e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Library Journal Review
More Content
More by this author
Howey, Hugh.
Subjects
Survival -- Fiction.
Civilization -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Siblings -- Fiction.
Colorado -- Fiction.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Howey, Hugh.
by title:
Sand / by Hugh Howey...
by call number:
FICTION HOW
Search the Web
Howey, Hugh.
Survival -- Fiction.
Civilization -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Siblings -- Fiction.
Colorado -- Fiction.
MARC Display
Sand
/ by Hugh Howey.
by
Howey, Hugh.
[CreateSpace], 2014.
Call #:
FICTION HOW
Subjects
Survival -- Fiction.
Civilization -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Siblings -- Fiction.
Colorado -- Fiction.
Series
Howey, Hugh.
Sand
chronicles ; 1.
ISBN:
9781328767547
9781494904487 (trade pbk.)
Alternate title:
Sand
omnibus.
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
325 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
This work contains material previously published in parts as
Sand
1,
Sand
2,
Sand
3,
Sand
4, and
Sand
5.
"We live across the thousand dunes with grit in our teeth and
sand
in our homes. No one will come for us. No one will save us. This is our life, diving for remnants of the old world so that we may build what the wind destroys. No one is looking down on us. Those constellations in the night sky? Those are the backs of the gods we see"--Cover.
Contents:
Part 1: the belt of the buried gods -- Part 2: a visitor -- Part 3: return to Danver -- Part 4: thunder due east -- Part 5: a rap upon heaven's gate.
Summary:
In post-apocalyptic Colorado, a state now covered in
sand
, one family struggles to survive and stay united after the father leaves. Wife and mother, Rose, has only a whore house and as her income dwindles, she finds she must work in the establishment she runs. Her children, Palmer, Victoria, Rob and Conner, all take on the dangerous job of being
sand
divers, hoping to help their mother with expenses.
Genre:
Science fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Dystopian fiction.
Holds:
1
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Woodlawn Public Library
Adult Science Fiction
FICTION HOW
Adult Trade Paperback Books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.