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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
421 pages : color illustration ; 22 cm
Description
After a deadly Fly Flu spreads throughout the world, survivors Nico, her dog, young artist Kit, and the mysterious Deliverer roam the earth, seeking to evade the Flies and find a place where life and love can thrive again.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
In an ultraconservative America of the not-too-distant future when America has become a police state, the annual marathon is the ultimate sports competition. One hundred boys are selected each year to enter a grueling 450-mile marathon walk. The game is simple: maintain a steady walking pace of four miles per hour without stopping. Three warnings and you're out--permanently. The winner will be awarded whatever he wants for the rest of his life; but...
44) The Affinities
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 22 cm
Description
After becoming a part of the Tau, one of twenty-two large global network Affinities in the near future, young Adam Fisk thinks his life has improved for the better until the different Affinities begin to go to war with one another -- in a conflict that will change Adam's world forever.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. Five very different women navigate these new barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood, identity, and freedom. In the vein of Margaret Atwood and Eileen Myles, Leni Zumas fearlessly explores the contours of female experience,...
46) The maze cutter
Author
Series
Maze cutter trilogy volume 1
Description
Sadina, Isaac, and Jackie all learned about the unkind history of the Gladers from The Book of Newt and tall tales from Old Man Frypan, but when a rusty old boat shows up one day with a woman bearing dark news of the mainland--everything changes. The group and their islander friends are forced to embark back to civilization where they find Cranks have evolved into a more violent, intelligent version of themselves. The islanders are hunted by the Godhead,...
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
298, 11 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"In the not too distant future, eighteen-year-old Darcy lives on an island in the Pacific Ocean, one of the last places on earth that is still habitable after North America has succumbed to a second ice age. To Darcy, America Pacifica is simply home: the only one she's ever known, its discomforts and mysteries made bearable by her loving though enigmatic mother. Then one night her mother receives a strange visitor--and the next day, she's gone."
48) Vox
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Soon women are not permitted to hold jobs. Girls are not taught to read or write. Females no longer have a voice. Before, the average person spoke sixteen thousand words each day, but now women have only one hundred to make themselves heard..."--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
The Sunrise Lands volume 2
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
viii, 450 p. : map ; 23 cm.
Description
In this continuation of the bestselling author's chronicle of an alternate world, Rudi MacKenzie continues his trek across the land that was once the United States, where he hopes to learn the truth behind The Change that rendered technology across the globe inoperable.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"From the beloved award-winning author of Native Speaker and The Surrendered, a highly provocative, deeply affecting story of one woman's legendary quest in a shocking, future America. On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in identity, culture, work, and love, and lifts them to a new plane. Stepping from the realistic and historical territories of his previous work, Lee...
Author
Series
World made by hand volume 3
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
336 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"Following the catastrophes of the twenty-first century--the pandemics, the environmental disaster, the end of oil, the ensuing chaos--people are doing whatever they can to get by and pursuing a simpler and sometimes happier existence. In little Union Grove, the townspeople are preparing for Christmas. Without the consumerist shopping frenzy that dogged the holidays of the previous age, the season has become a time to focus on family and loved ones....
Author
Formats
Description
Meet Prince Maxon before he fell in love with America, and a girl named Amberly before she became queen. See the Selection through the eyes of a guard who watched his first love drift away and a girl who fell for a boy who wasn't the prince. Features four novellas from the world of Kiera Cass's Selection series, two of which appear here in print for the first time. Additional content includes new scenes from The Selection, The Elite, and The One;...
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Formats
Description
"Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him...Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can't get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. Benji is rescued by a group ofteens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC's leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot...Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group...
Author
Series
Darkest minds novels volume 4
Formats
Description
Accused of committing a horrifying act, Zu goes on the run, forming an uncomfortable alliance with two mysterious Psi who she's not sure she can trust in order to clear her name and expose the evils underlying the country's recovery.
55) The book of M
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
485 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe who risk everything to save the ones they love. It is a sweeping debut that illuminates the power that memories have not only on the heart, but on the world itself. One afternoon at an outdoor market in India, a man's shadow disappears--an occurrence science cannot explain. He is only the first. The...
Author
Series
Description
"Wool introduced the world of the Silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall. Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18, doesn't trust Silo 1, especially its leader, Donald. But in the world of the Silos, there is no black and white -- everything is shades of gray. Donald may not be the monster Juliette thinks he is, and may in fact be key to humanity's continued survival. But can they work together long enough to succeed?"--...
57) Jupiter War
Author
Series
Owner volume 3
Publisher
Perseus Distribution Services
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
354 pages
Description
Trapped on the surface of Mars, Saul and his sister Var must find a way to return to Argus Station, but the new base commander, Rhone, stands in their way. Saul wants to pursue his dreams, turning the Argus Station into an interstellar vessel, rebuilding it and weapons, and leaving the solar system. Meanwhile, Alex, the clone of Alessandro Messina, watches those around him change as they become 'chipped' and able to control station robots. Immortality...
58) Ark
Author
Series
Flood (Stephen Baxter) volume 2
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
532 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
It's the year 2041. The oceans have risen rapidly, and soon the entire planet will be submerged. But hope has arisen with the discovery of another life-sustaining planet a light-year away. Only a small number will be able to make the journey--and the competition for survival can kill human compassion.
Author
Publisher
HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
477 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
Living in a world where everyone is willingly addicted to The Feed, a technology that instantly connects everyone to news, information, and the thoughts and feelings of others, Tom must help his family survive when The Feed collapses, decimating modern society.
60) The arc
Author
Series
Loop (Ben Oliver) volume 3
Publisher
Chicken House, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Chester breaks into the lab on the sixty-fifth floor where he finds three subjects being tortured and, orchestrates a bold escape plan, racing against time to halt the apocalypse and save humanity.
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