“Miranda?”
That’s Alex’s voice, Alex calling to me. I’ll put the diary away now, hiding it with all my others. I’ll go to him, stand with him, hold his hand as he takes his first steps toward life.
He taught me to trust in tomorrow.
“Yes, Alex,” I say. “I’m coming.”
Amazon Exclusive
A Letter from Susan Beth Pfeffer, Author of This World We Live In
Dear Amazon reader,
I love you.
No, I really do. I have loved you since the first of the Last Survivors trilogy, Life As We Knew It, was published. It was then that I began monitoring (such a nice euphemism for stalking) my Amazon ranking. I cheered when it dipped below 20,000 for the first time. I marveled when it landed at 7,777 and 6,666. When, for one glorious moment, it was in the extremely high three digits, I wrote an entire celebratory blog entry. I went through the same emotional extremes when the second volume, The Dead & The Gone, came out. When its Amazon ranking was lower than Life As We Knew It, I felt that same trill of excitement that I experienced when kid sister Serena beat Venus Williams for the first time. Now the trilogy is complete, with the publication of This World We Live In. I celebrated on July 13, 2009, at 4:06 p.m., when it debuted at 271,527. Each morning and afternoon and evening and night and occasionally at tea time, I check on all three books. It’s like the Milwaukee Brewers Sausage Race. Now in first place is Life As We Knew It at 2,911, but fast on its heels is the up-and-comer This World We Live In at 2,983. Falling back to third place is The Dead & The Gone, at 3,240, from its midafternoon high of 2,829. Yes, dear Amazon reader, I love you. But could you please do something about my 1993 novel, The Ring of Truth? It’s feeling very lonely at 5,235,538!
Best,
Susan Beth Pfeffer
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HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT
Boston New York 2010
Copyright © 2010 by Susan Beth Pfeffer
All rights reserved. For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-publication Data
Pfeffer, Susan Beth, 1948—
This world we live in / Susan Beth Pfeffer.
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Summary: When the moon’s gravitational pull increases, causing massive natural disasters on earth, Miranda and her family struggle to survive in a world without cities or sunlight, and wonder if anyone else is still alive.
[1. Survival—Fiction. 2. Family life—Fiction. 3. Diaries—Fiction. 4. Science fiction.]. I. Title.
PZ7.P44855Ti 2010
[Fic]—dc22 2009026939
Manufactured in the United States of America
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