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1) Life as we knew it

Author

Pfeffer, Susan Beth

Series

Life as we knew it volume 1
The Last Survivors

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English

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Polar Survival

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Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.

2) The fever code

Author

Dashner, James

Series

Maze runner trilogy volume Prequel

Language

English

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Reveals how Thomas and WICKED built the Maze against the backdrop of an apocalyptic world. The forests burned, the lakes and rivers dried up, and the oceans swelled. Then came a plague. Families died, violence reigned, and man killed man. Next came WICKED, who were looking for an answer. And then they found the perfect boy: Thomas, who built a maze. Now there are secrets. There are lies. And there are loyalties history could never have foreseen.

3) The long Mars

Author

Pratchett, Terry

Series

Long Earth volume 3

Language

English

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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.""--

4) The disaster tourist: a novel

Author

Ko-Eun, Yun

Pub. Date

2020.

Language

English

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Climate Fiction

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This stunning “dystopian feminist eco-thriller” from an award-winning South Korean author “takes on climate change, sexual assault, greed, and dark tourism” (Ms. Magazine).

Welcome to the desert island of Mui, where a paid vacation to paradise is nothing short of a disaster in this “mordantly witty novel [that] reads like a highly literary, ultra–incisive thriller” (Refinery29).
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5) Natech risk assessment and management: reducing the risk of natural-hazard impact on hazardous installations

Author

Krausmann, Elisabeth

Publisher

Elsevier

Pub. Date

[2017]

Language

English

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Natech Risk Assessment and Management: Reducing the Risk of Natural-Hazard Impact on Hazardous Installations covers the entire spectrum of issues pertinent to Natech risk assessment and management. After a thorough introduction of the topic that includes definitions of terms, authors Krausmann, Cruz, and Salzano discuss various examples of international frameworks and provide a detailed view of the implementation of Natech Risk Management in the EU...

6) The nature of fragile things

Author

Meissner, Susan

Pub. Date

2021.

Language

English

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"April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly...