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3) When technology fails: a manual for self-reliance, sustainability, and surviving the long emergency
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Chelsea Green Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
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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.
7) Ashfall
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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.
9) Ashen winter
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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) Unwind
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Series
Unwind dystology volume 1
Language
English
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In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives.
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Series
Monument 14 volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Originally trapped together, the survivors split into two groups, one group making a run on a school bus to the Denver airport hoping to reunite with their parents.
13) Falling darkness
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South Shores volume 3
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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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Humans have a remarkable knack for surviving harsh environments. But, how do people really endure the world's most remote and inhospitable landscapes, where nature still reigns and where the physical geography is raw and unforgiving? In Extremes, renowned geographer and travel writer Nick Middleton puts his body and mind to the test in an attempt to find the answer.
His mission is to learn how to cope with four especially horrendous habitats. Through...
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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...
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). • From the bestselling author of The Passenger
A father and his son...
A father and his son...
18) Feedback
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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"--
19) If we survive
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Language
English
Description
When revolutionaries seize control of a country in Central America where sixteen-year-old Will is serving at a mission, he and the other volunteers find themselves in a desperate race to escape the violence and return home.
20) In the end
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Series
In the after duology volume 2
Language
English
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It's been three months since Amy escaped New Hope, and she's been surviving on her own. Then one day Amy gets a call from Kay and hears the four words she had hoped she would never hear: Dr. Reynolds has Baby. Now it's a race against time, for Baby is in imminent danger, her life threatened by the malevolent doctor who had helped start the end of the world.
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