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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The Rain Watcher is a ... family drama set in Paris as the Malegarde family gathers to celebrate the father's 70th birthday. Their hidden fears and secrets are slowly unraveled as the City of Light undergoes a stunning natural disaster. Seen through the eyes of charismatic photographer Linden Malegarde, the youngest son, all members of the family will have to fight to keep their unity against tragic circumstances. [An] intense novel of love and redemption..."...
Author
Series
Without warning volume 2
Language
English
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Description
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from John Birmingham's Angels of Vengeance.
The world changed forever when a massive wave of energy slammed into North America and wiped out 99 percent of the population. As the United States lay in ruins, chaos erupted across the globe.
Now, while a skeleton American government tries to reconstruct the nation, swarms of pirates and foreign militias plunder the lawless wasteland where even the president...
The world changed forever when a massive wave of energy slammed into North America and wiped out 99 percent of the population. As the United States lay in ruins, chaos erupted across the globe.
Now, while a skeleton American government tries to reconstruct the nation, swarms of pirates and foreign militias plunder the lawless wasteland where even the president...
3) Monument 14
Author
Series
Monument 14 volume 1
Language
English
Description
Trapped inside a chain superstore by an apocalyptic sequence of natural and human disasters, six high school kids from various popular and unpopular social groups struggle for survival while protecting a group of younger children.
4) Promise
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A devastating tornado rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression. Dovey, a black laundress, searches for her family. At the McNabb house she find the daughter of the house, Jo, who suffered a head wound. When a baby is found in the wreckage is it Jo's baby brother, Tommy, or Dovey's light-skinned great-grandson, Promise? The two women-- one black, one white; one a great-grandmother, the other a teenager-- are...
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 3
Language
English
Description
The third novel in legendary author and Discworld creator Terry Pratchett and award-winning science fiction writer Stephen Baxter's "Long Earth" series, which Io9 calls "a brilliant science fiction collaboration."
2040. The Long Earth is in chaos. . . .
The cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption is shutting down civilization. Whole populations flee to the relative safety of myriad stepwise Earths. Sally Linsay, Joshua Valiente,
...7) Ashfall
Author
Series
Ashfall trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Tanglewood
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano destroys his city and its surroundings, fifteen-year-old Alex must journey from Cedar Falls, Iowa, to Illinois to find his parents and sister, trying to survive in a transformed landscape and a new society in which all the old rules of living have vanished.
8) Portent
Author
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
1996, c1992
Physical Desc
xl, 319 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Milo's high school career has gone relatively smoothly, and in senior year he figures he's overdue for an Epic Teenage Catastrophe. Marcos returns to their Florida high school for the first time since freshman year, and Milo must confront the long-buried feelings that he's kept hidden from himself and his deeply religious parents and community. As the two begin resolving their feelings for each other, Mother Nature goes bizarrely out of control. Have...
10) Tides of Fire
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 17
Language
English
Description
"To stop the world from burning, it's up to Sigma Force to uncover a secret buried at the heart of our planet. The Titan Project--an international research station off the coast of Australia--discovers a thriving zone of life in an otherwise dead sea. The area teems with a strange bioluminescent coral that defies science, yet holds great promise for the future. But the loss of a military submarine in the area triggers a brutal attack and sets in motion...
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Series
Language
English
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"Newt has been to hell and back with his friends. The Glade. The Maze. The Scorch. The inner halls of WICKED. But now he has a burden that can't be shared with Thomas and the other, the Flare. And Newt can't bear the thought of his friends watching him descend into madness as he succumbs to the virus. Leaving only a note, Newt departs the Berg before the Gladers return from their mission into Denver, Colorado. From there, he experiences the gritty...
12) In the ruins
Author
Series
Crown of stars volume 6
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
xii, 606 pages : map ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
The threatened cataclysm has occurred, and physical devastation vies with political disruption for Prince Sanglant's attention as he and Liath strive to bring back daylight and a new order to the chaos.
Author
Series
Imager portfolio volume 5
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
496 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Quaeryt's prestigious new rank and marriage to Vaelora are threatened by a devastating volcanic eruption in the old capital of Telaryn, where he is challenged to restore order in the face of chaos, corruption, and an invasion by a would-be conqueror.
Author
Series
Monument 14 volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
vi, 217 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A group of survivors, originally trapped together in a superstore by a series of escalating disasters, has split in two -- one group heading to Denver airport on a repaired school bus, the other remaining in the Sanctuary trying to rebuild the community they lost. But the world outside is dark and filled with dangerous chemicals that turn people into bloodthirsty monsters.
15) Forgotten
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
437 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"If your old life vanished completely, should you try to get it back or create a whole new one? That's the intriguing question at the heart of Catherine McKenzie's Forgotten. The smart, funny, and provocative story of a woman who returns home after being stranded for months in Africa by an earthquake only to find that everyone in her life believed she was dead and moved on"--
16) The fever code
Author
Series
Maze runner trilogy volume Prequel
Language
English
Description
"Before the trials, WICKED found Thomas, the perfect boy, to help them build the Maze and find the cure for the Flare, a disease that plagues the world. But the truth of what is really going on is a secret and Thomas must uncover it before time runs out"--
17) The kill order
Author
Series
Maze runner trilogy volume Prequel
Language
English
Description
"Mark struggles to make sense of his new, post-disaster world in this prequel to The Maze Runner"--
Author
Series
Language
English
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"A decades-old murder, a strange superstition, an enormous snake, and one giant secret are about to rock the beautiful Belle Vue to its core. It is a time of great upheaval for the Belgian Congo and Belle Vue is not safe from the changes. But there are more pressing problems as an unsolved disappearance brings up issues for some of the denizens of the village. Add to that a sudden influx of strangers and a horrible storm that literally divides the...
19) King's blood
Author
Series
Kinsman chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
603 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the foretold destruction of the Five Realms, the remnant that escaped by sea searches for a new home. As the king's health worsens, Sar Wilek assumes command and struggles to rule the disjointed people, while assassination attempts and dark magic endanger his life. One prophecy has come to pass, but another looms in the future: Who is this Deliverer?
20) Dry ice
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Flint Corp., a multinational agribusiness, has perfected weather control, altering the atmosphere to create and steer storms and reaping massive profits from the resulting crop failures and successes. When Greg Simpson, the inventor and chief programmer, goes rogue, pummeling Flint's own holdings, a hotshot young weather scientist Tess Beauchamp is sent to Antarctica to oust him and take control of the TESLA installation. But Greg won't go quietly--he's...
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