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    612-822-4611

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As It Always Was

As It Always Was

Saffron, Michael

Paperback

Series: As It Always, Book 1

Young Adult Fiction

ISBN13: 9798992905311
Publisher: Mystery Theater Works
Published: Nov 4 2025
Pages: 344
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A fascinating dive into what it means to be human-the good and the bad-and how life is still worth living in spite of it all. - BookLife

In Palpine, emotion is considered a disease-and sixteen-year-old Damon Baxter may be the most dangerous boy in the city.

For readers of The Giver, 1984, and Divergent - a thought-provoking story about the cost of a painless world.

Branded an outsider with the highest genetic variation in his class, Damon is watched closely by officials who fear he'll spiral into the same mysterious condition that claimed his mother's life.

Within humanity's last city after a devastating global war, every day is the same: tasteless meals, monochrome clothing, emotionless interactions. But when a mysterious book marked with a strange Eye symbol appears in his locker, Damon makes a choice that shatters his gray reality.

Now he must live a double life-pretending nothing has changed while secretly awakening to a world of color, taste, and sensation alongside Kayla, the red-haired girl who makes it all feel real. When officials schedule him for Alignment-a surgical procedure that will permanently strip away his newfound humanity-the clock begins to tick.

To survive, Damon must decide: sacrifice the very thing that makes him human, or risk everything for the person he loves most.

To feel anything is to feel everything.

A thought-provoking dystopian for readers 14 and up - and the right book for the teen who hasn't found his book yet.

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