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"Biologist Domenica Ligrina fears her planet is dying. She might be right. An atomic disaster in Germany has contaminated Northern Europe with radioactivity. Economic and political calamities are destroying the whole planet. Human DNA is mutating, plant species are going extinct, and scientists are feverishly working on possible solutions. It becomes increasingly apparent that the key to future salvation lies in the past. In 2052 a secret research...
3) Anathem
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Raz, a mathematician, is among a cohort of secluded scientists and philosophers who are called upon to save the world from impending catastrophe.
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With her husband serving in a war overseas, Cass endeavors to raise their three small children in the midst of an apocalypse, complete with natural disasters and societal unrest, first in their home in the city and later evacuating to her mother-in-law's country house and then, to a commune on the coast.
6) 48 hours
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"From the author of the smash hit, New York Times bestselling One Second After series comes a thriller in which the survival of humanity itself is at stake. The countdown is on. In less than forty-eight hours, Earth will be hit by a major solar storm. At first, it is thought to be a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) that will severely damage our world's electronic infrastructure. A crisis to be certain, but one that can be survived--until something far...
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345 pages ; 25 cm
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Hundreds of pleasure-seekers stream aboard The Beautiful Dreamer cruise ship for five days of cut-price fun in the Caribbean sun. On the fourth day, disaster strikes: smoke roils out of the engine room, and the ship is stranded in the Gulf of Mexico. Soon supplies run low, a virus plagues the ship, and there are whispered rumors that the cabins on the lower decks are haunted by shadowy figures. Irritation escalates to panic, the crew loses control,...
8) Monsoonrise
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374 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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"A few weeks with no sea ice in the Arctic Ocean are enough to trigger a chain reaction that alters the Northern Hemisphere beyond recognition. Droughts and floods ravage the land, forests burn, crops are killed by the heat, and nobody can find the cool spot on the pillow"--Back cover.
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"Catherynne M. Valente, the bestselling and award-winning creator of Space Opera and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland returns with The Past is Red, the enchanting, dark, funny, angry story of a girl who made two terrible mistakes: she told the truth and she dared to love the world. The future is blue. Endless blue ... except for a few small places that float across the hot, drowned world left behind by long-gone fossil fuel-guzzlers. One of...
10) The long Mars
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Long Earth volume 3
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"The third novel in Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's "Long Earth" series, which Io9 calls "a brilliant science fiction collaboration.""-- Provided by publisher.
2040-2045. In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her...
11) Tides of fire
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Sigma Force novel volume 17
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xx, 455 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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"To stop the world from burning, it's up to Sigma Force to uncover a secret buried at the heart of our planet. The Titan Project -- an international research station off the coast of Australia -- discovers a thriving zone of life in an otherwise dead sea. The area teems with a strange bioluminescent coral that defies science, yet holds great promise for the future. But the loss of a military submarine in the area triggers a brutal attack and sets...
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"Following the catastrophes of the twenty-first century--the pandemics, the environmental disaster, the end of oil, the ensuing chaos--people are doing whatever they can to get by and pursuing a simpler and sometimes happier existence. In little Union Grove, the townspeople are preparing for Christmas. Without the consumerist shopping frenzy that dogged the holidays of the previous age, the season has become a time to focus on family and loved ones....
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"In the quiet haven of Clearing, Oregon, four neighbors find their lives upended when they begin to see themselves in parallel realities. Ginny, a devoted surgeon whose work often takes precedence over her family, has a baffling vision of a beautiful co-worker in Ginny's own bed and begins to doubt the solidity of her marriage. Ginny's husband, Mark, a wildlife scientist, sees a vision that suggests impending devastation and grows increasingly paranoid,...
15) 2065
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Tras una ola de calor sin precedentes, un huracán amenaza la península. Una carrera contrarreloj frente al poder corrupto que controla los hilos del calentamiento global.Madrid, 2065. El calentamiento global provoca temperaturas altísimas con víctimas por golpes de calor, así como escasez de agua y de fuentes de energía. Un asesor del Ministerio del Cambio Climático, Adrián Salor, recibe la noticia del accidente mortal de su mujer, África,...
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867 pages, 2 pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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A catastrophic event renders the Earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space. But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain ... Five thousand years later,...
17) Winter world
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9 audio discs (11 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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A new ice age on Earth. A mysterious object in space. And a desperate mission to save humanity from extinction. Each month, Earth grows colder. Snow falls in summer. Glaciers trample cities across North America, Europe, and Asia. Chaos erupts. Around the world, people abandon their homes, fleeing the cold, flocking to regions where they can survive the new ice age. Nations prepare to go to war for the world's last habitable zones. When probes are...
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In a post-oil America with no electricity, no Internet, dwindling resources, and little civic order, the residents of the small town of Union Grove, New York, must deal with roving bandits and a sinister cult that threatens to shatter the hamlet's stability.
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In the dystopian middle-grade novel, DIGGER, a climate change disaster forces humanity to flee as Earth's atmosphere escapes into space. Narrated by siblings Nick and Lily, the story follows their resourcefulness in aiding neighbors. Nick's digging prowess and Lily's strategic planning become vital as oxygen diminishes ... A frantic race ensues to complete tunnels before food and oxygen become scarce, a tense battle for survival in a world teetering...
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