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This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. The day of the triffids is a postapocalyptic genre piece pure and simple. After most people in the world are blinded by an apparent meteor shower, an aggressive species of plant starts killing people. The noises it made, or failed to make, were more like sunday than sunday itselfand id come round again to being absolutely assured that it was wednesday, whatever else had happened to it.
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