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In this gripping, deeply researched exploration of the Titanic's tragic sinking, journalist Michael Davie investigates the events, controversies, and legends that have surrounded the disaster. Sifting through historical documents and survivors' accounts, Davie details the nineteenth-century origins of the White Star Line, narrates the story of the "unsinkable" ship's deadly voyage, and describes the dramatic discovery of the Titanic's wreckage in 1985. Davie offers insightful portraits of the protagonists and dramatizes the confusing and terrifying hours that passed from the moment the ship hit the iceberg until its survivors were picked up by the USS Carpathia a full day later.
Heaven Hope is an orphan who escaped from her foster home and hitchhiking across the country. Sheriff Kevin Hunter watches over the citizens of Mapiya - an unremarkable, Minnesotan suburb. Motega and Alina work on a science experiment under the watchful eye of the FBI. On December 3rd, 2012 half of Mapiya disappears. There are no survivors. There is no explosion, no clue left behind as to what happened just a wasteland as if the town had been wiped out by a small nuclear disaster.
A zombie outbreak has ravaged the earth and only a handful of superheroes have kept the situation from deteriorating into total chaos. Reeling from losses in their own community, a band of heroes has established a fortified safe zone in Hollywood to help whatever survivors they find. Unfortunately so has a much larger group of gang members, who have some deadly tricks up their sleeves.
Bob Gale (Author), Devin Grayson (Author), Alex Maleev (Illustrator), Dale Eaglesham (Illustrator)
In the new millennium, following a cataclysmic earthquake, the federal government has cut off Gotham City from the rest of the country, leaving the No Man's Land, with its masses of casualties and survivors, in the hands of the "lunatics" released from Arkham Asylum.
The world is dead, devoured by a plague of reanimated corpses. In a crumbling city, Sarah, Nathan, and a band of survivors barricade themselves inside a warehouse surrounded by a sea of shambling putrefaction. Days in seclusion blur by, and their food is nearly gone. The group is faced with two possible deaths: creeping starvation, or the undead outside the warehouse. As Sarah stands on the edge of the warehouse roof preparing to step out into oblivion she spots a glimmer of hope. In the distance a helicopter approaches the city... but is it the salvation the survivors have been waiting for?
