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The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Category: Fiction
What if our 24-hour day grew longer, first in minutes, then in hours until day becomes night and night becomes day? 'It is never what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophies are always different - unimagined, unprepared for, unknown...' What if our 24-hour day grew longer, ...Show more
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Category: Young Adult Fiction
'A luminous, magical coming-of-age novel' Marie Claire 'Maybe everything that had happened to me and my family had nothing at all to do with the slowing. It's possible, I guess. But I doubt it. I doubt it very much.' One Saturday morning the world wakes to discover that the rotation of the earth has beg ...Show more
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
'It is never what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophies are always different - unimagined, unprepared for, unknownâ¦' One morning, Julia and her parents wake up in their suburban home in California to discover, along with the rest of the world, that the rotation of the ea ...Show more
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYPeople ∙ O: The Oprah Magazine ∙ Financial Times ∙ Kansas City Star ∙ BookPage ∙ Kirkus Reviews ∙ Publishers Weekly ∙ BooklistWith a voice as distinctive and original as that of The Lovely Bones, and for the fans of the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood, K ...Show more
The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
Category: Fiction
An ordinary town is transformed by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep in this mesmerizing novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Miracles. "This book is stunning."--Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven One night in an isolated college town in the hill ...Show more
The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker
Category: Fiction
'Riveting, profoundly moving' Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven 'Beautiful and devastating' Red'Thought-provoking and profound' CosmopolitanImagine a world where sleep could trap you, for days, for weeks, for months...She sleeps through sunrise. She sleeps through sunset.And yet, in those ...Show more
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