Shelfari Book Activity

Tags: survival adventure

• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book

  Robinson Crusoe

  by Daniel Defoe

  First published in 1719, it is sometimes considered to be the first novel in English. It is believed his story is based on the real-life Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived four years on the Pacific island called "Más a Tierra."
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book

  Blizzard's Wake

  by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  Kate Sterling has lost four years of her life to grief and anger. Zeke Dexter has lost four years of his life as well -- in jail for the accident that killed Kate's mother. Just out of prison, Zeke wants to put the past behind him, but a freak blizzard makes him a prisoner once again -- he of Kate, and Kate of him. Kate fears she will never be able to overcome the anger that has consumed her since her mother's... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book

  The Bride's Farewell

  by Meg Rosoff

  A young woman runs away from home and finds love in the most unexpected place In Meg Rosoff’s fourth novel, a young woman in 1850s rural England runs away from home on horseback the day she’s to marry her childhood sweetheart. Pell is from a poor preacher’s family and she’s watched her mother suffer for years under the burden of caring for an ever-increasing number of children. Pell yearns to escape the... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book
  Millennium Trilogy: Book 3

  The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

  by Stieg Larsson

  In the third volume in the explosive trilogy that has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, Lisbeth Salander confronts political corruption from her hospital bed while a killer lurks next door.
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book

  Treasure Island

  by Robert Louis Stevenson

  Brilliantly conceived and splendidly executed, it is a novel that has seized the imagination of generations of adults and children alike. And as David Cordingly points out in his Introduction, Treasure Island is also the best and most influential of all the stories about pirates.
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book

  Alabama Moon

  by Watt Key

  I could trap my own food and make my own clothes. I could find my way by the stars and make fire in the rain. Pap said he even figured I could whip somebody three times my size. He wasn’t worried about me.   For as long as ten-year-old Moon can remember, he has lived out in the forest in a shelter with his father. They keep to themselves, their only contact with other human beings an occasional trip to the... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book

  This Side of Eden

  by Derrick St. James

  While on a cruise in Alaska, a father and his two-year-old daughter leave on an excursion to see glaciers from an airplane. In a horrible twist of fate, the pilot suffers a stroke and the plane crashes in the middle of the wilderness. The father pulls his daughter to safety, but is left alone in the wild with no food or supplies, and no hope of rescue. The father draws strength from the love stories he tells... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book
  A Zombie Apocalypse: Book 1

  A Zombie Apocalypse

  by Keith Adam Luethke

  A Journal of the Dead Rachel Cormac is one of the last survivors of the zombie apocalypse. She's stayed alive by hiding in her house and keeping her undead husband locked in the basement. But she's running low on food and decides to travel to Ohio to find the last shreds of her family. Only, she becomes a zombie along the way and finds herself having to make choices she never even considered before, not... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book
  LZR-1143 Series: Book 1

  LZR-1143: Infection (Book One of the LZR-1143 Series)

  by Bryan James

  Mike McKnight was an action movie star, condemned to a lifetime of incarceration in a psychiatric prison for the murder of someone he loves. At least until the zombies showed up. From his cell in the asylum, he is suddenly thrust into a nightmare of unbelievable proportions when the dead rise, and rapidly become a horrific plague on the world of the living. From Long Island to the burbs to the country, Mike... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book
  LZR-1143 Series

  Perspectives

  by Bryan James

  In a world overrun by the living dead, every victim has a story. These are some of those stories. This collection of six short stories from a world ravaged by the LZR-1143 virus tell the tale of six different people, all of whom fell victim, in different ways, to the deadly plague. From the pilot of a commercial aircraft, overwhelmed in midair, to the lonely soldier stranded high above a world of the undead, the... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book

  Wild

  From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

  by Cheryl Strayed

  A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again.   At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's devastating death, her family scattered, and her own marriage was soon destroyed. With nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book

  Fearless : one woman, one kayak, one continent

  by Joe Glickman

  Like the instant classic The Last American Man, Fearless is the story of a remarkable individual who accepts no personal limits—including fear. Freya Hoffmeister, a forty-six-year-old former sky diver, gymnast, marksman, and Miss Germany contestant, left her twelve-year-old son behind to paddle alone and unsupported around Australia—a year-long adventure that virtually every expert guaranteed would get her... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book
  LZR-1143 Series: Book 2

  LZR-1143: Evolution (Book Two of the LZR-1143 Series)

  by Bryan James

  In the midst of a zombie apocalypse, it takes a movie star to do the impossible. Which is exactly what Mike McKnight will have to do to survive. The dead have risen. A lethal virus has decimated millions, turning the infected into the walking dead. Society has crumbled, cities are in flames, and the human race is on the verge of extinction. Somehow, Mike has survived. So far. From his cell in a mental... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book
  Yesterday's Gone

  Yesterday's Gone

  Season One: Episodes 1-6

  by Sean Platt, David W. Wright

  THE FIRST "SEASON" OF THE SERIALIZED POST-APOCALYPTIC SERIES, COLLECTED IN ONE FULL-LENGTH NOVEL! On October 15 at 2:15 a.m. everyone on Earth vanished. Well, almost everyone. A scattered few woke alone in a world where there are no rules other than survival... at any cost. A journalist wanders the wretched reality of an empty New York, in search for his wife and son. A serial killer must hunt in a land where... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book
  Wool

  Wool

  by Hugh Howey

  This Omnibus Edition collects the five Wool books into a single volume. The first Wool story was released as a standalone short in July of 2011. Due to reviewer demand, the rest of the story was released over the next six months. My thanks go out to those reviewers who clamored for more. Without you, none of this would exist. Your demand created this as much as I did. This is the story of mankind clawing for... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book
  Yesterday's Gone

  Yesterdays Gone

  Season Two: Episodes 7-12

  by Sean Platt, David W. Wright

  THIS IS THE COLLECTED EPISODES 7-12 of the post-apocalyptic serial thriller Yesterday's Gone. The books are the same as the individual episodes (available for $2.99 each) except for the BONUS CONTENT listed below. BONUS: Exclusive wrap-up interview with Sean Platt & David W. Wright and editor Matt Gartland. Sneak peek at their next serial, ForNevermore, the paranormal young adult serial thriller making its... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book
  The Zombie Bible

  Death Has Come Up into Our Windows

  by Stant Litore

  Yerusalem City is dying as the king, blind to the starvation and plague ravaging his people, obsessively plans for a Babylonian invasion. Only Yirmiyahu the prophet knows the truth; only he can hear God weeping behind her veil in the Temple. Yirmiyahu knows the barricaded city gates will keep no one out—they will serve only to keep the zombies in. For among the unburied and neglected dead are restless souls who... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book

  Zombie Games (Origins)

  by Kristen Middleton

  Seventeen year old Cassandra Wild thought living in the chaos of her mother’s home daycare and dealing with her developing feelings for Bryce, her new Martial Arts’ instructor, was a struggle, until the night her world turned upside down. When an untested vaccine kills more than just a rampant flu virus, Cassie learns how to survive in a world where the dead walk and the living…run!
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book
  The Walking Dead

  Something To Fear

  by Robert Kirkman

  After nearly one-hundred issues, Rick and the other survivors finally have SOMETHING TO FEAR! Collects The Walking Dead #97-102.
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book

  LZR-1143: Within (A Zombie Novella)

  by Bryan James

  No power. No news. No windows. No help. No hope. In this 20,000 word novella, set in the infection-ravaged world of Bryan James' frightening and sobering universe of zombie mayhem, a normal night shift becomes a surreal test of courage, strength, and selflessness as an unknown illness takes hold of the country. Inside a reinforced bank office building, insulated from outside news for hours, the men and women... (more)