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4) The living
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English
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After an earthquake destroys California and a tsunami wrecks the luxury cruise ship where he is a summer employee, high schooler Shy confronts another deadly surprise.
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English
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With her husband serving in a war overseas, Cass endeavors to raise their three small children in the midst of an apocalypse, complete with natural disasters and societal unrest, first in their home in the city and later evacuating to her mother-in-law's country house and then, to a commune on the coast.
6) Forgotten
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English
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"For fans of The Good Wife, Catherine McKenzie's Forgotten is a pure, page-turning pleasure."
-Gwendolen Gross, author of The Orphan Sister
"By turns hilarious and heart-tugging….A thoroughly enjoyable read!"
-Juliette Fay, author of Deep Down True
If your old life vanished completely, should you try to get it back or create a whole new one? That's the intriguing question at the heart of Catherine McKenzie's Forgotten. The smart, funny, and...
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Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster--Richard, an expat and wealthy water-bottling executive with a secret daughter; the daughter, Anne, an architect who drafts affordable housing structures for a...
8) In the ruins
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English
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The threatened cataclysm has occurred, and physical devastation vies with political disruption for Prince Sanglant's attention as he and Liath strive to bring back daylight and a new order to the chaos.
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English
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Nine very different people, trapped by an earthquake in the visa office in the basement of the Indian consulate, are nearing the breaking point when a young graduate student suggests each tell a story of one amazing thing that has happened in his or her life, an activity that keeps them calm and brings them closer together as they await their fate.
11) Dry ice
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English
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In the frozen heart of Antarctica sits TESLA, a secret weather "research" station designed by Greg Simpson for Flint Agro-Chemical, a world-spanning agribusiness. Only a few people know that TESLA is creating weather all over the globe, granting Flint huge harvests and punishing the company's rivals with hailstorms and drought. Even fewer know that from time to time, Flint and TESLA help the Pentagon by providing just the right weather for a military...
12) Promise
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English
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"A few minutes after 9 p.m. on Palm Sunday, April 5, 1936, a massive funnel cloud flashing a giant fireball and roaring like a runaway train careened into the thriving cotton-mill town of Tupelo, Mississippi, killing more than 200 people, not counting an unknown number of black citizens, one-third of Tupelo's population, who were not included in the official casualty figures. When the tornado hits, Dovey, a local laundress, is flung by the terrifying...
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English
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"April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly...
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English
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"Milo's high school career has gone relatively smoothly, so he figures he's overdue for an epic teenage disaster. He never thought that when Marcos returns to their Florida high school for the first time since freshman year, resolving their feelings for each other will trigger actual natural disasters which could become an extinction-level event"--Publisher's description.
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English
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After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of New York City.
After a meteor hits the Moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of New York City. Book #2.
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2025]
Physical Desc
365 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"August 1816. England is in the grip of what will become known as the Year Without a Summer. Facing the twin crises of a harvest-destroying volcanic winter and the economic disruption caused by the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the British monarchy finds itself haunted by the looming threat of bloody riots not seen since the earliest days of the French Revolution. Amidst the turmoil, a dead man is found hanging upside down by one leg in an abandoned...
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