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Burdick, Eugene.

Summary: The question of accidental war is examined in this novel about American planes which fly past the point of recall to drop nuclear bombs on Moscow.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1962

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUR

Anderson, Kevin J.

Summary: Power duo Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason team up in Kill Zone , a perilous disaster thriller for the modern age. Deep within a mountain in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a Cold War-era nuclear weapons storage facility is being used to covertly receive more than 100,000 tons of nuclear waste stored across the US. Only Department of Energy employee, Adonia, and a few others including a war hero, a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AND

Bohjalian, Chris

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: Living in an igloo of ice and trash bags half a year after a cataclysmic nuclear disaster, Emily, convinced that she will be hated as the daughter of the drunken father who caused the meltdown, assumes a fictional identity while protecting a homeless boy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOH

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOH

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Bohjalian 2014

Williams, Andria

Summary: In 1959, Nat Collier moves with her husband, Paul, and their two young daughters to Idaho Falls, a remote military town. An Army Specialist, Paul is stationed there to help oversee one of the country’s first nuclear reactors—an assignment that seems full of opportunity. Then, on his rounds, Paul discovers that the reactor is compromised, placing his family and the entire community in danger....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIL

Patterson, James

Summary: Two roads lead to Mount Hope. None leads out. There's no place to run in a community that's been taken--and is being intentionally kept--off the grid. A small southern town was evacuated after a freak power-plant accident. As the first anniversary of the mishap approaches, some residents are allowed to return past the national guard roadblocks. Mount Hope natives Maggie and Jordan quickly...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAT

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PAT

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Patterson 2019

Patterson, James

Summary: Returning home after a power-plant accident, Maggie and Jordan discover something is very wrong and as friends and family morph into terrifying strangers, their search for the truth puts them in the crosshairs of a sinister presence.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Patterson 2019

Blankman, Anne

Summary: Relocating to Leningrad in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster, neighbors Valentina and Oksana, who have been taught to hate each other because of religious differences, uncover painful family secrets while learning what it means to trust another person.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLA

Higginbotham, Adam

1 hold on 4 copies

Summary: Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster--and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters. Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.17 HIG

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 363.17 HIG

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Environ Higginbotham

Murray, Julie

Summary: "This title will help readers understand the causes, timeline, and aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster. The title is complete with glossary, index, and additional facts"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dash! Leveled Readers, an imprint of Abdo Zoom 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J363.17 MUR

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