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41) The ice lion
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Teen members of a group of archaic humans, Lynx and Quiller, flee the increasing coldness and monstrous predators for a new land, where they meet a strange old man who tells them how to save the world.
42) Battery life
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After the space station she calls home crashes back to Earth, Diane--the lone survivor--finds herself stranded in the Junkyard. Virgil, a mysterious scavenger, soon stumbles across Diane's escape pod and realizes she might just be his ticket out of here. Together the two embark on a chaotic road trip to save one of the world's last scientists from a fanatical warlord. The journey brings the two unlikely partners closer than either of them expected,...
43) Across the sand
Author
Series
Sand chronicles (Hugh Howey) volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Long after civilization is destroyed, a group of siblings follow in the shadow of their father, combing the barren sands for treasure, searching for a better life, in the long-awaited second novel in the series following Sand"--
Author
Series
City where we once lived books volume 1
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In a near future where climate change has severely affected weather and agriculture, the North End of an unnamed city has long been abandoned in favor of the neighboring South End. Aside from the scavengers steadily stripping the empty city to its bones, only a few thousand people remain, content to live quietly among the crumbling metropolis. Many, like the narrator, are there to try to escape the demons of their past. He spends his time observing...
45) Fiskadoro
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
The sweeping and heartbreaking tale of the survivors of a devastating nuclear war and their attempts to salvage remnants of the old world and rebuild their culture.
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Society collapsed in the face of nuclear war and the relentless spread of disease. Lynn McBride has learned to survive in the snow-drifted Canadian Yukon, how to hunt and trap and slaughter. But shadows of the-world-before have found her tiny community-- most prominently in Jax, who brings with him dark secrets of the past... and sets in motion a chain of events that will call Lynn to a role she never imagined.
Author
Series
Raven's Mark volume 1
Publisher
ACE/Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Under its cracked and wailing sky, the Misery is a vast and blighted expanse, the arcane remnant of a devastating war with the immortals known as the Deep Kings. The war ended nearly a century ago, and the enemy is kept at bay only by the existence of the Engine, a terrible weapon that protects the Miserys border. Across the corrupted no-mans-land teeming with twisted magic and malevolent wraiths, the Deep Kings and their armies bide their time. Watching....
50) Winter igniting
Author
Series
Scorpius syndrome volume 5
Publisher
Raz Ink LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
His only goal was survival until he met her ... With nothing to lose, former cop Damon Winter agrees to an undercover op, infiltrating a cult in the dangerous post-Scorpius world. After one look at his new partner, he knows she belongs far away from not only the cult, but from him. She's sweet and kind and has no business being in peril, but she's determined to help. Suddenly, the part he's playing as her man explodes into a passion neither of them...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The whateverpocalypse. That's what Toure, a twenty-something Cambridge coder, calls it after waking up one morning to find himself seemingly the only person left in the city. Once he finds Robbie and Carol, two equally disoriented Harvard freshmen, he realizes he isn't alone, but the name sticks: Whateverpocalypse. But it doesn't explain where everyone went. It doesn't explain how the city became overgrown with vegetation in the space of a night....
52) The effort
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When dark comet UD3 was spotted near Jupiter's orbit, its existence was largely ignored. But to individuals who knew better -- scientists like Benjamin Schwartz, manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies -- the threat this eight-kilometer comet posed to the survival of the human race was unthinkable. The 150-million-year reign of the dinosaurs ended when an asteroid impact generated more than a billion times the energy of an atomic bomb....
53) Blue fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"They call it Hell Day -- a world war that lasted less than twenty-four hours. Nations unleashed weapons that destroyed more than a century's worth of technology. Those who survived must live as their ancestors did, off a land ruled by the whims of nature. One-time congressional representative Victoria Emerson has become the new leader of the small town of Ortho, West Virginia. She has been struggling to provide food and shelter for the town's inhabitants,...
54) Dead astronauts
Author
Series
Borne novels volume 2
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against a ruthless corporation. A raving madman who wanders the desert lost in the past, haunted by his own creation: an invisible monster whose name he has forgotten and whose purpose remains hidden. Jeff...
55) The amateurs
Author
Publisher
Vintage Canada
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Allow us to introduce you to the newest product from PINA, the world's largest tech company. "Port" is a curiously irresistible device that offers the impossible: space-time travel mysteriously powered by nostalgia and longing. Step inside a Port and find yourself transported to wherever and whenever your heart desires: a bygone youth, a dreamed-of future, the fabled past.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Our people are survivors, Calliope's great-grandmother once told her of their Puebloan roots-could Bisabuela's ancient myths be true? Anthropologist Calliope Santiago awakens to find herself in a strange and sinister wasteland, a shadow of the New Mexico she knew. Empty vehicles litter the road. Everyone has disappeared--or almost everyone. Calliope, heavy-bellied with the twins she carries inside her, must make her way across this dangerous landscape...
57) Afterland
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three years after a plague has wiped out the male population, twelve-year-old Miles is one of the last boys alive, and his mother, Cole, will protect him at all costs. On the run after a horrific act of violence, and pursued by Cole's own ruthless sister, Billie -- all Cole wants is to raise her kid somewhere he won't be preyed on as a reproductive resource or a sex object or a stand-in son. Someplace like home.
58) The beauty
Author
Publisher
Titan Books, a division of Titan Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Somewhere away from the cities and towns, in the Valley of Rocks, a society of men and boys gather around the fire each night to listen to their history recounted by Nate, the storyteller. Requested most often by the group is the tale of the death of all women. They are the last generation. One evening, Nate brings back new secrets from the woods; peculiar mushrooms are growing from the ground where the women's bodies lie buried. These are the first...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 336
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Franklin has gathered four of Jackson's novels, with which she began her irreplaceable, all too-brief career. Originally published between 1948 and 1958, they are published here without change except for the correction of typographical errors. Within these stories Jackson explores the recessed concealed within the prosperous world of the postwar 1940s and 50s-- and withing our own unacknowledged selves. -- adapted from front flap and Note on the Texts,...
60) The ice orphan
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"It's been 925 summers since the Jemen introduced zyme, a bioluminescent algae, into the world's ocean and unwittingly triggered an Ice Age that has consumed most of the planet. All but a handful of Jemen flew to the stars, but before they left, they recreated several extinct species that had thrived in the last Ice Age. After almost a thousand summers, the archaic hominins that struggle along the edges of massive glaciers are dwindling. All they...
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