Nelson Mandela is one
of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international
hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in
South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his
country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a
quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the
most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president
of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's
anti-apartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward
multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a
vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. The
foster son of a Thembu chief, Mandela was raised in the traditional,
tribal culture of his ancestors, but at an early age learned the modern,
inescapable reality of what came to be called apartheid, one of the
most powerful and effective systems of oppression ever conceived. In
classically elegant and engrossing prose, he tells of his early years as
an impoverished student and law clerk in Johannesburg, of his slow
political awakening, and of his pivotal role in the rebirth of a
stagnant ANC and the formation of its Youth League in the 1950s. He
describes the struggle to reconcile his political activity with his
devotion to his family, the anguished breakup of his first marriage, and
the painful separations from his children. He brings vividly to life
the escalating political warfare in the fifties between the ANC and the
government, culminating in his dramatic escapades as an underground
leader and the notorious Rivonia Trial of 1964, at which he was
sentenced to life imprisonment. Herecounts the surprisingly eventful
twenty-seven years in prison and the complex, delicate negotiations that
led both to his freedom and to the beginning of the end of apartheid.
Finally he provides the ultimate inside account.
He was wrong.
Now he's trapped in a school that's surrounded by a razor-wire fence. A school where video cameras monitor his every move. Where there are no adults. Where the kids have split into groups in order to survive.
Where breaking the rules equals death.
But when Benson stumbles upon the school's real secret, he realizes that playing by the rules could spell a fate worse than death, and that escape--his only real hope for survival--may be impossible.
The year is 2032,
sixteen years after a deadly virus—and the vaccine intended to protect
against it—wiped out most of the earth’s population. The night before
eighteen-year-old Eve’s graduation from her all-girls school she
discovers what really happens to new graduates, and the horrifying fate
that awaits her. Fleeing the only home she’s ever known, Eve sets off on a long, treacherous journey, searching for a place she can survive. Along the way she encounters Caleb, a rough, rebellious boy living in the wild. Separated from men her whole life, Eve has been taught to fear them, but Caleb slowly wins her trust...and her heart. He promises to protect her, but when soldiers begin hunting them, Eve must choose between true love and her life
