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81) City of savages
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Saga Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After the Red Allies turn New York City into a POW camp, two sisters must decipher the past in order to protect the future in this ... thriller with a dual narrative"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seen through the diary of Jacob, an Amish farmer trying to protect his family and his way of life, the book examines the idea of peace in the face of deadly chaos when an Amish community in Pennsylvania is caught up in the devastating aftermath of a catastrophic solar storm and the subsequent collapse of modern civilization.
84) Hard to be a god
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (177 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
Don Rumata is one of a group of Earth scientists who have been sent to the planet Arkanar with the proviso that they must not interfere in the planet's political or historical development. Treated by the planet's natives as a kind of divinity, Don is both godlike and impotent in the face of its chaos and brutality.
85) 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.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Rudi Mackenzie has won the battle that expelled the enemy from the new High Kingdom of Montival. Now he must free the people who live in the state once known as Idaho from occupation by the legions of the Church Universal and Triumphant and pursue them to their lair over the mountains. There he will finally confront the forces behind the Church The Powers of the Void.Yet even a victory will not end the conflict forever. The Powers of the Void are...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
174 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"What causes rich countries to lose their way? Symptoms of decline are all around us today: slowing growth, crushing debts, increasing inequality, aging populations, antisocial behavior. But what exactly has gone wrong? The answer, Niall Ferguson argues ... is that our institutions--the intricate frameworks within which a society can flourish or fail--are degenerating"--Dust cover flap.
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xviii, 238 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores the historical development of American culture and how elements of what has made the United States a leading player in world affairs, including economic liberalism and free enterprise, have ultimately contributed to its decline.
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Princess Diana of Themyscira left paradise to save Man's World from itself. When Wonder Woman awakens from a centuries-long sleep to discover the Earth reduced to a nuclear wasteland, she knows she failed. Trapped alone in a grim future, Diana must protect the last human city from titanic monsters while uncovering the secret of this dead Earth--and how she may be responsible for it."--
Series
Publisher
Newfound Press, The University of Tennessee Libraries
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
124 pages : illustrations (some color), music ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In fall of 2017, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel became the talk of the town in Knoxville, Tennessee. Mandel's novel about the collapse of civilization in the aftermath of a global pandemic was the focus of two community reading programs.With funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the leadership of the Knox County Public Library, Knoxville hosted a Big Read of Station Eleven. Likewise, the University of Tennessee selected Station...
Author
Publisher
Prime Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Twenty-year-old Russ arrives in the northern California town of Freedom to visit his dad. Freedom has peculiarities other than its odd name: the local mayor''s ideas of "decentralization" have left it without normal connections to state or federal government and minimal public services. Russ meets an interesting young woman, Pendra, but before he can get to know much about Freedom or its people, a savage tsunami strikes the West Coast. The wave of...
Publisher
Arrow Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
2-disc limited edition.
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (83, 68 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (35 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm)
Language
English
Description
Jesus shows you the way to the highway: The year is 2035, and Special Agent Gagano dreams of leaving the CIA to open a business with his wife Malin. Before he can hand in his resignation, however, a strange cyber virus attacks Psychobook, the CIA's operating system, forcing Gagano to enter cyberspace via virtual reality to combat the threat.
Crumbs: A dwarfish scrapdealer named Gagano, mystically inclined yet equally terrified, has grown tired collecting...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
417 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A sweeping chronicle of the role of climate change and disease in the fall of the Roman Empire interweaves historical narrative with cutting-edge climate science and genetic discoveries to trace 500 years of volcanic eruptions, solar cycles, climate instability and devastating illnesses that combined in catastrophic ways.
94) Gunslinger girl
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a post-Second Civil War lawless West, sharpshooter Serendipity "Pity" Jones stars in, and lives at, the Theater Vespertine, but there is a dark cost to her freedom that Pity may not be willing to pay.
95) The road
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A father and his son are two of the last remaining people on earth after an unexplained tragedy has destroyed most of life. As the two head south, they are faced with many trials and tribulations along the way. An intense bond between the father and son is formed as together they strive to not only survive, but to retain humanity as they help the people they encounter along the way.
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