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End of Summer by S.M. Anderson
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen a viral apocalypse kills 97% percent of the people on the planet, the survivor's humanity is hanging by a thread. Fighting over the leftovers of civilization, what's needed is a hero that's more killer than saint. The people he finds become family and that is very bad news for those who think they are running things... -
Haven by Elle Casey
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMy name's Bryn Mathis. I'm seventeen years old, and I'm alive at a critical time in our world's history, unlike all the adults and babies who didn't survive the virus that almost wiped out the human race. Alliances are building, enemies are gathering, and everything's about to reach the boiling point... -
Days of Terror by Jack Hunt
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe fight for survival ends in the final installment of the EMP Survival series...The nation is in turmoil, resources are rare, and the desperate are terrifying.After two dangerous weeks on the road, Elliot and his family arrive at the compound in Texas. But with a war on the horizon, and threats at every turn, they soon discover their journey may have been in vain... -
The Isles of Elysium by Sam Sisavath
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA year after The Purge, mankind is still an endangered species, but the Isles may finally offer the path to... -
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Alone at the End of the World by M.P. McDonald
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhile a deadly virus races through the world’s population, survivors struggle to find others who are still alive because nobody wants to be Alone at the End of the World. Thirteen-year-old Ethan should be practicing his skateboard moves, not watching his family members die, one by one. He knows he could become a victim of the evil infection at any minute...Categorized as:
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Exodus by Elle Casey
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsThis is an alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B0091XN0JK.NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR, ELLE CASEY, brings readers Book 3 of 4 in the YA Dystopian APOCALYPSIS Series, suitable for older teens and adults. EXODUS. My name’s Bryn Mathis. I'm seventeen years old, and my world has been turned upside down and inside out. I'm racing toward a future I cannot control... -
The Ashes of Pompeii by Sam Sisavath
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsEVERY WAR REQUIRES SACRIFICES.The only way to survive in a post-Purge world is to keep your head down, but that's not always an option.Still stranded in the Louisiana countryside, Will, Danny, and Gaby race against the clock to get back to their friends, but the road home is treacherous and enemies lie in wait... -
Ghost Towns by Bella Forrest
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsContinue the journey in the thrilling penultimate book of The Child Thief series (as we move toward the grand finale in Book 6!)Now that Robin has discovered a lead on her daughter, all she can think about is tracking her down. And her birth parents—whom Robin never dreamed she’d have the opportunity to meet...Categorized as:
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The Truth is Contagious by Emily Goodwin
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Truth is Contagious, the epic conclusion to the award winning Contagium Series!A mysterious virus has infected most of the world’s population. This sickness transforms the living into violent “crazies” and eventually into the flesh-eating undead.Orissa and Hayden have survived in this new harrowing world... -
As We Break by Jack Hunt
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNo internet. No communication network. No power. Now survive.Ten days after a massive cyber attack tears a hole in the nation's infrastructure and brings the country to its knees, Sam, Anna, Mason and Amanda are preparing for the worst as the town of Breckenridge, Colorado is about to break... -
The Spears of Laconia by Sam Sisavath
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsSOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO MAKE A STAND.They've been relentlessly hounded ever since The Purge decimated the world, and every day since has been a struggle to stay one step ahead of the enemy.Keo has returned, claiming to have information that can turn the tide of war against the ghouls... -
Brutal by Hope Hart
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe calls himself an ‘acquisitions expert.’In reality, the charming, handsome Thesian is a space pirate. And I trust the 7-foot tall alien about as far as I can throw him.But at this point, I have to trust someone. Because the Grivath are hunting a little girl. A little girl who had the bad luck to grow up as a royal on a planet that they want to control... -
Destruction by J.M. Madden
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGoing back into the torture camp where he’d been so brutally abused is the last thing Navy SEAL Drake Fontana wants to do, but if there are other men being experimented upon he has to be the one to get them out. And he has to give them an option other than to be a test subject to the Silverstone Collaborative, the pharmaceutical company funding the diabolical experiments... -
Pursued by the Alien Lord by Mina Carter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe’s a spy. He’s an alien cyborg who doesn’t like humans… What could go wrong?Hacker extraordinaire Raven lives in the shadows, making her living by rooting out secrets of the rich and corrupt. It’s a good setup, until her boss reassigns her to spy on the Lathar. All she’s got to do is break into their super-secure system and find out what they’re keeping from humanity... -
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Return to Dark Earth by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHis career plan never included becoming one of the galaxy's most infamous treasure hunters. And it certainly never included his one weakness: Nera Darc.Astro-archeologist Niklas Phoenix loved his job studying and safeguarding artifacts at the Institute of Historical Preservation...until he learned that it was all a lie... -
Parable of the Sower / Parable of the Talents / Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
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The First She by Waters E
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKira, a NASA scientist, is teleported to a planet that has no women. When she's saved by an alien that thinks she's a boy with deformations, she fights to keep both herself and secret alive... -
Warpaint by Elle Casey
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsNEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR, ELLE CASEY, brings readers Book 2 of 4 in the YA Dystopian APOCALYPSIS Series, suitable for older teens and adults. WARPAINT. My name’s Bryn Mathis. I’m seventeen years old, and I live in Kahayatle, otherwise known as The Everglades... -
The Arcav Guard's Female by Hope Hart
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe’s on a quest for revenge… ...But he’s on a mission to make her his... After being abducted by aliens and rescued by the Arcav, all Peyton wants is revenge. Well, that, and a trip straight back home to Earth where she belongs. She’s not interested in the handsome Arcav Guard who stares at her so intently. Even if he does make her wish she’d met him before her captivity... -
Taken by the Hunter by Lynnea Lee
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCONNIE I have a purple stalker. I don’t know what possessed me to hit the Xarc’n warrior with my bat, but now I have a stalker—a big purple stalker with fangs and horns. And to make things worse, I can’t go back to New Franklin.After my first night out on my own, I wake up all wrapped up and cuddly with a certain possessive hunter. He purrs like a giant cat and vows to protect me... -
Wanted by the Hunter by Lynnea Lee
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNATALIE A knight in shining loincloth That’s what I’m looking for. I’ve been lusting after the Xarc’n hunters since they landed on Earth, offering to help us fight the alien bugs. These seven feet tall, musclebound warriors are horned, clawed, and fanged—the ultimate protectors. And Rajiv’k is the perfect specimen.Just one problem: I can’t fall in love... -
The Wanted by Lauren Nicolle Taylor
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat would you be willing to sacrifice to get what you Wanted? It's the question facing both Rosa and Joseph as they are pushed and pulled in unimaginable directions.It's the question Superior Grant answered with a resounding, -Anything and everything.-The only thing they want is to be back in each other's arms...Categorized as:
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Days of Panic by Jack Hunt
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsWhen the power grid fails, what will you do to survive?After an EMP obliterates the nation's electrical grid on New Year's Eve, it's not long before society unravels and panic ensues. As the lights go out and silence spreads over the city that never sleeps, four ordinary strangers; a bike messenger, a homeless person, a support rep, and an ex-convict must forge a connection in order to stay alive... -
Days of Danger by Jack Hunt
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsMonths after the EMP, would you still be alive?Six months after the EMP, and the collapse of the United States, no one is safe. In Lake Placid, Elliot and his family have survived the winter, lost their home and are still struggling to stay alive... -
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Corruption by Jessica Shirvington
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe thrilling finale to bestselling author Jessica Shirvington's Disruption series.How do you live with yourself when you've deceived the one you love? How do you move on when the person you've been fighting to save betrays you? Two years ago, Maggie Stevens began the hunt. Four weeks ago, Maggie's world fell apart, when she finally found what she'd been looking for... -
Fate of Devotion by K.F. Breene
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter rescuing their daughter, Marie, from corporate-controlled Earth, Millicent and Ryker thought they were safe on their off-world paradise. They were wrong.Toton, once thought the weakest conglomerate, is now dominating ruined Earth with a sinister new technology. By harvesting minds for use in their supercomputers, they’re enslaving the best and brightest humans to further their agenda... -
Raksha by Frankie Rose
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratings** Please note: The title of Raksha has been changed to Halo **She has no name. She has her knives; her training; her halo. The first and second give her the tools and the skill to defeat the opponents she is pitched against each month. The third frees her from pain and fear. From any kind of emotion at all. Everything is as it should be... -
Salt & Stone by Victoria Scott
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsHow far would you go to survive?In FIRE & FLOOD, Tella Holloway faced a dangerous trek through the jungle and a terrifying march across the desert, all to remain a Contender in the Brimstone Bleed for a chance at obtaining the Cure for her brother... -
Devil's Haircut by Sam Sisavath
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsTHE DEVIL ALWAYS GETS HIS DUE.Keo has tried to stay out of it, but five years in the wild have only led him back to the one place he dreaded most--alongside a woman from his past and fighting someone else's cause. Except this is one war he can't turn his back on. What's a reformed mercenary to do?Lara didn't want this. Not another war to fight... -
Forgotten World by Kate L. Mary
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsForgotten World, book six in the Broken World series, continues following a group of survivors after a super-virus has decimated the human race and the dead have come back to claim it as their own...After the longest winter of her life, Vivian is thrilled to have Ginny back at her side... -
Chaos Comes by Harley Tate
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTwo weeks into the apocalypse, would your switch be flipped? Colt Potter's a no-nonsense air marshal who doesn't hesitate to use his skills. When he sets off on his own, leaving the comfort of a warm bed, good looking woman, and the University of Oregon behind, he's ready to be a solitary man. Rescuing a fifteen-year-old girl is the last thing he needs... -
MICHIGAN FALL by L.A. Bayles, Boyd Craven Jr.
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat would you do if there was an EMP attack today? How would you survive, not only against the oncoming winter but against those who are desperate or greedy and want what you have? What would happen when all of the checks and balances that support the law are gone?Because of her semi-rural location and a handful of good neighbors, Rose Winters and her family are better off than those in the...Categorized as:
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Faith and the Fighter by Honey Phillips
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsFor readers 18 years and older. A rogue spaceship captain. A human scientist. Faith has spent the past eight years as a scientist locked in an alien research lab. When she finally manages to escape and finds out what the aliens are doing with her work, she is appalled and determined to stop their plans... -
New World by Kate L. Mary
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsNew World, book five in the Broken World series, continues following a group of survivors after a super-virus has decimated the human race and the dead have come back to claim it as their own...After weeks on the road and devastating losses, the survivors have finally found safety. But as winter falls on Colorado, it brings with it both new challenges, and new hope... -
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Darkest Night by Kyla Stone
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe end is near...Logan and Dakota must prepare for the fight of their lives in order to defeat an enemy more powerful than they've ever faced.The lives of everyone they love are on the line. The stakes couldn't be higher.Will they have what it takes? Or will the cost of victory be too terrible to bear?Darkest Night is the final book in the riveting Nuclear Dawn post-apocalpytic series... -
Requiem by Sam Sisavath
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsTHE WORLD WAS NOT READY Six years ago, the world was plunged into darkness. Five years ago, it got a second chance. Now the fight for what’s left begins… They Called It The Purge… History books call it The Purge, and it altered the course of human history. A breed of seemingly unkillable creatures that once lurked in the shadows of mankind’s past finally revealed themselves... -
Days of Chaos by Jack Hunt
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsTwo weeks without power, would you still survive? After the lights went out across the nation, Elliot, Jesse, Maggie and Damon fought off the desperate as they made their way back to Lake Placid. Rayna barely survived an attack by home invaders and Gary struggled to maintain order in a town gripped by panic... -
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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The Good, the Bad, and the Undead by Bonnie Gill
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe law is gone. Zombies are here. Will Raven and her misfit friends survive?Raven Murphy is a prepper, but not for the same reason most other folks do it. She’s the reason her ex-boyfriend went to jail. If he ever gets out, she’ll need to grab her sister and head off grid... -
Burn by J.J. Pike, Mike Kraus
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsManhattan is falling apart, and with it so are the people, including Alice and Bill. And, at their remote cabin, new developments require critical decisions to save the life of a loved one.... A new, intensely thrilling series, MELT has received unanimous praise from beta readers and early reviewers alike... -
New Year, New Planet: Blind Date with an Alien by Marina Simcoe
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDouble date to celebrate a new year on the planet Neron sounds like an adventure, especially when my blind date belongs to the little-known alien race of Aldraians.As a steward of a luxury yacht, most of my adult life has been spent traveling. Now that I’m the lead flight attendant of a spaceship, the new year’s celebration finds me on an entirely new to me planet, Neron... -
The Embers of Hope by Nick Jones
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlternate cover for this ASIN can be found hereAfter narrowly escaping the Shiryaevo Vault, Nathan O’Brien is on the run, adapting to life without Jennifer Logan. In his possession: a powerful mind control device known as the Histeridae and evidence of the Hibernation Program’s true agenda... -
Beyond Galaxy's Edge by Anna Hackett
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAmbitious Patrol Captain Nissa Sander has spent three years at the galaxy’s edge keeping the law and order, and chasing scoundrel smuggler, Justyn Phoenix. But the charming rogue has always outwitted her and she’s had a hard time ignoring his hard body and handsome face... -
Feral Recruit by Ginger Booth
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe survived. That's not good enough.When Ebola struck Manhattan, Ava Panic was a bright high school sophomore. Two years later, Ava's still kicking. Also hitting, biting, and gouging eyes.Nine out of ten didn't make it. Half the survivors are feral teens like Ava. During the Starve, their gangs terrorized the city...Categorized as:
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Raze by J.J. Pike, Mike Kraus
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMELT continues to grow and devour, chomping its way through Manhattan - and beyond - as the survivors begin to realize what kind of world MELT is creating.... A new, intensely thrilling series, MELT has received unanimous praise from beta readers and early reviewers alike. Written by JJ Pike and Mike Kraus, MELT examines a part of our world that we often take for granted... -
The Ophidian Horde by Ryan Schow
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe EMP is real. The unraveling of society is beyond perilous. With the city in ruin, injuries to her party and a sharp loss of resources, Cincinnati McNamara looks to Indigo for help in forming a new homestead, a place where she can tend to the wounded and safeguard her family... -
The Maze Runner: by James Dashner | Summary & Analysis by Book*Sense
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Maze Runner: by James Dashner | Summary & Analysis (The Maze Runner Series, Book 1) by Book*Sense This is a Summary & Analysis of The Maze Runner by James Dashner. Award-winning author James Dashner’s The Maze Runner shows the influences of the author’s broad reading... -
Wulf by Ava Ross
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe’s a rough Vikir warrior. She’s a mostly proper librarian. Can an Earthling woman and a green-scaled alien find love together in the stars?After she’s kidnapped by blue-skinned aliens, Taylor escapes and bails from an alien space station in a shuttle she has no clue how to drive. She crash lands on a nearby planet made up mostly of jungle... -
Origins by Isamu Fukui
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFifteen years ago, the Mayor of the Education City was presented with an unwelcome surprise by his superiors: twin six-month-old boys. As the Mayor reluctantly accepted the two babies, he had no way of knowing that they would change the city forever….Raised in the comfort of the Mayoral mansion, Umasi and Zen are as different as two brothers can be. Umasi is a good student; Zen an indifferent one... -
Solar Storm by Rob Lopez
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen disaster strikes, a family must fight to reunite. The biggest solar storm in recorded history will hit Earth, and the resulting EMP pulse will fry electricity grids and disable fragile electronics. Transmission wires will melt, transformers will explode, modern vehicles and aircraft will cease to work. In less than a minute, the world will be taken back two centuries...
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