"Dystopian drama with an agrarian twist""A wonderful and very difficult take on future American history...""Heads above most of the post apoc stuff...""Couldn't put it down..."The Pullback begins the Fortress Farm series.Solar Storms start slowly at first, a mere nuisance to modern society that enjoys electronic conveniences. But trouble is on the horizon, and world economies that once seemed invincible are beginni...

Seven years after the grid down catastrophe known as the Great Reset plunged the world into a literal Dark Age, a new generation of survivors begin to take over the Fortress Farms. While food is no longer a daily struggle, even more sinister dangers are beginning to appear. Alex and Rebekah Hamilton have taken office as Founder of the Republic, tasked with keeping their homeland safe from larger and stronger empires rising from the ashes of North America. With the help of their families, a...

The farmers of the Okaw have survived the initial chaos of the worldwide grid collapse known as the Great Reset. Using their resourcefulness and with the help of their mechanical geniuses, they have created a safe place for their friends and family. But their success has drawn attention, and those who wish to control the new world won't stand for groups that wish to choose their own path. Against storms of nature and man, Fortress Farms arise from the prairie to shield good people from evi...

The farmers of the Okaw have survived the initial chaos of the Great Reset. Using their resourcefulness and with the help of their mechanical geniuses, they have created a safe place for their friends and family.But their success has drawn attention, and those who wish to control the new world won't stand for groups that wish to choose their own path.Against storms of nature and man, Fortress Farms arise from the prairie to shield good people from evil and despair.The ...

Seven years after the grid down catastrophe known as the Great Reset plunged the world into a literal Dark Age, a new generation of survivors begin to take over the Fortress Farms.While food is no longer a daily struggle, even more sinister dangers are beginning to appear. Alex and Rebekah Hamilton have taken office as Founder of the Republic, tasked with keeping their homeland safe from larger and stronger empires rising from the ashes of North America.With the help of the...

Compelled by voices, a professor is driven to seek what he knows to be. What he seeks lies in wait beneath the earth. The path to its lair is buried in ancient texts. In his pursuit, the professor was warned, Arrogance is the mother of tears. He was forewarned and failed to heed those foreboding word:The truth is the lieThe lie is the truthTo know the truthFace the lieThe truth is unmoved

"Interesting Dystopian story with an agrarian twist...""A wonderful and difficult take on future American history...""Heads above most post-apoc stuff on here..."The Solar Storms start slowly at first, a mere nuisance to modern society that enjoys electronic conveniences. But trouble is on the horizon, and world economies that once seemed invincible are beginning to feel the consequences of greed and neglect.America tries one last time to save herself, and tu...

The Yellow Wallpaper (original title: "The Yellow Wall-paper. A Story") is a short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's health, both physical and mental. Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woma...

For the President of the United States, the daily horror of life in West Darfur's killing fields just hit heartbreakingly close to home. His niece, Lily, has been targeted and savagely murdered by a corps of fearsome government-backed militiamen. With the situation too explosive for diplomatic or military solutions, yet with the President and the public thirsting for revenge, America is out of options. Except one: Ryan Kealey, ex-Special Forces, former CIA, and unrivaled counterterrorism e...

When the coalition of Allied Forces established an international zone in Iraq, they meant to bring peace to the region. They were succeeding – until the moment something hulked into the zone and detonated a nuclear bomb.The last images from the area prior to the blast are not of drones or the trail of an ICBM. Instead they show a solitary figure carrying the enormous weapon to the soon-to-be ground zero on its back.Consulting an ancient prophecy, scholars w...

From the award-winning author of The Water in Between and Consumption, the definitive novel of the Afghanistan war.News From the Red Desert begins in late 2001, when everyone believes the war is already won and the Taliban defeated, then leaps late in the severely escalated conflict--into the mess, and death, and confusion. At its heart are the men and women who have come to Afghanistan to seek purpose, and adventure, and danger, by engag...

"A heady, infectious celebration."-The New Yorker"Shaughnessy's voice is smart, sexy, self-aware, hip . . . consistently wry, and ever savvy."-Harvard ReviewBrenda Shaughnessy's heartrending third collection explores dark subjects-trauma, childbirth, loss of faith-and stark questions: What is the use of pain and grief? Is there another dimension in which our suffering might be transformed? Can we change ourselves? Yearning for new gods, new worlds, and new...