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Author
Series
MaddAddam Trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a natural disaster predicted by God's Gardeners leader Adam One obliterates most human life, two survivors trapped inside respective establishments that metaphorically represent paradise and hell wonder if any of their loved ones have survived, while the outside world is overcome by gene-spliced life forms.
2) One by one
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Turn of the Key and In a Dark Dark Wood returns with another suspenseful thriller set on a snow-covered mountain"--
"When an off-site company retreat meant to promote mindfulness and collaboration goes utterly wrong when an avalanche hits, the corporate food chain becomes irrelevant and survival trumps togetherness. Come Monday morning, how many members short will the team be?" -- goodreads.com.
4) Last light
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Birmingham, Alabama, has lost all power. Its streets are jammed with cars that won't start, its airport engulfed in flames from burning planes. All communications-cell phones, computers, even radios-are silent. Every home and business is dark. Is it a natural disaster . . . a terrorist attack . . . or something far worse? In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to a time before electricity, the Branning family faces a choice....
6) The passage
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 50
Language
English
Formats
Description
A security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment that only six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte can stop.
7) Nation
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
After a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, together with a small band of refugees, set about rebuilding their community and all the things that are important in their lives.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Discovering the key to flight has been a dream come true for mankind. But when something goes wrong, this dream becomes a nightmare. Get the details of some of the most devastating plane crashes ever."--Provided by publisher.
10) Into the storm
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In the span of a single day, the town of Silverton is ravaged by an unprecedented onslaught of tornadoes. The entire town is at the mercy of the erratic and deadly cyclones, even as storm trackers predict the worst is yet to come. Most people seek shelter, while others run towards the vortex, testing how far a storm chaser will go for that once-in-a-lifetime shot.
Author
Language
English
Description
What began as a fairytale honeymoon in 1857 for John and Laura Foster aboard the steamship SS Vandervere becomes a nightmare when a hurricane causes their ship to sink into the murky depths of the Atlantic. Laura finds herself with the other women and children aboard a sailing ship while John and a hundred other men drift on the open sea on anything they could grab as the Vandervere went down. Suspecting her John is gone but still daring to hope for...
12) Night light
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
As the power outage continues, the Brannings struggle to bring their neighborhood together into a functioning community where everyone helps each other make their homes ready for winter, and fight the crime that is running rampant among them.
13) AMAZING GRACE
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a warm May night in San Francisco, the Ritz-Carlton ballroom shimmers with crystal and silver as a glittering, celebrity-studded crowd gathers for a charity dinner dance. The evening is perfect–until, just minutes before midnight, the room begins to sway. Glass shatters. And as the lights go out, people begin to scream….
In the earthquake’s aftermath, the lives of four strangers will converge.… Sarah Sloane, the beautiful...
In the earthquake’s aftermath, the lives of four strangers will converge.… Sarah Sloane, the beautiful...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
This bestselling author of High Crimes explores what causes forest fires and captures their danger and the heroism of those who fight them.
In Megafire, a world-renowned journalist and forest fire expert travels to dangerous and remote wildernesses, as well as to the backyards of people faced with these catastrophes, to look at the heart of this phenomenon and witness firsthand the heroic efforts of the
...15) Adrift
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of survival, a young couple's chance encounter leads them first to love, and then on the adventure of a lifetime as they face one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history.
16) The long Mars
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocations as populations flee Datum Earth to myraid Long Earth worlds. Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastice voyage across the Long Mars and wants her to accompany him. U.S. Navy Commander Maggie Kauffman has embarked on an incredible journey of her own,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
The summer brings big changes for the members of the Baby-sitters Club, with boyfriend troubles, feuds, hard decisions, and unexpected adventures, but Kristy, Claudia, Stacey, and Mary Anne come through knowing they will always be friends.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
Newt has been to hell and back with his friends. The Glade. The Maze. The Scorch. The inner halls of WICKED. But now he has a burden that can't be shared with Thomas and the other, the Flare. And Newt can't bear the thought of his friends watching him descend into madness as he succumbs to the virus. Leaving only a note, Newt departs the Berg before the Gladers return from their mission into Denver, Colorado. From there, he experiences the gritty...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an earthquake creates a tsunami while thirteen-year-old Kyle is babysitting his sister during a family vacation at a Pacific Coast resort, he tries to save himself, his sister, and a boy who has bullied him for years.
20) Whiter than snow
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In a small mining town near Colorado's majestic Tenmile Range, as nine children walk home from school, a spring avalanche thunders down from Jubilee Mountain burying everything in its path. This novel of survival, redemption, and faith skillfully reveals the backstory of each family affected by this tragedy.