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A modern science fiction classic from an acclaimed bestselling author: The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction.
"A book of such accelerating tension that the pages seem to turn faster as one moves along." —Chicago Tribune
Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future,...
"A book of such accelerating tension that the pages seem to turn faster as one moves along." —Chicago Tribune
Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future,...
3) Cat's cradle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A young writer decides to interview the children of a scientist primarily responsible for the creation of the atomic bomb
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The world is going to end next Saturday, but there are a few problems--the Antichrist has been misplaced, the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse ride motorcycles, and the representatives from heaven and hell decide that they like the human race.
5) Flood
Author
Series
Flood (Stephen Baxter) volume 1
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2009], c2008
Physical Desc
490 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Four hostages of religious extremists in Barcelona are released after five years in 2016, each to work in his or her own way on the problem of rising waters that are threatening to overtake the world's major cities, and it becomes clear after decades of struggle that there will soon be nowhere left to run.
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Series
Vivian Apple volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"The predicted Rapture was faked by Pastor Frick's Church of America and 3,000 Believers are now missing or dead. Seventeen-year-old Vivian Apple and her best friend Harpreet are revolutionaries, determined to expose the Church's diabolical power grab...and to locate Viv's missing heartthrob Peter Ivey"--
Author
Series
Vivian Apple volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Vivian Apple returns home after the alleged 'Rapture' to find her devout parents gone and two mysterious holes in the roof. Vivian never believed in the Rapture, or the uber powerful Church of America. Now that she has been left behind,Vivan's quest for the truth begins"--
11) Second chance
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Series
Left Behind (Young adult). The kids volume 2
Left behind the kids volume 02
Left Behind. The kids volume 2
Left behind the kids volume 02
Left Behind. The kids volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
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The world has been thrown into chaos after thousands of people suddenly vanished one horrifying evening. Four kids in the Chicago suburbs-Judd, Vicki, Lionel, and Ryan-reel with shock as they learn they are the only ones left in their families. As the truth behind the disappearances becomes clear, the kids discover they are faced with far-reaching decisions. But while the others are making their choices, Lionel gets a disturbing message from his uncle...
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Series
Left Behind (Young adult). The kids volume 4
Left behind the kids volume 04
Left Behind. The kids volume 4
Left behind the kids volume 04
Left Behind. The kids volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Rapture occurred, many young people were left behind. Four of these, orphaned teenagers Judd, Vicki, Lionel, and Ryan, have turned to Christ and are learning about the coming events from their spiritual teacher, Bruce Barnes. But they have many questions and want to know what signs they should look for. One question that burns brightest in their minds is, "Who is the Antichrist?" Bruce Barnes thinks he knows, and shares this with the group....
13) The vanishings
Author
Series
Left Behind (Young adult). The kids volume 1
Left behind the kids volume 1
Left Behind. The kids volume 1
Left behind the kids volume 1
Left Behind. The kids volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four former Christian teenagers find themselves alone and afraid following the Rapture when God spirits His followers away to Heaven
Author
Series
Left Behind series. Main series volume 12
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
15) Into the storm
Author
Series
Left Behind (Young adult). The kids volume 11
Left Behind. The kids volume 11
Left behind the kids volume 11
Left Behind. The kids volume 11
Left behind the kids volume 11
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
vi, 149 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
16) The breach
Author
Series
Travis Chase trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Former cop and ex-convict Travis Chase becomes an unwitting pawn in the race toward Apocalypse after he stumbles upon a crashed 747 passenger jet in the wilds of Alaska filled with murdered dead, including the First Lady of the United States.
17) Schism
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Language
English
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Description
"My name is Andrea Christensen. I'm one of the oldest people in the world." The first book in a new YA, dystopian trilogy, SCHISM is a story of survival, of good versus evil, and of constructing a future with only memories of childhood. A virus, created by the smartest minds in the United States government, which is meant to target male adults in times of war, is accidentally released before testing is complete. Within weeks six billion people are...
18) Ender's game
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is the winner of the Nebula and Hugo Awards
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were
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