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1) Wool
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In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. In a society full of regulations meant to protect the community, Sheriff Holston, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: he asks to go outside. An unlikely candidate is appointed to replace him: Juliette, a mechanic with no training in law, whose special knack is fixing machines. Now Juliette is about to be entrusted with fixing her silo,...
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Beyond the Martial Empire and within it, the threat of war looms ever larger. Helene Aquilla, the Blood Shrike, is desperate to protect her sister's life and the lives of everyone in the Empire. But she knows that danger lurks on all sides: Emperor Marcus, haunted by his past, grows increasingly unstable and violent, while Keris Veturia, the ruthless Commandant, capitalizes on the Emperor's volatility to grow her own power--regardless of the carnage...
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On an unnamed island country ten years after the collapse of a U.S.-supported regime, Lena suspects the powerful senator she was involved with back in her student activist days is taking advantage of a young woman who's been introducing him at rallies. When the young woman ends up dead, Lena revisits her own fraught history with the senator and the violent incident that ended their relationship. Why didn't Lena speak up then, and will her family's...
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Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Life in the Caspian Republic has taught Agent Nikolai South two rules. Trust No One. And work just hard enough not to make enemies. Here, in the last sanctuary for the dying embers of the human race in a world run by artificial intelligence, if you stray from the path - your life is forfeit. But when a Party propagandist is killed - and is discovered as a 'machine'--he's given a new mission: chaperone the widow, Lily, who has arrived to claim her...
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Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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2016.
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"Named one of the best books of the summer by The Wall Street Journal, ELLE, The Huffington Post amd Purewow "Latin America's new literary star."--The New Yorker "Brilliant. Like a literary exercise for the mind, but strangely fun to decode."--Elle "The most talked-about writer to come out of Chile since Bolaño," (The New York Times Book Review), Alejandro Zambra is celebrated around the world for his strikingly original, slyly funny, daringly unconventional...
6) The wave
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When history teacher Ben Ross starts a classroom experiment, with the intention of showing students the processes behind social control in Nazi Germany, things get out of hand and the power of group pressure becomes a frightening reality.
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Atria Books
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2020.
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English
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"In this captivating dystopian novel, a larger-than-life drag queen and her allies join forces to rise up when a post-Trump regime rounds those deemed "Other" into concentration camps"--
Set in a terrifyingly familiar near-future, with massive floods leading to rampant homelessness and devastation, a government-sanctioned regime called The Boots seizes on the opportunity to round up communities of color, the disabled, and the LGBTQ+ into labor camps....
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Hoopoe
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2021.
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English
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"Mysterious men are rounding up street children and enrolling them in a so-called 'rehabilitation program,' designed to indoctrinate them for the military-backed regime's imminent crackdown on its opponents. Across town, thousands of protesters encamp in a city square demanding the return of the recently deposed president. Reminiscent of recent clashes in Egypt and reflective of political movements worldwide where civilians face off against state...
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BHC Press
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[2021]
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English
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"The National People's Voice speaks for Sanmarian and all of Kael. For 15 years, they have ruled Kael in relative peace. For 15 years, they have quietly snuffed out dissent wherever they found it. Rose Abernethy and Beo Mataya are two strangers drawn together by one thing alone: Red Sunrise, a book no one else seems to have read. A book only two types of people ever ask about -- collectors ... and the NPV. A book both Rose and Beo feel was written...
10) Storm warning
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Scholastic, Inc
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2020.
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English
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"The last few months have been a whirlwind for Cammie MacCloud. Ever since she agreed to join the gen:LOCK program to help fight the Union, an authoritarian force threatening the world, she's been struggling to find her place in the group. As a 17-year-old genius hacker, she doesn't really fit in among the other four recruits: She can't shoot, she isn't the most graceful in the field, and her brash style doesn't exactly jibe with Command. But Cammie...
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Akashic Books
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[2024]
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English
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"So You Wanna Run a Country? is a satirical parable of the perils of authoritarianism, nationalism, and device-dependent groupthink. After almost a century of being shut off from the rest of the world in self-imposed isolation, the neo-medieval statelet of Inner Azhuur suddenly volunteers to host the next season of the global streaming sensation So You Wanna Run a Country? The producers must now assemble the next crew of unqualified misfits whose...
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Featherproof Books
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2024.
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English
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"How far would you go to have real freedom? To have true autonomy of both mind and body? The narrator of Failure to Comply wants self-determination at all costs, and they want you to know what it did, in fact, cost them. Their story is just a little hard to convey, as they're not entirely sure where, or even when, they are. Set in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic future, this literary sci-fi novel presents a world where humans have been unshackled from...
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Melville House
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2016.
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English
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"Set against the backdrop of a failed political uprising, The Queue is a chilling debut that evokes Orwellian dystopia, Kafkaesque surrealism, and a very real vision of life after the Arab Spring. In a surreal, but familiar, vision of modern day Egypt, a centralized authority known as 'the Gate' has risen to power in the aftermath of the 'Disgraceful Events, ' a failed popular uprising. Citizens are required to obtain permission from the Gate in order...
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The MIT Press
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2024.
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English
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"When three Philadelphians inhale dust developed by a scientist who has discovered parallel universes, they are transported into an interdimensional no-man's land populated by supernatural beings, then to a future version Philadelphia - which has become a dystopian nation-state (in which citizens are numbered, not named). How will they escape?"--
17) Obydva šedevry
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Omnia Publica International
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Ukrainian
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"Skotnyĭ dvor: V osnovu skotizma li͡ahly sim zapovideĭ, prydumani svyni͡amy, i nakresledi nymy z͡h farboi͡u na tort͡si velykoho komory: 1. Toĭ, khto khodyt' na dvokh nohakh, - voroh. 2. Toĭ, khto khodyt' na chotyr'okh (tak samo i͡ak i toĭ, u koho kryla), - odyn. 3. Tvaryna ta ne nosyt' odi͡ah. 4. Tvaryna ta ne spyt' u liz͡hku. 5. Tvaryna ta ne p'i͡e spyrtnoho. 6. Tvaryna ta ne vb'i͡e inshu tvarynu. 7. Vsi tvaryny rivni. Ale vyi͡avylosi͡a,...
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