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Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear. 12-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Handmaid's Tale is not only a radical and brilliant departure for Margaret Atwood, it is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States, now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the...
Author
Series
Chronicles of the One volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Year One and Of Blood and Bone concludes her stunning new trilogy praised as "A match for end-of-the-world classics like Stephen King's The Stand." After the sickness known as the Doom destroyed civilization, magick has become commonplace, and Fallon Swift has spent her young years learning its ways. Fallon cannot live in peace until she frees those who have been preyed upon by the government or the fanatical...
Author
Series
Witch and wizard volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sister and brother, along with thousands of young people, have been kidnapped and either thrown in prison or turned up missing after accusations of witchcraft were made against them. The ruling regime will do anything in order to suppress life and liberty, music and books.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First William Morrow hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 23
Physical Desc
485 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In a dangerous near-future world where an unknown phenomenon causes people to gain strange new powers but lose their memories, Ory and his wife Max journey through a perilous, unrecognizable world in a search for answers.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 203 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In her first novel since The Quick and the Dead, the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after the environmental apocalypse, a world in which only the man-made has value, but some still wish to salvage the authentic. Once nature as we know it is dead, the pursuit of happiness fades into insignificance, food is scarce, and even time doesn't progress in an organized fashion. Harrow follows the picaresque journey of Khristen--a teenager...
Author
Series
The handmaid's tale volume 2
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
x, 419 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From debut novelist Laura Maylene Walter, a bold and dazzling exploration of fate and female agency in a world very similar to our own--except that the markings on women's bodies reveal the future"--
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
117 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The retired physics professor and her husband and her former student waiting for the couple who will join them from what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. The conversation ranges from a survey telescope in North-central Chile to a favorite brand of bourbon to Einstein's 1912 Manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity. Then something...
12) Arch-conspirator
Author
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
112 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From dystopian visionary and bestselling phenomenon Veronica Roth comes a razor-sharp reimagining of Antigone. In Arch-Conspirator, Roth reaches back to the root of legend and delivers a world of tomorrow both timeless and unexpected. "A gut punch of a story. Roth takes everything fragile about love, everything powerful about certain doom, and blooms with it. You'll be holding your breath until the very last word."-Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Time travel" - and its hazards - are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America - "Wainscotia, Wisconsin" - that existed eighty years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic midwestern town, she is set upon a course of "rehabilitation" -but cannot resist fallin in...
14) The calling
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xviii, 439 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Remko Brant and his team undertake risky rescue missions in the Authority City, while the new Authority president claims to be leading the city into peace and harmony, but his dangerous ambitions mean trouble for the rebels.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a near-future northern settlement, the fate of a young woman intertwines with those of a college professor and a collective of women soldiers in this mesmerizing and transportive novel in the vein of Station Eleven and The Power. In the far north of Canada, a team led by a visionary American architect is building a project called Camp Zero. With its fresh, clean air and cold climate, it's intended to be the beginning of a new community and a new...
16) Anthem: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The wheels are coming off in America. Opioid addictions accelerate unstoppably. Environmental collapse can be read in every weather report. Vigilante bands take over streets at night, wearing clown face makeup. The very idea of government, of citizenship, is challenged daily. And something is happening to teenagers across the country, spreading through memes only they understand. At the Float Anxiety Abatement Center, in a suburb of Chicago, Simon...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 301
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this Orwellian dramatization, religion becomes a tool of repression and social control to force women into the roles of stay-at-home wives, domestic staff, prostitutes, or surrogate mothers. They have no rights to their bodies or property and are completely dependent upon men. Those women who have had at least one child find themselves forced into the role of breeding machine, producing children for childless couples. References to 20th-century...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bea's five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, consumed by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped metropolis that most of the population now calls home. If they stay in the city, Agnes will die. There is only one alternative: the Wilderness State, the last swath of untouched, protected land, where people have always been forbidden. Bea, Agnes, and eighteen others volunteer to live in the Wilderness State, guinea pigs in an experiment...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegan Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Zola, who has a surprising connection to Jessie, discovers that she is stuck in a fake utopian future, and that those around her are counting on her to help them escape.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Vintage Books edition.
Physical Desc
577 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circle comes an exciting new follow-up. When the world's largest search engine/social media company, The Circle, merges with the planet's dominant e-commerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous-and, oddly enough, most beloved-monopoly ever known: The Every"--