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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
870L
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English
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Civilization doesn't end with a bang or a whimper. It ends with a call on your cell phone. What happens on the afternoon of October 1 came to be known as the Pulse, a signal sent though every operating cell phone that turns its user into something...well, something less than human. Savage, murderous, unthinking-and on a wanton rampage. Terrorist act? Cyber prank gone haywire? It really doesn't matter, not to the people who avoided the technological...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
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"New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real...a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages...A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP). A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies." "Months before publication, One...
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Edge of collapse volume 4
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English
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As the world descends into anarchy, home means everything... Three weeks after the nation's power grid goes down, chaos reigns. Food supplies have dried up. Fuel is running low. And the bleak, brutal winter is relentless. Fall Creek has forged a shaky peace, but the cost for safety is proving higher than some are willing to pay. The town is a powder keg waiting to explode. Noah struggles to maintain order even as dissent and conflict threaten to destroy...
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"As massive solar flares bombard the Earth, an intense electromagnetic pulse instantly destroys the power grid throughout North America. Within hours, desperate citizens panic and anarchy descends. Surrounded by chaos, Casey Drager, a student at Tulane University, must save herself from the havoc in the streets of New Orleans. Casey and two of her friends evacuate the city and travel north, where they end up in the dangerous backwaters of Mississippi,...
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Edge of collapse volume 7
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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The final battle for Fall Creek looms...and not everyone will make it out alive.
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Edge of collapse volume 6
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English
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Three months after an EMP attack destroys the U.S. power grid, starvation and disease have killed millions. With the end of winter finally in sight, the town of Fall Creek, Michigan balances on the precipice of collapse. They have suffered and sacrificed. But to forge a future worth living, they will have to face the darkness within themselves. Each must decide--will they retain their humanity or choose survival at any cost.
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When massive solar flares send an intense electromagnetic pulse to Earth, every electrical device is fried instantly. The modern world that sixteen-year-old Mitch Henley has always known comes crashing down. Anarchy, looting and chaos explode all around him. Stranded in New Orleans, Mitch escapes into the Mississippi backwoods he knows so well, hoping to stay alive using the survival and hunting skills he learned from his game-warden father. Alone...
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Edge of collapse volume 2
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English
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On the five-year anniversary of his wife Hannah's disappearance, small-town cop Noah Sheridan takes his son Milo to a local ski resort for some much needed father-son time. In a blink, the power grid goes out. Phones and cars stop working. What starts as a Christmas holiday soon turns deadly. When an impending blizzard cuts off the town from the rest of civilization, it'll take everything Noah has to keep his family and friends alive. Nature's wrath...
9) EMPulse
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Series
EMPulse volume 1
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English
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For one woman, a new season of life begins just as a nuclear winter descends. An explosive survival thriller from the author of The Journal series.
Adele Michaels is an artist well known for her unusual style of painting, but after her fairytale wedding to multimillionaire Kyle Polez, she stops working on her art. No one knows why. It turns out that broken bones and paintbrushes don't mix well.
After divorcing her abusive new husband, Adele is still...
10) Edge of darkness
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Edge of collapse volume 3
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English
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Liam and Hannah continue their dangerous journey, but their every step is dogged by a deadly adversary. Hunted and exhausted, will they have what it takes to get home? In Fall Creek, Noah struggles to protect his son and his friends. With the town running out of food and fuel, and the cold as brutal as ever, they're forced to make compromises that may place them in even greater danger...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"When a strange new star appears in the sky, human life instantly grinds to a halt as, across the world, anything and everything electronic stops working completely. At first, it seems to be a strange miracle to Seth Black--it stops him from committing suicide, and erases the gambling debt that threatened to destroy his family. But, as he and his wife Natalie begin to realize that the electricity isn't coming back on, and the phones will never work...
12) Seeking justice
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Gateway to chaos volume 3
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English
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"Raine Caldwell and the other survivors from St. Louis thought getting out of the city would be the answer to their problems. They quickly learn that violence and winter's fury aren't exclusive to the city. The group is tested far beyond anything they could imagine as they begin to settle in and survive life without modern conveniences."--Publisher's description.
13) Five years after
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Five years after The Final Day, the Republic of New America has all but collapsed into regional powers and the world at large is struggling to remain stable as regional conflicts ravage the post EMP landscape. After several years attempting to lead a quiet life, John Matherson receives the news that the President is dying from a possible assassination attempt, and is asked to step in to negotiate with what appears to be a new military power hidden...
14) Edge of collapse
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Edge of collapse volume 1
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English
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In the middle of the coldest winter on record, an EMP destroys the nation's power grid. No electricity. No cars or phones. Worst of all: No heat. The country is plunged into instant chaos. But for twenty-six-year-old Riley Sheridan, it's the best day of her life. For the last four years, she's been the captive of a sadistic psychopath--until the EMP releases the lock of her prison. Battered but not broken, she emerges from her underground cell into...
15) The last second
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Brit in the FBI volume 6
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English
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"From New York Times bestselling authors Catherine Coulter and J.T. Ellison comes a riveting thriller pitting special agents Nicholas Drummond and Michaela Caine against the head of a private space agency who has the power to end the world as we know it. It's Bastille Day in France, and the private French space agency Galactus--France's answer to Space X, owned by the eccentric treasure hunter Jean-Pierre Broussard--has just sent a satellite payload...
16) Solar storm
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
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"Amazing photography accompanies engaging information about solar storms. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
17) Seeking hope
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Gateway to chaos volume 4
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English
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In the weeks since an EMP attack left their world in chaos, Raine Caldwell and her group have escaped St. Louis only to find trouble at the farm in St. Francois County. With the cartel defeated and new alliances formed with the locals, they thought their problems were over. But the battle was only beginning.
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Grid down volume 02
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English
Description
The saga continues in Grid Down Perceptions of Reality (volume 2, part 2). A small band of warriors desperately struggle to survive the chaos that ensues. Now a post-apocalyptic world, they must rely on their primal instincts to escape destruction, disease and death.
19) Prepper: Book 1
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Series
Prepper volume 2
Language
English
Description
"A cataclysmic domestic terror attack kills power and drives major cities into darkness. PREPPER is a five books series that follows the adventures of a suburban family ready for the apocalypse, a survivalist isolated in his rural compound, a wily politician, and a tech billionaire whose grip on reality is as fragile as the grid. All of them are tenuously connected in a fresh approach to the grid down/EMP storylines and read as realistic in today's...
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Report / 114th Congress 1st session House of Representatives volume 114-240
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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