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Series
Young Elites novel volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen. Adelina Amouteru is done suffering. She's turned her back on those who have betrayed her and achieved the ultimate revenge: victory. Her reign as the White Wolf has been a triumphant one, but with each conquest her cruelty only grows. The darkness within her has begun to spiral out of control, threatening to destroy all she's gained. When a new danger appears, Adelina's...
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English
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From the author of the definitive biography of George Orwell, a captivating account of the origin and enduring power of his landmark dystopian novel Since its publication nearly 70 years ago, George Orwell's 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. Politicians have testified to its influence on their intellectual identities, rock musicians have made records about it, TV viewers watch a reality show named for...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Like others who withstood the pandemic, Sam Sewell lives in a subterranean shelter. The vast catacombs were built before the military's biological weapon leaked out, killing nine out of ten people and leaving the survivors so traumatized that they can barely tolerate each other's company. So it's quite peculiar that some government agents seem to think that Sam lives with a woman, Despoina, who's suspected of conducting germ warfare. Pressured by...
85) Empty Man: #4
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Hell has broken loose in the neighborhood, and the Kerry family must flee to escape the deadly effects of the Empty Man virus.
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English
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This frighteningly prophetic tale from the progenitor of modern science fiction remains as powerful today as when it was written-more than a century ago. Firebrand activist Graham falls into a drug-induced sleep in 1897 London-and is stunned to wake in the year 2100 to a world he does not know. But the world knows him. When word spreads that the "Sleeper" has awakened, it rocks the foundations of what the planet has become: a dystopian existence...
Author
Publisher
See Sharp Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Set in a dystopian society in the not-too-distant future, this sci-fi novel follows the misadventures of a bar musician and army vet who's set up on terrorism charges and deported to a single-continent prison planet. After a fight in which he nearly kills a neo-Nazi, the antihero main character flees to the other end of the continent with a prisoner he knew from Earth-a Mexican anarchist and fellow musician-on a Gulliver's Travels–type journey through...
88) Sea Change
Author
Publisher
Tachyon Publications / Bookmasters
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
New from the Nebula Award winning author of Beggars in Spain: A riveting climate-change technothriller of espionage, conspiracy, and stakes so high they could lead to the destruction of humanity itself. In this environmental page-turner, activist lawyer Renata Black -- covert member of the Org -- must go deep underground to unravel the truth behind the ecological disaster that has paralyzed the food industry and destroyed her family. " Sea Change...
89) Delirium
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.
90) The loop
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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"Luka Kane has spent 736 days wrongfully imprisoned inside the Loop awaiting his execution. Each day is the same. Each day is torturous. But things are starting to change. Whispers of war are circulating. Strange things are happening to the prisoners. And the warden delivers a message: Luka, you have to get out ... Now Luka must decide whether breaking out of the Loop is his only way to survive, especially if there's any chance of saving the ones...
91) Aftertime
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin Luna
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Awakening in a bleak landscape, Cass Dollar vaguely recalls enduring something terrible. Having no idea how many days-;or weeks-;have passed, she slowly realizes the horrifying truth: her daughter, Ruthie, has vanished. And with her, nearly all of civilization. Instead of winding through the once-lush hills, the roads today see only cannibalistic Beaters-;people turned hungry for human flesh by a government experiment gone wrong.
In a broken, barren...
92) Nanoshock
Author
Series
Sinless volume 2
Publisher
JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"K. C. Alexander follows up their high-energy, high-tech dystopian Necrotech with "brutal, unapologetic, sexy cyberpunk" (Scott Sigler) that hits the ground and tears it all to hell... Riko's landed teeth-first in hell and ass-deep in a shredded reputation. Thanks to a run-in with two corporations, a nasty case of mixed-up memories and a worse case of betrayal stamped on her back, she's got a trail of dead friends and bad choices behind her no credible...
93) Prism
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Prism takes us to a slightly alternate universe in which medicine and health care do not exist, and in which sick people are allowed to die without any care. Set in New Mexico and California, the novel features three teens who fall through a cave at Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico while on a field trip. They are plunged into a frightening parallel universeseven weeks in the past, in which their normal" worlds of family and high school remain the same!except...
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Three classics from the science fiction master in one volume. From the incomparable H. G. Wells, this volume includes three novels of imagination, wit, and terror. The Island of Doctor Moreau : The classic tale of a man's nightmarish experience trapped on an island where a doctor conducts gruesome experiments. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth : A science fiction tale with satirical undertones about scientists who create a race of giants,...
95) The Novels of H. G. Wells Volume Two: The War in the Air, The Sleeper Awakes, and The Time Machine
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Three thrilling and thoughtful works of science fiction from a literary giant. From one of the great writers and thinkers of the modern era, this volume includes three brilliant novels. The War in the Air : Filled with petrol-powered war machines, ironclads, bombardments, and espionage, this novel, a cornerstone of early science fiction, prophesied methods of warfare that would only develop later in the twentieth century. The Sleeper Awakes : After...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Fans of classic frontier survival stories, as well as readers of dystopian literature, will enjoy this futuristic story about an epic cross-country journey. In a Handful of Dust is set ten years after the first novel, Not a Drop to Drink, as a dangerous disease strikes the community where teenage Lucy lives. When her adoptive mother, Lynn, takes Lucy away from their home and friends in order to protect her, Lucy struggles to figure out what home means....
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The Giver: Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. -- Gathering blue: Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians....
98) North
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Series
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A Guardian Book of the Month'Echoes of Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Stephen King's The Stand...' Guardian on SouthIf a virus doesn't kill you, the South will...The USA has been ravaged by Civil War. It's been thirty years since the first wind-borne viruses ended the war between North and South. While the South has been devastated by disease - the North has emerged victorious, but terrified of reprisals. Both territories remain at the mercy of the...
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Series
Janet Watson chronicles volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Mystery A selection in Parade 's roundup of "25 Hottest Books of Summer 2018" A Paste Magazine's Most Anticipated 25 books of 2018 pick A Medium's Books pick for We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 list Set in a near future Washington, D.C., a clever, incisive, and fresh feminist twist on a classic literary icon -- Sherlock Holmes -- in which Dr. Janet Watson and covert agent Sara Holmes will use espionage,...
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English
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"My name is Caitlin Feral, and I'm about to face my final Testing Day. My younger brother and mom hope I return: that I survive the tests (which is not a given) and that I am still a dreg. They want me to stay here with them to keep what's left of our family together. They want me to stay here, in the shadow of the Genetic Wars, with mutant animal attacks, protectors in faceless helms eager to catch us in the slightest infractions, and a menial work...
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