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81) Verify
Author
Language
English
Description
When Meri Beckley looks at the peaceful Chicago streets, she feels pride in the era of unprecedented hope and prosperity over which the governor presides. But when her mother is killed, Meri suddenly has questions that no one else seems to be asking. And when she tries to uncover her mother's state of mind in her last weeks, she finds herself drawn into a secret world with a history she didn't know existed. Faced with a choice between accepting the...
82) Poster girl
Author
Language
English
Description
"What's right is right. Sonya Kantor knows this slogan--she lived by it for most of her life. For decades, everyone in the Seattle-Portland megalopolis lived under it, as well as constant surveillance in the form of the Insight, an ocular implant that tracked every word and every action, rewarding or punishing by a rigid moral code set forth by the Delegation. Then there was a revolution. The Delegation fell. Its most valuable members were locked...
Author
Series
Belles (Dhonielle Clayton) volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Queen Sophia's Imperial forces will stop at nothing to keep the rebels from returning Princess Charlotte to the castle and her rightful place as queen. With the help of an underground resistance movement called The Iron Ladies-- a society that rejects beauty treatments entirely-- and the backing of alternative newspaper The Spider's Web, Camille uses her powers, her connections and her cunning to outwit her greatest nemesis, Sophia, and restore peace...
84) The boundless
Author
Series
Beholder volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After enduring deception at the hands of one prince, Selah never imagined she'd find love with Torden of Norge. Or that she'd be banished from his court as a traitor and a spy, unsure when or if they'll see each other again. That heartbreak pales in comparison to her crew's--her friends'--betrayal. The Beholder's true mission was a secret they didn't trust Selah to keep: transporting weapons to rebels fighting against the Imperiya Yotne's brutal...
85) The coming storm
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
New York City, 2023: Rising seas and superstorms have ravaged the land. Food and electricity are scarce. A dangerous Washington regime has terrorized the city, forcing the most vulnerable into the flood-ravaged neighborhoods. New laws are enforced by a genetically enhanced army, designed to be the fiercest, cruelest of killers. Geneticist Jenna Khan knows too much about how these super-soldiers were engineered. Escaping arrest, Jenna joins forces...
86) Flawed
Author
Series
Flawed (Cecelia Ahern) volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Celestine North lives a perfect life, in a society in which perfection is paramount and flaws are punished. She's a model daughter and sister, she's well-liked by her classmates and teachers, and she's dating the impossibly charming Art Crevan. When she breaks a rule, she faces life-changing repercussions. She could be branded. She could be found flawed ... and her life would never be the same ...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the sequel to What's Left of Me, fifteen-year-old Addie and Eva struggle to share their body as they are drawn deeper into the fight for hybrid freedom from the government's oppression"--
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a Brazil of the distant future, June Costa falls in love with Enki, a fellow artist and rebel against the strict limits of the legendary pyramid city of Palmares Três' matriarchal government, knowing that, like all Summer Kings before him, Enki is destined to die.
Author
Series
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
457 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Six months after Noam Álvaro helped overthrow the despotic government of Carolinia, the Atlantians have gained citizenship, and Lehrer is chancellor. But despite Lehrer's image as a progressive humanitarian leader, Noam has finally remembered the truth that Lehrer forced him to forget--that Lehrer is responsible for the deadly magic infection that ravaged Carolinia. Now that Noam remembers the full extent of Lehrer's crimes, he's determined to use...
Author
Series
The Testing trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
Now a freshman at the University in Tosu City with her hometown sweetheart, Tomas, Cia Vale attempts to expose the ugly truth behind the government's grueling and deadly Testing put her and her loved ones in great danger.
93) Pawn
Author
Series
Blackcoat rebellion volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Escaping a life of marginalization and misery, Kitty Doe joins the most powerful family in the country, a choice that requires her to assume the identity of the Prime Minister's niece and stop a rebellion that ended her predecessor's life.
94) 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.
95) 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...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 336 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result. If we burn is a stirring work of history built around a single, vital question: How did so many mass protests lead to the opposite of what they asked for? From the so-called Arab Spring to Gezi Park in Turkey, journalist Vincent Bevins provides a blow-by-blow account of street movements...
97) Street freaks
Author
Publisher
Grim Oak Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"After his extremely popular (and massive) Shannara series of heroic fantasy novels, Brooks takes an unexpected turn to a smooth, standalone, near-future dystopia. Teenage Ash Collins runs from the authorities after his scientist father is murdered. Though his treacherous uncle, Cyrus, has control of all the manpower and gadgets [needed] to capture Ash, the boy manages to reach the outlaw enclave, the Red Zone, and connect with the kids who live there....
98) The mime order
Author
Series
Bone season volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Paige Mahoney escaped the brutal penal colony of Sheol I, but her problems have just begun: many fugitives are still missing, and she is the most wanted person in London. As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on Paige, the city's mime-lords and mime-queens are invited to a rare meeting of the Unnatural Assembly. Jaxon Hall and his Seven Seals prepare to take center stage, but bitter fault lines run through the clairvoyant community.
99) Confidence
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hungarian
Description
Set in Hungary during the waning days of WWII, two resistance members are forced to act as husband and wife to stay hidden in plain sight. Though they are both married to others, will they be able to maintain the illusion without giving in to their growing feelings for each other?
100) Dove arising
Author
Series
Dove chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a lunar colony, fifteen-year-old Phaet Theta does the unthinkable and joins the Militia when her mother is imprisoned by the Moon's oppressive government"--
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