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1) Ark
Author
Series
Flood (Stephen Baxter) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's the year 2030. The oceans have risen rapidly, and soon the entire planet will be submerged. But the discovery of another life-sustaining planet light years away gives those who remain alive hope. Only a few will be able to make the journey-Holle Groundwater is one of the candidates. If she makes the cut, she will live. If not, she will be left to face a watery death...
Author
Series
Seasons of Sugarcreek volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Tim Graber arrives in Sugarcreek to help his aunt and uncle with spring planting. At first, Tim doesn't fit in with his many cousins and their crowded lifestyle. But when he meets Clara Slabaugh, the local school teacher, he understands why the Lord brought him to Sugarcreek.
Author
Series
Return to Red River volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now working at his dream job, Thorliff must return home when Blessing is hit by a terrible flood. Return to Red River book 3.
4) Julie
Author
Language
English
Description
Set in the last part of the Great Depression, a story of Julie Wallace and her family - of adventure and romance, of courage and commitment, of triumph and trategy in a flood-prone town in western Pennsylvania.
5) Flood
Author
Series
Flood (Stephen Baxter) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four hostages are finally released, but they face a world suddenly inundated as vast amounts of water is released from the earth's mantle. As the world's cities and countries disappear under the rising seas, humanity faces unimaginable global disaster.
6) A better man
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
It's Gamache's first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Flood waters are rising across the province. In the middle of the turmoil, a father approaches Gamache, pleading for help in finding his daughter. As crisis piles upon crisis, Gamache tries to hold off the encroaching chaos, and realizes the search for Vivienne Godin should be abandoned. But with a daughter...
Author
Series
Plague of angels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
When the Sea King declares war on the small kingdoms of Norland, and forbids any ships from sailing on the rising waters that threaten to flood humanity, a princess must awaken an ancient killer to save the world.
Author
Language
English
Description
A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America's great coastal cities and then its heartland, leaving nothing but an archipelago of mountaintop colonies surrounded by a deep expanse of open water. Stubbornly independent Myra and her precocious seven-year-old daughter, Pearl, fish from their small boat, the Bird, visiting dry...
Author
Series
Greenglass House volume 5
Language
English
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Description
Nothing is what it seems and there's always more than one side to the story as a group of strangers trapped in an inn slowly reveal their secrets in this new standalone mystery set in the world of the best-selling Greenglass House.
10) Hard rain
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In shock and found clinging to a tree branch, Bethany Richter is pulled from thrashing floodwaters that have decimated the town of Garnett, Texas and killed a dozen others. Six months after solving the murder of a local waitress, Annie McIntyre is working as an apprentice P.I. when she's handed her first solo case: uncover the identity of the man who rescued Bethany before he was swept downriver. When Annie's search turns up a different victim--shot...
Author
Series
Staggerford novels volume 4
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
199 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In a world bound for an epic flood, only a chosen few are guaranteed safe passage into the new world once the waters recede. The Kostrovian royal court will be saved, along with their guards. The fate of the court's Royal Flyers, a lauded fleet of aerial silk performers, is less certain. Principal Flyer Natasha Koskinen will do anything to save the only family she's ever known. Her newest recruit, Ella Neves, is driven less by her desire to survive...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Celeste McHale delivers another genuine Southern story in The Sweet Smell of Magnolias and Memories. Jacey never intended to to settle down; but when the man of her dreams resurfaces, she must find out if she has the courage to finally fall in love"--
17) Exodus
Author
Series
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
vi, 345 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2100, as the island of Wing is about to be covered by water, fifteen-year-old Mara discovers the existence of New World sky cities that are safe from the storms and rising waters, and convinces her people to travel to one of these cities in order to save themselves.
18) The 86th village
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Is it ever too late to right a wrong? Throughout Southern India, eighty-six villages are set to completely submerge due to a government-sanctioned dam across the Krishna river. One such village, Nilgi, has so far avoided the illegal iron-ore mining and floods that have ravaged the district for decades, believing itself to be indestructible and incorruptible despite warnings of impending doom. With whole mountains disappearing from the mining around...
19) Three rivers
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A massive storm was coming straight for Mama's little plot of land in the Mississippi Delta and there was no way any of them could outrun the weather. For three years Melody Mahaffey has been on the road, touring as a keyboardist with a terrible Christian pop band she can hardly stand. So when her mother calls, full of her usual dire news and dramatic pronouncements, Melody is relieved to pack her bags and call it quits. But at the sprawling, defunct...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"2015. 18-year-old Boyd Montgomery returns from her grandfather's wedding to find her friend Isaac missing. Drought-ravaged central Texas has been newly inundated with rain, and flash floods across the state have begun to sweep away people, cars, and entire houses as every river breaks its banks. In the midst of the rising waters, Boyd sets out across the ravaged back country. She is determined to rescue her missing friend, and she's not alone in...
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