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Blood Red Road

Moira Young

To escape, she will have to fight. To survive, she will have to lead. Saba's world is shattered when her twin brother, Lugh, is captured by four cloaked horsemen. Determined to rescue him, Saba sets off into the lawless, wasted landscape left behind by the Wreckers. It's a brutal world where Saba discovers some surprising things about herself: She's a fierce fighter, a cunning opponent, and above

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Rootless

Chris Howard · 336 pages

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Pure

Julianna Baggott · 448 pages

In a post-apocalyptic world, Pressia, a sixteen-year-old survivor with a doll's head fused onto her left hand meets Partridge, a "Pure" dome-dweller who is searching for his mother, sure that she has survived the cataclysm.

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Enclave

Ann Aguirre

In a post-apocalyptic future, fifteen-year-old Deuce, a loyal Huntress, brings back meat while avoiding the Freaks outside her enclave, but when she is partnered with the mysterious outsider, Fade, she begins to see that the strict ways of the elders may be wrong--and dangerous.

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The Immortal Rules

Julie Kagawa · 485 pages

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The Map of Bones

Francesca Haig · 406 pages

"Book Two in the critically acclaimed The Fire Sermon trilogy--The Hunger Games meets Cormac McCarthy's The Road in this richly imagined post-apocalyptic series by award-winning poet Francesca Haig. Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nuclear fire that has laid waste to civilization and nature. Though the radiation fallout has ended, for some unknowable re

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White Horse

Alex Adams · 337 pages

When I wake the world is gone. Only fragments remain. And then I remember ... Then: Her life may have taken a couple of wrong turns but thirty-year-old Zoe is trying to make the best of what she has. A part time cleaning job to pay for college, a weekly appointment with her therapist to straighten out the problems in her life. The same problems that any thirty-year-old girl would have. Nothing maj

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Arena Two

Morgan Rice · 336 pages

Having just escaped from the treacherous island that was once Manhattan, Brooke, Ben, Logan, Bree and Rose make their way up the Hudson river in their stolen boat, low on fuel, low on food, and desperately needing shelter from the cold. On their tails are the slaverunners, who will stop at nothing until they capture them and bring them back. As they make their way upriver in this post-apocalyptic,

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Through the Ever Night

Veronica Rossi · 352 pages

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The Believers

Katie French

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Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler · 299 pages

In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future. Lauren Olamina and her family live in one of the only safe neighborhoods remaining on the outskirts of Los Angeles. Behind the walls of their defended enclave, Lauren’s father, a preacher, and a handful of other citizens try to salvage what remains of a culture that has been d

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Orleans

Sherri L. Smith · 324 pages

"Set in a futuristic, hostile Orleans landscape, Fen de la Guerre must deliver her tribe leader's baby over the Wall into the Outer States before her blood becomes tainted with Delta Fever"--Provided by publisher.

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The Aftermath

Jen Alexander · 304 pages

Since the spring of 2036, when the world changed forever, Claudia and a small clan of survivors have roamed the streets of a very altered Nashville--polluted and desolate, except for the ever-present threat of cannibals. Together they must undergo punishing tests of endurance and psycholocial challenge--sometimes with devasting consequences--all just to live another day. With food and water in dwi

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Death

Laura Thalassa · 560 pages

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מבחני הכווייה

James Dashner, Debbie Eylon · 351 pages

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Maze Runner : The Scorch Trials

Jackson Lanzing & Collin P Kelly

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The End

G. Michael Hopf · 409 pages

""The End" chronicles a myriad of characters carving out an existence in the aftermath of a massive EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) attack against the United States."--Author's web-site

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Love in the Time of Global Warming

Francesca Lia Block · 243 pages

Her life by the sea in ruins, Pen has lost everything in the Earth Shaker that all but destroyed the city of Los Angeles. She sets out into the wasteland to search for her family, her journey guided by a tattered copy of Homer's *Odyssey*. Soon she begins to realize her own abilities and strength as she faces false promises of safety, the cloned giants who feast on humans, and a madman who wishes

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Sea of Rust

C. Robert Cargill · 365 pages

"A scavenger robot wanders in the wasteland created by a war that has destroyed humanity in this evocative post-apocalyptic "robot western" from the critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and noted film critic. It's been thirty years since the apocalypse and fifteen years since the murder of the last human being at the hands of robots. Humankind is extinct. Every man, woman, and child has been

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The Survivors

Angela White · 659 pages

"This is Safe Haven Refugee Camp. Can anyone hear me? …hello? Is anyone out there? “The end of the world has given us a harsh, merciless existence, where nature tries hard to push mankind to the very brink of extinction. Everything is against us, between us... Untold miles of lawless, apocalyptic roads wait for our feet, and the future, cold and dark, offers little comfort. Without change, ther

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Killer of Enemies

Joseph Bruchac · 400 pages

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Basara, Vol. 8

Yumi Tamura · 197 pages

The attempt to rescue Sarasa's mother was ambushed by Kazan. In the battle, Kazan as well as many of Sarasa's allies died and Sarasa lost her vision. How can she regain her clarity when she can't see?

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Mortal Engines

Philip Reeve · 373 pages

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