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"When a fragile young woman refuses to leave New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina approaches, her parents are forced to go without her, setting off a chain of events that leaves their marriage in shambles and their daughter catatonic, the victim or perpetrator of some unknown violent act"--
82) Off on a Comet!
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Off on a Comet is a high-stakes adventure novel and is included in Jules Verne's celebrated Voyages Extraordinaire series. When the orbit of a comet named Gallia is headed towards the Earth, the planet is facing a very high risk. However, Gallia only touches a small part of the Earth, sparing most of the world, but taking a small region of the planet with it on its journey through space. Thirty-six people, spanning from French, English, Spanish and...
83) A fire story
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"Early on the morning of Monday, October 9, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition, 8,900 structures, including 6,200 homes, were destroyed. One of those homes belonged to author and illustrator Brian Fies and his family. In the days that followed, Fies hastily pulled together a firsthand account of his experience in a twenty-page online comic, entitled A Fire Story, that went viral... Less than...
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"In the latest novel from Anna Moschovakis, two reading groups, unofficially called Love and Anti-Love, falter amidst political friction and signs of environmental collapse. Participation offers a prescient look at communication in a time of rupture: anonymous participants exchange fantasies and ruminations, and relationships develop and unravel. As the groups consider-or neglect-their syllabi, and connections between members deepen, a mentor disappears,...
85) Blackmail Earth
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The Morning Show's star meteorologist, Jenna Withers, reports on the blistering conditions of a nationwide drought every day. But nothing this alluring young woman has ever experienced can prepare her for the terrifying intersection of extreme weather and extreme politics.
After Jenna receives a controversial appointment to a special White House task force on geoengineering, she learns about a lot more than the President's desire to use technology...
86) Hungry Dweller
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A diverse group of people travel to an elite luxury resort in the South Pacific. They begin their journey in high spirits and look forward to retreating from their hectic lives for a much-anticipated tropical vacation. Soon, suspicions begin to take root as the facade of the prosperous resort begins to crumble. And then, nature has another plan. Hurricane season delivers a massive storm that disrupts their idyllic holiday, transporting them to a place...
87) Rubicon
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RUBICON is the story foreshadowing the next September 11th attack; you want your government leaders to read before the next attack.
RUBICON, a cybersecurity thriller, is an epic battle of good versus evil where Xander Ridge and Paul Ross are locked in a fight to control the ultimate cyberweapon -hospitals collapse -planes fall from the sky -power and communication grids collapse -financial markets and economies plummet -the fate of the world...
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This fast-paced dystopian suspense novel takes place in the near future, after the global economic collapse of the world. All homeless, non-working, able-bodied people have been deemed "useless eaters" by the system, forced to move to newly developed virtual cities called Zamicona, where life permanently exists inside forever.
I am a journalist with an earnest desire to become a television Broadcast Journalist. When I am selected for a new undercover...
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The truth is that President Joe Biden is a thousand times better president than Donald Trump but the only fear of us Christians is his liberal policy that could lead the country and the world to fall very low on a moral level.We have to see the LGBTI agenda and feminist groups as a religion that wants to take other religions out of schools and impose their depraved doctrines.Just as each religion has its temple and they coexist with other religions...
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En 1918, un barco llega al puerto de Río de Janeiro. Al interior se ha desatado una enfermedad. Hay muertos y mutilados, y los únicos sobrevivientes son un grupo de médicos. Las autoridades deciden dejarlos encerrados y los ven morir de hambre. Pero uno de ellos escapa y luego de perder a su familia, encuentra refugio en el Morro, donde tratará de encontrar una cura, usando a los habitantes pobres de la favela como conejillos de indias.
91) Absolute Ruin
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Absolute Ruin, is a bloody and lovely and painful novel by Reza TaheriBashar that tells about revenge and love and Jealousy and grudge.that tells the scary story of usury and Betrayal in the great family.that are killed most of great family members little by little.This book is a special and truly different story.
92) The Ninth of AV
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The Ninth of AV is the seventh and final book in the END THE BOOK SERIES. As Earth's population dwindles from 8 billion to 3 billion, thanks to war, plague, famine, drought, asteroid strikes, the remaining begin to wonder if the Bible's depiction of the end of days was correct. International militaries gather in the Mediterranean, Syria and Saudi Arabia, Israel finds herself surrounded by enemies who want to destroy her. Will The Almighty save Israel...
93) Viral Descent
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In the gripping pages of "Viral Descent: Surviving the Nightmare," embark on a harrowing journey through a world plunged into chaos by a deadly drug, transforming its users into insatiable, flesh-craving monsters. As the infection spreads like wildfire, a small group of survivors must confront their deepest fears, confront the haunting echoes of their pasts, and unite in an unwavering battle for humanity's survival.
Amidst the dark underbelly of...
94) The Complex Arms
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Life at the Complex Arms is just one disaster after another. Adeen is the resident manager of the Complex Arms, an apartment building in the Mill Woods neighbourhood of Edmonton. With no help from her deadbeat husband, Frosty, who sees himself as the next big thing in Nashville, she struggles to maintain the building while coping with the needs of a daughter with disabilities. As a distraction from her problems, Adeen grows more and more involved...
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Vancouver. A day like any other. Kyle, a successful cosmetic surgeon, is punishing himself with a sprint up a mountain. Charlotte, wife of a tech tycoon, is combing the farm belt for local cheese and a sense of purpose. Back in the city, their families go about their business: landscaping, negotiating deals, skipping school. It's a day like any other- until suddenly it's not.
When the earthquake hits, the city erupts in chaos and fear. Kyle's and...
96) MacArthur Park
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After Hurricane Sandy, Nick Fowler, a writer, stranded alone in a Manhattan apartment without power, begins to contemplate disaster. Months later, at an artist residency in upstate New York, Nick finds his subject in disaster itself and the communities shaped by it, where crisis animates both hope and denial, unacknowledged pasts and potential futures. As he travels to Los Angeles and London on assignment, Nick discovers that outsiders-their lives...
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An ecological horror of unknown composition is eating through a rail tank car in the heart of New Jersey, preparing to vomit a cloud of gas so lethal it could destroy all life within fifty miles. Officials, each with their own story to tell, must transport and dispose of this monster in the face of a Category 4 hurricane and a small band of religious terrorists who have set out to destroy the train.
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It was a pleasant little town in the Northeast. It had never been hurricane country. When they heard that Diane was coming, they couldn't really believe it would harm them. And the hurricane itself didn't touch them.
But the rains caused by the hurricane ravaged their little town as viciously as the worst artillery attack could have done.
This is a powerful and tremendously graphic novel of people trapped in that town: and how they learned what...
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A lethal plague sweeps the globe. Millions have died. Survivors are confined to their homes.Gabriel passes his time in a small New York apartment on the city's Upper West Side. During the plodding solitude of the lockdown, he observes several strangers in their nearby apartments. As he watches them struggle to survive a world at risk of extinction, he wonders about their lives-where they're from, what they value, how they're coping with a deadly contagion....
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A suicidal woman steps in front of a commuter train, changing the lives of its passengers forever, in this psychological novel by the author of Ella's War.
When the day starts with tragedy... where will it lead?
Eight strangers start their day unaware of the events about to unfold, but they find themselves having to reassess who they are and what they want from life.
Emotional responses rise to the surface, including some of the choices they've...
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