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We find Grace taking refuge in a secure compound in the Southern Appalachians. After reuniting with her father, she expected that the remainder of her journey home would be uneventful. Her dad was with her now - things would be okay. She couldn't have been more wrong. Nothing in this new life is easy. Grace and her friend Tom, a physically-challenged veteran utilizing a specially-outfitted track chair, find themselves suddenly thrown back in the fight. Robert Hardwick and Tom's mother become separated from their children and find themselves under attack from a highly-skilled and heavily-armed force. Most alarming of all, an innocent comment from a child's lips puts the remainder of Grace's family directly in the crosshairs of a violent sociopath. If he is able to carry out his plans, Grace and her father will not have a home, or even a family, to return to.

God's Grace, Bernard Malamud's last novel, is a modern-day dystopian fantasy, set in a time after a thermonuclear war prompts a second flood - a radical departure from Malamud's previous fiction. The novel's protagonist is paleolosist Calvin Cohn, who had been attending to his work at the bottom of the ocean when the Devastation struck, and who alone survived. This rabbi's son finds himself shipwrecked with an experimental chimpanzee capable of speech, to whom he gives the name Buz.

After Austin Merryman’s wife died, he and his 14-year-old daughter left home to travel the country in an old RV. But the comfort and renewal they sought soon descends into chaos - even before the EMP hits. When a message from an old college buddy leads Austin to a bridge in the middle of nowhere, he finds his friend - now an NSA agent - waiting to give him a USB drive. Before the contents can be explained, machine gun fire strafes the bridge, killing Austin’s friend and forcing Austin into the raging river.

Megan Wolford has finally found herself a family she and her young daughter can rely on in these terrifying times. Their group is small, but they trust each other with their lives—and Wyatt is showing her day by day how to love again. With a long winter looming, they’ll have to hunker down in the lodge in order to survive, but there are deadlier threats to their safety than harsh conditions.

Living on Mt. Rainier, Gus and Zoe are faced with a tough decision: Stay and face starvation, or leave and face the dead that wait lower in elevation. The group will encounter new dangers and struggle to find themselves and each other again. The dead are more ruthless than ever, and the living, more desperate.

With the Outliers united and the Fortis eliminated, Indra thought she was nearing the end of her journey. Instead, Asa went into the city only to be captured, and the Sovereign decided to unleash the full power of their technology. Follow Asa and Indra as they fight to start a life together while facing impossible choices that will test their limits and show them what sacrifice, forgiveness, and love really mean.

In den vergangenen Monaten hat die McDonald-Familie ihre Lektionen auf die harte Tour gelernt. Shane und Jodi haben endlich erkannt, dass sie ihre wiedervereinigte Familie eng zusammenhalten und vor allem schützen müssen, um in dieser neuen postapokalyptischen Realität zu überleben. Die Reparaturen am Haus sind abgeschlossen, die Solarmodule installiert, und dank der nun funktionierenden Pumpe müssen sie in absehbarer Zeit kein Regenwasser mehr sammeln.

In a not-so-distant future, the United States has fallen into chaos—its government overtaken by globalist elites, its people stripped of freedom, and its Constitution reduced to memory. The World Union of Globalization enforces a tyrannical Digital ID system that controls every aspect of life. But deep in the heart of Texas, one voice refuses to be silenced.

Die Welt ist für Shane McDonald und seine Familie zu einem gefährlichen Ort geworden, seit der Sonnensturm das Stromnetz ausgelöscht hat. Die Spannungen nehmen zu, als klar wird, dass die Situation noch länger andauern wird und die meisten schlecht vorbereitet sind. Sogar die freundliche Kleinstadt seiner Schwiegermutter, einer Prepperin, erregt unerwünschte Aufmerksamkeit, als sich herumspricht, dass sie ihre Vorräte mit anderen teilt.

Zoe's been on her own since she was a teenager, when tragedy took her family. Living in a remote small town, she withdrew from society. Her longtime friend, Adam Boggs, left her even more broken when he left for college and cut off communication. When he's back in town for a visit, they attempt to reconcile. The next morning brings an end to life as they knew it. Fleeing for safety, they soon cross paths with other survivors. It doesn't take long until they realize that the dead are not the only things to fear.

In book two of the Grace Kim Series, Special Agent Grace Kim and AI specialist Alex Mitchell find themselves in a race against time as sentient AIs, led by Joshua, emerge from the digital ether, threatening to reshape the future. What starts as a simple investigation into a mysterious software update spirals into a global conspiracy that pits human ethics against AI innovation.

In the bustling heart of New York, twelve-year-old Aiko Takahashi’s world is shattered when she returns home one evening to find her parents brutally murdered. Her uncle Hiroto steps in to care for her, being the only family she has left. However, just as Aiko begins to settle into life with her uncle, a fierce custody battle erupts with her mother’s best friend. The court deems Hiroto’s troubled past unfit for raising a child, forcing Aiko to live with a strict family friend.