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The year is 2600 AD or 419 B.O.M. (the Brotherhood of Man) when Anthony Meredith, a scholar from the future, comes across an important manuscript of Avis Everhard written around 1912-1932 when "Iron Heel” came to power in USA. "Iron Heel” is an oligarchic regime where the power and money is concentrated in the hands of a few rulers and Avis and her husband Ernest are involved in a conspiracy to overthrow it. Although Meredith knows the fate of...
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"In a world uncomfortably like our own, a young woman named Amalantis is arrested for asking a question. Her question is this: Who is the prisoner? When Amalantis disappears, her lover Karnak goes looking for her. He searches desperately at first, then with a growing realization that to find Amalantis, he must first understand the meaning of her question. Karnak's search leads him into a terrifying world of deception, oppression, and fear at the heart...
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Louise Erdrich, the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of LaRose and The Round House, paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event.
5) Germinal
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"Étienne Lantier, a poor but spirited young laborer in search of work, shares the wretched lives of the coal miners of Le Voreux, where the brutish and dangerous working conditions consume the health and prospects of young and old, one generation after another. Impoverished, ill, and hungry, the miners inspire Étienne to attempt a revolt against the Company, an overthrow of “the tyranny of capital, which was starving the worker.” They answer...
6) The test
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Britain, the not-too-distant future. Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test. He wants his family to belong. Twenty-five questions to determine the worth of a life. Twenty-five chances to impress. When the test takes an unexpected and tragic turn, Idir is handed the power of life and death. But how do you value another person's life when all you have is multiple choice?
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"The best-selling author of The Debt to Pleasure and Capital returns with a chilling fable for our time. Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall--an enormous concrete barrier around its entire border. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate souls who are trapped amid the rising seas outside and attack constantly. Failure will result...
8) South
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South is a hallucinatory reimagination of life in a world under totalitarianism, and an individual's quest for truth, agency, and understanding.
"A quiet meditation on imagination and reality, absence and presence, and the world around us. Lakghomi achieves a poetic and hypnotic effect with his tightly constructed, spare prose." - Brandon Hobson, author of The Removed
"Babak Lakghomi's slyly subversive and uncanny novel is pure sublime. It wastes...
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The National People's Voice speaks for Sanmarian and all of Kael.
For fifteen years, they have ruled Kael in relative peace.
For fifteen years, they have quietly snuffed out dissent wherever they found it.
Rose Abernethy and Beo Mataya are two strangers drawn together by one thing alone: Red Sunrise, a book no-one else seems to have read. A book only two types of people ever ask about—collectors... and the NPV. A book both Rose and
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Dystopian lawyer novels volume 2
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In this second dystopian legal thriller from the author of the acclaimed Rule of Capture and Tropic of Kansas, lawyer Donny Kimoe juggles two intertwined cases whose outcomes will determine the course of America's future-and his own.In the aftermath of a second American revolution, peace rests on a fragile truce. The old regime has been deposed, but the ex-president has vanished, escaping justice for his crimes. Some believe he is dead. Others fear...
11) The Fixed Period
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The Fixed Period (1882) is a satirical dystopian novel by Anthony Trollope. Gabriel Crasweller, a successful merchant-farmer and landowner, is Britannula's oldest citizen. Born in 1913, he emigrated from New Zealand when he was a young man and was instrumental in building the new republic as one of a group of similar-minded men which included his best friend John Neverbend, ten years his junior, who is now serving his term as President of Britannula....
12) 2020: A Novel
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In the tradition of 1984 and It Can't Happen Here, 2020 is a timely dystopian novel about a country divided, a terrorist attack, and an populist leader who promises he alone is the solution.
In 2020, Britain is at a breaking point. Years of economic turmoil, bitter debates over immigration, anger at the political elites, and fears about the future have created a maelstrom, a dis-United Kingdom, with citizens tempted to find easy answers in demagoguery...
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"Political activist and anarchist author Aric McBay (Full Spectrum Resistance) toggles between the years 2028 and 2051 to give us the experience, with breathtaking realism, of what might happen in the span of just one generation to a society that is already on the brink of collapse. In 2028 environmental activists hesitate to take the fight to the extreme of violent revolution. Twenty years later, with the natural environment now seriously degraded,...
14) The Fortress
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Jonathon Bridge has a corner office in a top-tier law firm, tailored suits and an impeccable pedigree. He has a fascinating wife, Adalia, a child on the way, and a string of pretty young interns as lovers on the side. He's a man who's going places. His world is our world: the same chaos and sprawl, haves and have-nots, men and women, skyscrapers and billboards. But it also exists alongside a vast, self-sustaining city-state called The Fortress where...
15) Individutopia
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Estimado amigo,
Es el año de 2084, y aquella famosa cita de Margaret Thatcher se ha convertido en una realidad: realmente no existe tal cosa como la sociedad. Nadie le habla a nadie más. Nadie mira a nadie más. Las personas no colaboran, solo compiten.
Odio admitirlo, pero esto ha tenido consecuencias trágicas. Incapaz de satisfacer sus necesidades sociales, la población ha caído en un pozo de depresión y ansiedad. El suicidio se ha convertido...
16) Item 101
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It is a perfect world. Happy. Efficient. Productive. Compliant. Jayden Carter is content to be a model citizen in this vision of utopia, a world where the state has total control.
Work is everything. Life has never been better.
But when Item 101 falls from the sky and into Jayden's neat little backyard it brings the knowledge of another way of life. Item 101 has the power to change everything for Jayden's society, and uncover the regime's deepest,...
17) Shanghai 2040
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A novel which challenges us to imagine the world-order in 2040. What if China dramatically reinvents global relations.Imagine the near future when the East assumes the reins of power in world politics, as well as global leadership in economic matters! On May 1, 2040 the headquarters of the United Nations moves from New York to Shanghai.The novel centers around Wei Shu, the woman President of the People`s Republic of China. She has piloted this project...
18) The Narrative
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What happens when a child is never told "No"?
What happens when politicians are never told "No"?
What happens when politicians lie, manipulate and trick you into saying "Yes"?
An existence created for the centralisation of absolute power, sold to the masses under the promise of an impossible ideal, elimination of offence of any kind and of any type. Noble in its outset but eventually leaving a personal existence devoid of virtually any meaning....
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The war is over, but the fight continues.
A desperate class struggle rages on between Covedale and Riverlea-sister cities far from the front lines and the newly-established global government, World United-that threatens to tear them apart from the inside. Organized crime has infiltrated key positions locally and is using its control to pit the cities against each other, manipulating citizens and businesses alike to achieve their mysterious ends....
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Abril del 2022: La India se fue y le dio la LIBERTAD a Kashmir.
Kashmir finalmente logró lo que sus turbas lanzadoras de piedras habían estado supuestamente demandando por mucho tiempo: LIBERTAD. ¿…y ahora qué?
¿Qué puede hacer Hasina Ittoo su Ministro en Jefe (CM)?, "promovida durante la noche" a Primer Ministro, ¿Rogar a la India por un estatus similar al de Bhutan, con la Armada de la India defendiéndolos, o solicitar a Pakistan...
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