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Nine very different people, trapped by an earthquake in the visa office in the basement of the Indian consulate, are nearing the breaking point when a young graduate student suggests each tell a story of one amazing thing that has happened in his or her life, an activity that keeps them calm and brings them closer together as they await their fate.
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Climate scientists tell us that some level of climate change is now baked in. So what will life be like in this climate-changed world?
In 2031, Zanna is housesitting a beachside house in Byron Bay, living the kind of life that inspires gloating selfies. She isn't thinking about climate change, it's just something in the background squeezing her life choices. She has much more immediate concerns, like whether she should let her parents meet her new...
23) Clocking Out
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Stories include:1:11 Epistaxis-Actual vampires don't need fangs in order to feed.2:22 Starlight, Starbright-An astronaut defies orders not to return to Earth, but he does anyway…with dire consequences.3:33 Rescue-Two detectives go in search of thirteen missing children and the person responsible for their disappearances.4:44 Forecast-A bizarre weather phenomenon envelopes a city.5:55 Firewood-He was warned about going into the...
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An unmissable novel of love, disaster, heartbreak, and unexpected happy endings, by the bestselling British author of Maybe One Day.
"When I was twenty-six-years-old my world, was literally turned upside down and inside out, like a coat pocket being excavated for loose change. It was terrible, and frightening, and it taught me a lot of things I never wanted to know."
Elena Godwin has scrimped and saved for a relaxing dream holiday in Mexico with her...
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"In the first definitive account of the Fukushima disaster, two leading experts from the Union of Concerned Scientists ... team up with journalist Susan Q. Stranahan ... to tell this harrowing story, [which] combines [an] ... account of the tsunami and the nuclear emergency it created with an explanation of the science and technology behind the meltdown as it unfolded in real time"--Amazon.com.
26) Two if by sea
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"Just hours after his wife and her entire family perish in the Christmas Eve tsunami in Brisbane, American expat and former police officer Frank Mercy goes out to join his volunteer rescue unit and pulls a little boy from a submerged car, saving the child's life with only seconds to spare. In that moment, Frank's own life is transformed. Not quite knowing why, Frank sidesteps the law, when, instead of turning Ian over to the Red Cross, he takes the...
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"As human society continues to develop, we have increased the risk of large-scale disasters. From health care to infrastructure to national security, systems designed to keep us safe have also heightened the potential for catastrophe. The constant pressure of climate change, geopolitical conflict, and our tendency to ignore what is hard to grasp exacerbates potential dangers. How can we prepare for and prevent the twenty-first-century disasters on...
28) Deborah's Gift
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Widowed Deborah Huntworth is elated when her tyrannical great-aunt dies. At last Deborah can pursue her dream of becoming an artist. Her first act of freedom will be a return to the island of Martinique to reunite with her child. She has no way of knowing the tragedies that await her or the price she will pay for her single-minded determination. With her only plan in tatters and nothing to take its place, Deborah resolutely travels to New York City....
29) The Visitors
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A tornado whips the dry plains of New Mexico. It is the early 80s, and the ghastly boogeyman of nuclear war has long threatened America's nuclear families. An aging priest scared of death takes acid in the hopes that it will quell haunting visions brought on by war trauma. A mesmerizing, drug-addled waif confronts her own lack of identity and purpose. A conflicted mother wonders if her daughter's addiction to methamphetamines is her own fault. Two...
30) Kacie-B
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Mother Nature's Biting Back. Everyone's on the menu.
Kacie stands isolated in her home town. Ever since she stood up to the rich kid.
With the money and work the fuel tycoons brought to town, no one wants to hear about her troubles. Just like no one wants to hear the gas drills have poisoned idyllic Culvanna County.
It's easier to blame Kacie. Say she brought it on herself.
But something's stirring in the hills - waking up to Kacie's pain. Waking...
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Critically acclaimed, prize-winning author Andrés Neuman's Fracture is an ambitious literary novel set against Japan's 2011 nuclear accident in a cross-cultural story about how every society remembers and forgets its catastrophes.
Mr. Yoshie Watanabe, a former electronics company executive and a survivor of the atomic bomb, has always lived like a fugitive from his own memories. He's spent decades traveling the world, making a life in different...
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ALONE TOGETHER: Love, Grief, and Comfort During the Time of COVID-19 is a collection of essays, poems, and interviews to serve as a lifeline for negotiating how to connect and thrive during this stressful time of isolation as well as a historical perspective that will remain relevant for years to come. Jennifer Haupt, editor and curator of this anthology, and Central Avenue Publishing, as well as all contributing authors, are donating net profits...
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Llueve intensamente en Nápoles y a las pocas horas los estragos del agua se dejan sentir en la ciudad, algunos edificios se derrumban, grandes simas se abren en las calles. Por si fuera poco, empiezan a producirse extraños fenómenos: de la fortaleza almenada de la ciudad salen voces fantasmagóricas, las monedas de cinco liras emiten una dulce melodía, el mar se desborda y sus aguas siguen el rastro de los niños que callejean, tres muñecas raídas...
34) Zoe's Court
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Zoe hates her estate. Big time. Living in a grotty block packed with drug dealers, bullies and deadbeats, Zoe dreams of getting away. Failing that, she wishes she could knock it all down. On a particularly bad day, with everyone out to get her, Zoe gets her wish. They've all pushed her too far and she's about to push back... This short, three-part giantess story is a kaiju adventure in miniature, as a young woman satisfies her appetite for revenge....
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The Nicholson family spot an oil slick on the Nicola River on the first day of their vacation in Merritt, BC. Julia resolves the oil slick source, and a series of mysteries that follow, involving the oil industry, federal government, and the Nicola-Coldwater First Nations bands opposed to a new pipeline construction. She and her friend Leah discover a serious pipeline break on Coldwater lands and expose a cover-up by the oil company. The pipeline...
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Handlebar stared at his own boots, which were soaked in blood. He seemed to be having some sort of internal crisis. He reached up with a trembling hand and twisted his mustache repeatedly. He came out of it suddenly and looked at Lonny.
"Hey. Kid. Listen." He walked toward him, changing clips. "You're taking all this too seriously. It's toying with us, that's all."
He held out his shotgun to him. "Here. The goo-Chin-he's right. It's still beneath...
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On New Year's Eve 1999, a chain reaction of computer malfunctions turns what was to be a global gala into a catastrophe. When computers begin to fail along the international dateline, the infection moves westward, causing massive power failures, train and airplane wrecks, and general havoc. As the "Millennium Bug" passes hour by hour through each time zone, it moves inexorably toward the epicenter of the global economy, New York, and the thousands...
38) To the Lake
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Ousted from Moscow by a deadly epidemic, Anya and her husband must flee society, menaced by harsh Russian winter and desperate people.
A deadly flu epidemic sweeps through Moscow, killing hundreds of thousands.When a virulent flu epidemic sweeps through Moscow killing hundreds of thousands of inhabitants, Anya and her husband Sergey decide to flee to a lake in the far north of Russia where they hope to sit out the epidemic.
But as the wave of...
39) The Shoelace
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What if the two people you trusted the most gave you two conflicting realities of life? What if you had based your entire life on an ideology, only to realize it was not true? How do you cope with the uncertainties of existence? What do you do with a life that no longer seems familiar?Amogh Dharamadhikari seeks to find answers to these questions while standing on the balcony ledge of a 30-story building. Either he will get his answers today or...
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He couldn't accept what he'd just heard the damn government had caused all this to happen. He gave Stevie a look of disbelief. Stevie nodded, his lips drawn tight in an angry frown. "The weapon manipulates magnetic fields and uses extremely low frequency energy waves that will penetrate the diameter of the Earth, so it is possible the impact of this malfunction will be worldwide. Initially, the animals and insects will be triggered to attack adults,...
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