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121) Arch-conspirator
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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From dystopian visionary and bestselling phenomenon Veronica Roth comes a razor-sharp reimagining of Antigone. In Arch-Conspirator, Roth reaches back to the root of legend and delivers a world of tomorrow both timeless and unexpected. "A gut punch of a story. Roth takes everything fragile about love, everything powerful about certain doom, and blooms with it. You'll be holding your breath until the very last word."-Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling...
122) The visitor
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
The "magic" that once was America died horribly along with most of the Earth's inhabitants when an asteroid crashed into the planet sometime during the twenty-first century. Hundreds of years have passed, and all that remains of the time before are fragmented memories distorted by superstition -- as a tragically reduced populace suffers greatly under the tyranny of a repressive ruling order. But destiny has chosen Dismé Latimer to lead a wasted world...
123) The girl in red
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English
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It's not safe for anyone alone in the woods. There are predators that come out at night: critters and coyotes, snakes and wolves. But the woman in the red jacket has no choice. Not since the Crisis came, decimated the population, and sent those who survived fleeing into quarantine camps that served as breeding grounds for death, destruction, and disease. She was just a woman trying not to get killed in a world that didn't look anything like the one...
124) The expedition
Author
Series
Initiation volume 2
Publisher
Permuted Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Drayden and his friends thought nothing could be harder than the Initiation. Little did they know it had only been a warmup for the challenge that lay ahead. With New America's situation dire, Drayden and the pledges venture out into the unexplored world outside the walls, escorted by a team of elite Guardians. The group seeks to contact another civilization in what remains of Boston, but Drayden has secret goals of his own. Dangers abound in the...
125) The trees
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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The trees arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground, transforming streets and towns into shadowy forest. Buildings are destroyed. Broken bodies, still wrapped in tattered bed linen, hang among the twitching leaves. Adrien Thomas has never been much of a hero. But when he realizes that no help is coming, he ventures out into this unrecognizable world. Michelle, his wife, is across the sea in Ireland and he has no way of knowing whether...
126) The fall of Koli
Author
Series
Rampart trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Now that Koli and his companions have found the source of the signal they've been following--the mysterious "Sword of Albion"--There is hope that their perilous journey will finally be worth something. They're searching for a way to help humanity fight back against nature. But what they'll find is an ancient war that never ended
127) Gemsigns
Author
Series
Revolution volume 1
Publisher
Jo Flectcher
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Humanity stands on the brink. Again. Surviving the Syndrome meant genetically modifying almost every person on the planet. But norms and gems are different. Gems may have the superpowers that once made them valuable commodities, but they also have more than their share of the damaged, the violent and the psychotic. After a century of servitude, freedom has come at last for the gems, and not everyones happy about it. The gemtechs want to turn...
128) The water thief
Author
Publisher
[CreateSpace]
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Charles Thatcher is a private citizen, which is to say that he's the private property of the Ackerman Brothers Securities Corporation. He's got problems: the cost of air is going up, his wife wants to sell herself to another corporation, and his colleagues are always trying to get him tossed into the lye vats. But when he discovers a woman stealing rainwater, he sees his chance to move up in the world, maybe even become an executive. He reports her,...
129) Alebrijes
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
For 400 years, Earth has been a barren wasteland. The few humans that survive scrape together an existence in the cruel city of Pocatel--or go it alone in the wilderness beyond, filled with wandering spirits and wyrms. They don't last long. 13 year-old pickpocket Leandro and his sister Gabi do what they can to forge a life in Pocatel. The city does not take kindly to Cascabel like them - the descendants of those who worked the San Joaquin Valley for...
130) Elemental
Author
Series
Elemental novel volume 1
Language
English
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In a dystopian colony of the United States where everyone is born with powers of the elements, water, wind, earth, and fire, sixteen-year-old Thomas, the first and only child born without an element seems powerless, but is he?
131) Goliath
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"In the 2050s, Earth has begun to empty. Those with the means and the privilege have departed the great cities of the United States for the more comfortable confines of space colonies. Those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure. As they eke out an existence, their neighborhoods are being cannibalized. Brick by brick, their houses are sent to the colonies, what was once a home now a quaint reminder for the colonists...
132) Grace and fury
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In an alternate world where women have no rights, two sisters face very different fates after an attempt to win the favor of the heir to the throne--one in the palace, the other on a volcanic prison island.
Sisters Serina and Nomi Tessaro were born into a world where women have no rights. Serina has been groomed her whole life to become a Grace-- to stand by the heir to the throne as a shining, subjugated example of the perfect woman. When her younger...
133) The rule of all
Author
Series
Rule of one volume 3
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2020]
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: regroup...
Author
Series
Road to Nowhere volume 1
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead. In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth's population--killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant--the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new one. Gone are the pillars of civilization. All that remains is power--and the strong who possess it. A few women like...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
En una sociedad vacía y marcada por las diferencias de clase, casi todos aceptan sin oposición la pérdida de libertades y las prohibiciones. Nadie se hace preguntas. Tras la Gran Pandemia, ya son muy pocos quienes se atreven a recordar que un mundo mejor fue posible. Julia Romero es una joven periodista que se niega a aceptar la versión oficial de que su padre, un reportero que abandonó repentinamente el oficio años atrás, se ha suicidado....
136) La heredera
Author
Series
Selection novel volume 4
Publisher
Rocaeditorial
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxon's heart. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn doesn't expect her Selection to be anything like her parents' fairy-tale love story ... but as the competition begins, she may discover that finding her own happily ever after isn't as impossible as she's always thought.
"Veinte años atras, America Singer concurso en la Seleccion y...
137) The limitless sky
Author
Publisher
Dundurn Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Trapped in a life she didn't choose, Rook struggles to find meaning in her appointed role as Apprentice Keeper of ArHK. Even though her mother soothes her with legends of the Outside and her father assures her there are many interesting facts to discover in the Archives, Rook sees only endless years of tracking useless information. Then one day Rook discovers historic footage of the Chosen Ones arriving in ArHK, and she begins to realize her mother's...
Author
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After nuclear disaster, Rowenna and her young son, Dylan, are among the rare survivors in rural northwest Wales. Left alone in their isolated hillside cottage, after others have died or abandoned the towns and villages, they must learn new skills in order to remain alive. With no electricity or modern technology they must return to the old ways of living off the land, developing new personal resources. While they become more skilled and stronger,...
Author
Series
World made by hand novel volume 3
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Following the catastrophes of the twenty-first century--the pandemics, the environmental disaster, the end of oil, the ensuing chaos--people are doing whatever they can to get by and pursuing a simpler and sometimes happier existence. In little Union Grove, the townspeople are preparing for Christmas. Without the consumerist shopping frenzy that dogged the holidays of the previous age, the season has become a time to focus on family and loved ones....
140) The last: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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For fans of high-concept thrillers such as Annihilation and The Girl with All the Gifts , this breathtaking dystopian psychological thriller follows an American academic stranded at a Swiss hotel as the world descends into nuclear war--along with twenty other survivors--who becomes obsessed with identifying a murderer in their midst after the body of a young girl is discovered in one of the hotel's water tanks. Jon thought he had all the time in the...
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