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Fourth Quadrant by W. Michael Gear
6 ratingsFROM WESTERN WORD-SLINGER AND ANTHROPOLOGIST W. MICHAEL GEAR, COMES THE SEQUEL TO THE BESTSELLING CONTEMPORARY APOCALYPTIC WESTERN, DISSOLUTION.Lauren Davis is closing on her twenty-first birthday when a cyberattack leads to the collapse of the American banking system...Categorized as:
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![I Survived the Joplin Tornado, 2011 by Lauren Tarshis]()
I Survived the Joplin Tornado, 2011 by Lauren Tarshis
16 ratingsEleven-year-old Dexter has always wanted to see a tornado. So when he gets the incredible opportunity to go storm chasing with the famous Dr. Norman Rays, he has to say yes! Dr. Rays is the host of Tornado Mysteries, the show that Dex and his older brother, Jeremy, watched every night until Jeremy joined the U.S. Navy SEALs and left Joplin... -
![I Survived the Children's Blizzard, 1888 by Lauren Tarshis]()
I Survived the Children's Blizzard, 1888 by Lauren Tarshis
16 ratingsThe Schoolhouse Blizzard, also known as the Children's Blizzard or the Great Blizzard of 1888, caught people completely by surprise and resulted in 235 fatalities, including several children in one-room schoolhouses. What made the storm so deadly was the timing, the suddenness, and the brief spell of warmer weather that preceded it... -
![I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 by Lauren Tarshis]()
I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 by Lauren Tarshis
18 ratingsCould an entire city really burn to the ground?Oscar Starling never wanted to come to Chicago. But then Oscar finds himself not just in the heart of the big city, but in the middle of a terrible fire! No one knows exactly how it began, but one thing is clear: Chicago is like a giant powder keg about to explode... -
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![I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916 by Lauren Tarshis]()
I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916 by Lauren Tarshis
20 ratingsBased on true events! It's the summer of 1916 and the Jersey shore is being terrorized by a Great White shark. Can 10-year-old Chet and his friends survive a swim in the local creek?Chet Roscow is finally feeling at home in Elm Hills, New Jersey. He has a job with his uncle Jerry at the local diner, three great friends, and the perfect summertime destination: cool, refreshing Matawan Creek... -
![Orion Awakened by J.N. Chaney, Jonathan Yanez]()
Orion Awakened by J.N. Chaney, Jonathan Yanez
8 ratingsAn alien awakens from a long sleep.An impossible prophecy that cannot be ignored.Dean and his friends are trapped on a world they can barely comprehend with enemies on all sides and a growing need to survive.There's more to this place than any of them could have dreamed... -
![The Watch That Ends the Night by Allan Wolf]()
The Watch That Ends the Night by Allan Wolf
16 ratingsArrogance and innocence, hubris and hope--twenty-four haunting voices of the Titanic tragedy, as well as the iceberg itself, are evoked in a stunning tour de force.Millionaire John Jacob Astor hopes to bring home his pregnant teen bride with a minimum of media scandal. A beautiful Lebanese refugee, on her way to family in Florida, discovers the first stirrings of love... -
![I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 by Lauren Tarshis, Lauren Tarhis]()
I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 by Lauren Tarshis, Lauren Tarhis
16 ratingsIt was one the most beautiful mountains in America, Mt. St. Helens, in Washington State. But what many didn't know was that this peaceful mountain had an explosive past. For more than a century, it had been quiet. But below ground, pressure had been building, and soon, "Kaboom!" Mt. St. Helens would erupt with terrifying fury... -
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![S.O.S. by Gordon Korman]()
S.O.S. by Gordon Korman
14 ratingsFrom bestselling author Gordon Korman, the thrilling conclusion to the adventure aboard the unluckiest ship of all.The Titanic was supposed to be unsinkable - the largest passenger steamship in the world, one of the biggest and most luxurious ships ever to operate...Categorized as:
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![I Survived The Great Molasses Flood, 1919 by Lauren Tarshis]()
I Survived The Great Molasses Flood, 1919 by Lauren Tarshis
14 ratings100 years ago, a killer wave of molasses struck a crowded Boston neighborhood. Discover the story of this strange disaster in the next book in the New York Times bestselling I Survived series.A deadly - and strange - disaster. It's been four years since Carmen and Papa moved from Italy to Boston. Life here is exciting, but not always easy...Categorized as:
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![Collision Course by Gordon Korman]()
Collision Course by Gordon Korman
14 ratingsThere's a killer on the loose on the Titanic; ?; and the only people who know are four kids. Within both the luxury of the cabins and the dark underbelly of the engine rooms, Paddy, Sophie, Juliana, and Alfie have found themselves tangled in a maze of mysteries, each one deadlier than the next...Categorized as:
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![What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J.A. Chancy]()
What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J.A. Chancy
12 ratingsAt the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A... -
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![Defiance by William H. Weber]()
Defiance by William H. Weber
6 ratingsA month has passed since a deadly virus swept the country killing millions and leaving chaos in its wake. Dale Hardy has managed to weather the storm by hunkering down on his homestead in Arizona. He grows his own crops, generates his own power and draws fresh water from his own deep aquifer... -
![Into the Firestorm: A Novel of San Francisco, 1906 by Deborah Hopkinson]()
Into the Firestorm: A Novel of San Francisco, 1906 by Deborah Hopkinson
6 ratings“I believe I can just see you on the streets of that bright city.”Gran’s gone now, but her words live on with Nicholas Dray, almost twelve, as he makes his way from the hot cotton fields to that Queen of San Francisco. Nick’s on his own for the first time, with nowhere to turn...Categorized as:
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![When Worlds Collide by Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer]()
When Worlds Collide by Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer
14 ratingsA runaway planet hurtles toward the earth. As it draws near, massive tidal waves, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions wrack our planet, devastating continents, drowning cities, and wiping out millions. In central North America, a team of scientists race to build a spacecraft powerful enough to escape the doomed earth... -
![The Flight of the Phoenix by Elleston Trevor, Grover Gardner]()
The Flight of the Phoenix by Elleston Trevor, Grover Gardner
8 ratingsNo way out ... Twelve men survived the crash when a blinding, unexpected sandstorm sent their Skytruck air freighter plummeting to the Earth. Now they are in Hell, stranded and alone in the empty wastes of the Sahara, facing a slow, agonizing death under the unrelenting Libyan sun... -
![Lord Grizzly by Frederick Manfred]()
Lord Grizzly by Frederick Manfred
8 ratingsHunter, trapper, resourceful fighter, and scout, Hugh Glass was just another rugged mountain man until he was mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead by his best friends. They never expected to see him again. But they did, and he was not just Hugh Glass any more. He was Lord Grizzly... -
![The Last Hours by Minette Walters]()
The Last Hours by Minette Walters
18 ratingsWhen the Black Death enters England through the port in Dorsetshire in June 1348, no one knows what manner of sickness it is—or how it spreads and kills so quickly. The Church cites God as the cause, and fear grips the people as they come to believe that the plague is a punishment for wickedness.But Lady Anne of Develish has her own ideas... -
![Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman]()
Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman
16 ratingsStorm Chasers meets Stranger Things! An action-packed coming-of-age story of both natural disaster and the bravery it takes to face it. When a tornado watch is issued one Tuesday evening in June, twelve-year-old Dan Hatch and his best friend, Arthur, don't think much of it. After all, tornado warnings are a way of life during the summer in Grand Island, Nebraska... -
![The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor]()
The Girl Who Came Home by Hazel Gaynor
26 ratingsA voyage across the ocean becomes the odyssey of a lifetime for a young Irish woman. . . .Ireland, 1912 . . .Fourteen members of a small village set sail on RMS Titanic, hoping to find a better life in America. For seventeen-year-old Maggie Murphy, the journey is bittersweet. Though her future lies in an unknown new place, her heart remains in Ireland with Séamus, the sweetheart she left behind... -
![The Day After Tomorrow by Whitley Strieber, Roland Emmerich]()
The Day After Tomorrow by Whitley Strieber, Roland Emmerich
10 ratingsTHE BEGINNING OF THE END: It's a fiercely hot summer, so hot that the north pole's heat record is broken by fifty degrees. Massive ice melt stuns the world as open ocean appears at the pole for the first time in living memory... -
![Hurricane by Terry Trueman]()
Hurricane by Terry Trueman
6 ratingsoutside, the wind is howling. it is a monster shrieking to get inside.outside, the rain is a solid wall of water.everything is dark. everything is destroyed.everything is gone.... Everything except for the desperate courage of those who survive that terrifying night...Categorized as:
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![Three Rivers Rising: A Novel of the Johnstown Flood by Jame Richards]()
Three Rivers Rising: A Novel of the Johnstown Flood by Jame Richards
12 ratingsSixteen-Year-Old Celstia spends every summer with her family at the elite resort at Lake Conemaugh, a shimmering Allegheny Mountain reservoir held in place by an earthen dam. Tired of the society crowd, Celestia prefers to swim and fish with Peter, the hotel’s hired boy. It’s a friendship she must keep secret, and when companionship turns to romance, it’s a love that could get Celestia disowned... -
![A City Tossed and Broken: The Diary of Minnie Bonner, San Francisco, California, 1906 by Judy Blundell]()
A City Tossed and Broken: The Diary of Minnie Bonner, San Francisco, California, 1906 by Judy Blundell
10 ratingsFrom National Book Award-winning author Judy Blundell, a thrilling account of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906.When Minnie Bonner's father disappears after losing the Bonners' Philadelphia tavern, the wealthy gentleman Edward Sump, led by his avaricious wife, offers Minnie a chance to work as a lady's maid to support her family...Categorized as:
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![The Midnight Watch: A Novel of the Titanic and the Californian by David Dyer]()
The Midnight Watch: A Novel of the Titanic and the Californian by David Dyer
16 ratingsAs the Titanic and her passengers sank slowly into the Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg late in the evening of April 14, 1912, a nearby ship looked on. Second Officer Herbert Stone, in charge of the midnight watch on the SS Californian sitting idly a few miles north, saw the distress rockets that the Titanic fired... -
![Unsinkable by Gordon Korman]()
Unsinkable by Gordon Korman
16 ratingsThe Titanic is meant to be unsinkable, but as it begins its maiden voyage, there's plenty of danger waiting for four of its young passengers. Paddy is a stowaway, escaping a deadly past. Sophie's mother is delivered to the ship by police;?; after she and Sophie have been arrested. Juliana's father is an eccentric whose riches can barely hide his madness...Categorized as:
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![Coldbrook by Tim Lebbon]()
Coldbrook by Tim Lebbon
14 ratingsColdbrook is a secret laboratory located deep in Appalachian Mountains. Its scientists had achieved the impossible: a gateway to a new world. Theirs was to be the greatest discovery in the history of mankind, but they had no idea what they were about to unleash.With their breakthrough comes disease and now it is out and ravaging the human population... -
![Time of the Great Freeze by Robert Silverberg]()
Time of the Great Freeze by Robert Silverberg
6 ratingsDr. Barnes grasped the microphone so tightly his knuckles whitened..."London, this is New York...It's hundreds of years since the last contact between London and New York!""I hear you, New York. Have you been to the surface yet?""Not yet... -
![Going Over by Beth Kephart]()
Going Over by Beth Kephart
10 ratingsIt is February 1983, and Berlin is a divided city with a miles-long barricade separating east from west. But the city isn't the only thing that is divided. Ada lives among the rebels, punkers, and immigrants of Kreuzberg in West Berlin. Stefan lives in East Berlin, in a faceless apartment bunker of Friedrichshain...Categorized as:
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![The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss]()
The Dazzle of Day by Molly Gloss
8 ratingsA New York Times Notable BookThe Dazzle of Day is a brilliant and widely celebrated mixture of mainstream literary fiction and hard SF. Molly Gloss turns her attention to the frontiers of the future, when the people of our over-polluted planet Earth voyage out to the stars to settle new worlds, to survive unknown and unpredictable hardships, and to make new human homes...Categorized as:
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![The World In Winter by John Christopher]()
The World In Winter by John Christopher
6 ratingsThe Fratellini Winter they had called it, after the Italian scientist who had first detected the decline in solar radiation.The seasons pass and the cold bites ever harder. The Thames freezes over, stocks of food and fuel run low, and London falls under martial law. That first arctic winter, it seems, was only the beginning, the herald of the incoming Ice Age.Andrew Leedon has problems of his own... -
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Big Water by Andrea Curtis
6 ratingsSeventeen-year-old Christina McBurney, grieving the loss of her twin brother, Jonathan, to consumption, has run away from her Parkdale home. She believes her mother wishes she had been the one to die, and she plans to find work far away as a nursemaid or teacher... -
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![The Whale: A Love Story by Mark Beauregard]()
The Whale: A Love Story by Mark Beauregard
10 ratingsA rich and captivating novel set amid the witty, high-spirited literary society of 1850s New England, offering a new window on Herman Melville’s emotionally charged relationship with Nathaniel Hawthorne and how it transformed his masterpiece, Moby-Dick In the summer of 1850, Herman Melville finds himself hounded by creditors and afraid his writing career might be coming to an end—his last... -
![Queen City Jazz by Kathleen Ann Goonan]()
Queen City Jazz by Kathleen Ann Goonan
10 ratingsIn Verity's world, nanotech plagues decimated the population after an initial renaissance of utopian nanotech cities. Growing up on an isolated farm, she finds her happy life changing course when Blaze, the only young man in the community and Verity's best friend, is shot. With Blaze's body wrapped in a nanotech cocoon, Verity sets off on a quest to the Enlivened City of Cincinnati... -
![All Fall Down by Harry Turtledove]()
All Fall Down by Harry Turtledove
10 ratingsIn Supervolcano: Eruption, one of nature’s most destructive forces released its ferocity on an unsuspecting world. Now, New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove reveals how the survivors of the disaster adapt to their new environment… In the aftermath of the supervolcano’s eruption in Yellowstone Park, North America is covered in ash. Farmlands cannot produce food...Categorized as:
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