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The Handmaid’s Tale

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“A novel that brilliantly illuminates some of the darker interconnections between politics and sex…just as the world of Orwell’s 1984 gripped our imaginations, so will the world of Atwood’s handmaid!”  ~ Washington Post Book World

The Handmaid’s Tale

 

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The Handmaid’s Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its word, with bizarre consequences for the women and men in its population.

The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order. In condensed but eloquent prose, by turns cool-eyed, tender, despairing, passionate, and wry, she reveals to us the dark corners behind the establishment’s calm facade, as certain tendencies now in existence are carried to their logical conclusions. The Handmaid’s Tale is funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and a tour de force. It is Margaret Atwood at her best.

 

 

 

The Cure: A Young Adult Dystopian Novel

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I absolutely loved this book. It was recommended to me by my sister and I’m honestly a little upset that she recommended it to me so early because now I have to wait for the second book. It had an amazing plot and I think the author executed it almost flawlessly. I personally wasn’t the biggest fan about how quickly Ash and Finn got together. I feel like there should’ve been a little bit more of a growth in their relationship. I also wish we were told more about their past and why Finn had remembered her all those years. I also thought that the plot twist with Rys wasn’t as good as it could’ve been, but all together this was a great book and I can’t wait to read the sequel!! – Amazon Review

The Cure: A Young Adult Dystopian Novel
(The Cure Chronicles Book 1)

 

Before the Blight, becoming an adult was something teenagers looked forward to. But now, turning eighteen means certain death.

Unless you prove yourself worthy of the Cure.

On her seventeenth birthday, Ashen Spencer is blindfolded and escorted to the massive, mysterious building known as the Arc to begin her year of training and testing in hopes that she can earn the Cure—a powerful drug given only to those deemed worthy to survive beyond their eighteenth birthday.
Ashen has a chance to rise up from her former life of squalor and be granted a place in society, if the Panel—the mysterious group of powerful men and women in charge of the Arc—deems her year a success. She’s assigned to work for twelve months as a servant for a wealthy family whose son is the most alluring young man she’s ever met. At first, Ashen is grateful for the opportunity to earn her place in a society she’s always dreamed of inhabiting.

But as time passes and she begins to learn the truth about the people she admires so much and the home she left behind, she realizes she has a choice: Be part of the disease…Or be part of the Cure.

For readers of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and the Selection

 

 

 

Aeon Rising: The Apocalypse Begins

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I feel some aspects of this story could be in play right now! Could it be a cause for some of the hate and violence that we are experiencing today? Huh, something to think about. Well written and very believable. I believe anyone would enjoy this thrilling story! – Amazon Review

Aeon Rising: The Apocalypse Begins

 

An apocalyptic supernova flashes over the South Pole. A mysterious mission sent deep into the Amazon.
The story of one family’s struggle to reunite…

Max Carver, a down-on-his-luck truck driver and Army vet, joins a rescue mission into Brazil. The target is a utopian tech village, the Colony, hidden in the rainforest and run by a charismatic genius. Max’s pregnant wife, Talisha Carver, is the NSA analyst who intercepted encrypted Colony messages signaling a mysterious impending event.

Dr. Xin Rou is a Chinese researcher working at the IceCube neutrino experiment at the South Pole. On lucky days a single flash might signal the passage of a ghostly interstellar particle. Suddenly, IceCube’s entire array lights up. A million detectors at once. Which is impossible. The Antarctic sky is clear and calm—but she is already running for the door.

Because the world is about to end.
But the mystery only just begins…

SELECTED PRAISE & REVIEWS
MATTHEW MATHER

“Terrifying because so plausible.”
—Washington Post bestseller Steven Konkoly

“Apocalyptic sci-fi at its most exciting.”
—New York Times bestseller Nicholas Sansbury Smith

“Mather creates characters you’ve instantly known your whole life.”
—BOING BOING editor Jason Weisberger

“Relentless pacing…bombshell plot twists.”
—Publishers Weekly on Dreaming Tree

 

 

 

Extinction End

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Extinction End is the epic conclusion to the main storyline of the bestselling, award-winning & top-rated Extinction Cycle series by Nicholas Sansbury Smith. Start with Book 1 for a special price here. amzn.to/1V1RCuM

Extinction End
(The Extinction Cycle Book 5)

 

The fifth book in USA Today bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith’s propulsive post-apocalyptic series about one man’s mission to save the world.

Almost seven weeks have passed since the Hemorrhage Virus ravaged the world. The remnants of the United States military have regrouped and relocated Central Command to the George Washington Carrier Strike Group. It’s here, in the North Atlantic, that President Jan Ringgold and Vice President George Johnson prepare to deploy a new bioweapon and embark on the final mission to take back the country from the Variants.

With his home gone and his friends kidnapped, Master Sergeant Reed Beckham and his remaining men must take drastic measures to save what’s left of the human race.
The end is here. . .