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Without warning volume 1
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English
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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from John Birmingham's After America.
In Kuwait, American forces are locked and loaded for the invasion of Iraq. In Paris, a covert agent is close to cracking a terrorist cell. And just north of the equator, a sailboat manned by a drug runner and a pirate is witness to the unspeakable. In one instant, all around the world, everything will change. A wave of inexplicable energy slams into the continental...
In Kuwait, American forces are locked and loaded for the invasion of Iraq. In Paris, a covert agent is close to cracking a terrorist cell. And just north of the equator, a sailboat manned by a drug runner and a pirate is witness to the unspeakable. In one instant, all around the world, everything will change. A wave of inexplicable energy slams into the continental...
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The world is preparing to come to an end according to the Divine Plan recorded in the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (recorded 1655). Meanwhile, a fussy angel and a fast-living demon have grown fond of living among the earth's mortals for many millennia and are not looking forward to the apocalypse. If Crowley and Aziraphale are going to stop it from happening, they must find and kill the Antichrist.
4) Flood
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Flood (Stephen Baxter) volume 1
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English
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Four hostages are rescued from a group of religious extremists in Barcelona. After five years of being held captive together, they make a vow to always watch out for one another. But they never expected this. The world they have returned to has been transformed-by water. And the water is rising.
5) Angelmaker
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2012
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A rollicking romp of a spy thriller from the acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World. • "A head-spinning cliffhanger that reads a bit like Harry Potter for grownups…. It would be a shame if no movie were made from this glorious piece of kaleidoscope-fiction." —The Wall Street Journal
Joe Spork fixes clocks. He has turned his back on his father’s legacy as one of London’s flashiest and most...
Joe Spork fixes clocks. He has turned his back on his father’s legacy as one of London’s flashiest and most...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"Joshua Jordan, a U.S spy-plane hero turned weapons designer, creates the world's most sophisticated missile defense system, code-named Return to Sender. Hoping to secure America against a brazen array of new enemies, Jordan finds himself trapped between international and domestic assailants. As world events begin setting the stage for the "end of days" foretole in Revelation, Jordan must consider not only the bibical prophecies preached by his wife's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
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"Joshua Jordan's controversial RTS system fails to protect Flight 199 as it is shot down by a terrorist missile, and the government starts an investigation of this defense program. The Israelis remain desperate for the technology. When Joshua flies to the Middle East to reassure them, he is captured by Iranians who want the defense toold for their own use. Abigail Jordan is left in charge of the Roundtable and sets out to defend her husband. But America...
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Left Behind series. Main series volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 16
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Thousands of years of human history stained by strife, death, and sin come to an end when the King of Glory returns to earth. The satisfying conclusion of the seven years of tribulation covered by the Left Behind series portrays the return of Jesus Christ to earth in both glory and judgment at the height of the battle between the forces of evil gathered at Armageddon and the remaining Christian believers at Petra and Jerusalem. A repackage of the...
12) The last man
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It is the twenty-first century, and England is a republic governed by a ruling elite, one of whom, Adrian, Earl of Windsor, has introduced a Cumbrian boy to the circle. This outsider, Lionel Verney, narrates a tale of complicated, tragic love, and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague.--From publisher's description.
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Edgar Hill is thirty-five, overweight, an underperforming husband and reluctant father. After a catastrophic asteroid strike, Edgar and his family find refuge in an Edinburgh army barracks. Returning from a salvage run, Edgar finds his family gone, taken to the south coast for evacuation by an international task force. Edgar must race across the 550 miles of wasteland to find the people he loves before he loses them forever.
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Book 3 in the bestselling 5-book thriller series that has sold over 1.2 million copies!
"If you only read one novel this year, this is it. The Ezekiel Option is brilliantly conceived. . . . Like an episode of 24 with a supernatural twist."
—Rush Limbaugh, #1 New York Times bestselling author
"The Ezekiel Option is an exciting, action-packed thriller based on one of the most important end times...
"If you only read one novel this year, this is it. The Ezekiel Option is brilliantly conceived. . . . Like an episode of 24 with a supernatural twist."
—Rush Limbaugh, #1 New York Times bestselling author
"The Ezekiel Option is an exciting, action-packed thriller based on one of the most important end times...
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Augustine, a brilliant, aging astronomer, refuses to abandon the research center in the Arctic when he receives news of a catastrophic event. Soon after, he discovers a mysterious child and realizes that the airwaves have gone silent. They are alone. Meanwhile, Mission Specialist Sullivan and her crew, the first astronauts to delve into deep space, discover that Mission Control is no longer on the air. Sullivan's career has cost her her marriage,...
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Joshua remains in Israel, out of reach of trumped-up charges against him. Following Russia's nuclear attack, Israel cleans up the bodies of enemy soldiers for 7 months and embarks on its 7-year plan - both per the prophecies in Ezekiel. When a peace proposal is initiated by the UN under Coliquin, Joshua is convinced that Coliquin may be the anti-Christ and his peace plan is a trap
17) Good omens
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
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The classic collaboration from the internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, soon to be an original series starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant.
?Season 2 of Good Omens coming soon!
"Good Omens . . . is something like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and Don DeLillo had collaborated. Lots of literary inventiveness in the plotting and chunks
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 22
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"A lone astronaut. An impossible mission. An ally he never imagined. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions...
19) The stand
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 72
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"When a man escapes from a biological testing facility, he sets in motion a deadly domino effect, spreading a mutated strain of the flu that will wipe out 99 percent of humanity within a few weeks. The survivors who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge--Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious "Dark Man," who delights in...
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Silvers saga (Daniel Price) volume 1
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English
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When the Earth is brought to a sudden end by cataclysmic forces, sisters Hannah and Amanda are saved by three strangers who give them protective bracelets and imbue them with extraordinary powers to help them survive on a bizarre alternate world.
Without warning, the world comes to an end for Hannah and Amanda Given. The sky looms frigid white. The electricity falters. Airplanes everywhere crash to the ground. But the Givens are saved by mysterious...
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