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Last Ones Left Alive
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- Narrated by: Anne-Marie Gaillard
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
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“Combines the spare poetry of The Road with the dizzying pace of 28 Days Later.” —Jennie Melamed, author Gather the Daughters
“Davis-Goff writes language evocative of melancholy longing in a landscape both beautiful and brutal, and she's created the distinctive voice of a first-person narrator who is both confident in her abilities and filled with fear and grief…successfully blends horror, lyrical prose, and feminist themes.”— Kirkus
Remember your just-in-cases. Beware tall buildings. Always have your knives.
Raised in isolation by her mother and Maeve on a small island off the coast of a post-apocalyptic Ireland, Orpen’s life has revolved around training to fight a threat she’s never seen. More and more she feels the call of the mainland, and the prospect of finding other survivors.
But that is where danger lies, too, in the form of the flesh-eating menace known as the skrake.
Then disaster strikes. Alone, pushing an unconscious Maeve in a wheelbarrow, Orpen decides her last hope is abandoning the safety of the island and journeying across the country to reach the legendary banshees, the rumored all-female fighting force that battles the skrake.
But the skrake are not the only threat…
Sarah Davis-Goff's Last Ones Left Alive is a brilliantly original imagining of a young woman's journey to discover her true identity.
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Pulga has his dreams. Chico has his grief. Pequeña has her pride. And these three teens have one another. But none of them have illusions about the town they've grown up in. Even with the love of family, threats lurk around every corner. And when those threats become all too real, the trio knows they have no choice but to run: from their country, from their families, from their beloved home. Crossing from Guatemala through Mexico, they follow the route of La Bestia, the perilous train system that might deliver them to a better life - if they are lucky enough to survive the journey.
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this book broke my heart and I love it.
- By Anonymous User on 03-29-22
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Under the Never Sky
- By: Veronica Rossi
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne Flagler
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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Since she’d been on the outside, she’d survived an Aether storm, she’d had a knife held to her throat, and she’d seen men murdered. This was worse. Exiled from her home, the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland - known as The Death Shop - are slim. If the cannibals don’t get her, the violent, electrified energy storms will. She’s been taught that the very air she breathes can kill her. Then Aria meets an Outsider named Perry. He’s wild - a savage - and her only hope of staying alive.
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Beware of the Triology
- By Katherine on 09-23-12
By: Veronica Rossi
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Bound
- By: Shannon Mayer
- Narrated by: Heather Firth, Jamie Renell
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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Led by a man with a taste for torture and a love of suffering, Sebastian and I are confronted with the seemingly impossible obstacle of escape. Caged and kept from our allies, our opportunities for freedom dwindle. There is only one way to save us both. I am forced to unearth and embrace the dark side of my heart.
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So Great
- By Momzilla on 01-26-21
By: Shannon Mayer
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The Remaining
- By: D. J. Molles
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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In a steel-and-lead-encased bunker 20 feet below the basement level of his house, a soldier waits for his final orders. On the surface, a plague ravages the planet, infecting over 90% of the populace. The bacterium burrows through the brain, destroying all signs of humanity and leaving behind little more than base, prehistoric instincts. The infected turn into hyper-aggressive predators, with an insatiable desire to kill and feed. Someday soon, the soldier will have to open the hatch to his bunker, and step out into this new wasteland, to complete his mission....
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Die Hard Meets 28 Days Later
- By G Wallace on 01-10-14
By: D. J. Molles
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Gone
- Gone Series, Book 1
- By: Michael Grant
- Narrated by: Kyle McCarley
- Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
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In the blink of an eye, everyone disappears. Gone. Except for the young. There are teens, but not one single adult. Just as suddenly, there are no phones, no Internet, no television. No way to get help. And no way to figure out what's happened. Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents - unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers - that grow stronger by the day. It's a terrifying new world.
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Please rerelease this book w new narration
- By Kim on 02-12-17
By: Michael Grant
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Devils Unto Dust
- By: Emma Berquist
- Narrated by: Devon Sorvari
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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Ten years ago, a horrifying disease began spreading across the West Texas desert. Infected people - "shakes" - attacked the living and created havoc and destruction. No one has ever survived the infection. Daisy Wilcox, known as Willie, has been protecting her siblings within the relatively safe walls of Glory, Texas. But when Willie's good-for-nothing father steals a fortune from one of the most dangerous shake-hunters in town, she finds herself on the hook for his debt. With two hunters, including the gruff and handsome Ben, to accompany her, she sets out across the desert in search of her father.
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Not What I Expected
- By L on 11-16-22
By: Emma Berquist
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The Fire Sermon
- By: Francesca Haig
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
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Four hundred years in the future the Earth has turned primitive, following a nuclear fire that laid waste to civilization and nature. Though the radiation fallout has ended, for some unknowable reason every person is born with a twin. Of each pair one is an Alpha - physically perfect in every way - and the other an Omega burdened with deformity, small or large.
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Cannot make it!!!
- By C. Venable on 07-05-15
By: Francesca Haig
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Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo
- Book One
- By: Obert Skye
- Narrated by: E.B. Stevens
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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Fourteen-year-old Leven Thumps (a.k.a. "Lev") is no ordinary boy, but that's exactly what Sabine and his dark shadows want him to believe. They know the fate of the world and the dreams of all mankind can be saved by one boy with a powerful gift, one he has yet to understand or control. Enter Clover, a funny foot-high sidekick; Winter, a girl who can freeze things; and Geth, the rightful heir to the dream world of Foo. Three transplants with only one mission: to retrieve Leven and save Foo.
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Terrible YA Fantasy
- By Arwen on 04-05-12
By: Obert Skye
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Wolves
- By: D. J. Molles
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
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Ten years after the collapse, Huxley has built a good life again. He has a loving wife, a farm with fields of golden barley, and a daughter with a strange and wonderful gift. Then the slavers come. Working out in the fields during the attack, Huxley returns too late. His daughter has been taken, and his wife is bleeding out, her last whispered words about a man with a scorpion tattoo on his neck. Where do the slavers go? Huxley has no idea. He knows only that they head east, and so will he, setting out on foot across the desert of the Wastelands.
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Brilliant. I do have one criticism.
- By Billy on 09-04-16
By: D. J. Molles
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Secret Vampire
- Night World, Book 1
- By: L. J. Smith
- Narrated by: Ellen Grafton
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
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The series takes place in a world similar to our own but one where vampires, witches, werewolves and shape-shifters live among humans without their knowledge. These supernatural races make up a secret society known as the Night World, which enforces two fundamental laws to prevent discovery.
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It is a young adult novel.
- By Sharon on 08-18-12
By: L. J. Smith
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Dragon's Blood
- The Pit Dragon Chronicles, Volume 1
- By: Jane Yolen
- Narrated by: Marc Thompson
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
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Dragons are trained to fight to the death, and two determined teens help free them in this spellbinding saga. Training a dragon to be a fighting champion is the only way to freedom for 15-year-old Jakkin.
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can't even listen to it
- By Ingvor V. Franklin on 11-12-17
By: Jane Yolen
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The Ritual
- By: Adam Nevill
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
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When four old University friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, they aim to briefly escape the problems of their lives and reconnect with one another. But when Luke, the only man still single and living a precarious existence, finds he has little left in common with his well-heeled friends, tensions rise. With limited experience between them, a shortcut meant to ease their hike turns into a nightmare scenario that could cost them their lives. Lost, hungry, and surrounded by forest untouched for millennia, Luke figures things couldn't possibly get any worse.
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AMAZING AND SCARY
- By Emily McDonald on 02-15-18
By: Adam Nevill
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Daughters of the Storm
- By: Kim Wilkins
- Narrated by: Lucy Price-Lewis
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
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Lying in a magic-induced coma, the King of Thyrsland is on the brink of death: if his enemies knew, chaos would reign. In fear for his life and his kingdom, his five daughters set out on a perilous journey to try to save him, their only hope an aunt they have yet to meet, a shadowy practitioner of undermagic who lives on the wild northern borders. No one can stand before the fierce tattooed soldier and eldest daughter, Bluebell, an army commander who is rumoured to be unkillable....
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Boring, could not even get through half…
- By Diana M Meredith on 10-30-23
By: Kim Wilkins
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- UnreliableHeart
- 09-17-19
Delicious and heartbreaking
This story unfolds with no details about how the world came to be the way it is so if you need to know this detail this is not the pursuit for you. The telling is not linear which is delicious and heartbreaking as we move from one time period to another and back again armed with new insights each time into how Orpen has seen and experienced her unique set of circumstances in a very post apocalyptic world. We see and hear and feel the world through the first person narration of Orpen who can’t tell the exact difference between what she needs and what she wants as she has been intentionally shaped and sheltered by her mother and Maeve (guardian) but nonetheless Orpen pushes forward in a world that demands physical labor and offers violence that she doesn’t fully grasp. Davis-Goff writes with exquisite attention to setting and reveals details with skilled timing. This story zooms in, magnifies, and peels apart the layers of urgent requirements in human survival; the need for connection versus the need for safety and how to live without just existing. This story is about relationships: Orpen’s relationship with the partial truth her mother and Maeve tell her about the mainland, her relationship with her drive to leave her safe but emotionally incomplete island, and her relationship with herself which may or may not allow for other people. The narration is perfect and the story is emotionally and intellectually absorbing. If you enjoyed The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Ellison, Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis, Out of the Dark by Amy Jackson and Claire C. Riley, or The Girl with All the Gifts by M. R. Carey then give this a listen.
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- rm
- 11-12-19
Riveting
Absolutely tremendous. The sense of voice and place, the desire to know the wider world and where one fits into it, what it means to be loved, and to love, and to be human... this book asks every one of these questions, with prose as lyrical and haunting as Ireland itself.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-16-22
So well written
Loved this short but intense listen. Great post apocalyptic tale with a unique perspective. The story wraps up the threads nicely, neatly; but it’s a loose weave with enough spaces to provide room for some interesting speculation and discussion. Killian’s tossed off comment to Orpen about women…the full backstory of Orpen’s mothers….Phoenix City-really…how they came to the island…Nic and Ay and Killian perhaps?…Agata’s reactions and responses. So rich in potential to continue the story. And finally, I simply love an Irish accented narrator. She was wonderful.
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- SSIMM
- 11-25-23
Fantastic
Loved the story and narration. It left me wondering what would happen to the characters and where there journeys would take them when it ended. I was left wanting more. Is there a part 2? If not, there should be!
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- Julie W. Capell
- 04-11-24
A decent entry in the zombie apocalypse genre
The twist here is the focus on a female zombie-slayer heroine and a general feminist/queer vibe. I liked the characters but felt the story was a bit predictable. I'm glad I listened to it, but I don't think I'll be picking up the sequel.
[I listened to this as an audio book performed with a lovely Irish accent by Anne-Marie Gaillard]
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- NMHW
- 01-31-20
Horrifying and beautiful
This book has a really nice balance of meaningful storyline and action. The narrator was wonderful to listen to, especially if you love Irish accents! Good endings can be hard to pull off with zombie or otherwise apocalyptic storylines, and this one didn't disappoint.
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- Kevin McCoffee
- 12-01-20
Every other chapter is back story. I skipped them
Love zombie fiction, especially when we get outside of the United States. I'm not a fan of the first-person present tense though. This story has minimal intrigue but some decent atmosphere. I didn't like being carted to the past every second chapter, to develop a backstory, when we already know the fate of two out of the three characters concerned. So I scrubbed or just skipped these. I'd still give Anne Mairie Gaillard is a good reader. I might try another Sarah Davis-Goff if it's different enough.
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- pamela
- 07-04-21
Really wanted to love this
Dystopian and Post Apocalyptic are two of my favorite genre's, so I was really expecting to like this more than I did. I finished it and I don't regret the purchase but it is not a story I will ever go back to give a second listen. I am not sure if it was the main character or what exactly that makes this only a two star .... it's okay ..... rating to me. I would recommend The Last Tribe by Brad Manuel or anything by Sarah Lyons Fleming, same with author Luke Smitherd.
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- Nancy Edwards
- 09-04-19
Dumbest book I ever listened to
I never got into this book though I tried very hard. I regret spending the time and money on it.
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