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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."--
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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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"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...
4) The bear
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"In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony with nature, for they are the last two left. But when the girl suddenly finds herself alone in an unknown...
5) Fearless
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Eye of the beholder volume 2
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In a near future society in which morality is manifested through beauty and ugliness, a young woman will imperil her future and her world to expose the global shadow network that uses its power to play God and control humanity
6) Irrelevant
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☢☣ For fans who loved Divergent comes an astonishing dystopian romance like no other. ☢☣Mallory's been hiding who she is for 18 years...But now her terrible secret has been exposed.Branded Irrelevant, Mallory is cut off from everything she knows.Irrelevants are criminals, banished to live in the old city. But in the wasteland between the new city and the old, she stumbles on Cristan.He's bitter, paranoid, and possibly crazy...He may also be...
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"The Road meets Mad Max in this stunning debut- also for fans of Station 11, The Passage, and Riddley Walker. In a post-apocalyptic future where survivors scavenge in the harsh Australian Outback for spoils from a buried civilization, a girl races across the desert, holding her treasures close, pursued by the Reckoner. Riding her sand ship, living rough in the blasted landscape, she scouts the broken infrastructure and trades her scraps at the only...
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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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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,...
10) The Sisterhood
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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...
11) El dador
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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La comunidad donde vive Jonas es idílica. Es un mundo sin conflicto, sin desigualdad, sin desempleo, sin dolor...pero tanbién sin elección. A los ciudadanos se les asigna una pareja y un trabajo. Nadie hace preguntas. Todo el mundo obedece. Excepto Jonas. Al cumplir doce años, es seleccionado para desempeñar un trabajo muy especial, y comienza a recibir lecciones de un misterioso anciano conocido como el Dador. Poco a poco, Jonas aprenderá que...
12) 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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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...
14) 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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"Rylla McCracken dreams of escaping her family's trailer in the Dust States to go to college, but on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, her mother demands she drop out of school to work for Lockburn chemical refinery instead. When Rylla learns Lockburn is planning to dam the Guadalupe River--the last flowing water in Texas--she defies her mother to protest in the state capital. The protest ends in disaster, but her ensuing viral infamy gains Rylla...
18) 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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Mr Andrew and his wife Angela were married for 6 years but could not have children because Angela was barren and they were also very poor. They had little, save a small piece of land and an old barn which Mr Andrew inherited from his late father. Mr Andrew faced the threat of losing his inheritance to a local bank over a debt owed by his late father but inorder to prevent that, Mr Andrew and his wife did menial jobs to raise money to repay the debt...
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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...
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