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Thunder

Bonnie S. Calhoun · 428 pages

150 years after a nuclear attack destroyed much of the United States, Selah, just turned eighteen, learns that she is a hybrid of two surviving factions and sets out from what was Norfolk, Virginia, to seek the father she never knew, aided by her stepbrother Cleon and Bodhi, a Lander like her father.

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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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Through the Ever Night

Veronica Rossi · 352 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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Ship Breaker

Paolo Bacigalupi · 336 pages

In America's Gulf Coast region, grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or by chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his lif

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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 Immortal Rules

Julie Kagawa · 485 pages

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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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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 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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Exodus

Julie Bertagna · 352 pages

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The Believers

Katie French

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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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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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Aquifer

Jonathan Friesen · 287 pages

In 2250, water is scarce and controlled by tyrants, but when sixteen-year-old Luca descends to the domain of the Water Rats, he meets one who captures his heart and leads him to secrets about a vast conspiracy, and about himself. In 2250, water is scarce and controlled by tyrants, but when 16-year-old Luca descends to the domain of the Water Rats, he meets one who captures his heart and leads him

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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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Mortal Engines

Philip Reeve · 373 pages

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Fallocaust

Quil Carter · 827 pages

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The Testing

Joelle Charbonneau

Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in the Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out, her friends who do not pass the Testing disappear.

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The Road

Cormac McCarthy · 287 pages

Cormac McCarthy's tenth novel, The Road, is his most harrowing yet deeply personal work. Some unnamed catastrophe has scourged the world to a burnt-out cinder, inhabited by the last remnants of mankind and a very few surviving dogs and fungi. The sky is perpetually shrouded by dust and toxic particulates; the seasons are merely varied intensities of cold and dampness. Bands of cannibals roam the r

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