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1) 48 hours
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"From the author of the smash hit, New York Times bestselling One Second After series comes a thriller in which the survival of humanity itself is at stake. The countdown is on. In less than forty eight hours, Earth will be hit by a major solar storm. At first, it is thought to be a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) that will severely damage our world's electronic infrastructure. A crisis to be certain, but one that can be survived--until something far...
2) Test of fire
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Earth has been devastated by a massive solar flare. Now a small group of survivors fights to rebuild civilization.
Cities became ovens, grasslands seas of flame. As the touch of dawn swept westward across the spinning planet, its fiery finger killed everything in its path. Glaciers in Switzerland began to melt; floodwaters poured down on burning Alpine villages. Paris became a torch, then London. North of the Arctic Circle, Laplanders in their
...3) Deep fathom
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English
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"This special hardcover edition of New York Times bestselling author James Rollins's third novel finds the world on the brink of nuclear annihilation, with the only solution lying deep in the ocean"--Provided by publisher.
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While J. Robert Oppenheimer and his Manhattan Project team struggle to develop the A-bomb, Edward Teller wants something even more devastating: a bomb based on nuclear fusion--the mechanism that powers the sun. Teller's research leads to a terrifying discovery: by the year 2030, the sun will eject its outermost layer, destroying the entire inner solar system--including Earth. As the war ends with the use of fission bombs against Japan, Oppenheimer's...
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Maze runner trilogy volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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'Before WICKED was formed, before the Glade was built, before Thomas entered the Maze, sun flares hit the earth and mankind fell to disease. Mark and Trina were there when it happened, and they survived. But surviving the sun flares was easy compared to what came next. Now a disease of rage and lunacy races across the eastern United States, and there's something suspicious about its origin. Worse yet, it's mutating, and all evidence suggests that...
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Maze runner trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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After surviving horrific conditions in the Maze, Thomas is entrapped, along with nineteen other boys, in a scientific experiment designed to observe their responses and gather data believed to be essential for the survival of the human race. The group has two weeks to cross through the Scorch -- the most burned-out section of the world. And the observers will continuously adjust the variables and stack the odds against them.
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Princeton University Press
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English
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"Winner of the 2007 Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Cosmology and Astronomy, Association of American Publishers" "Shortlisted for the 2008 Royal Society Prizes for Science Books, General Prize" Stuart Clark is a former editor of the United Kingdom's best-selling astronomy magazine, Astronomy Now. He currently writes for the European Space Agency and is a regular contributor to such magazines as New Scientist and BBC Focus. He is the author of...
10) Air collision
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The Asylum Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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When a solar storm wipes out the air traffic control system, Air Force One and a passenger jet liner are locked on a collision course in the skies above the midwest.
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NASA technical memorandum volume X-70557
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Goddard Space Flight Center
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December 1973.
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English
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NASA SP volume 50
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Scientific and Technical Information Division, National Aeronautics and Space Administration; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.]
Pub. Date
1964
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English
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NASA contractor report volume NASA CR-176571
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Pub. Date
1986]
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English
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NASA contractor report volume NASA CR-184910
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[National Aeronautics and Space Administration]
Pub. Date
[1989]
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English
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NASA contractor report volume NASA CR-172790
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Pub. Date
1984]
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English