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？
Oprah Book Club Selection, February 1999: Originally published in Switzerland, and gracefully translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway, The Reader is a brief tale about sex, love, reading, and shame in postwar Germany. Michael Berg is 15 when he begins a long, obsessive affair with Hanna, an enigmatic older woman. He never learns very much about her, and when she disappears one day, he expects never to see her again. But, to his horror, he does. Hanna is a defendant in a trial related to Germany's Nazi past, and it soon becomes clear that she is guilty of an unspeakable crime. As Michael follows the trial, he struggles with an overwhelming question: What should his generation do with its knowledge of the Holocaust? "We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable.... Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame, and guilt? To what purpose?" The Reader, which won the Boston Book Review's Fisk Fiction Prize, wrestles with many more demons in its few, re
On New Year's Day, a dog finds a bone in the HollywoodHills--and unearths a murder committed more than twenty yearsearlier. It's a cold case, but for Detective Harry Bosch, it stirsup memories of his childhood as an orphan. He can't let it go. Asthe investigation takes Bosch deeper into the past, a beautifulrookie cop brings him alive in the present. No official warning canbreak them apart--or prepare Bosch for the explosions when the casetakes a few hard turns. Suddenly all of L.A. is in an uproar, andBosch, fighting to keep control, is driven to the brink of anunimaginable decision.
Roman picaresque, roman d'initiation, Voyage au bout de lanuit , signé Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Louis Destouches de sonvrai nom, a été récompensé par le prix Renaudot en 1932. ? la suited'un défilé militaire, Ferdinand Bardamu s'engage dans un régiment.Plongé dans la Grande Guerre, il fait l'expérience de l'horreur etrencontre Robinson, qu'il retrouvera tout au long de ses aventures.Blessé, rapatrié, il vit le conflit depuis l'arrière, partagé entreles conquêtes féminines et les crises de folie. Réformé, ils'embarque pour l'Afrique, travaille dans une compagnie coloniale.Malade, il gagne les ?tats-Unis, rencontre Molly, prostituée augrand coeur à Detroit tandis qu'il est ouvrier à la cha?ne. Deretour en France, médecin, installé dans un dispensaire debanlieue, il est confronté au tout-venant sordide de la misère, enmême temps qu'il rencontre ici et là des êtres sublimes degénérosité, de délicatesse infinie, "une gaieté pourl'univers"... ?popée antimilitariste, anticolonial
A beautifully polished, utterly knowing and palpitatingbook. TIME Enter the new world of post Cold War espionage. Penetrate thesecret world of ruthless arms dealers and drug smugglers who haverisen to unthinkable power and wealth. The sinister master of themall is an untouchable Englishman named Roper. Slipping into thismaze of peril is a former British soldier, Jonathan Pine, who knowsRoper well enough to hate him more than any man on earth. NowPersonal vengeance is only part of why Pine is willing to help themen at Whitehall try to bring Roper down.... A Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club
Sookie comes to the rescue of a naked, amnesiac vampire - and ends up in the middle of a war between witches, werewolves and vampires! Sookie Stackhouse is a small-town cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's pretty. She does her job well. She keeps to herself - she has only a few close friends, because not everyone appreciates Sookie's gift: she can read minds. That's not exactly every man's idea of date bait - unless they're undead - vampires and the like can be tough to read. And that's just the kind of guy Sookie's been looking for. Maybe that's why, when she comes across a naked vampire on the way home from work, she doesn't just drive on by. He hasn't got a clue who he is, but Sookie has: Eric looks just as scary and sexy - and dead - as the day she met him. But now he has amnesia, he's sweet, vulnerable, and in need of Sookie's help - because whoever took his memory now wants his life. Sookie's investigation into what's going on leads her straight into a dangerous battle between witches, vampi
Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark. Lisey knew it when she first fell for Scott. And now he's dead, she knows it for sure. Lisey was the light to Scott Landon's dark for twenty-five years. As his wife, only she saw the truth behind the public face of the famous author - that he was a haunted man whose bestselling novels were based on a terrifying reality. Now Scott has gone, Lisey wants to lock herself away with her memories. But the fans have other ideas. And when the sinister threats begin, Lisey realises that, just as Scott depended on her strength - her light - to live, so she will have to draw on his darkness to survive.
Harlan Coben published his first Myron Bolitar thriller, DealBreaker, in 1995, introducing a hero whowould captivate millions.Over the years we have watched Myrgn walk a tightrope betweensports agent,friend, problem solver, and private eye, his big heartquick to defend his clients' interests so fiercelythat he can'thelp .but jump in to save them, no matter the cost. Whern former tennis star Suzze T and her rock star husband, Lex,encounter an anonymous Facebookpost questioning the paternity oftheir unborn child, Lex runs off, and Suzze——eight monthspregnantasks Myron to save her marriage, and perhaps her husband'slife. But when he finds Lex, he also findssomeone he wasn't lookingfor: his sister-in-law, Kitty, who, along with Myron's brother,abandoned theBolitar family long ago. As Myron races to locate his missing brother while their fatherclinics to life, he must face the liesthat led to theestrangement--including the ones told by Myron himself. If wethought we knew MyronBolitar, Coben
Tom Jones is widely regarded as one of the first and most influential English novels.It is certainly the funniest. Tom Jones,the hero of the book,is introduced to the reader as the ward of a liberal Somerset squire.Tom is a generous but slightly wild and feckless country boy with a weakness for young women.Misfortune,followed by many spirited adventures as he travels to London to seek his fortune,teach him a sort of wisdom to go with his essential good-hearted-ness. This‘comic,epic poem in prose’will make the modern reader laugh as much as it did his forbears.Its biting satire finds an echo in today's society,for as Doris Lessing recently remarked 'This country becomes every day more like the eighteenth century,full of thieves and adventurers,rogues and a robust,unhypocritical savagery side-by-side with people lecturing others on morality.'
The classic nightmare tale in a thrilling new edition Spawned by a nightmare that Stevenson had, this classic tale ofthe dark, primordial night of the soul remains a masterpiece of theduality of good and evil within us all.
The delicate artistry and lyrical prose of Woolf's novels have established her as a writer of sensitivity and profound talent. Virginia Woolf displays genuine humanity and concern for the experiences that enrich and stultify existence. Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party and her thoughts on that one day, and the interior monologues of others with interwoven lives reveal the characters of the central protagonists. "To the Lighthouse" is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels. Based on her early experiences, it touches on childhood and children's perceptions and desires. It is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships and the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War. "Orlando", 'the longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West.'I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot', said Woolf of "The Waves". Regarded as on
Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time. Many novels have been written about the Civil War and its aftermath. None take us into the burning fields and cities of the American South as Gone With the Wind does, creating haunting scenes and thrilling portraits of characters so vivid that we remember their words and feel their fear and hunger for the rest of our lives. In the two main characters, the white-shouldered, irresistible Scarlett and the flashy, contemptuous Rhett, Margaret Mitchell not only conveyed a timeless story of survival under the harshest of circumstances, she also created two of the most famous lovers in the English-speaking world since Romeo and Juliet.
Eileen Chang is one of the great writers of twentieth-century China, where she enjoys a passionate following both on the mainland and in Taiwan. At the heart of Chang's achievement is her short fiction - tales of love, longing, and the shifting and endlessly treacherous shoals of family life. Written when she was still in her twenties, these extraordinary stories combine an unsettled, probing, utterly contemporary sensibility, keenly alert to sexual politics and psychological ambiguity, with an intense lyricism that echoes the classics of Chinese literature. "Love in a Fallen City", the first collection in English of this dazzling body of work, introduces readers to the stark and glamorous vision of a modern master.
In his brilliant, bestselling novels, Tom Clancy has exploredthe most dramatic military and security issues of our time. Now hetakes readers deep into the operational art of war with thisinsightful look at one of America's most important militaryengagements in recent years: the Gulf War.
"What is one sister without the other? Is it even possible toimagine? New York Times "bestselling author Luanne Rice exploresthe complex emotional equations of love and loyalty that holdtogether three pairs of remarkable sisters. Here in the halls ofNewport Academy, a unique private school that has attractedgenerations of rebels, outcasts, and visionaries, an unforgettablelesson in the eternal truths of sisterhood is about to begin....After years away, Maura Shaw has returned to Newport, Rhode Island,to teach English at the academy. Behind her lies her life as theperfect Midwestern wife and mother, a life that seemed on thesurface to be all she had ever wished for. That illusion vanishedin a storm off Mackinac Island in the wake of an accident thatengulfed Maura's husband and her older daughter, Carrie. Now, withher son and younger daughter, she hopes to find a new beginning.Newport has never failed to infuse Maura with a sense of mysteryand hope. But for fourteen-year-old Beck, the move is a painfulup
Eine Hippie-Kommune muss Kalifornien verlassen und beschlie?t,sich in Alaska anzusiedeln. Zwei Welten prallen aufeinander, neueFreundschaften und Feindschaften entstehen.
This latest novel in the Gossip Girl series finds everyone who’s anyone in New York City suffering from cabin fever after finishing their college applications。 Now it’s time for the teens of New York’s wealthiest private school to run a little wild。
