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1) The wall
Author
Publisher
[New Directions Publishing]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
239 pages 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. With a cat, a dog, and a cow as her sole companions, she learns how to survive and cope with her loneliness. Allegorical yet deeply personal and absorbing, The Wall is at once a critique of modern civilization, a nuanced and loving portrait of a relationship between a woman...
Author
Series
Camel Club novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
The Camel Club is a four-man group of Washington, D.C. misfits, that meet weekly to discuss political conspiracies they believe exist and what actions they might take. One night club members witness the murder of Secret Service employee Patrick Johnson, thus thrusting the wacky crew into the middle of a bigger conspiracy than they could ever have imagined.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
731 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the history of how and why the hydrogen bomb was created, revealing the behind-the-scenes scientific and political drama in which the United States and the former Soviet Union played major roles.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Victoria Emerson is a congressional member of the U.S. House of Representatives for the state of West Virginia. Her aspirations have always been to help her community and to avoid the ambitious power plays of her peers in Washington D.C. Then Major Joseph McCrea appears on her doorstep and uses the code phrase Crimson Phoenix, meaning this is not a drill. The United States is on the verge of nuclear war. Victoria must accompany McCrea to a secure...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 145 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Swedish
Description
Tarkovsky's haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation. Made as he was dying of cancer, The sacrifice is Tarkovsky's personal statement, a profoundly moving, redemptive tragedy steeped in unforgettable imagery and heart-wrenching emotion.
7) Fallout
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an unthinkable nuclear attack occurs in an alternate-reality 1962, Scott is forced into his father's bomb shelter with his family and neighbors, where they rapidly consume limited supplies and fear the worst about the fate of the world outside.
Series
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, c1963
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) ; sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A satire in which the President and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union.
9) Raven Rock: the story of the U.S. Government's secret plan to save itself-while the rest of us die
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The eye-opening truth about the government's secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil--even if the rest of us die--a roadmap that spans from the dawn of the nuclear age to today"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 7
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Berkley premium edition.
Physical Desc
1202 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
One terrible act plunges the world into an instant nuclear crisis, and with the American president accused of incompetence, Jack Ryan calls on FBI head Dan Murray to help him avert disaster
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"William Golding's unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to Penguin Classics in a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary boys marooned on a coral island...
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A satire in which the U.S. president and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears that the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Because of his small stature and his apparent simplemindedness, not many took Dwight Eisenhower seriously when he became the 34th President of the United States in 1953. But they soon realized they had underestimated his abilities as a brilliant, intellectual tactician when he saved the world from nuclear holocaust.
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 346 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Explores the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower through the lens of his last three days in office in January 1961, revealing him to be a model of strong yet principled leadership.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 276 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
""New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how a courageous reporter uncovered one of greatest and deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century-the true effects of the atom bomb-potentially saving millions of lives""--
Just days after the United States decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs, the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. But the US government and military had begun a secret propaganda and information suppression...
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