Dylan leads a clandestine team of adventure racers, including his daughter Jenn, into Eden, the oldest of the Zones. Jenn carries a secret--Kat, Dylan's wife who abandoned them both years ago, has entered Eden ahead of them.
A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called "East of Eden" "the first book," and indeed it has ...
... thought through this aspect of their plan So when the hero offered sacrifice after exiting the boat “[the gods sniffed] the smell, they gathered [like flies] over the offering” (Arnold and Beyer, Readings from the Ancient Near East, ...
From the head writer of the original In Treatment, an exquisite novel of the maturation of a girl, a family, and an entire community Eden is no paradise: it is the stifling, rural community in which upscale urban escapees, Alona and Mark, ...
Henry asked. ''Maybe she's telling the truth. I mean, what's she really done?'' ''Came here under false pretenses. Used me to get information about my family. Lied to me about her father and helped him perpetrate a fraud.
“Shut your own mouth, dead-eye's daughter,” Zander growls. Mira recoils. Dead-eye is a derogatory slang for first-generation people from Eden, referring to the dull, flat color of their lens implants. Mira's eyes are a beautiful, ...
Meanwhile, Professor Miles Lavisch discovers an enigmatic book locked inside a rock brought back by the Areopagus. Set to announce the shocking news at a Smithsonian Museum symposium, he is assassinated and the book disappears.
Haunted by the final words of a newly baptized congregation member who was subsequently murdered by her husband, the Reverend Stephen Drew abandons his pulpit to spend time with an author who writes best-selling books about angels.
"What would you do tot survive if your very existence were illegal? Rowan is a second child in a world where population control measures make her an outlaw, marked for death ..."--
In this search for both scientific answers and ecological authenticity, the author tours the front lines of ecological invasion in the company of world-class scientists to explore the disparity between what is nature and what is natural.