Human Survival

Two years after the Pulse shut down the nation’s power grid, Darrick, his wife Tonya, and their autistic son Andy, show up on the doorstep of Darrick’s childhood home. Darrick must make peace with his older brother Jimmie and ailing father James, all the while reacquainting himself with the life of a homesteader. Meanwhile, a looming omen hovers over everything he holds dear. A huge murder of crows circles a large, well-equipped, and organized group of aggressive survivors that are about to discover the homestead....

🔥Two novels. One haunting journey through collapse, survival and the fragile thread of humanity. From New York Times, USA TODAY, Amazon top-15, #1 Amazon Thriller and Dark Fantasy Bestseller Tamara Rose Blodgett / Marata Eros ✨ For fans of The Last of Us, The Road, and Station Eleven 📦 Includes the first two books in the Through Darkness Chronicles — plus an exclusive sneak peek at Book 3: Through a Dark Mirror. ⚔️ What happens when survival is no longer enough? A devastating EMP collapses the grid. Water dries up. Society disintegrates. And three separate groups—SEALs, ...

Embark on an Unforgettable Journey with the Wessek Family in This Riveting Box Set! In the depths of a nuclear apocalypse, Kimberly and her loyal companion, Kaya, forge an unbreakable bond. They've spent their lives sheltered in an underground military base, sheltered from the horrors that lurk on the surface. But when curiosity tugs at their hearts, they brave the unknown world above, where danger and malevolence await at every turn. It's here, in the harsh light of day, that the strength of their connection is tested like never before, as survival becomes a relentless battle. As the ...

A collection of four critically acclaimed, gripping short novels that delve into the depths of survival, obsession, and the dark side of human nature.Box of Bones Jim, an American expat teaching English in the Philippines, wakes up after a night out to find himself trapped inside a pitch-black coffin—running out of oxygen and out of time. With only his cell phone and his wits, he must fight panic and exhaustion in a desperate race against death.Six Bullets Thirteen months after a massive asteroid wiped out civilization, survivalist Burt James is still alive—bunkered in his fortified ...

You’re not on top of the food chain. Not out here. Mauled delivers 15 gut-wrenching accounts of humans hunted, cornered, and torn apart by nature’s most savage predators. Bears. Lions. Wolves. Hyenas. These aren’t stories with happy endings—they’re warnings. If you think you're prepared, think again. When it happens, it happens fast.

USA TODAY and #1 AMAZON bestselling author Jeremy Bates presents the complete collection of the award-winning Midnight Book Club short novels. With fast-paced plots and stunning twists, these stories offer close to 1,000 pages of heart-racing suspense, action, and terror from one of today's most exciting voices in horror. Black Canyon Twelve-year-old Brian Garrett embarks on a weekend camping trip in Colorado’s Black Canyon of the Gunnison, hoping to reconnect with his distant parents. But when his father suffers a brutal accident deep in the chasm, survival takes a sinister turn. Over ...

When our protagonist, Andrei, discovers that his girlfriend has cheated on him, he finds himself with an unexpected choice to make: a quick death or a new life in another world he knows absolutely nothing about. Andrei chooses life and sets off alongside his pet, a ginger cat with a limp, for a primeval world fraught with danger. The trouble is...who is whose pet becomes entirely unclear; the man's consciousness is split between both creatures, and the little cat gets a far greater share of intelligence and wit than his hulking master.

Physiological constraints confine our bodies to less than one-fifth of the earth's surface. Beyond that fraction lie the extremes. What happens when we go to them? Dr. Kenneth Kamler has spent years observing exactly what happens. A vice president of the legendary Explorers Club, he has climbed, dived, sledded, floated, and trekked through some of the most treacherous and remote regions in the world. A consultant for NASA, Yale University, and the National Geographic Society, he has explored undersea caves, crossed the frozen Antarctic wastelands, and more.

This book is not a 10-step plan to survive the zombie apocalypse, or a survival guide for natural disasters. It is a discussion on human psychology and physiology, and the threats posed by starvation psychosis during a prolonged, total collapse scenario.

For all the softness verse instills, there’s an uncontained fire beneath, which burns until the skin wears thin and the flames burst forth. There’s a time for nuance and a time for hammering, not to put a too-fine ecclesiastical point on it — and this is the time to assure the word becomes the sword — the word provokes reaction. A mighty battle is being fought by the cultural warriors in the land — a war to be recognized as equal and unique. Normal is an ubiquitous label not fit for the American collective conscious. It runs counter to the soul of the nation. So, sometimes soft ...

Political instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labor all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those borders harden, the demand for smugglers who aid migrants across them increases every year. Yet the real lives and work of smugglers—or coyotes, or guides, as they are often known by the migrants who hire their services—are only ever reported on from a distance, using tired tropes and stereotypes, often depicted as boogie men and violent warlords.

This book comprises the second place winner in the 2021 Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies essay contest. The winning prize was $300,000. In this book the concept of the continuity of consciousness is described, based mainly on recent scientific research on near-death experiences (NDE), but also on other experiences of enhanced consciousness. Since the publication of several prospective studies on NDE in survivors of cardiac arrest, with strikingly similar results and conclusions, the phenomenon of the NDE can no longer be scientifically ignored.

Unlock the Hidden Language of non-verbal Human Interaction! In 'The Art Of Reading People,' Spiritwalker unveils a captivating fusion of spiritual intuition, life skills and military intelligence training, inviting you on a transformative journey through the intricate world of non-verbal communication. Drawing from decades of awakened living, highly refined intuition, life skills and extensive military counterintelligence expertise, Spiritwalker presents a groundbreaking guide that transcends traditional understanding. Explore the depths of intuition, psychic insight, and practical ...

On the Alaska Peninsula, where exceptional landscapes are commonplace, a small river attracts attention far beyond its scale. Each year, from summer to early fall, brown bears and salmon gather at Brooks River to create one of North America's greatest wildlife spectacles. As the salmon leap from the cascade, dozens of bears are there to catch them, and thousands of people come to watch in person or on the National Park Service's popular Brooks Falls Bearcam. The Bears of Brooks Falls tells the story of this region and the bears that made it famous.

The dragon can’t remember destroying my world, but he’s sure I’m his mate? No ‘effin way… Fallon The black dragon hunted me down and took me to his nest where I remain trapped… and confused. This alien invader who destroyed most of my world and helped the Asseptians enslave my people is not what he seems. He shifts to a man, one who claims to know nothing about what he and the other invaders have done. He claims I’m his mate, that my blood cleansed his blood of the drug the Asseptians used to control him. And he’s angry… but not at me. For me, for what he’s been forced ...

With science now recognizing animal consciousness, intelligence, emotion and even morality, there must come an awareness of our own moral responsibilities towards other beings. But there's another reason to consider animals' well-being—because it is intertwined with our own.

This post-apocalyptic / science fiction romance series contains the three main novels in the Earth's Only Hope series. Filled with interstellar adventure, forbidden romance, and high-stakes survival, the Earth's Only Hope series will keep you on the edge of your seat. Can a band of prisioners become the saviors of humanity? And will love flourish in the face of extinction? Dive into this post-apocalyptic space opera today and discover why Earth's only hope may lie in the most unexpected hands. The Earth is freezing... ...and its salvation is left to a group of criminals, like me. From ...

For more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of staking out the globe. Our leaders have shown themselves willing, as in the Cuban missile crisis, to follow the dream of dominance no matter how high the risks. Now the Bush administration is intensifying this process, driving us toward the final frontiers of imperial control, toward a choice between the prerogatives of power and a livable Earth.

From prior to spoken language, humans required an ethics system to interact with each other.. With spoken language, parts of ethics was reflected as morality among tribes, clans or groups. With advent of writing, some knowledge of ethics and morality could be communicated but much had been lost. Written words fare poorly at representing such as facial expressions, rolling of eyes , gestures or body movement nor could information from below the threshold of awareness be replicated. Many codes of morality are in disagreement from culture to culture and magnified when the cultures do not speak...

Brace for Impact: Stories of Hope and Horror Fifteen plane crashes. Fifteen stories of survival. From the frozen wastelands of Siberia to the depths of the Amazon rainforest, Brace for Impact captures the raw terror, resilience, and impossible decisions faced by those who lived through aviation disasters. Some found hope in the wreckage—others faced the brutal realities of isolation, injury, and the unforgiving elements. Told with gripping intensity, these true-to-life narratives echo the haunting suspense of your favorite Survival Stories, placing you inside the doomed cabins, the ...