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A modern science fiction classic from an acclaimed bestselling author: The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction.
"A book of such accelerating tension that the pages seem to turn faster as one moves along." —Chicago Tribune
Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future,...
"A book of such accelerating tension that the pages seem to turn faster as one moves along." —Chicago Tribune
Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future,...
3) Cat's cradle
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From the Publisher: 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.
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Jack West Jr. novels volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Jack regroups with his trusty team, and discovers an ancient inscription containing a rhyme about five mysterious unnamed warriors whose knowledge will be vital to unlocking the secrets of the Machine and its long-lost "pillars."
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Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Eight light years away, a star has died, creating a supernova event that showers Earth in deadly levels of radiation. Within a year, everyone over the age of thirteen will die. And so the countdown begins. Parents apprentice their children and try to passon the knowledge needed to keep the world running. But when the world is theirs, the last generation may not want to continue the legacy left to them. And in shaping the future however they want,...
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Jack West Jr. novels volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Soldier Jack West, Jr., and his elite team work to counter the efforts of a dark cabal that has been steadily undermining their past efforts with the intent of staging a catastrophic attack.
9) Knowing
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Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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A college professor finds a piece of paper, covered with numbers, that has predicted major disasters in the last fifty years, and he and his son must figure out what the remaining numbers mean for the world before disaster strikes again.
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Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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When an asteroid has an 84.7% chance of colliding with the Earth in four days, eleven-year-old Kemi, who loves scientific facts and probability, assembles a time capsule to capture her family's truth as she tries to come to terms with saying goodbye.
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When everyone in town disappears without a trace, twelve-year-old Eddie and his friends, with no parental supervision, must figure out what happened to their families, but as they each deal with their fear differently, their friendships begin to fracture.
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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As the bombs of the Blitz rain down on Britain, one young girl is evacuated to the countryside. She is struggling to make sense of her new wartime life. Then she is given a copy of Asgard and the Gods -- a book of ancient Norse myths -- and her inner and outer worlds are transformed.
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The three novels volume 1
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Hachette Audio
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English
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Four simultaneous plane crashes. Three child survivors. A religious fanatic who insists the three are harbingers of the apocalypse. What if he's right?
The world is stunned when four commuter planes crash within hours of each other on different continents. Facing global panic, officials are under pressure to find the causes. With terrorist attacks and environmental factors ruled out, there doesn't appear to be a correlation between the...
The world is stunned when four commuter planes crash within hours of each other on different continents. Facing global panic, officials are under pressure to find the causes. With terrorist attacks and environmental factors ruled out, there doesn't appear to be a correlation between the...
16) Nonstop
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Phaidon Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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In this final masterpiece from the late Tomi Ungerer, Earth is devastated and empty. Everyone has escaped to the moon, except Vasco. Luckily, Vasco has his shadow to guide him, and he finds little green Poco, someone to care for and bring to safety. Nonstop dangers await Vasco and baby Poco at every corner, but Vasco's shadow rescues and guides them through destroyed cities and apocalyptic landscapes to safety. It's a timely, thought-provoking tale...
17) Angelmaker
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Pub. Date
2012
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English
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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.
18) The stand
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Paramount
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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The release of a killer virus nearly destroys Earth, but the survivors band together and have a final showdown between the forces of good and evil.
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Universal Studios Home Entert
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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After losing his parents, Lewis Barnavelt goes to live with his uncle Jonathan and discovers that not only is his uncle a warlock, but they must find a clock hidden in the house by an evil wizard that is counting down to the end of the world.
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Sweet tooth volume 1
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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A plague has killed almost everyone and is killing more every day, and the only ones immune to it are a group of hybrid animal-children. After his father's death, Gus, a nine-year-old boy-deer, desperately accepts the help offered by a big man who says he will take Gus to the Preserve, a safe place for the hybrid children.
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