For years, readers wrote asking if Richard Bachman was really world-bestselling Stephen King writing under another name. Now the secret is out - and so, brought together in one volume, are these three spellbinding stories of future shock and suspense. The Long Walk: A chilling look at the ultra-conservative America of the future where a gruelling 450-mile marathon is the ultimate sports competition. Roadwork: An immovable man refuses to surrender to the irresistible force of progress. The Running Man: TV's future-favourite game show, where contestants are hunted to death in the attempt to win a $1 billion jackpot.
Obliged to leave New York City in the aftermath of his previous mission, David Trevellyan is summoned to the British Consulate in Chicago. To the same office where, just a week before, his new handler was attacked and shot by a Royal Navy Intelligence operative gone bad. Assigned the task of finding the rogue agent, and putting an end to his treacherous scheme, Trevellyan soon finds that once again his only hope of saving countless innocence lives lies not within the system, but in his instinctive believe - you're bound to do what's right, whatever the personal cost may be.
Wentworth, Ohio: a small friendly town where the Carver children bicker over sweets in the E-Z shop and writer Johnny Marinville is the only resident who minds his own business. On Poplar Street, apart from the impending storm, it's just a normal summer's day - with Frisbees flying, lawn mowers humming and barbeques grilling. As the paperboy makes his round, he is unaware of the chrome red van idling up the hill ...Soon the residents will be caught up in a game of wills as the regulators arrive in force to face a child whose powers of expression are just awakening. If you like THE REGULATORS, don't miss DESPERATION, written as an unidentical pair.
Dans ce troisième et dernier volet de Quatre générations sousun même toit, les habitants du Petit-Bercail sont pris dans latourmente de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Le conflit s'étend. LesPékinois sont confrontés à la terrible réalité du rationnement etla famine qui sévit dans tout le pays s'abat sur la capitale. Ellen'épargne pas les plus innocents, tandis qu'elle amène les tra?tresau pays à montrer toute la noirceur de leur ?me. - L'édifice b?tipar le vieux Qi tremble sur ses bases. La famille Qi, durementtouchée, résistera-t-elle à la tourmente? - Le profond humanisme deLao She, fait d'intelligence, d'humour et de tolérance, son styleprécis et poétique, continuent à captiver le lecteur qui retrouveavec bonheur des personnages devenus familiers. --Ce texte faitréférence à l’édition Poche .
A failed marriage between Melissa Elmett and Will Hyde did alot of damage. She was too young, he was hurt when sheleft him. Years later, Melissa becomes thetarget for a kidnap plot, a consequence of herfather’s ground-breaking energy-saving invention, and Will isthe only man who can protect her. Now they’re on the run, throwntogether again by the pursuit of vengeance, will their passionfor each other reignite? --This text refers to the KindleEdition edition.
当卡米莉家乡的几名女孩被谋杀后，由于工作的原因，她被迫回到那个古老南方贵族与吸毒青年共同生活的地方。随着卡米莉揭露杀害那些女孩的凶手以及杀人动机的谜底，《利器》这个故事使读者在心理上产生了深度困扰：卡米莉为何如此坚定地去调查这些被害的女孩？卡米莉与她母亲之间发生了什么？这件事是怎样与多年前她另一个妹妹的死联系到一起的？ When two girls are abducted and killed in Missouri,journalist Camille Preaker is sent back to her home town to reporton the crimes. Long-haunted by a childhood tragedy and estranged from hermother for years, Camille suddenly finds herself installed onceagain in her family's mansion, reacquainting herself with herdistant mother and the half-sister she barely knows - a precocious13-year-old who holds a disquieting grip on the town. As Camille works to uncover the truth about these violentcrimes, she finds hersel
Innocence and beauty ignite with evil and terror as a younggirl exhibits signs of a wild and horrifying force.
There was a time when love was the mostimportant thing in the world. People would go to the end of theearth to find it. They would tell lies for it. Even kill for it.Then, at last, they found the cure. Now, everything is different.Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the government demandsthat all citizens receive the cure upon turning eighteen. LenaHaloway has always looked forward to the day when she'll be cured.A life without love is a life without pain: safe, measured,predictable, and happy. But then, with only ninety-five days leftuntil her treatment, Lena does the unthinkable.
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Democracy in America is a classic of political philosophy. Hailed by John Stuart Mill and Horace Greely as the finest book ever written on the nature of democracy, it continues to be an influential text on both sides of the Atlantic, above all in the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe. De Tocqueville examines the structures, institutions and operation of democracy, and shows how Europe can learn from American success and failures. His central theme is the advancement of the rule of the people, but he also predicts that slavery will bring about the 'most horrible of civil wars', foresees that the USA and Russia will be the Superpowers of the twentieth century, and is 150 years ahead of his time in his views on the position and importance of women.
Maggie Bradford is on trial for murder- in the celebrity trial of the decade. As one of the world's best-loved singer-songwriters, she seems to have it all. So how could she have murdered not just one, but two of her husbands? Will Shepherd was Maggie's second husband. A magnificent athlete and film star, he was just as famous. ButWill had dark, dangerous secrets that none of his fans could have imagined.., that his own wife could never have dreamed of.
The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction: a time when Sherlock Holmes was esconsced in his rooms at 221B Baker Street and London was permanently wreathed in a sinister fog. These gripping tales of mystery, suspense and clever puzzles are wonderfully entertaining and in them you will meet The Crime Doctor, Professor Augustus S.F.X.Van Dusen - The Thinking Machine, Max Carrados - the incredible blind detective, the repulsive but brilliant Skin o' My Teeth, and the natty, ingenious French sleuth Eugene Valmont. On the other side of the law, there are gentleman crooks Raffles and Simon Carn - the Prince of Swindlers. The stories include: The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe, The Stolen Cigar Case by Bret Harte, The Swedish Match by Anton Chekhov, Nine Points of the Law by E.W. Hornung, The Ghost at Massingham Mansions by Ernest Bramah and The Great Pearl Mystery by Baroness Orczy.
"An uproarious, sprawling masterpiece by a grand Yiddishstoryteller." -O, The Oprah Magazine Translated in full for the first time, one hundred years afterits original publication, the acclaimed epic love story set in thecolorful world of the Yiddish theater. Wandering Stars spans tenyears and two continents, relating the adventures of Reizel andLeibel, young shtetl dwellers in late nineteenth-century Russia whofall under the spell of a traveling acting company. Together theyrun away from home to become entertainers themselves, and then tourseparately around Europe, ultimately reuniting in New York.Wandering Stars is an engrossing romance, a great New York story,and an anthem for the magic of the theater.
"Simpty [has] to go down in gossip history....Just read this novel for the heir of it and enjoy....It's horribty funny." -Liz Smith "Bring on the screeching fashion whores-this is pure gossipy pteasure....Juicy dish." -Chicago Sun-Tirues "Thits season's must-have accessory....Weisberger nails the so-called glamour of New York's fashion world,"-Rocky Mountain News
