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Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home. Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to decay and collapse around them. No single event precedes society's fall. There is talk of a war overseas and upheaval in Congress, but it still comes as a shock when the electricity runs out and gas is nowhere to be found. The sisters consume the resources left in the house, waiting for the power to return. Their arrival into adulthood, however, forces them to reexamine their place in the world and their relationship to the land and each other. Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale, Into the Forest is a mesmerizing and thought-provoking novel of hope and despair set in a frighteningly plausible near-future America.
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This special book is for every woman who has ever been pregnant, or is now experiencing her first pregnancy, as well as all those hoping to better understand pregnancy's powerful feelings and events - the joy, the pain, the wonder, the bonding, the miracle of new life!
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This special book is for every woman who has ever been pregnant, or is now experiencing her first pregnancy, as well as all those hoping to better understand pregnancy's powerful feelings and events-the joy, the pain, the wonder, the bonding, the miracle of new life!
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From the author of Into the Forest, a moving novel about memory, Shakespeare's green worlds, and the power of reconciliation.Until John Wilson met the warm, wise woman who became his fourth wife, the object of his most intense devotion had always been the work of William Shakespeare. From his feat of memorizing Romeo and Juliet and half a dozen other plays as a student to his evangelical zeal as a professor, John’s faith in the Bard has shaped his life. But now his mental powers have been diminished by dementia, and his wife has reluctantly moved him to a residential care facility. Even there, as he struggles to understand what’s going on around him, John's knowledge of the plays helps him make sense of his fractured world.Yet, when his only child, Mirandawith whom he has not spoken since a devastating misunderstanding a decade agocomes to visit, John begins to question some of his deepest convictions. In his devotion to Shakespeare, did he lose his way? Did he wrong the child who wronged him? The story of an imperfect father and a wounded daughter's efforts to achieve some authentic connection even now, Still Time celebrates redemption and the gift of second chances. It is that rare novel that ends on a resounding note of hope, reminding us that there is always time to live fully and love deeply, so long as we are alive.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fictionnovels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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Efter år av krig, miljöförstöring och resursslöseri står USA vid randen av en samhällskollaps. Systrarna Nell och Eva lever med sina föräldrar i utkanten av det lilla samhället Redwood i norra Kalifornien. Nell förbereder sig för antagningsproven till prestigefyllda Harvard University medan Eva pressar sig själv för att bli den perfekta prima ballerinan. Sakta men säkert förändras livet runt dem när eltillförseln blir alltmer opålitlig, matleveranserna avstannar och skolorna stänger. I väntan på att elen ska komma tillbaka och samhället börja fungera normalt igen jobbar systrarna hårt för att upprätthålla de färdigheter som behövs för att de ska kunna följa sina drömmar. Men hur länge kan man kämpa för att följa sina drömmar när världen förändras och vad händer med människan när drömmarna tar slut? Jean Hegland är författaren till Windfalls, In i skogen, The Life Within: Celebration of a Pregnancy, och nyligen utkomna Still Life. Hon har tre vuxna barn, en älskad styvdotter och fyra barnbarn. Hon lever med sin man i skogarna i norra Kalifornien, och skriver ständigt på nästa bok. In i skogen (Into the forest) filmatiserades 2015 med Oscarnominerade Ellen Page (Juno, Inception) och Evan Rachel Wood (The Wrestler, Tretton) i huvudrollerna.Boken har nominerats till James Tiptree Jr Memorial Award samt William L. Crawford – IAFA Fantasy Award. In i skogen kom ut på svenska första gången 1998 (Forum) och kommer nu i efterlängtad nyutgåva med ny översättning av Karina Berg Johansson. Sagt om boken: ”Realistisk och gripande skildring om vad som händer med människor under apokalypsen. En bra bild av hur postapokalyptisk överlevnad faktiskt skulle kunna se ut utan att fastna i stereotypa föreställningar.” Herman Geijer, zombieöverlevnadsexpert och lyssnarnas Sommarpratare 2015