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Survival
Fiction or non-fiction book focusing on a person or group of people who must brave the elements, natural disasters, weather or other circumstances in order to survive. A theme common when people are shipwrecked or survive plane crashes. Survival can also be in books where society has crumbled or deteriorated and people must survive the changed world in isolated groups.

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The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure. She had believed in her own inherent goodness, her humanity, and lived accordingly, never causing anyone harm. Her devotion to doing things the right way had been unflagging, all her successes had depended on it, and she would have gone on like that indefinitely. She didn't understand why, but fa
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― The Vegetarian
― The Vegetarian

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I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.
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― Girl, Interrupted
― Girl, Interrupted

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