The Day the World Ended

The Day the World Ended
Title The Day the World Ended PDF eBook
Author Gordon Thomas
Publisher Open Road Media
Pages 361
Release 2014-07-01
Genre Nature
ISBN 1497658802

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The true story of a horrifying natural disaster—and the corruption that made it worse—by the New York Times–bestselling authors of Voyage of the Damned. In late April 1902, Mount Pelée, a volcano on the Caribbean island Martinique, began to wake up. It emitted clouds of ash and smoke for two weeks until violently erupting on May 8. Over 30,000 residents of St. Pierre were killed; they burned to death under rivers of hot lava and suffocated under pounds of hot ash. Only three people managed to survive: a prisoner trapped in a dungeon-like jail cell, a man on the outskirts of town, and a young girl found floating unconscious in a boat days later. So how did a town of thousands not heed the warnings of nature and local scientists, instead staying behind to perish in the onslaught of volcanic ash? Why did the newspapers publish articles assuring readers that the volcano was harmless? And why did the authorities refuse to allow the American Consul to contact Washington about the conditions? The answer lies in politics: With an election on the horizon, the political leaders of Martinique ignored the welfare of their people in order to consolidate the votes they needed to win. A gripping and informative book on the disastrous effects of a natural disaster coupled with corruption, The Day the World Ended reveals the story of a city engulfed in flames and the political leaders that chose to kill their people rather than give up their political power.

The Day the World Ended

The Day the World Ended
Title The Day the World Ended PDF eBook
Author Sax Rohmer
Publisher Alien Ebooks
Pages 210
Release 2023-11-09
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1667628925

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Brian Woodville, an adventurous journalist who investigates stories all over the world, is assigned a strange story in the Black Forest of Germany involving mysterious deaths and giant bats. Setting out to discover the truth about these apparent vampiric attacks in the village of Baden-Baden, he encounters reticent locals, strange foreigners, and a beautiful noble woman.

The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn

The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn
Title The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn PDF eBook
Author Joseph Marshall
Publisher Penguin
Pages 300
Release 2007
Genre History
ISBN 9780670038534

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An account of the legendary battle, told from a Lakota perspective, documents key Lakota oral traditions to reveal the nuanced complexities that led up to and followed the conflict.

Extinction

Extinction
Title Extinction PDF eBook
Author Lizzie Wilcock
Publisher Scholastic Press
Pages 252
Release 2011
Genre Children's stories
ISBN 9781741696462

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The world is going to end on the 21st of September. We know because we've seen it. We were there. Thirteen-year-old twins Mac and Annie awake one morning to discover that everyone in their town-and, it seems, the entire world-has been wiped out. Searching for answers, the twins discover they are not alone: three other sets of twins, scattered across the planet, have survived. Given a chance to stop the mass extinction by their newfound ability to travel backwards through time and their mysterious powers over natural elements, Mac and Annie seek out these twins. Together they must solve the mystery of why the human race was wiped out, and stop it happening again.

When the World Ended

When the World Ended
Title When the World Ended PDF eBook
Author Emma LeConte
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 164
Release 1987-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 9780803281516

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"I wonder if the new year is to bring us new miseries and sufferings," seventeen-year-old Emma LeConte wrote in her diary on December 31, 1864. In fact, the worst was yet to come. Her later entries portray the city of Columbia, South Carolina, like much of the South, under the grip of Sherman's army. No reader of this diary is likely to forget the defiant, well-bred Emma, who describes a family's anxieties and brave attempts to get on with life while the Civil War rages around them.

The End of the World

The End of the World
Title The End of the World PDF eBook
Author Don Hertzfeldt
Publisher Random House
Pages 226
Release 2019-10-01
Genre Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN 1984855352

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From the imagination of legendary animator and two-time Oscar nominee Don Hertzfeldt comes a hilarious fever-dream vision of the apocalypse, now available in wide release for the first time since the rare original edition sold out. Created during sleepless nights while he worked on his animated films, The End of the World was illustrated entirely on Post-It notes over the course of several years, slowly taking shape from all the deleted scenes, bad dreams, and abandoned ideas that were too strange to make it to the big screen, including essential early material that was later developed into the animated classic World of Tomorrow. Hertzfeldt's visually striking work transcends its unusual nature and taps into the deeply human, universal themes of mortality, identity, memory, loss, and parenthood . . . with the occasional monstrous biting eel descending from the sky.

The Day of the Triffids

The Day of the Triffids
Title The Day of the Triffids PDF eBook
Author John Wyndham
Publisher Modern Library
Pages 257
Release 2022-04-19
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0593450094

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The influential masterpiece of one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant—and neglected—science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called “the best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced.” “[Wyndham] avoids easy allegories and instead questions the relative values of the civilisation that has been lost, the literally blind terror of humanity in the face of dominant nature. . . . Frightening and powerful, Wyndham’s vision remains an important allegory and a gripping story.”—The Guardian What if a meteor shower left most of the world blind—and humanity at the mercy of mysterious carnivorous plants? Bill Masen undergoes eye surgery and awakes the next morning in his hospital bed to find civilization collapsing. Wandering the city, he quickly realizes that surviving in this strange new world requires evading strangers and the seven-foot-tall plants known as triffids—plants that can walk and can kill a man with one quick lash of their poisonous stingers.