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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...
2) Red Rising
Author
Series
Red Rising saga volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
A tale set in a bleak future society torn by class divisions follows the experiences of secret revolutionary Darrow, who after witnessing his wife's execution by an oppressive government joins a revolutionary cell and attempts to infiltrate an elite military academy.
4) Morning star
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
"The conclusion of the Red Rising trilogy. Born a lowly Red in the mines of Mars, Darrow lost his beloved wife to the treacherous Gold overlords. Vowing to fight for the future that his wife believed in, Darrow joins a secret revolutionary group and is remade into a Gold so that he can infiltrate the ruling class and bring them down from the inside. Now, after years of hiding amongst the Golds, Darrow is finally ready to declare open revolution and...
5) Golden son
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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 forged by 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
Series
Legacy of Orisha volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After Z�elie and Amari bring magic back to the land of Or�isha, the monarchy and military unite to keep control of Or�isha, forcing Z�elie to fight to secure Amari's right to the throne and protect the new maji from the monarchy's wrath.
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Saga Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
488 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Long ago, Queen Mirantha vanished. King Karolje claimed it was an assassination by a neighboring king, but everyone knew it was a lie. He had Disappeared her himself. But after finding the missing queen’s diary, Anza—impassioned by her father’s unjust execution and inspired by Mirantha’s words—joins the resistance group to overthrow the king. When an encounter with Prince Esvar thrusts her into a dangerous game of court politics, one misstep...
Author
Series
Testing volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The United Commonwealth wants to eliminate the rebel alliance fighting to destroy The Testing for good.
Author
Series
Thorndike Press large print The literacy bridge
Legacy of Orisha volume Book 1
Legacy of Orisha volume 1
Legacy of Orisha volume Book 1
Legacy of Orisha volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Seventeen-year-old Zelie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
Author
Series
Testing volume 2
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Now a freshman at the University in Tosu City with her hometown sweetheart, Tomas, Cia Vale attempts to expose the ugly truth behind the government's grueling and deadly Testing put her and her loved ones in great danger.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
La Voz operative Carmen is forced to choose between the girl she loves and the success of a rebellion that has escalated to the point of civil war.
12) Tiger queen
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the isolated desert kingdom of Achra, sixteen-year-old Princess Kateri flees the palace and trains with the rebel Desert Boys to overthrow the cruel captain of the guard in this retelling of Frank Stockton's short story, "The Lady, or the Tiger?"
13) The mime order
Author
Series
Bone season volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
517 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Paige Mahoney has escaped the brutal penal colony of Sheol I, but her problems have only just begun: many of the fugitives are still missing and she is the most wanted person in London. As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on Paige, the mime-lords and mime-queens of the city's gangs meet, Jaxon Hall and his Seven Seals prepare to take center stage, and bitter fault lines run through the clairvoyant community.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"After the 2016 election, Americans witnessed a frightening trend: the sudden rise of a host of new extremist groups around the country. Empowered by a new president, they started showing up at political rallies, building fervent online presences, and expanding at an alarming rate. Amid all this, one group seemed to show up in the news constantly, creating a reputation for its bizarre behavior and regular violence: the Proud Boys. From acclaimed extremism...
15) The bees
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive, Flora 717, due to her courage and strength, finds her way into the Queen's inner sanctum where she discovers secrets about the hive that cause her to challenge authority and perform unthinkable acts.
16) The Rule of All
Author
Series
The Rule of One volume 3
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Outlaw twin sisters Ava and Mira Goodwin were born to defy Texas’s tyrannical and oppressive Governor Roth. They inspired millions across the country to liberate themselves and fight to live free under the new Common rule. But an enemy still endangers their fragile vision for the future. Ava and Mira’s mission: hunt the man down. The once-mighty Governor Roth has fled Dallas. Holding a hostage beloved by Ava and Mira, Roth has a mission, too:...
Author
Series
Red Queen volume 5
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Collects never-before-seen maps, flags, bonus scenes along with five novellas, including "Queen Song," in which Queen Coriane keeps a secret diary that recounts her courtship, Cal's birth, and the challenges of royal life.
18) Blue fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"They call it Hell Day—a world war that lasted less than twenty-four hours. Nations unleashed weapons that destroyed more than a century’s worth of technology. Electrical grids cannot generate power. Communications and computers cannot run. And the remnants of the U. S. government cannot be depended upon. Those who survived must live as their ancestors did, off a land ruled by the whims of nature. One-time congressional representative Victoria...
19) Champion
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic--and each other--and now their country is on the brink of a new existence. Just when a peace treaty is imminent, a plague outbreak causes panic in the Colonies, and war threatens the Republic's border cities"--
20) The kingdom of God is within you: Christianity not as a mystic religion but as a new theory of life
Author
Publisher
Page
Pub. Date
1951
Physical Desc
xvi, 368 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Kingdom Of God Is Within You is one of the most provocative anti-establishment and anti-authoritarian pieces of literature ever written. In the context of a sincere and scathing account of what is living and dead in modern Christianity, Tolstoy presents a view of history and society that overcomes widely recognized theoretical contradictions implicit in his monumental early novel, War and Peace. At the focal point of The Kingdom Of God Is Within...