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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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"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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'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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"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...
5) 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...
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