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21) Blue fire
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"They call it Hell Day--a world war that lasted less than twenty-four hours. Nations unleashed weapons that destroyed more than a century's worth of technology. Those who survived must live as their ancestors did, off a land ruled by the whims of nature. One-time congressional representative Victoria Emerson has become the new leader of the small town of Ortho, West Virginia. She has been struggling to provide food and shelter for the town's inhabitants,...
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Series
Ashes series (William W. Johnstone) volume 6
Pub. Date
c1986
Description
A Savage New World
Anarchy and chaos have erupted out of the devastation of World War III. Now, it is one survivor's duty to lead his nation out of the ashes: legendary soldier and freedom fighter, Ben Raines. Whatever it takes, he is going to rebuild America...and he is going to do it his way.
From his secret outpost in the far west, Raines orders his Rebels to back him in one last desperate assault against the Russian invaders and the mercenary...
23) Karma of the sun
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"In the isolation of the Himalayas, the snows still fall, but they are tinged with the ash of a nuclear winter; the winds still blow, but they wail with the cries of ghosts. The seventh and final blast is near. As the world heaves its final breaths, the people of the Tibetan plateau--civilization's final survivors--are haunted by spirits and terrorized by warlords. Though the last of the seven prophesied cataclysms is at hand, young Karma searches...
24) The wall
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. With a cat, a dog, and a cow as her sole companions, she learns how to survive and cope with her loneliness. Allegorical yet deeply personal and absorbing, The Wall is at once a critique of modern civilization, a nuanced and loving portrait of a relationship between a woman...
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Series
Divided we fall trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
Description
Having started the Second American Civil War, Danny Wright, along with his friends, finally seem to have gotten out of it when they find a hidden place to build a society of their own, free from U.S. federal rule. However, as the country burns down around them in war, Danny wonders if he can stay silent and safe, out of the action. He wonders if he can live with himself if he lets his countrymen die when he might be able to save them, even at great...
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Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 7
Description
One terrible act plunges the world into an instant nuclear crisis, and, with the American president accused of incompetence, Jack Ryan calls on FBI head Dan Murray to help him avert disaster.
Author
Pub. Date
c1980
Description
Riddley Walker is a brilliant, unique, completely realized work of fiction. One reads it again and again, discovering new wonders every time through. Set in a remote future in a post-nuclear holocaust England (Inland), Hoban has imagined a humanity regressed to an iron-age, semi-literate state, and invented a language to represent it. Riddley is at once the Huck Finn and the Stephen Dedalus of his culture: rebel, change agent, and artist. Read this...
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All eyes are on the Middle East. Israel has successfully launched a first strike on Iran, taking out all of their nuclear sites and six of their nuclear warheadsand causing The Twelfth Imam to order a full-scale retaliation. US President William Jackson threatens to support a UN Security Council resolution condemning the Jewish State for unprovoked and unwarranted acts of aggression. Meanwhile, CIA operative David Shirazi has infiltrated the Iranian...
30) After the bomb
Author
Pub. Date
c1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
After an accidental nuclear explosion off the coast of California, Philip searches for his family through a heavily militarized and devastated Los Angeles.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Wherever Hel looks, New York City is both reassuringly familiar and terribly wrong. As one of the thousands who fled the outbreak of nuclear war in an alternate United States--and alternate timeline, somewhere across the multiverse--she finds herself living as a refugee in our own not-so-parallel New York. The slang and technology are foreign to her, the politics and art unrecognizable. While others, like her partner Vikram, attempt to assimilate,...
33) The city of Devi
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Series
Pub. Date
2013
Description
A dazzling, multilayered novel that not only encompasses a searing love story but, with its epic reach from quarks to mythology to geopolitics, also encapsulates the fate of the entire world. As Mumbai empties under the threat of imminent nuclear annihilation, Sarita, a thirty-three-year-old statistician, can only think of one thing: being reunited with Karun, her physicist husband. Why has he vanished? Who is he running from? How will they form the...
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Assassin trilogy volume 1
Description
"After simultaneous suitcase-nuke attacks destroy New York, Washington, D.C., and Mecca, a civil war breaks out and an uneasy truce leaves the United States divided between an Islamic republic with its capital in Seattle, and the Christian Bible Belt in the old South"--From publisher's information.
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Alex Hunter Novel volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Description
The second action-packed thriller in the Alex Hunter series.
38) Crush depth
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Series
Jeffrey Fuller novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
"The cataclysm that began with coordinated reactionary coups in South Africa and Germany caught America completely unprepared. Overnight, new enemies have emerged and joined forces to attack U.S. and European shipping lanes, setting off a global conflagration raging in deadly earnest. And this time the devastating weapons of choice used by the Berlin-Boer Axis will be tactical nuclear weapons." "The enemy boat Voortrekker prowls beneath the ocean's...
40) If winter comes
Author
Pub. Date
c1986
Description
As an escalating world crisis makes the threat of nuclear warfare imminent, teenage Meredith and her boyfriend Barry draw closer to each other and to other people important to them during what could be the last weekend of their lives.