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SUMMARY:LILITH'S BROOD - Octavia Butler
DESCRIPTION:Lilith Iyapo is in the Andes\, mourning the death of her family
 \, when war destroys Earth. Centuries later\, she is resurrected -- by mir
 aculously powerful unearthly beings\, the Oankali. Driven by an irresistib
 le need to heal others\, the Oankali are rescuing our dying planet by merg
 ing genetically with mankind. But Lilith and all humanity must now share t
 he world with uncanny\, unimaginably alien creatures: their own children. 
 This is their story...\n\nThe acclaimed trilogy that comprises LILITH'S BR
 OOD is multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winner Octavia Butler at her best. P
 resented for the first time in one volume\, with an introduction by Joan S
 lonczewski\, Ph.D.\, LILITH'S BROOD is a profoundly evocative\, sensual --
  and disturbing -- epic of human transformation.\n\n\n\nLILITH'S BROOD con
 tains:\n\nImago:\nJodahs is a child of the Earth and stars\, born from the
  union between humans and the Oankali\, who saved humanity from destructio
 n centuries before.But Jodahs is approaching adulthood\, a metamorphosis t
 hat will take him beyond gender and family\, and into a great but dangerou
 s unknown.Frightened and alone\, Jodahs must come to terms with this new i
 dentity\, learn to master lifechanging powers and bring together what's le
 ft of humankind - or become the biggest threat to their survival.\n\nAdult
 hood Rites:\nLilith's son Akin looks like an ordinary child. His family li
 ve together on Earth\, but not in complete peace. The Oankali saved humani
 ty years before\, compelled by the desire to create an extraordinary new r
 ace of children. But there are those who resist the Oankali and the salvat
 ion they offer.The first of his kind\, Akin is more powerful than any othe
 r being. He understands the desire to fight for the independence of humani
 ty. He also fears that\, if left alone\, humanity will destroy itself agai
 n.\n\nDawn:\nWhen Lilith lyapo wakes in a small white room with no doors o
 r windows\, she remembers a devastating war\, and a husband and child long
  lost to her.She finds herself living among the Oankali\, a strange race w
 ho intervened in the fate of humanity hundreds of years before. They spare
 d those they could from the ruined Earth\, and suspended them in a long\, 
 deep sleep.Over centuries\, the Oankali learned from the past\, cured dise
 ase and healed the world.
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