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1) Snow summer
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In a future where climate change has rendered the world a land of always winter, orphan Wyn discovers that she may have the power to reverse the trend and save the planet.
2) Flood
Author
Series
Flood (Stephen Baxter) volume 1
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
490 p. ; 24 cm.
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.
3) Ark
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Series
Flood (Stephen Baxter) volume 2
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
532 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
It's the year 2041. The oceans have risen rapidly, and soon the entire planet will be submerged. But hope has arisen with the discovery of another life-sustaining planet a light-year away. Only a small number will be able to make the journey--and the competition for survival can kill human compassion.
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Quercus
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 24 cm
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When the body of missing investigative reporter George Younger is discovered on a mountain-top near the Highland village of Kinlochleven, veteran Glasgow detective Cameron Brodie volunteers to investigate the murder, but has more than the case on his agenda.
5) Abyss
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Series
Kirk McGarvey adventures volume 15
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When an NOAA scientist has a breakthrough that could enable a sustainable energy source and prevent dangerous weather systems, former CIA director Kirk McGarvey begins a cat-and-mouse chase with a contract killer seeking to trigger a nuclear disaster.
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Last dragon chronicles volume 4
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As the weather grows wilder and the ice caps melt, Arctic bears starve, dragons awake, the earth goddess Gaia becomes restless, and Alexa, the daughter of best-selling author David Rain, uses her special abilities in an attempt to save the world from the forces of evil.
8) Denial
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In 2052, when climate change has devastated much of the world and former fossil fuel executives have been tried for crimes against the environment, a Pacific Northwest journalist makes contact with a CEO fugitive and strikes up an unlikely friendship.
9) Water day
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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A girl and her community celebrate the arrival of the water man when he comes on his weekly visit to distribute water to a Cuban village. Includes author's note.
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Despite her father's disapproval, sixteen-year-old Eliza, displaced by Hurricane Harvey, throws herself into environmental activism at her new highschool, where she meets Javi, who shares her experience of climate-related trauma and helps her cope with the emotional impact of ecological disasters.
11) Sea change
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"In 2022, GMOs were banned. A biopharmaceutical caused the Catastrophe: worldwide economic and agricultural collapse, and personal tragedy for lawyer Caroline Denton and her son. Ten years later, as Renata Black, she is a member of the Org, an underground group of scientists hunted by the feds. But the Org's illegal food-research might just hold the key to rebuilding the worlds' food supply."--Provided by publisher.
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Scibner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 22 cm
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Trying to make a home in the midst of an environmental disaster, Caro, her younger half-brother, and High House's caretaker and his daughter fight to stay alive as the rising waters threaten to engulf the whole town.
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Publisher
TooFar Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 22 cm
Description
A new ice age has driven mankind to settlements at the equator. In Clemency -a metropolis sheltered inside a transparent dome surrounded by glaciers - planning luminary Dorner hears female voices in his sleep. As the voices become more insistent, he seeks help from neuroscientist Rin, who runs tests to identify the location and import of this interior woman, who calls herself "Tongue."
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In eighteenth-century Ohio, two brothers travel into the wooded frontier, planting apple orchards from which they plan to profit in the years to come. As they remake the wilderness in their own image, planning for a future of settlement and civilization, the long-held bonds and secrets between the two will be tested, fractured and broken-and possibly healed. Fifty years from now, in the second half of the twenty-first century, climate change has ravaged...
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One man - visionary billionaire restaurant chain magnate T. R. Schmidt, Ph.D. - has a Big Idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as “elemental.” But will it work? And just as important, what are the consequences for the planet and all of humanity should it be applied? Ranging from the Texas heartland to the Dutch royal palace in the Hague, from the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas to the sunbaked Chihuahuan Desert,...
16) Death wave
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Series
Star Quest novel volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
411 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"In Ben Bova's previous novel New Earth, Jordan Kell led the first human mission beyond the solar system. They discovered the ruins of an ancient alien civilization. But one alien AI survived, and it revealed to Jordan Kell that an explosion in the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy has created a wave of deadly radiation, expanding out from the core toward Earth. Unless the human race acts to save itself, all life on Earth will be wiped...
17) One small hop
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Ahab Goldstein is a seventh-grader living in an United States (specifically Maine) where the environment has turned toxic, and the corrupt Environmental Police Force is in control, limiting access to natural resources like gas and water, issuing fines, and transporting "fragile" species (pretty much all of them) to the Center for Species Rehabilitation in New Arcadia (a dubious refuge at best); so when Ahab and his friends find a real live bullfrog...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us -- and in which we might just overcome the extraordinary challenges we face.
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In a ruinous country house in the now barren English countryside--decimated by heat and drought--and in a dusty library damaged by earthquake and floods, Penelope archives what remains of the estate's once notable, now diminished, art collection. As she delves into the objects and images, she also keeps a diary of her final months in the dilapidated estate that has been her home for two decades and a refuge for those who have been displaced by disasters....
20) Austral
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Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
276 pages : map ; 20 cm
Description
The great geoengineering projects have failed. The world is still warming, sea levels are still rising, and the Antarctic Peninsula is home to Earth's newest nation, with life quickened by ecopoets spreading across valleys and fjords exposed by the retreat of the ice. Austral Morales Ferrado, a child of the last generation of ecopoets, is a husky: an edited person adapted to the unforgiving climate of the far south, feared and despised by most of...
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