Capernaum |
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Author:
| Vaca, Julian |
ISBN: | 978-1-4904-2221-3 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2013 |
Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $14.00 |
Book Description:
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In a not-too-distant, postwar future, the Earth and Moon have frozen in orbit around the Sun. Life can only sustain beneath sunset. Lantern-clocks keep track of the days, and the Fathers, a group of bureaucratic leaders, control the last remaining society. Capernaum.For sixteen-year-old orphan Franklin Rivers, though, who gives a care? The planet's stability and corrupt politicians are the least of his worries: He's just been suspended from Millock Academy for hitting a professor, and...
More DescriptionIn a not-too-distant, postwar future, the Earth and Moon have frozen in orbit around the Sun. Life can only sustain beneath sunset. Lantern-clocks keep track of the days, and the Fathers, a group of bureaucratic leaders, control the last remaining society. Capernaum.For sixteen-year-old orphan Franklin Rivers, though, who gives a care? The planet's stability and corrupt politicians are the least of his worries: He's just been suspended from Millock Academy for hitting a professor, and his little sister's missing. Gone. Kidnapped.Now Franklin has to enlist the help of some friends and follow the clues to a place the Fathers forbid...a place where secrets abound...the other side of the Earth......where the Sun is stuck at sunrise.