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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of her parents' death, Aretha, a habitually single Black lawyer, has had only one obsession in life-success-until she falls for Aaron, a coffee entrepreneur. Moving into his Brooklyn brownstone to live along with his Hurricane Sandy-traumatized, illegal-gun-stockpiling, optimized-soy-protein-eating, bunker-building roommates, Aretha finds that her dreams of making partner are slipping away, replaced by an underground world, one of selling...
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Series
Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Argues that Russia's President is a man of many and complex identities, reflecting both ingrained Russian ways of thinking as well as his unique personal background and experience. Dispels potentially dangerous misconceptions about Putin and offers a clear-eyed look at his objectives.
Author
Series
Mercy Kilpatrick volume 1
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
FBI special agent Mercy Kilpatrick has been waiting her whole life for disaster to strike. Mercy grew up living off the land - and off the grid - in rural Eagle's Nest, Oregon. A shocking tragedy tore her family apart and forced her to leave home. Now a predator known as the cave man is targeting the survivalists in her hometown, murdering them in their homes, stealing huge numbers of weapons, and creating federal concerns of a possible domestic terrorism...
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Language
English
Description
"At last, Helena Pelletier has the life she deserves. A loving husband, two beautiful daughters, a business that fills her days. Then she catches an emergency news announcement and realizes she was a fool to think she could ever leave her worst days behind her. Helena has a secret: she is the product of an abduction. Her mother was kidnapped as a teenager by her father and kept in a remote cabin in the marshlands of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. No...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road, turned that plan into reality. Public funding for pretty much everything shrank: the fire department, the library, the schoolhouse. State and federal laws didn't disappear, but they got quieter: meek suggestions...
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Publisher
Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An entertaining look at the lives of contemporary archaeologists as they sweat under the sun for clues to the puzzle of our past looks at the actual, nonglamorous working conditions they actually face, as well as what drives them to do this very important, yet often tedious, work.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...
Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"How self-sufficient would you be if left to survive with only your two hands? Dubbed 'a Walden for the YouTube age,' John Plant launched the latest back-to-the-land movement by making tools and building structures with materials sourced completely from nature. Through illustrations, photographs, and instruction, learn how he has systematically constructed an entire world without relying on modern conveniences--from a mallet and chisel to a thatched...
10) The never game
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Series
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling and award-winning master of suspense, the first novel in a thrilling new series, introducing Colter Shaw. A young woman has gone missing in Silicon Valley and her father has hired Colter Shaw to find her. The son of a survivalist family, Shaw is an expert tracker. Now he makes a living as a "reward seeker," traveling the country to help police solve crimes and private citizens locate missing persons. But what seems a simple investigation...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it. When Martha Einkorn fled her father's isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, she's surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
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When one of his classmates offers Nate Jae-Woo Kim a ridiculous amount of money to commit grade fraud, he knows that taking the windfall would help support his prideful Korean family. But is compromising his integrity worth it? Kate Anderson, Nate's colleague at the zombie-themed escape room where they work, has an alternate plan. A local tech company is hosting a weekend-long survivalist competition with a huge cash prize. If the two team up-- and...
Author
Publisher
Create Space]
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Michael Talbot, his family and friends. When disaster strikes, Mike, a self-proclaimed survivalist, does his best to ensure the safety and security of those he cares for. Can brains beat brain eaters ? It's a battle for survival, winner take all. -- Publisher description.
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Before classes start one morning, the body of English instructor Earl Wellington is found outside the building of the community college campus in Clearview. Wellington was clearly involved in a struggle with someone and has died as a result. Sheriff Dan Rhodes pursues and arrests a student, Ike Terrell, who was fleeing the campus. Ike's father is Able Terrell, a survivalist who has withdrawn from society and lives in a gated compound. He's not happy...
17) Hunting badger
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Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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In 1998, three "survivalists" murdered a pliceman and eluded an epic manhunt. The bungled FBI investigation left behind a web of mysteries. Sergeant Jim Chee and Lt. Joe Leaphorn (retired) are assigned to solve the crime when three men stage a pre-dawn raid ont the Ute Tribe's gambling casino, and then disappear in the maze of canyons on the Utah-Arizona border. Chee and Leaphorn discover an intriguing pattern connecting the crimes.
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Language
English
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One night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep, and doesn't wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, Mei finds herself thrust together with an eccentric classmate as panic takes hold...
19) Constant fear
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
When Jake Dent's dreams of baseball glory fell apart in a drunk-driving incident, his marriage did too. In those dark days, a popular survivalist blog helped to restore Jake's sense of control. He's become an avid Doomsday Prepper, raising his diabetic son, Andy, to be ready for any sudden catastrophe. Andy, now a student at the prestigious Pepperell Academy where Jake works as a custodian, has a secret, he's part of a computer club that redistributes...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Raised in a privileged community of wealthy survivalists on an idyllic, self-sustaining Oregon ranch, Marlo has always been insulated. The outside world is a casualty of ravaging climate change, a troubled landscape on the brink of catastrophe. For as long as Marlo can remember, the unknown that lies beyond the borders of her utopia has been a curious obsession. But just as she plans her escape into the chaos of the real world, a charismatic new...
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