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Fever : a novel
\"Nico Storm and his father Willem drive a truck filled with essential supplies through a desolate land. They are among the few in South Africa--and the world, as far as they know--to have survived a devastating virus which has swept through the country. Their world turned upside down, Nico realizes that his superb marksmanship and cool head mean he is destined to be his father's protector, even though he is still only a boy. But Willem Storm, though not a fighter, is both a thinker and a leader, a wise and compassionate man with a vision for a new community that survivors will rebuild from the ruins. And so Amanzi is founded, drawing Storm's 'homeless and tempest-tost'\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Shield of Distance: Fearful Borders at the Edge of the World
For many years, sections of Australian literature have competed with utopian impressions of the country by displaying a fear that often manifests itself in apocalyptic renderings of landscape and life. At work in many of these texts is a contradiction that seemingly rejects fears by asserting the popular belief of Australia as a \"lucky country,\" isolated from the rest of the world's problems by geography, while at the same time constantly undermining this notion by showing that complacency and optimism can prove unfounded and false, and may very well lead to catastrophe and disaster. Here, Weaver examines the tension between security and fear by focusing on Nevil Shute's novel On the Beach, a key text that demonstrates the idea of the nation's vulnerability to the outside world.
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Fourth of July Creek : a novel
\"After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral eleven-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker Pete Snow comes face-to-face with the boy's profoundly disturbed father, Jeremiah. With courage and caution, Pete slowly earns a measure of trust from this paranoid survivalist itching for a final conflict that will signal the coming End Times. But as Pete's own family spins out of control, Pearl's activities spark the full-blown interest of the FBI, putting Pete at the center of a massive manhunt from which no one will emerge unscathed. In this shattering and iconic American novel, Smith Henderson explores the complexities of freedom, community, grace, suspicion, and anarchy, brilliantly depicting our nation's disquieting and violent contradictions\" -- from publisher's web site.
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