Disaster Themes

#1 New York Times Bestseller What would happen if we called on God for help and God actually appeared? In Mitch Albom’s profound new novel of hope and faith, a group of shipwrecked passengers pull a strange man from the sea. He claims to be “the Lord.” And he says he can only save them if...

Welcome to the Blackwater Fossil Preserve. The apex hunters of the past are no longer history and the containment grid just failed. Paleobiologist Tessa Harlan knew resurrecting the ancient beast was a catastrophic mistake. The thousand pound reptile is not a slow river dweller. It is an armored and fully terrestrial pursuit hunter with interlocking tusks and terrifying speed. When a massive Gulf Coast storm floods the preserve and kills the power the grand opening turns into a slaughter. Trapped behind high concrete walls with a sinking escape route Tessa and a small group of tourists must...

Hannah Steele loves living on Pelling, a tiny island near Seattle. She's always felt totally safe there. So when she's asked to babysit after school one day, it's no big deal. Zoe and Oscar are her next-door neighbors, and Hannah just took a babysitting class, which she's pretty sure makes her an expert. She isn't even worried that she left her inhaler at home. Then the shaking begins. The terrifying earthquake only lasts four minutes, but it changes everything.

A comprehensive catalog of the most devastating and deadly events-natural or man-made-in human history. If you follow the news it can seem like injury, sickness, and death are now constant, inescapable occurrences that threaten us every second of every day. But such catastrophic events - as terrible and frightening as they are - have been happening for as long as mankind has walked the Earth.... and even before. From ancient volcanoes and floods to epidemics of cholera and smallpox to Hitler's mass killings in the 20th century, humanity's continued existence has always seemed perilous.

The Breakfast Club meets Guardians of the Galaxy in this YA sci-fi adventure by debut author M. K. England. Hotshot pilot Nax Hall has a history of making poor life choices. So it’s not exactly a surprise when he’s kicked out of the elite Ellis Station Academy in less than twenty-four hours...

Marcus Veil’s first park killed dozens and made him a cautionary tale. His second park is built to make him a legend: total transparency, every camera live, every second streamed, unfiltered. It’s a lie. It always was. Three nights before opening, systems technician Priya Anand finds an eleven-minute delay buried in the park’s signature "honest" feed, a gap just wide enough to hide anything Veil doesn’t want the world to see in real time. What she doesn’t know yet is that the park is also hiding something else: a secretly reintegrated network of units from an earlier disaster, one...

Rob didn’t plan to survive alone. The world didn’t give him a choice. When everything goes wrong, Rob and Gator are cut off from the rest of the group, injured, hunted, and forced to keep moving through hostile territory. With supplies dwindling and no clear path back, survival becomes a...

A historical adventure book set on a small, isolated island during the early nineteenth century."Pacific Shipwreck" is a gripping tale of survival, friendship, and resilience set against the backdrop of a mysterious, uninhabited island. Packed with thrilling adventures, high-sea battles, and life-altering decisions, the book offers readers a riveting emotional journey.The story revolves around the harrowing experiences of the passengers and crew of the ship "Pacific," namely Captain Peterson, the second mate Ready, and the tight-knit Hendrickson family, who intend to make a new beginning in...

Dee Alvarez lleva dos años de rodillas sobre mármol falso, limpiando las migajas de los ricos en un resort de dinosaurios que todavía no ha abierto al público. Su trabajo es ser invisible. Hoy, la invisibilidad le salva la vida. Una tormenta tropical destroza la red eléctrica de Isla Oscura. Las luces mueren. Las cerraduras se abren. Y las vallas que separaban a los depredadores de los humanos se disuelven en la oscuridad. Mientras los demás empleados discuten protocolos y buscan señal de radio, Dee es la única que lee las señales correctas: el barro desplazado, el silencio ...

Three months after the killer rain first fell, Ruby is beginning to realise that she cannot survive alone. When a chance encounter lands her back in the army camp, Ruby thinks she is safe. But being safe has a price, and if Ruby wants to stay she must keep her eyes - and her mouth - shut...

THE ISLAND IS BURNING. THE BOATS ARE GONE. THE ONLY WAY OUT IS THROUGH THE T-REX. The "Incendiary Sterilization" Protocol has begun. A wall of fire is sweeping across the island, erasing sixty-five million years of history in a single night. For Dee Alvarez and the last ragged survivors, the extraction point at the harbor was supposed to be their salvation. Instead, they find a nightmare. A Mosasaur patrolling the black water, trapping them against the encroaching inferno. There is no escape by sea. There is no escape by land. There is only one insane option left: The Service Tunnels. To ...

‘Brilliant . . . entertaining.’ ANN CLEEVES Summer can be murder out on the sun-scorched Yorkshire Fells. When the body of eighteen-year-old Tyler Prasad is found up on lonely Skye Moss, Detectives Leo Donovan and Shan Young are called in to investigate. Tyler lies dead in a bone-dry ditch...

Global warming...reversed. The energy crisis...over. The greatest problem on Earth...solved. Voltarian Royal Officer of the Fleet Jettero Heller has it all figured out. And he’s devised a daring and ingenious plan to make it all happen...if he lives to see the day. Saving the world is never easy, and for Heller, it turns out to be a tricky - and risky - business.

Natural and man-made disasters have the power to destroy thousands of lives very quickly. Both as they unfold and in the aftermath, these forces of nature astonish the rest of the world with their incredible devastation and magnitude. In this collection of 10 well-known catastrophes such as the great Chicago fire, the sinking of the Titanic, and hurricane Katrina, Brenda Guiberson explores the causes and effects, as well as the local and global reverberations of these calamitous events.

Darlene was a prepper. As she wrestled the polymer barrel onto its stand beside the other five, she thought to herself how a whole house cistern would have been so much better, but she hadn’t been able to get a variance to install one. The particular suburb she lived in was like that. Even with water shortages in the news almost every day, they wouldn’t let her, or anyone else, install a cistern. At least they didn’t deny her the barrels. Possibly because she hadn’t mentioned them to anyone. Darlene smiled as the thought crossed her mind.

Bloomsbury presents How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu, read by Jason Culp, Stephanie Komure, Micky Shiloah, Joe Knezevich, Brianna Ishibashi, Kotaro Watanabe, Matthew Bridges, Kurt Kanazawa, Greg Watanabe, Jeanne Sakata, MacLeod Andrews, Keisuke Hoashi, Brian Nishii and Julia...

Days 9 to 16 is the third book in the Mass Extinction Event series, continuing the story of a worldwide apocalypse seen from the eyes of two very different people in two different parts of the US. Finally realizing that she must leave the city, Elizabeth sets out alone along a deserted road...

Moss has lived with her pa on a remote island for as long as she remembers. The Old World has disappeared beneath the waves - only Pa's magic, harnessing the wondrous stormflowers on the island, can save the sunken continents. But a storm is brewing, promising cataclysmic changes. Soon, two...

In a world prone to violent flooding, Britain, ravaged 20 years earlier by a deadly virus, has been largely cut off. Survivors are few and far between, most of them infertile. Children are a rare commodity. For 22-year-old Roza Polanski, life with her family in their isolated tower block is...

An atmospheric literary thriller set in north Norfolk in the shadow of the Cold War, in which a love triangle turns murderous. Summer, 1952. Verity Frost, stranded on her family farm on the Norfolk coast, is caught between two worlds: the devotion of her childhood friend Arthur, just returned...