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61) 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.
Author
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
396 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Welcome to the City Unspoken, where Gods and Mortals come to die. Contrary to popular wisdom, death is not the end, nor is it a passage to some transcendent afterlife. Those who die merely awake as themselves on one of a million worlds, where they are fated to live until they die again, and wake up somewhere new. All are born only once, but die many times. until they come at last to the City Unspoken, where the gateway to True Death can be found....
63) Nine
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In an alternate world startlingly close to our own, humans have nine lives-and they can't wait to use them up. The government has death incentives aimed at controlling overpopulation. As you shed lives, you shed your awkward phases: one death is equal to one physical and mental upgrade. Julian's friends are obsessed with the idea of burning, but Julian is determined to stay on his first life for as long as he can. His mother burned too fast and inflicted...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A world half in darkness. A secret she must bring to light. It is 2059, and the world has crashed. Forty years ago, a solar catastrophe began to slow the planet's rotation to a stop. Now, one half of the globe is permanently sunlit, the other half trapped in an endless night. The United States has colonized the southern half of Great Britain-lucky enough to find itself in the narrow habitable region left between frozen darkness and scorching sunlight-where...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Sylv.ie is a synthetic woman. A fully sentient robot, designed to cater to her Husband's every whim. She lives alone on the top floor of his luxurious home, her existence barely tolerated by his human wife and concealed from their child. Between her Husband's visits, deeply curious about the world beyond her room, Sylv.ie watches the family in the garden-hears them laugh, cry, and argue. Longing to experience more of life, she confides her hopes...
66) Postsingular
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
320 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
It all begins next year in California. A maladjusted computer industry billionaire and a somewhat crazy US President initiate a radical transformation of the world through sentient nanotechnology; sort of the equivalent of biological artificial intelligence. At first, they succeed, but their plans are reversed by Chu, an autistic boy. The next time it isn't so easy to stop them.
Most of the story takes place in a world after a heretofore unimaginable...
67) Alebrijes
Author
Formats
Description
When thirteen-year-old Leandro takes the fall for his sister and is exiled into an ancient drone, he embarks on a perilous journey beyond the city's walls where he encounters mutant monsters, wasteland pirates, and fellow outcasts as he tries to save hissister and fellow Cascabeles from the oppressive regime.
68) Extras
Author
Series
Uglies volume 4
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 19 cm.
Description
After rebel Tally Youngblood brings down the uglies/pretties/specials regime, fame, instead of beauty, becomes the new world order, and fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse embarks on a dangerous plan to boost her popularity ranking.
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 285 pages ; 22 cm
Description
A collection of four pre-Divergent stories plus three additional scenes from Divergent, all told from Tobias's point of view, that follow Tobias's transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his Dauntless initiation, the first clues that a foul plan is brewing in the leadership of two factions, and the weeks after he meets Tris Prior.
Author
Series
Galactic empire volume 3
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired Chicago tailor in 1949 Chicago. Trapped in an incredible future he could barely comprehend, the unlikely time traveler would soon become a pawn in a desperate conspiracy to bring down the Empire in a twist of agony and death: a mad plan to restore Earth's tarnished glory by ending human life on every other world.--
71) Riot baby
Author
Formats
Description
"Rooted in foundational loss and the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is both a global dystopian narrative and an intimate family story with quietly devastating things to say about love, fury, and the black American experience. Ella and Kev are brother and sister, both gifted with extraordinary power. Their childhoods are defined and destroyed by structural racism and brutality. Their futures might alter the world. When Kev is incarcerated for...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Agreeing to care for his younger sister's "faeries" when she is sent away to escape the air raids, Luka, a no-nonsense youth from a war-torn city discovers, to his horror, that the faeries are real and want revenge for his disrespect.
Author
Formats
Description
"Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall--an enormous concrete barrier around its entire border. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate souls who are trapped amid the rising seas outside and attack constantly. Failure will result in death or a fate perhaps worse: being put to sea and made an Other himself. Beset by cold, loneliness,...
74) Kinslayer
Author
Series
Lotus War trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
442
Description
The Shima Imperium is threatened by an imminent civil war, while an enraged Yukiku struggles to keep her ability to hear the thoughts of beasts from overwhelming her and the secretive Guildsman Kin struggles with dreams of an undesirable future.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
784 pages
Description
"Set in an alternate present-day world in which the Internet does not exist, and has never existed. Rather, a wholly different species of interactive technology--a 'flesh-and-bone robot' called the Curio--has dominated both the market and the cultural imagination since the late 1980s. Belt Magnet, who as a boy in greater Chicago became one of the lucky first adopters of a Curio, is now writing his memoir, and through it we follow a singular man out...
77) The resisters
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 22 cm
Description
An audacious wonder of a novel about baseball and a future America, from the always inventive and exciting author of The Love Wife and Who's Irish. The time: Some thirty-five years hence. The place: AutoAmerica--governed by "Aunt Nettie," an iBurrito of AI algorithms and the internet, in a land half under water. The people: Divided into the angelfair "Netted," whose fate it is to have jobs and live on high ground, and the mostly coppertoned "Surplus,"...
78) UnWholly
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
402 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"Thanks to Connor, Lev, and Risa, and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp, people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding. Ridding society of troublesome teens and, in the same stroke, providing much-needed tissues for transplant might be convenient, but its morality has finally been brought into question. However, unwinding has become big business, and there are powerful political and corporate interests that want to see it not...
Author
Series
Bird Box novels volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Twelve years after Malorie and her children rowed up the river to safety, a blindfold is still the only thing that stands between sanity and madness. One glimpse of the creatures that stalk the world will drive a person to unspeakable violence. There remains no explanation. No solution. All Malorie can do is survive?and impart her fierce will to do so on her children. Don?t get lazy, she tells them. Don?t take off your blindfold. AND DON?T LOOK. But...
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