ANGELA'S ASHES

by Frank McCourt

“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.”

So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt.

This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory.

And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of survivors choose sides -- or are chosen.

'The Stand' is King's seminal masterpiece of apocalyptic fiction.

by W. Bruce Cameron

You’ve probably never met someone like Clancy. He’s keeping a diary, he’s falling in love, there are rivals for his affections, he lives with his best friend and his worst enemy — even taken together, these factors are maybe not that unusual, except that Clancy is a dog. His point of view is therefore perhaps . . . different.

TO BUILD A FIRE

by Jack London

A man’s defiance of nature’s brutal cold turns his solitary journey through the Yukon into a desperate fight for survival. As the frozen wilderness tightens its grip, every moment becomes a race against time, fire, and fate itself.