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"Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is the story of Emily Shepard, a homeless teen living in an igloo made of ice and trash bags filled with frozen leaves. Half a year earlier, a nuclear plant in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom had experienced a cataclysmic meltdown, and both of Emily's parents were killed. Devastatingly, her father was in charge of the plant, and the meltdown may have been his fault. Was he drunk when it happened? Thousands of people are forced...
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Tor Books
Pub. Date
2013, c2005.
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English
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Biologist Domenica Ligrina lives in a dying world. In the year 2052, a nuclear disaster near the French-German border irradiates all of Northern Europe. Global warming runs rampant, and economic and political calamities threaten the survival of Earth. While human DNA mutates and plant species are going extinct, scientists like Domenica work day and night to save their planet. It becomes increasingly apparent that the key to saving the future lies...
3) Kill zone
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Power duo Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason team up in Kill Zone , a perilous disaster thriller for the modern age. Deep within a mountain in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a Cold War-era nuclear weapons storage facility is being used to covertly receive more than 100,000 tons of nuclear waste stored across the US. Only Department of Energy employee, Adonia, and a few others including a war hero, a senator, and an environmental activist, are allowed access...
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Living in an igloo of ice and trash bags half a year after a cataclysmic nuclear disaster, Emily, convinced that she will be hated as the daughter of the drunken father who caused the meltdown, assumes a fictional identity while protecting a homeless boy.
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