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Fable for the End of the World [electronic resource] : by Reid, Ava.aut; CloudLibrary;
The Last of Us meets The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in this stand-alone dystopian romance about survival, sacrifice, and love that risks everything. By encouraging massive accumulations of debt from its underclass, a single corporation, Caerus, controls all aspects of society. Inesa lives with her brother in a half-sunken town where they scrape by running a taxidermy shop. Unbeknownst to Inesa, their cruel and indolent mother has accrued an enormous debt—enough to qualify one of her children for Caerus’s livestreamed assassination spectacle: the Lamb’s Gauntlet. Melinoë is a Caerus assassin, trained to track and kill the sacrificial Lambs. The product of neural reconditioning and physiological alteration, she is a living weapon, known for her cold brutality and deadly beauty. She has never failed to assassinate one of her marks. When Inesa learns that her mother has offered her as a sacrifice, at first she despairs—the Gauntlet is always a bloodbath for the impoverished debtors. But she’s had years of practice surviving in the apocalyptic wastes, and with the help of her hunter brother she might stand a chance of staying alive. For Melinoë, this is a game she can’t afford to lose. Despite her reputation for mercilessness, she is haunted by painful flashbacks. After her last Gauntlet, where she broke down on livestream, she desperately needs redemption. As Mel pursues Inesa across the wasteland, both girls begin to question everything: Inesa wonders if there’s more to life than survival, while Mel wonders if she’s capable of more than killing. And both wonder if, against all odds, they might be falling in love. Young adult.
Subjects: Electronic books.; LGBT; Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic; Dystopian; Survival Stories; LGBT;
© 2025., HarperCollins,
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Death of the Author A Novel [electronic resource] : by Okorafor, Nnedi.aut; cloudLibrary;
Recommended by New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • Rolling Stone • Los Angeles Times • Reader's Digest • and more! “This one has it all.” — George R.R. Martin • “As delicious as it is disorienting.” — Zakiya Dalila Harris • “Suspenseful, timely, and heartfelt.” — People • “Mind-bending.” — New York Times Book Review In this exhilarating tale by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor, a disabled Nigerian American woman pens a wildly successful Sci-Fi novel, but as her fame rises, she loses control of the narrative—a surprisingly cutting, yet heartfelt drama about art and love, identity and connection, and, ultimately, what makes us human. This is a story unlike anything you’ve read before. The future of storytelling is here. Disabled, disinclined to marry, and more interested in writing than a lucrative career in medicine or law, Zelu has always felt like the outcast of her large Nigerian family. Then her life is upended when, in the middle of her sister’s lavish Caribbean wedding, she’s unceremoniously fired from her university job and, to add insult to injury, her novel is rejected by yet another publisher. With her career and dreams crushed in one fell swoop, she decides to write something just for herself. What comes out is nothing like the quiet, literary novels that have so far peppered her unremarkable career. It’s a far-future epic where androids and AI wage war in the grown-over ruins of human civilization. She calls it Rusted Robots. When Zelu finds the courage to share her strange novel, she does not realize she is about to embark on a life-altering journey—one that will catapult her into literary stardom, but also perhaps obliterate everything her book was meant to be. From Chicago to Lagos to the far reaches of space, Zelu’s novel will change the future not only for humanity, but for the robots who come next. A book-within-a-book that blends the line between writing and being written, Death of the Author is a masterpiece of metafiction that manages to combine the razor-sharp commentary of Yellowface with the heartfelt humanity of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Surprisingly funny, deeply poignant, and endlessly discussable, this is at once the tale of a woman on the margins risking everything to be heard and a testament to the power of storytelling to shape the world as we know it.  “An ambitious, inventive tribute to the power of storytelling itself.” — Nikki Erlick, New York Times bestselling author of The Measure “A deeply felt dazzle. A blaze. It is true deep to the bones.” — Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of The House of Broken Angels "There’s more vivid imagination in a page of Nnedi Okorafor’s work than in whole volumes." — Ursula K. Le Guin
Subjects: Electronic books.; Visionary & Metaphysical; Literary; Sagas; Contemporary Women; Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic; Suspense;
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Melancholia [videorecording] / by Corbet, Brady,1988-; Dunst, Kirsten,1982-; Gainsbourg, Charlotte,1971-; Hurt, John,1940-; Rampling, Charlotte,1946-; Skårsgard, Alexander.; Spurr, Cameron.; Sutherland, Kiefer,1966-; Trier, Lars von,1956-; Entertainment One (Firm); Magnolia Home Entertainment (Firm); Magnolia Pictures (Firm);
Cinematography, Manuel Alberto Claro ; edited by Morten Højbjerg and Molly Marlene Stensgaard.Kiefer Sutherland, John Hurt, Alexander Skarsgard, Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Brady Corbet, Cameron Spurr, Charlotte Rampling.Lars Von Trier's Melancholia, a meditation on depression and the end of the world, stars Kirsten Dunst as an emotionally troubled newlywed named Justine, whose sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) throws her a lavish wedding party. While her lack of emotional stability begins to take a toll on Justine's new marriage as well as the party -- and old wounds are exposed -- Claire's wealthy husband John (Kiefer Sutherland) also knows a great deal about a planet that is on a possible collision course with Earth, further muddying the waters. The second half of the movie focuses on Claire, who ends up taking her sister in after the marriage collapses, and also begins to fear that John is hiding apocalyptically bad news.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital.
Subjects: Apocalyptic films.; Depression; End of the world; Feature films.; Man-woman relationships; Science fiction films.; Sisters;
© c2012., Magnolia Home Entertainment ; Distributed by Entertainment One,
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The remaining [videorecording] / by Bienstock, Marc.; Dechart, Bryan.; La Scala, Casey.; Pacar, Johnny,1981-; Sipos, Shaun,1981-; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm);
Bryan Dechart, Johnny Pacar, Shaun Sipos, Alexa Vega, Italia Ricci,Liz E. Morgan.An action-packed supernatural thriller that addresses questions of life, love and belief against an apocalyptic backdrop. A group of close friends gather for a wedding, but the celebration is shattered by a series of cataclysmic events and enemies foretold by biblical end-times prophecies. The survivors face a horrifying, uncertain future as they scramble for safety, but as their world collapses around them in chaos and terror will they choose real life through faith, or just try to survive?Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD; NTSC; region 1; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby, DTS surround sound.
Subjects: Apocalyptic films.; Armageddon; Feature films.; Horror films.; Judgment Day; Rapture (Christian eschatology); Supernatural; Survival; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Weddings;
© c2015., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Starfish. by White, A.T.,film director.; Masterson, Christina,actor.; Gardner, Virginia,actor.; Yellow Veil Pictures (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Christina Masterson, Virginia GardnerOriginally produced by Yellow Veil Pictures in 2018.A unique, intimate portrayal of a girl grieving for the loss of her best friend, which just so happens to take place on the day the world ends.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Science fiction.; Grief.; Science fiction films.; Life on other planets.; Horror films.; Apocalyptic films.;
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This is the end [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Baruchel, Jay,1982-; Franco, James,1978-; Goldberg, Evan.; Hill, Jonah,1983-; Jackman, Henry(Henry Pryce); Rogen, Seth,1982-; Stone, Jason,1981-Jay and Seth vs. the apocalypse.Videorecording.; Columbia Pictures.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm);
Cinematographer, Brandon Trost ; editor, Zene Baker ; music, Henry Jackman.James Franco, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride.A group of celebrities are faced with the apocalypse while attending a party at James Franco's house.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1 or DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1.
Subjects: Baruchel, Jay, 1982-; Franco, James, 1978-; Hill, Jonah, 1983-; Rogen, Seth, 1982-; Stone, Jason, 1981-; Apocalyptic films.; Celebrities; Comedy films.; End of the world; Fantasy films.; Feature films.; Parties;
© c2013., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Survive. by Jardin, Frédéric,film director.; Pietschmann, Andreas,actor.; Delamar, Lisa,actor.; Ebel, Lucas,actor.; Dequenne, Émilie,actor.; Samuel Goldwyn Films (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Andreas Pietschmann, Lisa Delamar, Lucas Ebel, Émilie DequenneOriginally produced by Samuel Goldwyn Films in 2024.Julia and her husband celebrate her son’s birthday on their boat in the middle of the ocean. When a violent storm nearly capsizes them, the family awakes in a desert land. Julia must save her children in a world where hungry creatures from the abyss hunt for fresh flesh!Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films.; Motion pictures.; Horror films.; Science fiction.; Motion pictures--France.; Science fiction films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures).; Apocalyptic films.; Motion pictures--Europe.; Disaster films.;
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Wastelands : The new apocalypse / by Adams, John Joseph,1976-;
Whether the end comes via nuclear war, pandemic, climate change, or cosmological disaster, these stories explore the extraordinary trials and tribulations of those who survive.
Subjects: War fiction.; Apocalyptic fiction.; Short stories.; Nuclear warfare; Climatic changes; Dystopias; Science Fiction;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Crimson phoenix / by Gilstrap, John,author.;
Victoria Emerson, a West Virginia congresswoman and single mother, becomes the last hope of a nation brought to the brink of destruction in the wake of nuclear war.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Apocalyptic fiction.; Legislators; Single mothers; Nuclear warfare;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Hawk / by Patterson, James,1947-; Charbonnet, Gabrielle.;
Maximum Ride's seventeen-year-old daughter, Hawk, is living under the radar in post-apocalyptic New York City until a destiny that is perilously close to her mother's forces her to take flight.LSC
Subjects: Science fiction.; Apocalyptic fiction.; Adventure fiction.; Ride, Maximum (Fictitious character); Mothers and daughters; Genetic engineering; Superheroes; Hawks;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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