title: The News from the End of the World
author:  Emily Jeanne Miller 
description: <DIV>&ldquo;Is home the answer or the end of the road? A beautifully crafted, emotional portrait of a Cape Cod family whose teenage daughter may not be the only one out of options. &#160;The austere beauty of the off-season landscape seems to bring out hard truths and scour away secrets. &#160;I loved it.&rdquo;<BR /> &mdash;<B>Helen Simonson</B>, author of <I>Major Pettigrew&rsquo;s Last Stand</I> and <I>The Summer Before the War</I><BR /><BR /> &ldquo;<I>The News from the End of the World </I>is my favorite kind of book, bighearted and full of complicated flawed characters stumbling through love and life, making hard choices, making mistakes, and making the reader fall in love with every one of them. I loved this novel!&rdquo;<BR /> &mdash;<B>Ann Hood</B>, author of <I>The Book that Matters Most</I><BR /><BR /> &quot;With wonderfully crafted characters and expert pacing, Miller has written the kind of narrative that readers crave: a beautifully written, hard-to put-down story that will stay with readers long after the book has been closed.&quot;<B>&#160;</B>&mdash;<B>BOOKLIST</B><BR /><BR /> &ldquo;Immersive&hellip; The unique landscape of Cape Cod in the offseason sets the stage for Miller&rsquo;s poignant, fast-paced family drama. Told in alternating points of view, this gripping novel gets to the heart of the familial trust, independence, and the struggle to overcome the past in order to forge a happier future.&rdquo;&mdash;<B><I>PUBLISHERS WEEKLY</I></B><BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;<I>In The News from the End of the World</I>, Emily Jeanne Miller deftly shows how lifetimes can be contained in four days, how memories inhabit a place, and how returning home is always to confront oneself. The characters in this novel consistently surprised me; they find grace in quiet moments, forgiveness when least expected. And it&rsquo;s all so beautifully written that by the end I felt as if I had lived in this town my whole life, and could walk its haunted streets.&rdquo;<BR /> &mdash;<B>Peter Rock</B>, author of <I>My Abandonment&#160;</I><BR /><BR /> &ldquo;Emily Jeanne Miller&rsquo;s <I>The News from the End of the World</I> recalls Tolstoy&rsquo;s line that &#39;every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,&#39; an idea less tragic than simply true; shared pain is what solders us. This is a book about the soldering of one family, about the love between brothers and sisters and fathers and daughters all written in heartbreaking, true and gorgeous prose.&rdquo;<BR /> &mdash;<B>Lea Carpenter</B>, author of <I>Eleven Days</I><BR /><BR /> &ldquo;Emily Jeanne Miller is a master storyteller. In her brilliant T<I>he News from the End of the World</I>, she summons a way of seeing reminiscent of Virginia Woolf: the male characters are as vivid as the female, and as their stories unfold, you cannot look away. This moving and deeply satisfying novel weaves several stories over a New England weekend, without one false note. I will be thinking about the Lake family for a long time.&rdquo;<BR /> &mdash;<B>Robert Bausch</B>, author of <I>Far as the Eye Can See </I>and <I>A Hole in the Earth</I></DIV>
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  ## Extinction Point: The End
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( Extinction Point - 1 )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Paul Antony Jones
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Reporter Emily Baxter has a great job, an apartment in Manhattan, and a
  boyfriend she loves. All that changes the day the red rain falls from a
  cloudless sky. Just hours after the first reports from Europe, humanity is on
  the brink of extinction, wiped from the face of the earth in a few bloody
  moments, leaving Emily alone in an empty city. As she struggles to grasp the
  reality of her situation, Emily becomes the final witness to the end of our
  world… and the birth of a terrifying new one.
  
  
  The world she knew and loved is dead and gone. Now Emily must try to find a
  way out of New York as the truth behind the red rain is revealed: the earth no
  longer belongs to humanity.
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Paul Antony Jones
  
  
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  _EXTINCTION POINT_
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Book one: The End
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _This one is for my Mum and Dad._