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I survived volume 21
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
More than a century later, the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 is still America's deadliest disaster. Lauren Tarshis's story of one child surviving the horrible event churns with page-turning action and bold hope. The city of Galveston, Texas, was booming. Perched on an island off the southern coast of Texas, Galveston had been founded in the 1830s. By 1900, it was Texas's richest and most important city. Boats loaded up with American cotton and wheat...
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English
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With a focus on safety and the integrity of the outdoors, The Complete Book of Fire: Building Campfires for Cooking, Warmth, Light, and Survival initiates the novice as well as informs the experienced. Integrating the history, ecology, and science of fire with practical aspects of campfires such as cooking and warmth, author Buck Tilton has created the ultimate guide to properly building, enjoying, and extinguishing campfires.
5) Ashfall
Author
Series
Ashfall trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Tanglewood
Language
English
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After the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano destroys his city and its surroundings, fifteen-year-old Alex must journey from Cedar Falls, Iowa, to Illinois to find his parents and sister, trying to survive in a transformed landscape and a new society in which all the old rules of living have vanished.
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Chasing the valley trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Random House Australia
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Danika escapes her city before an alchemy bomb is dropped on it by the tyrannous king to punish the city. She joins a crew of refuges seeking the Magnetic Valley, but accidentally destroys a palace plane and is now the most wanted person in Taladia. She has to deal with that, her growing magical powers, and her feelings about Luke.
7) Ashen winter
Author
Series
Ashfall trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Tanglewood
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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More than six months after the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano, Alex and Darla retrace their steps to Iowa hoping to find Alex's parents and bring them to the tenuous safety of Illinois, but the journey is ever more perilous as the remaining communities fight to the death for food and power.
10) Falling darkness
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Series
South Shores volume 3
Language
English
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At the mercy of a treacherous sea...;
Claire Britten's training never prepared her for this-;the forensic psychology curriculum didn't cover plane crashes. Or how to help fellow survivors cope, seven frightened people huddled in two small rafts awaiting a rescue that may never come. Especially when three of them are your ex-husband, your young daughter-;and the man you love, Nick Markwood, whose pursuit by a criminal mastermind forced you all to...
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English
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Which is the safest seat on an airplane? Where is the best place to have a heart attack? Why does religious observance add years to your life? How can birthdays be hazardous to your health?
THE SURVIVORS CLUB
Each second of the day, someone in America faces a crisis, whether it's a car accident, violent crime, serious illness, or financial trouble. Given the inevitability of adversity, we all wonder: Who beats the odds and who surrenders? Why do...
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Maze runner trilogy volume 2
Language
English
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After surviving horrific conditions in the Maze, Thomas is entrapped, along with nineteen other boys, in a scientific experiment designed to observe their responses and gather data believed to be essential for the survival of the human race.
13) Public enemies
Author
Series
Immortal game volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Stuck in a world where flesh-covered fears feed off of making people's nightmares come to life, Edie Kramer takes on hordes of monstrous foot soldiers as she desperately seeks a way to save her boyfriend, Kian, before the six-month deadline.
14) The valiant
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Valiant volume 1
Language
English
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Publisher Annotation: Fallon is the daughter of a proud Celtic king and the younger sister of the legendary fighter Sorcha. When Fallon was just a child, Sorcha was killed by the armies of Julius Caesar. On the eve of her seventeenth birthday, Fallon is excited to follow in her sister's footsteps and earn her place in her father's war band. She never gets the chance. Fallon is captured and sold to an elite training school for female gladiators?owned...
15) Adrift
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English
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Temptation sends working-class friends Matt and Mike out to sea with a group of very different peers, where tragedy leaves them fighting to stay alive upon the angry sea.
16) Feedback
Author
Series
Variant (Robison Wells) volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"After escaping the walls of Maxfield Academy, Benson Fisher finds himself trapped in a town that is also under the school's control--where he discovers that Maxfield's plans are deadlier than anything he imagined"--
17) The road
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English
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful" (San Francisco Chronicle).
One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
A father...
One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
A father...
18) Strangelets
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Forcibly sucked into an abyss at the moment of their deaths, six smarter-than-most teenagers wake up in a deadly, desolate future world, where only one of them holds the key to getting everyone back home.
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English
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The Despair has plagued the earth for five years. Most of the world's population has inexplicably died by its own hand, and the few survivors struggle to remain alive. A mysterious, shadowy group called the Collectors has emerged, inevitably appearing to remove the bodies of the dead. But in the crumbling state of Florida, a man named Norman takes an unprecedented stand against the Collectors, propelling him on a journey across North America. It's...
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