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61) Resistance
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 163 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
62) Beware the night
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her world divides, pitting light against dark, Veda must join a dangerous revolution to save her grandfather and fight against injustice ... even if it costs her the boy she loves. On the island of Bellona, life is peaceful -- as long as the citizens dutifully worship the Sun, which protects them from all harm. Seventeen-year-old Veda knows that keeping the Sun happy will protect her and her grandfather from the Night, the dangerous people who...
Author
Series
Inventor's secret volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
342 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Charlotte leads her friends to New Orleans, where the resistance against the Empire is based. There, she must figure out where her true loyalties lie.
65) Revolution
Author
Series
Cold War magic volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Cold War Berlin, American magician Karen O'Neil defeated the ghosts of Germany's past and sealed the breach that threatened the whole world, but in doing so she learned a terrible truth: Magic cannot be trusted. Despite her wariness of the new and growing powers she gained in Germany, Karen agrees to help an old friend and is drawn to Cuba, a world of opulence run by a corrupt government and ruthless, magic-obsessed mobsters. In Havana, while the...
66) Rosemarked
Author
Series
Rosemarked volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Embarking on a high-stakes mission to spy on the capital, Zivah, a healer, and Dineas, a warrior, grow closer amidst the fear of discovery.
67) Fox forever
Author
Series
Jenna Fox chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Before he can start a life with Jenna, seventeen-year-old Locke, who was brought back to life in a newly bioengineered body after an accident destroyed his body 260 years ago, must do a favor for the resistance movement opposing the nightmarish medical technology.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A book that's also the beginning of a movement, Bill McKibben's debut novel Radio Free Vermont follows a band of Vermont patriots who decide that their state might be better off as its own republic. As the host of Radio Free Vermont--"underground, underpowered, and underfoot"--seventy-two-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an "undisclosed and double-secret location." With the help of a young computer prodigy named Perry Alterson,...
69) Cruel crown
Author
Series
Red queen (Victoria Aveyard) volume Related title
Language
English
Formats
Description
Queen Song: Queen Coriane, first wife of King Tiberias, keeps a secret diary -- how else can she ensure that no one at the palace will use her thoughts against her? Coriane recounts her heady courtship with the crown prince, the birth of a new prince, Cal, and the potentially deadly challenges that lay ahead for her in royal life.
Steel Scars: Diana Farley was raised to be strong, but being tasked with planting the seeds of rebellion in Norta is...
Author
Series
Tiger at midnight volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Esha lost everything in the royal coup--and as the legendary rebel known as the Viper, she's made the guilty pay. Now she's been tasked with her most important mission to date: taking down the ruthless General Hotha. Kunal has been a soldier since childhood. His uncle, the general, has ensured that Kunal never strays from the path-even as a part of Kunal longs to join the outside world, which has only been growing more volatile. When Esha and Kunal's...
71) Gnomon: a novel
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
661 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In a world dominated by high-tech government surveillance, state inspector Mielikki Neith is asked to investigate when suspected dissident Diana Hunter dies in custody and discovers that Diana had sought to slow the investigation by unfurling stories about fantastic characters, from an ancient Carthaginian alchemist to a London-based Ethiopian painter designing a boundary-breaking video game.
Author
Series
Publisher
WordFire Press
Pub. Date
[2023].
Edition
WordFire Press trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the water world of Pandora, the resistance fighters' main hope in the battle against the Director and his sadistic minions is Crista Galli, a woman believed by some to be the child of God.
73) Light bringer
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The legendary Reaper, Darrow, to defend Mars from a bloodthirsty would-be conqueror, begins his long voyage home, an interplanetary adventure where old friends will reunite, new alliances will be forged, and rivals will clash on the battlefield.
Author
Series
Wells of Sorcery volume 2
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
363 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, while Isoka and the Soliton's crew search for a way to recapture the ship and leave the Harbor, Tori escapes the comfort of Kahnzoka's Second Ward to help run a shelter for fugitive mage-bloods and becomes embroiled in revolution.
75) Glass sword
Author
Series
Red queen (Victoria Aveyard) volume 2
Language
English
Description
Mare's blood is red -- the colour of common folk -- but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from the prince and friend who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind. Pursued by the Silver king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red and Silver fighters...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Spending their honeymoon on a luxury vessel journeying to the most wondrous worlds in the galaxy, Han Solo and Princess Leia soon discover that the war is not over as the remnants of the Empire still cling to power, bringing the fight to them.
77) Seven mercies
Author
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After the ambush to the Novantae resistance, the survivors scatter across the galaxy. Then Ariadne receives a message: the Oracle has gone rogue. The AI wants One's daughter back and will do anything to get her. The seven devils realize they must get to the heart of the Empire and destroy the Oracle, no matter the sacrifice.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After unwittingly helping her mother poison King Louis XIV, seventeen-year-old alchemist Mirabelle Monvoisin is forced to see her mother's Shadow Society in a horrifying new light: they're not heroes of the people, as they've always claimed to be, but murderers. Herself included. Mira tries to ease her guilt by brewing helpful curatives, but her hunger tonics and headache remedies cannot right past wrongs or save the dissenters her mother vows to...
Author
Publisher
Tradewind Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
It's 1976 in South Africa, and four young people are living in Johannesburg and its black township, Soweto: Zanele, a black female student organizer; Meena, a South Asian girl working at her father's shop; Jack, an Oxford-bound white student; and Thabo, a teen-gang member, or tsotsi. From each of their points of view, this book explores the roots of the Soweto Uprising and the edifice of apartheid in a South Africa about to explode.
80) Gamechanger
Author
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
572 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Rubi Whiting is a member of the Bounceback Generation, the first to be raised free of the troubles of the late-21st century. Now she works as a public defender to help troubled individuals with anti-social behavior. That's how she met Luciano Pox. But there's more to him than being a lightning rod for controversy. Rubi has to find out why the governments of the world want to bring Luce into custody, and why Luce is hell bent on stopping the recovery...
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