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    <title>The Complete Sundown Series</title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[A group of mercenaries on an unsanctioned mission survives a plane crash in whiteout conditions in the Tian Shan mountains. The men are accustomed to danger. Now they’re growing accustomed to fear.<br /><br />Team leader Liev and his band of survivors are stranded in the bitter winds with little hope of rescue—or outlasting the wolves that have scented blood. In the distance is the apparent sanctuary of an abandoned stone fortress. That an ancient bulwark even exists on this forsaken summit is beyond comprehension. So is what lies on the other side of its walls.<br /><br /><i>From Academy Award–winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes </i>Falling Down<i>, part one of </i>The Boy in the Iron Box<i>, a blood-chilling series of short stories about an ancient secret that was never meant to be unleashed, featuring exclusive interior artwork. Each can be read or listened to in one breathless sitting.</i>]]></book_description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Final Awakening: The Complete Post-Apocalyptic Vampire Trilogy]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[Last Light - The Complete Series: (An Epic Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller)]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[Spore: The Complete Series - Part 1]]></title>
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    <title>The Serenity Prayer</title>
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    <author_name>Daniel H. Wilson</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Little House Collection (Little House, #1-9)]]></title>
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    <book_id>114345</book_id>
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    <author_name>Laura Ingalls Wilder</author_name>
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    <title>The Dark Tower #1-3</title>
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    <book_id>458450</book_id>
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    <author_name>Stephen  King</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[Plague Town (Ashley Parker #1)]]></title>
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    <book_id>12392579</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Ashley was just trying to get through a tough day when the world turned upside down. A terrifying virus appears, quickly becoming a pandemic that leaves its victims, not dead, but far worse. Attacked by zombies, Ashley discovers that she is a 'Wild-Card' -- immune to the virus -- and she is recruited to fight back and try to control the outbreak. It's Buffy meets the Walking Dead in a rapid-fire zombie adventure!]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Dana Fredsti</author_name>
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                                      author: Dana Fredsti<br/>
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    <title>Darkness on the Edge of Town</title>
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    <book_id>6969107</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[One morning the residents of Walden, Virginia, woke up to find the rest of the world gone. Just . . . gone. <br /><br />Surrounding their town was a wall of inky darkness, plummeting Walden into permanent night. Nothing can get in - not light, not people, not even electricity, radio, TV, internet, food, or water. And nothing can get out. No one who dared to penetrate the mysterious barrier has ever been seen again. Only their screams were heard. <br /><br />But for some, the darkness is not the worst of their fears. Driven mad by thirst, hunger, and perpetual night, the residents of Walden are ready to explode. The last few sane prisoners of this small town must prepare a final stand against their neighbors, themselves, and something even worse . . . something out there . . . in the darkness . . .]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Brian Keene</author_name>
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    <title>Zone One</title>
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    <author_name>Colson Whitehead</author_name>
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    <author_name>Megan Crewe</author_name>
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  <i>“I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.”</i>
</b><br /><br />They are an unlikely pair: George is <i>"small and quick and dark of face";</i> Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a <i>"family,"</i> clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. But George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own.<br /><br />While the powerlessness of the laboring class is a recurring theme in Steinbeck's work of the late 1930s, he narrowed his focus when composing <i>Of Mice and Men</i>, creating an intimate portrait of two men facing a world marked by petty tyranny, misunderstanding, jealousy, and callousness. But though the scope is narrow, the theme is universal: a friendship and a shared dream that makes an individual's existence meaningful.<br /><br />A unique perspective on life's hardships, this story has achieved the status of timeless classic due to its remarkable success as a novel, a Broadway play, and three acclaimed films.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Kelly Gardner</author_name>
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    <title>Brave New Worlds</title>
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    <author_name>John Joseph Adams</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ashes, Ashes (Ashes, Ashes, #1)]]></title>
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    <author_name>Jo Treggiari</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[Year One (Chronicles of The One, #1)]]></title>
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    <author_name>Nora Roberts</author_name>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 11 Jul 2022 13:21:42 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)]]></title>
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    <author_name>Edgar Rice Burroughs</author_name>
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                                      author: Edgar Rice Burroughs<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[Genome (The Extinction Files, #2)]]></title>
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    <author_name>A.G. Riddle</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[Day Soldiers (Day Soldiers, #1)]]></title>
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                                      author: John Joseph Adams<br/>
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    <author_name>Stephen  King</author_name>
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  <i>"The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way..."</i>
</b><br /><br />It is the year 2081. Because of Amendments 211, 212 and 213 to the Constitution, every American is fully equal, meaning that no one is stupider, uglier, weaker, or slower than anyone else. The Handicapper General and a team of agents ensure that the laws of equality are enforced.<br /><br />One April, fourteen-year-old Harrison Bergeron is taken away from his parents, George and Hazel, by the government and to a place unknown. But what happens in the aftermath will challenge the status quo and inspire his peers about the hidden potential within one's own individuality.<br /><br /><b>
  <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2778055.Kurt_Vonnegut_Jr_" title="Kurt Vonnegut Jr." rel="nofollow noopener">Kurt Vonnegut Jr.</a>
</b> (1922–2007) was an American novelist, satirist, and most recently, graphic artist. He was born in Indianapolis, later the setting for many of his novels. His experiences as an advance scout in the Battle of the Bulge during WWII, and in particular his witnessing of the bombing of Dresden, Germany whilst a prisoner of war, would inform much of his work. The novelist is best known for works blending satire, black comedy and science fiction, such as <i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4981._Slaughterhouse_Five___1969_" title="'Slaughterhouse-Five' (1969)" rel="nofollow noopener">'Slaughterhouse-Five' (1969)</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135479._Cat_s_Cradle___1963_" title="'Cat's Cradle' (1963)" rel="nofollow noopener">'Cat's Cradle' (1963)</a>,</i> and <i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4980._Breakfast_of_Champions___1973_" title="'Breakfast of Champions' (1973)" rel="nofollow noopener">'Breakfast of Champions' (1973)</a>.</i>]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Guillermo del Toro</author_name>
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    <author_name>Robert C. O&apos;Brien</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[Tomorrow, When the War Began (Tomorrow, #1)]]></title>
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    <book_id>71865</book_id>
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    <author_name>John Marsden</author_name>
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    <author_name>William R. Forstchen</author_name>
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    <author_name>H.G. Wells</author_name>
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    <title>Into the Forest</title>
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    <author_name>Jean Hegland</author_name>
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    <book_description><![CDATA['Death!' I shouted. 'Death is coming! Death!'<br /><br />A cylinder from space lands in south-west London, and naïve locals approach it armed with a white flag - only to be instantly incinerated by an all-destroying heat-ray, as tentacled Martians emerge. Soon the whole of humanity is under threat, as the invaders build gigantic killing machines that chase and feast on human prey.<br /><br />H. G. Well's 1898 novel was a pioneering work of alien invasion fiction. Greeted with acclaim and alarm on its publication, The War of the Worlds's factual, journalistic style contrasts shockingly with its fantastical and often disturbing story of humanity under siege.]]></book_description>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are hungry for Neville's blood.<br /><br />By day he is the hunter, stalking the undead through the ruins of civilisation. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn.<br /><br />How long can one man survive like this?<br /><br />]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Richard Matheson</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds, #1)]]></title>
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    <author_name>Alexandra Bracken</author_name>
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