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3) The Deluge
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Planet Mapinkura. Filled with beauty and secrets and danger.
The secrets the place gave up in The Tunnel come to haunt Kelly's team. The easy posting turned bad.
Now, with a massive storm bearing down on them, the team must figure out some way to protect their research.
Just that something worse than weather sits in orbit. Waiting for an opportunity.
4) Deluge II
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The ancient stresses were ready to tear the earth apart, and only Anton Burke was ready. He planned to choose his passenger-list with care. But when the time came, his space-ship Ark was empty-save for the strangest friends a man could have on a journey to the stars.
Robert F. Young was a Hugo nominated author known for his lyrical and sentimental prose. His work appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantastic Stories, Startling Stories, Playboy, The Saturday...
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Caught in a storm in the Australian Outback, the heat and dust turning to cool mud in the aftermath of an ex tropical cyclone, Helen and Kelly fight for justice and the truth.
Helen Hamilton writes horror fiction. In her mid-thirties, Helen's focus on her career is starting to pay off with her novels becoming popular but she's on a tight deadline and distracted by the need to pack up her childhood home after the death of her father fifteen months...
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A crew of castaways races to uncover what's heating up an icy planet, in this science fiction adventure by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
Seemingly marooned on the freezing cold planet of Tran-ky-ky, Ethan Frome Fortune doesn't know if he'll enjoy the warmth of his old home ever again. That is, until a group of scientists at the Brass Monkey outpost detect something unusual in the atmosphere.
Aboard the massive icerigger Slanderscree...
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In Garrett P. Serviss' 1911 novel "The Second Deluge," due to a cosmic mischance, no fewer than 30,000 feet of rain fall upon our fair planet in under one year...enough to effectively drown the entire world, past the tippy top of Mt. Everest itself! A wonderfully written novel that is fairly epic in scope, it is a sadly neglected apocalyptic work that is surely ripe for rediscovery in our modern-day era of climate change and rising coastal waters....
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An unusual End Times novel with a twist.
Six friends from high school, now married with children, find their monthly get-togethers forever changed when Miriam announces her husband has been called by God to give up his business and move to the country in order to build a refuge against the coming judgment. As the remaining friends face all sorts of tragedies, they have to decide how to deal with Mariam's letters telling them they need to repent of...
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HarperCollins e-books
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2021
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In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. But it was only the first stage of a shocking triple tragedy. On the heels of one of the three strongest hurricanes ever to make landfall in the United States came the storm-surge flooding, which submerged a half-million homes—followed by the human tragedy of government mismanagement, which proved
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A great cataclysm shakes the world, and much of Great Britain sinks beneath the ocean during a terrifying windstorm that has already flattened most of mankind's dwellings. Martin Webster and his wife, Helen, manage to survive that first horrible night, but become separated as waves of salt water come surging into the English countryside. Webster, believing his wife drowned, moves into an old railway tunnel, which provides some shelter from the elements,...
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Poised atop the high Himalayas is a frightening daisy chain of fragile glacial lakes, all produced by glacial melting as a result of climate change. When the lakes burst, the torrents of water sweep entire populations in their wake. In A Deluge of Consequences, intrepid journalist Jacques Leslie takes us along on a mythic, spell-binding trip to the bucolic kingdom of Bhutan, where the planet's next environmental disaster is set to unfold. Bhutan's...
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A corpse is found lashed to a submerged cabin under the Missouri River just south of a Sioux Indian reservation… A corpse tied there perhaps seventy years ago… A corpse shot and tied there just before the river was flooded over a resort island first discovered by the Lewis and Clark Expedition…FBI Agent Manny Tanno is assigned to assist local law enforcement in the decades-old homicide. Suspects abound, including the owner of a trucking company...
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"We are in the midst of a communications revolution. We have access to more information than at any time in history. But are we more informed or just overwhelmed by so much information we can't process? In [this book], legendary television journalist Bob Schieffer examines today's journalism and those who practice it -- ow they see their profession, how it has been changed by new technology, and how well they believe they are carrying out their responsibility...
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"The World Before the Deluge" by Louis Figuier. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce...
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A vivid saga of courage, sacrifice and survival, Bold Forecast brings home the power of Nature-and the power of ordinary people in the face of epic catastrophe.
When 1972's Hurricane Agnes roared up America's east coast, it brought the most rain and wreaked the worst damage in U.S. history up to that time. The scope of the Agnes floods remains the widest ever, bringing death and destruction across twelve states.
• In upstate New York, the mayor...
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The year is 1977. Over 7 days in October, this true-story, first person narrative takes place on the central coast of BC. During a record month of storms, the action picks up when the 2 spirited BC boys blitz across hundreds of kms of dangerous back roads to get to the closest cold beer store. Cool withdraws from SFU, broke and cynical, to replenish his funds by returning to logging, finding work on Northern Vancouver Island. After travelling all...
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Two loggers arrive in the DRY CAMP just days before a record West Coast monsoon forces a shutdown and evacuation. Stranded, broke, cold, and hungry they reach their breaking point only after the local outlets refuse to sell them a few cold ones. Alleviating the situation demands epic acts of heroism, but their ingenuity and a 20-year old Vauxhall are not enough, and fickle Lady Luck lands the boys deep into ice-cold water when they set out to slake...
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In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. But it was only the first stage of a shocking triple tragedy. On the heels of one of the three strongest hurricanes ever to make landfall in the United States came the storm-surge flooding, which submerged a half-million homes-followed by the human tragedy of government mismanagement, which proved as cruel...
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Published in 1902, this collection of essays, revised for this volume, stemmed from the observation that the quantity of books published was rising in inverse proportion to their quality. "Writing done at this rate of speed," the author opines, "is not literature and cannot be."
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Stranded on a frozen and remote planet, Ethan Frome Fortune searches for a way back to civilization Icy, desolate, and sharply carved by hurricane-force winds, Tran-ky-ky is a terrible place to crash-land. But a botched kidnapping aboard the interstellar transport Antares sends Ethan Frome Fortune and a handful of his fellow travelers tumbling toward the stormy planet. Stranded and cut off from civilization, the castaways struggle to survive. In this...
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