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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
c1917
Edition
Memorial ed.
Physical Desc
337 p.
Language
English
Description
Looking Backward tells the story of Julian West, a young American who, toward the end of the 19th century, falls into a deep, hypnosis-induced sleep and wakes up a century later. He finds himself in a totally changed world in the year 2000, and the United States has been transformed into a socialist utopia.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Immersing himself in a mid-twenty-first-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty, and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's creator.
3) Mortal
Author
Series
Publisher
FaithWords
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
418 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
While the Order gathers an army to erradicate the living, betrayal threatens to destroy the Mortals from within.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Deep in the California woods on an evening in late August, Jane Pearson is camping with her husband Leo and their five-year-old son Benjamin. As dusk sets in, she drifts softly to sleep in a hammock strung outside the tent where Leo and Benjamin are preparing for bed. At that moment, every single person with a Y chromosome vanishes around the world, disappearing from operating theaters mid-surgery, from behind the wheels of cars, from arguments and...
6) Island
Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Perennial classic ed.
Physical Desc
354p. 21cm.
Language
English
Description
In his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect...
7) Mouseheart
Author
Series
Mouseheart volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2014
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
315 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hopper is just an ordinary mouse until he escapes and finds himself under the streets of Brooklyn in the transit tunnels of Atlantia, a glorious utopian rat civilization.
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
608 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2108, Colony Ship Voyager departed Earth for the planet of Promissa with 18,000 of the world’s best and brightest on board. 250 years and 27 light years later, an arrival is imminent. But all is not well. The probes that they’ve sent ahead to gather the data needed to establish any kind of settlement aren’t responding, and the information they have received has presented more questions than answers. It’s a time when the entire crew should...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each other, it's hard to find happiness while the effects of climate change rapidly eclipse their world. Soon, it won't be safe outside at all. The only people guaranteed survival are the ones whose applications are accepted to The Inside Project, a series of weather-safe, city-sized structures around the world. Jacqueline Millender is a reclusive billionaire/women's...
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Last Election is a unique political thriller about an outlandish yet frighteningly possible—even probable—scenario in America's near future, during the crucial 2024 presidential election. Though it is fiction, it is a wake-up call to a country tearing itself apart. The story focuses on two characters: Mikey Ricci, a political operative who has lost faith in traditional structures following the bitter races of 2016 and 2020; and Martha Kass,...