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Author
Pub. Date
2007
Lexile Measure
850L
Summary
Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.
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Series
Survivalist volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Summary
They survived the collapse, but can they survive the aftermath? Morgan Carter has weathered the weeks after the collapse of the nation's power grid, reuniting with his family and ensuring their safety, but his struggle isn't over yet. Carter must focus on survival in an increasingly unstable society-but the challenges he faces are beyond his wildest imagination. Meanwhile, the enclosed quarters of the nearby government-run refugee camp make for an...
4) The postman
Author
Series
Lexile Measure
910L
Summary
After a limited but devastating war, the few Americans who remain struggle to survive. One such man borrows the jacket of a dead postal worker to keep warm and finds the uniform still has power as a symbol of hope of an age now gone.
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"Tomorrow, the funk descends on Manhattan, a noxious cloud which separates the island from the rest of the world and mutates the population. Some generations on, the surviving population exists amid the rubble of modernity, wearing our cast-off clothing, worshipping celebrities as dim gods and using emojis in place or written language. The Island exists in a state of uneasy peace, with each neighborhood an independent fiefdom, protecting itself with...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Summary
As London is submerged below floodwaters, a woman gives birth to her first child, Z. Days later, she and her baby are forced to leave their home in search of safety. They head north through a newly dangerous country seeking refuge from place to place. The story traces fear and wonder as the baby grows, thriving and content against all the odds.
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Summary
"The Wilder Boys are excited to be spending part of their summer at a wilderness camp. Jake is going to be working as an assistant counselor, and Taylor will be in his cabin. Along with the rest of their group, they'll spend two weeks honing their skills and learning to work together before a multiday trek traversing woodland, mountain, and desert terrain during a team-based competition. But no amount of training could have prepared them for what...
Author
Series
The lost light volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Summary
"In the gripping finale to the Lost Light survival series, the remnants of humanity cling to survival after a cataclysmic solar flare. With half the planet shrouded in darkness, the enclave of survivors of Michigan's Upper Peninsula have endured violence, starvation, and lawlessness. Now, they find themselves under siege from the brutal cartel and its sadistic leader, Luis Gault. War is coming. Jackson, Eli, Shiloh, and Lena must rally their people...
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Series
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When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just beginning, as men and women of all backgrounds join together to confront the darkness.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Summary
"A lyrical queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a locked-room thriller. A Twenty-First Century Hamlet. Hayden Lichfield's life is ripped apart when he finds his father murdered in their lab, and the camera logs erased. The killer can only have been after one thing: the Sisyphus Formula the two of them developed together, which might one day reverse death itself. Hoping to lure the killer into the open, Hayden steals the research. In the...
13) Among the living
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Summary
Former friends, one an environmental activist and the other a mineral miner, embark on a dangerous journey after unwittingly releasing a horrific contagion that has been undisturbed for centuries.
14) Nightwatching
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Summary
"A razor-sharp thriller about a mother forced to the breaking point when her life and the lives of her children are threatened by a stranger"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Summary
"After months of living among the undead of London, B Smith has given up hope for any sign of normal human existence. But then B finds her way to the Angels--a group gathered in the hopes of combating the evil dead and the forces that introduced them. Yet all is not as it seems, and it's up to B to find out what battle they are truly waging. In the search for answers, B uncovers a horror beyond imagining and, when B is captured, finds it will take...
18) One by one
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A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not how Claire Matchett expected to spend her vacation. She thought this would be a break from the stresses of work and raising her young children. A chance to repair her damaged marriage. A week of hiking and hot tubs with two other couple friends. It sounded like heaven. Then Claire’s minivan breaks down on a lonely dirt road. With no cell reception, the group has no choice but to hike the rest of the...
19) Does it hurt?
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"Who am I? I've forgotten the answer to that question long ago. Ever since I ran from that house, so desperate to escape, I left with only the clothes on my back and socks on my feet. After that day, I've only ever walked in stolen shoes. Could I be a girl who is searching for the meaning of life in faceless men? They were all so forgettable. Until he came along. He took me under a waterfall and made me forget my name, and in return, I took his instead....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
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Summary
Follow the clues to real locations on a quest to solve an ancient mystery.
The scavenger hunt takes Jake and his friends, where few people venture to go, into the depths of the Grand Canyon.
Jake, Amber, and Wes encounter new dangers and find their friendship tested as they follow the clues Jake's grandfather hid away in the old scrapbook. The stakes are higher, and the history goes deeper as the three kids put their
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