"A quite ordinary middle-aged woman ... awakens to find she is the last living human being"--Back cover.
But when Mithila tries to cross the Wall, every power in Sumer comes together to stop her. To break the rules is to risk all of civilization collapsing. But to follow them is to never know: who built the Wall? Why?
The Wall is a 2007 New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year, a 2008 Caldecott Honor Book, a 2008 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year, the winner of the 2008 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction, and a ...
I prefer Tartier.” “You might be able to change that.” A wry smile came over his gray face. John assumed that he was thinking of what Sescobar's reaction would be tohaving his son as a fellow Council member. Then his expression became ...
A powerful, searing story of a divided city - where one boy strays on to the wrong side of the wall, and finds his life changed for ever . . .
In this book, based on literary and historical sources as well as the latest archaeological research, Alistair Moffat considers who built the Wall, how it was built, why it was built and how it affected the native peoples who lived in its ...
Collecting the full dystopic trilogy created by film director Antoine Charreyron and artist Mario Alberti, THE WALL is a fast-paced survival story mixing elements of science fiction and horror in perfect blockbuster proportions.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Compared by critics to Kafka, Joyce, and Musil, H. G. Adler is becoming recognized as one of the towering figures of twentieth-century fiction.
Shortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize "Thrilling…A topical and deftly satirical novel." —Anna Mundow, Wall Street Journal In this taut, dystopian tale, an island nation ravaged by the Change has built an enormous concrete barrier around ...
I can't hear any outside noises at all, but every movement I make seems to bounce back at me off the walls, as if amplified. The scrape of my hand and the torch against the soil; the drag of my shoes behind me; the panting of my own ...
Set during the Spanish Civil War, the title story crystallizes the famous philosopher’s existentialism. 'The Wall', the lead story in this collection, introduces three political prisoners on the night prior to their execution.
Allegorical yet deeply personal and absorbing, The Wall is at once a critique of modern civilization, a nuanced and loving portrait of a relationship between a woman and her animals, a thrilling survival story, a Cold War-era dystopian ...
An unwelcome visitor arrives at a seaside home to find that death awaits her there The house called Sunset has been Marcia’s summer home for her entire life.
From “the American Agatha Christie” Mary Roberts Rinehart comes a Golden Age murder mystery inspired by her own hauntingly beautiful coastal northeastern home in Bar Harbor; The Wall is both a love letter to quiet waterfront towns as ...
A modern parable relating the consequences of surrounding ourselves with protective walls that isloate us from love and fellowship.
One of the least known is the security wall which divides Kurdish community. In this book, Ramazan Aras uses political anthropology to show that the physical structures are not only a mindset, but also a tragedy.
The state of California is walled off from the rest of the U.S. and has not only been allowed to secede, but is split in two.