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Camel Club novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 23
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The Camel Club is a four-man group of Washington, D.C. misfits, that meet weekly to discuss political conspiracies they believe exist and what actions they might take. One night club members witness the murder of Secret Service employee Patrick Johnson, thus thrusting the wacky crew into the middle of a bigger conspiracy than they could ever have imagined.
2) On the Beach
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
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The last generation, innocent victims of an accidental nuclear war, live out their last days, make plans that will never be carried out, and hope for a miracle that will not come. As the deadly rain moves closer, the world as we know it moves toward the end.
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2019.
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This breathtaking dystopian psychological thriller follows an American academic stranded at a Swiss hotel as the world descends into nuclear war--along with twenty other survivors--who becomes obsessed with identifying a murderer in their midst after the body of a young girl is discovered in one of the hotel's water tanks. Jon thought he had all the time in the world to respond to his wife's text message: I miss you so much. I feel bad about how we...
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"The story picks up a year after One Second After ends, two years since the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States brought America to its knees. After suffering starvation, war, and countless deaths, the survivors of Black Mountain, North Carolina, are beginning to piece back together the technologies they had once taken for granted: electricity, radio communications, and medications. They cling to the hope that a new national government...
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2018.
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1,000 MILES BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN, HE STOOD FOR FREEDOM Ronald Reagans dramatic battle to win the Cold War, revealed as never before by the #1 bestselling author and award-winning anchor of the #1 rated Special Report with Bret Baier. In his acclaimed bestseller Three Days in January, Bret Baier illuminated the extraordinary leadership of President Dwight Eisenhower at the dawn of the Cold War. Now in his highly anticipated new history, Three...
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Victoria Emerson novels volume 1
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Victoria Emerson, a West Virginia congresswoman and single mother, becomes the last hope of a nation brought to the brink of destruction in the wake of nuclear war.
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All eyes are on the Middle East. Israel has successfully launched a first strike on Iran, taking out all of their nuclear sites and six of their nuclear warheadsand causing The Twelfth Imam to order a full-scale retaliation. US President William Jackson threatens to support a UN Security Council resolution condemning the Jewish State for unprovoked and unwarranted acts of aggression. Meanwhile, CIA operative David Shirazi has infiltrated the Iranian...
10) One second after
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
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One man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war in one second, a war based upon an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) weapon that will send America back to the Dark Ages.
After an electromagnetic pulse weapon destroys the United States' electrical grid, history professor John Matherson, a retired soldier, attempts to protect his family despite the breakdown of society and prevalence of starvation, disease,...
11) The Postman
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After a limited but devastating war, the handful of Americans who remain struggle to survive. One such man borrows the jacket of a dead postal worker to keep warm. He finds the old worn uniform still has power as a symbol of hope of an age now gone.--From publisher description.
12) Alas, Babylon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
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The survivors of a nuclear holocaust are forced to rely on their own resources as they join together in the struggle for survival amidst the ruins of Fort Repose, a small town in Florida.
13) Sentries
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
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The common theme of nuclear disaster and human vulnerability interweaves the lives of four young people, an Ojibway Indian, an illegal Mexican migrant worker, a rock musician, and a sheep rancher's daughter, with the lives of three veterans of past wars.
14) Z for Zachariah
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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Seemingly the only person left alive after a nuclear war, sixteen-year-old Ann Burden is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape.
15) White smoke
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2023.
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Natural born leader Victoria Emerson, at the request of the deposed president of the U.S., arrives at the Hilltop Manor bunker where the remnants of the U.S. government have been imprisoned and must call on her deepest personal resources and her unwavering convictions to restore justice to this broken world.
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Marcus Ryker novels volume 1
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"New York Times bestselling author Joel C. Rosenberg returns with a high-stakes political thriller set in Russia. Everything he learned to protect the president, he must use to take out theirs. With an American president distracted by growing tensions in North Korea and Iran, an ominous new threat is emerging in Moscow. A czar is rising in the Kremlin, a Russian president feverishly consolidating power, silencing his opposition, and plotting a brazen...
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Patrick McLanahan novels volume 12
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U.S. Air Force aerial warfare expert Major General Patrick McLanahan has been demoted and moved back to a desk job. But while keeping a keen eye on what's going on with old enemies, he notices that Russia's heavy bomber and tactical bomber bases are busier than ever. McLanahan tries to get his superiors to pay attention and is ignored. Russian president General Anatoliy Gryzlov is determined to punish McLanahan and his fleet of robotic warplanes for...
18) Hiroshima
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 9
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Hiroshima is the story of six people--a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest--who lived through the greatest single manmade disaster in history. In vivid and indelible prose, Pulitzer Prize-winner John Hersey traces the stories of these half-dozen individuals from 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city, through...
19) Never
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"'Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed.' So says Pauline Green, president of the United States. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of a world war are a young woman intelligence officer; a spy working undercover...
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