by Amy Plum
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Published May 2014
336 pages
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
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Juneau grew up fearing the outside world. The elders told her that beyond the borders of their land in the Alaskan wilderness, nuclear war had destroyed everything. But when Juneau returns from a hunting trip one day and discovers her people have been abducted, she sets off to find them. And leaving the boundaries for the very first time, she learns the horrifying truth: World War III never happened. Nothing was destroyed. Everything she'd ever been taught was a lie.
As Juneau comes to terms with an unfathomable deception, she is forced to survive in a completely foreign world, using only the skills and abilities she developed in the wild. But while she's struggling to rescue her friends and family, someone else is after her. Someone who knows the extraordinary truth about her secret past.
"Starred Review. Alternating first-person narrators let readers get to know intense Juneau from inside and out, while offering a window into Miles's gradual maturation." - Publishers Weekly
"Attractive characters and the fresh, present-day setting should hook genre fans." - Kirkus
"The fast-paced plot, rife with mystery, successfully moves the story forward...Fans of post-apocalyptic fiction will enjoy this unusual not-quite-dystopian novel." - School Library Journal
"Amy Plum creates a chilling world where the stakes are high and no one can be trusted. After the End will leave you breathless!" - Kimberly Derting, author of the Body Finder series
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Amy Plum is the international bestselling author of the Die for Me series. She spent her childhood in Birmingham, Alabama, her twenties in Chicago and Paris, and several more years in London, New York, and the Loire Valley. Now she lives in Paris and swears she'll never move again.
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