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Author
Series
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
As the bombs of the Blitz rain down on Britain, one young girl is evacuated to the countryside. She is struggling to make sense of her new wartime life. Then she is given a copy of Asgard and the Gods -- a book of ancient Norse myths -- and her inner and outer worlds are transformed.
Author
Series
Fire sermon volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nuclear fire that has laid waste to civilization and nature. Though the radiation fallout has ended, for some unknowable reason every person is born with a twin. Of each pair, one is physically perfect in every way and the other is burdened with deformity, small or large. With the Council ruling an apartheid-like society, Omegas are branded and ostracized while the Alphas...
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When Fressa is found dead, their whole Viking clan mourns-- but her sister Lena is devastated. She cannot rest until she knows exactly what killed Fressa and why -- and how to bring her back. She strikes a dark deal with Hela, the Norse goddess of death, and begins a new double life to save her sister. As she dredges up dangerous discoveries about her own family, Lena finds herself in the middle of a devastating plan to spur Ragnarök-- total world...
65) Alterant
Author
Series
Belador volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"The way Evalle Kincaid sees it, saving mankind from total destruction should have cleared her name. But when words uttered in the heat of combat are twisted against her, she's blamed for the prison break of three dangerous Alternants. She has one chance to clear the cloud of suspicion hanging over her...for good. All she has to do is recapture the escapees."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Junio de 2086. Un virus ha terminado con la humanidad y no quedan más que dos personas en todo el planeta: un joven y un anciano que pronto dejará de existir. Estos dos últimos supervivientes contemplan las ruinas de la humanidad. Las guerras han terminado, ya no hay hambre en el mundo y las bestias creadas por el hombre fueron desapareciendo. ¿Hacía falta una gran destrucción para que alguien se emocione de nuevo ante una puesta de sol? ¿Hará...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Bertie and Kate have been best friends since high school...[Bertie's] job depresses her, but not as much as the fact that Kate has recently decided to move...When Bertie's attempts to make Kate stay fail, she suggests the next-best thing: a trip to Paris...One night in Paris, they meet a strange man in a bar who offers them a private tour of the Louvre. The women find themselves alone in the museum, where nothing is quite as it seems. Caught up in...
68) Storm gathering
Author
Series
Scorpius syndrome volume Book 4
Publisher
Raz Ink LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Even before surviving the Scorpius bacterium, Greyson Storm was a lone wolf navigating minefields. As a kid, he learned to take a hit and find safety. As an adult, he joined the military and quickly learned how to protect and defend. When the world ended, he created a mercenary camp with military precision, no entanglements, and a promise to avenge a fallen friend. As part of that vow, he kidnapped Maureen Shadow, but now that he has let her go, her...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The day Sam Waxworth arrives in New York to write for The Interviewer, a street-corner preacher declares that the world is coming to an end. A sports statistician, data journalist, and newly minted media celebrity who correctly forecasted every outcome of the 2008 election, Sam's familiar with predicting the future. But when projection meets reality, things turn complicated. Sam's editor sends him to profile disgraced political columnist Frank Doyle....
Author
Series
End-times trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A typical day at the rehabilitation center turns into a nightmare for Emma Grady when her favorite physical therapy patient vanishes in front of her, along with several colleagues. Fear turns to chaos as Emma begins the frantic race from Brooklyn to Queens, anxious to discover if her boyfriend is safe. Subways are closed, graves are open, and countless people have inexplicably disappeared. Mayhem erupts as terror grips the residents of New York City....
Author
Series
Left Behind series. Main series volume 12
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old American, Wren, is stranded in England when news of an impending world-ending comet causes global chaos, but when she meets a runaway prince with an agenda of his own, she realizes he might be her only chance of getting home in time to say goodbye.
73) Alpha and omega
Author
Publisher
Del Rey, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"What would happen if the ancient prophecy of the End of Days came true? It is certainly the last thing Eric Katz--a secular archeologist from Los Angeles--expects to discover during what should be a routine dig in Jerusalem. But perhaps higher forces have something else in mind. For when a sign presaging the rising of the Third Temple is located in America and a dirty bomb is detonated in downtown Tel Aviv, events conspire to place a team of archaeologists...
74) Death
Author
Series
Four horsemen (Laura Thalassa) volume 4
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The day Death comes to Lazarus Gaumond's town and kills everyone in one fell swoop, the last thing he expects to see is one woman left alive and standing. But Lazarus has an extraordinary gift: she cannot be killed. Not by humans, not by the elements, not by Death himself. She is the one soul Death doesn't recognize. The one soul he cannot pry free from her flesh. Nor can he ignore the unsettling desire he has for her. And the longer she tries to...
75) Pestilence
Author
Series
Four horsemen (Laura Thalassa) volume 1
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When Pestilence, the first of the horsemen, comes for Sara Burn's town, one thing is certain: everyone she knows and loves is marked for death. Unless, of course, the angelic-looking horseman is stopped, which is exactly what Sara has in mind when she shoots the unholy beast off his steed. Too bad no one told her Pestilence can't be killed. Alive and furious, the horseman takes Sara prisoner, determined to make her suffer for impeding his mission....
76) Famine
Author
Series
Four horsemen (Laura Thalassa) volume 3
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ana da Silva always assumed she'd die young, she just never expected it to be at the hands of Famine, the haunting immortal who once spared her life so many years ago. But if the horseman remembers her at all, he must not care, for when she comes face to face with him for the second time in her life, she's stabbed and left for dead. Only, she doesn't quite die. If there's one thing Famine is good at, it's cruelty. And how these blighted bastards...
Author
Publisher
Origen
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Desde las polvorientas calles de Jerusalén hasta los pasillos oscuros del Kremlin en Moscú, La Marca lleva a los lectores por un emocionante viaje a través de la historia, la religión y la política, con una combinación perfecta entre acción, suspenso y misterio que mantienen la tensión hasta el final del libro. La Marca es una novela intrigante donde las páginas pasan volando, ya que entrelaza los sucesos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial con...
78) War
Author
Series
Four horsemen (Laura Thalassa) volume 2
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The day Jerusalem falls, Miriam Elmahdy knows her life is over. Houses are burning, the streets run red with blood, and a traitorous army is massacring every last resident. There is no surviving this, especially not once Miriam catches the eye of War himself. But when the massive and terrifying horseman corners Miriam, he calls her his wife, and instead of killing her, he takes her back to his camp. Now Miriam faces a terrifying future, one where...
Author
Series
Into the mist (Cast) volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author P. C. Cast comes INTO THE MIST, the first book in a pulse-pounding dystopian duology for our times. Practical Magic meets Station Eleven in this gripping take on female power and the inevitable, destructive path of violent patriarchies. As men fall to the mist, the age of womankind begins to rise. The world as we know it ends when an attack on the U.S. unleashes bombs that deliver fire and biological destruction....
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press, Triangle Square Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
James, a senior in high school, channels his energy into aiding a struggling LGBTQ+ youth support group and going to punk shows with his friends, until he falls for Orsino, a telepathic trans boy whose visions of impending doom challenge James's limited perception of what is possible.
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