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Wool 3 by Hugh Howey
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe silo has appointed a new sheriff. Her name is Juliette, and she comes not from the shadows of deputies, but from the depths of the down deep... -
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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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Light by Michael Grant
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsIt's been over a year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.In the time since every person over the age of fourteen disappeared from the town of Perdido Beach, California, countless battles have been fought: battles against hunger and lies and plague, and epic battles of good against evil... -
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Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 59 ratingsAs a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. The indigenous Spackle, thinking and acting as one, have mobilized to avenge their murdered people. Ruthless human leaders prepare to defend their factions at all costs, even as a convoy of new settlers approaches... -
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Execution by Alexander Gordon Smith
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsThe whole world has become a prison, and Alfred Furnace is its master. Monsters rule the streets, beasts of pure fury that leave nothing but murder and madness in their wake. Those who do not die are turned, becoming slaves to Furnace's reign of cruelty. It is a war to end all wars, one that will leave the planet in ruins. I am a monster too. I am one of Alfred Furnace's children... -
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Convergence by Mark Tufo, John O'Brien
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHaving survived Atlantis, the town of Indian Hill beckons. As Mike and Trip make their way toward Indian Hill and are in search of some much needed answers, Jack is fast on their heels. It is a dangerous journey fraught with all manner of creatures. Zombies, Night Runners and the Alien Whistlers do their best to prevent the trio from ever going home again... -
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The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 62 ratingsWe were in the square, in the square where I'd run, holding her, carrying her, telling her to stay alive, stay alive till we got safe, till we got to Haven so I could save her - But there weren't no safety, no safety at all, there was just him and his men...Fleeing before a relentless army, Todd has carried a desperately wounded Viola right into the hands of their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss... -
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Edge of Madness by Kyla Stone
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsA devastating EMP. No power. No communication. And no help...On the five-year anniversary of his wife Hannah's disappearance, small-town deputy Noah Sheridan takes his young son Milo to a local ski resort for some much needed father-son time. In a blink, the power grid goes out. So do the resort's brand new generators... -
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Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 47 ratingsConnor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives.The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child "unwound," whereby all of the child's organs are transplanted into different donors, so life doesn't technically end... -
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Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, Andy Weir
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 87 ratingsJason Dessen is walking home through the chilly Chicago streets one night, looking forward to a quiet evening in front of the fireplace with his wife, Daniela, and their son, Charlie—when his reality shatters.- - -'Are you happy in your life?'Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious...Categorized as:
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UnWholly by Neal Shusterman
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 50 ratingsAlternate cover for this ISBN can be found hereIt’s finally here. The long-awaited sequel to the bestselling Unwind, which Publishers Weekly called a “gripping, brilliantly imagined futuristic thriller.”Thanks to Connor, Lev, and Risa—and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp—people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding... -
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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... -
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Death Sentence by Alexander Gordon Smith
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsAlex's second attempt to break out of Furnace Penetentiary has failed. This time his punishment will be much worse than before. Because in the hidden, bloodstained laboratories beneath the prison, he will be made into a monster. As the warden pumps something evil into his veins--a sinisterly dark nectar--Alex becomes what he most fears . . . a superhuman minion of Furnace... -
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Solitary by Alexander Gordon Smith
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFurnace Prison ...Where death is the least of your worries.Escape is just the beginning ...We thought we’d made it, we thought we were free. But we should have known there was no way out of Furnace.All we did was slip deeper into the guts of the prison: into solitary confinement, where the real nightmares live - the warden, the Wheezers, and something much, much worse.The clock’s ticking... -
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UnSouled by Neal Shusterman
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsTeens fight for their humanity in this thrilling third book in the New York Times bestselling Unwind Dystology series by Neal Shusterman.Connor and Lev are on the run after the destruction of the Graveyard, the last safe haven for AWOL unwinds... -
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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... -
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Fear by Michael Grant
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 47 ratingsIt's been one year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.Despite the hunger and the lies, even despite the plague, the kids of Perdido Beach are determined to survive. Creeping into the tenuous new world they've built, though, is perhaps the worst incarnation yet of the enemy known as the Darkness: fear... -
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The Fractured Dark by Megan E. O'Keefe
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDying planets, dangerous conspiracies, and secret romance abound in the second installment of the Devoured Worlds trilogy by award-winning author Megan E. O'Keefe. Naira and Tarquin have escaped vicious counter-revolutionaries, misprinted monsters, and the pull of a dying planet... -
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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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Plague by Michael Grant
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 50 ratingsIt's been eight months since all the adults disappeared. GONE.They've survived hunger. They've survived lies. But the stakes keep rising, and the dystopian horror keeps building. Yet despite the simmering unrest left behind by so many battles, power struggles, and angry divides, there is a momentary calm in Perdido Beach... -
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Unleashed by Dirk Patton
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsJohn Chase has just arrived in Atlanta on a business trip when America experiences the worst attacks in history. Nuclear bombs destroy cities and the widespread release of nerve gas sends the majority of the surviving population into a murderous rage... -
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The Village by Iain Rob Wright
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe fungus is spreading and life is changing, becoming corrupted...Continue Ryan and Aaron's story as they flee the cottage by the hill and finally make it to the village where they hope to find safety, but the threat of the quickly spreading fungus is only growing worse, and not everyone in the village welcomes strangers. It's time to meet the locals. -
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The Devil's Shallows by Debra Castaneda
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEight miles of mystery. One night of terror.Residents trapped in a remote neighborhood confront the unimaginable in this horror novel from award-winning author Debra Castaneda.The salt marsh at Devil’s Landing is home to a terrifying urban legend.Adam Gray knows the old stories about the Slough Devil, the missing children, and the mutilated animals... -
![Commune: Book One by Joshua Gayou]()
Commune: Book One by Joshua Gayou
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor dinosaurs, it was a big rock. For humans: Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). When the Earth is hit by the greatest CME in recorded history (several times larger than the Carrington Event of 1859), the combined societies of the planet’s most developed nations struggle to adapt to a life thrust back into the Dark Ages... -
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![Alight by Scott Sigler]()
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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Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsFurnace Penitentiary: the world’s most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth’s surface. Convicted of a murder he didn’t commit, sentenced to life without parole, “new fish” Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign himself to a death behind bars, in the darkness at the bottom of the world. Except in Furnace, death is the least of his worries... -
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The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 62 ratingsWith undertones of vampires, Frankenstein, dragons' hoards, and killing fields, Matt's story turns out to be an inspiring tale of friendship, survival, hope, and transcendence. A must-read for teenage fantasy fans.At his coming-of-age party, Matteo Alacrán asks El Patrón's bodyguard, "How old am I?...I know I don't have a birthday like humans, but I was born... -
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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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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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Point of Impact by Kyla Stone
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSurviving the blast is only the beginning… Dakota Sloane, a tough-as-nails former foster kid, has spent her life running from the past. Her only family is her little sister, still trapped in the system. When the news shows the bombs striking several major cities, Dakota’s first thought is to grab her sister and get the hell out of Miami. Logan Garcia is a man haunted by secrets... -
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Genesis by Brendan Reichs
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNoah Livingston knows he is destined to survive. The sixty-four members of Fire Lake's sophomore class are trapped in a place where morals have no meaning, and zero rules apply. But Noah's deaths have trained him, hardened him, to lead the strongest into the future - whatever that may be - at any cost.Min Wilder knows that survival alone isn't enough... -
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The Abyss by Orson Scott Card, James Cameron
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsLibrarian's note: There are Alternate Cover Editions for this edition of this book here and here.From the author of "Speaker's for the Dead", and "Seventh Son", this science fiction thriller is set in the Caribbean where a US submarine is mysteriously attacked. Foul play by the Soviets is suspected, and the world draws close to nuclear war. But the answer has nothing to do with human deeds... -
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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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![The Maze Runner by James Dashner]()
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 91 ratingsThere are alternate cover editions for this ASIN here and here.If you ain’t scared, you ain’t human. When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone. Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade. Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze... -
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Fear the Fallout by Kyla Stone
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIf the radiation doesn't kill you, the survivors will. Dakota and Logan continue their treacherous journey to escape the radioactive ruins of downtown Miami, but danger threatens at every turn... Preorder now... -
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The Fall by Thomas A. Watson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsWhat would you do in an apocalyptic event? How would your family and friends survive? Could you survive? Join two families on a journey through hell on earth as they try to save themselves and maybe mankind.A super virus has been unleashed on mankind. Our way of life and the modern day speed of travel spread the virus from the jungles of Africa around the world in days... -
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Sky on Fire by Emmy Laybourne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsTrapped in a superstore by a series of escalating disasters, including a monster hailstorm and terrifying chemical weapons spill, brothers Dean and Alex learned how to survive and worked together with twelve other kids to build a refuge from the chaos. But then strangers appeared, destroying their fragile peace, and bringing both fresh disaster and a glimmer of hope... -
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Savage Drift by Emmy Laybourne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe stunningly fierce conclusion to Emmy Laybourne's Monument 14 trilogy.The survivors of the Monument 14 have finally made it to the safety of a Canadian refugee camp. Dean and Alex are cautiously starting to hope that a happy ending might be possible.But for Josie, separated from the group and trapped in a brutal prison camp for exposed Type Os, things have gone from bad to worse... -
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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... -
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Please Remain Calm by Courtney Summers
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsIn this gripping sequel to THIS IS NOT A TEST, Rhys and Sloane are headed for a safe haven when they get separated along the way. Rhys is determined to reunite with Sloane until he discovers people who might need him more--people who offer him the closest he'll get to everything he's lost, if they can just hold on long enough... -
![The Hill by Iain Rob Wright]()
The Hill by Iain Rob Wright
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAn ancient land breeds a new threat…The Scottish Highlands; a sparse, mountainous region some say was carved by the gods themselves. Few places are as untouched as this harsh, prehistoric landscape. It is no place for man... -
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Undone by Elizabeth Norris
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBefore the accident. Before their universes collided. Before they fell in love.Riveting and romantic, Undone: An Unraveling Novella contains three short stories set in the world of Unraveling, the first book in the gripping sci-fi duology by Elizabeth Norris... -
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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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![The First 30 Days by Lora Powell]()
The First 30 Days by Lora Powell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“Zombies. It was out in the open, that word that I had been avoiding for days. Now that it was out, there was no putting it back.” No one saw it coming. No one could have guessed that the vaccine that was supposed to save lives would take them instead. Once the death toll started to climb, it took less than a day for the world to change forever... -
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Apex Predator by M.T. Anderson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe journey through the rift becomes even rockier as the survivors are forced to take to the water, crossing a vast lake on improvised boats.But halfway across, they discover something is tracking them from deep beneath surface, a colossal monster that's stranger--and larger--than anything they've encountered yet.New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award winner M.T... -
![The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness]()
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 69 ratingsTodd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks... -
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Bloom by Kenneth Oppel
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe first book in a can't-put-it-down, can't-read-it-fast-enough action-thriller trilogy that's part Hatchet, part Little Shop of Horrors!The invasion begins--but not as you'd expect. It begins with rain. Rain that carries seeds. Seeds that sprout--overnight, everywhere. These new plants take over crop fields, twine up houses, and burrow below streets. They bloom--and release toxic pollens... -
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The Thing by Alan Dean Foster
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt fell from the sky and lay buried in ice for 100,000 years.Soon it will be free...TWELVE MENTrapped in the Antarctic.ELEVENDiscover the intruder.TENBattle the alien force.NINEAgonise for the answer.EIGHTDesperate to be spared.SEVENConsumed one by one.SIX...FIVE...FOUR...THREE...They will all die.Unless something, anything stops.. -
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The Power of the Night by Chris Walley
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the spirit of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lamb among the Stars series weaves the worlds of science and the spirit, technology and the supernatural into something unique and haunting. On the faraway planet of Farholme, humans live in peace under the gentle rule of the Assembly. War and evil are ancient history. But suddenly, almost imperceptibly, things begin to change...
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