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Earth Abides: A Novel
The encyclopedia of science Fiction“The book has more thought-challenging elements than a shelf full of ordinary novels. The christian Science Monitor Del rey Books. An instant classic upon its original publication in 1949 and winner of the first International Fantasy Award, Earth Abides ranks with On the Beach and Riddley Walker as one of our most provocative and finely wrought post-apocalyptic works of literature.
In the aftermath, as the great machine of civilization slowly and inexorably breaks down, only a few shattered survivors remain to struggle against the slide into barbarism. Or extinction. This is the story of one such survivor, isherwood “Ish” Williams, an intellectual loner who embraces the grim duty of bearing witness to what may be humanity’s final days.
But then he finds em, a wise and courageous woman who coaxes his stunned heart back to life and teaches him to hope again.
Lucifer's Hammer: A Novel
Chicago daily News Del rey Books. Massively entertaining. Cleveland plain-dealerthe gigantic comet had slammed into Earth, forging earthquakes a thousand times too powerful to measure on the Richter scale, tidal waves thousands of feet high. Del rey Books. An ultimate one. Cities were turned into oceans; oceans turned into steam.
It was the beginning of a new Ice Age and the end of civilization.
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The Postman
The postman will keep you engrossed until you’ve finished the last page. Chicago Tribune Del rey Books. A powerful cautionary tale. Whitley strieberhe was a survivor—a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war. Fate touches him one chill winter’s day when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker to protect himself from the cold.
Now a major motion picture • “a moving experience. Del rey Books.
Forbidden Area
Katherine hume is the only woman working for the Pentagon’s Atomic Energy Commission. From the author of the post-apocalyptic classic Alas Babylon, comes this eerie, cold war thriller. A young teenage couple having a rendezvous one night on a beach in Florida suddenly sees a submarine emerge from the ocean.
Bantam Spectra. On or shortly before Christmas. Del rey Books. From intelligence they have gathered, she and her team are convinced the Russians are poised to conduct a nuclear attack on the U. S. Armed soldiers disembark the vessel and a Buick drives off its landing ramp. Deciding to take the next flight to havana, he risks being executed by the Russians if his betrayal is discovered—but he’s willing to put it all on the line for a chance at freedom.
With the clock ticking, the fate of America hangs by a very thin thread.
On The Beach
People in australia detect a mysterious and incomprehensible Morse code radio signal originating from the American city of Seattle, Washington. Del rey Books. With hope that someone has survived in the contaminated regions, uss scorpion, one of the last American nuclear submarines, Commander Dwight Towers, placed by its captain, under Australian naval command, is ordered to sail north from its port of refuge in Melbourne Australia's southernmost major mainland city to contact whomever is sending the signal.
Bantam Spectra. Two australians sail with the american crew: Lieutenant Commander Peter Holmes, and a scientist, naval liaison officer to the Americans, Professor John Osborne. In preparation for this journey, queensland and Darwin, including Cairns, the submarine makes a shorter trip to port cities in northern Australia, Northern Territory; no survivors are found.
The war began with a nuclear attack by Albania on Italy, and then escalated with the bombing of the United States and the United Kingdom by Egypt. Because the aircraft used in these attacks were obtained from the Soviet Union, the Soviets were mistakenly blamed, triggering a retaliatory strike on the Soviet Union by NATO.
There is also an attack by the soviets on the People's Republic of China, which may have been a response to a Chinese attack aimed at occupying Soviet industrial areas near the Chinese border.
Lion: A Long Way Home Young Readers' Edition
This edition features new material from Saroo about his childhood, including a new foreword and a Q&A about his experiences and the process of making the film. The emotional journey of Saroo Brierley Patel. Will melt hearts around the globe. People magazine"Amazing stuff. The new york Post Del rey Books. The young readers' edition of the true story that inspired Lion, Rooney Mara, the Academy Award nominated film starring Dev Patel, David Wenham, and Nicole Kidman.
When saroo brierley used google Earth to find his long-lost home town half a world away, he made global headlines. Not knowing the name of his family or where he was from, he survived for weeks on the streets of Kolkata before being taken into an orphanage and adopted by a couple in Australia. Bantam Spectra.
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Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
A compelling, and ultimately triumphant story of a girl's journey into adulthood, painful, love, Adeline's story is a testament to the most basic of human needs: acceptance, and understanding. Del rey Books. The emotionally wrenching yet ultimately uplifting memoir of a Chinese woman struggling to win the love and acceptance of her family.
Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. Chinese. With a powerful voice that speaks of the harsh realities of growing up female in a family and society that kept girls in emotional chains, Falling Leaves is a work of heartfelt intimacy and a rare authentic portrait of twentieth-century China.
Riveting. Bantam Spectra. Woman.
One Second After A John Matherson Novel
A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies. Months before publication, a book already being discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy the entire United States, One Second After has already been cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, literally within one second.
Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real. A story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages. A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse EMP.
A post-apocalyptic thriller of the after effects in the United States after a terrifying terrorist attack using electromagnetic pulse weapons.
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