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We know you are here, our brothers and sisters . . .

Pressia barely remembers the Detonations or much about life during the Before. In her sleeping cabinet behind the rubble of an old barbershop where she lives with her grandfather, she thinks about what is lost - how the world went from... read more

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  • “"They seem like a waste of time now. They don't even fly. You can wind them up and their wings flap but that's it." "Maybe they just didn't have anywhere they needed to go."”
    Pressia, Bradwell

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  • OSR: Initially "Operation Search and Rescue"

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There was low droning overhead a week or so after the Detonations; time was hard to track.

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This is book 1 of 2 in Pure Trilogy. (standard series)

Followed by Fuse.

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  1. Julianna Baggott (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Country: USA
Publication Date: February 8, 2012
ISBN: 978-1455503063
Page Count: 448

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