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61) Anomalies
Author
Publisher
SelectBooks, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 24 cm
Description
In the future where no disease, war, or discontent exists, and all citizens are complacent members of the Global Governance, fifteen-year-old Keeva discovers that nonconformity will be punished, dissent is not an option, and insurgents will be destroyed.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Set in a terrifyingly familiar near-future, with massive floods leading to rampant homelessness and devastation, a government-sanctioned regime called The Boots seizes on the opportunity to round up communities of color, the disabled, and the LGBTQ+ into labor camps. In the shadows, a new hero emerges. After he loses his livelihood as a drag queen and the love of his life, Kay joins the resistance alongside Bahadur, a transmasculine refugee, and Firuzeh,...
63) The iron flower
Author
Series
Black Witch chronicles volume 2
Formats
Description
Elloren Gardner and her friends were only seeking to right a few wrongs when they rescued a Selkie and freed a military dragon. The last thing they expected was to be thrust into a realm-wide underground resistance against Gardnerian conquest. While the Resistance struggles to fight back against the harsh rulings of the Mage Council, more and more Gardnerian soldiers descend upon the University, led by none other than Lukas Grey, now commander of...
64) Legend
Author
Series
Legend (Marie Lu) volume 1
Description
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-old Day--a famous criminal, and prodigy June--the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
65) Wild poppies
Author
Formats
Description
Since the passing of their father, Oscar has tried to be the man of his family of Syrian refugees. As Oscar waits in line for rations, his younger brother Sufyan explores more nontraditional methods to provide for his family. Ignoring his brother's warnings, Sufyan gets more and more involved with a group that provides him with big rewards for doing seemingly inconsequential tasks. When the group abruptly gets more intense--taking Sufyan and other...
66) Ruby Ridge
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Recounts the events of the 1992 standoff between government agents and the Weaver family on Ruby Ridge in Idaho.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
vii, 455 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
From the groundbreaking author team behind the bestselling Winner-Take-All Politics, a timely and topical work that examines what?s good for American business and what?s good for Americans?and why those interests are misaligned. In Winner-Take-All Politics, Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson explained how political elites have enabled and propelled plutocracy. Now in American Amnesia, they trace the economic and political history of the United States...
68) Flood City
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
327 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Flood City is the only habitable place left on the drowned Earth, but it is also a battleground between the Star Guard who have controlled the city for decades and the Chemical Barons in their spaceships who once ruled the planet, want it back, and are now preparing to destroy it; the future will depend on Max, his sister Yala of Flood City, and Ato, a young Chemical Baron who just wants to keep his twin brother alive and not hurt anyone--and somehow...
69) Golden son
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Series
Formats
Description
"With shades of The Hunger Games, Ender's Game, and Game of Thrones, debut author Pierce Brown's genre-defying epic Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forgedby tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies. Now fully embedded among the Gold ruling class, Darrow continues his work...
Author
Description
After Wisconsin graduate student Mildred Fish marries brilliant German economist Arvid Harnack, she accompanies him to his German homeland, where a promising future awaits. In the thriving intellectual culture of 1930s Berlin, the newlyweds create a rich new life filled with love, friendships, and rewarding work-but the rise of a malevolent new political faction inexorably changes their fate. As Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party wield violence and lies...
71) A new dawn
Author
Publisher
Del Rey, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 383 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
The first Star Wars novel created in collaboration with the Lucasfilm Story Group set during the legendary "Dark Times" between Episodes III and IV of the popular films tells the story of how two of the lead characters from the animated series Star Wars Rebels first came to cross paths.
72) White knights in the Black Orchestra: the extraordinary story of the Germans who resisted Hitler
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
vii, 454 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"The riveting and tension-filled story of a small group of conspirators who plotted relentlessly to obstruct and destroy the Third Reich from within. Behind the front lines of World War II, a clandestine war within a war was being waged in Nazi Germany. As the "Final Solution" unfolded and fascism swept across Europe, a network of German military officers, diplomats, politicians, and a smattering of civilians were doing everything in their power to...
73) Rogue heart
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
©2019.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Living safe and anonymous after the Battle of Neo Seoul, telepath Ama does not expect to be approached by a resistance group to help expose a government experiment similar to the one she successfully fled. Once she accepts, however, her assignments get more dangerous until she finds herself manipulating the mind of the boy she once loved and was betrayed by, so she can unseat him as commander of the Alliance.
74) La Reina Roja
Author
Series
[Reina Roja] volume 1
Publisher
Editorial Oce?ano
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
469, 15 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Description
"Ambientada en un reino imaginario, esta novela nos muestra a una sociedad dividida por el color de la sangre. Por un lado esta? la gente comu?n que tiene sangre roja; por el otro tenemos a aquellos que poseen sangre plateada y que tienen habilidades sobrenaturales. Estos u?ltimos forman una e?lite cerrada y llena de privilegios. La protagonista es Mare, una chica de sangre roja que sobrevive en medio de la pobreza realizando pequen?os robos. Cierto...
75) Prodigy
Author
Series
Description
June and Day make their way to Las Vegas where they join the rebel Patriot group and become involved in an assassination plot against the Elector in hopes of saving the Republic.
76) Prophet song
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
"On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning toward tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new,...
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xii, 514 pages, 29 pages ; 21 cm
Description
The hopes, desires, and destinies of princesses and peasants, harlots and wives, fanatics and philosopherssix unforgettable women whose paths cross during one of the most tumultuous and transformative events in history: the French Revolution.
78) Attack surface
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
"Most days, Masha Maximow was sure she'd chosen the winning side. In her day job as a counterterrorism wizard for an transnational cybersecurity firm, she made the hacks that allowed repressive regimes to spy on dissidents, and manipulate their every move. The perks were fantastic, and the pay was obscene. Just for fun, and to piss off her masters, Masha sometimes used her mad skills to help those same troublemakers evade detection, if their cause...
Author
Series
Court of miracles volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Set in the post-Revolution alternate world of 1828 Paris, a debut entry in a historical adventure series follows the experiences of a hardscrabble thief who finds herself confronting the leaders of the city's criminal underground to protect an innocent girl.
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xi, 274 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"What would you do if you grew up repeatedly seeing your home raided? Your parents arrested? Your mother shot? Your uncle killed? Try, if just for a moment, to imagine this was your life. How would you want the world to react?" Ahed Tamimi's father was born in 1967, the year that the Israeli occupation of the West Bank began, and every aspect of their family's life has been touched by it. One of Ahed's earliest memories is visiting her father in prison,...
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