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2) Flood
Author
Series
Flood (Stephen Baxter) volume 1
Language
English
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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.
4) Cat's Cradle
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
A young writer decides to interview the children of a scientist primarily responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb.
Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The great viral plague had left a small group of survivors clinging to life amidst a world transformed into a nightmare. Led by the mysterious, charismatic Amy, they go on the attack, leading an insurrection against the virals--the first offensives of the Second Viral War--infiltrating a dozen hives, each presided over by one of the original Twelve. Their secret weapon: Alicia, transformed at the end of book one into a half human, half viral--but...
7) Spin
Author
Series
Spin novels (Robert Charles Wilson) volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
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9) Axis
Author
Series
Spin novels (Robert Charles Wilson) volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
10) The world house
Author
Series
World house volume 1
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In some rooms, forests grow. In others, animals and objects come to life. Elsewhere, secrets and treasures wait for the brave and foolhardy. And at the very top of the house, a prisoner sits behind a locked door waiting for a key to turn. The day that happens, the world will end.
Author
Series
End series volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joshua Jordan's new weapons defense system will secure America against an array of new enemies, including a nuclear strike on New York City by North Korea. But global forces are mounting and corrupt government leaders will go to any extreme to prevent an impending economic catastrophe. As world events begin setting the stage for the 'end of days' foretold in Revelation, Jordan must weigh the personal price he must pay to save the nation he loves.
Author
Series
Books of the elements volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The great city of Carce (a fantasy world based on Europe during the later Roman Empire) and all life on Earth will be destroyed unless two young men, Corylus and Varus, and two women, Hedia and Alphena, pursue the answer to the mysterious and threatening happenings that prefigure this disaster.
Author
Series
Books of the elements volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When a great creature seems to rise from the sea to devastate the city during Senator Gaius Alphenus Saxa's lavish theatrical event, the crowd is delighted. A few in the audience, although not Saxa, understand that this was not mere stagecraft, but something much darker and more dangerous.
16) Angelmaker
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Avoiding the lifestyle of his late gangster father by working as a clock repairman, Joe Spork fixes an unusual device that turns out to be a former secret agent's doomsday machine and incurs the wrath of the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator.
17) Air and darkness
Author
Series
Books of the elements volume 4
Publisher
TOR, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Corylus, a soldier, emerges as one of the most compelling heroic figures in contemporary fantasy. Battling magicians, spirits, gods, and forces from supernatural realities, Corylus and his companions from the family of the nobleman Saxa-especially Saxa's impressive wife Hedia, and his friend (and Saxa's son) Varus-must face constant deadly and soul-destroying dangers, climaxing in a final battle not between good and evil but in defense of logic and...
Author
Series
Black tide rising (John Ringo) volume 2
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Wolf Squadron scours the Atlantic for survivors of the biological zombie plague while clearing an assault carrier of infected predators before its trapped human crew starves.
"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...
19) Mark of evil
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
©2014
Language
English
Description
Ethan March, Jimmy Louder, and Rivka Reuban have been left behind in a world that is rapidly coming under the influence of the Antichrist. Technology is being used to control and dominate those who resist the Antichrist's reign of evil, with BID-Tag implants, robotic police units, and drone-bots flying overhead. Each day, as more and more biblical prophecies are fulfilled, Ethan and the others in the Remnant struggle to survive in a world of ever-increasing...
Author
Series
Golgotha novels volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
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Description
"Nevada, 1869: Beyond the pitiless 40-Mile Desert lies Golgotha, a cattle town that hides more than its share of unnatural secrets. The sheriff bears the mark of the noose around his neck; some say he is a dead man whose time has not yet come. His half-human deputy is kin to coyotes. The mayor guards a hoard of mythical treasures. A banker's wife belongs to a secret order of assassins. And a shady saloon owner, whose fingers are in everyone's business,...
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