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Army veteran Lee Riker is staying in an Atlanta shelter and supporting himself with the odd carpentry job when his sister, Tara, summons him home to Indiana for the reading of their mother’s will. Riker boards a Greyhound bus in Atlanta with his duffel bag, less than $200 to his name, and a secret he must protect at all costs. Riker makes it to Middletown only to learn his sister has recently witnessed a gruesome death. Insisting she saw the victim rise from a pool of his own blood to attack the Samaritan rendering aid, Tara floats the idea that the man may have been a zombie.

Mana is changing the world faster than people can adapt. It's happened before. Mutations are accelerating. The countdown to collapse won’t stop. This time, Len and Rick aren’t just surviving it—they’re building something that can. But they can’t do it alone. From shattered coasts to rising strongholds, they’re hunting the people who mattered—the future legends, tacticians, and builders who once helped humanity endure. They remember who lived. They remember who died. And this time... they plan to save them before the end begins. You can’t stop the apocalypse alone.

With a credible threat to the US and a plane stuck on the tarmac, Grant Walton is 30 seconds from full-blown panic mode. He's the only one in the airport who knows the truth. When the power goes out, he can't waste another second. It's the beginning of the end and every man for himself. Leah Walton is wrapping up a 12-hour shift as a nurse in the heart of the city. When the power goes out, the hospital operates on crisis mode. She can't stop to breathe, let alone check her messages. When she finally listens to her husband's frantic calls, she's faced with an impossible choice: leave or die trying.

After a nuclear bomb levels Washington, DC, a teen embarks on a treacherous 200-mile trek through a harrowing wasteland populated by desperate survivors to get his disabled sister to safety. First of the acclaimed six books in the Ashes, Ashes series, these adventures follow Liam Harper and his friends on a struggle for survival that tests their physical endurance, the bonds of friendship and their humanity.

When a massive solar storm takes down the power grid, all order collapses with civilization kept alive only by scattered pockets of survivors who find themselves not only short of critical resources, but facing an unexpected enemy -- what's left of their own government.

In the second volume of Roberta Dawn McMorrow’s THE ROAD TO THE REMEMBERING series, Leo, Conan and Inanna find themselves in an isolated paradise canyon with a crazy shaman who is determined to further their spiritual education. Meanwhile, a group of children and teens who have survived the Three Days of Darkness follow their own path of awakening in coastal California that seems strangely to mirror that of The Three.

You should have killed me when you had the chance. Now, I will be your downfall. For the sake of the people you lied to, I will restore the promises you left for dead. Legacy Westbay, age 17, is about to be executed for treason. Her only crime - giving aid to those persecuted by their power-hungry dictator. She has one last chance to prove her loyalty to Kedna by becoming a soldier for the government that took everything from her. But when her second chance at life sparks a fire in the heart of the nation, could the changing of the tides be just coincidence, or is it fate?

Luke Umble believed he was a man of God. One fateful decision could test all of his beliefs. With the support of his wife Annie, they uproot their family in an attempt to save the ones they love. Luke is challenged on all sides by his cantankerous father, his oldest son’s rebellion and even his youngest daughter’s Muscular Dystrophy.

Are we falling into a world of groupthink? Are we discouraged from creativity or individual thoughts? Is the world so polarized that we can no longer compromise? Do we risk losing our ability to communicate as individuals to make good decisions? What is the difference between groupthink versus Alzheimer’s? One is a specific natural disease where the other is self-inflicted. They are similar in that they both slowly destroy our memory and thinking skills.

The Republic of North America has fallen into chaos, and now the entire world is watching. One side will come out the victor, and the other will be destroyed. With everything to gain and so much more to lose, the Revolutionary of the People must take control of her revolution against the forces of an unstable president and answer the world's question: Who will rule the nation?

Umzingelt in ihrem temporären ,Fort Boxʻ, bereiten sich die verbliebenen Verteidiger von Wilmington, North Carolina, auf ihre letzte Prüfung vor. Der zahlen- und waffenmäßig unterlegenen Schiffsmannschaft des Tankers Pecos Trader steht ein ähnliches Schicksal bevor. Überall in der Nation erlischt die Flamme der Demokratie, dank einer korrupten Regierung, die habgierig alle Macht an sich zieht.