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A Signet Classic volume CW 942
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
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English
Description
Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.
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The handmaid's tale volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
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...
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English
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When a natural disaster predicted by God's Gardeners leader Adam One obliterates most human life, two survivors trapped inside respective establishments that metaphorically represent paradise and hell wonder if any of their loved ones have survived, while the outside world is overcome by gene-spliced life forms.
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Series
Chronicles of the One volume 3
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English
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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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...
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English
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Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order—all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine” (The New...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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.
8) Bird box
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
Description
In a world where no one can go outside for fear of something terrifying that when seen drives people to deadly violence, single mother Malorie and her two children must attempt a terrifying twenty-mile trip downriver while blindfolded.
9) The giver
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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English
Description
Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
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Song of ice and fire volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 45
Language
English
Description
The uneasy peace that exists following the death of Robb Stark is threatened by new plots, intrigues, and alliances that once again will plunge the Seven Kingdoms into all-out war for control of the Iron Throne.
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Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 9 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
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English
Description
There is much to admire in this intriguing, ambitious, immersive book' Literary Review
The gods are abandoning the earth, tempted by other worlds where they can live in peace. Only a few keep an interest in mortals. In their place, darker, more ancient forces are wakening...
Silvius is given a task by a dying centaur. The dark god Python is rising and massing an army of immense power. The only thing that can save the world is the Arrow of Apollo...
12) Divergent
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Series
Divergent volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
13) Insurgent
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Series
Divergent volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love"--
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Series
Shadow children volume 2
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (4 hours) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Luke has the chance to come out of hiding at last. Under a fake identity, he is enrolled in the Hendricks School, where he discovers that there is a lot going on under the surface. Luke doesn't know whom he can trust, where the truth will lead him or what price he'll have to pay for the answers he seeks.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He's been given...
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"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...
19) Brave new world
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Aldous Huxley's tour de force, "Brave New World" is a darkly satiric vision of a "utopian" future--where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, it remains remarkably relevant to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying entertainment.
20) The switch
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Four months after the power went out and his father went missing, Henry travels alone to find his father through the lawless world of the Switch, where he learns just how far people will go to survive"--