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viii, 287 pages Summary: Sixteen-year-old Vivian Apple never believed in the Church of America -- unlike her fanatical parents. And as for the so-called impending 'Rapture', she knew she'd believe that when she saw it. But Vivian wakes one day to a New World, where all that is left of her parents are empty spaces. The Believers have been taken, it seems. Faced with a society on the brink of collapse, Vivian and her friend Harp journey across America in search of any family they have left. Encountering freak weather, roving 'Believer' gangs and a strange teenage group calling themselves the 'New Orphans', Viv soon begins to realise that the Rapture was just the beginning