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In the future, abortion has become a crime as a series of events threatens the existence of the United States. One woman wakes up to discover that her skin color has been changed to red as punishment for having the procedure done. Now she must embark on a dangerous journey in order to find refuge from a hostile and threatening society.
2) Shift
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English
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In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same...
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English
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A tale set at the end of the twenty-first century finds the planet's divided hominid population subjected to the forces of a splintery metaconsciousness that inundates networks with plans for cataclysmic technologies, prompting an unwitting jury member to participate in a grueling decision.
6) Dark Eden
Author
Series
Dark Eden novels volume 1
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First American Edition.
Physical Desc
441 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A marooned outpost of humanity struggles to survive on a startlingly alien world.
7) Flawed
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Series
Flawed (Cecelia Ahern) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"In a future society where 'flawed' people who have committed crimes are branded with an F, a young girl takes a stand"--
Celestine North lives a perfect life, in a society in which perfection is paramount and flaws are punished. She's a model daughter and sister, she's well-liked by her classmates and teachers, and she's dating the impossibly charming Art Crevan. When she breaks a rule, she faces life-changing repercussions. She could be branded....
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The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, no reasons given for their actions. All they have is a message: humanity has thirty days to reach the one place on Earth where they will be allowed to exist, Antarctica.
10) Allegiant
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Series
Divergent trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The conclusion to the trilogy reveals the secrets of the dystopian world and the consequences of a fateful decision.
11) Mahimata
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Series
Asiana volume 2
Language
English
Description
A young female assassin must confront the man who slaughtered her family, risk her heart, and come to terms with her identity as a warrior and as a woman in this thrilling fantasy from the author of Markswoman.
Kyra has returned to the caves of Kali, but she no longer knows what her place is. Her beloved teacher is dead and her best friend Nineth is missing. And gone, too, is Rustan, the Marksman who helped her train for the duel with Tamsyn-- and...
12) Street freaks
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Publisher
Grim Oak Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Receiving a dire warning immediately before his father disappears, Ash finds himself hunted in a futuristic mega-city where he searches for help from a human and part-human underworld.
Author
Series
Girl With All The Gifts volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy. The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out into the world. To where the monsters lived.
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English
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A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America's great coastal cities and then its heartland, leaving nothing but an archipelago of mountaintop colonies surrounded by a deep expanse of open water. Stubbornly independent Myra and her precocious seven-year-old daughter, Pearl, fish from their small boat, the Bird, visiting dry...
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Vampire Earth volume 2
Publisher
ROC
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The alien Reapers have ruled Earth for forty-five years. David Valentine is a member of the human resistance, who is now being trained as a Cat-an elite stealth warrior. His first mission is to investigate the threat of the Twisted Cross, a mysterious new force under Reaper control.
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English
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"In the country of last things the masses are homeless, theft is so rampant it is no longer a crime, and death--by arranging either a suicide or assassination--is the only way out. Anna Blume comes to an unnamed city in search of her brother. In her struggle to survive, Anna becomes a scavenger in search of objects from the past to sell for food and shelter. But she will also find friendship--and even love--in this devastated world."--Page 4 of cover....
17) The toll
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Series
Arc of a scythe volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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In the finale to the Arc of a Scythe trilogy, dictators, prophets, and tensions rise. In a world that's conquered death, will humanity finally be torn asunder by the immortal beings it created? Citra and Rowan have disappeared. Endura is gone. It seems like nothing stands between Scythe Goddard and absolute dominion over the world scythedom. With the silence of the Thunderhead and the reverberations of the Great Resonance still shaking the earth to...
18) Poster girl
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English
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"What's right is right. Sonya Kantor knows this slogan--she lived by it for most of her life. For decades, everyone in the Seattle-Portland megalopolis lived under it, as well as constant surveillance in the form of the Insight, an ocular implant that tracked every word and every action, rewarding or punishing by a rigid moral code set forth by the Delegation. Then there was a revolution. The Delegation fell. Its most valuable members were locked...
19) Anthropocene rag
Author
Publisher
A Tor.com Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the future United States, our own history has faded into myth and traveling across the country means navigating wastelands and ever-changing landscapes. The country teems with monsters and artificial intelligences try to unpack their own becoming by recreating myths and legends of their human creators. Prospector Ed, an emergent AI who wants to understand the people who made him, assembles a ragtag team to reach the mythical Monument City. In...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
50th anniversary edition
Physical Desc
xxiii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In the near-future, a violent teen leads a gang through nightly terror sprees before he is caught and agrees to experimental behavior-modification therapy.
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