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The Last Policeman (The Last Policeman, #1)
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2012
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Underground Airlines
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2016
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Countdown City (The Last Policeman, #2)
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2013
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World of Trouble (The Last Policeman, #3)
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2014
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Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
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2009
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Golden State
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Inside Jobs: Tales from a Time of Quarantine
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Bedbugs
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The Quiet Boy
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“Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it’s all wild emotion and headlong rush, but the ACTUAL ACT of writing a book is like building a relationship: it is joyous, slow, fragile, frustrating, exhilarating, painstaking, exhausting, worth it.”
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“It is a strange kind of fire, the fire of self-righteousness, which gives us such pleasure by its warmth but does so little to banish the darkness.”
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“The first time we met he shot me in the head with an electric staple gun, but our relationship has evolved in the subsequent months.”
― World of Trouble
― World of Trouble
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Dry by Neal Shusterman
2018, 390 pages, 4.04 stars
Kindle $9.99, cheap used print, at library
2018, 390 pages, 4.04 stars
Kindle $9.99, cheap used print, at library
"When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival,
The drought—or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it—has been going on for a while now. Everyone’s lives have become an endless list of don’ts: don’t water the lawn, don’t fill up your pool, don’t take long showers.
Until the taps run dry.
Suddenly, Alyssa’s quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation; neighbors and families turned against each other on the hunt for water. And when her parents don’t return and her life—and the life of her brother—is threatened, Alyssa has to make impossible choices if she’s going to survive."
The City Where We Once Lived by Eric Barnes
2018, 272 pages, 3.66 stars
Kindle $5.69, cheap used paperback, at library
2018, 272 pages, 3.66 stars
Kindle $5.69, cheap used paperback, at library
"In a near future where climate change has severely affected weather and agriculture, the North End of an unnamed city has long been abandoned in favor of the neighboring South End. Aside from the scavengers steadily stripping the empty city to its bones, only a few thousand people remain, content to live quietly among the crumbling metropolis. Many, like the narrator, are there to try to escape the demons of their past. He spends his time observing and recording the decay around him, attempting to bury memories of what he has lost.
But it eventually becomes clear that things are unraveling elsewhere as well, as strangers, violent and desperate alike, begin to appear in the North End, spreading word of social and political deterioration in the South End and beyond. Faced with a growing disruption to his isolated life, the narrator discovers within himself a surprising need to resist losing the home he has created in this empty place. He and the rest of the citizens of the North End must choose whether to face outsiders as invaders or welcome them as neighbors.
The City Where We Once Lived is a haunting novel of the near future that combines a prescient look at how climate change and industrial flight will shape our world with a deeply personal story of one man running from his past. With glowing prose, Eric Barnes brings into sharp focus questions of how we come to call a place home and what is our capacity for violence when that home becomes threatened."
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
1955, 200 pages, 3.93 stars
Cheap used print, maybe at library, NO KINDLE VERSION (that I know of)
1955, 200 pages, 3.93 stars
Cheap used print, maybe at library, NO KINDLE VERSION (that I know of)
"John Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of a community where the chances of breeding true are less than fifty per cent and where deviations are rooted out and destroyed as offences and abominations."
Golden State by Ben H. Winters
2019, 319 pages, 3.52 stars
Kindle $14.99, cheap used print, maybe at library
2019, 319 pages, 3.52 stars
Kindle $14.99, cheap used print, maybe at library
"Lazlo Ratesic is 54, a 19-year veteran of the Speculative Service, from a family of law enforcement and in a strange alternate society that values law and truth above all else. This is how Laz must, by law, introduce himself, lest he fail to disclose his true purpose or nature, and by doing so, be guilty of a lie.
Laz is a resident of The Golden State, a nation resembling California, where like-minded Americans retreated after the erosion of truth and the spread of lies made public life, and governance, increasingly impossible. There, surrounded by the high walls of compulsory truth-telling, knowingly contradicting the truth--the Objectively So--is the greatest possible crime. Stopping those crimes, punishing them, is Laz's job. In its service, he is one of the few individuals permitted to harbor untruths--to "speculate" on what might have happened in the commission of a crime.
But the Golden State is far less a paradise than its name might suggest. To monitor, verify, and enforce the Objectively So requires a veritable panopticon of surveillance, recording, and record-keeping. And when those in control of the truth twist it for nefarious means, the Speculators may be the only ones with the power to fight back."
Emergence by David R. Palmer
1984, 291 pages, 4.16 stars
Kindle $5.99, print from $7.85, library? (Not at mine.)
1984, 291 pages, 4.16 stars
Kindle $5.99, print from $7.85, library? (Not at mine.)
"Candidia Maria Smith-Foster, an eleven-year-old girl, is unaware that she's a Homo post hominem, mankind's next evolutionary step.
With international relations rapidly deteriorating, Candy's father, publicly a small-town pathologist but secretly a government biowarfare expert, is called to Washington. Candy remains at home.
The following day a worldwide attack, featuring a bionuclear plague, wipes out virtually all of humanity (i.e., Homo sapiens). With her pet bird Terry, she survives the attack in the shelter beneath their house. Emerging three months later, she learns of her genetic heritage and sets off to search for others of her kind."
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“The first time we met he shot me in the head with an electric staple gun, but our relationship has evolved in the subsequent months.”
― World of Trouble
― World of Trouble
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Hi Ben! Just finished World of Trouble and loved it! However, I wondered why poor Hen could not have found Nico alive so they could be together at the end. I did think it was a good thing that he returned to Ruthie and the Amish at the end but the events leading up to that seemed so violent and sad. I hope when faced with such an outcome i could behave better.Let your fans know what's next for you! Good luck with all your future projects!
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