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William R. Forstchen - Forge Books
Format: Hardcover

New York Times best selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real...a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back...
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The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition

Stephen King - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent...
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The Road

Cormac McCarthy - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark....
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Discworld)

Neil Gaiman - Workman Pub Co
Format: Hardcover

According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter--the world's only totally reliable guide to the future--the world will end on a Saturday.  Next Saturday, in fact.  Just after tea... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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The Gates

John Connolly - Atria Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund Boswell are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Halloween. Which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Avenue. The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with the underworld....
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The Children Of Men

P D James
Format: Print book

Told with P. D. James's trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civil
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The War of the Worlds

Herbert George Wells - Penguin
Format: Paperback

The first modern tale of alien invasion, H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds remains one of the most influential science fiction novels ever published.The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first,...
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Max Brooks - Three Rivers Press
Format: Paperback

"The end was near." - Voices from the Zombie WarThe Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States...
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The Girl With All the Gifts

M. R. Carey - Little Brown & Company
Format: Hardcover

NOT EVERY GIFT IS A BLESSING.
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I Am Legend

Richard Matheson - Tom Doherty Associates
Format: Print book

Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone. An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him. By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities through...
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The Flight of the Silvers

Daniel Price - Blue Rider Press
Format: Hardcover

"I could list the wonders of this new world for a while, but I'd rather let you discover them for yourself when you read the book. You should read this book! I loved The Flight of the Silvers. I found it very difficult to put it aside to deal with my own life ... It really is an amazing...
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Station Eleven

Emily St John Mandel - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Pub Date: 2014-09-09 Pages: 352 Language: English Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group An audacious. darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilizations collapse. Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star. his would-be savior . and a nomadic group of actors...
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The Sunrise Lands

S. M. Stirling - Roc; 1st edition
Format: Book

A generation has passed since The Change that rendered technology inoperable around the world, and western Oregon has finally achieved a degree of peace. But a new threat has risen in Paradise Valley, Wyoming. A man known as The Prophet presides over the Church Universal and Triumphant,...
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The Knife of Never Letting Go: Chaos Walking: Book One

Patrick Ness - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

A dystopian thriller follows a boy and girl on the run from a town where all thoughts can be heard - and the passage to manhood embodies a horrible secret.Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything...
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The 5th Wave

Richard Yancey - G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

"Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances." - Entertainment Weekly (Grade A) The Passage meets Ender's Game in an epic new series from award-winning author Rick Yancey.After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky...
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Steelheart

Brandon Sanderson - ‎Ember; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

The #1 New York Times bestseller from Brandon Sanderson, the author of Oathbringer

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The Passage: A Novel

Justin Cronin - Ballantine Books
Format: eBook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * This thrilling novel kicks off what Stephen King calls "a trilogy that will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction." NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR...
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The Witch of Hebron: A World Made by Hand Novel

James Howard Kunstler - Atlantic Monthly Press; First Edition edition
Format: Book

Already a renowned social commentator and a best-selling novelist and nonfiction writer, James Howard Kunstler has recently attained even greater prominence in the global conversation about energy and the environment. In the sequel to his novel, World Made by Hand, Kunstler expands on his vision...
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Wool

Hugh Howey - Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

For suspense-filled, post-apocalyptic thrillers, Wool is more than a self-published ebook phenomenonits the new standard in classic science fiction. In a ruined and toxic future, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society...
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam Trilogy #1)

Margaret Atwood

A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker PrizeMargaret Atwood's new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their vi
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