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1) What not
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Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 211 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"A government ministry decides to increase national brain-power, and stave off the coming idiocracy, through a program of compulsory selective breeding. The propaganda efforts in support of this endeavor are amazing. The book ends on an ambiguous note: Is the victory of "human perverseness, human stupidity, human self-will" over autocratic bureaucracy a triumph? Or not? Macaulay - a beloved British writer best known for The Towers of Trebizond - worked...
2) Possessor
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
From the visionary mind of writer/director Brandon Cronenberg, an arresting sci-fi thriller about elite corporate assassin Tasya Vos. Using brain-implant technology, Vos takes control of other people's bodies to execute high-profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.
3) Zoolander
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Clear the runway for VH1's three-time male model of the year. His face falls when hippie-chic Hansel scooters in to steal this year's award. The evil fashion guru Mugatu seizes the opportunity to turn Derek into a killing machine. It's a well-designed conspiracy and only with the help of Hansel and a few well-chosen accessories like Matilda can Derek make the world safe for male models everywhere.
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The Program. Main series volume 1
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The first book in Suzanne Young's New York Times bestselling series is a "gripping tale for lovers of dystopian romance" (Kirkus Reviews) about two teens in a world where true feelings are forbidden, teen suicide is an epidemic, and the only solution is The Program—now with a freshly reimagined look.
Sloane knows better than to cry in front of anyone. With suicide now an international epidemic, one outburst could land...
Sloane knows better than to cry in front of anyone. With suicide now an international epidemic, one outburst could land...
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Series
Witherwood Reform School volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
231 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"Siblings Charlotte and Tobias are trapped within a creepy reform school--and entangled in its dark secrets"--
7) Deep six
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 7
Pub. Date
2006, c1984
Physical Desc
535 p. ; 19 cm.
Description
Dirk Pitt is up against a sinister Asian shipping family and a Soviet plot to use the president of the United States for their own purposes through mind control.
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Project MKUltra is the code name given to a program of experiments on human subjects that were designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), some of which were illegal. What was this project really about? And is it still going on today? Lets put on the glasses and see reality with this hard-hitting documentary.
9) Cult classic
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
One night in New York City's Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of cigarettes. On her way back, she runs into a former boyfriend. And then another. And . . . another. Nothing is quite what it seems as the city becomes awash with ghosts of heartbreaks past. What would normally pass for coincidence becomes something far stranger as the recently engaged Lola must contend not only...
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Captain Underpants volume 12
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George and Harold and their doubles, Yesterday George and Yesterday Harold, have been taking turns going to school, but when the doubles fall prey to their gym teacher, Mr. Meaner, and his method of mind control that turns students into attentive, obedient, perfect children, it is up to original George and Harold to strike back.
11) The Program
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Series
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
When suicide becomes a worldwide epidemic, the only known cure is The Program, a treatment in which painful memories are erased, a fate worse than death to seventeen-year-old Sloane who knows that The Program will steal memories of her dead brother and boyfriend.
12) Pretties
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Series
Uglies volume 2
Description
Finally surgically transformed into a "pretty," sixteen-year-old Tally, now gorgeous and programmed to think only happy thoughts, is plagued by tangled memories of living in the Smoke, a rebel colony of "ugly" runaways hiding from the Special Circumstances authorities.
13) The special ones
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"When four young people are taken against their will to become part of a cult, they are worshiped by their followers and become lost in their new reality--but what happens if they rebel against the one holding them captive?"--
14) Enders
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The riveting conclusion to the international bestselling sci-fi thriller STARTERS! Would you rent out your body to the elderly so they could be young again?
Someone is after Starters like Callie and Michael—teens with chips in their brains. They want to experiment on anyone left over from Prime Destinations—Starters who can be controlled and manipulated. With the body bank destroyed, Callie no longer has...
Someone is after Starters like Callie and Michael—teens with chips in their brains. They want to experiment on anyone left over from Prime Destinations—Starters who can be controlled and manipulated. With the body bank destroyed, Callie no longer has...
15) Shift: [a novel]
Author
Series
Gate of Orpheus trilogy volume pt. 1
Pub. Date
p2010
Physical Desc
11 sound discs (ca. 71 min. each) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chandler Forrestal, a man whose life is changed forever when he is unwittingly dragged into a CIA mind-control experiment, develops a frightening array of mental powers. With his one-in-a-billion brain chemistry, Chandler's heightened perception uncovers a plot to assassi-nate President Kennedy. Chased across America by deadly forces in and out of government, will Chandler be able to harness his "shift" and rewrite history?
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Werepenguin volume 1
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
333 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Some stories are about happy, adorable penguins who form families, learn to dance, or make friends. This is not one of those stories. All orphan Bolt Wattle has ever wanted was to find his true family. When a mysterious baron in far-off Brugaria sends for Bolt, he wonders if he's getting closer to finding his long-lost parents. But Baron Chordata appears to be a twelve-year-old boy who wears tuxedos all the time, shouts at everyone, and forbids Bolt...
17) Unleashed
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Series
Jinxed (McCulloch) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Armed with their companioneering and coding skills and accompanied by their loyal bakus, Lacey Chu and her friends attempt a rescue mission deep in the heart of a sinister transnational tech corporation.
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