After the destruction of his hometown of Ironroot in the Cataclysm, Bradok Axeblade and a handful of survivors desperately cling to life, trapped in the bowels of Krynn and short of food, water, and light, as they make their way through a perilous maze, armed only with a magical compass and their determination to survive. Original.
“Yeah,” Mia said. ... Olivia glanced across the room, and for the first time Kieran noticed the girl from the beach, now also wearing the ... Inside Kieran could see dozens of sun hats of different sizes and colors, some virtually new.
What really happened that summer day when everything was blown to pieces? In a thrillingly fast-paced narrative, The Survivors mixes the emotional acuity of Edward St. Aubyn, the literary verve of Ian McEwan, and the heart of Shuggie Bain.
Fourteen-year-old Joey Campbell knows that he is lucky to be one of the survivors of the school fire.
An uncompromising portrait of an outsider navigating a society in transition, Tash Aw’s anti-nostalgic tale, We, the Survivors, holds its tension to the very end. In the wake of loss and destruction, hope is among the survivors.
"Originally published in hardcover in the United Kingdom by Egmont UK Limited"--Title page verso.
It is the work of a writer at the peak of his powers.
'You won't put this novel down until you've uncovered every last skeleton in the closet.
But Cal is paying a price. The memories he has avoided for so long have come flooding back, sending him into a tailspin from which he may never recover. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Sadie leaves her Puritanical family and their hiding place on an isolated Montana mountainside with the hope of reconnecting and belonging to the rest of humanity, but after she bears witness to a shocking scene on a summer night in ...
In Life Laid Bare, they speak for those who are no longer alive to speak for themselves; they tell of the deaths of family and friends in the churches and marshes to which they fled, and they attempt to account for the reasons behind the ...