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A man and his brother escape to a rural retreat when disaster strikes America.

When the nuclear bombs start flying a single mother escapes to a Mutual Assistance Group retreat with her two small children. The post-apocalyptic world that soon follows is a dangerous place, and they will have to learn new skills to survive. Her young son especially will need all the help he can get, and he finds an unexpected boost from a cowboy action shooter who planned ahead for the worst.

Kevin Crain was tired. He’d lived a long, healthy, productive life. Part of Tom Brokaw’s “Greatest Generation”, he’d done his part in World War II, and then again in Korea. He matured during the Cold War. He’d seen a couple of the atomic bomb tests first hand, and knew the destruction that would come with all-out war.

As daunting as the end of the world, nuclear fallout, World War III, civil unrest, economic collapse, solar flares, EMP attacks, and other apocalyptic scenarios may be, society has always been interested in the “what if?” of a post-apocalyptic world. Jerry’s stories provide interesting and practical perspectives of heroes and villains navigating post-apocalyptic scenarios including everything from Mad Max-type of events to more relevant plotlines that seem as if they could have come from the headlines of the modern world.

Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965 - 30 years after its original publication - Despair is the wickedly inventive and richly derisive story of Hermann, a man who undertakes the perfect crime: his own murder. One of the 20th century’s master prose stylists, Vladimir Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. He studied French and Russian literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, then lived in Berlin and Paris, where he launched a brilliant literary career. In 1940 he moved to the United States, and achieved renown as a novelist, poet, critic, and translator.

A young man fleeing his violent outlaw past in Texas rides into Rainy Flats, Montana, looking for a new life. He changes his name to Abraham Littleton and slowly eases into a new way of life. Then the Renit Gang rides into town. The Renits kidnap the town’s favorite lady and shoot the lawman. Threatening his friends and everything he has slowly worked to build, Littleton is being forced to take a stand and reveal his old self to the town.

" Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero - sullen, gawky Hugh Person - to Switzerland.... As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after multiple humiliations, from a grinning Scandinavian and returns to NY with his bride.... Eight years later - following a murder, a period of madness and a brief imprisonment - Hugh makes a lone sentimental journey to wheedle out his past...." (Martin Amis)