London has been destroyed by fires, rioting, and looting. When Mark in north London learns that his estranged wife is dying in Wimbledon, he sets out to go to her. But his long walk will take him through all kinds of physical danger.

The volume includes: "Youth"; "The Secret Sharer"; "The Lagoon"; "An Outpost of Progress"; "Il Conde"; and, "The Duel". The intention is a range of settings - we move from the sea to the colonial world, the Far East and Africa to England and then the Continent

"An inspirational story of love, loss, and resilience. As spring approached, Linda focused on beginning her first marriage until she received the devastating news of her mother's terminal illness. No one could have anticipated the avalanche of tragedy that filled the next ten years. What surprised Linda the most was that when she eventually reflected on that most painful decade of her life, she realized how each tragedy gave her more courage and strength...

"Ellis Rogers is an ordinary man who is about to embark upon an extraordinary journey. All his life he has played it safe and done the right thing, but when diagnosed with a terminal illness, he's willing to take an insane gamble. He's built a time machine in his garage, and if it works, he'll face a world that challenges his understanding of what it means to be human, what it takes to love, and the cost of paradise. He could find more than the...

"Based on her experiences as a hospice volunteer, novelist A.G. Motjabai explores the last days of a wide-ranging cast of characters in a single inpatient ward. These beautiful, sometime harrowing, stories are about families as well as patients, about all ages and stages of life coming together, about living while dying."--Jacket.

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"Taylor Edwards' family might not be the closest-knit--everyone is a little too busy and overscheduled--but for the most part, they get along just fine. Then Taylor's dad gets devastating news, and her parents decide that the family will spend one last summer all together at their old lake house in the Pocono Mountains. Crammed into a place much smaller and more rustic than they are used to, they begin to get to know each other again. And Taylor discovers...

Un psiquiatra con muchas preguntas, un niño que podría encerrar las respuestas y dos madres que tendrán que cuestionarse sus vidas. Janie sabe que con su hijo Noah nada es fácil. El agua le aterroriza y conseguir que se dé un baño es una batalla que Janie apenas tiene fuerzas para librar. Por las noches sufre pesadillas tan espantosas que incluso ella se asusta. Todo el mundo le dice que es una fase pasajera, pero la situación solo parece empeorar....

"Old Man Logan is dying. His healing factor is depleted, and his search for a cure has led to nothing but dead ends. Can Logan take his last breath in peace? Not if Mysterio has anything to say about it! The villain means to set in motion the massacre of the X-Men that kicked off Old Man Logan's apocalyptic future timeline. But is someone pulling Mysterio's strings? The master of illusion's new benefactors will surprise you! During the time Logan...