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Author
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
[2010-]
Physical Desc
volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Required to attend summer school after moving to Chicagoland, thirteen-year-old manga-love Megan Yamamura needs help from twelve-year-old computer genius Raf Hernandez to escape the maniacal principal's mind control experiment.
Author
Series
Werepenguin volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Some stories are about happy, adorable penguins who form families, learn to dance, or make friends. This is not one of those stories. All orphan Bolt Wattle has ever wanted was to find his true family. When a mysterious baron in far-off Brugaria sends for Bolt, he wonders if he's getting closer to finding his long-lost parents. But Baron Chordata appears to be a twelve-year-old boy who wears tuxedos all the time, shouts at everyone, and forbids Bolt...
Author
Series
Greystone secrets volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Told from separate viewpoints, as evil forces from the parallel world invade their home, the Greystones, their doubles, and friends must return to the alternate dimension to save both worlds.
4) THX 1138
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
The George Lucas director's cut.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A man whose mind and body are controlled by the government ... makes a harrowing attempt to escape from a world where thoughts are controlled, freedom is an impossibility and love is the ultimate crime"--Container.
5) Cult classic
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
One night in New York City's Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of cigarettes. On her way back, she runs into a former boyfriend. And then another. And... another. Nothing is quite what it seems as the city becomes awash with ghosts of heartbreaks past. What would normally pass for coincidence becomes something far stranger as the recently engaged Lola must contend not only...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Discover how researchers on the cutting edge of mind-control can implant, change, and even erase memories. On this thought-provoking journey into the mind, NOVA investigates the mysterious nature of how we remember.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A haunting nightmare is the key to one woman's mysterious past in this spine-tingling novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.
Almost twelve years ago, American Joanna Rand arrived in Japan to become a singer in a nightclub. In all that time, she has never been able to escape the strange dream that haunts her night after night. Each time she awakens, she feels violated, used—and terrified.
Alex Hunter...
Almost twelve years ago, American Joanna Rand arrived in Japan to become a singer in a nightclub. In all that time, she has never been able to escape the strange dream that haunts her night after night. Each time she awakens, she feels violated, used—and terrified.
Alex Hunter...
Series
Publisher
Shanachie
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (65 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Once a respected researcher of the mind and soul, Dr. Laurience goes off the deep end when the scientific community rejects his work. He uses his invention, a machine that transposes the mind of one person to the body of another, for evil means.
Author
Series
The Program. Main series volume 4
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Tatum Masterson has no memory of being in The Program, but when she starts experiencing crashbacks, she knows that something terrible happened last summer. With help of the boyfriend she lost, Tatum digs into both the past and the future of The Program and its handlers, and discovers the true cost of a cure.
10) Wizard for hire
Author
Series
Wizard for hire volume 1
Language
English
Description
Ozzy's life is, in a word, idyllic. He lives in the woods in a little cottage with his doctor parents, where he learns and grows every day. He has a garden and a great library of books to read to his mother and father. Nothing that quietly perfect can last forever, of course, and Ozzy's world shatters when his parents are kidnapped by large, angry men. Five years after their disappearance, the boy finds secrets stashed away, and seeks help to uncover...
Author
Language
English
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz takes readers into the darkest recesses of the human mind—and into the tempest of a father's obsession.
A call in the middle of the night summoned psychiatrist Laura McCaffrey out into the rain-swept streets of Los Angeles. The police had found her husband-beaten to death. But what of her daughter, Melanie, whom he had kidnapped six years earlier? At the brutal murder scene, the...
A call in the middle of the night summoned psychiatrist Laura McCaffrey out into the rain-swept streets of Los Angeles. The police had found her husband-beaten to death. But what of her daughter, Melanie, whom he had kidnapped six years earlier? At the brutal murder scene, the...
Author
Series
Witherwood Reform School volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Siblings Charlotte and Tobias are trapped within a creepy reform school--and entangled in its dark secrets"--
13) Divine madness
Author
Series
CHERUB novels volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
James, an agent of CHERUB, a top-secret organization staffed by highly-trained but ordinary looking teens, is sent to investigate the link between the eco-terrorist group Help Earth and a wealthy religious cult, and faces the added pressure of being subjected to the cult's brainwashing techniques.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
What would it take to turn you into a suicide bomber? How would you interrogate a member of Al Qaeda? With access to formerly classified documentation and interviews from the CIA, the U.S. Army, MI5, MI6, and the British Intelligence Corps, acclaimed journalist Dominic Streatfeild traces the history of the worldʼs most secret psychological procedure. From the cold war to the height of todayʼs war on terror, groups as dissimilar as armies, religious...
15) Pretties
Author
Series
Uglies volume 2
Language
English
Description
Tally's transformation to perfect and popular including her totally hot boyfriend is everything she always wanted. But beneath the fun and freedom something is wrong and now Tally has to fight for her life because what she knows has put her in danger with the authorities.
16) Under the knife
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Morgan Finney, a biotechnology tycoon, is a shy, highly intelligent but socially awkward and emotionally fragile man. It was his wife, Jenny, with whom he connected and who enabled him to connect with others. When Jenny dies of complications during a surgery led by Dr. Rita Wu, Finney's grief turns to rage. He vows to kill Rita just as he believes she killed his wife. But first he will systematically destroy her life. Aided by a mysterious man named...
17) Specials
Author
Series
Uglies volume 3
Language
English
Description
The words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious Ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor, frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Ordinary Pretties might live their whole lives without meeting a Special. But Tally's never been ordinary and now she's been turned into one of them. A superamped fighting machine, engineered to keep the Uglies down and the Pretties stupid. The strength,...
18) The Program
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first book in Suzanne Young's New York Times bestselling series is a "gripping tale for lovers of dystopian romance" (Kirkus Reviews) about two teens in a world where true feelings are forbidden, teen suicide is an epidemic, and the only solution is The Program—now with a freshly reimagined look.
Sloane knows better than to cry in front of anyone. With suicide now an international epidemic, one outburst could land...
Sloane knows better than to cry in front of anyone. With suicide now an international epidemic, one outburst could land...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Language
English
Formats
Description
Father is a prophet. Infallible. The Chosen One. Seventeen-year-old Piper will do anything for Father... until the day the government raids the compound and separates her from her siblings, from all of Father's followers -- even Caspian, the boy she loves. Desperate to escape deprogramming after being rescued from the cult, Piper wants to rejoin her family. She's living with a woman They claim is her real mother -- and Piper plans to escape. -- adapted...
Author
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
xii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Could zombies actually walk the earth? Join science punk Frank Swain as he digs into the science of body and mind control, from Haitian Vodou potions to military interrogation techniques. He recounts true zombie tales from the archives, including resurrected dog heads, secret agent drugs, and remote-controlled bulls and rats. He even investigates how psychologists are shaping our thoughts in the design of city streets. Entertaining and mind-bending,...
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