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1) Night light
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Series
Language
English
Description
Book 2 in a masterful what-if series in which global catastrophe puts a family's very survival at risk—and both reveals the darkness in human hearts and lights the way to restoration.
Survival has become a lifestyle, and technology is a thing of the past as the Branning family learns that the power outage is worldwide. Everyone is desperate.
When two young thieves break into the Brannings' home and clean out
...2) Forbidden
Author
Series
Books of mortals volume 1
Language
English
Description
Many years have passed since civilization's brush with apocalypse. The world's greatest threats have all been silenced. There is no anger, no hatred, no war. There is only perfect peace... and fear. But a terrible secret has been closely guarded for centuries: Every single soul walking the earth, though in appearance totally normal, is actually dead, long ago genetically stripped of true humanity. Fleeing pursuit, with only moments to live, a young...
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Series
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English
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In this continuation of the bestselling author's chronicle of an alternate world, Rudi MacKenzie continues his trek across the land that was once the United States, where he hopes to learn the truth behind The Change that rendered technology across the globe inoperable.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
In the post-apocalypse, folks getting by in the Sanctuary (the remains of St. Louis) are surprised when a woman rushes in to report that in the West, civilization flourishes and crops grow. Unfortunately, there's also an army on the march that enslaves everyone it encounters.
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Series
Language
English
Description
This lightening-paced instant New York Times bestseller about survival in America after an apocalyptic economic crash asks the question: What if the world as we know it ended tomorrow?
The America we are accustomed to is no more. Practically overnight the stock market has plummeted, hyperinflation has crippled commerce, and the fragile chains of supply and high-technology infrastructure have fallen. The power grids are down. Brutal...
The America we are accustomed to is no more. Practically overnight the stock market has plummeted, hyperinflation has crippled commerce, and the fragile chains of supply and high-technology infrastructure have fallen. The power grids are down. Brutal...
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Series
Wanderers volume 2
Language
English
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Five years after ordinary Americans sleepwalked across the country to a destination they only knew, followed by the shepherds -- friends and family who gave up everything to protect them, the survivors seek to rebuild human society with the help of three unlikely heroes.
7) Sovereign
Author
Series
Books of mortals volume 3
Language
English
Description
While the Order focuses on their total annihilation, Rom and his followers must rely on their faith in the abiding power of love to overcome all and lead them to sovereignty.
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Series
Language
English
Description
“This new novel of the Change is quite probably the finest by an author who has been growing in skill and imagination for more than twenty-five years.” – Booklist (Starred Review)
Rudi Mackenzie has journeyed long and far across the land that was once the United States of America, seeking the shore where the sun rises, hoping to find the source of...
Rudi Mackenzie has journeyed long and far across the land that was once the United States of America, seeking the shore where the sun rises, hoping to find the source of...
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Language
English
Description
Born during a powerful hurricane, Wanda, an unusual woman in a rapidly changing world, loses family, gains community and ultimately seeks adventure, love and purpose in a place abandoned by civilization and remade by nature. Told in four parts-power, water, light, and time-The Light Pirate mirrors the rhythms of the elements and the sometimes quick, sometimes slow dissolution of the world as we know it.
10) Lost everything
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
301 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the not-distant enough future, a man takes a boat trip up the Susquehanna River with his most trusted friend, intent on reuniting with his son. But the man is pursued by an army, and his own harrowing past; and the familiar American landscape has been savaged by war and climate change until it is nearly unrecognizable"--P. [4] of cover.
11) Three a.m
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Surviving an apocalyptic event after embarking on what he believed would be a promising military career, Thomas Vale struggles to protect survivors, follow orders, and endure life in a chaotic world of limited supplies and constant danger.
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"S. M. Stirling's Novels of the Change are a "truly original combination of postapocalyptic sci-fi and military-oriented medieval fantasy"* about a future where mysterious Powers removed advanced technology, and humanity rebuilds society. However, this new world is not always a peaceful one ... The spirit of troubadour Prince John, the brother of Crown Princess Orlaith, has fallen captive to the power of the Yellow Raja and his servant, the Pallid...
13) Dark age ahead
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
14) Light of dawn
Author
Series
Remnant (Vannetta Chapman) volume 3
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Before Dawn, What Dangers Lurk in the Darkness? For nine months, ever since a devastating solar flare caused a complete failure of the electrical grid, Shelby Sparks and her diabetic son, Carter, have been living at the ranch of Shelby's ex-high school sweetheart, Max Berkman. Mostly insulated from the chaos surrounding them, Shelby and Max discover that the Texas government has fled the capitol and is barely maintaining control of the state. The...
16) The spark
Author
Series
Time of heroes volume 1
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
viii, 337 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In a violent world in which civilization has fallen and monsters roam, a young hero will rise. In the time of the Ancients the universe was united--but that was so far in the past that not even memory remains, only the broken artifacts that a few Makers can reshape into their original uses. What survives is shattered into enclaves--some tiny, some ruined, some wild. Into the gaps between settlements, and onto the Road that connects all human reality...
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Series
The change volume 2
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Burying the ashes of loved ones and resolving to start over in a near-future world that is succumbing to an ice age, Dylan unexpectedly transforms the lives of a survivalist and her 12-year-old daughter, who prepare for a record-breaking winter in a freezing caravan park.
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
vi, 627 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
" ALL-NEW STORIES OF THE EMBERVERSE by S.M. Stirling, Harry Turtledove, Walter Jon Williams, John Birmingham, John Barnes, Jane Lindskold, and more... "[A] vivid portrait of a world gone insane, "* S. M. Stirling's New York Times bestselling Novels of the Change have depicted a vivid, utterly persuasive, and absorbingly unpredictable postapocalyptic wasteland in which all modern technology has been left in ashes, forcing humankind to rebuild an unknowable...
Author
Publisher
Talos Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Talos Press edition.
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The day every person on earth lost his and her memory was not a day at all. In people's minds there was no actual event. . . and thus it could be followed by no period of shock or mourning. There could be no catharsis. Everyone was simply reset to zero.
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