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Author
Series
Camel Club volume 1
Language
English
Description
Witnessing a murder with ties to a prestigious businessman's club, homeless conspiracy theorist Harry Stone steals a crucial piece of evidence from the scene and is subsequently pursued by a dangerous member of the club.
Author
Publisher
CamCat Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the isolation of the Himalayas, the snows still fall, but they are tinged with the ash of a nuclear winter; the winds still blow, but they wail with the cries of ghosts. The seventh and final blast is near. As the world heaves its final breaths, the people of the Tibetan plateau--civilization's final survivors--are haunted by spirits and terrorized by warlords. Though the last of the seven prophesied cataclysms is at hand, young Karma searches...
Author
Publisher
Blair
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
263 pages : 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A South Carolina family endures one life-shattering day in 1961 in a town that lies in the shadow of a nuclear bomb plant. It's November 1, 1961, in a small town in South Carolina, and nuclear war is coming. Nine-year-old Wilson Porter believes this with every fiber of his being. He prowls his neighborhood for Communists and studies fallout pamphlets and the habits of his father, a scientist at the nuclear plant in town. Meanwhile, his mother Nellie...
Author
Series
End volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
599 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Joshua Jordan remains in Israel, out of reach of U.S. authorities and their trumped-up charges against him. His wife, Abigail, continues to lead the Roundtable to prove his innocence. Following Russia's nuclear attack, Israel cleans up the bodies of dead enemy soldiers for 7 months and embarks on its 7-year plan -- both per the prophecies in Ezekiel. When Israel's leadership is tempted to sign a peace proposal initiated by the UN under Coliquin, Joshua...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial/OliveEditions, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
vi, 355 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just beginning, as men and women of all backgrounds join together to confront the darkness.
Author
Language
English
Description
Four Japanese nationalists storm Tokyo's imperial palace and behead the emperor. Their goal: to invade Russia and conquer oil-rich Siberia in order to dominate the globe. Soon the world explodes in war, as Japan, Russia and the United States go head-to-head in a struggle that threatens total destruction. Now three men from three different nations must meet their ultimate challenge: to fight as patriots in a war driven by greed and madness--and save...
7) The last
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
For fans of high-concept thrillers such as Annihilation and The Girl with All the Gifts , this breathtaking dystopian psychological thriller follows an American academic stranded at a Swiss hotel as the world descends into nuclear war--along with twenty other survivors--who becomes obsessed with identifying a murderer in their midst after the body of a young girl is discovered in one of the hotel's water tanks. Jon thought he had all the time in the...
Author
Series
John Matherson volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
pages ; cm
Language
English
Description
"Months before publication, William R. Forstchen's One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. Hundreds of thousands of people have read the tale. One Year After is the thrilling follow-up to that smash hit. 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...
Author
Series
Hot War volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
An alternate-history account of the Korean War is set in the aftermath of General MacArthur's decision to drop nuclear bombs on Manchurian cities.
"In an era of nuclear posturing, what if the Cold War had suddenly turned hot? Bombs Away begins with President Harry Truman in desperate consultation with General Douglas MacArthur, whose control of the ground war in Korea has slipped disastrously away. MacArthur recognizes a stark reality: The U.S. military...
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Wherever Hel looks, New York City is both reassuringly familiar and terribly wrong. As one of the thousands who fled the outbreak of nuclear war in an alternate United States--and alternate timeline, somewhere across the multiverse--she finds herself living as a refugee in our own not-so-parallel New York. The slang and technology are foreign to her, the politics and art unrecognizable. While others, like her partner Vikram, attempt to assimilate,...
12) Blowback
Author
Publisher
Amistad Press
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Hot War volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The novels of Harry Turtledove show history balancing on single moments: One act of folly. One poor decision. One moment of rage. In his astounding new series, the unthinkable has come to pass. The Cold War turns hot--and the United States and the Soviet Union unleash their nuclear arsenals upon each other. Millions die. Millions more are displaced. Germans battle side by side with Americans, Polish freedom fighters next to Russian fascists. The...
14) First strike
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xv, 224 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
British twins Rich and Jade are once again thrown into danger as they try to help their spy father, John Chance, save the President of the United States from a radical group holding the White House hostage and attempting to steal the nation's nuclear launch codes.