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Animal Farm / 1984 by George Orwell
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 72 ratingsThis edition features George Orwell’s best-known novels—1984 and Animal Farm—with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens.In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith joins a secret revolutionary organisation called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party...Categorized as:
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![Crisis by Kurt Schlichter]()
Crisis by Kurt Schlichter
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKelly Turnbull, the hero of PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC, INDIAN COUNTRY, WILDFIRE, and COLLAPSE, is back this fifth novel that tells the story of how America split apart into red and blue...Categorized as:
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![Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Thomas Pynchon]()
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Thomas Pynchon
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 82 ratingsThe new novel by George Orwell is the major work towards which all his previous writing has pointed. Critics have hailed it as his "most solid, most brilliant" work. Though the story of Nineteen Eighty-Four takes place thirty-five years hence, it is in every sense timely. The scene is London, where there has been no new housing since 1950 and where the city-wide slums are called Victory Mansions...Categorized as:
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![Warden of Time by Sarah Woodbury]()
Warden of Time by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWarden of Time continues the story of time travel, romance, and adventure begun with Daughter of Time ...As both modern man and medieval king, David is committed to transforming medieval England into his own version of Avalon. Not everyone supports his ideals, however, and having offended the pope by welcoming Jews and heretics into England, David is summoned to Canterbury to explain himself...Categorized as:
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![Interlude-Brandon by Terry Schott]()
Interlude-Brandon by Terry Schott
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBrandon Strayne.Brilliant computer programmer, businessman, and world leader.Where did this mysterious man come from?This volume details his history and rise to power.Before there was the Game...there was a boy....This takes the story of the Game even further by viewing how it all started!A must read for all fans of the Game is Life Series... -
![Parable of the Sower / Parable of the Talents / Kindred by Octavia E. Butler]()
Parable of the Sower / Parable of the Talents / Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
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![Standing in the Storm by William Alan Webb]()
Standing in the Storm by William Alan Webb
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's kick ass time again! When the Last Brigade begins its mission of rebuilding America, they find enemies on all sides. In nearby Prescott, Arizona, a maniacal warlord proclaims himself the legitimate successor to the USA. To the east lurks the strange religious cult named the Caliphate of the Seven Prayers of the New Prophet, which kills anyone who doesn't convert... -
![City Escape by Theresa Shaver]()
City Escape by Theresa Shaver
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFive went by Land and Five went by Sea...the rest stayed in the City...this is their story. Mrs. Moore knew that leaving the city was the best chance that she and her students had to survive the EMP pulse but when half of her charges refused to leave she knows she has to stay and try and protect them... -
![Crossroads in Time by Sarah Woodbury]()
Crossroads in Time by Sarah Woodbury
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThree years have passed since the events chronicled in Prince of Time...Anna has made a place for herself in thirteenth century Wales as a wife, mother, and healer. David has taken more of the kingdom's rule on his shoulders, even as his relationship with Lili has caused friction with his father, King Llywelyn... -
![Sun & Smoke: An Endless Winter Novel by Theresa Shaver]()
Sun & Smoke: An Endless Winter Novel by Theresa Shaver
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook 1 Snow & AshBook 2 Rain & RuinBook 3 Sun & SmokeSkylar Ross and Rex Larson just settled into a new way of life when a simple mistake changes everything. General Bill Mallor, Skylar's Godfather, should have been a welcome sight when he and his men roll into town and save them...Categorized as:
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![Rising Tides by Susan Kiernan-Lewis]()
Rising Tides by Susan Kiernan-Lewis
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe tides are definitely rising in the 5th installment of the Irish End Game Series. Rising Tides is the story of two desperate journeys to find lost loved ones culminating in a shocking discovery—one with the power to destroy all of Europe...Categorized as:
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![Fateful Lightning by William R. Forstchen]()
Fateful Lightning by William R. Forstchen
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe latest chapter in a unique, epic military science fiction series that sweeps from Civil War America to a time-warped world of horrifying conflict. The Civil War Yankees, lost in another world and time, find themselves part of a tactical retreat from the onslaught of the mysterious Merki hordes, reenacting the Russian retreats against the French and Germans... -
![The Devil You Know by R.A. Hakok]()
The Devil You Know by R.A. Hakok
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Juvies have fled Eden for Mount Weather, but Gabriel knows they’re not safe there. As soon as winter ends and the storms clear Kane will send Peck for them. Gabriel has a plan, though. They have Marv’s map, with all the other bunkers that once were part of the Federal Relocation Arc marked on it. And Gabriel knows the outside; he’s spent years scavenging it, after all... -
![Standing at the Edge by William Alan Webb, J. Gunnar Grey]()
Standing at the Edge by William Alan Webb, J. Gunnar Grey
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsNick Angriff’s ultimate enemy finally takes the stage and the 7th Cavalry will never be the same. Operation Overtime has come through its first winter in post-Collapse America in better shape than expected. Food is plentiful, the city of Prescott is healing, and there’s even a battalion of new recruits for the Marines...Categorized as:
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![VASHON ISLAND FALL by M.J. Witt, L.A. Bayles]()
VASHON ISLAND FALL by M.J. Witt, L.A. Bayles
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFaced with survival after the world goes dark, could you and your family handle the challenges as society and rule of law crumble around you? Living on an island in the Puget Sound between Seattle and Tacoma has many benefits, but it also carries its own unique challenges...Categorized as:
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![As the Last I May Know by S.L. Huang]()
As the Last I May Know by S.L. Huang
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAn alternate history short story looking at decisions and consequences, and what it takes to pull the trigger.Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Short Story...Categorized as:
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![Primordial Earth: Book 4 by Baileigh Higgins]()
Primordial Earth: Book 4 by Baileigh Higgins
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is their world, and we are the prey.Outnumbered and outgunned, Rogue and the Exiles are on the run from the ruthless General Sikes. Finding refuge in the abandoned Shanghai tunnels, the survivors are running out of time and options. Trapped in the past, the fight for their future has just begun...Categorized as:
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![Primordial Earth: Book 3 by Baileigh Higgins]()
Primordial Earth: Book 3 by Baileigh Higgins
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is their world, and we are the prey.Captured, beaten, and on the brink of death, Rogue and the surviving members of the resistance barely manage to escape the dungeons of Prime City with their lives. As they set out into the unknown they must prepare for the fight of their lives.A storm is coming..Categorized as:
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![The Mayan Prophecy by Alex Scarrow]()
The Mayan Prophecy by Alex Scarrow
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLiam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance—to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history.. -
![Les Portes d'Occident by Pierre Bordage]()
Les Portes d'Occident by Pierre Bordage
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEn l'an 2212, le monde est divisé en deux par le REM : une immense barrière électromagnétique. D'un côté, on trouve les pays occidentaux, à l'origine de la séparation et de l'autre, le reste du monde.À l'Est, les croisades successives, religieuses ou idéologiques, contre la science ont fait retomber ces pays dans un quasi Moyen Âge. Confort et nourriture sont des denrées rares... -
![Acts of War by James L. Young Jr.]()
Acts of War by James L. Young Jr.
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSomehow I doubt that this is quite how anyone expected Adolf Hitler's death to turn out...--Squadron Leader Adam Haynes, No. 303 (Polish) SquadronAugust 1942. London is in flames. Heinrich Himmler's Germany stands triumphant in the West, its "Most Dangerous Enemy" forced to the peace table by a hailstorm of nerve gas and incendiaries...Categorized as:
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![Zeroglyph by Vance Pravat]()
Zeroglyph by Vance Pravat
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEx Machina meets Rear Window in a mind-bending sci-fi thriller about machine morality.Raphael is the holy grail of AI: a superintelligent robot that’s been programmed to be the perfect moral being. Or at least that’s what Andy, its creator, believes... -
![Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 by M.E. O'Brien, Eman Abdelhadi]()
Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 by M.E. O'Brien, Eman Abdelhadi
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBy the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism—New York City... -
![1636: Mission to the Mughals by Eric Flint, Griffin Barber]()
1636: Mission to the Mughals by Eric Flint, Griffin Barber
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe latest entry in the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series created by Eric Flint. After carving a free state for itself in war-torn 17th century Europe, citizens of the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia go on a quest for the makings of medicines that have yet to be invented in 17th century Europe...Categorized as:
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![The Hopkins Manuscript: A Novel by R.C. Sherriff]()
The Hopkins Manuscript: A Novel by R.C. Sherriff
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor fans of the popular and award-winning Netflix movie Don’t Look Up, a prescient, rediscovered speculative novel about how a small English village prepares for the end of the world. Edgar Hopkins is a retired math teacher in his mid-fifties with a strong sense of self-importance, whose greatest pride in life is winning poultry breeding contests...Categorized as:
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![Noblesse Oblige by Maiwenn Alix]()
Noblesse Oblige by Maiwenn Alix
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"Très chers téléspectateurs, bienvenue dans cette nouvelle saison de Noblesse Oblige !"La révolution de 1789 n'ayant pas abouti, la France est dirigée par le Roi Louis XXI. La monarchie autoritaire s'assure néanmoins le soutien du peuple en mettant en scène son faste et sa cour dans des émissions de téléréalité. " Noblesse oblige " est la plus regardée d'entre elles...Categorized as:
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![A Girl in Time by John Birmingham, Vanessa Johansson]()
A Girl in Time by John Birmingham, Vanessa Johansson
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe past is another country. A dangerous one. On the eve of a huge, breakout success, a poor but brilliant young game developer is pulled out of her world, and time itself, by a cowboy desperately searching for the daughter he lost two hundred years ago. Cady McCall is ready to be rich and famous. She’s sacrificed everything, putting her work ahead of family and friends...Categorized as:
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![Among the Betrayed by Margaret Peterson Haddix]()
Among the Betrayed by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 26 ratings"Everything that had happened to Nina was real. She had real handcuffs on her wrists, real scars on her back, real fear flooding her mind. "'They're going to kill me,' Nina whispered, and it was almost a relief to finally, finally give up hope...Categorized as:
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![A Door Into Time by Shawn Inmon]()
A Door Into Time by Shawn Inmon
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsNot all guys obsess over tiny details. But Army Rangers do.The basement wall just didn't look right.Alex has been trying to cope. Life after his deployment had been rough. His ex-wife thought he needed to stop disappointing their daughter. She was right.He would try harder.With six hours before his little girl's fourth birthday party, he saw the anomaly. One wall was too short...Categorized as:
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![Gates of Rome by Alex Scarrow]()
Gates of Rome by Alex Scarrow
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsLiam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912.Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026.But all three have been given a second chance—to work for an agency that no one knows exists. Its purpose: to prevent time travel destroying history.. -
![Primordial Earth: Book 2 by Baileigh Higgins]()
Primordial Earth: Book 2 by Baileigh Higgins
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is their world, and we are the prey.An outlaw in a savage world, Rogue barely survives her first encounter with the prehistoric creatures outside the walls of Prime City. After a mysterious stranger saves her life, she's reunited with her long lost mother. Hoping for a fresh start, she joins the Exiles, a group of survivors who live off the land. But not all welcome her with open arms...Categorized as:
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![The Final Day by William R. Forstchen]()
The Final Day by William R. Forstchen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsThe highly-anticipated follow-up to William R. Forstchen’s New York Times bestsellers, One Second After and One Year After, The Final Day immerses readers once more in the story of our nation’s struggle to rebuild itself after an electromagnetic pulse wipes out all electricity and plunges the country into darkness, starvation, and terror...Categorized as:
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![Time's Mirror by Rysa Walker]()
Time's Mirror by Rysa Walker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe only things on Prudence Pierce's mind are seducing her violin instructor and, with the help of her sister Deborah, avoiding the wrath of their mother for stepping out of the house dressed like Madonna...Categorized as:
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![That is All by John Hodgman]()
That is All by John Hodgman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJohn Hodgman-bestselling author, The Daily Show's "Resident Expert", minor television celebrity, and deranged millionaire-brings us the third and final installment in his trilogy of Complete World Knowledge...Categorized as:
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![Cyberabad Days by Ian McDonald]()
Cyberabad Days by Ian McDonald
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCyberabad Days returns to the India of 2047 as featured in Ian McDonald's acclaimed novel River of Gods...Categorized as:
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![Invasion: Colorado by Vaughn Heppner]()
Invasion: Colorado by Vaughn Heppner
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings2039: World War III begins with the Chinese invasion of the American Midwest. In the third book of the Invasion America Series, bitter glacial cooling has brought the Earth to the brink of starvation, making U.S. soil the most valuable in the world.From Mexico, the Chinese-dominated Pan-Asian Alliance and the South American Federation smash across the Rio Grande... -
![Invasion: California by Vaughn Heppner]()
Invasion: California by Vaughn Heppner
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe invasion of California has begun, threatening to trigger World War III.In the second book of the Invasion America Series, Greater China and its South American allies control Mexico. Their armies are poised on the Rio Grande, ready for the next phase of the North American conquest.It is 2039. The Chinese are launching their secret weapon against the American border fortifications... -
![Contagion by Baileigh Higgins]()
Contagion by Baileigh Higgins
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA survivor is born...Life is different now. Harsh. Unforgiving. Lonely.After finding a new home, Ava battles to keep those under her care safe and protected. She is confronted daily by new dangers, while struggling to contain her grief over the loss of her lover, Brian. Nonetheless, she is determined to hold on to hope and build a new tomorrow for them all...Categorized as:
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![Ice and Fire by David Wingrove]()
Ice and Fire by David Wingrove
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings‘Colossal. A long-awaited, elaborately frightening vision of the future’ - Sunday Times Chung Kuo, the great globe-spanning City constructed of the super-plastic Ice, enjoys a brief if uneasy peace, which is threatened by the discovery of the Aristotle File...Categorized as:
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![The 9/11 Machine by Greg Enslen]()
The 9/11 Machine by Greg Enslen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsASIN moved from less recent edition hereDr. Donald Ellis lost his family on 9/11. But while others grieved, or plotted revenge, Dr. Ellis threw himself into a long-dormant research project. He traded his lab at the University of New York for an ugly riverfront warehouse in Brooklyn...Categorized as:
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![Dust and Shadow by Lindsey Pogue]()
Dust and Shadow by Lindsey Pogue
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEleven years ago, my mother was murdered, and still, her killer lives in plain sight. In Sagebrush Canyon, thirst rules, ignorance is power, and nothing is as it seems. It’s been two centuries since the boom of the Industrial Revolution sent the Victorian world into a devastating climatic shift...Categorized as:
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![Soledad by D.L. Young]()
Soledad by D.L. Young
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA BROKEN-WORLD FUTURE YOU WON'T FORGET. A GRIPPING, FAST-PACED STORY YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO PUT DOWN. WINNER OF THE INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD. Soledad Paz is a slave, sold to a ruthless rebel leader by marauders who raided her home and murdered her parents...Categorized as:
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![Fall of the Cities: Planting the Orchard by Vance Huxley]()
Fall of the Cities: Planting the Orchard by Vance Huxley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe world is falling apart. Terrorists spark a worldwide oil and gas crisis while imports grind to a halt. Europe and Britain are erupting into chaos as food runs out and desperate people take matters into their own hands. As the government begins to seal off rioting parts of the city, Corporal Harry Miller takes an offered discharge to get his sister and her kids to safety... -
![Beneath the Tree of Heaven by David Wingrove]()
Beneath the Tree of Heaven by David Wingrove
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe spellbinding saga of the future continues in the year 2211. The Seven T'ang, the ruling dictatorship of the solar system, is weakened by the birth of a special child, and the forces of rebellion and change are spreading from the mega-cities of Earth to a secretive, planet-wide conspiracy on Mars... -
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![The Stone Within by David Wingrove]()
The Stone Within by David Wingrove
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA dying old man's dreams warn the Seven T'Ang that a fierce storm is approaching...so dark, so deadly it can destroy a world. Not even the T'ang, rulers of the magnificent mile-high city-kingdoms of the planet, can predict from where the danger will come. As assassins spread outward to a fortified palace in space, treachery moves inway into men's and women's heart to bring down a dynasy.. -
![One of Us by Craig DiLouie]()
One of Us by Craig DiLouie
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKnown as "the plague generation" a group of teenagers begin to discover their hidden powers in this shocking post-apocalyptic coming of age story set in 1984.They've called him a monster from the day he was born.Abandoned by his family, Enoch Bryant now lives in a rundown orphanage with other teenagers just like him. He loves his friends, even if the teachers are terrified of them... -
![You Feel It Just Below the Ribs by Jeffrey Cranor, Janina Matthewson]()
You Feel It Just Below the Ribs by Jeffrey Cranor, Janina Matthewson
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA fictional autobiography in an alternate twentieth century that chronicles one woman’s unusual life, including the price she pays to survive and the cost her choices hold for the society she is trying to save.Born at the end of the old world, Miriam grows up during The Great Reckoning, a sprawling, decades-long war that nearly decimates humanity and strips her of friends and family...Categorized as:
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NSA - Nationales Sicherheits-Amt by Andreas Eschbach
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWeimar 1942: Die Programmiererin Helene arbeitet im Nationalen Sicherheits-Amt und entwickelt dort Programme, mit deren Hilfe alle Bürger des Reichs überwacht werden. Erst als die Liebe ihres Lebens Fahnenflucht begeht und untertauchen muss, regen sich Zweifel in ihr...Categorized as:
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![Liberator by Richard Harland]()
Liberator by Richard Harland
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEquality remains elusive in this stunning steampunk sequel to Worldshaker. In the aftermath of the events of Worldshaker, the Filthies control the massive juggernaut, now called Liberator. Many members of the former upper class, called Swanks, have remained behind to help teach them how to operate the juggernaut and to build a new society together. But all is not idyllic aboard Liberator... -
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Lights Out EMP Thriller Super Boxset by Roger Hayden, James Hunt
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDystopian masterminds James Hunt, author of “Static”, and Roger Hayden, author of “Grid Down”, which have collectively accumulated 200+ five-star reviews come together in this SUPER BOX SET for the first time! That’s TWO complete book SERIES comprised of SIX NOVELS at a discounted price! Static (White Noise, Fade to Gray, Blackout) Wren Burton, one of the top architects in Chicago, has never...
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