Kirjahaku

"It was the completest thing, the neatest, most squared-away piece of killing ever seen. Oh, it was glorious freedom-that is surely true, and I must call a thing what it is-yet it was powerful gruesome. But before I say anything of the killing, and long before I take up the knottier parts of this tale, I'll give it some shoring up, help it bear its own weight." So begins Raising Ebenezer, a witty, raucous, Twain-meets-Tolkien adventure. Our narrator, E.P. Cornshuck, finds himself suddenly, providentially freed from a life of slavery and learns that his true identity--heir of a kingdom in rebellion--has been hidden for just such a time as this.

When the unimaginable happens to the stable world of Liam, Jack, and Josiah, when all but a few scattered souls are lost, the structures of society fail - utterly, and maybe forever. It is here in this new, primitive age that our young heroes must find their way, that boys, armed with the Word of the God of their fathers, must band together, learn to be men, and lead their people out of the wilderness. And like all great stories of survival, life and death will contend for them every step of the way.Catastropolis is a story of apocalyptic endings and hopeful beginnings. It holds forth a vision of what society could be: creative, simple, and God fearing, made up of citizens who, like Nehemiah, must work with a trowel in one hand and a sword in the other. It is a story that answers the call of all great literature "to teach and to delight," portraying the heart of man so that we are made to reconsider - or perhaps consider for the first time - our place in the world and the fundamentals of society that we now take for granted.

from the back cover]It is two generations after the Dying, and John Roy Mench - husband, father, son of a preacher - is thriving in this new and primitive age. As his tattered copy of the scriptures puts it, he lives under his own vine and fig tree.But when another plague threatens, John Roy packs up everyone he loves and sets out on the road where he soon finds that what awaits him there is just as brutal, just as deadly as any disease of the body.Blood Bound is a story of a patriarch's faithfulness in the midst of suffering and courage in the face of violent death. But more than these, it is a story of this patriarch's God, the story of severe and irresistible grace.

The year is 2183, and the world of man has come back from the brink of ruin. Plague is just a memory, and cities are booming. It is the dawn of a second modern age. But Billy Mench is suited for none of it. At 13 years old, he is a prodigy - an accomplished linguist and master of the classics. But for all his ability, the world outside his door is a terror. Books are his only friends. And when his father dies, Billy is cast loose on the streets of old Charleston, alone. But Providence is at work, and Billy soon finds himself on what will be his life's great adventure. Indentured to an eccentric visionary, on an expedition to distant oceans, Billy stumbles across an oddity: a strange manuscript in an unknown tongue. Over the next year he'll survive a passage around the Horn and face a killer in a hostile desert, but nothing will compare to the danger of unlocking the Book of Waters. It will threaten not only his life and identity, but the very world as he knows it. The Book of Waters is the story of light displacing darkness, of God's word accomplishing what it was sent out to do: to build the Kingdom, to disciple the nations, and to upend the world of man.