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2) Cat's cradle
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Pub. Date
1998, c1963
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
xiii, 287 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
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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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 pass on 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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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The River: In this "end-of-the-world novel more like a rapturous beginning" (San Francisco Chronicle), Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. His gripping story is "an ode to friendship between two men...the strong bond between a human and a dog, and a reminder of what is worth living for" (Minneapolis Star-Tribune).
Hig's wife is gone,...
Hig's wife is gone,...
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Series
End series volume 2
Description
In the second installment of The End series, not even Joshua Jordan's anti-nuclear technology can stop global events moving to catastrophic as terrorist missiles take down an American plane and a bomb explodes in the Mall of America.
Joshua Jordan's reputation is on the line when his controversial anti-nuclear system fails to protect a commercial flight as it takes off from Chicago and is shot down by a terrorist missile. The government is taking...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"This imaginative and affecting new novel is beloved, bestselling, and award-winning author David Yoon at his finest: thought-provoking and heart-piercing, by turns funny and challenging, and at all times deeply human"--
A man who cannot remember his own name wakes up in an apocalyptic landscape, injured and alone. He has vague memories of life before, but he can't see it clearly and can't grasp how his current situation came to be. He must learn...
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On an overseas flight to London a journalist, Buck Williams, and a pilot, Rayford Steele, are caught in the middle of the most incredible event in history. Suddenly, without warning, dozens of passengers simply vanish into thin air. As chaos and anarchy engulf the world, both men set out on vastly different paths in a desperate search for answers.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
655 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
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"The second book in the New York Times bestselling Moonfall series from thriller-master James Rollins, The Cradle of Ice is a page-turning tale of action, adventure, betrayal, ambition, and the struggle for survival in a harsh world that hangs by a thread. To stop the coming apocalypse, a fellowship was formed. A soldier, a thief, a lost prince, and a young girl bonded by fate and looming disaster. Each step along this path has changed the party,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xx, 250 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"A New York Times bestselling Biblical scholar reveals why our popular understanding of the Apocalypse is all wrong-and why that matters. You'll find nearly everything the Bible has to say about the end in the Book of Revelation: a mystifying prophecy filled with bizarre symbolism, violent imagery, mangled syntax, confounding contradictions, and very firm ideas about the horrors that await us all. But whether you understand the book as a literal description...
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Series
Passages volume 2
Pub. Date
2010, c2005
Physical Desc
192 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
At the end of World War II, Wade is transported to a war-torn alternate world called Marus, where he finds himself a key figure in a political power struggle and unwittingly helps to bring the Unseen One's judgment on a corrupt people.
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Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
423 p. ; 24 cm.
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North Korea's attempt to strike New York City with a nuclear bomb has been thwarted by Joshua Jordan and his new weapons defense system. However, with the global economy waning, several countries' leaders have become increasingly corrupt, resulting in the mobilization of the world's armed forces. With the events foretold in Revelations seemingly on the horizon, Jordan must decide what he is willing to sacrifice to save his country.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
554 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Description
"An alliance embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the secrets of the distant past and save their world in this captivating, deeply visionary adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling thriller-master James Rollins. A gifted student foretells an apocalypse. Her reward is a sentence of death. Fleeing into the unknown she is drawn into a team of outcasts: A broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he's forbidden to wield and carves...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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News stations across the country are reporting mysterious messages that Earth has been receiving from a planet--Alma--claiming to be its creator. If they're being interpreted correctly, in seven days Alma will hit the kill switch on their "colony" Earth. True or not, for teenagers Jesse Hewitt, Cate Collins, and Adeem Khan, the prospect of this ticking time bomb will change their lives forever. Jesse, who has been dealt one bad blow after another,...
18) Birthright: the coming posthuman apocalypse and the usurpation of Adam's dominion on planet Earth
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
An overview of the assault on the Kingdom of Heaven, the birth of mankind and how Adam's dominion on Earth is coming to an end.
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Series
Passage trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xvii, 568 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Description
Survivors of a government-induced apocalypse endure their violent and disease-stricken world while protecting their loved ones; while a century into the future, members of a transformed society determinedly search for the original twelve virals.
20) Ebonwilde
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Series
(Crystal Campbell).Bloodleaf trilogy volume 3
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A bitter prince keeps lonely vigil in a darkened tomb, a wounded knight fights for his life in a gladiatorial arena, and a fledgling king wanders the perilous streets of a dangerous city while the errant princess who sealed their fates drifts in spell-cast slumber within a coffin made of glass.
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