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The things that keep us here / Carla Buckley.
A virulent pandemic has turned neighbor against neighbor in America's heartland. Trapped inside their suburban home, Ann Brooks and her family face choices in a world where opening a door could threaten all that they hold dear.
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- ISBN: 9780440245094 (hc.) :
- ISBN: 0440245095 (hc.) :
- Physical Description: 406 p. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press, c2010.
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| Genre: | Suspense fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Castlegar Public Library | FIC BUC (Text) | 35146001535053 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Trapped inside her home when a devastating pandemic enters America, Ann Brooks is forced to make life-or-death decisions involving once-everyday choices in order to protect her family. - Baker & Taylor
Trapped inside her home when a devastating pandemic enters America, Ann Brooks is forced to make life-or-death decisions involving once-everyday choices in order to protect her family. A first novel. - Random House, Inc.
How far would you go to protect your family?
Ann Brooks never thought sheâd have to answer that question. Then she found her limits tested by a crisis no one could prevent. Now, as her neighborhood descends into panic, she must make tough choices to protect everyone she loves from a threat she cannot even see. In this chillingly urgent novel, Carla Buckley confronts us with the terrifying decisions we are forced to make when ordinary life changes overnight.
A year ago, Ann and Peter Brooks were just another unhappily married couple tryingâand failingâto keep their relationship together while they raised two young daughters. Now the world around them is about to be shaken as Peter, a university researcher, comes to a startling realization: A virulent pandemic has made the terrible leap across the ocean to Americaâs heartland.
And it is killing fifty out of every hundred people it touches.
As their town goes into lockdown, Peter is forced to return homeâwith his beautiful graduate assistant. But the Brooksesâ safe suburban world is no longer the refuge it once was. Food grows scarce, and neighbor turns against neighbor in grocery stores and at gas pumps. And then a winter storm strikes, and the community is left huddling in the dark.
Trapped inside the house she once called home, Ann Brooks must make life-or-death decisions in an environment where opening a door to a neighbor could threaten all the things she holds dear.
Carla Buckleyâs poignant debut raises important questions to which there are no easy answers, in an emotionally riveting tale of one family facing unimaginable stress.
