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Pub. Date
2011
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 5 hours, 10 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
Waking up in an empty hospital after weeks in a coma, County Sheriff Rick Grimes finds himself utterly alone. The world as he knows it is gone, ravaged by an epidemic. In the weeks and months that follow the apocalypse, Grimes will lead a group of survivors in a world overrun with zombies.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Special edition ; letterbox widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An infirmary patient wakes up from a coma to an empty room ... in a vacant hospital ... in a deserted city. A powerful virus, which locks victims into a permanent state of murderous rage, has transformed the world around him into a seemingly desolate wasteland. Now a handful of survivors must fight to stay alive, unaware that the worst is yet to come.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Many of us conjure up images of a post-apocalyptic world where life is simple, our needs and goals clear: starting fires, building shelters. Begley argues that most apocalyptic collapses are not abrupt cataclysms but the results of enduring crisis, such as drought, disease, or war. He discusses the various scenarios that could lead to mass migration, from climate change to political collapse, and how we might prepare for them. First and foremost,...
Author
Publisher
No Starch Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"This book outlines a model for evaluating risks that weighs the probability of disastrous events against the cost of preparing for them. It also looks at the supplies and equipment essential to surviving sudden catastrophes, and examines the merits and legal implications of different self-defense strategies"--
Author
Series
Walking Dead series volume 4
Language
English
Description
The Walking Dead original novel series, set in the universe of Robert Kirkman's iconic comic book, comes to a shattering conclusion to this chronicle of human survival amid the plague of undead. Based on the popular television show and co-written by its executive producer, this book builds up to an ultimate confrontation between the Governor and Rick.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
[Blu-ray + DVD].
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (1 hr., 39 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 DVD (approximately 1 hours, 39 minutes : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
The stakes are raised for survivalist, Burt Gummer in his most dangerous monster hunt yet. When Gummer's hired to capture a deadly Ass-blaster terrorizing South Africa, he and his new sidekick Travis Welker engage in a battle of survival against the fiercely aggressive Ass-blasters and Graboids. Discovering the monsters have evolved into even more lethal creatures.
Author
Series
Walking Dead series volume 3
Language
English
Description
The Governor's complex story continues in a tour de force of action and horror. Iconic characters from the comic book, including Rick, Michonne and Glenn, finally make their entrance onto this nightmarish stage, and fans of The Walking Dead will see these characters in a whole new light.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 751 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Last season brought the culmination of "All out war," which pitted Rick Grimes and his group of survivors against the Saviors and their leader, Negan. With Negan's life in his hands, Rick had a character-defining choice in front of him, and he spared Negan to uphold the values his late son, Carl championed. Now, with our survivors rebuilding civilization under Rick's leadership a year and a half after the end of the war, it's a time of relative peace...
Publisher
Circle of Confusion
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 10 hours, 15 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
'The Walking Dead is a drama where personal struggles are magnified against a backdrop of crises. The series explores how the living are changed by the realization that those who survive can be far more dangerous than the walking dead.
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.
13) Five years after
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Five years after The Final Day, the Republic of New America has all but collapsed into regional powers and the world at large is struggling to remain stable as regional conflicts ravage the post EMP landscape. After several years attempting to lead a quiet life, John Matherson receives the news that the President is dying from a possible assassination attempt, and is asked to step in to negotiate with what appears to be a new military power hidden...
14) The final day
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Months before publication, William R. Forstchen's One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. Hundreds of thousands of people have read the tale. The thrilling follow-up to that novel, One Year After, will be published this September. This third novel in the series will pick up a month after One Year After ends, emersing readers once more in this story of our nation's struggle to rebuild itself after an...
Author
Publisher
Adams Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"If a disaster forces you to shelter in place, do you think you have everything you need to safely and comfortably stay put in your home? If the answer is no, The Disaster-Ready Home will help you create a safe, well-stocked place to weather out any emergency. Survival expert and bestselling author Creek Stewart gives you a step-by-step emergency preparedness plan to meet your food, water, heat, and sanitation needs during any disaster. Including...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
5 DVD (approximately 13 hours) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Season six starts with Alexandria's safety shattered by multiple threats. To make it, the people of Alexandria will need to catch up with our survivors' hardness while many of Rick's people will need to take a step back from the violence and pragmatism they've needed to embrace. These reversals won't happen easily or without conflict. But now Rick's group is fighting for something more than survival... They're fighting for their home, and they will...
Author
Language
English
Description
In this memoir, Westover recounts her childhood growing up in a strict Mormon family, ruled by an erratic father, and living off the grid in Idaho. Westover compellingly sketches her years growing up, her relationships with siblings, encounters in the town nearby, and the events that eventually drove her to leave and pursue formal education.
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
Français
Description
Arnaud, facing an uncertain future and a dearth of choices in a small French coastal town, meets and falls for the apocalyptic-minded Madeleine, who joins an army boot camp to learn military and survival skills to prepare for the upcoming environmental collapse. Intrigued and excited Arnauld sings up for the boot camp himself. They soon realize that the boot camp is harder than they had imagined.
20) The survivalist
Publisher
IFC Midnight
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a post-apocalyptic future ravaged by overpopulation, a lone survivor mercilessly protects his remote sliver of property from intruders. When a mother and daughter in search of food and shelter show up at his doorstep, he's suspicious, but allows them in. Soon an uneasy alliance, borne of necessity, forms between the trio. But distrust and paranoia threaten to give way to violence at any moment.
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