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2014’s Top Apocalypse Fiction

2014 has been a banner year for fictional apocalypses. Before you dismiss it as a herd of dystopian YA romances, take note: this year’s offerings include literary fiction, time-traveling fantasy, and blood-soaked horror. These authors use apocalyptic disasters as metaphors for everything from class war to what it means (biologically and spiritually) to be human. If you love a good end-of-the-world adventure, take a look at the biggest apocalypse titles of 2014. California You’ve probably heard of California because of the now-famous “Stephen Colbert bump.” Author Sherman Alexie named Edan Lepucki as an example of a writer who was being [...]

2016-12-31T17:58:32-07:00October 23rd, 2014|Tags: , , |

River of Death

Gold Fever and Machismo... Author:  Alistair MacLean El Dorado or The Lost City of Gold has been part of our mythology ever since Columbus and his gold hungry Spaniards first arrived in the New World.  In the modern era, rational folks have generally conceded that these stories are the result of too much wishful thinking and too much rum.  But such myths die hard and John Hamilton has spent most of his life searching for the inestimable wealth that he thinks is hidden in the remote tropical forests of southern Brazil.  One of the later works in novelist Alistair MacLean’s [...]

2016-12-31T17:56:24-07:00April 6th, 2013|Tags: , , , |

Private Lives of Pippa Lee, The

Peeking into Pippa Author: Rebecca Miller All too often we think we know people because we’ve been in their house or know what they do for a living or what their children are like.  But the truth is, especially as people get older, that those outward things mean very little.  When we meet people as adults they have lived whole lives about which we know absolutely nothing.  The Private Lives of Pippa Lee vividly demonstrates that fact while it looks at life in stages, from childhood to old age. Pippa Lee is the 50-year-old wife of a very successful 80-year-old [...]

2016-12-31T17:57:26-07:00April 25th, 2012|Tags: , , , |
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