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1) Anathem
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
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Description
Raz, a mathematician, is among a cohort of secluded scientists and philosophers who are called upon to save the world from impending catastrophe.
2) Promise
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Description
In the aftermath of a devastating tornado that rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression, two women worlds apart -- one black, one white; one a great-grandmother, the other a teenager -- fight for their families' survival.
3) Cold choices
Author
Series
Jerry Mitchell novels volume 2
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Description
Following the events Jerry Mitchell encountered in Dangerous Ground, the pilot-turned-submarine officer is now a department head, the navigator, aboard USS Seawolf. Now on a mission deep in the Barents Sea, north of Russia, Seawolf explores the sea floor, part of a sophisticated reconnaissance plan that will watch the Russian navy as it trains for battle. Although well outside Russia's territorial waters, Seawolf is ambushed by Russia's newest submarine,...
Author
Series
The three novels volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
Follows the chaos that ensues when a cruise ship is stranded and passengers fall ill amid rumors of shadowy figures on the lower decks.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
573 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"A one-in-ten-billion natural disaster devastates Chicago. A Jewish comedian, his most devoted fan, and the city's mayor must struggle to move forward while the world-quite literally-caves beneath their feet."--
Author
Series
Life as we knew it volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
337 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
867 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
Five thousand years later after a catastrophic event rendered the Earth a ticking time bomb, the progeny of a handful of outer space explorers--seven distinct races now three billion strong--embark on yet another audacious journey: to return to Earth.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
397 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Nineteen-year-old Avery plans to end her life but changes her mind when she learns an asteroid is heading towards Earth, and with nine days left to live, long held secrets begin to come out and Avery finally begins to heal.
11) Swallow's dance
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
274 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
Leira is training to be a priestess, but after an earthquake on her island forces her and her family to flee to Crete, there is a volcanic eruption that destroys the island and a tsunami that throws Crete into chaos, as she and her mother struggle to survive.
12) The living
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm
Description
After an earthquake destroys California and a tsunami wrecks the luxury cruise ship where he is a summer employee, high schooler Shy confronts another deadly surprise.
13) Ashfall
Author
Publisher
Tanglewood
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
466 p. ; 23 cm.
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
Life as we knew it volume 2
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of New York City.
Author
Series
Survival Scout volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
143 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
In this adventure-filled travel companion, Scout endures various natural disasters as she treks through the mountains and explains how to survive if ever lost in the wilderness.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Physical Desc
9 CDs (10 hrs. 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With trademark imagination, T.C. Boyle presents a collection of fourteen short stories. In the volume's title story, Victor, a feral boy in Napoleonic France, is captured and is introduced to civilization for the first time. However it is the child't captors that end up learning the most about humanity and civility.
17) Goldilocks
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Despite increasing restrictions on the freedoms of women on Earth, Valerie Black is spearheading the first all-female mission to a planet in the Goldilocks Zone, where conditions are just right for human habitation. It's humanity's last hope for survival, and Naomi, Valerie's surrogate daughter and the ship's botanist, has been waiting her whole life for an opportunity like this - to step out of Valerie's shadow and really make a difference. But when...
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Series
MaddAddam trilogy volume 2
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Description
From the Publisher: The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners-a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life-has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women...
19) Austral
Author
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...
20) The poison flood
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Hollis Bragg lives on the fringes. The hunchbacked son of a West Virginia hill preacher, he now resides in rural isolation next to the burned-out husk of his father's church, and earns his living ghostwriting songs for a popular band that left the poverty and corruption of Appalachia and never looked back. It's the life he prefers, free from the harsh glare of the spotlight and attachments that lead only to heartbreak. Then, much to his consternation,...
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