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1) Flawed
Author
Series
Flawed (Cecelia Ahern) volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 25 cm
Description
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. She could be found flawed ... and her life would never be the same ...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
286 pages : illustration, map ; 24 cm
Description
"After the murder of an unarmed Black teenager by the hands of the police, protests spread like wildfire in Bliss City, New Jersey. A full-scale resistance group takes control of an abandoned housing project and decide to call it Hush Harbor, in homage to the secret spaces their enslaved ancestors would gather to pray. Jeremiah Prince, alongside his sister Nova, are leaders of the revolution, but have ideological differences regarding how the movement...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
x, 419 pages ; 25 cm
Description
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 a third voice: a woman who wields power through the ruthless accumulation...
4) Skyhunter
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
371 pages : map ; 24 cm
Description
The Karensa Federation has conquered a dozen countries, leaving Mara as one of the last free nations in the world. Refugees flee to its borders to escape a fate worse than death, transformation into mutant war beasts known as Ghosts, creatures the Federation then sends to attack Mara. The legendary Strikers, Mara's elite fighting force, are trained to stop these monsters. But as the number of Ghosts grows and Karensa closes in, defeat seems inevitable....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (7 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Description
Whit and Wisty Allgood have led the resistance against a totalitarian regime that has banned all forms of creativity and executed their parents, but even the growing strength of the siblings' magic has not been able to stop the evil dictator, and they must somehow prepare for an imminent showdown.
6) Rebel rising
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Follows the adventures of Jyn Erso as she trains under Saw Gerrera and learns how to become a proper rebel, preparations that come in handy when she is asked by the Rebellion to find out about the weapon that her father is helping the Empire construct.
When Jyn Erso was five years old, her mother was murdered and her father taken from her to serve the Empire. She was taken in by Saw Gerrera, a man willing to go to any extremes necessary in order...
Author
Series
Handmaid's tale volume 2
Description
"In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades. When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death. With The Testaments, the wait is over. Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 24 cm
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. Twelve-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,...
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"Across many worlds and many timelines, these stories depict the moments when people see the fascism in front of them for what it is, accept it as real, and make the choice to fight it. Who are the canaries in the coal mine? When can the long-hidden voice no longer be ignored? Anti-fascist rebellion can take many forms. A transgender woman living on an artificial satellite learns to reject oppression via poetry. A machine ethicist finds a way to dance...
10) Saha: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
228 pages : map ; 22 cm
Description
"In a country called Town, a doctor named Su is found dead in an abandoned car. There is only one place the police intend to look for her suspected killer: the Saha Estates. Controlled by a secretive organization of ministers, Town is the safest, richest nation in the world. But it is a society clearly divided into the haves and have-nots, and those who have the very least--who aren't even considered citizens--live on the Saha Estates. Residents of...
11) Skyhunter
Author
Series
Skyhunter duology volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
413 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"La autora n͠mero uno en ventas del New York Times, Marie Lu, vuelve con Skyhunter: el arma secreta, una novela repleta de adrenalina sobre los extremos a los que llegar̀ una guerrera para luchar por la libertad y sus seres queridos. Un mundo roto. Un mal abrumador. Un equipo de guerreros dispuestos a contraatacar. Talin es una Golpeadora, miembro de una fuerza de combate de ̌lite que se erige como la ͠ltima defensa de la ͠nica naci̤n libre...
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