A Gift Upon the Shore

Author	Jack McDevitt
ISBN	0061054275

The Roadmakers left only ruins behind -- but what magnificent ruins! Their concrete highways still cross the continent. Their cups, combs and jewelry are found in every Illyrian home. They left behind a legend,too -- a hidden sanctuary called Haven, where even now the secrets of their civilization...

Author	David R. Palmer
ISBN	0553245015

Candidia Maria Smith-Foster, an eleven-year-old girl, is unaware that she's a Homo post hominem, mankind's next evolutionary step.

With international relations rapidly deteriorating, Candy's father, publicly a small-town pathologist but secretly a government biowarfare expert,...

Author	James Van Pelt
ISBN	0974657387

When a plague wipes out most of humanity, fifteen-year-old Eric sets out to find his father. Sixty years later, Eric starts another long journey in an America that has long since quit resembling our own, but there are shadows everywhere. Shadows of what the world once was, and shadows from Eric’s past....

Author

Hildegarde Dolson

I talk at school assemblies about my fifth grade teacher, who had a shelf of books in our classroom that were either wildly unappealing (being about babysitters or dying horses), or wildly inappropriate (adult medical thrillers or romance novels). But she had THE HERO AND THE CROWN, which is how I discovered...

Author	Walter Jon Williams
ISBN	0061057940

It starts with the dogs. They won't stop barking. . . . And then the earth shrugs--8.9 on the Richter scale in the world's biggest earthquake since 1755. It hits New Madrid, Missouri, a sleepy town on the Mississippi. Seismologists had predicted the disaster . . . but no one listened. Within minutes, there...