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81) East of West
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
During the End Times, as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse roam the Earth, the best hope for life lies in Death.
82) Pacific Rim
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes-a washed up former pilot and an untested trainee, who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting apocalypse.
Author
Series
El último día sobre la Tierra volume 1
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Colombiana S. A
Pub. Date
2019
Language
Español
Description
"Antonio Ventura trabaja en una firma de ingenieros. Su vida es la de un ciudadano normal de clase media acomodada. Sin embargo, empieza a ser visitado por ciertas pesadillas que parecen ser sueños premonitorios: terremotos, guerras, poderosos huracanes que arrasan todo a su paso. Los que lo rodean lo consideran un lunático, un alucinado, e incluso lo obligarán a consultar a una renombrada psiquiatra. Pero él sabe que un desastre global se avecina...
84) The quiet Earth
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A research scientists awakens to find the world has been destroyed and he soon learns he is not the sole survivor.
85) Illusion
Author
Series
Chronicles of Nick volume 5
Language
English
Description
Son of a demon Nick Gautier just wants to be a normal guy, but when he is sucked into an alternate reality he realizes the value of his powers.
Nick Gautier doesn't want to be the son of a demon who's fated to end the world. He just wants to be normal and have normal problems like everyone else. When he gets sucked into an alternate reality where his mother has married his mentor and his Atlantean god best friend has become a human geek, he begins...
86) Aurora: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Aurora is suspenseful storytelling--both large scale and small--at its finest"--
In Aurora, Illinois, Aubrey Wheeler is just trying to get by after her semi-criminal ex-husband split, leaving behind his unruly teenage son. Then the lights go out, not just in Aurora but across the globe. A solar storm has knocked out power almost everywhere. Suddenly, all problems are local, very local, and Aubrey must assume the mantle of fierce protector of her...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A gifted student foretells an apocalypse. Her reward is a sentence of death. Fleeing into the unknown she is drawn into a team of outcasts: A broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he's forbidden to wield and carves a trail back home. A drunken prince, who steps out from his beloved brother's shadow and claims a purpose of his own. An imprisoned thief, who escapes the crushing dark and discovers a gleaming artifact - one that will ignite...
Author
Series
Bones of ruin volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Iris is on a mission to stop herself from becoming the Hiva, a cataclysmic power that can destroy the world.
Author
Publisher
W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The rapture is the central event in biblical prophecy. But what does it mean for us today? How can this crucial end times event draw us nearer to God in a world that is seemingly on the brink of chaos? Political turmoil, economic uncertainty, an ideological divide that feels increasingly impassable--the signs of the times point us toward the end, and that can be disconcerting. But the greatest truth about the rapture is not its timing, but its reality--for...
Author
Series
El último día sobre la Tierra volume 2
Publisher
Editorial Planeta Colombiana S. A
Pub. Date
2019
Language
Español
Description
"Xavier ha investigado a lo largo de varios años la presencia extraterrestre en nuestro planeta. Está seguro de que entidades biológicas de otros mundos se encuentran camufladas entre nosotros. Por eso en un programa radial intercambia opiniones al respecto con sus oyentes y los invita a vigilar el entorno en busca de más pruebas que confirmen su hipótesis de una invasión alienígena. Hasta que un día cualquiera unos extraños vecinos se mudan...
93) The jade bones
Author
Series
Age of the seventh sun volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Four young people risk their lives to save the world from a looming apocalypse in this captivating sequel to The Seventh Sun. ... Based on ancient Mesoamerican legends and mythology, The Jade Bones is a compelling and romantic adventure that builds to a heart-stopping climax"--
Author
Series
Starmetal symphony volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Jazz pianist Gus Kitko expected to spend his final moments on Earth playing piano at the greatest goodbye party of all time, and maybe kissing rockstar Ardent Violet, before the last of humanity is wiped out forever by the Vanguards--ultra-powerful robots from the dark heart of space, hell-bent on destroying humanity for reasons none can divine. But when the Vanguards arrive, the unthinkable happens--the mecha that should be killing Gus instead saves...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
日本語
Description
Twenty years ago, a terrible war fought with magnetic weapons caused the earth's axis to tilt, and earthquakes and tidal waves destroyed civilization. Conan is born into this new world, raised by his grandfather on an isolated island. But his life is forever changed when a mysterious girl named Lana washes ashore, pursued by shadowy operatives who seek to use her in a new scheme to control what's left of the world.
97) Silent night
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A family hosts their annual Christmas dinner party for friends and family as an imminent catastrophe is about to destroy the world.
A group of old friends, in true British fashion and while the rest of the world faces impending doom, reunite to celebrate Christmas in the comfort of an idyllic country home. Burdened with the inconvenience of mankind's imminent destruction, they adopt a stiff upper lip, crack open another bottle of prosecco and continue...
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations ... It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which spins Tom Robbins's gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative novel, in which a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes on the New York art world, and a rowdy redneck welder discovers the lost god of Palestine--while the illusions that obscure...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A leading philosopher explores the ethics and psychology of flourishing during times of personal and collective crisis.Imagine the end of the world. Now think about the end--the purpose--of life. They're different exercises, but in Jonathan Lear's profound reflection on mourning and meaning, these two kinds of thinking are also connected: related ways of exploring some of our deepest questions about individual and collective values and the enigmatic...
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