World Disasters

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The morning of August 24, AD 79, seemed like any other in the Roman city of Pompeii. So no one was prepared when the nearby volcano Mount Vesuvius suddenly erupted, spouting ash that buried the city and its inhabitants. The disaster left thousands dead, and Pompeii was no more than a memory for almost 1,700 years. In 1748, explorers rediscovered the port city with intact buildings and beautiful mosaics.

The thin thread holding the civilized world together has been severed. Millions of citizens have been thrust into the unknown, breeding fear into the minds and souls of those seeking to survive. Wren Burton, an architect from Chicago, has been engulfed by the chaotic aftermath of an EMP blast. Her family is injured. The enemy is unknown. And help is nowhere to be found.

Lenard Childs is a young man who has slowly seen the world fall apart. The storms that used to be mild have intensified with each passing year. But it wasn't until the earthquakes and tsunamis hit that people started to panic. Clearly, the world was changing, and not for the better. As natural disasters increased in frequency, Lenard knew that the apocalypse was imminent. A quarter of the world's population was wiped out, and those who remained struggled to survive in a rapidly deteriorating world. Despite all this, Lenard refused to give up hope. During times of crisis, he had seen the ...

The third book in a now complete series.Thirty-five years after the world ended, a lonely man picks his way across the ashes of America on a final mission. Reuben Bane spent decades believing he was a force for good, preserving humanity's gene pool by hunting and eliminating deviants. Now, he seeks redemption for his evil deeds, and revenge on the cultish Foundation. He must travel across a broken country to find a woman from the past who holds the key to the future. Over the Edge is the third book in a new series by Kevin Partner, veteran of the post apocalyptic science fiction genre. Set ...

From the creator of the Land of Elyon comes a riveting adventure set in an extraordinary satellite world—created as a refuge from a dying Earth—that begins to collapse and forever change the lives of its inhabitants.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “...Terrific thriller” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “An amazing enjoyable read, you won’t be disappointed” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Like the good old disaster movies of Irwin Allen... funny... action packed... highly recommend it” A LONELY PLACE TO DIE… Point Nemo - the most remote location on the planet… Deep below the waves it’s known as the satellite graveyard… …And something terrifying is stirring… A group of scientists have been gathered to investigate a mysterious find. A threat that may not be from this world. A threat that could destroy life as we know it… Now...

When an EMP decimates the world’s power grid, society falls faster than anyone could have imagined. For Connor Murray, the fall of the old world only means he’ll have to fight to survive into the new one. As violent militant extremists rapidly overwhelm the city, Connor is forced to fight his way out to safety, using the survival skills passed down to him from his father. But while Connor is fighting his way out, little does he know that his father and sister are fighting their way in to come and save him.

An Unstoppable Force Meets an Unyielding Will In a world teetering on the edge of chaos, where technology and ambition collide with deadly consequences, a new threat emerges from the shadows. A ruthless warlord has discovered a way to automate the production of a potent drug, setting the stage for a monopoly that could upend the global pharmaceutical industry. His plan could lead to mass murder on an unprecedented scale, and the clock is ticking. Enter Natalie, a determined CIA agent with a haunted past and a desperate need to salvage her career. Driven by revenge, she sets her sights on ...

Two boys venture from their village to hunt in a nearby forest, where they shoot down bats with glee and cook their prey over an open fire. Within a month, they are dead, bodies ravaged by an insidious disease that neither the local healer’s potions nor the medical team’s treatments could cure. Compounding the family’s grief, experts warn against touching the sick. But this caution comes too late: The virus spreads rapidly, and the boys’ father is barely able to send his eldest daughter away for a chance at survival.

In World War II, hundreds of thousands of American soldiers were killed across the world, whether in Japanese jungles, North African deserts, or European beaches. Given that backdrop and the sheer magnitude of the war, people understandably became desensitized to incidents and tragedies that cost hundreds of lives. This was undoubtedly the case with the notorious Port Chicago disaster, a munitions explosion in July 1944 that killed over 300 people and injured over 300 more, many of them navy sailors.

Amid the constant rain of German bombs and the escalating violence of World War II, British parents by the thousands chose to send their children out of the country: the wealthy, independently; the poor, through a government relocation program called CORB. In September 1940, passenger liner SS City of Benares set out in a convoy of 19 ships sailing for Canada. On board were 90 CORB children, chaperones, and crew, along with paying passengers. When the war ships escorting the Benares to safe waters peeled off, a German submarine attacked and torpedoed the Benares.

The year was 1922: World War I had just come to a close, the Ottoman Empire was in decline, and Asa Jennings, a YMCA worker from upstate New York, had just arrived in the quiet coastal city of Smyrna to teach sports to boys. Several hundred miles to the east in Turkey's interior, tensions between Greeks and Turks had boiled over into deadly violence. Mustapha Kemal, now known as Ataturk, and his Muslim army soon advanced into Smyrna, a Christian city, where a half a million terrified Greek and Armenian refugees had fled in a desperate attempt to escape his troops.

The second book in a now complete series.Thirty-five years after the world ended, a lonely man picks his way across the ashes of America on a final mission. Reuben Bane spent decades believing he was a force for good, preserving humanity's gene pool by hunting and eliminating deviants. Now, he seeks redemption for his evil deeds, and revenge on the cultish Foundation. He must travel across a broken country to find a woman from the past who holds the key to the future. Into the Dark is the second book in a new series by Kevin Partner, veteran of the post apocalyptic science fiction genre. ...

When the dead come to life, it’s up to an admiral’s daughter and a former war hero turned town crazy to save a small town. Being the daughter of an admiral, helicopter pilot Jetta Cross is anything but an ordinary young woman. She’s placed in charge of her father’s former Navy Seal comrade, John Hunter; a fallen war hero with a tendency to relive his past and forgo reality. When a government-generated superbug hits the island, the locals become infected and a zombie outbreak plagues their quiet town. Hunter is left alone and to his own devices at their beach house. Often believing ...

In the aftermath of Ahnak’s Doom, the Elementals have fled to the North. Have they escaped one peril only to encounter another even more terrifying? Fallout from the Doom threatens the survivors with starvation. Aftershocks set the simple dwellings of Tenfir Abarad quaking, sending townspeople screaming into the streets in renewed fear. And in the near-total darkness, the Elementals find their powers dwindling. Can the refugees resolve their differences with the northern people and work together to survive the Impact Winter? Is the planet still resonating from the gargantuan impact, or ...

A World on the Brink of Collapse The Earth as we know it is unraveling. Unrelenting heat waves scorch the land. Cities crumble beneath rising oceans. Storms of unfathomable fury reshape coastlines overnight. Humanity stands at the precipice of annihilation, trapped in the aftermath of its own reckless consumption. In the heart of this unraveling world, Lila—a brilliant scientist and unyielding survivor—refuses to accept the inevitability of extinction. One Woman’s Fight for the Future Driven by an unshakable vision of renewal, Lila embarks on a perilous quest to restore balance to a ...

End Times is a compelling work of skilled reportage that peels back the layers of complexity around the unthinkable - and inevitable - end of humankind. From asteroids and artificial intelligence to volcanic supereruption to nuclear war, veteran science reporter and TIME editor Bryan Walsh provides a stunning panoramic view of the most catastrophic threats to the human race.

ICE As we all know, the ice storms are coming more often now than they used to. What if .... they were to come and not go away. How would we survive with constant cold and constant ice? Extreme cold. Maybe this would be God’s way of destroying the world? What if? What if nothing could survive this last ice storm? Maybe it would be too cold for anything to live outdoors, no more deer to hunt, no squirrels, no outside dogs, or cats? No cows or pigs, chickens … you get the point? Imagine the worst of times, the worst in people, and if you can do that, you had best pray this story never ...

On January 12, 2010, a major earthquake struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Hundreds of thousands of people died, and the greater part of the capital was demolished. Dr. Paul Farmer, U.N. deputy special envoy to Haiti, who had worked in the country for nearly thirty years treating infectious diseases like tuberculosis and AIDS, and former President Bill Clinton, the U.N. special envoy to Haiti, had just begun to work on an extensive development plan to improve living conditions in Haiti.