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Vendor:Samuel Fisher
Wivenhoe
'Compelling . . . this is a fable for the times ahead that feels essential' Irish Times 'Stunning, insightful, deeply humane prose . . . Fisher indicts all of us yet still offers hope that we may change the ending of this story' Olivia...- $17.99
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Above the Fire
An enthralling debut, Above the Fire crystallizes the relationship between a father and son as they survive a winter of isolation. Perfect for fans of The Dog Stars by Peter Heller and The Road by Cormac McCarthy.Laboring under a shared loss, Doug and his...- $36.95
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Vendor:Daniel Defoe
A Journal of the Plague Year
Imagine a plague so horrific, only forty percent of the population lived to tell the tale. Written as a first-person account of the world's most dangerous pandemic, the mysterious narrator bears witness to a society that has seemingly given up hope during terrifying times.From...- $11.99
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Vendor:Andy Zuliani
Last Tide
Ana and Win find themselves stuck, lifting the weight of their pasts, while frustrated by their present jobs: photographing vacant lots and decayed industrial sites, cataloguing the decline of capitalist excess to digitally scrub away humanity, making way for more gentrification.When the pair is...- $17.95
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Vendor:Rebecca Hodge
Wildland
For fans of Jodi Picoult and Anita Shreve comes an exhilarating debut novel of one woman's courage in the face of catastrophe. She'll do anything to save them.But what will she do to save herself? When Kat Jamison retreats to the Blue Ridge Mountains,...- $26.99
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Vendor:Chelsea Catherine
Summer of the Cicadas
Summer of the Cicadas is about a West Virginian town where a brood of Magicicadas emerges for the first time in seventeen years. The cicadas damage crops and trees, and swarm locals. Jessica, a former cop whose entire family was killed in a car...- $14.95
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Vendor:The New York Times
The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic
A stunning collection of short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, this year's National Book Award winner Charles Yu, and more. When reality is...- $30.99
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Vendor:Rebecca Baum
Lifelike Creatures
Thirteen-year-old Tara does whatever it takes to keep her beautiful, audacious, and addicted mother, Joan, from falling through the cracks. When a sinkhole forces her rural Louisiana town to evacuate, Tara finds herself homeless and her mother's impulsive personality unleashed. But Joan's raw charisma...- $16.95
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Vendor:Debbie Johnson
The Moment I Met You
An unmissable novel of love, disaster, heartbreak, and unexpected happy endings, by the bestselling British author of Maybe One Day.When I was twenty-six years old my world was literally turned upside down and inside out, like a coat pocket being excavated for loose change....- $46.99
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Vendor:Daniel Defoe
A Journal of the Plague Year
Imagine a plague so horrific, only forty percent of the population lived to tell the tale. Written as a first-person account of the world's most dangerous pandemic, the mysterious narrator bears witness to a society that has seemingly given up hope during terrifying times.From...- $14.99
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Vendor:H. G. Wells
The World Set Free
In a novel written on the eve of World War I, H. G. Wells imagines a war "to end all wars" that begins in atomic apocalypse but ends in an enlightened utopia. Writing in 1913, on the eve of World War I's mass slaughter...- $19.95
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Vendor:J. G. Ballard
Crash: Deluxe Edition
Featuring an introduction by Zadie Smith; "Jim's Desk" and introductory notes by Chris BeckettThe short stories "Crash," "Tolerances of the Human Face," and "Mae West's Reduction Mammoplasty" by J. G. BallardTreatments and letters about the BBC2 Review short film about J. G. Ballard titled...- $30.00
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Vendor:Debbie Johnson
The Moment I Met You
An unmissable novel of love, disaster, heartbreak, and unexpected happy endings, by the bestselling British author of Maybe One Day.When I was twenty-six years old my world was literally turned upside down and inside out, like a coat pocket being excavated for loose change....- $41.99
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Vendor:Neal Stephenson
Termination Shock
From Neal Stephenson -- who coined the term metaverse in his 1992 novel Snow Crash -- comes a sweeping, prescient new thriller that transports readers to a near-future world in which the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising...- $57.99
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Vendor:Christian Pascale
Windows of Heaven
The year is 2050, and earth does not look the same. Surge Saturday, the day the tsunamis hit, devastated thousands of cities. Governments were toppled and lives were lost. For siblings Tom and Helene, everything changed. They didn't have the luxury of staying in...- $14.99
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Vendor:Sandrine Collette
Just After the Wave
A small boat, alone on the furious ocean. A family stranded on an island, battered by waves on all sides. A decision which looms, unavoidable, on the horizon. When a volcano collapses in the ocean and generates a tidal wave of biblical proportions, the...- $18.00
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Vendor:William Essex
Escape Mutation
This is an account of the plague years that followed the mutated-virus outbreaks of the early 2020s. In a desk diary scavenged from a house of the dead, a man records his own experiences of the end times - what he has to do...- $10.50
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Vendor:Hap Wilson
Out of Abaddon: The Long Journey Home
Everything is going as normal in the post-coronavirus world, until it suddenly isn't. Skye Rider leaves Yellowknife carrying data that will form the biggest expose of her journalistic career; she doesn't realize just how important that data is, or what it means to humanity....- $26.99
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Vendor:William Abrams
Death Came Swiftly: A Novel About the Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879
Death Came Swiftly is a fictional story inspired by the tragic history of the Tay Bridge disaster, which occurred in December 1879, when a Scottish railroad viaduct collapsed during a violent storm, sending a crowded passenger train into the Tay estuary. There were no...- $17.95
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Vendor:Orlanda Marsden
Leaving England
Sometime around now an unnamed virus has laid London and its people to waste. No one knows what the government is doing or where they are. 'Cleaners' raid homes; neighbours spy, animals are feral, old people are saying goodbye on the ends of phones...- $12.99
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Vendor:Paul Lynch
Beyond the Sea
A novel from the 2023 Booker Prize winning author of Prophet Song"Beyond the Sea is frightening but beautiful." --M John Harrison, The GuardianThe haunting story of two men stranded at sea pushing against their physical and mental limits to stay alive Based partly on...- $18.00
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Vendor:Richard Ford
Let Me Be Frank with You: A Frank Bascombe Book
A brilliant new work that returns Richard Ford to the hallowed territory that sealed his reputation as an American master: the world of Frank Bascombe, and the landscape of his celebrated novels The Sportswriter, the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner winning Independence Day, and The...- $17.99
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Vendor:Kathleen Cambor
In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden
In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden is the story of a bittersweet romance set against the backdrop of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, flood -- a tragedy that cost some 2,200 lives when the South Fork Dam burst on Memorial Day weekend, 1889. The dam was...- $15.99
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Vendor:Xavier Navarro Aquino
Velorio
Set in the wake of Hurricane Maria, Xavier Navarro Aquino's unforgettable debut novel follows a remarkable group of survivors searching for hope on an island torn apart by both natural disaster and human violence. Camila is haunted by the death of her sister, Marisol,...- $41.99
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Vendor:Christian Guay-Poliquin
The Weight of Snow
A badly injured man. A nationwide power failure. A village buried in snow. A desperate struggle for survival. These are the ingredients of The Weight of Snow, Christian Guay-Poliquin's riveting new novel. After surviving a major accident, the book's protagonist is entrusted to Matthias,...- $16.95
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Vendor:Whitney VanDiver
Oleanders in June
Galveston Island, 1900.A year of training in the Signal Corps did nothing to prepare Alfred Ridgeway for his new post with the U.S. Weather Bureau on the edge of the Texas gulf. Raised on a farm in Indian Territory, Alfred finds the wealth and...- $17.00
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Vendor:Lenora Whiteman
Snowbound Stagecoach
At least two men dead, two more lost in a blizzard, and a half-dozen more men with frostbite, perhaps facing amputations ... How did a simple stagecoach ride from Walla Walla, Washington Territory to Dalles City, Oregon become a nightmare? How could men who...- $14.99
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Vendor:Daniel Wrinn
Wings of Victory
"Historical fiction with a realistic twist." - Reviewer Thrilling World War II adventures like you've never seen them before. As the Nazis invade Europe on a campaign for total domination, a brutal war begins to unfold which will change the course of the world...- $16.99
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Vendor:Luke Inglis
Something Drastic
Earl Qume's poisoned mind has altered his reality and transformed his surroundings into omnipresent threats. After his wife kicks him out and he finds himself on the run from the law, he escapes the concrete confines of Toronto to find refuge in the foothills...- $19.95
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Vendor:Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe: With an Additional Essay by Virginia Woolf
"Robinson Crusoe" is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719. A fictional autobiography, the first edition purported to be the work of the titular protagonist Robinson Crusoe and led its early readers to believe the book to be a real travelogue of...- $21.99
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Vendor:Ira May
Killshot Two - After the Fall
If you enjoyed Killshot - part one - you would love part two - After the Fall. In part two, the chaos continues as Patrick Walker and his family try to survive the aftermath of a solar flare that has knocked out the entire...- $8.99
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Vendor:Sara Foster
The Hush
Everything can change in a heartbeat ...The pulse-pounding new thriller from the bestselling author of You Don't Know MeLainey's friend Ellis is missing. And she's not the only one.In the six months since the first case of a terrifying new epidemic--when a healthy baby...- $31.95
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Vendor:Gail Godwin
A Southern Family
The novels of Gail Godwin are contemporary classics -- evocative, powerfully affecting, beautifully crafted fiction alive with endearing, unforgettable characters. Her critically acclaimed work has placed her among the ranks of Eudora Welty, Pat Conroy, and Carson McCullers, firmly establishing Godwin as a Southern...- $15.99
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Vendor:Alexander Fedderly
All the Empty Houses
Alexander Fedderly's debut novel is a "deeply resonating tale capturing the fragility of the systems that should protect us (but don't) and the uncontrollable twists of fate that wreck the best-laid plans" (Anthony Durham, author of These Quiet Years).ALL THE EMPTY HOUSES tells the...- $13.99
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Vendor:Sara Foster
The Hush
Everything can change in a heartbeat ...The pulse-pounding new thriller from the bestselling author of You Don't Know MeLainey's friend Ellis is missing. And she's not the only one.In the six months since the first case of a terrifying new epidemic--when a healthy baby...- $46.95
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Vendor:John Christopher
A Wrinkle in the Skin
One night, the island of Guernsey convulsed. As shock followed shock, the landscape tilted violently in defiance of gravity. When dawn came, Matthew gazed in disbelief at the rubble that had been his home. Gradually, a few survivors drifted together. But where were the...- $10.00
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Vendor:Jim Shepard
Phase Six
This "novel of contagion and collapse is also the story of love's unlikely survival in the most hostile conditions" (Karen Russell, bestselling author of Swamplandia!)--from the National Book Award-nominated author of The Book of Aron. In a tiny settlement on the west coast of...- $17.00
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Vendor:L. R. Burkard
Pulse: World Gone Dark
What you do when the whole world suddenly...stops? Andrea, Lexie and Sarah are ordinary high school friends until the day the world goes dark. After an EMP shuts down the grid, life becomes a battle. Andrea's upscale lifestyle didn't prepare her family for the...- $17.99
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Vendor:Matt Bondurant
Oleander City: A Novel Based on a True Story
In the wake of the 1900 Galveston hurricane, three lives converge despite persecution from the Ku Klux Klan, a bare-knuckle boxing match gone wrong, and the recovery efforts of the American Red Cross.Based on a true storyThe hurricane of 1900, America's worst natural disaster,...- $36.99
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Vendor:Xavier Navarro Aquino
Velorio
Set in the wake of Hurricane Maria, Xavier Navarro Aquino's unforgettable debut novel follows a remarkable group of survivors searching for hope on an island torn apart by both natural disaster and human violence. Camila is haunted by the death of her sister, Marisol,...- $41.99
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Vendor:Jon Stuart Abramson
Overwhelmed: A Tale of Cascading Viral Outbreaks
Since the start of the 21st century, the world has been experiencing numerous infectious disease outbreaks, with little time to breath between events. This fictional novel takes place in various countries across the globe that are dealing with large infectious disease outbreaks due to...- $58.00
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Vendor:Terry Nation
Survivors
Survivors of a global plague battle for life on an empty planet. A gripping vision of a post-apocalyptic world... 'A fine piece of British post-apocalyptic fiction' 'Nation's novel is based on his original cult series...and is all the better for it, being far, far...- $15.99
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Vendor:D'Ettut
The Compleat OWL: The 'Forever' Zeitgeist 1950-2050
The 2 tomes, Infinity of Zeitgeist Doppelgangers and The Compleat OWL: The Forever Zeitgeist 1950-2050, have been created primarily for a reader-market who hasn't been born yet. Through the lens of satire they will read about the thoughts, beliefs and aspirations of those who...- $36.50
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Vendor:Thomas A. Williams
The Heart of Honor "Bonds Forged"
The Heart of Honor "Bonds Forged"The Realm of Quimdilar has seen evil run across its kingdoms. A band of Human kingdoms united together to stand against this overwhelming darkening of the realm. Many would find strength to face the evil but many would also...- $33.50
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Vendor:New York Times
The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic
A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's "The Decameron."When reality is...- $34.99
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Vendor:Kirsten McKenzie
The Forger and the Thief
FIVE STRANGERS IN FLORENCE, EACH WITH A DANGEROUS SECRET. AND AN APOCALYPTIC FLOOD THREATENING TO REVEAL EVERYTHING.A wife on the run, a student searching for stolen art, a cleaner who has lined more than his pockets, a policeman whose career is almost over, and...- $17.99
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Vendor:Richard Cox
House of the Rising Sun
Both a frightening apocalyptic story set in the southern United States and a character-focused, deeply moving literary thriller. What would happen if technology all over the world suddenly stopped working? When a strange new star appears in the sky, human life instantly grinds to...- $15.99
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Vendor:D. Greg Scott
Virus Bomb
An educational cyber thriller that explores what would happen if a nation-state launches a serious cyber-attack against the United States.Author: D. Greg ScottISBN-10: 1642791644ISBN-13: 9781642791648Publisher: Morgan James FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/14/2019Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d- $17.95
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Vendor:Jl Robb
The End: The Book: Part Seven: : The Ninth of AV
The End: The Book: Part Seven: The Ninth of AVThe Ninth of AV is the seventh and final book in the THE END THE BOOK SERIES. As Earth's population dwindles from 8 billion to 3 billion, thanks to war, plague, famine, drought, asteroid strikes,...- $28.95
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Vendor:Dolly Dennis
The Complex Arms
Life at the Complex Arms is just one disaster after another.Adeen is the resident manager of the Complex Arms, an apartment building in the Mill Woods neighbourhood of Edmonton. With no help from her deadbeat husband, Frosty, who sees himself as the next big...- $17.99
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Disaster Fiction Books
"Disaster Fiction Books" is a captivating collection of literature that focuses on stories revolving around various disastrous events and their consequences. From natural disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes, and tsunamis, to man-made catastrophes such as epidemics, technological meltdowns, and apocalyptic scenarios, this collection presents a diverse range of gripping narratives that explore the human experience in the face of adversity. The collection showcases a wide array of disaster fiction genres, including post-apocalyptic tales, dystopian narratives, survival stories, and speculative fiction. Readers can expect thrilling plots, intense suspense, and thought-provoking themes that delve into the resilience of humanity and the fragility of our world.
Fiction Disaster books offer an immersive reading experience, transporting readers into worlds where the unimaginable becomes a reality. Through vivid descriptions, vivid characters, and intricate world-building, the authors skillfully recreate the chaos, fear, and desperation that accompany catastrophic events. While disaster may be the central theme, these books often explore deeper issues, such as the consequences of human actions, the value of compassion and cooperation, the dangers of overreliance on technology, and the pursuit of hope and redemption in the face of despair. They provide a platform for readers to reflect on our own society, the choices we make, and the potential consequences we face as a species.
Readers of all ages and interests can find something to enjoy in this collection. Whether you are a fan of the post-apocalyptic genre, a lover of dystopian fiction, or simply looking for an exhilarating read that will keep you on the edge of your seat, "Disaster Fiction Books" guarantees an unparalleled reading experience. So, if you are ready to immerse yourself in worlds teetering on the edge of collapse, to witness the strength and resilience of humanity in the face of catastrophe, and to examine the potential consequences of our actions, then dive into the captivating collection of "Disaster Fiction Books" and let your imagination run wild.
Popular Disaster Fiction Books
Disaster fiction books have long been a popular genre among readers. Filled with thrilling and often heart-pounding narratives, these books transport us to a world where catastrophic events unfold, testing the resilience of humanity. Among the collection of disaster fiction books, there are several standout titles that have earned widespread acclaim and captured the imaginations of readers across the globe. These books not only provide gripping stories, but they also explore the depths of human emotions and our capacity to overcome adversity.
One popular book in this genre is "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. This post-apocalyptic novel follows a father and son as they navigate the desolate landscape of a devastated world. McCarthy's haunting prose vividly depicts the struggles and dangers faced by the protagonists, highlighting their unwavering determination to survive in a world stripped of hope.
Another notable title in the disaster fiction genre is "Station Eleven" by Emily St. John Mandel. Set in a future ravaged by a global pandemic, the story weaves together the lives of various characters, before and after the catastrophic event. Mandel explores the enduring power of art, culture, and human connection in the face of unimaginable challenges, portraying both the resilience and fragility of humanity.
These are just a few examples of the popular books found in the disaster fiction genre. They capture the essence of what makes this genre so gripping and captivating, ultimately taking readers on a thrilling journey through the darkest corners of our imagination. Whether it's a post-apocalyptic scenario, a global pandemic, or a natural disaster, these books remind us of our own resilience and the strength of the human spirit in the face of catastrophe.
The 'Disaster Fiction Books' collection captures the attention of readers who are drawn to thrilling stories set in apocalyptic worlds, where calamity strikes and mankind faces the test of its greatest fears. From epic natural disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes, and tsunamis to man-made catastrophes such as nuclear war and technological meltdowns, these books offer a captivating exploration of humanity's fight for survival. With a diverse range of authors and sub-genres, the White Rain Book House's 'Disaster Fiction Books' collection provides an unparalleled selection to suit every reader's tastes. From bestselling authors to emerging voices, the collection features gripping narratives that explore the darkest corners of the human experience.