Fiction - Disaster

A Children's Bible follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. Contemptuous of their parents, the children decide to run away when a destructive storm descends on the summer estate, embarking on...

"Hugh's imaginative worlds and tales within them never fail to entertain!"--Andy Weir, New York Times bestselling author of Project Hail MaryThe first original novel from author Hugh Howey in six years, Across the Sand takes us back to the world of Sand, to a...

A disorienting portrayal of 9/11 mastermind Mohamed Atta. On September 11, 2001, Mohamed Atta piloted American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Two years before the explosion, Atta defended a master's thesis that critiqued the introduction of Western-style...

WINNER OF THE LEE SMITH NOVEL PRIZEBehind the Waterline takes readers to the home of a teenager and his grandmother in a New Orleans neighborhood on the eve of Katrina, where there are few resources and little warning of what is about to happen,...

"Contests of Strength, with its drama and romance, is reminiscent of a blockbuster movie, but perhaps more awe-inspiring is that the story grew not from fantasy but from real legends..." -- Micah McCarty, former Makah tribal chairman, from the ForewordHe's a warrior, not a...

Featuring an introduction by Zadie Smith; "Jim's Desk" and introductory notes by Chris Beckett The short stories "Crash," "Tolerances of the Human Face," and "Mae West's Reduction Mammoplasty" by J. G. Ballard Treatments and letters about the BBC2 Review short film about J. G....

"A Dickensian sweep and a vast cast of characters, Upadhyay created an ancient world saturated with the spirit of our time and shaped by political ambition and dark vision . . . A grand novel indeed." --Ha Jin, National Book Award-winning author of Waiting...

"An immersive and engrossing mystery." --Tania Blanchard, bestselling author"A masterfully crafted dual timeline." --Tea Cooper, USA TODAY bestselling authorTwo women. One shipwreck. And four centuries of secrets.Shortly before Christmas in 2018, Tess McCarthy, after years as a hard-working English teacher who never did anything...

In the ashes of America, home was supposed to be a sanctuary. It's anything but.For Hannah Sheridan, Fall Creek is only miles away-it might as well be a thousand. She's crossed a violent, frozen wasteland with former Delta Operator Liam Coleman at her side...

In the dead of winter, an EMP attack destroys the U.S. power grid.No electricity. No cars or internet. And no way to call for help. The country is plunged into instant chaos.But for Hannah Sheridan, it's the best day of her life. For the...

After an EMP strike plunges America into darkness, the world grows deadly. Hannah Sheridan has survived years of captivity and civilization's collapse. Now, heavily pregnant and wounded, with her faithful dog Ghost dying from a bullet wound, she must reach home-a brutal journey through...

They survived the blackout. They may not survive each other.The EMP destroyed the power grid. Winter is killing what's left. And the surrounding communities, starving and desperate, are coming for blood. In Fall Creek, Michigan, the enemy isn't only out there-it's inside the walls.A...

In a world without power, how far will one man go to save his son?On the five-year anniversary of his wife Hannah's disappearance, small-town cop Noah Sheridan takes his son Milo to a local ski resort to remember-and to try to heal. Then the...

For countless centuries, Isaac Rojas had tried to live the quiet life, but he is forever being pulled to locations just before cataclysmic occurrences. Most recently, he was in New York on 9/11, then in Indonesia when the tsunami hit. Through these events, Isaac...

From William R. Forstchen, the New York Times bestselling author of the One Second After series, comes Five Years After, a near-future thriller where John Matherson must contend with new threats to the fragile civilization that he helped rebuild. Five years after The Final...

From William R. Forstchen, the New York Times bestselling author of the One Second After series, comes Five Years After, a near-future thriller where John Matherson must contend with new threats to the fragile civilization that he helped rebuild. Five years after The Final...

"A self-assured debut that is also a warning."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Delaney Nolan has written a brutal, joyful, surprising, and gorgeous novel of human contradictions. It's a stunner."--Julia Phillips, author of Bear and Disappearing Earth Hernan Diaz meets Ottessa Moshfegh in this madcap road trip...

It's been a hot summer for a Swiss lakeside town--both bucolic and citylike, old-fashioned and up-to-date--when a "great message," telegraphed from one continent to another, announces an "accident in the gravitational system." Something has gone wrong with the axis of the Earth that will...

Named a New York Times Style Magazine pick for Best Queer Summer Fiction Allstora's September "(Very Gay) Book Club" pick!One of Marie Claire's "11 Best Climate Fiction Books" - Named a Most Anticipated book by Electric Literature, Jordy's Book Club, Out Magazine, and more!...

The first mission to Mars has landed, only to find out, it has lost all communication with ground control and Earth.Someone or something, has destroyed two satellites in low Earth orbit, and the astronauts in the International Space Station have to make an emergency...