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Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In today's world, the acceleration of megatrends - increasing longevity and the explosion of technology among many others - are transforming life as we now know it. In The Perennials, bestselling author of 2030 Mauro Guillén unpacks a sweeping societal shift triggered by demographic and technological transformation. Guillén argues that outmoded terms like Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z have long been used to pigeonhole us into rigid categories...
22) Plastic
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Interior Chinatown and American War, a surreal, hilarious, and sneakily profound debut novel that casts our current climate of gun violence and environmental destruction in a surprising new mold. Erin is a plastic girl living in a plastic world. Every day she eats a breakfast of boiled chicken, then coveys her articulated body to Tablet Town, where she sells other figurines Smartbodies: wearable tech that allows full, physical immersion...
23) Gideon's corpse
Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 2
Language
English
Description
After a standoff between a top nuclear scientist from Los Alamos and an innocent family taken hostage turns violent, Gideon Crew must track down a rogue nuclear device.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In 1959, Nat Collier moves with her husband Paul and their two young daughters to Idaho Falls, a remote military town. An Army Specialist, Paul is stationed there to help oversee one of the country's first nuclear reactors--an assignment that seems full of opportunity. Then, on his rounds, Paul discovers that the reactor is compromised, placing his family and the entire community in danger. Worse, his superiors set out to cover up the problem rather...
25) The death trade
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 20
Language
English
Description
An eminent Iranian scientist has made a startling breakthrough in nuclear weapons research, but he can't stand the thought of his regime owning the bomb. He would run if he could, but if he does, his family dies. He is desperate; he doesn't know what to do. It is up to Sean Dillon and the rest of the small band known as the Prime Minister's private army to think of a plan. Most particularly, it is up to their newest member, an intelligence captain...
27) Fallout
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
©2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When an unthinkable nuclear attack occurs in an alternate-reality 1962, Scott is forced into his father's bomb shelter with his family and neighbors, where they rapidly consume limited supplies and fear the worst about the fate of the world outside.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Meet Otto and Cecil. Two brothers growing up privileged in the Welsh countryside. They enjoy watching nature shows, playing with their pet pony, impersonating their grandfather... and killing the help. Murder is the family business after all. Downton Abbey, this is not. However, it's not so easy to continue the family legacy with the constant stream of threats and distractions seemingly leaping from the hedgerow. First there is the matter of the...
29) Spymasters
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Cahill files volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"In 1814, redcoats burned the White House to the ground. In 1889, Harry Houdini discovered a trick that would save his life. In 1955, the U.S. launched the world's first nuclear submarine. And one family pulled the strings behind the scenes at each of these events: the Cahills--the most powerful family the world has ever known. Now the Cahills have opened their vault and dangerous secrets are pouring out. This book contains three of them--three stories...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A multigenerational story about two families living in the shadow of nuclear apocalypse. The year is 1959. Two young soldiers, Drummond and Carter, one working-class, the other privileged, form an intense and unlikely friendship at "Doomtown", a training center that simulates the aftermath of an atomic strike. Years later, the men watch the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis unfold in horror. Carter, now a high-ranking British government official,...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
Part treasure hunt, part historical narrative, The Uranium Club winds its way through the back doors of World War II and Manhattan Project histories to recount the contributions of the men and women at the forefront of the race for nuclear power. From Werner Heisenberg and Germany's nuclear program to the Curies, the first family of nuclear physics, to the Allied Alsos Mission's infiltration of Germany to capture Nazi science to the renegade geologists...
Author
Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Trinity, Trinity, Trinity is a novel set in a world in which Japanese senior citizens display symptoms of a mysterious condition known as "Trinity," about a woman who suspects her mother has been drawn into a terrorist attack, and sets out to uncover family secrets, finding unexpected connections between the Olympics and Japan's history of atomic power"--
34) The fort
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Five middle schoolers find a fully stocked bomb shelter constructed decades ago in the local woods by an eccentric tycoon and lost until a hurricane exposes the entrance. So, how to keep the hideout secret from interfering grown-ups--and, more particularly, from scary teen psychopath, Jaeger Devlin."-- provided by publisher.
35) One second after
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
A post-apocalyptic, dire and frightening all-too-possible future for humankind. When an Electro-Magnetic Pulse weapon sends the United States into chaotic ruin, one man battles to save his family and their small North Carolina town.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In December 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved a milestone in human history: a nuclear chain reaction. At the forefront of this breakthrough stood Enrico Fermi, the father of the nuclear age. But as David N. Schwartz shows in this groundbreaking biography, Fermi's impact goes well beyond this epochal event. With his theory of beta decay and his development of quantum statistics, Fermi revolutionized modern physics. Straddling the...
Author
Series
Garrett Kohl novels volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"After hunting down a rogue spy as part of an elite CIA counterespionage unit, Garrett Kohl returns home to Texas in hopes of settling down and carving out a normal life. While learning the ropes of fatherhood, falling deeper in love with his high school crush, and rebuilding his wildfire ravaged cattle ranch, he is approached in secret by an engineer working at a nearby nuclear weapons plant, who is in desperate need of his help. Utilizing a unique...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An Ivy League-educated doctor who interned under famous mentors recounts the first year of his fellowship at Johns Hopkins, sharing stories of patients, families, and practitioners who are inspiring new approaches in the field of cardiology.
39) Atomic Anna
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In 1986, renowned nuclear scientist Anna Berkov is sleeping in her bed in the Soviet Union when Chernobyl's reactor melts down. At that exact moment she tears through time-her first jump-and it's an accident. When she opens her eyes, she's landed in 1992 only to discover Molly, her estranged daughter, shot in the chest. Molly, with her dying breath, begs Anna to go back in time and stop the disaster, to save Molly's daughter Raisa, and put their...
40) Mission atomic
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Doublecross volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Amy and Dan are shocked to learn that Outcast, a violent renegade who is threatening the lives of innocent people, may be a Cahill family member who is determined to exact revenge.
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