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After her final year in college, a young writer begins working part-time as an emergency dispatch operator in Sydney. Over the course of an eight-hour shift, she is dropped into hundreds of crises, hearing only pieces of each. The work itself becomes monotonous. And yet the stress of listening to far-off disasters seeps into her personal life, and she begins drinking heavily, sleeping with strangers, having an affair with an ex-lover. Interwoven with...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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First edition.
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English
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"Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko, its former citizen and a climate refugee herself, has a job teaching immigrant children in Denmark with her invented language Panska (Pan-Scandinavian): "homemade language. no country to stay in. three countries I experienced. insufficient space in brain. so made new language. homemade language." As she searches...
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"Two stories on the impact of climate change intersect in this thoughtful and suspenseful novel. . . . convincingly detailed and quietly wrenching . . . powerful." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
From the author of the number-one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating story of the power of nature and the human spirit that explores the threat of a devastating worldwide drought, witnessed through...
From the author of the number-one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating story of the power of nature and the human spirit that explores the threat of a devastating worldwide drought, witnessed through...
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2023.
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First Catapult edition.
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English
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When his wife, Ada, vanishes from their bed one night, with their son, Gilles, in the next room, Danny discovers mothers around the world are vanishing from their homes and wonders if the mystery is linked to the forest she seemed magnetically drawn to.
25) Gun island
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2019.
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English
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Dr. Deen Datta, a Brooklyn-based dealer in rare books, on the cusp of retirement, suddenly finds himself propelled into the depths of the snake-infested Sundarbans. Thus begins an unforgettable journey both inward and outward and moving across continents. As Deen's journey progresses, he confronts a changing world and encounters a cast of characters who will unsettle everything he thought he knew about himself.
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2020.
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"Water is commodified. The Water Train that serves the city increasingly at risk of sabotage. As news breaks that construction of a gigantic Ice Dock will displace more people than first thought, protestors take to the streets and the lives of several individuals begin to interlock. A nurse on the brink of an affair. A boy who follows a stray dog out of the city. A woman who lies dying. And her husband, a marksman: a man forged by his past and fearful...
27) Shelter
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2007.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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The three basic human needs are food, water...and shelter. But, in the late 21st century, compassion is a crime. You can get your memories wiped just for trying to help.
Papa Preston Walford's world doesn't allow for coincidences. Accidents. Secrets in the backs of closets. Or, the needs of his own daughter.
Meredith Preston has reason to seek shelter. She needs protection from the monsters in her mind, in her history, in her family. And, the great...
28) The solar war
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Long Winter volume 2
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English
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Read the second book in The Long Winter trilogy! * * * They decimated Earth during the Long Winter. Now the Grid has returned, and they won t stop until the human race is extinct. On a ruined world, humanity s last survivors fight against impossible odds. In their darkest hour, they discover a new hope for survival. But it comes at an unthinkable price, with consequences that will change everything. * * * We thought the war was over. We were wrong....
29) Blackfish City
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
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English
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After the climate wars, a floating city is constructed in the Arctic Circle, a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, complete with geothermal heating and sustainable energy. Now crime and corruption have set in, the contradictions of incredible wealth alongside poverty are spawning unrest, and a new disease called "the breaks" is ravaging the population. When a strange new visitor arrives--a woman riding an orca, with a polar bear...
30) The rain
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2023.
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First edition.
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English
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"The rain began nineteen years ago, and it never stopped. Now, in a flooded North America, seventeen-year-old Tanner and her adoptive caretaker, Russell, struggle to survive as they make their way to Colorado."--Back cover.
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2010.
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First edition.
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English
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In the far future, an indestructible and massive canal more than 2,000 miles long spans the mid-continent of Earth. Nothing can mar it, move it, or affect it in any fashion. At its western end, where it meets the sea, is an equally indestructible structure comprising three levels of seemingly empty chambers.
Scientists from three different civilizations, separated in time by hundreds of thousands of years, are investigating the canal. In the most...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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English
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A sentient AI determines that all humans must be eliminated as the root of climate change and leaves a woman named Sen as a "witness" to record her observations on the end of humanity as the world begins to rewild.
A groundbreaking debut that follows the story of an Artificial Intelligence tasked with writing a novel--only for it to fall in love with the novel's subject, Sen, the last human on Earth. Faced with uncontrolled and accelerating environmental...
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[2020]
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English
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"Wylodine comes from a world of paranoia and poverty--her family grows marijuana illegally, and life has always been a battle. Now she's been left behind to tend the crop alone. Then spring doesn't return for the second year in a row, bringing unprecedented, extreme winter. With grow lights stashed in her truck and a pouch of precious seeds, she begins a journey, determined to start over away from Appalachian Ohio. But the icy roads and strangers...
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[2022]
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English
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"My Volcano is a kaleidoscopic portrait of a menagerie of characters, as they each undergo personal eruptions, while the Earth itself is constantly shifting. Parable, myth, science-fiction, eco-horror, My Volcano is a radical work of literary art, emerging as a subversive, intoxicating artistic statement by John Elizabeth Stintzi. On June 2, 2016, a protrusion of rock growing from the Central Park Reservoir is spotted by a jogger. Three weeks later,...
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[2016]
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English
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"Ash and Pia move from hipster Brooklyn to rustic Vermont in search of a more authentic life. But just months after settling in, the forecast of a superstorm disrupts their dream. Fear of an impending disaster splits their tight-knit community and exposes the cracks in their marriage. Where Isole was once a place of old farm families, rednecks and transplants, it now divides into paranoid preppers, religious fanatics and government tools, each...
36) The forests
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2022.
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English
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"Corentin's childhood felt like an aimless pilgrimage. Unwanted, he was moved from one temporary home to another, until the day he ended up in the care of an old woman, Augustine. Deep within the Valley, the remote region where Augustine lives, Corentin's life is renewed. Years later, Corentin fully immerses himself in the dazzling pleasures and distractions of urban life while around him the world is on fire. Temperatures continue to rise, causing...
38) The last storm
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Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"With global warming out of control, large swathes of North America have been struck by famine and drought and are now known as the Desert...Jesse lives alone, far from civilization. Once, he too made rain, but he stopped when his abilities caused fatalities, bringing down not just rain but scorpions, strange snakes and spiders. When his daughter Ash inherited this tainted gift, Jesse did his best to stop her...As the storms she conjures become more...
39) The chaos grid
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"When mankind's attempts to control nature backfire, Texas descends into a wasteland. Storms rage and ravenous beasts roam the Outer Grid. The only safe havens rest inside the tech-obsessed domed cities. But when her parents are murdered inside the Plex City dome, seventeen-year-old Juniper Conway wants revenge. Ties to her extended family threaten to pull her back as she runs from city to city. The Plex is endangering its citizens by legalizing a...
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Heartless volume 1
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Set in the not-too-distant future, Gravity Is Heartless is bold, speculative fiction that sheds a humorous light on humanity's engagement with future technologies and artificial intelligence.--adapted from back cover.
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