Hirsch, Jeff.
Summary: Twenty years after the start of the war that caused the Collapse, fifteen-year-old Stephen, his father, and grandfather travel post-Collapse America scavenging, but when his grandfather dies and his father decides to risk everything to save the lives of two strangers, Stephen's life is turned upside down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HIRDekker, Ted
Summary: After happening upon a journal through strange circumstance, Rom's world is shattered. He learns that humanity long ago ceased to 'live, ' that it exists today in a living death of emotions. In a terrible risk, Rom exposes himself to the vial of blood folded into the old leather of the journal. His change is fearful and fraught with mind-bending emotion. A once-pious observer of the Order's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DEKSummary: The apocalypse is upon us, and every man, woman and child had to answer a simple question of themselves: "What do we do now?" For a group of neighbors in the Chicago suburbs of Northern Indiana, it is "work together or die"...and figure out how to live on top of oil storage tanks to keep the zombies at bay. For the Biological Emergency Response Teams in New York City, it is "how long can we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2016
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Ringo 2016Drake, David
Summary: In a violent world in which civilization has fallen and monsters roam, a young hero will rise. In the time of the Ancients the universe was united--but that was so far in the past that not even memory remains, only the broken artifacts that a few Makers can reshape into their original uses. What survives is shattered into enclaves--some tiny, some ruined, some wild. Into the gaps between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRAWilliams, Missouri
Summary: "In the wake of a mysterious environmental cataclysm that has wiped out the rest of humankind, the Matriarch and her brother, and the family descended from their incest, cling to existence on the edges of a ruined city."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD x FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILAtwood, Margaret
Summary: "Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around--and fast. The Positron Project in the town of Consilience seems to be the answer to their prayers. No one is unemployed and everyone gets a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ATWAtwood, Margaret
Summary: Following a cataclysmic natural disaster, Adam One, leader of the religion known as God's Gardeners, and his followers make their way through an altered, depopulated world, while Ren, a performer trapped in a high-end sex club, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa, try to decide how to proceed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio/Listening Library 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ATWWilliams, David (David Gerald)
Summary: Seen through the diary of Jacob, an Amish farmer trying to protect his family and his way of life, the book examines the idea of peace in the face of deadly chaos when an Amish community in Pennsylvania is caught up in the devastating aftermath of a catastrophic solar storm and the subsequent collapse of modern civilization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILLlywelyn, Morgan
Summary: "The residents of Sycamore River have weathered the Change and the nuclear war it provoked. They emerge to try to build a life from the shattered remains of their town. But for some, the very air has become toxic. The people of Sycamore River have to survived the unthinkable. Can they build something new from the ashes?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LLELlywelyn, Morgan
Summary: The post-Change Sycamore River band discovers that metal is starting to deteriorate at the same time the world is pushed into global war, forcing them to rely on each other to survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LLYHoneywell, Antonia
Summary: ""Powerful, haunting, and beautiful," (M.R. Carey, author of The Girl With All the Gifts) The Ship is a luminous and genre-defying debut novel that follows a young woman's coming of age in a world where she has no future. London burned for three weeks. And then it got worse ... Lalla has grown up sheltered from the chaos amid the ruins of civilization. But things are getting more dangerous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HONCline, Ernest
Summary: Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday's vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous, and addictive, than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest, a last...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLIBirmingham, John
Summary: Traces the harrowing reconstruction of the United States after most of its population is killed by a natural disaster, an effort lead by President James Kipper and challenged by pirates, freebooters, and a rogue governor of Texas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIRHoban, Russell.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Indiana University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOBNagamatsu, Sequoia
Summary: "For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague-a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending imagination from a singular new voice. Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF NAGCline, Ernest
Summary: Days after winning control of OASIS, the immersive virtual reality environment in which most of humanity chooses to live, Wade Watts discovers a world-changing technological advancement and draws the attention of a merciless new rival --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CLIMcCarthy, Cormac
Summary: In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction McCarthy 2006McCarthy, Cormac
Summary: Set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Espaǫl 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 FICTION MCCPercy, Benjamin
Summary: In the post-apocalypse, folks getting by in the Sanctuary (the remains of St. Louis) are surprised when a woman rushes in to report that in the West, civilization flourishes and crops grow. Unfortunately, there's also an army on the march that enslaves everyone it encounters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PERStirling, S. M.
Summary: ""[An] epic series, "* the Novels of the Change by New York Times bestselling author S.M. Stirling chronicle a postapocalyptic landscape of medieval and mystical monarchies ruling and warring across a world where mysterious Powers removed advanced technology. A new alliance has been forged between the High Kingdom of Montival and the Empire of Great Japan, but at the cost of a lost prince ......
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roc 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STIChen, Mike
Summary: Six years after a global pandemic wiped out most of the planet's population, the survivors are rebuilding the country, split between self-governing cities, hippie communes and wasteland gangs. Krista, Moira, Rob and Sunny are brought together by circumstance, and their lives begin to twine together. But when reports of another outbreak throw the fragile society into panic, the friends are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHELee, Chang-rae.
Summary: "From the beloved award-winning author of Native Speaker and The Surrendered, a highly provocative, deeply affecting story of one woman's legendary quest in a shocking, future America. On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in identity, culture, work, and love, and lifts them to a new plane. Stepping from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lee 2014Forstchen, William R.
Summary: "Months before publication, William R. Forstchen's One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. Hundreds of thousands of people have read the tale. One Year After is the thrilling follow-up to that smash hit. The story picks up a year after One Second After ends, two years since the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States brought America...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2015
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Summary: The six survivors of a microbial apocalypse that has wiped out the human race find themselves divided by two different views of how a new society should be established, in a tale told from the viewpoints of a child from each side of the conflict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putman's Sons 2004