, serious Nina has trouble adjusting to her leadership workshop at Stanford University. Although she desperately misses Avery and Mel, who are waitresses at a restaurant back home, she quickly falls head over heels for eco-warrior Steve, who has grown up in a commune on the West Coast–so different from Nina's secure middle-class experience. When she returns to New York, she immediately senses that Mel and Avery are keeping secrets and soon discovers that they have become lovers. Rocked to the core, Nina wishes them happiness, but feels excluded and lonely, especially as her long-distance relationship begins to deteriorate. As is typical for teens, the girls obsess ad nauseam over their romantic relationships. Yet this narrow focus

Theodore Boone is back in a new adventure, and the stakes arehigher than ever. When his best friend, April, disappears from herbedroom in the middle of the night, no one, not even Theo Boone -who knows April better than anyone - has answers. As fear ripplesthrough his small hometown and the police hit dead ends, it's up toTheo to use his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chasedown the truth and save April. Filled with the page-turningsuspense that made John Grisham a number one internationalbestseller and the undisputed master of the legal thriller,Theodore Boone's trials and triumphs will keep readers guessinguntil the very end.

Classic novel of consuming passions, played out against the lonely moors of northern England, recounts the turbulent and tempestuous love story of Cathy and Heathcliff. A masterpiece of imaginative fiction, the story remains as poignant and compelling today as it was when first published in 1847.

Selden Edwards, apparently, took 35 years to write this dismal piece of drivel. He started writing at age 25, but I suspect that he conceived the idea at the age of 15. How else to explain the wholly un-ironic adoption of the puerile schoolboy nickname for the main character's guru - the Venerable Haze, a.k.a. the Haze - throughout the book? On page 6, Mr Edwards employs the word 'momentarily' to mean 'in a moment' - when in fact it means 'for a moment'. I would say that if it is English teaching that he has recently retired from, then it is just as well that he has retired. Time travel, I can (only just) live with, but the plot is contrived, and the story wholly devoid of humour, takes itself far too seriously, and employs tortured coincidences to allow the hero to make his way through life in 19th Century 'fin de siecle' (he loves that term!) Vienna. I managed 36 pages of this rubbish, and then gave up in disgust. I trust that Mr Edwards, if he ever does write another novel, will again take 35 years t

Stefan Salvatore has come to terms with being a vampire. Theevents of the past few months have sobered him, and the fog of hisown blood lust has begun to lift. He travels to New York City tostart a new life, one that does not require him to kill humans tosurvive. Instead he feeds off of animals in Central Park. But thequiet life he envisioned is jolted when he runs into his brotherDamon, who has convinced New York high society that he is Italianroyalty. While Stefan is regaining his humanity, Damon hascompletely lost his. Stefan will do whatever it takes to protectDamon from himself, but there is another villain present. A vampirethat seeks revenge for a death the Salvatores are responsible for.Stefan and Damon will have to work together to fight the greatestevil yet.

With several Hollywood Heinlein adaptations about to belaunched (including "Starship Troopers" by the director of "TotalRecall"), this SF superstar is shining brighter than ever. Tocelebrate his success, Del Rey is reissuing the author's classicworks back into the forefront, beginning with "The Door intoSummer", the story of a modern-day--and future-time--Rip VanWinkle.

As far as her family and friends are concerned, Frieda has been the grieving widow for long enough. At 35, she's still (relatively) young, still (adequately) attractive. Her sex drive is very much alive; even Frieda admits she'd like to put it to use again. Besides, she has a son who certainly needs a father figure. With visions of the perfect second husband in mind, Frieda's sisters start to send eligible males in her direction. Big sister Ilene -- herself substantially married -- has found the ultimate unattached catch: a gorgeous, independently wealthy, successful, divorced father, pillar of society and paragon of potential. What more could a single mom ask for? Apparently a lot more than loved ones realize. Frieda's own efforts bear very tasty fruit. Sam is young, talented, devoted, and incredibly sexy -- though broke, only sporadically employed, and clueless about kids. But he makes Frieda feel brand-spanking-new, in a most wonderfully wanton way. When all is said and done, does Frieda really need

Night Shift—Stephen King’s first collection of stories—is anearly showcase of the depths that King’s wicked imagination couldplumb. In these 20 tales, we see mutated rats gone bad(“Graveyard Shift”); a cataclysmic virus that threatens humanity(“Night Surf,” the basis for The Stand); a smoker who will tryanything to stop (“Quitters, Inc.”); a reclusive alcoholic whobegins a gruesome transformation (“Gray Matter”); and manymore. This is Stephen King at his horrifying best.

With more than 500,000 copies of her books in print in theUnited States, Donna Leon continues to find new fans for herriveting Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries. In "Death andJudgment," a truck crashes and spills its dangerous cargo on atreacherous road in the Italian Dolomite mountains. Meanwhile, inSanta Lucia, a prominent international lawyer is found dead aboardan intercity train. Suspecting a connection between the twotragedies, Brunetti digs deep for an answer, stumbling upon a seedyVenetian bar that holds the key to a crime network that reaches farbeyond the laguna. But it will take another violent death in Venicebefore Brunetti and his colleagues begin to understand what isreally going on.

Let's Call It "The Turn of the Phillips-Head Screw" I was happily working on a novel titled What the Night Knows, thepremise of which was already described on various web-sitepostings, when an idea for a ghost story slammed into me with asmuch force as an exuberant 60-pound golden retriever playingbowl-dad-off-his-feet. When I picked myself up from my officefloor, I didn't need a sticky roller to remove the dog hair from myclothes, but the story I had been working on was entirely Swifferedout of my head to make room for the ghost story. After alerting myeditor and my publisher of my intentions, I put aside What theNight Knows and set to work enthusiastically on the new idea. Over the next few months, as the manu* pages piled up, Ioccasionally sent lists of possible titles to my editor and mypublisher, and they sent lists of titles to me. None of us likedthe same title. We didn't argue. We just quietly declined to beenthusiastic about one another's suggestions. We are a genteelbunch. The only one of us to wa

In this collection of five Christmas-themed stories, belovedauthor Mary Balogh brings together tales of love, marriage,friendship, loneliness, and healing. Includes four Balogh holidayclassics, "The Star of Bethlehem," "The Best Gift," "PlayingHouse," and "No Room At the Inn," as well as "A Family Christmas,"which is only available in this anthology.

Welcome to Desperation. Once a thriving copper mining town in the middle of the Nevada desert, Desperation is now eerily abandoned. It's the last place that travellers like the Carver family, bound for vacation, and writer Johnny Marinville, astride his Harley, would expect to be stopped and charged. But Desperation still has a local cop - a unique regulator who patrols the wilderness highway. The secrets buried in Desperation are as terrifying as the forces summoned to encounter them. A terrifying transformation is taking place and the travellers will soon discover the true meaning of desperation ...

The exciting debut of a new paranormal romance series As aMiami narcotics detective, Leah Daniels never knows how her daywill turn out. But she certainly never expected to be strapped to astone altar, the human sacrifice in an ancient Mayan ritual meantto coax up a demon from the underworld. Or that shead be saved by ahandsome warrior-priest king who claims to recognize her from hisvisions... Jaguar Strike wishes he hadnat made the mistake ofreuniting his fellow warrior priests, or broken the law by savingtheir chosen human sacrifice. Now, he has no choice but to joinforces with Leah and invoke dangerous magic in a death-defying raceagainst the end of time.

Four tales of holiday love and danger from Nora Robertswriting as J.D. Robb, and bestselling authors Susan Plunkett, DeeHolmes, and Claire Cross.

The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or,through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm 2) A robot must obey orders givein to it byhuman beings except where such orders would conflict with the FirstLaw. 3) A robot must protect its own existence aslong as such protection does not conflict with the First or SecondLaw. With this, Asimov changed our perception ofrobots forever when he formulated the laws governing theirbehavior. In I, Robot, Asimov chronicles the development of therobot through a series of interlinked stories: from its primitiveorigins in the present to its ultimate perfection in thenot-so-distant future--a future in which humanity itself may berendered obsolete. Here are stories of robots gone mad, ofmind-read robots, and robots with a sense of humor. Of robotpoliticians, and robots who secretly run the world--all told withthe dramatic blend of science fact science fiction thatbecame Asmiov's trademark.

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford adopt the methods and manners of every major literary detective from Hercule Poirot to Sherlock Holmes to piece together an increasingly complex series of delightfully different-and deadly-misdeeds. Tommy and Tuppence Beresford adopt the methods and manners of every major literary detective from Hercule Poirot to Sherlock Holmes to piece together an increasingly complex series of delightfully different-and deadly-misdeeds. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Ahern, the mediagenic 22-year-old daughter of Ireland's prime minister, debuts with a sweet, sentimental tale of a young widow's trials and triumphs in the year after her husband's death. Soul mates Holly and Gerry married in their early 20s; when Gerry dies of brain cancer at 30, Holly is utterly bereft. But Gerry has a final gift: a series of letters, which Holly is to open on the first of each month from March to New Year's, and which will guide her on her journey from grief. Gerry correctly predicts that Holly will not have gone through his belongings by June, found a new job by September or considered falling in love again by December, but with his posthumous epistolary encouragement she does all those things. She also enters a karaoke contest, takes a beach vacation and dances at a holiday ball she'd always attended with Gerry. The months pass as close friends help prop Holly up; around her, a marriage falls apart, a couple gets engaged and a friend announces her pregnancy. Within her tight-knit family,

When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift,jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters,and misfits the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth asecond-rate travelling circus struggling to survive during theGreat Depression, making one-night stands in town after endlesstown.

The war against humanity has begun. In the dead hours of thenight, a stranger enters the home of the mayor of Rainbow Falls,Montana. The stranger is in the vanguard of a wave of intruders whowill invade other homes . . . offices . . . every localinstitution, assuming the identities and the lives of those theyhave been engineered to replace. Before the sun rises, the townwill be under full assault, the opening objective in the new VictorFrankenstein’s trajectory of ultimate destruction.Deucalion—Victor’s first, haunted creation—saw his maker die in NewOrleans two years earlier. Yet an unshakable intuition tells himthat Victor lives—and is at work again. Within hours Deucalion willcome together with his old allies, detectives Carson O’Connor andMichael Maddison, Victor’s engineered wife, Erika Five, and hercompanion Jocko to confront new peril. Others will gather aroundthem. But this time Victor has a mysterious, powerful new backer,and he and his army are more formidable, their means and i

While the cops out of Hollywood station deal with the costumed crackheads, prostitutes, purse snatchers, tweakers and ordinary lunatics that haunt the boulevards, in the streets behind the lights and crowds, the real Los Angeles simmers, never far from boiling point. Under the watchful eye of the veteran sergeant they call Oracle, the Hollywood station squad are as different as the streets they police. Budgie Polk's back on duty while still breast-feeding her son, begrudgingly teamed with old school patrol officer Fausto Gamboa. Flotsam and Jetsam live only for surfing and the petite - but intrepid - Meg Takara. Andi McCrea goes off duty and into night classes, while rich kid rookie Wesley Drubb is as desperate to see some action as Nathan 'Hollywood' Weiss is to get his * developed. Under-staffed and over-worked, bound by red tape and hobbled by political correctness, these men and women hold the front line in LA's epicentre, but add a diamond robbery, the Russian mafia and a cluelessly ambitious glass

In the prologue to his latest novel, Nicholas Sparks makes the rather presumptuous pledge "first you will smile, and then you will cry," but sure enough, he delivers the goods. With his calculated ability to throw your heart around like a yo-yo (try out his earlier Message in the Bottle or The Notebook if you really want to stick it to yourself), Sparks pulls us back to the perfect innocence of a first love.In 1958 Landon Carter is a shallow but well-meaning teenager who spends most of his time hanging out with his friends and trying hard to ignore the impending responsibilities of adulthood. Then Landon gets roped into acting the lead in the Christmas play opposite the most renowned goody two-shoes intown: Jamie Sullivan. Against his best intentions and the taunts of his buddies, Landon finds himself falling for Jamie and learning some central lessons in life.Like John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, Sparks maintains a delicate and rarely seen balance of humor and sentiment. While the plot may not be the m