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"The year is 2147. Chago is a prisoner in a world made up only of prisoners and those who guard them. A high-tech machine that can determine innocence or guilt is introduced into the prison. People line up to walk through the Innocence Device and experience either immediate freedom or death. When they discover the machine is rigged, the prisoners riot. After the dust settles, Chago ends up in a position of power. But he soon finds not much has changed."...
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The northern mining town of River Meadows is one of three hotspots in the world producing ghost ore, a new source of energy worth twenty-eight times its weight in gold. It's also linked with slippages of time and space that gradually render the area uninhabitable. Three intertwined stories flow from the disaster of River Meadows. The accounts they hand down is an Epic of Gilgamesh for our times, illuminating the wisdom of nature and our flawed stewardship...
5) Set me free
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Tomorrow girls volume 4
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After Louisa, Evelyn, and Rosie rescue Maddie from the Alliance and discover that Maddie's mother is the leader of the Resistance, the girls embark on a journey to find the Resistance headquarters despite the remaining threat of the Alliance and the disappearance of members of their group in rubble-strewn Chicago.
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Tomorrow girls volume 3
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Three best friends--Evelyn, Rosie, and Louisa--team up to find their fourth counterpart, Maddie, after she is taken in by the authorities for not having identification papers, but Evelyn is certain there is more to the story and tries to convince her friends to follow her theories.
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Since he was captured by the Glorious Path, a militant religion based on the teachings of a former soldier, fifteen-year-old Cal has served the Path in its brutal war with the remains of the United States government, and tried to survive and protect his younger brother , but when he kills an officer to protect a stray dog, Cal is forced take his brother and the dog and run.
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"An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a...
10) Matched
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Matched trilogy volume 1
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All her life, Cassia has never had a choice. The Society dictates everything: when and how to play, where to work, where to live, what to eat and wear, when to die, and most importantly to Cassia as she turns 17, whom to marry. When she is Matched with her best friend Xander, things couldn't be more perfect. But why did her neighbor Ky's face show up on her match disk as well?
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We set the dark on fire volume 1
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2019
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Dani must question everything she's worked for as she learns about the corruption of the Median government.
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Dodge novels volume 2
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns with a wildly inventive and entertaining science fiction thriller--Paradise Lost by way of Philip K. Dick--that unfolds in the near future, in parallel worlds"--
13) Ozland
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Everland volume 3
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With Everland and Umberland destroyed, Gwen, Pete, and Alyssa and the other survivors have taken refuge in Evergreen Village in the forest, where they plot to assassinate the Bloodred Queen, while trying to avoid her monstrous creations, and Doc works on his cure for the Horologia virus--but with the Queen of England dead, and the King of Germany either dead or hidden away, who can they trust to save their devastated world?
15) Run for cover
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Tomorrow girls volume 2
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Louisa, Rosie, Evelyn, and Maddie are aware of the dangers they are facing when they run away from their safe country retreat, and despite Rosie's excellent survival skills, she wonders who she can trust.
16) The deluge
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From the bestselling author of OHIO, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity. In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of...
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A fierce and illuminating debut from FOLD founder Jael Richardson about a young woman who must find the courage to determine her own future and secure her freedom Set in an imagined world in which the most vulnerable are forced to buy their freedom by working off their debt to society, Gutter Child uncovers a nation divided into the privileged Mainland and the policed Gutter. In this world, Elimina Dubois is one of only 100 babies taken from the Gutter...
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Y volume 1
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This is the saga of Yorick Brown-the only human survivor of a planet-wide plague that instantly kills every mammal possessing a Y chromosome. Accompanied by a mysterious government agent, a brilliant young geneticist and his pet monkey, Ampersand, Yorick travels the world in search of his lost love and the answer to why he's the last man on earth.
20) The book of Etta
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Road to Nowhere volume 2
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In a dytopian world where women are scarce, Etta, who survived the great plague, roams the countryside looking for relics from the past and evading slave traders, who are looking for women to sell.
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