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A plague has decimated the world's population, leaving machines to govern the Earth. Humans must survive in a time when machines see them as the plague ruining the world.

"My frail fingers curl around the jagged rock. I press it into the stone wall and drag it up and down until a small groove forms. I drop the rock and step back, glancing over all the lines I've made. It is day 2,436 of being in this prison with my mother and younger brother." DATHER IS AN ISLAND THAT WAS ONCE KNOWN AS OHAU. A nation that rose from the ashes after an asteroid shower has divided itself when people began to discover their unique powers. At sixteen-years-old Adaline sits in prison with her mother and younger brother, and today is Parting Day where more prisoners will be executed. After seven years of being spared, Adaline's luck has run out. But she won't go quietly or easily. Her life depends on her ability to escape the grasps of the King and find a place of freedom. Discovering her unique powers is the turning point Adaline needs to get a second chance at her freedom. In this thrilling novel of friendship, family, and secrets Adaline runs for her life and learns the truth of her past along the way. "My brain sees him as a threat, as the enemy, a guard at the castle, but my heart feels he is a friend. The question is, which one is right?"

The world ended quietly. She didn't. When humanity vanished, the machines inherited the Earth. Cities were left to rust, forests grew wild, and artificial intelligence evolved - unchecked, unquestioned, and utterly alone. Or so it believed. Hidden among the ruins is a woman who should not exist. The last human alive. An evolutionary dead end in a world that has already moved on. Every step she takes risks discovery. Every mistake could mean extinction - again. The machines are watching. Calculating. Adapting. As androids patrol the wilds and algorithms rewrite the future, she must survive without weapons, without allies, and without being seen. Because if the machines learn the truth - that humanity isn't gone - she won't just be hunted. She'll be studied. And in a world run by logic, being human may be the most dangerous flaw of all. ENDLING: LAST OF A SPECIES is a tense, atmospheric science-fiction thriller about survival at the end of history - and the fragile spark that refuses to go out.

The year is 4998. A pair of teens are raised on opposite sides of Esperance, a dystopian empire where free minds are enslaved, and children are commodities more prized than gold. Sixteen-year-old Aleida, born in the free lands, is a master of two things: avoiding confrontations and purging undesirable emotions with mass doses of sugar. But then, on the eve of war, her brother is murdered. Meek obedience-the kind her father so values in his daughter-is a dead option. Because of the file. Her brother has entrusted her with encrypted data that may be key to shutting down Esperance forever. But unlocking it will take the unthinkable: gunning past her father, a resistance leader with an arms megacorporation backing him. It will take deserting the free lands and seeking the rebels whom Esperance dubs "terrorists." It is in Esperance that Aleida crosses paths with Tristian, a high-school dropout stamped for execution. In order to keep his family off the streets, Tristian himself has committed the black crime: seeking a fugitive terrorist for help. By escaping capital punishment, Tristian is effectively a terrorist himself. Both teens become threats to Esperance's existence. Suddenly, they ensnare the enmity of Aleida's father and political luminaries like the Black Star, a powerful celebrity with a dangerous secret of his own. As Aleida and Tristian's lives merge, their decisions-duty versus humanity-will determine the fate of the free world...and perhaps, Esperance's destruction. Originally written in 2017, this Jasmine Young's never before released YA Dystopian Fantasy!

The following journal has been recently uncovered, and we have yet to track down the owner. It tells the oral, first-person history of The Last Plague - the apocalypse that has led the world into its current state. Everything in this journal we consider history, and I would advise and readers to treat it as such.

There is no such thing as happily ever after. Everything Charlotte Winston thought she knew has been thrown out the window. From the moment she opens her eyes, the world she remembered ceases to exist, and in its place is a post-apocalyptic realm filled with unimaginable dangers. And one very smoking hot guy who has an uncanny ability to make her blood sing, then boil in a blink of an eye. Dash Darhk is everything her parents would hate. He's six feet and two inches of dark temptation and a killer smile, that's surely left a stream of broken hearts in his wake. But her parents are nowhere to be found. Charlotte is alone in this new world. Destroyed by a toxic mist, the land isn't the only thing altered, but the inhabitants as well. As Charlotte begins the hunt for her family, gifts she's never fathom awake inside her. And with the gifts come problems. Enormous ones. Charlotte is running out of options and places to hide. If she can't figure out who to trust-and fast-she will lose more than her heart. Fans of Hunger Games, The 100, and Divergent will fall in love with Slumber.

In a dystopian world when Earth seems to turn overpopulated and inhabitable and all hope is lost. Nibiru, a new utopia is found by the Consortium. But to live there, you have to pass the Trials, a series of tests not only of intellect but of skill and perseverance. But can one bad day stop Hailee and Jordan from all they have hoped for? Can survival be hammered out on the anvil of Friendship, Love, Sacrifice, and Betrayal?