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1) The Road
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
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A man and his young son traverse a blasted American landscape, covered with the ashes of the late world. The man can still remember the time before but not the boy. There is nothing for them except survival, and the precious last vestiges of their own humanity. At once brutal and tender, despairing and hopeful, spare of language and profoundly moving, The Road is a fierce and haunting meditation on the tenuous divide between civilization and savagery,...
2) Forbidden
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Books of mortals volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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Many years have passed since civilization's brush with apocalypse. The world's greatest threats have all been silenced. There is no anger, no hatred, no war. There is only perfect peace... and fear. But a terrible secret has been closely guarded for centuries: Every single soul walking the earth, though in appearance totally normal, is actually dead, long ago genetically stripped of true humanity. Fleeing pursuit, with only moments to live, a young...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
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Immersing himself in a mid-twenty-first-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty, and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's creator.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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"From the author of Good Morning, Midnight comes a hopeful, sweeping story of survival and resilience spanning one extraordinary woman's lifetime as she navigates the uncertainty, brutality, and arresting beauty of a rapidly changing world. Florida as we know it is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state's infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern...
5) Mortal
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
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Rom Sebastian discovered a secret and consumed an ancient potion of blood to bring himself back to life. Nine years later, surviving against impossible odds, he has gathered a secret faction of followers who have also taken the blood--the first Mortals in a world that is dead. But The Order has raised an elite army to hunt and crush the living ... and no one knows the path to survival.
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A generation has passed since the change that rendered technology inoperable around the world, and western Oregon has finally achieved a degree of peace. Except a new threat has risen in Paradise Valley, Wyoming. A man known as the Prophet presides over the church universal and triumphant, teaching his followers to continue God's work by destroying the remnants of technological civilization they encounter, and those who dare use them.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
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"Logan Tom is doomed to remember the past and determined to rescue the future. Far behind him lies a boyhood cut violently short by his family's slaughter, when the forces of madness and hate swept our world after decadent excesses led to civilization's downfall. Somewhere ahead of him rests the only chance to beat back the minions of evil that are systematically killing and enslaving the last remnants of humanity. Navigating the scarred and poisoned...
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Without warning volume 2
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After a wave of energy slammed into North America and devastated the continent, the U.S. military was left without a commander in chief and global order spiraled into chaos. Three years later, a skeleton government headquartered in Seattle directs the reconstruction of the U.S. - beginning with New York City, where pirates and foreign militias have swarmed the East Coast and the entire area is mired in nightmare of urban combat. Meanwhile, a rogue...
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Wanderers volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
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"The sequel to the national bestseller Wanderers, the instant classic that "takes science, politics, horror, and science fiction and blends them into an outstanding story about the human spirit in times of turmoil, claiming a spot on the list of must-read apocalyptic novels" (NPR) Five years ago, ordinary Americans fell under the grip of a strange new malady that caused them to sleepwalk across the country to a destination only they knew. And they...
10) Ready player two
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 23
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"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 Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious...
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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 comfortable, clean house to live in ... for six months out...
12) Night light
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
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"In the face of a crisis that sweeps an entire high-tech planet back to the age before electricity, the Brannings face a choice. Will they hoard their possessions to survive -- or trust God to provide as they offer their resources to others? .... a what-if series in which global catastrophe reveals the darkness in human hearts and lights the way to restoration for a self-centered world."--p. [1].
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In the ruins of a future America, fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star and her nomadic tribe live off of the detritus of a crumbled civilization. Theirs is a world of children. Before reaching the age of twenty, they all die of a mysterious disease they call Posies, a plague that has killed for generations. When her brother begins showing signs of the disease, Ice Cream Star sets off on a bold journey to find a cure. Led by a stranger, a captured prisoner...
14) Fallout
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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When an unthinkable nuclear attack occurs in an alternate-reality 1962, Scott is forced into his father's bomb shelter with his family and neighbors, where they rapidly consume limited supplies and fear the worst about the fate of the world outside.
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MaddAddam trilogy volume 2
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The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners--a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life--has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren,...
16) The spark
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Time of heroes volume 1
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"NEW STANDALONE NOVEL BY SF MASTER DAVID DRAKE. 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 settlements,...
17) The Road
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
A father and his son are two of the last remaining people on earth after an unexplained tragedy has destroyed most of life. As the two head south, they are faced with many trials and tribulations along the way. An intense bond between the father and son is formed as together they strive to not only survive, but to retain humanity as they help the people they encounter along the way.
18) Last light
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 15
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Following a sudden, inexplicable loss of electricity worldwide, the human race is abruptly confronted with the practical and ethical dilemmas created by the loss of familiar technologies.
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Tarakan chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
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More than a hundred years have passed since the Catastrophe brought humanity to the brink of extinction. Those who survived are changed. The Wildeners have reverted to the old beliefs--but with new Gods--while others place their faith in the technology that once powered their lost civilization. In the mysterious City of Towers, the center of the destroyed Tarakan empire, a lowly scribe of the Guild of Historians is charged with a dangerous assignment....
20) One year after
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"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 to its knees. 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 government...