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  • Vanishing Point

    Michaela Roessner

    Hardcover (Tor Books, July 1, 1993)
    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.
  • Vanishing Point

    Michaela Roessner

    Mass Market Paperback (Tor Science Fiction, Nov. 15, 1994)
    Years after an inexplicable incident during which ninety percent of the human population disappeared without a trace, the survivors make peace with each other, defending themselves against roving fanatics and investigating the Vanishing. Reprint.
  • Vanishing Point

    Catalina Rae, Christian Legan

    eBook (Kymberli Mulford, Inc., Oct. 23, 2018)
    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.”
  • The Vanishing Point

    Louise Hawes

    eBook (HMH Books for Young Readers, Sept. 24, 2007)
    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.
  • The Vanishing Point

    Louise Hawes

    Paperback (HMH Books for Young Readers, Sept. 24, 2007)
    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.
  • Vanishing Point

    Ben M. Baglio

    Paperback (Scholastic, March 15, 2007)
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  • The Vanishing Point

    Louise Hawes

    Hardcover (HMH Books for Young Readers, Sept. 27, 2004)
    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.
  • Vanishing Point

    Catalina Rae, Christian Legan

    Paperback (Kymberli Mulford, Inc., Oct. 26, 2018)
    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.”
  • The Vanishing Point

    Dawson, Coningsby

    eBook (HardPress Publishing, Sept. 1, 2014)
    Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
  • Vanishing Points

    Alice Brown

    Paperback (Dodo Press, Feb. 27, 2009)
    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).
  • Vanishing Point

    Michaela. Roessner

    Hardcover (NY: Tor/Tom Doherty, March 15, 1993)
    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.
  • The Vanishing Point

    Susan Bonners

    Hardcover (Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), Sept. 12, 2005)
    A mysterious painting is uncoveredKate Harris has always spent the summer with her family on her grandparents’ farm. But this year she is going to be at the beach with the Langs, family friends Kate hasn’t seen since she was a baby. She is worried that she won’t get along with the Langs’ daughter, Alison. Yet she has never seen the ocean and there is something about it that intrigues her.Exploring the new town helps divert Kate’s attention from her homesickness, as do the drawing lessons she and Alison take at the Art Association. Then Kate and Alison go to an auction, and Kate impulsively bids on a soot-covered painting. Uncovering the artwork underneath and solving the mystery of its origins and prior ownership requires some determined detective work that takes Kate on an unexpected journey. In understated prose, Susan Bonners has crafted an insightfulstory about a first summer away from home and those first steps from childhood into young adulthood.
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