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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date:
[2025]
Language:
English
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By encouraging massive accumulations of debt from its underclass, a single corporation, Caerus, controls all aspects of society. Inesa lives with her brother in a half-sunken town where they scrape by running a taxidermy shop. Unbeknownst to Inesa, their cruel and indolent mother has accrued an enormous debt, enough to qualify one of her children for Caerus's livestreamed assassination spectacle : the Lamb's Gauntlet. Melinoe is a Caerus assassin,...
2. The Sandman
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Publisher:
DC Comics
Language:
English
Description:
In the final Sandman tale, Morpheus made the ultimate decision between change and death. As one journey for the Endless ends another begins for the Lord of Dreams and his family. All the final pieces come together for the final moments of the Sandman.
Publisher:
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
Description:
As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.
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Publisher:
Capstone
Pub. Date:
2021
Lexile measure:
GN: Graphic Novel 550L
Language:
English
Description:
Grasshopper and Ant aren't exactly enemies, but they're certainly not friends. Grasshopper lives for the moment. He likes to practice yoga and rehearse with his band. But Ant keeps messing up Grasshopper's flow with loud construction. Ant is a planner. He is convinced the world is going to end, so he's building a bunker. Grasshopper can't help but be annoyed. But all that changes when disaster strikes! Is it the end of the world? Can Grasshopper convince...
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Language:
English
Description:
"The Breakfast Club meets We Are the Ants in this timely story for a generation of young activists. If you knew the world was going to end tomorrow, what would you do? This is the question that haunts Amina as she watches new and horrible stories of discord and crisis flash across the news every day. But when she starts at prestigious Gardner Academy, Amina finds a group of like-minded peers to join forces with-fast friends who dedicate their year...
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Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
Description:
HOW CHINA'S ASCENDANCE AS AN ECONOMIC SUPERPOWER WILL ALTER THE CULTURAL, POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND ETHNIC BALANCE OF GLOBAL POWER IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, UNSEATING THE WEST AND IN THE PROCESS CREATING A WHOLE NEW WORLD
According to even the most conservative estimates, China will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by 2027 and will ascend to the position of world economic leader by 2050. But the full repercussions of China's...
According to even the most conservative estimates, China will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by 2027 and will ascend to the position of world economic leader by 2050. But the full repercussions of China's...
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Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"A dazzling debut novel--the story of a turbulent, unlikely romance, a harrowing account of the lasting horrors of the Second World War, and a searing examination of one man's search for forgiveness and acceptance"--
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Language:
English
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Description:
From celestial navigation to sharpening blades, Ana Maria Spagna outlines 100 skills you'll find indispensable for life after an apocalyptic global catastrophe. She covers obvious needs like first aid and farming, while also providing suggestions on how to build a safe and culturally rich community through storytelling and music making. Full of quirky illustrations by Brian Cronin, this book will provoke surprise, debate, and laughter as it leads...
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English
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Having coined the phrase "the war that will end war," H. G. Wells was disillusioned by the World War I peace settlement. Convinced that humanity needed to awaken to the instability of the world order and remember lessons from the past, the author of numerous science fiction classics set out to write about history. Wells hoped to remind mankind of its common past, provide it with a basis for international patriotism, and guide it to renounce war. The...
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Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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Description:
Two monumental works on the nature of the modern age by Romano Guardini, one of the most important Catholic figures of the 20th century. This expanded edition of The End of the Modern World: A Search for Orientation includes its sequel, Power and Responsibility: A Course of Action for the New Age. In both, Guardini analyzes modern man's conception of himself in the world, and examines the nature and use of power. It is the principle of individual...
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Publisher:
St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
He prepared their family for every natural disaster known to man-except for the one that struck. When Nicole Reed's father forces her family to move to a remote area of the Sierra Foothills, one without any modern conveniences, it's too much too handle for her mother, who abandons them in the middle of the night. Heading out to track her down, Nicole's father leaves her in charge of taking care of the house and her younger sister, Izzy. For a while,...
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Publisher:
Liza Dawson Associates
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
Description:
From the author of The Art of Mingling comes a witty romantic comedy about endings…and new beginnings RULE #1: DON'T PANIC-IT ONLY ATTRACTS SHARKS It's not the end of the world. That's what depressed, 39-year-old Tess Eliot has to remind herself after losing her newspaper column and being dumped by her boyfriend for a younger woman (a feng shui expert? Really?) But when Tess gets hired by a wacky cult to write an etiquette guide to prepare for what...
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Publisher:
Ahimsa Press
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
Poems for the End of the World is a coming of age collection and exploration of the confusing and disillusioning trek through young adulthood in a broken world. Divided into four chapters-waking up, growing pains, crushing realities, and disappointing beginnings-this collection covers everything from self-discovery and heartbreak to chronic illness and fresh starts.
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Publisher:
Omar Alejandro Rodriguez Rosas
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
Since the dawn of civilization, prophets and scientists have repeatedly predicted the end of the world without success. Some may argue, however, that the world they were referring to is just not what most people imagined it to be. Lullabies for the End of the World, Majo Delgadillo's debut book, is a collection of short stories that dissect the many micro cosmoses composing our lives-friends, family, lovers-to understand the bonds that tie them together...
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Publisher:
Open Road Media
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Description:
A photographer descends into New York City's chaotic and brutal underground in this sweeping story of the Big Apple at its seediest It's 1982, and Clarence Dmitri Larkin is working as a photographer at Bellevue hospital in Manhattan. The job offers a painfully clear perspective on a city sick with madness, fraught with crime, and coming apart at the seams. Larkin's curiosity soon leads to a subterranean world of all the city's secret dangers, including...
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Publisher:
iUniverse
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
Description:
A collection of psychological stories set in England and The Bahamas and about warped characters in a variety of frustrating situations: a satyr in pursuit of lost pleasures; a man who thinks he's a genius; an older woman hungry for a younger man; a couple fighting over the custody of their son and a control freak who exploits a friend for personal ambition. The title of the fable, Tommy's Adventures in His Search for Happiness, says it all.
Author:
Publisher:
Heyday
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
A rich banquet at the cutting edge of the arts, rooted in California's eclectic cultural gumbo, by one of America's most gifted critics, who died young in 2019. The late Scott Timberg championed artists earnestly and relentlessly, with empathy and persistence. He was a vocal and widely admired advocate for working artists, one of the first to sound the alarm on the escalating economic challenges that have faced creative workers in the twenty-first...
Author:
Publisher:
Vincent Zandri
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR. ESEPCIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO THE END OF THE WORLD!Inspired by the Twilight Zone, this story is about a writer, Lynn Meredith, who just wants to be left alone. That said, he moves to a remote mountaintop in far upstate New York. When a war breaks out between Russian and NATO, and nuclear war seems a certainty, the writer is almost giddy about it. Until the nuclear war actually happens and Meredith truly finds himself all...