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22) Burn
Author
Series
Pure trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inside the Dome, Partridge, having taken his father's place as leader of the Pures, realizes that things are not as clear as he thought while outside, Pressia and Bradwell continue their efforts to heal the Wretches, unsure if they can still trust their friend Partridge.
24) Without warning
Author
Series
Without warning volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
26) Flood
Author
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
c2008, 2009
Language
English
Description
Four hostages are finally released, but they face a world suddenly inundated as vast amounts of water is released from the earth's mantle. As the world's cities and countries disappear under the rising seas, humanity faces unimaginable global disaster.
27) End of days
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Constructing a ranch-fortress in the Southwest to prepare for an apocalypse about which she has seen visions since childhood, Lydia, the descendant of an Apache war-shaman, desperately seeks her daughter's gonzo journalist ex, who went missing after discovering plans for a catastrophic attack.
28) Nightworld
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A finale to the Repairman Jack and Adversary Cycle series finds Jack and the aged Glaeken assembling a ragtag Secret History army for a last stand against the Otherness.
29) Red Hill
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
"When the world ends, can love survive? For Scarlet, raising her two daughters alone makes fighting for tomorrow an everyday battle. Nathan has a wife, but can't remember what it's like to be in love; only his young daughter Zoe makes coming home worthwhile. Miranda's biggest concern is whether her new VW Bug is big enough to carry her sister and their boyfriends on a weekend escape from college finals. When reports of a widespread, deadly 'outbreak'...
30) The breach
Author
Series
Travis Chase trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The sun has disappeared from the sky. No one can explain where it has gone, but one wayward traveler is determined to try. As our unnamed narrator begins his odyssey across the parched landscapes of the American Southwest, he is drawn into a web of illusion and mystery, a shifting astral mindscape that shimmers with the aftermath of loss--and the promise of redemption. Oh God, the Sun Goes is a hallucinatory and deadpan picaresque that suddenly swerves...
32) Spin
Author
Series
Spin novels (Robert Charles Wilson) volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Author
Series
End times novels (Jerry B. Jenkins) volume 1
Publisher
Worthy Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In The Valley of Dry Bones, Jerry B. Jenkins overlays the ancient End Times prophecies of Ezekiel onto the landscape of modern California. A clash of cultures, ethnicities, religions, and politics trigger terrorism blamed on a deadly drought that pits friend against friend with the future of the country at stake." -- publisher.
34) Supernova era
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Eight light years away, a star has died, creating a supernova event that showers Earth in deadly levels of radiation. Within a year, everyone over the age of thirteen will die. And so the countdown begins. Parents apprentice their children and try to pass on the knowledge needed to keep the world running. But when the world is theirs, the last generation may not want to continue the legacy left to them. And in shaping the future however they want,...
35) City of orange
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A man wakes up in an unknown landscape, injured and alone. He used to live in a place called California, but how did he wind up here with a head wound and a bottle of pills in his pocket? He navigates his surroundings, one rough shape at a time. Here lies a pipe, there a reed that could be carved into a weapon, beyond a city he once lived in. He could swear his daughter's name began with a J,but what was it, exactly? Then he encounters an old man,...
36) Unity
Author
Publisher
Tachyon Publications
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Danae is not only herself. She is concealing a connection to a grieving collective inside of her body. But while she labors as a tech servant in the dangerous underwater enclave of Bloom City, her fractured self cannot mend. In a desperate escape, Danae and her lover Naoto hire the enigmatic ex-mercenary Alexei to guide them out of the imploding city. But for Danae to reunify, the three new fugitives will have to flee across the otherworldly beauty...
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When an international warning siren accidentally goes off, convincing everyone that a meteor shower may just be the end of life as they know it, six couples--friends, exes, crushes and rivals--must take shelter. Inhibitions are abandoned, confessions are made and love blossoms, but what happens when the world doesn't end? Filled with humor, heat and hope, this riveting collection of interconnected multicultural stories by acclaimed authors Lane Clarke,...
Author
Series
Black tide rising (John Ringo) volume 2
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
c2014.
Language
English
Description
"With human civilization annihilated by a biological zombie plague, a rag tag fleet of yachts and freighters known as Wolf Squadron scours the Atlantic, searching for survivors. Within every abandoned liner and carrier lurks a potential horde of zombies but also holds the flickering hope of survivors. Now Wolf Squadron must clear the assault carrier USS Iwo Jima of infected before the trapped Marines and sailors succumb to starvation"--Provided by...
40) The mark of evil
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Economies have fallen, freedom has been suppressed, and peace is a distant memory. The world is falling apart. Joshua Jordan's protégé Ethan March, along with Jimmy Louder and Rivka Reuban have been left behind in a world that is rapidly coming under the complete influence of the Antichrist. Technology is growing by leaps and bounds, with BID-Tag implants, robotic police units, and drone-bots flying overhead... all designed to control and dominate...
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