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Supertown (Paperback)
Paul Kupperberg
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On a quiet, dead-end residential street on the outskirts of Omaha,
Nebraska sits an old house called Tanglewood. In its front yard a
large old ash tree casts its shadow across shrubs and flowerbeds
and a lawn that have all long ago surrendered any pretense of life.
But inside the House are the Doors. Doors too numerous to count.
Doors made of the wood from Yggdrasil, the great Norse World Tree
that stands at the center of the universe. Doors that lead to every
time and every place that ever was-or ever could be. Provided you
are one of the rare few with the gift, a child with the ability to
step through such Doors to the other side. Provided you are a
Latchkey, capable of becoming one of the Wardens, the protectors of
Tanglewood and its Doors. Then-disaster Tanglewood's connection to
the World Tree is somehow broken. And many of its Doors disappear,
sent spinning out across time and space with no rhyme or reason,
leaving behind only the flimsiest of shadows. Now the young Wardens
must find and return the missing Doors. But many of them have
splintered from the impact. Those missing pieces must be restored
before the Doors can be returned. And Splinters can be anywhere and
assume any form. Almost like they don't want to be found. Read all
about the Latchkeys and their exciting, thrilling, spooky
adventures to places that were, places that might have been, and
places that almost could be
In late January 1918, Dr. Loren Miner, a country physician in rural
Kansas, saw the first cases of an influenza of a violent nature.
With a warning to the U.S. Public Health Service, his was the lone
voice of alarm about the potential spread of this virulent new
strain of a particularly deadly disease. With hundreds of thousands
of American servicemen crisscrossing the nation through military
training camps and then to Europe to fight in World War I, an
influenza pandemic wasn't just a possibility, but a certainty. It
swept through congested cities and rural communities alike, killing
its victims in days, sometimes in hours. No one had ever seen
anything like the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919. Before the
deadly disease ran its course in 1919, more American soldiers died
from the flu than in combat, more than one-fifth of the world's
population was infected, and as many as 100 million people
worldwide died from the disease that caused the most devastating
pandemic in history.
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