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Borough of Bones by John Conroe
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsZone War 2. Ajaya is back in the Zone again - training soldiers to survive the unsurvivable, and using his time inside to hunt for answers of his own. And what he finds reaches far, far outside Manhattan. Human life has been extinguished from the Zone, but what's brewing there is far from satisfied...Categorized as:
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![Peripeteia by Sarah Lyons Fleming]()
Peripeteia by Sarah Lyons Fleming
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the universe of the Until the End of the World series Book two of The City Series is here! (Note: The City Series can be read before or after the Until the End of the World series) Months into the apocalypse, the zombies show no signs of dying, but it’s clear everyone in Sunset Park will die without enough food to outlast the undead...Categorized as:
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Zone War by John Conroe
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsBook 1 of the Zone War series. A few short years from now, eco-terrorists unleash the worst attack the world has ever seen. Over 25,000 autonomous combat drones are released in Manhattan from the hold of a ship. Hundreds of thousands are dead, and the entire island is evacuated and quarantined in just a few days’ time... -
![Junkyard Roadhouse by Faith Hunter]()
Junkyard Roadhouse by Faith Hunter
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJUNKYARD ROADHOUSE - novella 4Shining Smith stands on the brink of achieving her goals, and yet now she could lose everything.The presidents of four motorcycle clubs are coming to claim blood sacrifice and to ink her with motorcycle club tats. Her new roadhouse and its charter have to meet their approval or the roadhouse has no future, and neither does Shining...Categorized as:
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!['Till Death Do Us Part by Mark Tufo]()
'Till Death Do Us Part by Mark Tufo
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsBT, Gary and Mrs. Deneaux race to the Talbot compound in a desperate bid to turn the tides of a lost war. Is Michael dead? Is the question plaguing the Talbots as they prepare for the final showdown with a merciless enemy hell bent on their absolute destruction...Categorized as:
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![Sparks Rise by Alexandra Bracken]()
Sparks Rise by Alexandra Bracken
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsDon’t miss the thrilling novella that connects the last two novels in the New York Times best-selling Darkest Minds trilogy. Sam didn’t think things could get worse at Thurmond rehabilitation camp. Then the Reds arrive. Everyone assumed the kids with firepower had been killed years ago. Instead they were taken away, brainwashed, and returned as terrifyingly effective guards...Categorized as:
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Mind Games by Marc Whipple
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEight Internet friends have an "IRL" meeting in a mountain cabin. But instead of the long weekend get-together they planned, they're suddenly caught up in the end of the world as they knew it!They just met for the first time in real life last night, and today's group wake-up call is strange messages floating in the air telling them that something called a "System Start" has just happened... -
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In Time by Alexandra Bracken
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsDon't miss this exciting short story that connects The Darkest Minds to its much-anticipated sequel, Never Fade. Gabe's life has been devastated in the wake of the economic crash. The only option left for someone like him to escape his tragic past is to leave his small town behind and to attempt to become a skiptracer...Categorized as:
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![The End Has Come and Gone by Mark Tufo]()
The End Has Come and Gone by Mark Tufo
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsShe is coming for you...Categorized as:
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![Alive In A Dead World by Mark Tufo]()
Alive In A Dead World by Mark Tufo
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsEliza turned to Tomas"This is the end...he is no longer alive in a dead world...Categorized as:
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![We're Alive: A Story of Survival, the Fourth Season by K.C. Wayland, Claire Dodin]()
We're Alive: A Story of Survival, the Fourth Season by K.C. Wayland, Claire Dodin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLength: 13h 18minThe battle has begun. There is no more running away or trying to hide. The survivors confront their attackers head on, both human and otherwise... -
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The End by Mark Tufo
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsZombie Fallout 3: The End…Continues Michael Talbot's quest to be rid of the evil named Eliza that hunts him and his family across the country. As the world spirals even further down into the abyss of apocalypse one man struggles to keep those around him safe...Categorized as:
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![Strands of Sorrow by John Ringo]()
Strands of Sorrow by John Ringo
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA hardened group of survivors fights back against a zombie plague that has brought down civilization.With the world consumed by a devastating plague that drives humans violently insane, what was once a band of desperate survivors bobbing on a dark Atlantic ocean has now become Wolf Squadron, the only hope for the salvation of the human race. Banding together with what remains of the U.S...Categorized as:
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Fugitives by Alexander Gordon Smith
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsI am no longer trapped in the darkness. But the darkness is still trapped inside me. We did it. We cracked the gates, escaped from Furnace. We're out, but we're not free. Not yet. Now the whole city is in lockdown — the roads sealed, the police scouring every building. And there are worse things here — creatures of unimaginable fury hunting us down. An unholy army, sent by Alfred Furnace himself...Categorized as:
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![To Sail a Darkling Sea by John Ringo]()
To Sail a Darkling Sea by John Ringo
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsBOOK II IN THE BLACK TIDE RISING SERIES FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR. Sequel to Under a Graveyard Sky. A family of survivors fights back against a zombie plague that has brought down civilization...Categorized as:
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![He Was Not Prepared by Michael Todd, Michael Anderle]()
He Was Not Prepared by Michael Todd, Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHE WAS NOT PREPARED. Born from the fertile imagination of bestselling author Michael Anderle Fountain of Youth, or Valley of Death? While eating his supper of microwave popcorn, PhD student-genius Salinger Jacobs is grabbed from his apartment in California, stuck on a C-130 military plane and sent to the Sahara Desert to witness the reality of the ZOO for himself...Categorized as:
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![Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene by Veronica Roth]()
Free Four: Tobias Tells the Divergent Knife-Throwing Scene by Veronica Roth
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 43 ratings#1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth retells a pivotal Divergent scene (chapter 13) from Tobias's point of view. This thirteen-page scene reveals unknown facts and fascinating details about Four's character, his past, his own initiation, and his thoughts about new Dauntless initiate Tris Prior...Categorized as:
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![As The World Dies Untold Tales Volume 2 by Rhiannon Frater]()
As The World Dies Untold Tales Volume 2 by Rhiannon Frater
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTHE FIRST DAYS: AS THE WORLD DIES introduced Jenni and Katie and their harrowing journey to the makeshift fort in the Texas Hill Country. FIGHTING TO SURVIVE: AS THE WORLD DIES continued their story as the two women joined the members of the makeshift fort in Ashley Oaks in the fight for survival against not only zombies, but the evil designs of bandits. But theirs is not the only tale to be told...Categorized as:
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![Web of Extinction by John Conroe]()
Web of Extinction by John Conroe
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe finale to the Zone War series. Alone and weaponless, with a remote controlled bomb in his neck, Ajaya Gurung must plan and fight better and harder than ever before. The last Spider is out there, in the Zone, plotting the end of man, and man is ignoring the danger. Left with only his skills, wits and courage, he must adapt and overcome before it's too late. If only he had an ace in the hole..Categorized as:
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![The Initiate by Veronica Roth]()
The Initiate by Veronica Roth
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe Initiate provides readers with a glimpse into Tobias's Dauntless initiation experience, including an epic game of late-night Dare; his first tattoo; the beginning of his passion for training new initiates; and his nascent understanding of the danger of being Divergent... -
![Tearing Down the Wall by Tracey Ward]()
Tearing Down the Wall by Tracey Ward
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratings#1 Bestseller on Amazon!The Colonists have attacked. Their ships blaze in the dark on the inky black waters of the Sound. They'll burn through the night, remnants of a battle lost. A battle won by the Vashons. This time.What will come with the morning light is still a mystery, especially to Joss and her Lost Boys...Categorized as:
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![My Dead World 2 by Jacqueline Druga]()
My Dead World 2 by Jacqueline Druga
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA mysterious outbreak has spread quickly, ravaging the globe. The illness is debilitating and deadly. Those who suffer from the virus succumb to a horrible death. Unfortunately, it doesn’t end there. The infection transforms them into an unstoppable force of mindless killing machines...Categorized as:
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![The Forgotten Ones by Pittacus Lore]()
The Forgotten Ones by Pittacus Lore
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Forgotten Ones is the thrilling sixth instalment of the Lost Files by Pittacus Lore.Mogadorian-turned-ally of the Garde, Adam, risks his life to help Sam Goode and his father Malcolm escape the Mogadorian base in Dulce, New Mexico. Using the Legacy that Number One bestowed upon him, he sacrifices himself and brings the entire facility crumbling down on his head... -
![Extinction Edge by Nicholas Sansbury Smith]()
Extinction Edge by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA bioweapon designed to save the world...A scientific discovery that will alter human history...And a new threat that will bring humanity to the Edge of Exctinction.The dust from Dr. Kate Lovato's bioweapon has settled. Projections put death counts in the billions...Categorized as:
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![A God Among Insects Volume 3 by Quil Carter]()
A God Among Insects Volume 3 by Quil Carter
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThings have gone from bad to worse. Dr. Bastian Gibel is determined to right the wrong he’d made centuries before, and while the old man works on a way to eradicate immortals once and for all, the threat of the proxy worms grows stronger. Skyfall is in a dire place, but even with their world falling apart around them, the royal family is still fighting amongst themselves...Categorized as:
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![Rebel Rising by Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham]()
Rebel Rising by Susanne Valenti, Caroline Peckham
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI live in a cage.This city is a lie.And I’m done following the rules.No one knows what lurks beyond The Wall.Only criminals are sent into the wastelands to face the Lawless Trials and I never thought I’d find myself fighting amongst the ruthless convicts who live in the shadows of society.But the more rules I break, the more secrets I unveil...Categorized as:
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![As The World Dies Untold Tales Volume 3 by Rhiannon Frater]()
As The World Dies Untold Tales Volume 3 by Rhiannon Frater
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the third volume of the AS THE WORLD DIES UNTOLD TALES experience three terrifying tales of those who are forced to face the unrelenting and hungry walking dead.Returning to Texas after celebrating his divorce in Vegas, Rune, a biker cursed with the ability to see ghosts, discovers that the world is being taken over by the hungry undead...Categorized as:
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Incursion by M.D. Massey
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsScratch Sullivan just wanted to survive the apocalypse in peace... But when the undead bring their war right to his doorstep, it's time to ranger up and rain hell down on his enemies!Incursion: Vampire ApocalypseTHEM Post-Apocalyptic Series Book TwoIt's been eight years since the bombs fell and the dead rose, and the world has become a very dangerous place... -
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Mutation by Nerys Wheatley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBitten. Infected. Turned.Cured.Alex survived the virus that turns its victims into mindless flesh-eaters, but it left him mutated, with super-human strength and white eyes.Feared and despised.The world has lived with the virus for thirteen years, but now a new strain is turning thousands into ravenous monsters, faster than ever before.And Alex is trapped right in the middle of the outbreak... -
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The Alpha Plague 3 by Michael Robertson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter having found and successfully rescued his ex-wife from the diseased Summit City Rhys drags himself to where he should be meeting his son and discovers he isn’t there. Armed with nothing but hope Rhys and his ex-wife set off on what they believe to be their boy’s trail... -
![War of the Living by Joshua Guess]()
War of the Living by Joshua Guess
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the early days after causing the end of the world, Kell McDonald was just trying to survive. Time passed, and along with others, a new world grew. Society began to be rebuilt. Years have passed since the mutated organism known as Chimera caused the dead to rise, and on the ashes of the old world, terrifying new forces have come into play... -
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Them Early Days - 2nd Prequel by Keith C. Blackmore
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFood. Booze. Weapons. Armor. And any toilet paper he can find.It's been a rough time for Gus Berry. He barely survived the city of Annapolis as its population underwent a violent transformation, leaving everyone he knew or loved either dead or undead.Things aren't much better now, though. In fact, things might have become much worse...Categorized as:
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Home by Theresa Shaver
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook 3 in the best selling Stranded Series: due to some adult content this book is rated for 16+ Five went by Land. Five went by Sea. Nine made it Home. Alex and Emily's two groups are finally united after making their way home from Disneyland after the EMP destroyed all electronics. Their reunion begins in a hail of gunfire and only gets worse from there...Categorized as:
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![Pandemic: The Beginning by Christine Kersey]()
Pandemic: The Beginning by Christine Kersey
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIf you like The Walking Dead but don't like zombies, you'll love PANDEMICWhen a deadly flu sweeps the globe, the Bronson family hunkers down to wait it out. It doesn't take long for society to collapse, but when surviving neighbors band together, hope is restored.That hope is swiftly shattered when a rogue element forms, requiring food in exchange for security and medical services...Categorized as:
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![Talented by Alexandra Moody]()
Talented by Alexandra Moody
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSeventeen-year-old Elle Winters gave up everything for one shot at saving her closest friend. But though she may have escaped the ARC and found her way to the surface, Elle is no closer to finding Sebastian and stranded in a world where she doesn’t belong...Categorized as:
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![As the World Dies: Untold Tales Volume 1 by Rhiannon Frater]()
As the World Dies: Untold Tales Volume 1 by Rhiannon Frater
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTHE FIRST DAYS: AS THE WORLD DIES introduced Jenni and Katie and their harrowing journey to the makeshift fort in the Texas Hill Country. But theirs is not the only tale to be told. In the first volume of the AS THE WORLD DIES UNTOLD TALES experience three terrifying tales of those who are forced to face the unrelenting and hungry walking dead...Categorized as:
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![Kahayatle by Elle Casey]()
Kahayatle by Elle Casey
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis is an alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B008E95UOK.KAHAYATLE. My name is Bryn Mathis. I'm seventeen years old, and I live in a neighborhood outside of Orlando, Florida. I’m here alone because my dad died almost a year ago, along with all the other adults in the world. I'm almost out of food, and the gangs of kids that roam around my town are getting more vicious by the day... -
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The Son by Veronica Roth
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsComplete your Divergent library with the Four stories!Fans of the Divergent series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be thrilled by "Four: The Son," the third of four stories, each between fifty and seventy-five pages long, set in the world of Divergent and told from Tobias's perspective.In "The Son," Tobias struggles to find a place in the hierarchy of the Dauntless... -
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The Traitor by Veronica Roth
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsThe Traitor takes place two years after The Son and runs parallel with the early events in Divergent. In this robust story, readers follow Tobias as he uncovers the details of an Erudite plan that could threaten the faction system, and makes plans of his own to keep Abnegation safe. At the same time, Tobias is getting to know a new transfer initiate: Tris Prior... -
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Conspiracy by Mark Goodwin
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIs there a secret cabal working to collapse the international economy in order to usher in a global government and one-world currency? Noah Parker, like many in the United States, has been asleep at the wheel. During his complacency, the founding precepts of America have been slowly, systematically destroyed by a conspiracy that dates back hundreds of years...Categorized as:
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![These Dead Lands: Immolation by Stephen Knight, Scott Wolf]()
These Dead Lands: Immolation by Stephen Knight, Scott Wolf
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe United States of America is falling before the armies of the dead. Leading the sole survivors of the US Army’s 10th Mountain Division out of the overrun city of New York, Captain Phil Hastings heads for the safety of Fort Indiantown Gap, a National Guard training facility deep in the woodlands of Pennsylvania...Categorized as:
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![The Nothing Within by Andy Giesler]()
The Nothing Within by Andy Giesler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRoot is... different.Though raised in a fearful society that reveres tradition and conformity, she’s irreverent, outspoken, and deeply curious. Her blindness sets her even further apart.Centuries after the Reckoning, a global biotech plague, savage chimeras still threaten human survival. After Root hears a voice that no one else can hear, she flees into the wilderness...Categorized as:
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![The Girl Who Kicked Ass by Angel Lawson]()
The Girl Who Kicked Ass by Angel Lawson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlexandra barely escapes the epic battle against the genetically modified Hybrids and a horde of deadly Eaters but finds herself in an even more dangerous situation...Categorized as:
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![The Girl Who Punched Back by Angel Lawson]()
The Girl Who Punched Back by Angel Lawson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree months have passed since Alexandra traveled through the wasted death fields to reach her sister, Jane. There’s no resemblance to her former life. No college. No best friend. Her mother is dead. Her father and her friend, Cole, toil away in the labs of her sister’s research facility, working to create a vaccine for the virus that ravages the living...Categorized as:
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![The Alpha Plague 2 by Michael Robertson]()
The Alpha Plague 2 by Michael Robertson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEquipped with nothing but a baseball bat and his wits, Rhys enters Summit City for a second time. His son wants his Mummy, and Rhys is the only one that can save her. If he can get to The Alpha Tower, he can release the shutters on all of the buildings in the city. Maybe then he can get his ex-wife and best friend out of there... -
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Resurgence by Kerry Wilkinson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Can I ask you one thing...why does it have to be you?"My throat is dry but I manage to say the words clearly enough: "If I don't do it, who else will?"An entire country has been lied to.Silver Blackthorn was supposed to be one of the privileged few, chosen to serve and help rebuild a shattered nation.Instead, she is a rebel.Tales of her defiance have spread across the land... -
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Outcasts by Timothy W. Long
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen the USS McClusky, a US Naval frigate out of San Diego, ran aground, it was only the beginning for Machinist Mate Jackson Creed and Marine Sergeant Joel “Cruze” Kelly. The unlikely duo battled for survival as they established a base of operations and fought to retain their “fortress." Now they have been driven out of the city by a massive horde of the undead... -
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Greatfall: Part 2 by Jason Gurley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe dark nature of Silo 23 continues to reveal itself to Maya, who lies bleeding and starving in a cell on the uppermost floor, and to Isaac, the innocent boy selected to carry on the silo's terrible legacy... -
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Monsters within Men by T.J. Rose
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLondon, 2053. One of the last remaining civilisations in the world. A decade on from the first wave of human-flesh-craving monsters that wiped out most of society, Noah finds himself stepping up to lead Squad E, part of London’s East Regiment, fighting back against the creatures that threaten mankind... -
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The Savage Boy by Nick Cole
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsForty years after the end of civilization... The author of the acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel The Old Man and the Wasteland returns! Amid the remains of a world destroyed by a devastating Global Thermonuclear Armageddon, barbaric tribes rule the New American Dark Age...Categorized as:
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