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'All over the world women and girls are discovering they have the power. With a flick of the fingers they can inflict terrible pain, and even death. And with this small twist of nature, everything changes drastically. Ambitious and provocative, visceral and page-turning, award-winning author Naomi Alderman's THE POWER at once takes us on a journey to an alternate reality and exposes our own world in bold and surprising ways."--
2) The ship
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"London burned for three weeks. And then it got worse ... Lalla has grown up sheltered from the chaos amid the ruins of civilization. But things are getting more dangerous outside. People are killing each other for husks of bread, and the police are detaining anyone without an identification card. On her sixteenth birthday, Lalla's father decides it's time to use their escape route--a ship he's built that is only big enough to save five hundred people....
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Vivian Apple volume 1
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"Sixteen-year-old Vivian Apple returns home after the alleged 'Rapture' to find her devout parents gone and two mysterious holes in the roof. Vivian never believed in the Rapture, or the uber powerful Church of America. Now that she has been left behind, Vivian's quest for the truth begins"--
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"Starving herself to fend off adulthood in a radical post-apocalypse community where a few chosen men scavenge for detritus and women are little more than breeders, a teen leader investigates a shocking mystery that is contradictory to law before risking her life to organize a girl uprising"--
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Four children live on an island that serves as the repository for all the world's garbage. Trash arrives, the children sort it, and then they feed it to a herd of insatiable pigs: a perfect system. But when a barrel washes ashore with a boy inside, the children must decide whether he is more of the world's detritus, meant to be fed to the pigs, or whether he is one of them. Written in exquisitely wrought prose, Pigs asks questions about community,...
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"It is the year 2049, and humanity is on the brink of extinction. Tania Deeley has always been told that she's a rarity: a human child in a world where most children are sophisticated androids manufactured by Oxted Corporation"-- Provided by publisher.
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This hasn't been the best life for Nadia Stepan, abandoned at age four and left with only a drawing of the Big Dipper and her mother's parting words : "Look to the North Star, and we will always be there." As Nadia grows up and dreams of a vacation spot called Lighthouse Island, in a place called the Pacific Northwest; she believes this to be the place where her parents must be. She is determined to find her way there, as an opportunity for escape...
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CONTINUE THE JOURNEY IN EPISODE TWELVE Autumn Parish never wanted to be a hero. But as she treks across the desolate Midwest years after the collapse of society, a hero is exactly what she's become: a SHEPHERD, weaving magic from words and guiding people between this life and the next. Summer Norwood rules a wild outpost on the outskirts of what used to be Phoenix, but her grasp on power is fragile. As the SHERIFF, she has a massive target on her...
9) Génération M
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Mettant en place froidement leur vision d'un futur utopique, les scientifiques du CDC laissent une infection mortelle se transformer en épidémie hors des colonies. Abby, dévorée par la nouvelle maladie, s'embarque dans une course contre la montre pour trouver son frère et sa sœur, et sauver des millions de vies.
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What happens when becoming a parent is no longer a choice?
2028. Sam Maxwell is looking forward his junior year at college. But after breaking up with his on-again, off-again girlfriend for good, his life is completely derailed by a summons to family court about a surprise pregnancy. To his dismay, Wisconsin's pro-birth laws declare him as the biological father of the embryo which has been declared a ward of the state.
Struggling with the sudden...
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It was a blast from space that would rock the planet to its core. But what about her inhabitants? What would be their outcome? In the not-so-distant future, the human race finds itself trapped in an ever-challenging series of situations. Their last line of defense was gone, the ozone, but now they are dealing with forces of nature and human greed beyond any scale that has ever been known.Awaiting their children in the distance, Carl and Mary looked...
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Why have you never married?
It doesn't appear to be an overly complicated question. However, it is a question that hits Frank Capri, like a slap in the face, and awakens, something inside him that causes him to have flashbacks.
After a blissful early childhood, he is, confronted with the harsh realities of life during abusive school years, a wayward period at university, and a difficult time at work. His life develops into a most unusual journey of...
13) Outlawed Hope
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Abandoned as an infant, adopted, and then forgotten until seventeen, Aimee was raised for an unknown future. Outlawed Hope is her story, the story of the Outlaws who birthed her, the Society that raised her, and the infant she finds. Aimee needs to save the infant from a future she knows too well. Through dangerous close calls, Aimee discovers that she isn't who she thought she was, and nor are those around her. Why was she abandoned? Who found her?For...
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"Welcome to The Egg, an off-campus geodesic dome where David Fuffman and his crew of alienated Princeton students train for what might be the end of days: America is in a perpetual state of war, climate disasters create a global state of emergency, and scientists believe time itself may be collapsing. Funded by the charismatic Mathias Blue and fueled by performance enhancers and psychedelic drugs, a student revolution incubates at The Egg, inspired...
15) Until We Fall
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Isla, a Black, transgender girl, is just an ordinary student when government forces arrest her and her teacher for revolutionary activity. This action turns Isla into an activist working for social justice. What follows is an exhilarating ride marked by danger, close calls, and betrayals, with love and friendship as the reward among a LGBTQ+ community. Throughout this coming of age dystopian novel are the cornerstones of an authoritarian government:...
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After the world's been destroyed and all trust is gone, is the deal the only thing holding what's left together?
Dayel thought he had a deal with Jermy, but then that Jorjy butted in. And then Jermy took up with those two raggedy starving stranger Mikey and Bobby. Dayel took that deal because onlies don't live long.
So now the five of them have a little food, a shelter rebuilt into a fort, and they are living life as high as it's likely to...
17) City in Flames
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Exit West meets Normal People in this moving dystopian love story eerily in tune with our times.
At once evocative and propulsive, City in Flames is a love story about two isolated people with a deep yet fragile bond trying to find their way to each other while political disorder engulfs the world around them.
Sara is a graduate student living away from home and struggling to finish her degree. When she kindles a long-distance relationship with...
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An unconventional meeting between four youths and an elderly couple leads them to a fabulous bonding through a story-house. They feel it as a life-changing and life-enhancing experience.You may have heard it before, but she will tell you again that you could not speak. You are missing a thing which is not too fundamental to maintain your life, but you cannot live without. Forgetfulness stalks, and the inertia-bug strikes, whether at work, home or...
19) The Meeting Tree
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A patriarchal leadership has emerged in the United States.
Its political figures govern what they have dubbed an Institution of Chivalry: Men may live full professional and social lives; women are confined to the home. Boys are permitted to learn worldly things in a classroom; girls must be homeschooled in the art of homemaking and marriage.
Not everyone is happy with this system, least of all the girls and women living under its rule....
20) Infirm
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Sixteen-year-old Kira is sick, dying, and on the government's list for termination. But Kira's not giving up. She's ready to battle both the disease and the system. She is fighting to live, because... love is worth bleeding for. Can Kira save herself? Find out in this first installment of Kira's story by CS Morales.
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