One woman is called upon to rebuild the future of humankind after a nuclear war, in this revelatory post-apocalyptic tale from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower. When Lilith lyapo wakes from a centuries-long sleep, she finds herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. She discovers that the Oankali - a seemingly benevolent alien race -- intervened in the fate of the humanity hundreds of years ago, saving everyone who survived a nuclear war from a dying, ruined Earth and then putting them into a deep sleep. After learning all they could about Earth and its beings, the Oankali healed the planet, cured cancer, increased human strength, and they now want Lilith to lead her people back to Earth -- but salvation comes at a price. Hopeful and thought-provoking, this post-apocalyptic narrative deftly explores gender and race through the eyes of characters struggling to adapt during a pivotal time of crisis and change.

Two very lonely people, Niles and Dawn, could have never guessed that in one another, they would find the love of their life. Their mutual friend, erotic freelance writer, Sue, loved playing cupid, and suggested her two close friends meet, if only just to chat. Once Niles and Dawn met online, the rest was history. Niles found in Dawn a beautiful butterfly, just waiting to emerge from her cocoon. Dawn saw in Niles the man of her wildest dreams. However, Dawn’s ex-husband, Boz, had controlled her for years, making her existence a living hell. Could Dawn escape the clinches of her controlling ex-husband, finding passionate love and refuge in Niles’ arms? The day that Niles Landers and Dawn White met online was unlike any day either of them had ever experienced in their lives. You see, both of these two future lovers were fed up with life, as far as they cared there was no meaning for it, and would never have expected to find love in the way that they did when they met. In fact neither of them would have thought they could find a companion under any circumstance anymore.

A critical rethinking of theories of national imagination, The Dawn That Never Comes offers the most detailed reading to date in English of one of modern Japan's most influential poets and novelists, Shimazaki Toson (1872–1943). It also reveals how Toson's works influenced the production of a fluid, shifting form of national imagination that has characterized twentieth-century Japan. Analyzing Toson's major works, Michael K. Bourdaghs demonstrates that the construction of national imagination requires a complex interweaving of varied—and sometimes contradictory—figures for imagining the national community. Many scholars have shown, for example, that modern hygiene has functioned in nationalist thought as a method of excluding foreign others as diseased. This study explores the multiple images of illness appearing in Toson's fiction to demonstrate that hygiene employs more than one model of pathology, and it reveals how this multiplicity functioned to produce the combinations of exclusion and assimilation required to sustain a sense of national community. Others have argued that nationalism is inherently ambivalent and self-contradictory; Bourdaghs shows more concretely both how this is so and why it is necessary and provides, in the process, a new way of thinking about national imagination. Individual chapters take up such issues as modern medicine and the discourses of national health; ideologies of the family and its representation in modern literary works; the gendering of the canon of national literature; and the multiple forms of space and time that narratives of national history require.