Children of the Last Days Trilogy (Set of 3 Novels)
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The first volume in an epic trilogy tracing the lives of four generations of an expatriate family situated in the rugged interior of British Columbia. The series follows Anne and Stephen Delaney and their descendants as they live through the tumultuous events of the twentieth century, beginning in 1900 and culminating with the dramatic events leading up to the Millennium.
Anne is a well-educated Englishwoman who lands in British Columbia after World War I. She departed "proper society" on a quest of adventure after growing up in a household of spiritualists and Fabian socialists. She meets and later marries a trapper-homesteader, an Irish immigrant running from his own traumatic past. This is a novel about the slow transformation of souls from despair and disbelief to faith, hope, and love... about perceptual psychology, and about the ultimate concerns of life, death, and the mystery of existence.
Interspersed with flashbacks to Ireland, England, Poland, Russia, and Belgium during the Wars, Strangers and Sojourners is a tale of the extraordinary concealed within the ordinary. It's about bravery amidst trepiditation and uncertainty - ultimately celebrating the triumph of the human spirit.
Paperback. 573 pages.
Nathaniel Delaney, the editor of a small-town newspaper, is the key character in Plague Journal, and he is about to confront the greatest crisis of his life. As the story opens, alarming occurrences are happening across North America, but little of it is being reported to the public. The narrative, which is set in the not-too-distant future, depicts a society silently transitioning from a democratic type of governance to a form of dictatorship. Delaney is one of the few remaining voices in the media ready to speak the truth about what he perceives is going on, and as a result, the full force of the government turns against him.
Thus, in order to protect his children and salvage what remains of his life, he chooses a decision that will affect the future paths of every member of his family as well as many others. As his story continues, Delaney writes in an observational notebook, noting the day-to-day escalation of events and dissecting the motives of his political opponents with often caustic candour.
More significantly, he starts keeping a "mental record," which evolves into a painful process of self-examination. As his world crumbles around him, he is forced to reconsider the meaning of his own assumptions and compromises, his accomplishments and failures. Plague Journal follows the struggle of a relatably contemporary man who is pushed to the ultimate spiritual and psychological test... who in losing himself, discovers his own inner depths.
Paperback. 275 pages.
In Eclipse of the Sun, Michael O'Brien continues the gripping fictional account of a family caught in the crossfire of a tyrannical regime. The story, set in the near future, depicts the establishment of a police state in North America, in which every level of society is infected with misinformation, confusion, and misdirection. Few individuals are able to identify what exactly is going on, because the Western world's culture has been distorted by widespread weakening of moral absolutes and values.
Against this backdrop, the Delaney family of Swiftcreek, British Columbia, suffers a devastating blow when the father, the publisher of a little newspaper that dares to face the lies, is detained by the dreaded Office of Internal Security. His older children flee into the northern interior's forest, escorted by their great-grandfather and an elderly priest, Father Andrei. Arrow, their younger brother, becomes a fugitive as the government strives to remove all witnesses and destroy all proof of their ultimate aims.
As O'Brien weaves the novel's various threads into a terrifying yet poignant finale, he delves into the core of North America's rising darkness, exploring events that have already unfolded. This unsettling work of fiction will leave the reader with a number of unanswered questions: Are we living in a pivotal moment in history? What is the gravity of our situation? Should we go forwards in pessimistic dread, or foster a Christian realism based on hope? This is a parable about the triumph of the weak over the strong, courage over despair, good over evil, and, most importantly, the prevalence of love over hate.
Paperback. 857 pages.
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