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？
In this book，your children will find friendly garden animal pop-ups and can read humorous rhyming text with vivid funny illustrations.
See the action on board and below decks in an amaxing cross-scction of the pop-up pirate ship. Use press-out pieces to make up your own pirate story and read all about real life pirates and their adventures.
When the weres and shifters finally come out, the residents of Bon Temps, Louisiana, must deal with the violent aftermath. But a far greater danger threatens. A race of unhuman beings-older, more powerful, and more secretive than vampires or werewolves-is preparing for war. And Sookie will find herself an all-too human pawn in their battle...
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks comesa tender story of hope and joy, of sacrifice and forgiveness-amoving reminder that love is possible at any age, at any time, andoften comes when we least expect it. At forty-five, Adrienne Willismust rethink her entire life when her husband abandons her for ayounger woman. Reeling with heartache and in search of a respite,she flees to the small coastal town of Rodanthe, North Carolina, totend to a friend's inn for the weekend. But when a major stormstarts moving in, it appears that Adrienne's perfect getaway willbe ruined-until a guest named Paul Flanner arrives. At fifty-four,Paul has just sold his medical practice and come to Rodanthe toescape his own shattered past. Now, with the storm closing in, twowounded people will turn to each other for comfort-and in oneweekend set in motion feelings that will resonate throughout therest of their lives.
H. G. Wells Scientific visionary. Social prophet. Master storyteller. Fewnovelists have captivated generations of readers like H. G. Wells.In enduring, electrifying detail, he takes us to dimensions of timeand space that have haunted our dreams for centuries -- and showsus ourselves as we really are. The time machine In the heart of Victorian England, an inquisitve gentleman knownonly as the Time Traveler constructs an elaborate invention thathurtles him hundreds of thousands of years into the future. Therehe finds himself in the violent center of the ultimate conflictbetween beings of light and creatures of darkness. The war of the worlds Martians invade Great Britain, laying waste turn-of-the-centuryLondon. This tale of conquest by superior beings with superadvancedtechnology is so nightmarishly real that an adaptation by OrsonWelles and the Mercury Theater sent hundreds of impressionableradio listeners into panicked flight forty years after the story'soriginal publicati
There are a few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he'd never do:he'd never leave New York City; never give his heart away againafter barely surviving one failed marriage; and, most of all, neverbecome a parent. Now, Jeremy is living in the tiny town of BooneCreek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, the love of hislife, and anticipating the birth of their daughter. But just as hislife seems to be settling into a blissful pattern, an unsettlingand mysterious message re-opens old wounds and sets off a chain ofevents that will forever change the course of this young couple'smarriage. Dramatic, heartbreaking and surprising, this is a story about thelove between a man and a woman and between a parent and a child.More than that, it is a story that beautifully portrays how thesame emotion that can break your heart is also the one that willultimately heal it. While the novel picks up the tale of Lexie Darnell and JeremyMarsh that started in True Believer and will delight fans of thatnovel, it stan
A third wonderfully moving novel from internationally bestselling author Mitch Albom, whose books have touched the hearts of millions around the world. A compelling exploration of faith and spirituality - always moving, often profound - is the cornerstone of Albom's work. Have a Little Faith, like his first two novels, is a poignant and inspiring read - one that will enchant fans old and new.
This superb new collection brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales from the period in which Gothic diversified into the familiar forms of the ghost-and horror-story. Some of these stories, like the haunting The Lame Priest are lost masterpieces and several have never been anthologised before.
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
Written in 1953, published in 1959 (after the 1957 publicationof Kerouac's On the Road made him famous overnight) and long out ofprint, this touching novel of adolescent love in a New England milltown is one of Kerouac's most accessible works.
Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself. Its length alone is a measure of its monumental quality: seventy-one chapters, of which twenty-eight appear in full in this edition. With style, learning and wit, Gibbon takes the reader through the history of Europe from the second century AD to the fall of Constantinople in 1453 - an enthralling account by 'the greatest of the historians of the Enlightenment'. This edition includes Gibbon's footnotes and quotations, here translated for the first time, together with brief explanatory comments, a precis of the chapters not included, 16 maps, a glossary, and a list of emperors.
andquot; Michener is America's best writer, and he proves itonce again in CENTENNIAL.andquot; THE PITTSBURGH PRESSA stunningpanorama of the West, CENTENNIAL is an enthralling celebration ofour country, brimming with the glory and the greatness of theAmerican past that only bestselling author James Michener couldbring to stunning life. From the Native Americans, the migratingwhite men and women, the cowboys, and the foreigners, it is a storyof trappers, traders, homesteaders, gold seekers, ranchers, andhunters--all caught up in the dramatic events and violent conflictsthat shaped the destiny of our legendary West.
Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his fatheroutsIde a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to say the least,unconventional. Frank's mother abandoned them years ago: his elderbrother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital; and his fathermeasures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Frank hasturned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations. In thebizarre daily rituals there is some solace. But when news comes ofEric's escape from the hospital Frank has to prepare the ground forhis brother's inevitable return - an event that explodes themysteries of the past and changes Frank utterly. Iain Banks'celebrated first novel is a work of extraordinary originality,imagination and horrifying compulsion: horrifying, because itenters a mind whose realities are not our own, whose values of lifeand death are alien to our society; and compulsive, because thehumour and compassion of that mind reach out to us all.
In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking wordsthat make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his bodyswiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around theworld archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site.Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretivemultinational corporation that has developed an astoundingtechnology. Now this group is about to get a chance not to studythe past but to enter it. And with history opened to the present,the dead awakened to the living, these men and women will soon findthemselves fighting for their very survival--six hundred years ago.. . .
“Save the cheerleader, save the world” are the defining words of Heroes, the phenomenal series that has transformed television drama. They are also the cryptic marching orders for the show’s cross section of ordinary individuals united by an extraordinary bond. Each possesses a superhuman ability, and together they must prevent the course of history from taking a terrifying turn. Now, in this original novel based on the TV phenomenon, in a thrilling story that will captivate even those who haven’t seen the show, one of these unexpected saviors steps center stage on a deeply personal quest that will test the limits of his gift, the depth of his love, and the ultimate strength of his will. Hiro Nakamura possesses the remarkable power to control time. And like his uniquely blessed comrades, he’s on a mission for the good of humankind. But another challenge awaits him: saving the love of his life from an unspeakable death. Charlene “Charlie” Andrews is the big-hearted, small-town beauty whose sunn
Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galacticfreeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend FordPrefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker'sGuide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has beenposing as an out-of-work actor. Together, this dynamic pair began a journey through space aided bya galaxyful of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed,three-armed, ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of thegalaxy; Trillian (formerly Tricia McMillan), Zaphod's girlfriend,whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a timezone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressedrobot; and Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student obsessed withthe disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he's bought over theyears. Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? For all theanswers, stick your thumb to the stars!
Un ouvrier pris dans la tourmente de la Commune, déporté aubagne de Nouméa, s'évade et retrouve sa femme mariée à un autre...Mis à la retraite prématurément, un fonctionnaire se montreincapable de vivre en dehors du cadre étroit de l'administration...Sur son lit de mort, un riche paysan révèle sa double vie à sonfils et lui demande de prendre soin de sa ma?tresse... Voici deshistoires insolites contées par trois ma?tres du naturalisme.
When a vampire asks Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic skills to find another missing vampire, she agrees under one condition: the bloodsuckers must promise to let the humans go unharmed.
When the beautiful girlfriend of a notorious gangster vanishe s the last man to be seen with her needs an alibi-an fast.
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
Stefan and Damon weren't always fighting or succumbing to theirbloodlusts. Once they were loving siblings, who enjoyed all theriches and happiness that their wealthy lifestyle afforded them;loyal brothers who happened to both fall for the same beautifulwoman.Once they were alive...
