TOUCHING THE VOID

by Joe Simpson

A gripping true survival story about climber Joe Simpson’s catastrophic accident in the Peruvian Andes and his nearly impossible fight to stay alive after his partner is forced to cut the rope connecting them.

How both men overcame the torments of those harrowing days is an epic tale of fear, suffering, and survival, and a poignant testament to unshakable courage and friendship.

A defining Beat Generation novel that captures a post-World War II sense of restlessness and rebellion against conformist American life through its characters’ nonstop cross-country wandering. Its jazz-like, free-flowing style, focus on intense lived experience, experimentation, and spiritual searching made it the clearest, most influential expression of the Beat ideals of nonconformity and individual freedom

by Harry Turtledove

The trilogy explores an alternate history in which the Confederate States survive the American Civil War and North America is reshaped by political tension and rising extremism. Old rivalries ignite, nations clash, and dangerous ideologies take root. Sweeping, tense, and chillingly plausible, the series paints a gripping portrait of what could have been.

ARK

by Veronica Roth

On the eve of Earth’s destruction, young horticulturist Samantha stays behind in a remote seed vault, racing to catalog the last living plants before an asteroid wipes the planet clean.