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Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
What if the end times allowed people to see and build the world anew? This is the landscape that Kimi Eisele creates in her surprising and original debut novel. Evoking the spirit of such monumental love stories as Cold Mountain and the creative vision of novels like Station Eleven, The Lightest Object in the Universe imagines what happens after the global economy collapses and the electrical grid goes down. In this new world, Carson, on the East...
22) Scribe: a novel
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
A brutal civil war has ravaged the country, and contagious fevers have decimated the population. Abandoned farmhouses litter the isolated mountain valleys and shady hollows. The economy has been reduced to barter and trade. In this craggy, unwelcoming world, the central character of Scribe ekes out a lonely living on the family farmstead where she was raised and where her sister met an untimely end. She lets a migrant group known as the Uninvited...
23) Watch her fall
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Ava Kirilova has reached the very top of her profession. After years and years of hard graft, pain and sacrifice as part of the London Russian Ballet Company, allowing nothing else to distract her, she is finally the poster girl for Swan Lake. Even Mr K - her father, and the intense, terrifying director of the company - can find no fault. Ava has pushed herself ahead of countless other talented, hardworking girls, and they are all watching her now....
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It was called "The Titanic of the South." The luxury steamship sank in 1838 with Savannah's elite on board; through time, their fates were forgotten--until the wreck was found, and now their story is finally being told in this breathtaking novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis. When Savannah history professor Everly Winthrop is asked to guest-curate a new museum collection focusing on artifacts recovered from the...
25) The fallout
Author
Language
English
Description
Eli and his family lived in an underground shelter they called the Compound for six years. They thought they were the only survivors of a nuclear attack, but when Eli learned that it was all a twisted experiment orchestrated by his tech-visionary father, he broke the family out. His father died trying to keep them imprisoned. Now, the family must readjust to life in the real world. Their ordeal has made them so famous, they must stay in hiding --...
Author
Series
Last kids on Earth volume 1
Language
English
Description
"After a monster apocalypse hits town, average thirteen-year-old Jack Sullivan builds a team of friends to help slay the eerily intelligent monster known as Blarg"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When jobs typically done by humans are replaced with alien technology from the vuvv, Adam's parents have no money for food, clean water, or medicine. Adam and his girlfriend Chloe are forced to get creative. Since the vuvv love anything of "classic" Earth culture they begin recording 1950s-style dates which the vuvv watch in a pay-per-minute format. As the money rolls in, how far will Adam be willing to go to give the vuvv what they want?
Author
Series
Last kids on Earth volume 5
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Surviving their first winter after the Monster Apocalypse was no easy feat, yet Jack and his buddies waste no time springing to action against some of the nastiest, most evil monsters around. When Jack discovers his Louisville Slicer has new, otherworldly powers, he's thrown into epic training to find out what kind of destruction the blade can wield. But between fighting off zombies, fleeing from strange, glowy Vine-Thingies erupting from the ground,...
29) Refugee
Author
Language
English
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NYT - Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover
Sydney Taylor Book Award
TAB 2018 Picks
TAB Top Picks in E-Books or E-Audio
Sydney Taylor Book Award
TAB 2018 Picks
TAB Top Picks in E-Books or E-Audio
Description
Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
30) La isla de Abel
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home.
32) The pool of fire
Author
Series
Tripods trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After being held captive in the City of Gold and Lead-the capital, where the creatures that control the mechanical, monstrous Tripods live-Will believes that he's learned everything he needs to know to destroy them. He has discovered the source of their power, and with this new knowledge, Will and his friends plan to return to the City of Gold and Lead to take down the Masters once and for all. Although Will and his friends have planned everything...
Author
Series
Survivors (Erin Hunter). Gathering darkness volume 5
Survivors. Gathering darkness volume 5
Survivors the gathering darkness volume 5
Survivors. Gathering darkness volume 5
Survivors the gathering darkness volume 5
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Exiled from her pack, Storm, who feels more lost than ever, searches for the two dogs that will never give up on her, Arrow and his mate Bella.
Author
Series
Spy school volume 2
Language
Español
Description
Ahora que ha llegado el verano, Ben quiere relajarse y pasárselo bien. No parece tener muchas posibilidades de conseguirlo, porque el deber de un aprendiz de espía nunca acaba. Ben y sus compañeros son enviados al Campamento de Espías para realizar un entrenamiento de supervivencia en mitad de la naturaleza. Pero cuando la organización enemiga SPYDER reaparece, Ben tendrá que poner a prueba todas sus habilidades recien adquiridas para sobrevivir....
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Three novellas from the action-packed world of the bestselling Survivors series by Erin Hunter, together in print for the first time! In Survivors: Tales from the Packs, discover these thrilling stand-alone adventures!
36) Dead of night
Author
Series
Survivors (Erin Hunter). Gathering darkness volume 2
Survivors. Gathering darkness volume 2
Survivors the gathering darkness volume 2
Survivors. Gathering darkness volume 2
Survivors the gathering darkness volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
There is darkness at the heart of the Wild Pack. Whisper is dead -- and Storm is certain that his wounds could only have been inflicted by another dog. Storm doesn't want to believe that one of her Packmates could have done such a vicious thing. But as she wrestles with her suspicions in the light of the Sun-Dog, at night Storm is haunted by terrifying dreams -- visions of fear and shadows that guide her paws through the forest while she sleeps. Lucky...
37) The Fog diver
Author
Series
Fog diver novels volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In this futuristic high-stakes adventure, humanity clings to cities on the highest mountain peaks above the deadly Fog, and airships transport the pirates of the skies. Daring 13-year-old tetherboy Chess and his salvage crew must face the dark plans of Lord Kodoc and work to save their beloved Mrs. E"--
Author
Publisher
Rock the Boat
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Chernobyl, 1986. Without humans, how will dogs survive? As humans fled the nuclear disaster, they were forced to leave their pets behind. Without people, nature began to return to the woods surrounding the power plant--lynx, bear, and wolves. But the overgrown forest is no place for dogs. Can Zoya, and her pups Misha and Luka, learn to survive in the deadlands? And will Zoya ever find her way home to her beloved owner? --
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Retells the story of the Madrigals, an extraordinary family that lives in the mountains of Colombia in a charmed region called Encanto--a wondrous place whose magic becomes threatened and whose rescue depends on the only member of the Madrigal family who doesn't possess magical gifts"--
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