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Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
"Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he...
Author
Series
World after the fall volume 3
Publisher
Ize Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"As he scrambles to save Mino's deteriorating soul, Jaehwan is suddenly transported to a strange dimension. There, he faces a mysterious old man who wields a power similar to his own-the power of Awakening! His interest is piqued when the ancient warrior claims to have known the Dream Demon Mulak, the cryptic architect of the Nightmare Tower that appeared on Earth! But before the man can tell the full story, an aura of bottomless dread descends upon...
Author
Series
I survived volume 23
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It was 1964 in the brand-new state of Alaska, a vast land of staggering beauty and heart-stopping dangers. Eleven-year-old Jack had grown up living happily with his parents in an off-the-grid cabin, miles from their closest neighbors. Grizzlies and wolves outnumbered people, and dark winter days were 30 degrees below zero. Jack had always thought of himself as strong--"Alaska tough". But then the most powerful earthquake in American history--the Good...
4) Hatchet
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Series
Language
English
Description
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A practical, all-encompassing guide to disaster preparedness-from avalanches and blackouts to pandemics and wildfires-from NBC News senior medical correspondent and emergency medicine physician Dr. John Torres"--
As an emergency room physician and U.S. Air Force veteran, Torres has seen it all, and his entire job is to think about the best practices in an emergency. Here he shares what he learned in a practical, all-encompassing guide to disaster...
6) The island
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they're deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom. When they discover remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry, taking...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity. They are what's left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When the president's daughter--eighteen-year-old Leigh Chen--ends up on the only ship escaping a dying earth, she and a group of teenagers must grapple with the challenges of what it will take to survive as the last remnants of humanity.
2072. Soon a volcanic eruption will trigger catastrophic devastation. Production of a space fleet is meant to save humankind, and the children of engineers and scientists are touring the Lazarus, a high-tech prototype...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As the new leader of ThunderClan, Bramblestar must prepare to weather a storm the likes of which the warrior Clans have never seen--and might not survive"--
As the new leader of ThunderClan, Bramblestar must prepare to weather a storm the likes of which the warrior Clans have never seen and might not survive. Book #7.
10) Doom's day camp
Author
Series
[Doom's day camp] volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In a postapocalyptic world where everyone has unusual abilities, Doom Thorax, whose only power is reading, gets left in charge and is responsible for the survival of all the other kids at camp.
11) The hiding place
Author
Publisher
Chosen Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"Corrie ten Boom was the first licensed female watchmaker in the Netherlands who became a heroine of the Resistance, a survivor of Hitler's concentration camps, and one of the most remarkable evangelists of the twentieth century. In World War II she and her family risked their lives to help Jews and underground workers escape from the Nazis. In 1944 their lives were forever altered when they were betrayed, arrested, and thrown into the infamous Nazi...
12) Go as a river
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family's peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola, Colorado--the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from his tribal land and determined to live as he chooses. Victoria encounters Wil by chance on a street corner, a meeting that profoundly alters both of their young lives, unknowingly igniting as much passion...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Like everyone else, twelve-year-old Cleo and her parents are sealed in an apartment without windows or doors. They never leave. They never get visitors. Their food is dropped off by drones. So they're safe. Safe from the disease that nearly wiped humans from the earth. Safe from everything. The trade-off? They're alone. Thus, when they receive a package clearly meant for someone else--a package containing a substance critical for a stranger's survival--Cleo...
15) Carve the mark
Author
Series
Carve the mark volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a planet where violence and vengeance rule, in a galaxy where some are favored by fate, everyone develops a currentgift, a unique power meant to shape the future. While most benefit from their currentgifts, Akos and Cyra do not -- their gifts make them vulnerable to others control. Can they reclaim their gifts, their fates, and their lives, and reset the balance of power in this world? Cyra is the sister of the brutal tyrant who rules the Shotet...
Author
Series
Minecraft volume 3
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The final book in Max Brooks's official Minecraft trilogy, details the story of two stranded heroes whose block-breaking expedition lands them squarely in the middle of a conflict that only they can resolve"--
Journeying into the unknown is a scary prospect, but together Guy and Summer can navigate any challenge. The two castaways strike out in this curious, blocky world, searching for a way home. As they cross the Overworld--traversing frozen wastelands...
17) Manhunt
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate. Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren't safe. After a brutal accident entwines the three of them, this found family of survivors must navigate murderous TERFs, a sociopathic billionaire bunker brat, and awkward relationship dynamics--all...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Putting their trust in one another, two boys, Andrew and Jamie, search for civilization in a world ravaged by a deadly pathogen, but their secrets could cost them everything as they try to find the courage to fight for the future, together.
A deadly pathogen has killed off most of the world's population. When Andrew stumbles upon Jamie's house, he is injured, starved, and has nothing left to lose. And if this new world has taught the two anything,...
20) Scar Island
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jonathan Grisby has been sent to the Slabhenge Reformatory School for Troubled Boys, a former lunatic asylum which is currently run by a sadist who enjoys punishing the boys and setting them against each other; but when a lightning strike kills all the adults the boys find themselves suddenly free--and trapped on Scar Island which seems to be sinking into the ocean.