When a deadly virus begins to sweep through sixteen-year-old Kaelyn’s community, the government quarantines her island—no one can leave, and no one can come back.Those still healthy must fight for dwindling supplies, or lose all chance of survival. As everything familiar comes crashing down, Kaelyn joins forces with a former...
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What do an early twentieth-century California tuberculosis camp, airships, and immortals in Egypt have in common? I’m still not really sure…only they all came together in the selection I am covering for this month’s “Beyond Retro.” I came across Marie Corelli, a late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writer a few...
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This World We Live In, by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Last Survivors, book #3
reviewed by SusanAshlea
This companion to Life As We Knew It (2006) and The Dead and the Gone (2008, both Harcourt) brings together the teen protagonists of those books when Miranda Evans’s father and stepmother arrive with their new...
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Blameless by Gail Carriger
“The Parasol Protectorate,” Book 3
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Quitting her husband’s house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season.
Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can...
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The Dead and The Gone, by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Last Survivors, book 2
reviewed by Sue
Life as We Knew It enthralled and devastated readers with its brutal but hopeful look at an apocalyptic event–an asteroid hitting the moon, setting off a tailspin of horrific climate changes. Now this harrowing companion...
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Ashfall, by Mike Mullin
reviewed by Sue
Fifteen-year-old Alex is home alone when the supervolcano under Yellowstone erupts. His town collapses into a nightmare of darkness, ash, and violence, forcing him to flee. He begins a harrowing trek in search of his parents and sister, who were visiting relatives 140 miles away.
Along the...
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Ashes, Ashes
by Jo Treggiari
Reviewed by Megsly
Epidemics, floods, droughts–for sixteen-year-old Lucy, the end of the world came and went, taking 99% of the population with it. As the weather continues to rage out of control, and Sweepers clean the streets of plague victims, Lucy survives alone in the wilds of Central Park....
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Life as we knew it, by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Last Survivors Series, book 2
reviewed by Sue
It’s almost the end of Miranda’s sophomore year in high school, and her journal reflects the busy life of a typical teenager: conversations with friends, fights with mom, and fervent hopes for a driver’s license....
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Eden
by Keary Taylor
reviewed by Megsly
Eve knew the stories of the Fall, of a time before she wandered into the colony of Eden, unable to recall anything but her name. She’s seen the aftermath of the technology that infused human DNA with cybernetic matter, able to grow new organs and limbs, how it evolved out of control. The...
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The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
by Michelle Hodkin
reviewed by Megsly
Mara Dyer doesn’t believe life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. It can.
She believes there must be more to the accident she can’t remember that killed her friends and left her strangely...
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Lives are won, lost and traded on the three-tiered Cargon boards. Eve, a serving-girl, has watched the elite from the outside, seen the dramatic shifts based on the results of the Game. With a growing need to reach beyond her station, she can no longer accept her position on the edges. Wagering her own life, she wins and emerges in...
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The Declaration
by Gemma Malley
reviewed by Megsly
One hundred or so years earlier, “Longevity,” a new drug granting immortality, took the world by storm, only to lead to an untenable swell in population. Anyone who wants to live forever in this brave new world must agree by law not to have children (thus the...
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