Títulos em Ficção sobre Desastres

Rien ne se passe jamais comme prévu. Pas même la fin du monde ! Suède, fin de l'été 2011. Petra, astrophysicienne autodidacte, a calculé que l'apocalypse surviendrait le 21 septembre, peu après 21 h 20. Un drôle de hasard met la prophétesse de malheur sur la route de Johan – un homme qui manque certes un peu de jugeote, mais n'a pas son pareil pour transformer de simples plats en un festin à se damner – et d'Agnès, une veuve de 75 ans qui a fait fortune sur les réseaux sociaux en tant que jeune influenceuse globe-trotteuse.

Nearly two weeks after an EMP attack sent the nation into chaos, Ethan and Brooke are still fighting to make their way home to Tulsa. Dangers await them at every turn. Meanwhile, back in Tulsa, Robert and Nina continue to fight to protect Ethan and Brooke’s twins from roaming bands of raiders.

Jeremiah Overton is now in charge of Darwin’s Bureau of Meteorology, and his storm chaser boyfriend, Tully Larson, couldn’t be happier. For Tully, it means watching summer storms with the love of his life. But for Jeremiah, it means relearning everything on equipment that’s older than he is.

Em meio a uma onda de calor devastadora e a uma greve de ônibus que paralisa a cidade, três amigos se reencontram em Porto Alegre. No final dos anos 1990, eles haviam incendiado a internet com o Orangotango, um fanzine digital que se tornou cultuado em todo o Brasil. Agora, quase duas décadas depois, a morte do quarto integrante do grupo vai reaproximar Aurora, cientista e pesquisadora vivendo uma pequena guerra acadêmica, Antero, artista de vanguarda convertido em publicitário, e Emiliano, jornalista que tem uma difícil tarefa pela frente.

The Germans were defeated in World War II. The Nazis, however, were not. Odessa is real and the Fourth Reich has declared war. Hiding in the mountains of Argentina and at the levels of the United States government, Odessa, well-funded and committed to exacting its revenge, plots to unleash terror across the heartland.

For Nathan Bray, this philosophical thought experiment becomes brutally real when an inexplicable event causes the oceans of the world to disappear, leaving him stranded on the dried-out ocean floor with his seven-year-old daughter.

Parce que la montée des eaux menace l'existence même des Pays-Bas, leur reine Frederika Mathilde Louisa Saskia comprend mieux que quiconque la notion d'urgence climatique. Invitée à une rencontre secrète au Texas par T.R. Schmidt, l'excentrique propriétaire d'une chaîne de fast-food, Saskia découvre non sans inquiétude les plans du milliardaire. En bon Texan, T.R. veut mettre fin, de façon décisive, aux hausses de températures qui accablent le sud des États-Unis. Et si son remède, inspiré par l'explosion du volcan Pinatubo, était pire que le mal ?

El debut que ha seducido a la crítica. Una novela extraordinaria sobre europeos mimados que se creen fuera de peligro, hasta que deben salvar su propio pellejo. Durante el verano en el que la crisis climática se intensifica más allá de nuestras peores pesadillas e incluso en la campiña sueca arden los bosques, miles de veraneantes desprevenidos quedan atrapados y el país se ve sumido en el caos. Sin embargo, para muchos la vida continúa y los problemas mundanos parecen imponerse: conflictos matrimoniales, amores adolescentes y rencillas familiares siguen siendo la principal fuente de inquietud.

Two years after the war to end all wars, the American people are confronting the reality of the altered world. As the US’ armed forces—weakened from the peace dividend—begin again to flex its slowly recovering offensive muscle, a second war rages in the Korean peninsula, and American and British forces circle each other warily from the North Atlantic to the Straits of Hormuz as the wounded Soviet bear broods behind its borders.

USGS geophysicist, Mac Atwood, and volcanologist, Taylor Reed, survived being swallowed by the Earth during the earthquake swarm. They returned to the ordinarily peaceful and serene environs surrounding Mammoth Mountain and the Long Valley Caldera. When a series of seemingly minor earthquakes take place in the Sierra Nevadas, Mac the seismic detective, expresses his concern to Taylor. Her skills as a volcanologist will be tested as it appears the Long Valley Caldera, the second largest supervolcano in the U.S. behind Yellowstone, is awakening.

Doom has come to Ara Island. As the first snow of the cold days begins to fall from slate gray skies, a massive burst of dark magic is released. His plans cast aside, his tribe broken, his world thrown into blood-drenched chaos, Jak plunges into the dark maw of certain death to save who he can.

Two weeks after an electromagnetic pulse knocked out the power grid, communications, and nearly all transportation, sending that nation back into the Stone Age, Lauren Wallace and the small eastern Tennessee town of Unicoi struggles to survive as residents hunker behind their newly constructed walls.

Burning Hollow's security team has made a fatal mistake, bringing the enemy right to their doorstep. With people in the holler dying and resources running out, the surviving citizens of East Tennessee must band together and rise up against a new ruthless scourge, or risk losing everything they hold dear.

Jessie, a veteran with PTSD and an alcohol abuse problem, fends for himself in a post-collapse Alabama fraught with poverty and corruption. As he struggles to sustain himself in an abandoned railroad signal station, he learns of a group of orphaned kids living in the forest nearby.

What do you do when the whole world shuts down? Resilience navigates the profound disruption of 2020 through a narrative collage of diverse shuttered lives. How we connect with the people we love and pursue activities that sustain us is the heart of this novel. Other historical disasters and unusual eruptions in the natural world play a part in the drama of adjusting to our altered world.

One dark evening, James picks up a mysterious woman's voice over his radio. Her only request is to be rescued from a wandering group of crazed survivors. In exchange, she promises top secret information and her skills as a scientist. It doesn't end there. People are starting to change into something more dangerous than just starving humans. That and the weather system has been corrupted by nuclear war. With time running out, it's up to James, Beth, Claire, and now Myra to discover the true force behind the apocalypse.

Join Irene and Hilda Jo as they navigate their way through the Leantimes, uncovering clues and trying to solve the mystery before it’s too late. With its unique blend of cozy mystery and post-apocalyptic setting, In the Leantimes will keep you guessing until the very end.

After an EMP attack plunged the nation into chaos, two parents must make a daring journey that spans more than 800 miles without modern technology. With the fate of their twins hanging in the balance, Brooke and Ethan must brave the hostile environment of the great plains, face outlaws and bandits who have taken control of Dodge City, Kansas, and confront their inner demons to reunite with their loved ones.

Finaliste du National Book Award aux États-Unis. Le roman qui a inspiré la série HBO. Dans un monde où la civilisation s'est effondrée suite à une pandémie foudroyante, une troupe d'acteurs et de musiciens nomadise entre de petites communautés de survivants pour leur jouer du Shakespeare. Un répertoire qui en est venu à représenter l'espoir et l'humanité au milieu de la désolation.

Several years ago, an ARkStorm, a once-in-a-thousand-years flood event caused by a series of intense atmospheric rivers, flooded the Central Valley of California from Sacramento to what was once Los Angeles. The weight of the water was equivalent to the volume generated by the Mississippi River times 22. It challenged an already fragile seismic system consisting of hundreds of active faults.