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82) Fractured
Author
Series
Slated trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Although Kyla has recovered some of her memories, she is not sure how they all fit together, whether she was really a terrorist, or why she is able to remember anything at all from before she was "slated"--but she is determined to find the answers.
84) Behind the gates
Author
Series
Tomorrow girls volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Louisa is nervous about attending a new boarding school, but thrilled to have her best friend, Maddie, with her, even though the two have to pretend to be twins, but when everything, including Maddie, begins to change after the girls arrive, Louisa fears her adventure will turn into a nightmare.
85) Dare to know
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"After a nearly fatal accident, the most talented employee at a prestigious death-prediction company forecasts his own death day and finds he is already dead"--
Dare to Know is a prestigious and enigmatic company in the death-prediction business. Divorced, estranged from his sons, and broke, one salesman is driven to violate the cardinal rule of his business by forecasting his own death day. The problem: apparently he died 23 minutes ago. The only...
Author
Series
Running out of time volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Zola, who has a surprising connection to Jessie, discovers that she is stuck in a fake utopian future, and that those around her are counting on her to help them escape.
Twelve-year-old Zola thinks she has the perfect life. She thinks everyone does, now that it's 2193, and humanity has solved all its problems. Insta-Closets deliver new clothes every morning, Insta-Ovens deliver gourmet meals on demand, and virtual reality goggles...
87) The wall
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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...
88) Followers
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Orla Cadden is a budding novelist stuck in a dead-end job, writing clickbait about movie-star hookups and influencer yoga moves. Then Orla meets Floss--a striving, wannabe A-lister--who comes up with a plan for launching them both into the high-profile lives they dream about. So what if Orla and Floss's methods are a little shady--and sometimes people get hurt? Their legions of followers can't be wrong. Thirty-five years later, in a closed California...
89) 1984
Author
Series
Publisher
Pearson Education
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people every second of the day. He fights this world with love. But it's dangerous: love for another person can punished by death, and Big Brother is always watching. Orwell's classic story shows that there is no freedom unless ideas and beliefs can be questioned. This is as true today as when it was written, more than fifty years ago.
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Time travel" -- and its hazards -- are made literal in this astonishing new novel in which a recklessly idealistic girl dares to test the perimeters of her tightly controlled (future) world and is punished by being sent back in time to a region of North America -- "Wainscotia, Wisconsin" -- that existed eighty years before. Cast adrift in time in this idyllic Midwestern town she is set upon a course of "rehabilitation" -- but cannot resist falling...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After a deadly Fly Flu spreads throughout the world, survivors Nico, her dog, young artist Kit, and the mysterious Deliverer roam the earth, seeking to evade the Flies and find a place where life and love can thrive again.
When a deadly Fly Flu sweeps the globe, it leaves a shell of the world that once was. Among the survivors are Nico and her dog, on a voyage devised by Nico's father to find a mythical portal; a young artist named Kit, raised in...
Author
Series
Final War volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
It's taken Matthew Dunne almost three months to get home. Never more than a few meters from the Haters at any time, every single step has been fraught with danger. But he's made it. In his absence, his home city has become a sprawling, walled-off refugee camp. But the camp-and the entire world beyond its borders-is balanced on a knife-edge. During his time in the wilderness, Matt developed a skill which is in high demand: the ability to anticipate...
93) With the enemy
Author
Series
Tomorrow girls volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Now that Maddie has been kidnapped, Rosie, Louisa, and the boys are paying more attention to Evelyn's theories. As the group make their way toward war-torn Chicago, they're under constant threat of capture. Danger and dark surprises lurk around every twist of the road. Evelyn knows they need a strategy to find Maddie. But what the group comes up with may be their riskiest plan yet: infiltrating the Alliance itself"--P. [4] of cover.
94) Alebrijes
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
For 400 years, Earth has been a barren wasteland. The few humans that survive scrape together an existence in the cruel city of Pocatel, or go it alone in the wilderness beyond, filled with wandering spirits and wyrms. They don't last long. 13 year-old pickpocket Leandro and his sister Gabi do what they can to forge a life in Pocatel. The city does not take kindly to Cascabel like them, the descendants of those who worked the San Joaquin Valley for...
95) Little eyes
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A visionary novel about the collision of technology and play, horror and humanity, from a master of the spine-tingling tale. They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Senegal, town squares of Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Ohio. They're following you. They're everywhere now. They're us. In Samanta Schweblin's wildly imaginative new novel, Little Eyes, "kentukis" have gone viral across the globe. They're...
96) Sword and Pen
Author
Series
Great Library volume 5
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The corrupt leadership of the Great Library has fallen. But with the Archivist plotting his return to power, and the Library under siege from outside empires and kingdoms, its future is uncertain. Jess Brightwell and his friends must come together as never before, to forge a new future for the Great Library . . . or see everything it stood for crumble.
97) The calling
Author
Series
Seer novel volume 2
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Remko Brant had never been so sure of anything as escaping the Authority City with Carrington Hale. But bravado comes easy when you have nothing to lose. Now a husband, father, and the tactical leader of the Seers, Remko has never had so much at risk."--The publisher.
98) Undaunted
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Lane McEvoy barely survived her first journey to the Feral Zone-- the forbidden, overgrown landscape east of the Mississippi River that was abandoned when a virus ravaged the United States. But Lane knows what lies beyond the quarantine line, and it's time she exposed the truth: There are survivors in the zone -- people who have remained uninfected as well as those who have gone feral, whose bodies have mutated to display a variety of animal traits....
99) Dustborn
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When raiders sent by a man known as the General attack her village, Delta suspects he is searching for her. Delta sets out to rescue her family but quickly learns that in the Wastes no one can be trusted; perhaps not even her childhood friend, Asher, who has been missing for nearly a decade. If Delta can trust Asher, she just might decode the map and trade evidence of the Verdant to the General for her family. What Delta doesn't count on is what...
100) Once
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"In the second book of this dystopian adventure, Eve will come face to face with the king who has been ruthlessly hunting her--and learn shocking truth about who she really is"--