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Author
Series
Octagon Valley volume 1
Publisher
Disney, Hyperion
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"After passing an intense exam, Edwin Edgefield becomes one of the lucky few to attend an exclusive weekend at the mysterious high-tech institute of the uber-famous-ultrabazillionaire-genius-recluse Onasander Octagon. Edwin hopes he'll meet other kids like him--kids who will accept him even though he's got a photographic memory, genius-level math skills, and some very specific personality quirks. But when he meets the other misfits (um, students),...
3) Level five
Author
Series
Killday volume 1
Publisher
Interstellar Flight Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the mountains of Pakistan, a high-tech mission aimed at preventing another nuke on US soil goes off the rails - with deadly results. At a Wall Street investment firm, a computer intelligence takes the first tentative steps to free itself from its digital restraints. In a basement workshop, an engineer sees visions of a god who instructs him to defend the human race - by any means necessary.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books/Capstone
Language
English
Description
"With Hurricane Katrina on track to hit New Orleans, twelve-year-old Claudia and her family are preparing to weather the storm. But nothing can prepare them for the awful flooding that occurs when the levees that surround the city fail. Even worse, after a chaotic helicopter evacuation, Claudia and her younger sister become separated from the rest of their family. Now it is up to Claudia to protect and comfort her sister through the tragedy. Readers...
Publisher
Maximum Games
Edition
Nintendo Switch.
Language
English
Description
"The core collection includes the first five games that started it all: Five nights at Freddy's, Five nights at Freddy's 2, Five nights at Freddy's 3, Five nights at Freddy's 4, and Five nights at Freddy's : sister location."--container.
Publisher
Team 17 Digital Ltd
Edition
Nintendo Switch.
Language
English
Description
A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?
Author
Publisher
Interstellar Flight Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"From bestselling Nebula-Award winning William Ledbetter comes a groundbreaking collection of science fiction short stories that will bend your heart like a black hole. From AI to robot medics to life on Mars, Ledbetter takes real tech, blends it with hard science fact, and invents futures full of fantastic fiction. Includes 17 previously published stories and one original story." -Provided by Publisher.
Author
Series
Secret projects volume 4
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Language
English
Description
"Years ago he had comrades in arms and a cause to believe in, but now the man who calls himself Nomad knows only a life on the run. Forced to hop from world to world in the Cosmere whenever the relentless Night Brigade gets too close, Nomad lands on a new planet and is instantly caught up in the struggle between a tyrant and the rebels who want only to escape being turned into mindless slaves―all under the constant threat of a sunrise whose heat...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"Out there is chaos, the collapse of society, and so much to be afraid of. All that matters is freedom. That's what Remy Blake has been taught by his survivalist father. Raised off the grid in the middle of nowhere, his own survival skills not yet honed, Remy is days shy of his eighth birthday when his father unexpectedly dies. As seasons pass, supplies run out, and fending for himself grows more desperate, Remy sets out on foot, unprepared for the...
10) Go as a river
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Language
English
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Description
"Seventeen-year-old Victoria Nash runs the household on her family's peach farm in the small ranch town of Iola, Colorado--the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from his tribal land and determined to live as he chooses. Victoria encounters Wil by chance on a street corner, a meeting that profoundly alters both of their young lives, unknowingly igniting as much passion...
Author
Series
I survived volume 23
Publisher
Scholastic
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
The Great Alaska Earthquake is the largest and most powerful recorded earthquake in US history. Lauren Tarshis's story of one child surviving this terrifying natural disaster pounds with page-turning action and heartwarming hope.New York Times bestselling author Lauren Tarshis tells the story of the disaster that changed our understanding of earth science -- and tested one boy in ways he never could have imagined. Includes a section of nonfiction...
12) Defiant
Author
Series
The Skyward volume 4
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Language
English
Description
"The final book in an epic series about a girl who will travel beyond the stars to save the world she loves from destruction."
13) Lost boy
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The comics debut of accomplished music video director Jay Martin in a beautiful and heartwarming tale of adversity and survival.
In the aftermath of a deadly car accident in the remote Wyoming wilderness, a young boy escapes as the sole survivor.
Stranded, freezing and without anyone around to help him, he struggles to stay alive as he attempts to find his way back to civilization. Along the way, through extreme tests of will, courage, and endurance,...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1914 England, eighteen-year-old American Clara lies about her age and citizenship to land a coveted spot on an Antarctic expedition, but when the crew is marooned on an ice floe, Clara's mission to advance the women's suffrage movement takes a back seat to survival.
15) The unsettled
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Set in the 1980s in racially and politically turbulent Philadelphia and in the tiny town of Bonaparte, Alabama-about a mother fighting for her sanity and survival"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the South, weaving together love, friendship, violence, survival, and revenge. A boy and his father watch a German submarine sink an oil tanker as...
Author
Series
I survived volume 23
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Language
English
Description
The Great Alaska Earthquake is the largest and most powerful recorded earthquake in US history. Lauren Tarshis's story of one child surviving this terrifying natural disaster pounds with page-turning action and heartwarming hope.
Author
Publisher
Godwin Books/Henry Holt and Company
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Gavin, Colin, and Doug live on a cozy little drop of H2O until one day, their mother tells them it's time for them to grow up and leave home. In search of the perfect place to settle down, the three little tardigrades (also known as "moss piglets") journey to an underwater ice cave, an erupting volcano, and even the moon! They can survive under extreme conditions, but can they avoid the Big Hairy Wolf Spider?"--
Author
Series
I survived volume 8
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox becomes caught up in a gunfight between American and British troops during the American Revolution.
Publisher
Outright Games Limited
Edition
Nintendo Switch.
Language
English
Description
"Time to gear up as Jack, Quint, June and Dirk in search for the missing pieces of the ultra-powerful staff of doom! But beware... Malondre, Queen of the Slime Monsters, seeks the staff to summon rezzoch the ancient, destructor of worlds. Upgrade your weapons and armour, cruise around wakefield in a post-apocalyptic pickup truck, fight through hordes of zombies and massive monsters, and battle epic bosses in the last kids on Earth and the staff of...
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