Summary: Stories about human beings fighting to stay alive. The people in these stories find themselves in nightmarish circumstances - cut off from civilization, often starving or dying of thirst - and have to struggle to survive. Many of them confront the prospect of resorting to eating thier companions - or being eaten themselves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.69 SURHicks, Faith Erin
Summary: Every time it is invaded the City gets a new name, but to the natives in is the Nameless City, and they survive by not letting themselves get involved--but now the fate of the City rests in the hands of Rat, a native, and Kaidu, one of the Dao, the latest occupiers, and the two must somehow work together if the City is to survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J GRAPHIC HICCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 HICTanaka, Shelley
Summary: Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TANParry, Rosanne
Summary: "For Vega and her family, salmon is life. And Vega is learning to be a salmon finder, preparing for the day when she will be her family's matriarch. But then she and her brother Deneb are separated from their pod when a devastating earthquake and tsunami render the seascape unrecognizable. Vega must use every skill she has to lead her brother back to their family. The young orcas face a shark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC PARBall, Georgia
Summary: Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox becomes caught up in a gunfight between American and British troops during the American Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TARPayton, Brian
Summary: "A gripping tale of survival and an epic love story set amid a barren and starkly beautiful landscape during one of the least-known events of World War I, the Japanese occupation of Alaska's Aleutian Islands."--Container.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Pub. 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Fiction Payton 2014Cawthon, Scott
Summary: "Ten years after the horrific murders at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza that ripped their town apart, Charlie -- whose father owned the restaurant -- and her childhood friends reunite on the anniversary of the tragedy and find themselves at the old pizza place which had been locked up and abandoned for years. After they discover a way inside, they realize that things are not as they used to be. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 FIVMatsui, Yūsei
Summary: In war-torn medieval Japan, a young samurai lord struggles to retake his throne, but not by fighting. Hojo Tokiyuki will reclaim his birthright by running away! In medieval Japan, eight-year-old Hojo Tokiyuki is the heir to the Kamakura shogunate. But the Hojo clan is in decline, and Tokiyuki’s peaceful days of playing hide-and-seek with his teachers come to an abrupt end when his clan is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 ELUInagaki, Riichiro
Summary: "Upon arriving at a primitive village, science fanatic Senku schemes to recruit the villagers to help him bring about a new civilization based on science. His first target is a young, inquisitive villager named Chrome, whom Senku wins over by besting him in a scientific battle of wits. Their first big task? To find a cure for Kohaku's older sister and the village shamaness--Ruri!"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media LLC 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 DRBourne, J. L.
Summary: When a weapon that could destroy the moral fabric of humanity is unleashed inside the Syrian border, one man takes a stand against the overwhelming wave of tyranny triggered by martial law, hell-bent on restoring America's liberty and saving civilization as we know it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Bourne 2015Murray, James S. (James Stephen)
Summary: Megan hopes to mend the pieces of her broken spirit by attending a church group's annual camping trip. But the church group members make a catastrophic mistake, leaving them stranded in an untouched canyon in the forest. They soon realize the canyon is home to a terrifying prehistoric arachnid that patiently stalks its prey. Haunted by her tragic loss, Megan now faces her ultimate test of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURRundell, Katherine
Summary: Left stranded in the Amazon jungle when their plane crashes on their way back to England from Manaus, Brazil, four children struggle to survive for days until one of them finds a map that leads them to a ruined city and a secret hidden among the vines.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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Summary: "After a summer of nine typhoons in 1931, the dams on the Yangtze River in China broke, completely flooding nearby towns and farms. Twelve-year-old Ting wakes up to a house full of water and her parents nowhere to be found. It's up to her to lead her younger brother and others to safety, battling high waters and greedy characters along the way. Will the children survive to be reunited with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC COL (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Summary: A cargo plane on a routine flight suddenly hits a high-turbulence storm, forcing a crash landing hundreds of miles off course in the barren Gobi desert. Among the survivors, one eccentric passenger leads the crew to build a new plane - against all odds, against all hope, and sometimes - against each other.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Flight 2006Florman, Samuel C.
Summary: After a comet smashes into Earth, vaporizing and generating a fiery rain that engulfs the globe, a group of leading engineers arrives at the only place that was not destroyed and struggles to establish a new world order, and to meet the needs of the few survivors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLOMartin, Laura
Summary: A century and a half after cloned dinosaurs forced humans to move into underground compounds, Sky discovers a clue to the whereabouts of her long-missing father and ventures above ground on a quest that has the potential to save the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Book Club Kit, Call number: YOUTH BOOK CLUB KIT FIC MARTaylor, Theodore
Summary: When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, an adolescent white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a tiny Caribbean island where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2005
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1 available in JT Audio Books, Call number: JT CD Fiction TaylorBab Bonde, Jessica
Summary: "The testimonies of six survivors of the Holocaust are presented in comics form, aimed at teenage readers. Some of them were children then, and are still alive to tell what happened to them and their families. How they survived. What they lost--and how you keep on living, despite it all. Jessica Bab Bonde has, based on survivor's stories, written an important book. Peter Bergting's art makes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BABBockoven, Mike
Summary: "FantasticLand is a modern take on Lord of the Flies meets Battle Royale that probes the consequences of a social civilization built online"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2016
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Summary: "#1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison returns to her beloved Hollows series with The Turn, the official prequel to the series that will introduce you to a whole new side of Rachel Morgan's world as they've never seen it before! Can science save us when all else fails? Trisk and her hated rival, Kal, have the same goal: save their species from extinction. But death comes in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARSummary: An orphaned bear cub is adopted by little Emily and her family. They name the cub Masha, raise her and release her back into the wild, thinking they'll never see Masha again. Three years go by, and Emily has gotten lost deep in the wild forests of the Pacific Northwest. Cold, frightened and alone in the gathering darkness, she falls and is knocked unconscious. When she awakens, Emily is amazed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar 2007
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY BEAWhite, Andrew Joseph
Summary: "Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him--the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world's population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can't get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Teen 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WHICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC WHITalluto, Joseph.
Summary: John Talon and his son have survived the Upheaval, the event which saw the dead rising to feed on the living. After two years of fighting off the worst the infection had to throw at them, a new danger emerges which threatens to take apart their small hold on humanity and the one chance they have to rebuild the country. Sometimes the biggest threat to humanity isn't the living dead, and the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2016