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61) The spark
Author
Series
Time of heroes volume 1
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In a violent world in which civilization has fallen and monsters roam, a young hero will rise. In the time of the Ancients the universe was united--but that was so far in the past that not even memory remains, only the broken artifacts that a few Makers can reshape into their original uses. What survives is shattered into enclaves--some tiny, some ruined, some wild. Into the gaps between settlements, and onto the Road that connects all human reality...
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Imagine waking to a world where every last human has been mysteriously turned to stone... The Kingdom of Science is off on a high-seas voyage to the U.S.A. However, Senku and Ryusui are soon divided on how best to chart their course, leading to all-out war in the form of a poker game! After the winner is determined, what awaits their crew on the large continent to the east?!"-- cover page 4.
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A new story from the world of Old Man Logan! In a world where most of the super heroes fell at the hands of the Red Skull over fifty years ago, a new force rises in the Wastelands! Dani Cage wields the mighty Mjolnir for the cause of peace, but when the brutal regime of Doctor Doom forces Dwight (A.K.A. the owner of the surviving Ant-Man technology) to Dani and Hulk in a last-ditch effort to survive, the Avengers may assemble once more!--Provided...
64) The final day
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
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...
65) THE LIGHT PIRATE
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A luminous and wrenching portrait of a frighteningly possible future, The Light Pirate is a hopeful, sweeping story of survival and resilience spanning one extraordinary woman's lifetime as she navigates the uncertainty, brutality, and arresting beauty of a rapidly changing world (Booklist, starred review). Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state's infrastructure, a powerful...
Series
Black tide rising (John Ringo) volume 5
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"TOP NAME WRITERS ENTER THE REALM OF JOHN RINGO'S BLACK TIDE RISING ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE SERIES! A collection of all-original stories set in the Black Tide Rising series of novels created by multiple New York Times best-selling author John Ringo Stories by John Ringo, Eric Flint, John Scalzi & Dave Klecha, Sarah A. Hoyt, Jody Lynn Nye, Michael Z. Williamson and more. The news that humanity had been dreading for ages had come true. Zombies are real. Worst...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague-a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending imagination from a singular new voice. Beginning in 2030, a grieving archaeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Follows a group of people struggling in the face of a full-scale socioeconomic collapse in America that has caused the breakdown of all technology and supply chains while unleashing riots and predatory gangs throughout the country.
Author
Series
Books of mortals volume 1
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After exposing himself to a vial of blood contained in an old leather-bound journal, Rom realizes the entire human race has been drained of all emotions except fear and embarks on a journey to bring love and passion back into existence.
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
" ALL-NEW STORIES OF THE EMBERVERSE by S.M. Stirling, Harry Turtledove, Walter Jon Williams, John Birmingham, John Barnes, Jane Lindskold, and more... "[A] vivid portrait of a world gone insane,"* S. M. Stirling's New York Times bestselling Novels of the Change have depicted a vivid, utterly persuasive, and absorbingly unpredictable postapocalyptic wasteland in which all modern technology has been left in ashes, forcing humankind to rebuild an unknowable...
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The race across South America is on as the team dives into the Amazon rain forest, hoping to reach the source of petrification. When they arrive, Senku and friends discover a scene that's so full of malice it's sickening! Deeper into the Amazon--at the so-called Stone Sanctuary--the final battle against Stanley draws near!"--Back cover.
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