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Skyhorse Publishing
Language
English
Description
"Are you prepared for the end of the world as you know it? It can be all too easy to think of disaster as something that happens to others. But the world is a volatile place, and despite our best efforts we can quickly find ourselves in dangerous or even deadly situations. Proper preparation can ensure that, when that does happen, we have the tools and knowledge necessary to survive. This guide is the ultimate reference on how to prepare for disaster...
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English
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A desert-island adventure, and a subtle observation of friendship, trust and humanity. Winner of The Children's Book Award. Superbly read by DEREK JACOBI. When Michael is washed up on an island in the Pacific after falling from his parents' yacht, he struggles to survive on his own. He can't find food and he can't find water, and as Michael and his dog curl up to sleep, he knows they cannot last long. But he soon realizes there is someone close by,...
63) Ashen winter
Author
Series
Ashfall trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Tanglewood
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
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.
65) Taken
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Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While she is walking home from school Stephanie is grabbed from behind, drugged, and taken to a secret cabin in the woods where she tries to escape her captor and make her way to safety.
66) Shadows
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Series
Ashes trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Egmont USA
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
When Alex discovers that Rule is not a sanctuary, she must battle to survive against conniving adults, distrusting survivors, and the Changed, who would eat her alive.
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Ones who got away volume 1
Language
English
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It's been twelve years since tragedy struck the senior class of Long Acre High School. Only a few students survived that fateful night-a group the media dubbed The Ones Who Got Away. Liv Arias thought she'd never return to Long Acre-until a documentary brings her and the other survivors back home. Suddenly her old flame, Finn Dorsey, is closer than ever, and their attraction is still white-hot. When a searing kiss reignites their passion, Liv realizes...
68) Alpha
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English
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After an Ice Age man is injured and left for dead, he befriends a lone wolf and sets out to make the journey home with his new companion.
70) Cyber attack
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English
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THIS IS NOT A TEST
It begins with a computer malfunction. A 737 passenger jet drops from the sky from 34,000 feet. Then another. And another. At the same time, the unthinkable happens in our nuclear power plants. Water pumps fail. Nuclear cores melt. Untold millions could die...
THIS IS THE FUTURE OF TERROR
With each passing hour, orchestrated cyber attacks unleash a massive wave of death and utter destruction. Chemical plants explode. Floodgates...
71) Lark ascending
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Language
English
Description
"In the near future, as fires devastate most of the United States, Lark and his family secure a place on a boat headed to Ireland, which is rumored to be accepting refugees and is the last country not yet overrun by extremists"--Publisher.
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Series
Alaska wild novels volume 1
Language
English
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Relocating to Lost Lake, Alaska, to escape her toxic past, a traumatized woman unexpectedly bonds with a wilderness survival tracker whose devoted protection heals her shattered heart.
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Series
I survived volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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When John Hale's parents moved from Chicago to a farm in the Dakota Territory in the late 1880s, he was not happy (too hot in summer, too cold in winter, and that is just the beginning); but after a year, and now eleven, he has settled in and made some friends at school--but when a sunny day in January 1888 turns abruptly into a deadly blizzard he will need all his strength and courage to survive what became known to history as The Children's Blizzard....
74) Overboard!
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Series
Survivor diaries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Travis and twelve-year-old Stacey, separated from their families after being thrown into the Atlantic off the coast of Washington, battle hypothermia as they struggle to survive. Includes Coast Guard-approved cold-water survival tips.
75) Jungle of bones
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sullen teenager Dylan Barstow is caught joyriding in a stolen car he is sent to his ex-Marine uncle for the summer, but soon they are on the way to Papua New Guinea in search of a World War II fighter plane and Dylan discovers that defiance is not asurvival skill when you are lost in a jungle.
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Series
Black tide rising (John Ringo) volume 3
Publisher
Baen
Language
English
Description
"With the world consumed by a devastating plague, what was once a band of desperate survivors bobbing on the Atlantic ocean has now become Wolf Squadron, the only hope for the salvation of the human race. Banding together the remains of the US Navy, WolfSquadron, and its leader Steve Smith, plans to retake the mainland from the infected, starting with North America. The next step: produce a vaccine. But to do that, forces led by Smith's terrifyingly...
77) Obsession Falls
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Series
Virtue Falls volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Description
"In Christina Dodd's Obsession Falls, Taylor Summers witnesses the death threat to a young boy, and does the only thing she can do--she sacrifices herself to distract the killers. Her reward is a life in ruins, on the run in the wilderness, barely surviving a bitter winter and the even more bitter knowledge she has lost everything: her career, her reputation, her identity. She finds refuge in Virtue Falls, and there comes face to face with the knowledge...
78) Before the fall
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Language
English
Description
The stories of ten wealthy victims of a plane crash intertwine with those of a down-on-his-luck painter and a four-year-old boy, the tragedy's only survivors, as odd coincidences surrounding the crash point to a possible conspiracy.
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Language
English
Description
After KIA: Diary of a Vietnam POW and KIA: Salvation, there was a lot more to the story. In his third and final book, Michael Risley first used the pseudonym Jake McFarley to dissociate the story from himself. That is impossible. His dreams tell him that almost every night.
Having led a team of very brave men into some of the most complex missions. Many being top secret and classified, they were all sworn to secrecy. They were all very close and...
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Language
English
Description
Captive in the OC: A Story of Survival, takes the reader on a journey of the devastation of a young, ambitious woman. She could have never known that a chance meeting could eventually destroy her, and yet it did. Unexpected nuances, twists, turns and red flags are revealed as the story unfolds in one of the wealthiest places in California, Orange County. Fast cars, boats, and an even faster lifestyle looks beautiful on the outside, until behind closed...
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