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When the world begins to freeze, survival becomes a test of whom you can trust.Bishop prefers the solitude of the mountains to the chaos of civilization. But when a brutal mini ice age threatens the Pacific Northwest, his military training may be the only thing standing between a desperate group...

When Graham leads his convoy through the rusted gates of Hanford Nuclear Reservation, they aren't looking for hope. They're looking for walls thick enough to survive behind. What they find is something no one could have predicted five men who never left, buried beneath the most dangerous ground...

Published six years before the real-world pandemic became reality, The China Pandemic by A.R. Shaw is a gripping, prescient tale of survival and resilience in a world ravaged by catastrophe. In this haunting post-apocalyptic novel, Graham Morgan finds himself one of the last survivors of a pandemic that wipes out over 98% of humanity.

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Monty and Onnie Newton, along with their young son Sirus, escape the violence of a city after the fall and find a house in the middle of a field that's perfect in every way...except that the lights never turn off.

I never thought I would be in this situation, fighting for survival in a world turned upside-down. But here I am, doing everything I can to keep my daughters safe in this apocalyptic dawn. It's hard to believe that just a few weeks ago, our biggest worries were school, soccer practice, and what to make for dinner. Now, we're living in constant fear. The pack of abandoned dogs we've taken in helps, but it's a dangerous world out there. We've had to maintain a charade to keep looters at bay, by making our home, and the others on our street look like still occupied by our old neighbors.

She crossed a mountain to get them to safety. She didn't plan on staying for the winter. Eight years after the country came apart, Mabel Gray has finally reached Kettle Falls—the free county her father helped build, the one place the Regional Authority never managed to put on its books. She told herself she was only delivering a downed pilot and his ten-year-old son to somewhere safe. But the first hard snow seals the pass behind her, and safety, she's learning, is a place with walls that keep people in as surely as they keep the world out.

With the aid of a canine brigade, can a charade keep the apocalypse away? Author A.R. Shaw delivers another far too plausible post-apocalyptic scenario challenging human survival. Sloane Delaney struggles to keep her daughters safe in an apocalyptic dawn. Aided by a pack of abandoned dogs, they maintain a dangerous charade to keep looters at bay.

She wasn’t supposed to bring him back. She did it anyway. Eight years after the collapse, Mabel Gray survives inside Ridgeline Valley, a hidden settlement in Washington’s Cascade Mountains. Its forty residents are held together by strict rules, guarded borders, and the fragile belief that survival depends on keeping the outside world out. Mabel follows the rules. Mostly. Then she finds an unconscious boy beside a mountain road, watched over by a loyal dog who refuses to leave him.

One bad month destroyed the country. Now Henry Cade must decide what rebuilding it will cost his family. After surviving the long road east, Henry finally delivers Juniper to her father—President Harlan Maddox—and brings his wounded son and shattered wife inside the government’s last secure compound. It should be a sanctuary. Instead, Henry finds a leader who has all but abandoned the country, a base breached from within, and desperate communities turning on one another beyond the wire.

Graham Morgan never set out to survive the apocalypse. He'd only meant to save his dog and those he'd come to love. But then tragedy strikes when the enemy makes a return, and this time Graham says good-bye...once and for all.

Graham's Resolution continues with the sixth installment, The Wild West, and this time arrows fly. Graham Morgan's brief respite is over when he realizes surviving a decade after a devastating pandemic continues. But now it's not his own life threatened; it's the next generation's existence he has to protect from an enemy that just won't quit. With the aid of a peaceful society, the script flips, but will it be enough to save them all from a relentless enemy?

In a world ravaged by chaos, hope is scarce, and survival is a dangerous game. Graham, Corey, Tehya, and the rest of their tight-knit group face new threats in their quest for survival. When the enemy’s deadly strike leaves their camp vulnerable, they must decide between a daring sabotage mission or the safety of the loved ones they’ve sworn to protect.

The Bitter Earth is a return to The China Pandemic's beginnings. The first half is the tale of what actually happened in those early days - the panic that ensued. Meet Sheriff's partner, Officer Lincoln Asher, and experience those last days. The second half is set eight years into the future after The Malefic Nation. With so few left behind, how will they maintain a society, or will they become a nation of lonely scavengers?

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This is the first time in American history that we have had four different generations working side-by-side in the workplace: the Traditionalists (born before 1945), the Baby Boomers (born 1945-1964), Gen X (born 1965-1980), and the Millennials (born 1981-2001). Haydn Shaw, popular business speaker and generational expert, has identified 12 places where the 4 generations typically come apart in the workplace (and in life as well).

In Silverdale, Washington the survivors of a worldwide apocalypse are preparing for the coming winter storms. But just as they’re stocking away the last of the fall harvest, they make a disturbing discovery - someone has pilfered the food supplies!

The pass is open again. So is the door they thought they'd sealed. Eight years after the collapse, Kettle Falls remains what almost nowhere else does: a free county. No census. No rations. No Authority counting souls. Through one hard winter, Mabel Gray and the fugitive pilot who fell out of the...

A deadly pandemic. A quiet man with everything to lose. When a mysterious virus decimates the world’s population, Graham Morgan retreats to solitude—until a child’s cry shatters the silence and pulls him into a fight for survival. In this gripping post-apocalyptic trilogy, Graham’s Resolution, USA Today bestselling author A. R. Shaw delivers a hauntingly emotional tale of loss, resilience, and unexpected hope. As society collapses, Graham must navigate the ruins of humanity while confronting his own past.

In a world where survival is never guaranteed, Graham and his people must make their final stand. When a ruthless enemy tightens its grip on Orcas Island, Graham and Corey launch a desperate mission to rescue the captives before time runs out. But the island is dangerous, the waters are deadly, and betrayal threatens to tear the group apart from within.