第二处女

　　The boisterous, arrogant professor Challenger, a reputed biologist and anthropologist, dares the London Zoological Society to mount an expedition to verify his spectacular claim, without physical proof, that his previous expedition to the Amazonian basin found live dinosaurs. Apart from him and his 'socialite' counterpart, professor Summerlee, it consists of experienced discoverer Lord Roxbury, the young reporter Ed Malone -who got publicly struck down with Challenger's umbrella at his arrival- and Jennifer Holmes, Malone's news agency's boss's daughter, essentially as conditions for putting up the money. In Brazil they are joined by Jennifer's brother David and local 'guide' Manuel Gomez. They soon discover the dinosaurs are real and dangerous, like giant spiders, but loose their helicopter and thus are desperate for a way down from the isolated plateau. They learn Roxbury knew about the fate of Burton White, an explorer whose diary they find, thus presume to be dead, in search of diamonds, and confirmation of the local tribe being the lethal guardians of the plateau's secrets, but also get surprising help...

 马里亚诺·德·桑蒂斯是意大利共和国总统。此人与现实中的任何总统均无关联，完全是作者虚构的人物。他丧偶多年，且信奉天主教，有一个女儿名叫多罗泰亚——和他一样，女儿也是一名法律学者。任期即将结束之际，在波澜不惊的日常中，两项最后的职责摆在了他面前：就两份敏感的总统特赦申请做出决定。这些抉择构成了真正的道德困境，并且以看似无法理清的方式，与他的私人生活纠缠在了一起。在疑虑的驱使下，他必须做出抉择。而这位杰出的意大利总统，怀着强烈的责任感，必将履行这份职责。

　　1453年，东罗马帝国陷落后，地处中欧的神圣罗马帝国，不得不直接面对土耳其人的侵扰。土耳其人热衷扩张，虽然他们信奉伊斯兰教，但他们认为他们才是真正的“罗马皇帝”，神圣罗马帝国的皇位，已由哈布斯堡王朝掌权两百年，他们是基督教世界的最后保卫者，双方再维也纳一决高下：一方信誓旦旦，另一方誓死捍卫。

在一个与世隔绝的夏令营里，胆小又内向的12岁男孩摩根陷入了一场噩梦之中——曾经被当作传说的一个篝火故事竟变成了现实。摩根和他新结识的朋友们必须踏上一段危险重重的旅程，并揭开隐藏在表象之下的邪恶真相。