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Wool 5 - The Stranded by Hugh Howey
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsIn July of 2011, a short story named WOOL was quietly released into the vast wilds of the Kindle Store. I never marketed this novelette; I failed to mention it on my website. What happened next was remarkable: People started reading it, and reviewing it, and talking about it.There was never any intention to create a series... -
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Escape From The Center Of The Earth by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEscape from the Center of the Earth is the final edition of the blockbusting Center Earth trilogy, closing with a mind-bending climax.'Help me, it’s Ally. Please help me.'A ghostly, sobbing voice is detected from the depths of Russia’s Kola super deep borehole – 9 miles down. A Russian team is dispatched in a desperate rescue mission to find the woman... -
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Nyxia Uprising by Scott Reintgen
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the highly anticipated Nyxia Triad series finale, Emmett and the Genesis team must join forces with a surprising set of allies if they’re ever to make it home alive.Desperate to return home to Earth and claim the reward Babel promised, Emmett and the Genesis team join forces with the Imago. Babel’s initial attack left their home city in ruins, but that was just part of the Imago’s plan... -
![The Solar War by A.G. Riddle]()
The Solar War by A.G. Riddle
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsWe thought the war was over.We were wrong.They decimated Earth during the Long Winter.Now the grid has returned, and they won't stop until the human race is extinct.On a ruined world, humanity's last survivors fight against impossible odds. In their darkest hour, they discover a new hope for survival. But it comes at an unthinkable price, with consequences that will change everything... -
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![The Search for Sam by Pittacus Lore]()
The Search for Sam by Pittacus Lore
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsWhen a rogue Mogadorian meets up with a mysterious amnesiac in Santa Monica, he knows that there's more to this guy than meets the eye. In fact, he might just hold the key to everything.In I Am Number Four: The Lost Files #4, discover what has happened to one of the people with information crucial to the Garde coming together to fight to save Lorien—and Earth... -
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The Fallen Legacies by Pittacus Lore
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsBefore Number Four, there were One, Two, and Three. Until now we've only known that the Mogadorians caught Number One in Malaysia. Number Two in England. And Number Three in Kenya. But all of that is about to change. . . .In I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: The Fallen Legacies, you'll learn the true story behind these ill-fated members of the Garde... -
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The Shores Beyond Time by Kevin Emerson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe conclusion to Kevin Emerson’s epic, which Tui Sutherland, New York Times bestselling author of the Wings of Fire series, has called “perfect science fiction.”It is Earth year 2256—but the fate of the few who even remember Earth is perilously in doubt... -
![The Lost Colony by A.G. Riddle]()
The Lost Colony by A.G. Riddle
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsCan humanity survive on a new world?On Eos, the last survivors of the Long Winter face their greatest challenge yet--and race to unravel the deepest secrets of the grid. It's a journey across space and time and into humanity's past and future--with a twist you'll never forget... -
![Return to the Center of the Earth by Greig Beck]()
Return to the Center of the Earth by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMike Monroe and Jane Baxter barely survived their terrifying journey to the center of the Earth... -
![A Ripple In Time: A Historical Novel Of Survival by Victor Zugg]()
A Ripple In Time: A Historical Novel Of Survival by Victor Zugg
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA struggle for survival in a time long past.It started as a routine Miami to Charlotte flight for the passengers, crew, and Federal Air Marshal Stephen Mason. But a freak storm over the Atlantic propels the airliner unexplainably back in time to the early 18th century. They find themselves on the sparsely populated coast of the Carolina Colony...Categorized as:
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![The Distance by Jeremy Robinson, Hilaree Robinson]()
The Distance by Jeremy Robinson, Hilaree Robinson
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTHEIR JOURNEY BEGINS...The human race has turned to dust. August Morrison faces it after rising from the depths of a dark matter research facility in Arizona. His co-workers. His daughter. All of them: dust. Friends and colleagues around the world don't answer their phones. The city of Phoenix burns. He is alone... -
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Chasing the Shadows by Maria V. Snyder
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsYear 2522. Lyra Daniels is dead.Okay, so I only died for sixty-six seconds. But when I came back to life, I got a brand new name and a snazzy new uniform. Go me! Seriously, though, it's very important that Lyra Daniels stays dead, at least as far as my ex-friend Jarren, the murdering looter, knows.While dying is the scariest thing that's happened to me, it morphed my worming skills... -
![Nyxia Unleashed by Scott Reintgen]()
Nyxia Unleashed by Scott Reintgen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsGetting to Eden brought Emmett and his crewmates one step closer to their promised fortune. But surviving Eden may be the biggest reward of all.Emmett Atwater thought Babel’s game sounded easy. Get points. Get paid. Go home. But it didn’t take long for him to learn that Babel’s competition was full of broken promises, none darker or more damaging than the last one... -
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Chinamerica.: Survivors of a post-apocalyptic world. by Alice Longo
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe mighty United States as we know it is gone,taken over by China after an undisclosed apocalyptic war,and giving birth to a dystopian Chinamerica.Jack Stride, a battle-hardened ex-military hero, survived the initial Chinese attack with his son, Zeke, and his new romantic partner, Lyn, only to be captured and thrown into a military work camp...Categorized as:
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The Dark by Jeremy Robinson
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the twisted imagination of New York Times and #1 Audible bestselling author, Jeremy Robinson, comes a horrifying revelation about the centuries old Three Days of Darkness prophecy, during which the legions of Hell will be unleashed on the Earth. The Dark is a mind-bending and character driven sci-fi-infused horror novel like no other... -
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Calculated by Nova McBee
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLibrarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition for ASIN B08MWMJR9J.Set in Shanghai and Seattle, Calculated is a gritty, modern day blend of The Count of Monte Cristo and Mission Impossible.She has many names – Octavia, Double 8, Phoenix, Josephine. She’s a math prodigy, a calculating genius and everyone wants her... -
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Veiled Vixen by K.C. Cross, J.A. Huss
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAll his other Harem brothers have found their one true love and they are spectacular princesses. Not Valor’s girl.Veila is the definition of evil.Not the kind of girl a guy falls for. Especially a stand-up guy like Valor. He’s not interested in her sexy glow, her pretty hair, or her glowing eyes.No. Valor only wants one thing for his fated princess.Death... -
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Stone Cold Cyborg by Cara Bristol
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDante Stone is an emotionless cyborg who commands a military space fighter. His ship picks up an SOS call from a settlement on the outer edge of Alliance territory, but by the time he can get there, most of the colonists have been massacred. He rescues the traumatized survivors, including archivist Miranda Lowell and her robot dog... -
![Tom Clancy's The Division: New York Collapse : A Survival Guide to Urban Disaster by Alexander C. Irvine, Melcher Media]()
Tom Clancy's The Division: New York Collapse : A Survival Guide to Urban Disaster by Alexander C. Irvine, Melcher Media
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNew York Collapse is an in-world fictionalized companion to one of the biggest video game releases of 2016: Tom Clancy's The Division from Ubisoft. Within this discarded survivalist field guide, written before the collapse, lies a mystery—a handwritten account of a woman struggling to discover why New York City fell...Categorized as:
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![How We Became Wicked by Alexander Yates]()
How We Became Wicked by Alexander Yates
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA plague, called Wicked, is pulsing through the world; and in its wake, it’s dividing the population into thirds:The WICKED: Already infected by the droves of Singers, the ultraviolet mosquito-like insects who carry the plague, the Wicked roam the world freely. They don’t want for much—only to maim and dismember you. But don’t worry: They always ask politely first... -
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Mutation by Chris Morphew
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJordan’s world is falling apart. She’s a prisoner in her own skin, trapped by an enemy who can paralyse her at the touch of a button.And the questions in Phoenix keep piling higher.Why is Jordan starting to see things before they happen? What’s wrong with her mother’s pregnancy? And why do Peter’s old friends suddenly want to talk to him again?The clock is still ticking... -
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Alone by Scott Sigler
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the final installment of an exhilarating sci-fi adventure trilogy in the vein of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Red Rising, Scott Sigler’s unforgettable heroine, Em Savage, must come to grips once and for all with the perilous mysteries of her own existence.“We thought this place was our destiny—not our doom... -
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Alight by Scott Sigler
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratings“If it’s war they want, they messed with the wrong girl.”M. Savage—or Em, as she is called—has made a bewildering and ominous discovery. She and the other young people she was chosen to lead awoke in strange coffins with no memory of their names or their pasts. They faced an empty, unknown place of twisting tunnels and human bones... -
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Inhuman by Kat Falls
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsIn a world ravaged by mutation, a teenage girl must travel into the forbidden Savage Zone to recover lost artifacts or her father’s life is forfeit.America has been ravaged by a war that has left the eastern half of the country riddled with mutation. Many of the people there exhibit varying degrees of animal traits. Even the plantlife has gone feral... -
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![The Fever Code by James Dashner]()
The Fever Code by James Dashner
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsOnce there was a world’s end.The forests burned, the lakes and rivers dried up, and the oceans swelled.Then came a plague, and fever spread across the globe. Families died, violence reigned, and man killed man.Next came WICKED, who were looking for an answer. And then they found the perfect boy.The boy’s name was Thomas, and Thomas built a maze.Now there are secrets.There are lies... -
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The Risen by Erica Stevens
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 12 ratings*****This book is the final compilation and the conclusion to an ongoing serial story. This series must be read in order.*****With new challenges and threats arising every day, the survivors struggle to reach their destination in the hopes of finding somewhere safe to stay... -
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Burning For Revenge by John Marsden
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThe action doesn't let up in the most explosive Tomorrow book yet -- another international bestseller from John Marsden. The journey to Stratton isn't an easy trip, especially when the enemy's headquarters lie somewhere along the way. And that's exactly where Ellie and her friends unwittingly find themselves... -
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Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAn utterly gripping story of alien encounter and survival from Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Children of Time.They looked into the darkness and the darkness looked back . . -
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Lies by Michael Grant
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 55 ratingsIt's been seven months since all the adults disappeared. Gone.It happens in one night. A girl who died now walks among the living; Zil and the Human Crew set fire to Perdido Beach; and amid the flames and smoke, Sam sees the figure of the boy he fears the most: Drake. But Drake is dead. Sam and Caine defeated him along with the Darkness—or so they thought... -
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Storm by D.J. MacHale
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAfter a harrowing escape from Pemberwick Island, Tucker Pierce and his surviving friends—Tori, Kent, and Olivia—have finally reached the mainland, only to find that no one is left.That’s not their only sickening discovery. Moments before they are attacked by another of the mysterious black planes, they investigate one’s wreck and are horrified to find that it bears the logo of the U.S. Air Force... -
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Devil Dog by Boyd Craven, Kevin Pierce
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDick, AKA Devil Dog's world changes drastically when the EMP takes out the power grid. The loss of electricity brings out the darker side of human nature across the city. A homeless Marine veteran living in the abandoned tunnels beneath Chicago, he's far better prepared than most people. Good folk have survived, but they are often outnumbered and outgunned... -
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Trespassers by Todd Wynn, Tim Wynn
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsB.R.A.G. Medallion Winner 2015When four alien visitors arrive on Earth and disappear into the cornfields of Indiana, it is Stewart Faulkner’s job to find them. Who they are, where they’re headed, and what’s important enough to make them jump from a moving spaceship are all questions that Stewart must uncover... -
![A Warp in Time by Jude Watson]()
A Warp in Time by Jude Watson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe harrowing tale of survival and suspicion takes its most dramatic turn yet when Molly, Yoshi, and the rest discover that there are more than just monsters in the rift.There are other kids, too.. -
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The Benders by Katie French
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe third book in the award-winning, best-selling dystopian series. They’ve escaped the Breeders. They’ve broken out of the Citadel. Now, after all they’ve been through, Riley, Clay, and Ethan know one thing for sure: nothing tastes sweeter than freedom. And no one can rest easy with Auntie Bell in bondage. The group journeys home to rescue her and liberate Clay’s town from the cruel Warden... -
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![Contact by Chris Morphew]()
Contact by Chris Morphew
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor the first six months, Peter's life in Phoenix was pretty normal. Hanging out with his friends, frustrating his parents, sleeping through school. Then he found out the world was ending. The Shackleton Co-operative is planning to exterminate the rest of humanity - and they're going to use "Tabitha" to do it... -
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Tomorrow Girls: Behind the Gates by Eva Gray
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn a terrifying future world, four girls must depend on each other if they want to survive.Louisa is nervous about being sent away to a boarding school -- but she’s excited, too. And she has her best friend, Maddie, to keep her company. The girls have to pretend to be twin sisters, which Louisa thinks just adds to the adventure!Country Manor School isn’t all excitement, though...Categorized as:
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Nyxia by Scott Reintgen
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsWhat would you be willing to risk for a lifetime of fortune? Emmett Atwater isn’t just leaving Detroit; he’s leaving Earth. Why the Babel Corporation recruited him is a mystery, but the number of zeroes on their contract has him boarding their lightship and hoping to return to Earth with enough money to take care of his family. Forever... -
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Hunger by Michael Grant
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 64 ratingsIt's been three months since everyone under the age of fifteen became trapped in the bubble known as the FAYZ.Three months since all the adults disappeared. GONE.Food ran out weeks ago. Everyone is starving, but no one wants to figure out a solution. And each day, more and more kids are evolving, developing supernatural abilities that set them apart from the kids without powers... -
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Prized by Caragh M. O'Brien
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsStriking out into the wasteland with nothing but her baby sister, a handful of supplies, and a rumor to guide her, sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone survives, only to be captured by the people of Sylum, a dystopian society where women rule the men who drastically outnumber them, and a kiss is a crime... -
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Erased by Jennifer Rush
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThey thought they had escaped. They were wrong.After fleeing the Branch with Sam, Cas, and Nick, Anna is learning how to survive in hiding, following Sam's rules:Don't draw attention to yourself.Always carry a weapon.Know your surroundings.Watch your back.When memories from Anna's old life begin to resurface—and a figure from her childhood reappears—Anna's loyalties are tested... -
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Earthcore by Scott Sigler
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsDeep below a desolate Utah mountain lies the largest platinum deposit ever discovered. A billion-dollar find, it waits for any company that can drill a world's record, three-mile-deep mine shaft. EarthCore is the company with the technology, the resources and the guts to go after the mother lode... -
![Judgment at Proteus by Timothy Zahn]()
Judgment at Proteus by Timothy Zahn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe Quadrail train connects our galaxy, and takes secret warriors Frank Compton, from Earth, and lovely Bayta, to the horse-like alien Fillies' Proteus Station. The Mohdri, a coral group intelligence, controls minds after a scratch... -
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The System by Shelbi Wescott
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLucy King’s saga continues as she searches for her family and for the truth in Book Two of the Virulent trilogy.It took one week to demolish the world and obliterate the earth’s population. And it took two weeks to solidify the ties of friendship and build-up a small society of survivors who must rely solely on each other to navigate the future’s unknown terrain... -
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Neverwake by Amy Plum
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor most people, nightmares always come to an end. But for Cata, Ant, and the others, there may be no escape from theirs. After an experimental treatment meant to cure their insomnia went horribly wrong, the teens were dragged into a shared dreamworld where their most terrifying fears became reality.The six of them have no way of waking up... -
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![The Fear Trials by Lindsay Cummings]()
The Fear Trials by Lindsay Cummings
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMeadow Woodson has been trained to survive. This is a prequel to The Murder Complex, by Lindsay Cummings, and it is set in a blood-soaked world where the murder rate is higher than the birth rate. For fans of Moira Young's Dust Lands series, La Femme Nikita, and the movie Hanna.Meadow Woodson's father calls it The Fear Trials, and it is a rite of passage in their family... -
![Oxygen by John B. Olson, Randall Ingermanson]()
Oxygen by John B. Olson, Randall Ingermanson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsValkerie Jansen is tough, beautiful, and has an uncanny knack for survival. But that doesn't explain why NASA picks her to be part of a two man, two woman crew to Mars -- or does it?Bob Kaganovski, the ship's mechanic, is paid to be paranoid -- and he's good at it. After a teeth-rattling launch, Bob realizes that his paranoia hasn't prepared him for this trip... -
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The Culling by Ramona Finn
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat happens to a girl trained as a executioner, who finds out her life is a lie?In a solar system where The Authority decides who lives and who dies, only one of their own executioners can stop them.Glade Io is a trained killer... -
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Surviving the Swamp by Grace Hamilton
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSkin of Your Teeth Survival is a reality show made famous for pairing part-time survivalists with a real-life survival situation. Led by world-famous Prepper and Survivalist Wolf Henderson, season ten promises to be different: this time none of the contestants are survivalists—they’ve all been picked to fail... -
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Daunting Days of Winter by Ray Gorham
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKyle Tait, having survived the harrowing, cross-country journey home to his family, must now struggle for existence in a post-EMP world that no one could have imagined just three short months prior. Each day brings new challenges – how to fight the bitter cold, where to scavenge food for the table, how to best fend off intruders and keep their community safe... -
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Wormhole by Richard Phillips
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsWhen the Rho Project’s lead scientist, Dr. Donald Stephenson, is imprisoned for his crimes against humanity, the world dares to hope the threat posed by the Rho Project’s alien technologies is finally over.The world is wrong...
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