Transported to the 21st century, Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi grapple with the legacy of the atom bomb in this shattering and beautiful time travel novel (Entertainment Weekly).

Oh Pure and Radiant Heart plucks the three scientists who were key to the invention of the atom bomb--J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi--as they watch history's first mushroom cloud rise over the desert on July 16th, 1945 . . . and places them down in modern-day Santa Fe.

One by one, the scientists are spotted by a shy librarian who becomes convinced of their authenticity. Entranced, bewildered, overwhelmed by their significance as historical markers on the one hand, and their peculiar personalities on the other, she, to the dismay of her husband, devotes herself to them. Soon the scientists acquire a sugar daddy--a young pothead millionaire from Tokyo who bankrolls them. Heroes to some, lunatics or con artists to others, the scientists finally become messianic religious figureheads to fanatics, who believe Oppenheimer to be the Second Coming.

As the ever-growing convoy traverses the country in a fleet of RV's on a pilgrimage to the UN, the scientists wrestle with the legacy of their invention and their growing celebrity, while Ann and her husband struggle with the strain on their marriage, a personal journey married to a history of thermonuclear weapons.

Possesses the nervy irreverence of Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller . . . Can only be described as, well, genius. --Vanity Fair

A Best Book of 2023 - USA Today, Vogue.com, HipLatina, Largehearted Boy

With tongue-in-cheek humor and sharp cultural criticism, this novel is an unforgettable exploration of diasporic identity politics and the dangers of wanting to belong at any cost. --Xochitl Gonzalez, The TODAY Show

Lozada-Oliva's apocalyptic debut novel in prose is an ode to complicated family dynamics, the overwhelming ways love can consume and eat us alive. --Pamela Avila, USA Today

Your granddaughters are lost, Candelaria. Bianca, the brainy archaeologist, had to forfeit her life's work in Guatemala after her advisor seduced and deserted her. Paola, missing for over a decade, resurfaces in Boston as a brainwashed wellness cultist named Zoe. And Candy, the youngest, is a recovering addict who finds herself pregnant by a man she's not even sure ever existed. None of this concerns you of course, until a cataclysmic earthquake hits Boston. Now you must traverse the crumbling city to reach the Watertown Mall Old Country Buffet--for a reason you still cannot disclose--battling strange entities and your own strange past to save your granddaughters and possibly the world.

Author of Dreaming of You Melissa Lozada-Oliva delivers an unsettling, raucous debut novel written with tongue-in-cheek humor and sharp cultural criticism that unearths one troubled family's legacy, feasting on diasporic identity politics and examining the limits of bodily autonomy and the dangers of wanting to belong at any cost.

A sweeping, mystical novel following three generations of women as they grapple with muddled pasts and predetermined futures, Candelaria is a story of love that eats us alive.

The world has gone dark, but it's John Kerrigan's chance to rise... or his family dies.

An EMP wipes out electronics and the total collapse of safety and law follows.

Plunged into darkness, ex-Navy SEAL John Kerrigan, relies on training and instinct to protect those he loves. Navigating this newly dark world and the harsh challenges it poses-like scarce food, dwindling water supplies, threats of violence, and the upheaval of their lives turning upside down-one family must adapt... or die.

Securing their home and resources comes at a devastating cost as neighbor turns against neighbor.

But whispers, promises of a safe colony lure them out into an unforgiving world. The family quickly learn to trust no one but each other... and that trust grows shorter by the day. The fight for survival takes a toll, but what other choice do they have?

After the events of 2020, all of us were glad to move on. By late 2023, I think we were ready to just live life again. I know I was. It was a time to make new friends and put the past to rest. Rayne and I hadn't known each other long, but we were building a solid friendship, nothing more. It was our common interests that sent us on vacation together to my remote cabin.What we didn't, couldn't know, was that we were on a collision course with the end of the world as we knew it. There was a new virus in town, and it was just making itself known when we left civilization behind. While the world was reeling from its effects, we were completely unaware of what was happening. For a couple of weeks life was great. Driving too fast on the side-by-side, loud music, great food, a little alcohol, and casual conversation distracted by beautiful scenery. About the only thing that would slow us down was the occasional deer in the road. By the time we figured out something was wrong, it was too late?..

On a May night in 1914, the ocean liner Empress of Ireland, with 1500 passengers, sets out from Quebec, bound for England via the St. Lawrence River, its captain unaware that a coal freighter is steaming toward them. As a dense fog rolls in; the freighter rams the Empress, gouging a massive hole in its hull. A tidal wave of water pours in, the ship begins to list, its engines fail, and its lights go out, leaving passengers struggling in the dark, through a maze of flooded corridors. One of those passengers is 20-year-old Bridey Collins, a domestic drudge for a wealthy family. Bridey looks for her fiance Sean, knowing he'll see to it she's safe, only to watch as Sean escapes on the last boat, abandoning Bridey to her fate. Flung overboard, devastated by Sean's betrayal, Bridey is tempted to give up, let herself sink.

But she's 3 months pregnant--if she dies, so will her baby. She can't let that happen! In freezing water, unable to swim, surrounded by corpses, Bridey must somehow find a way to survive--for herself and her baby.

The ship sinks in just 14 minutes, drowning over a thousand passengers. But a few fight to survive: Marie, the ship's cook, who crews a boat filled with panicked women: Charlie, a scrappy 12-yr. old stowaway, and Snapper, the scrawny steward who rescues 20 terrified children. All find their courage tested to the limits; all will find, in years to come, that the horror of this night has affected their lives in unexpected ways

In this dystopian novel about total collapse by internationally renowned author Amin Maalouf, a complete blackout hits a small island with only two solitary inhabitants, who suddenly have to depend on each other.

Lebanese-born French author Maalouf delivers an elegant portrait of a dying
world. A beguiling, lyrical work of speculative fiction by a writer of
international importance. -Kirkus Reviews, *Starred Review*

Alec, a press artist with an impressive track record, settles on a remote island in the Atlantic Ocean. He has little contact with his neighbor, a solitary woman who wrote a cult book years ago, before withdrawing from public life. That is, until a gigantic power failure cuts them off from the rest of the world, and all of a sudden they find themselves dependent on each other. The world appears to be on the brink of nuclear war and the collapse of civilization seems imminent. Just who are the mysterious friends of Empedocles, the gang of otherworldly protectors who came swooping in to interfere with the US presidency and cure all illness? Should we trust them? On the Isle of Antioch is a suspenseful novel with mythological roots, written in the dreamy language of the classics, by internationally renowned scholar Amin Maalouf.

The old world is gone. And it's not coming back...

It's been eight days since the lights went out for good. Eight days of surviving chaos and the worst of humanity. Eight days for the truth to sink in: the survivors are on their own.

Shannon Grayson has escaped from the massive retail center where she was trapped, but a festering bullet wound in her shoulder requires medical care. In the aftermath of society's collapse, doctors and medicine are hard to come by-and her infection is getting worse.

Meanwhile, a chance meeting with an old military brother brings Dennis Sullivan and his traveling companion Kim Nakamura to an unexpected sanctuary. The town of Humboldt seems to be a haven of law and order in a world that's falling apart.

But as Dennis grapples with his addiction, Kim begins to suspect that Humboldt isn't quite as safe as it appears. The town militia provides security and order. In return, they only ask for one thing-absolute control.

Within a few short hours, rising floodwaters force next-door neighbors into a desperate fight for survival.

Before Hurricane Katrina, neighbors Doreen Williams, an African American single mother, and Richard Girard, a reclusive gay man, were aloof and even suspicious of each other. But when the levees in New Orleans burst, these two are sent scrambling into a cramped attic where, together, they face tests of grueling heat, dwindling supplies, worries about loved ones, and the struggle to keep living.

In his novel, Balsamic Moon, author Alan Gartenhaus explores the journeys and losses that survivors endure, the courage and persistence required to come through them, and the truth that, when our very survival depends on the formation of ties across differences, our compassion for one another is what makes us feel safe and whole.

It's been a hot summer for a Swiss lakeside town--both bucolic and citylike, old-fashioned and up-to-date--when a great message, telegraphed from one continent to another, announces an accident in the gravitational system. Something has gone wrong with the axis of the Earth that will send our planet plunging into the sun: it's the end of the world, though one hardly notices it, yet ... Thus all life will come to an end. The heat will rise. It will be excruciating for all living things ... And yet nothing is visible for the moment.

For now the surface of the lake is as calm as can be, and the wine harvest promises to be sweet. Most flowers, however, have died. The stars grow bigger, and the sun turns from orange-red to red, and then to black-red. First comes denial: The news is from America, you know what that means. Then come first farewells: counting and naming beloved things--the rectangular meadows, the grapes on the vines, the lake. In its beauty the world is saying, Look at me, before it ends.

The prophetic Into the Sun vividly voices the initial disbelief, the rejection of the increasingly obvious facts, and the suppression of the gnawing doubts. Ramuz describes denial, fear, melancholy, despair, reckless abandon, and a swift slide into anarchy. Everyone seeks relief in the lake while the sun drinks it up as if through a straw. Ramuz's terrifyingly gripping scenario of a burning planet and the demise of humankind--now so fatefully on our horizon--is a stirring blast from the past, a truly hair-raising tour de force.

RUBICON is the story foreshadowing the next September 11th attack; you want your government leaders to read before the next attack.

RUBICON, a cybersecurity thriller, is an epic battle of good versus evil where Xander Ridge and Paul Ross are locked in a fight to control the ultimate cyberweapon --hospitals collapse --planes fall from the sky --power and communication grids collapse --financial markets and economies plummet --the fate of the world to hangs by a final thread on the precipice of Armageddon on the hope that Xander Ridge vanquishes Paul Ross.

Imagine that you awoke to sporadic power outages, traffic backing up behind failing traffic control lights, the trains stop running, and a series of bizarre news podcasts sharing odd stories of chaotic financial markets and empty bank accounts. You roll over, snatch up your phone -the battery almost depleted, and check your bank account -your money is gone. Your stomach snarls and pits as the fear grips you. The phone goes dark.

A sinister force helps Iranian agents avenge the assassination of General Soleimani by murdering American and British deep-cover spies and coordinates global cyber-attacks --leaving the world with one hope: Xander Ridge. Only Xander can stop Ross and his axis of evil.

Paul Ross and his evil partners unleash hell with asymmetrical warfare bringing the world to Hell's precipice. With the world on the precipice of Armageddon, the American President presses Ridge into service to defeat Paul Ross.

Paul, jealous and spiteful of Xander's success, holds firm that he is the preeminent cyberweapon designer. Paul Ross will stop at nothing --to destroy Xander's life and business to steal Rubicon. Ross brings the fight to Ridge. Ross drags Ridge through hell--ceaselessly attacking Ridge's conviction to secure Rubicon.

Ross is incapable of producing a Rubicon-esque cyberweapon. Ross must force Ridge to use a version to steal Rubicon's code. Ross unleashes a cyberattack crashing a commercial airliner. After the crash, Xander realizes that Ross wants Rubicon at any cost.

Ross poisons Amelia, Xander's terminally ill daughter, with a dastardly cyberattack altering the chemical makeup of the IV fluids and medicines. Ross tries to crash Xander's plane. Unable to kill Ridge, Ross unleashes the cyberweapon on civilian aviation --spinning the world into terror. Upping the pressure on Ridge, Someone orders an attack on Xander's home, endangering the Ridge family.

Xander must come to terms that he must use Rubicon to stop Paul.

RUBICON is the story that you want to read before the world goes dark.

WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE

Harper's Bazaar Best Book of the Year
Boston Globe Best Book of the Year
Ms. Magazine Best Feminist Book of the Year
Words Without Borders: Best Translated Book of the Year

Drawing on real accounts of the Ebola outbreak that devastated West Africa, this poignant, timely fable reflects on both the strength and the fragility of life and humanity's place in the world.

Two boys venture from their village to hunt in a nearby forest, where they shoot down bats with glee, and cook their prey over an open fire. Within a month, they are dead, bodies ravaged by an insidious disease that neither the local healer's potions nor the medical team's treatments could cure. Compounding the family's grief, experts warn against touching the sick. But this caution comes too late: the virus spreads rapidly, and the boys' father is barely able to send his eldest daughter away for a chance at survival.

In a series of moving snapshots, Véronique Tadjo illustrates the terrible extent of the Ebola epidemic, through the eyes of those affected in myriad ways: the doctor who tirelessly treats patients day after day in a sweltering tent, protected from the virus only by a plastic suit; the student who volunteers to work as a gravedigger while universities are closed, helping the teams overwhelmed by the sheer number of bodies; the grandmother who agrees to take in an orphaned boy cast out of his village for fear of infection. And watching over them all is the ancient and wise Baobab tree, mourning the dire state of the earth yet providing a sense of hope for the future.

Acutely relevant to our times in light of the coronavirus pandemic, In the Company of Men explores critical questions about how we cope with a global crisis and how we can combat fear and prejudice.

In the shadow of a fallen world, law and order are just memories. Only survival remains...

Shannon Grayson had made it through the brutal early days of the EMP apocalypse. Despite suffering a bullet wound in her shoulder, she's managed to reunite with her daughter, Kim. And she's found a safe haven at the Wander Motel.

But tensions are rising in her group of survivors. Kim struggles with the aftermath of Dennis's death and the brutal trials she's been forced to endure. She needs to be at her best to survive and lead in this harsh world, but her past haunts her every step.

Shannon, Kim, and their newfound community aren't the only people fighting to survive in the post-EMP world. Andre, Shannon's ruthless ex-husband, is out of prison. He's rebuilding his motorcycle gang. And he's coming for Shannon and Kim.

Both mother and daughter have paid a heavy price for survival. They need time to heal, physically and mentally. But with Andre closing in, the Wander Motel is no longer a refuge-it's a trap.

All thought is driven out of sight, and before long unpleasant things start to happen right in front of us...

Kari Hukkila's One Thousand & One is a philosophical, essayistic novel about catastrophes, both natural and man-made, about humans' ability to respond to catastrophes by thinking or, at the very least, simply managing to survive.

Hukkila's novel is a cornucopia of micro-histories, digressions, and a broad gallery of characters ranging from the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein to an Ethiopian refugee in Rome.

One Thousand & One begins when a large birch tree falls on a cabin near the Russian border in eastern Finland, leaving the narrator unable to concentrate on a writing project he has been at work on. He decides then to take up an invitation to Rome, where his lifelong friend has lived since abandoning a life in philosophy. In Hukkila's novel, Scheherazade's survival by continuing to tell stories is reimagined as survival by continuing to think, a continued thought activity, often taken to extremes, the preservation of humanity in an inhumane world. In David Hackston's eloquent translation, Hukkila's musical, meandering, thought-provoking prose is full of savage, ironic, and luminous humor, remaining uncompromisingly alive until the final sentence.

One Thousand & One is the first in a projected series of five novels. Upon its release in Finland in 2016 it was said to bear all the hallmarks of a classic.

Thought no longer had a place in the world, and of course if you're an illegal it's all but impossible.

America is rotting. Its institutions are crumbling. Citizens are conditioned to rely on a corrupt oligarchy for their every need, and the systems are designed to fail. When the power goes out in a college town in southern Indiana, Keith Rawlings soon realizes it's anything but normal. All electronics, including cars and cellphones, are dead. Panic overtakes society, and chaos ensues. He must get home, reunite the family, and create a plan to survive. The country has been thrown back into the eighteenth century without the knowledge or skills required to survive in the pre-industrial world. The residents of two country roads must band together to try to build a community and rebuild what they can of their lives. But they have more than nature to battle; they must contend with human nature as well. Meanwhile, something strange is happening with the university students in town. Without the constraints of law and society, they are forced to venture away from town in search of resources. The stage is set for a clash of two very different worldviews.

Everything is going as normal in the post-coronavirus world, until it suddenly isn't. Skye Rider leaves Yellowknife carrying data that will form the biggest expose of her journalistic career; she doesn't realize just how important that data is, or what it means to humanity. On the same plane is HAARP technician, Willis Roxton, who's part of the very conspiracy Skye's trying to uncover. When a solar anomaly sends their plane plummeting into the northern Canadian boreal forest, Skye, Willis and Suki, a young Cree boy, face certain death. OUT OF ABADDON follows the three, plus myriad other characters through the days and months following global-wide infrastructure collapse, and into the dystopia their world quickly becomes. Will they survive, and what will remain of society as we know it?

Surrounded by the vibrant chaos of Lagos, Akpana has always longed to escape her turbulent life within her fractured family. With a disgraced father caught embezzling at work, a relentless mother, and a household on the verge of collapse, a job opportunity in England seems like her chance to break free and forge her own destiny, but freedom comes at a cost.

In England, Akpana becomes her family's reluctant lifeline, sending every hard-earned pound back home to keep them afloat. As her parents' fractured marriage unravels-her father taking a second wife in search of the son he never had-the weight of family ties threatens to crush her.

Fighting to keep her own dreams alive, Akpana is caught in a web of black tax--manipulation, lies and unrealistic expectations that stretch across continents. When a devastating betrayal strikes from within, she is forced to face a painful truth: sometimes, blood is the last thing that binds us.

Breathtaking... so much more than a thriller. --Josh Malerman, bestselling author of Bird Box and Malorie

Hits the thriller trifecta: a natural disaster, danger around every corner, and compelling well-drawn characters. --Heather Gudenkauf, New York Times bestselling author

A one-more-page, up-all-night story about two strangers who need each other's help to survive the night after a devastating earthquake shakes Los Angeles.

Beegie is riding the bus when the quake hits. The teenager was heading back to her unhappy foster home, but then she's thrown into a broken world. Roads crumble, storefronts shatter and people run wild.

Dessa, a single mom, is enjoying a rare night out when it strikes. Cell towers are down, so without even knowing if her three-year-old daughter is dead or alive, she races to get back across town.

As danger escalates in the chaotic streets, Beegie and Dessa meet by a twist of fate and an act of violence. The two form a fragile partnership, relying on each other in ways they never thought possible, and learn who they really are when there's only one goal: just get home.

A flat-out thriller [that is] also smart and insightful on timely, important ideas.... Heartbreaking and complicated in the best way... This is addictive reading that changes you as you turn the pages and stays with you long after you've finished. --Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author of This Is How It Always Is

From Icelandic author Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir comes a heart-wrenching thriller about a woman's desperate quest to save the people she loves from a natural disaster.

After an eight-hundred-year slumber, the volcanoes in Iceland's most populated region are showing signs of life. Earthquakes dominate the headlines. Echoes of the devastating eruptions in the past stir unease in the people.

Volcanologist Anna Arnardóttir has spent her entire life studying the volcanic powers under the earth's crust, but even she cannot fathom the catastrophe at hand.

As a series of eruptions threaten most of Iceland's population, she's caught off her rational guard by the most terrible natural disaster of all--love. The world as she knows it is about to fall apart, and so is her heart.

Caught between the safety of a nation and her feelings for her children, her lover, and her past, Anna embarks on a dangerous journey to save the lives of the people she loves--and her soul.

Disaster catapults three children into the care
of their Caribbean grandparents, before another relative, elusive and perhaps
unstable, makes a conflicting claim to guardianship. Balancing domestic
calamity against her own compulsive writing, Aria faces physical and
psychological threats, as a pandemic creeps up on the world and the country
moves into lockdown. By Such a Parting Light offers a humorous and
poignant tale of aging and of coming of age, and it takes a mischievous
approach to the multiple meanings of retirement.

A must for all readers of Caribbean and island
literature - for readers with a taste for realism that blends seamlessly into
strains of the marvelous and gothic - the novel's themes of loss and
separation, love and resilience, are universally appealing. The book personalizes local and international
violence and terror by bringing it all home to a small country in an
international context of uncontained infection and catastrophic politics. Turning
an astonished eye on developed nations from the frail shelter of a tiny island,
the tale unveils alternative notions of civilization and enlightenment.