Tag: Post-Apocalytic

  • Book of the Day: Severance

    Severance: A NovelSeverance: A Novel by Ling Ma

    Over 2,800 5-Star Reviews!

    Maybe it’s the end of the world, but not for Candace Chen, a millennial, first-generation American and office drone meandering her way into adulthood in Ling Ma’s offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic satire, Severance.

    Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she’s had her fill of uncertainty. She’s content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend.

    So Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies cease operations. The subways screech to a halt. Her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end-date payoff. Soon entirely alone, still unfevered, she photographs the eerie, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost.

    Candace won’t be able to make it on her own forever, though. Enter a group of survivors, led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. They’re traveling to a place called the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers?

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  • Book of the Day: The Stand

    Book of the Day: The Stand

    The StandThe Stand by Stephen King

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    Over 18,000 5-Star Reviews!

    This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.

    And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides — or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abigail — and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man.

    In 1978 Stephen King published The Stand, the novel that is now considered to be one of his finest works. But as it was first published, The Stand was incomplete, since more than 150,000 words had been cut from the original manuscript.

    Now Stephen King’s apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil has been restored to its entirety. The Stand : The Complete And Uncut Edition includes more than five hundred pages of material previously deleted, along with new material that King added as he reworked the manuscript for a new generation. It gives us new characters and endows familiar ones with new depths. It has a new beginning and a new ending. What emerges is a gripping work with the scope and moral comlexity of a true epic.

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  • Book of the Day: A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

    Book of the Day: A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

    A Boy and His Dog at the End of the WorldA Boy and His Dog at the End of the World
    by C. A. Fletcher

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    Over 150 5-Star Reviews!

    A "suspenseful, atmospheric tale…punctured by a gut-punch twist" (Entertainment Weekly), A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World is a story of survival, courage and hope amid the ruins of our world.

    My name’s Griz. I’ve never been to school, I’ve never had friends, and in my whole life I’ve not met enough people to play a game of football. My parents told me how crowded the world used to be, before all the people went away. But we were never lonely on our remote island. We had each other, and our dogs.

    Then the thief came.

    "This unputdownable story has everything–a well-imagined post-apocalyptic world, great characters, incredible suspense, and, of course, the fierce love of some very good dogs."–Kirkus (starred review)

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    Saturday’s Free & Bargain Kindle Book Deals

    Thriller, Nonfiction, Contemporary Fiction, Mystery, War, Paranormal, Post-Apocalytic… today’s featured books have a little something for everyone!

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    Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam Trilogy, Book 1) Over 800 5-Star Reviews!

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale.

    Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved.

    In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake–through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.

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    Eat Dirt: Why Leaky Gut May Be the Root Cause of Your Health Problems and 5 Surprising Steps to Cure It Over 500 5-Star Reviews!

    Do you have a leaky gut? For 80% of the population the answer is “yes”—and most people don’t even realize it. Leaky gut syndrome is the root cause of a litany of ailments, including: chronic inflammation, allergies, autoimmune diseases, hypothyroidism, adrenal fatigue, diabetes, and even arthritis.

    To keep us in good health, our gut relies on maintaining a symbiotic relationship with trillions of microorganisms that live in our digestive tract. When our digestive system is out of whack, serious health problems can manifest and our intestinal walls can develop microscopic holes, allowing undigested food particles, bacteria, and toxins to seep into the bloodstream. This condition is known as leaky gut syndrome.

    In Eat Dirt, Dr. Josh Axe explains that it’s essential to get a little “dirty” in our daily lives in order to support our gut bacteria and prevent leaky gut syndrome. With a simple diet plan, recipes, and practical advice, Eat Dirt will help readers restore gut health and eliminate leaky gut for good.

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    The Paris Key An American in Paris navigates her family’s secret past and unlocks her own future, in this emotionally evocative novel by New York Times bestselling author Juliet Blackwell.

    As a girl, Genevieve Martin spent the happiest summer of her life in Paris, learning the delicate art of locksmithing at her uncle’s side. But since then, living back in the States, she has become more private, more subdued. She has been an observer of life rather than an active participant, holding herself back from those around her, including her soon-to-be-ex-husband.

    Paris never really left Genevieve, and, as her marriage crumbles, she finds herself faced with an incredible opportunity: return to the magical city of her youth to take over her late uncle’s shop. But as she absorbs all that Parisian culture has to offer, she realizes the city also holds secrets about her family that could change her forever, and that locked doors can protect you or imprison you, depending on which side of them you stand.

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    Roseanna: A Martin Beck Police Mystery (1) The masterful first novel in the Martin Beck series of mysteries by the internationally renowned crime writing duo Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö ("the best writers of police procedurals in the world"), finds Beck hunting for the murderer of a lonely traveler.

    On a July afternoon, a young woman’s body is dredged from Sweden’s beautiful Lake Vattern. With no clues Beck begins an investigation not only to uncover a murderer but also to discover who the victim was. Three months later, all Beck knows is that her name was Roseanna and that she could have been strangled by any one of eighty-five people on a cruise.

    As the melancholic Beck narrows the list of suspects, he is drawn increasingly to the enigma of the victim, a free-spirited traveler with a penchant for casual sex, and to the psychopathology of a murderer with a distinctive–indeed, terrifying–sense of propriety.

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    Six: End Game: Based on the History Channel Series SIX (History Channel Series: SIX) In this thrilling follow-up to SIX: Blood Brothers, the elite unit known as SEAL Team Six arrives at an abandoned village in Nigeria mere minutes too late to rescue former team leader Senior Chief Richard “Rip” Taggart. What they find instead are a group of battle-hardened Chechen fighters and a lot of dead Boko Haram. After a deadly firefight, they’re left only with the knowledge that they are running out of time to find out who now has Rip so they can bring him home.

    Meanwhile, Rip’s new captor, the enigmatic terrorist lieutenant Michael Nasry, is intent on using the former SEAL for his own ends. And he’ll do whatever it takes to get Rip to cooperate. But this new terrorist threat isn’t the only thing that the warriors of SEAL Team Six have to contend with; each man has his own personal demons, and sometimes the difference between right and wrong isn’t as clear as they might like.

    Inspired by the true stories and events involving SEAL Team Six, SIX: End Game is a front-row seat to the frontline as the team races against time to fulfill one of their most sacred rules: never leave a brother behind.

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    One Crazy Summer (Ala Notable Children's Books. Middle Readers Book 1) Eleven-year-old Delphine has it together. Even though her mother, Cecile, abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, seven years ago. Even though her father and Big Ma will send them from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to stay with Cecile for the summer. And even though Delphine will have to take care of her sisters, as usual, and learn the truth about the missing pieces of the past.

    When the girls arrive in Oakland in the summer of 1968, Cecile wants nothing to do with them. She makes them eat Chinese takeout dinners, forbids them to enter her kitchen, and never explains the strange visitors with Afros and black berets who knock on her door. Rather than spend time with them, Cecile sends Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern to a summer camp sponsored by a revolutionary group, the Black Panthers, where the girls get a radical new education.

    Set during one of the most tumultuous years in recent American history, One Crazy Summer is the heartbreaking, funny tale of three girls in search of the mother who abandoned them—an unforgettable story told by a distinguished author of books for children and teens, Rita Williams-Garcia.

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    My Sister's Secret: An addictive, gripping and emotional read Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    What if everything you’d built your life on was a lie?

    Willow’s memories are happy: full of smiles, love and laughter. But a mysterious invitation to a photographic exhibition exposes a secret that’s been buried since a tragic accident years ago.

    Willow is forced to question everything she knew about Charity, her late mother, and Hope, the aunt she’s lived with since she was a child.

    How was the enigmatic photographer connected to Willow’s parents? And what is the secret Hope has been keeping from her sister for so long?

    Willow can’t move forward in her life without answers, but no one wants to give them.

    Is there anyone she can trust?

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    Blood Reaction A Vampire Novel Annalice, a single mother and physician, is ready to immerse herself in the mundane chores of her farm as a diversion from her hectic professional life. But she becomes the victim of a home invasion, the supernatural kind… Vindictive and cruel, Asa, a century old vampire, takes brutal control of her life and home.

    Forcing her to strike a bargain in exchange for her daughter’s life, Annalice must not only accept his presence but also bow to his depravity. Facing threats to her only child, she relies on her skills as a physician to unravel the clues to the vampire’s existence, attempting to beat him at his own game.

    Caught in a race against a genetic timeline, Annalice struggles to survive the Blood Reaction.

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    Hypoxia: A Thriller Planes have been disappearing, and no one knows why. The public is starting to tire of the official excuses—engine failure, pilot error. Clearly something bigger is at work here.

    When mountain climber Sky Burke sets out to climb Everest without the use of supplemental oxygen, she has no idea that the expedition is preparing her for an entirely different battle.

    Meanwhile, a shadow organization operates within the NSA, and the man behind it will stop at nothing to annihilate everything in his way.

    Too bad Sky Burke is in his way…and she’s also used to getting everything she wants.

    What happens when you’re in the wrong place at the wrong time, but everything you do is right?

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    Lucky Double: A Two-Book Lucky Bundle
    📚 2-Books-in-1 📚

    “Evanovich…with a dash of CSI.” – Publishers Weekly

    Everyone has a hidden talent. For Lucky O’Toole it’s murder…solving it.

    Surviving in Sin City takes cunning, a pair of five-inch heel, and a wiseass attitude. Lucky has mastered them all and has a pair of legs she uses to kick butt and turn heads.

    As the Chief Problem Solver for the Babylon, Las Vegas’s most over-the-top destination, mischief is in her job description.

    She’s good at her job.

    She’s less good at life. But who has time for a life when there’s a killer on the lose?

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 All the Little Children

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 All the Little Children

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 03/12/2018 @ 11:59PM PT.

    All the Little ChildrenAll the Little Children by Jo Furniss

    Over 900 5-Star Reviews!

    When a family camping trip takes a dark turn, how far will one mother go to keep her family safe?

    Struggling with working-mother guilt, Marlene Greene hopes a camping trip in the forest will provide quality time with her three young children – until they see fires in the distance, columns of smoke distorting the sweeping view. Overnight, all communication with the outside world is lost.

    Knowing something terrible has happened, Marlene suspects that the isolation of the remote campsite is all that’s protecting her family. But the arrival of a lost boy reveals they are not alone in the woods, and as the unfolding disaster ravages the land, more youngsters seek refuge under her wing. The lives of her own children aren’t the only ones at stake.

    When their sanctuary is threatened, Marlene faces the mother of all dilemmas: Should she save her own kids or try to save them all?

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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Yesterday’s Gone

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 Yesterday’s Gone

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 11/18/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    Yesterday's Gone: Season 1 - Episode 1Yesterday’s Gone: Season 1 – Episode 1
    by Sean Platt, David Wright

    Can humanity survive what it never saw coming?

    On October 15 at 2:15 a.m. Earth vanished. A scattered few woke alone in a world with no rules, other than survival at any cost.

    A journalist wanders the wretched reality of an empty New York, searching for his wife and son. A serial killer must hunt in a land where prey is now an endangered species. A mother shields her young daughter from danger through every terror-filled breath.

    A bullied teen is thrilled to find the world gone missing, until the knock on his door. A fugitive survives a fiery plane crash. Will he be redeemed, or return to the killing he’s best at? An eight-year-old boy sets out on a journey to find his missing family, only to find something that will change him forever. These survivors aren’t truly alone…

    Someone or something is watching them. And waiting…

    Strangers unite. Sides are chosen. Can humanity survive what it never saw coming?

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  • Book of the Day: Darkness Begins

    Book of the Day: Darkness Begins

    Darkness Begins: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller (After the EMP Book 1)Darkness Begins: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller (After the EMP Book 1) by Harley Tate

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    If the power grid fails, how far will you go to survive?


    Madison spends her days tending plants as an agriculture student at the University of California, Davis. She plans to graduate and put those skills to work only a few hours from home in the Central Valley. The sun has always been her friend, until now.


    When catastrophe strikes, how prepared will you be?

    
Tracy starts her morning like any other, kissing her husband Walter goodbye before heading off to work at the local public library. She never expects it to end fleeing for her life in a Suburban full of food and water. Tackling life’s daily struggles is one thing, preparing to survive when it all crashes down is another.


    The end of the world brings out the best and worst in all of us.

    
With no communication and no word from the government, the Sloanes find themselves grappling with the end of the modern world all on their own. Will Madison and her friends have what it takes to make it back to Sacramento and her family? Can Tracy fend off looters and thieves and help her friends and neighbors survive?


    The EMP is only the beginning.
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  • AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 A Canticle for Leibowitz

    AUDIBLE Deal of the Day 🎧 A Canticle for Leibowitz

    A new deal every day from Audible. Today’s deal ends 05/23/2017 @ 11:59PM PT.

    A Canticle for LeibowitzA Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller

    Over 400 5-Star Reviews!

    Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, A Canticle for Leibowitz is a chilling and still-provocative look at a postapocalyptic future.

    In a nightmarish, ruined world, slowly awakening to the light after sleeping in darkness, the infantile rediscoveries of science are secretly nourished by cloistered monks dedicated to the study and preservation of the relics and writings of the blessed Saint Isaac Leibowitz. From there, the story spans centuries of ignorance, violence, and barbarism, viewing through a sharp, satirical eye the relentless progression of a human race damned by its inherent humanness to recelebrate its grand foibles and repeat its grievous mistakes.

    Seriously funny, stunning, tragic, eternally fresh, imaginative, and altogether remarkable, A Canticle for Leibowitz retains its ability to enthrall and amaze. It is now, as it always has been, a masterpiece.

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