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2) Census
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Learning that he does not have long to live and will need to figure out how to provide for his developmentally disabled adult son, a widower signs up as a census taker for a mysterious government bureau and leaves town with his son on a cross-country journey.
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Six years after a global pandemic wiped out most of the planet's population, the survivors are rebuilding the country, split between self-governing cities, hippie communes and wasteland gangs. Krista, Moira, Rob and Sunny are brought together by circumstance, and their lives begin to twine together. But when reports of another outbreak throw the fragile society into panic, the friends are forced to finally face everything that came before--and everything...
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"Stay and die, or run and survive. Twins Virginia and Tommy Matthews have been on their own since they were orphaned at the age of five, surviving a merciless foster care system by relying on each other. Twelve years later, the world begins to collapse around them as a deadly contagion steadily wipes out entire populations and a devastating world war rages on. When Tommy is drafted for the war, the twins are faced with a choice: accept their fate...
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"The world Cal and Frida have always known is gone, and they've left the crumbling city of Los Angeles far behind them. They now live in a shack in the wilderness, working side-by-side to make their days tolerable in the face of hardship and isolation. Mourning a past they can't reclaim, they seek solace in each other. But the tentative existence they've built for themselves is thrown into doubt when Frida finds out she's pregnant. Terrified of the...
6) Germinal
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"Étienne Lantier, a poor but spirited young laborer in search of work, shares the wretched lives of the coal miners of Le Voreux, where the brutish and dangerous working conditions consume the health and prospects of young and old, one generation after another. Impoverished, ill, and hungry, the miners inspire Étienne to attempt a revolt against the Company, an overthrow of “the tyranny of capital, which was starving the worker.” They answer...
7) Bird box
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IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
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In a world where no one can go outside for fear of something terrifying that when seen drives people to deadly violence, single mother Malorie and her two children must attempt a terrifying twenty-mile trip downriver while blindfolded.
In Bird Box, author Josh Malerman captures an apocalyptic near-future world, where a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choice and they will die. And something...
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Hace poco más de un siglo, nuestro mundo sufrió una tremenda transformación. Después de que el mar subiera de nivel y se abriera camino por el continente, las aguas borraron del mapa las grandes ciudades costeras de Estados Unidos y gran parte de su territorio, dejando únicamente un archipiélago de cimas montañosas donde proliferan las colonias, rodeadas de mar abierto.
Myra, una mujer testaruda e independiente, y Pearl, su precoz hija de siete...
9) Life After
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When a power outage in her neighborhood lasts for days, not hours, Amber starts to wonder if the blackout will last forever. Months go by and her sixteenth birthday is completely different from anything she ever imagined it would be. Then, the government comes to take charge. However, what she hears from the authorities doesn't match what she knows from the outside world. Can she find out the truth in time?
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A stunning debut novel about a couple’s harrowing journey across a ravaged America to save their daughter.
Bill and Penelope are the lucky ones. Not only do they survive the Shark Flu emerging from the melting Icelandic permafrost to sweep like a scythe across the world, but they begin to rebuild a life in the wreckage of the old. A garden to feed themselves planted where the lawn used to be, a mattress pulled down to the living room fireplace...
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"One night, everyone on Earth has the same dream--a dream of being guided to a watery death by a loved one on November 1. When they wake up, most people agree: after Halloween, the world will end. In the wake of this haunting dream and saddled with its uncertainty, Lyd and her daughter, Mott, navigate a changed world, wrestling with how to make choices when you really don't know what comes next. Embarking on a quixotic road trip filled with a collection...
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When a volcano collapses in the ocean and generates a tidal wave of biblical proportions, the world disappears around Louie, his parents and his eight siblings. Their house, perched on a summit, stands firm. As far as the eye can see there is only choppy grey water. For six days the family waits for relief, as food becomes scarce. Then the water starts to rise again, and the parents realize they must make for the highlands. There isn't room, however,...
13) O Fallen Angel
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The haunting debut novel that put Kate Zambreno on the map, O Fallen Angel, is a provocative, voice-driven story of a family in crisis-and, more broadly, the crisis of the American family-now repackaged and with a new introduction by Lidia Yuknavitch.
Inspired by Francis Bacon's Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion, Kate Zambreno's brilliant novel is a triptych of modern-day America set in a banal Midwestern landscape, told from...
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It's the summer of 1994 in suburban Chicago: Forrest Gump is still in theaters, teens are reeling from the recent death of Kurt Cobain, and you can enter a sweepstakes for a spaceship from Jupiter to land in your backyard. Welcome to Margaret Wappler's slightly altered 90s. Everything's pretty much the way you remember it, except for the aliens. When a flying saucer lands in the Allens' backyard, family patriarch and environmental activist Ernest...
15) Blind Sided
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When the world comes crashing down around you, it's important to believe in something…
After four years of living in a post-apocalyptic world, one thing Mike and Sarah know is that nothing ever stays the same. Just when life had begun to settle down-and all their immediate needs met-a threat comes at them from a totally unexpected source. Not England or roaming bands of thugs, not the US or even the Middle East. This time it's the land itself-the...
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Synopsis: A young girl faces the death of her mother and the loss of her closest companion.After Dinner Conversation is a growing series of short stories across genres to draw out deeper discussions with friends and family. Each story is an accessible example of an abstract ethical or philosophical idea and is accompanied by suggested discussion questions.Podcast discussion of this short story, and others, is available on iTunes, Stitcher, and Youtube....
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When the sky begins to fall, one man finds himself separated from his family, his best hope is to run--or risk losing what he loves forever. When the world ends and you find yourself stranded on the wrong side of the country, every second counts. No one knows this more than Edgar Hill: over five hundred miles of devastated wasteland stretch between him and his family. To get back to them, he must push himself to the very limit--or risk losing them...
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Jacky was running. There was no thought in his head, only an intense drive to run. There was no sense he was getting anywhere, no plan, no destination, no future. All he had was a sense of what was behind, what he was running from. Jacky was running. The Natives of the Colony are restless. The Settlers are eager to have a nation of peace, and to bring the savages into line. Families are torn apart, reeducation is enforced. This rich land will provide...
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Une partie de la forêt amazonienne du Pérou est concédée à un géant pétrolier. Antonella Pabin, comptable et climatosceptique, ne comprend pas l'engagement de sa fille et de son mari envers la protection de l'environnement. Cependant, à la suite d'évènements tragiques, Antonella devient une activiste redoutable. Réussira-t-elle à sauver l'Amazonie de ses prédateurs?
20) The Overseer
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Taj's sister, Azure, told him their father was dead. That's what happened to anyone who went missing in the dead of night. But Taj knew she was wrong, and he was going to prove it.Taj was only nine so he didn't know everything about the aliens who'd come and enslaved them but his best friends, Bracken and Dread, knew all about them. The new Overseer, the one with barely healed scars where the metal grew into his body, and the crackly electric whip...
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