Books with title Vanishing Points

It Happened one night, suddenly, without warning: 90% of the human race disappeared without a trace. Vanished, never to be seen again. There were no portents, no notes, no bodies, no clue as to where they went or whether they would ever come back again. People woke to find their lovers no longer beside them. Children woke to find their parents missing, parents woke to empty cribs. Neighbors found empty houses, empty apartment buildings.Civilization collapsed.After a few months of violence spawned by fear and rage, a measure of peace was restored in the Bay Area. Enclaves formed and established defense pacts against the wandering bands of fanatics. They set about surviving, renewing contact with the rest of the world, establishing trading ties with each other, and trying to discover what had caused the Vanishing.Now, thirty years after the Disappearance, Dr. Easterman is coming across the continent from the Carnegie Institute to work with the Hackers Center in Silicon Valley, continuing a promising line of research on what caused the cataclysmic event. At the House, where a community of survivors has made a good life while continuing to build the Winchester Mansion, a young woman named Renzie is in the middle of the political struggles between various groups in the Valley.And up in the Oakland Hills a huge band of Heaven Bounders is gathering. The 'Bounders believe that the Vanishing was Judgement Day, and the Vanished have ascended to heaven. They believe that the only thing holding back their own salvation is the disbelief of others - disbelief that is manifested in building houses and growing food. If those others were dead, the Heaven Bounders believe, then Judgement would be fulfilled, and they would join their loved ones in Heaven.

She thought her baby girl was too young to enjoy Trick-or-Treating. She hadn’t even bought her a costume. But somehow, Doris broke down and allowed a friend from their new neighborhood to take her daughter out to a couple of houses. And suddenly, Catalina went missing while she was in someone else’s care. How could it be? How could two-year-old daughter be lost in the mountains on Halloween night? And what was her husband going to say when he found out that she had let this happen?Vanishing Point is the third book in Catalina Rae’s series called “Based on a True Story.”

In lush, glowing prose, Louise Hawes’s historical novel draws readers into the life and art of sixteenth-century Bologna with a compelling account of Lavinia Fontana, arguably the most famous female painter of the Italian Renaissance. Here readers will find a coming-of-age story filled with quest, complication, and catastrophe as well as miracles and hope. Although the novel is set four hundred years ago, the hard choices it involves speak to all times, all places, and are sure to tap into readers’ own conflicts between head and heart, real life and dreams.

She thought her baby girl was too young to enjoy Trick-or-Treating. She hadn’t even bought her a costume. But somehow, Doris broke down and allowed a friend from their new neighborhood to take her daughter out to a couple of houses. And suddenly, Catalina went missing while she was in someone else’s care.How could it be? How could two-year-old daughter be lost in the mountains on Halloween night? And what was her husband going to say when he found out that she had let this happen?Vanishing Point is the third book in Catalina Rae’s series called “Based on a True Story.”

In lush, glowing prose, Louise Hawes’s historical novel draws readers into the life and art of sixteenth-century Bologna with a compelling account of Lavinia Fontana, arguably the most famous female painter of the Italian Renaissance. Here readers will find a coming-of-age story filled with quest, complication, and catastrophe as well as miracles and hope. Although the novel is set four hundred years ago, the hard choices it involves speak to all times, all places, and are sure to tap into readers’ own conflicts between head and heart, real life and dreams.

In lush, glowing prose, Louise Hawes’s historical novel draws readers into the life and art of sixteenth-century Bologna with a compelling account of Lavinia Fontana, arguably the most famous female painter of the Italian Renaissance. Here readers will find a coming-of-age story filled with quest, complication, and catastrophe as well as miracles and hope. Although the novel is set four hundred years ago, the hard choices it involves speak to all times, all places, and are sure to tap into readers’ own conflicts between head and heart, real life and dreams.

Alice Brown (1856-1948) was an American novelist, poet and playwright, most famous as a writer of local color stories. She also contributed a chapter to the collaborative novel, The Whole Family (1908). She was born in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire and graduated from Robinson Seminary in Exeter in 1876. She later worked as a schoolteacher, but moved to Boston to write full-time in 1884. She first worked at the Christian Register and then, starting in 1885, she wrote for the Youth's Companion. She was a prolific author for many years, but her popularity waned after the turn of the century. Among her most famous works are: Meadow Grass: Tales of New England Life (1895), Tiverton Tales (1899) and Country Neighbors (1910).

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IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT,SUDDENLY, WITHOUT WARNING 90% OF THE HUMAN RACE VANISHED! Gone without a trace, never to be seen again. There were no clues as to where they went, people woke up to find their loved ones, mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, children all gone. Parents awoke to find empty cribs. Neighbors awoke to find empty houses next door, and empty apartments. All empty with no clues as to why or where they went? Civilizations began to collapse as panic soon set in. Wandering bands of fantatics proclaimed the end of time. There was a huge band of fantatics called the "Heaven Bounders", they believed that this was a sign and that the "others" have been taken to heaven and they were awaiting the coming Judgement Day. They believe if they oppose all rebuilding of civilization then they too would join the "others" in heaven and Judgement Day would surely come. Thirty long years after the "cataclysmic event", Dr. Easterman is coming across the continent with promising research on what may have caused the disappearances of so many people and thus a really dangerous threat to the "Heaven Bounders" beliefs. To the "Heaven Bounders" he must be stopped at all cost! A very original and fascinating novel, that will have you on the edge of your seat right up to the last page.

Alice just can't stop crying. To her, it seems as if it should be simple. If your parents split up, you live with the one who understands you best. Alice's father had always been the one to "get" her. But somehow she had ended up living with her mom, who drank too much, and her stepfather, who didn't like her and didn't care who knew it. So when a bout with bronchitis lands her in the hospital, she decided she just can't face going home again--ever.What if she simply stops eating--goes on a hunger strike? They would have to keep her there, wouldn't they? It seems like the simplest solution, even when the hallucinations start, even when they kind of take over. But suppose she goes into a coma--or dies? If that happens, she'll have her new friend Rex, the mysterious boy who says he's dying, but whose jaunty ways have brought Alice to life.Once again, Bruce Brooks tells an intriguing story that puts new twists on the oldest, biggest issues--love, death, and taking charge of your own life as you move toward adulthood.