There's a saying at Hollywood Station that the full moonbrings out the beast--rather than the best--in the precinct'scitizens. One moonlit night, veteran officers Dana Vaughn and"Hollywood" Nate Weiss get a call about a prowler who's beenbrutally attacking women. Meanwhile, a pair of cops with the surfersobriquets Flotsam and Jetsam are on the lookout for asmooth-talking player in dreads and a crazy-eyed, tattooed biker.But something bigger, more high-tech, and much more deadly is aboutto go down. After a dizzying series of twists, turns, and chases,the cops discover that they've stumbled upon a complex web of crimewhere even the criminals aren't sure who's conning whom. And forsome of the men and women in blue, public duty will exact theheaviest of tolls.
Drawing on her experience as a commercial airline pilot, Grant (The Star Prince) brings a masterful realism to this otherworldly romance. United Airlines pilot Jordan Cady is promoted to captain when her 747 is captured en route to Hawaii and her captain dies from a heart attack. With the events of September 11 still fresh in her mind, Jordan initially believes the aircraft has been hijacked by terrorists, but she soon realizes that they've been pulled into the maw of an alien spaceship. Grant's "aliens" are less imaginative than one would expect. They look and act human, but they speak Key, the official language of the "Alliance," and possess loads of Star Trek-like gadgets. Using a high-tech translator, K…o, the scarred son of the ship's commander, reluctantly informs Jordan and her passengers that a comet has destroyed Earth. While Jordan sees to the comfort of her crew, she battles an ever increasing attraction to K…o, who has demons of his own to purge. Their romance plays out against the backdrop of
Agatha Christie is more than the most popular mystery writer of all time. In a career that spans over half a century, her name is synonymous with brilliant deception, ingenious puzzles, and the surprise denouement. By virtually inventing the modern mystery novel she has earned her title as the Queen of Crime. Curious? Then you're invited to read... Passenger To Frankfurt It was an unusual predicament for Sir Stafford Nye-to awaken in a stupor after being drugged, only to find his passport stolen. There was also no trace of the fascinating woman he encountered in Frankfurt who begged him to help save her life. But Sir Stafford's troubles are only just beginning. The target of two murder attempts, he now seeks the help of the stranger who so urgently sought his. If he can locate her. What he finds is a woman of numerous identities and twice as many secrets, who ushers him into the shadows of an international conspiracy that could well prove to be the death of them.
WHO IS KATE BLACKWELL? She is the symbol of success, the beautiful woman who parlayed her inheritance into an international conglomerate. Winner of a unique position among the wealthy and world-renowned. And she's a survivor, indomitable as her father, the man who returned from the edge of death to wrench a fortune in diamonds from the bleak South African earth. Now, celebrating her ninetieth birthday, Kate surveys the family she has manipulated, dominated, and loved: the fair and the grotesque, the mad and the mild, the good and the evil -- her winnings in life. Is she the... MASTER OF THE GAME?
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.
The vision has haunted him for four years--a youngwoman lying crumpled in death, her hand outstretched in silentsupplication. Harry Bosch was taken off the Angella Benton murdercase when the production assistant's death was linked with theviolent theft of two million dollars from a movie set. Both fileswere never closed. Now retired from the L.A.P.D., Bosch isdetermined to find justice for Angella. Without a badge to opendoors and strike fear into the guilty, he's on his own. And even inthe face of an opponent more powerful and ruthless than any he'sever encountered, Bosch is not backing down.
Stephen King has recently concluded his masterpiece Dark Tower series with The Dark Tower, bringing new readers to this odyssey. This edition of The Gunslinger includes newly-written material and an introduction by the author.
Lieutenant Commanders Matthew Reddy of USS Walker has found anunlikely ally in Commodore Jenks of the New Britain Imperial Navy.Now they are searching for a traitor who abducted nurse SandraTicker and young Princess Rebecca of the New British Empire. It issoon obvious that the New Britain Company is attempting tooverthrow the throne. And Reddy must navigate through a tempest ofpolitics, deception, and betrayal if he is ever going to save thehostages and live to fight another day...
If you’ve ever paid off one credit card with another，thrown out a bill before opening it，or convinced yourself that buying at a two-for-one sale is like making money，then this silly，appealing novel is for you。In the opening pages of Confessions of a Shopaholic，recent college graduate Rebecca Bloomwood is offered a hefty line of credit by a London bank。Within a few months，Sophie Kinsella’s heroine has exceeded the limits of this generous offer，and begins furtively to scan her credit-card bills at work，certain that she couldn’t have spent the reported sums。 In theory anyway，the world of finance shouldn’t be a mystery to Rebecca，since she writes for a magazine called Successful Saving。 Struggling with her spendthrift impulses，she tries to heed the advice of an expert and appreciate life’s cheaper pleasures： parks， museums， and so forth。Yet her first Saturday at the Victoria and Albert Museum strikes her as a waste。Why？ There’s not a price tag in sight
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
In his latest work, Antony Beevor—bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945 and one of ourmost respected historians of World War II— brings us the true,little-known story of a family torn apart by revolution and war.Olga Chekhova, a stunning Russian beauty, was the niece ofplaywright Anton Chekhov and a famous Nazi-era film actress who wasclosely associated with Hitler. After fleeing Bolshevik Moscow forBerlin in 1920, she was recruited by her composer brother Lev tobecome a Soviet spy—a career she spent her entire postwar lifedenying. The riveting story of how Olga and her family survived theRussian Revolution, the rise of Hitler, the Stalinist Terror, andthe Second World War becomes, in Beevor’s hands, a breathtakingtale of survival in a merciless age.
"FURIOUS IN ACTION...TAKES US BY THE NECK ON PAGE ONE ANDNEVER LETS GO."--Chicago Sun-TimesWith the Cold War fought and won,British spymaster Tim Cranmer accepts early retirement to ruralEngland and a new life with his alluring young mistress Emma. Butwhen both Emma and Cranmer's star double agent and lifelong rival,Larry Pettifer, disappear, Cranmer is suddenly on the run,searching for his brilliant protege, desperately eluding his formercolleagues, in a frantic journey across Europe and into thelawless, battered landscapes of Moscow and southern Russia, to savewhatever of his life he has left...."IRRESISTIBLE...A sinuous plot,leisurely introduced, whose coils become increasingly constricting.There is crisp, intelligent dialogue, much of it riding anundercurrent of menace. And there is a hero who does not seehimself as heroic but who struggles with inner demons as much aswith the forces arrayed against him."--Time"AS THRILLING AS LECARRE GETS...The novel has the heartstop duplicity of A Perfect Spyand
Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, abeautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearbyWildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen hisfriendship, but when her reclusive behavior becomes the subject oflocal gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder whether histrust in her has been misplaced. It is only when she allows Gilbertto read her diary that the truth is revealed and the shockingdetails of the disastrous marriage she has left behindemerge...Told with great immediacy, combined with wit and irony,"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" is a powerfully involving read.
When an old Gypsy man curses Billy Halleck for sideswiping hisdaughter, six weeks later he's 93 pounds lighter. Now Billy isterrified. And desperate enough for one last gamble...that willlead him to a nightmare showdown with the forces of evil meltinghis flesh away.
本书主要内容：约翰23岁时，高中毕业便不再升学，终日不知所以地换了一份又一份工作，惶惶然地在酒吧饮酒作乐度过，恋情不断却未见真爱。直到有一天，他毅然投效军旅，并于放假回家时，在家乡的艳阳下、沙滩上，偶然结识正值花样年华的莎文娜。21岁的莎文娜，成长背景与约翰相去甚远，不同于约翰的放浪形骸，她单纯、善良、率真，有坚定的理念与信仰，有清楚而明确的目标。透过莎文娜，约翰重新认识了自己，也重新认识了爱情。甜蜜的相处时光总是短暂，约翰必须回到军队，甚至被派驻海外。时间一天又一天地过去，这段靠书信维系、偶而得以见上一面的远距离恋情，终因莎文娜的一封分手信而划下句点。陷入心碎绝境的约翰，没有立刻打电话给莎文娜，也没有立刻飞回家乡，只是把信折好放回信封，决定去哪里都带着它，像是带着上战场所
The Contervitte Ghost is not amused when the Otis family move into his castle, but he's pretty sure he con get rid of them. His rotting eyeboU routine and headless hauntings hove never foiled before. But the Otis family ore mode of sterner stuff and ore just as determined to get rid of the Contervitte Ghost himself. The Cantervitle Ghost is in Series Two of Usborne Young Reading books, which combine good stories with easy reading text. Developed in consultation with Alison Kelly, Senior Lecturer at the University of Surrey Roehampton, Series Two is for readers who are growing in confidence. For readers who have just started reading atone, trU the exciting stories in Series One.
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.
#1 New York Times-bestselling author Nora Roberts explores thewilds of the Grand Tetons-and the mysteries of love, murder, andmadness-in her engrossing and passionate new novel. Reece Gilmore has come a long way to see the stunning view belowher. As the sole survivor of a brutal crime back East, she has beenon the run, desperately fighting the nightmares and panic attacksthat haunt her. Reece settles in Angel's Fist, Wyoming-temporarily,at least-and takes a job at a local diner. And now she's hiked thismountain all by herself. It was glorious, she thought, as shepeered through her binoculars at the Snake River churningbelow. Then Reece saw the man and woman on the opposite bank. Arguing.Fighting. And suddenly, the man was on top of the woman, his handsaround her throat . . . Enjoying a moment of solitude a bit farther down the trail is agruff loner named Brody. But by the time Reece reaches him andbrings him to the scene, the pair has vanished. When authoritiescomb the area where she
