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Hiroshima

by John Hersey

On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city. This book tells what happened on that day, told through the memoirs of survivors.

Compound, The

by S. A. Bodeen

Eli and his family have lived in the Compound for six years. The world they knew is gone. Eli’s father built the Compound to keep them safe. Now, they can’t get out. He won’t let them.

Z For Zachariah

by Robert C. O'Brien

A gripping, thought-provoking story about life after a nuclear holocaust, by a Newbery Medalist.

The Ark Sakura

by Kobo Abe

The author of Woman in the Dunes funny and terrifying novel about an imminent post-apocalyptic Japan.

YA-- Somewhere over Tibet, a North American Continental Allied Forces plane crashes, the pilot is killed, and warrant officer Viveka Vanachek is taken prisoner. Her journal, written upon the order of the prison camp commander, reveals captivity inside a ruined lamasery with a maze of underground rooms filled with the monks' ancient supplies. Time seems altered in the camp; no one can pinpoint the exact date and... (more)

The Stand

by Stephen King

This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides -- or are chosen. A world in which good rides... (more)

Vic and Blood: The Continuing Adventures of a Boy and His Dog

Vic and Blood: The Continuing Adventures of a Boy and His Dog

by Harlan Ellison

"World War IV broke out on American Independence Day, 4 July 1995. Then what was left belonged to anybody who wanted it; anybody with a taste for radiation and rubble. The 'good folks' sank their caisson cities, their sterile down-unders, deep in the earth. And the snaggle-toothed remnants of the aboveground were abandoned to the new masters of desolation: vicious roverpaks of parentless young boys...and their... (more)

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Hiroshima

by John Hersey

Compound, The

by S. A. Bodeen

Z For Zachariah

by Robert C. O'Brien

Hiroshima

by John Hersey

Emergence

by David Palmer

The Ark Sakura

by Kobo Abe

Nothing Sacred

by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

The Stand

by Stephen King

Vic and Blood: The Continuing Adventures of a Boy and His Dog

by Harlan Ellison