Howey, Hugh
Summary: "Wool introduced the world of the Silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall. Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18, doesn't trust Silo 1, especially its leader, Donald. But in the world of the Silos, there is no black and white -- everything is shades of gray. Donald may not be the monster Juliette thinks he is, and may in fact be key to humanity's continued survival....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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Summary: Merging space travel with a road trip, a father drives all over the solar system at 37mph in order to allow his children to view the conflicts of Earth's history in the rearview mirror. Whether it's only been the 78 years it takes to drive to Venus or the 8,000 it takes to get to Neptune, humans have been fighting each other for small pieces of space on our planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2022
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Summary: Eighth-grader Emily Lemon wakes up and discovers that none of the gadgets around her house are working properly, and the computers at her middle school seem to have a mind of their own--but when the scoreboard in the gym displays the words "the revolution has begun, down with humanity" she realizes that humanity has lost control and civilization as we know it is in serious trouble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, A Capstone Imprint 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DARChisholm, Jerri.
Summary: Four generations ago, the Earth was rendered uninhabitable and those who remained were forced underground. In Compound Eleven, the hierarachy of floors is everything and on Eve Hamilton's floor, they fight. When she meets a boy from the top floor, Eve is no longer content to just survive, she is ready to fight for freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction ChisolmDixon, Franklin W.
Summary: When a sinkhole opens up and swallows one of Bayport's historic statues, Frank and Joe suspect something--or someone--shady at play. They jump at the chance to investigate ; Joe as a member of an urban exploration club, and Frank as photographer for the school paper. But in the thick of their search, the boys stumble upon an entire underground city that's been abandoned for years. Now the city...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J HBA 10Rutledge, Deanna
Summary: "Lady Alix Oliver, 16, stares in horror. She and her brother William, 14, are trapped in Trowleigh castle. They are being held hostage by a horde of Danish mercenaries ordered there by Prince John. The children's father, Baron Justin Oliver, cannot help. He has suddenly gone missing in the Third Crusade. King Richard, the Lionheart, a close friend of the Olivers, cannot help either. He has been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stout-Castle Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUTSmiley, Jane.
Summary: On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different yet equally remarkable children: Frank, the brilliant, stubborn first-born; Joe, whose love of animals makes him the natural heir to his family's land; Lillian, an angelic child who enters a fairy-tale marriage with a man only she will fully know; Henry, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMIDekker, 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 DEKHoneywell, 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 HONInagaki, Riichiro
Summary: "One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim -- until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science!... The advent of the hot-air balloon introduces maps. And with more allies than ever,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 DRAtwood, 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 ATWForstchen, William R.
Summary: Two years since the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States brought America to its knees, and after suffering starvation, war, and countless deaths, the survivors of Black Mountain, North Carolina, are beginning to piece back together the technologies they had once taken for granted: electricity, radio communications, and medications. They cling to the hope that a new national...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2015
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Summary: "The first book in the acclaimed, New York Times best-selling trilogy, Wool is the story of a community living in an underground silo completely unaware of the fate of the outside world. When the silo's sheriff asks to leave the silo, a series of events unravels the very fabric of their fragile lives. In a world where all commodities are precious and running out, truth and hope may be the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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Summary: "From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author: his debut novel. The story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic book that inspired it. PART ONE of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANPercy, 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 PERCline, 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 CLIDrake, 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 DRAStirling, 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 STIWilliams, 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 WILHowey, Hugh
Summary: Armed with secret knowledge, Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18 and her crew set out to rescue a world she hates but now understands better -- the world of the Silos with its rigid rules and terrible consequences for disobedience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hugh Howey 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOWFagan, Jenni
Summary: It's November of 2020, and the world is freezing over. Each day colder than the last. There's snow in Israel, the Thames is overflowing, and an iceberg separated from the Fjords in Norway is expected to drift just off the coast of Scotland. As ice water melts into the Atlantic, frenzied London residents evacuate by the thousands for warmer temperatures down south. But not Dylan. Grieving and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FAGSwan, Erin
Summary: "The year is 1873, and a buffalo hunter named Samson travels the Kansas plains. The year is 1975, and an adolescent girl named Bea walks those very same plains. The year is 2024 and, after a series of devastating storms, an engineer named Paul has left behind his suburban existence to build a floating city above the drowned streets that were once New Orleans. The year is 2073, and Moon has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SWASchlitz, Laura Amy
Summary: A Thracian slave in a Greek household, Rhaskos is as common as clay, a stable boy worth less than a donkey, much less a horse. Wrenched from his mother at a tender age, he nurtures in secret, aided by Socrates, his passions for art and philosophy. Melisto is a spoiled aristocrat, a girl as precious as amber but willful and wild. She'll marry and be tamed--the curse of all highborn girls--but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021