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Series
Out of time volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Parvin Blackwater believes she has wasted her life. At only seventeen, she has one year left according to the Clock by her bedside. In a last-ditch effort to make a difference, she tries to rescue Radicals from the government's crooked justice system. But when the authorities find out about her illegal activity, they cast her through the Wall -- her people's death sentence. What she finds on the other side about the world, about eternity, and about...
Author
Series
Great library volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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"Ruthless and supremely powerful, the Great Library is now a presence in every major city, governing the flow of knowledge to the masses. Alchemy allows the Library to deliver the content of the greatest works of history instantly, but the personal ownership of books is expressly forbidden ... When his friend inadvertently commits heresy by creating a device that could change the world, Jess discovers that those who control the Great Library believe...
3) Inhuman
Author
Series
Fetch volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Beyond the Titan wall lies the Feral Zone, and the only people who break quarantine and venture there are the "fetches", who are paid exorbitant sums to bring back items that were left behind when the wall went up--but Delaney McEvoy's father is there and she is being forced to find him and bring him back.
Author
Series
Lazarus volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
While Forever keeps watch on her sister Johanna, she finds hints of rebellion brewing in LA. At the same time, the Barrets, a family of "Waste," lose their home and land, and must pursue their only chance for a better life - a 500-mile journey to Denver in the hope that one of their family will be noticed by Carlyles and "lifted" to Serf status.
5) Drop by drop
Author
Series
Step by step novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In this first book in the Step By Step trilogy, global catastrophe occurs as all plastic mysteriously liquefies. All the small components making many technologies possible-navigation systems, communications, medical equipment-fail. In Sycamore River, citizens find their lives disrupted as everything they've depended on melts around them, with sometimes fatal results. All they can rely upon is themselves. And this is only the beginning . . .
Author
Series
Out of time volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
What happens when you live longer than you wanted to? Parvin Blackwater wanted to die, but now she's being called to be a leader. The only problem is, no one wants to follow. The Council uses Jude's Clock-matching invention to force "new-and-improved" Clocks on the public. Those who can't afford one are packed into boxcars like cattle and used for the Council's purposes. Parvin and Hawke find themselves on a cargo ship of Radicals headed out to sea....
Author
Series
Lazarus volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In a dystopian near-future, government is a quaint concept, resources are coveted, and possession is 100% of the law. A handful of Families rule, jealously guarding what they have and exploiting the Waste who struggle to survive in their domains. Forever Carlyle defends her family's holdings through deception and force as their protector, their Lazarus.
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Sharkey is a Sunker--he was born on a fortunate tide, and everyone in the giant submersible Rampart knows it. He's a hero, a future admiral, beloved by the ancestors who his crew believe visit him in the form of sea creatures. The trouble is his life is based on a lie--he's never been visited by ancestors. He's been a fake hero for years, but when the Sunkers are attacked, he must become a real one. And he has no idea how to go about it. Meanwhile,...
9) Outwalkers
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In a frighteningly real near future England, Jacob escapes from the Academy orphanage to reenter a world that is grimly recognizable. The Coalition can track anyone, anywhere, from a chip implanted at birth. Now Jacob must fulfill his promise to his parents, find his dog, Jet, and navigate his way out of England. Their only hope is a band of children who have found a way to survive off the grid: The Outwalkers. Their rules are strict, but necessary...
10) The few
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Critically lauded writer and playwright SEAN LEWIS follows up the cult favorite SAINTS with his newest book THE FEW. Teaming with red-hot artist HAYDEN SHERMAN THE FEW introduces readers to a futuristic world of militias, roving cults and an American government that has decided to cut off ties with poorer states. HALE is a US Palace Soldier who when witnessing a massacre while under cover, escapes through the forgotten American badlands with a gas...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Following the destruction of the Garden Nation of Japan, Constable Led Dent returns to his brutal beat, having succumbed to his inner demons. But as he stalks the streets of the Isles of Los Angeles, enforcing the corporate new world order, he's haunted by a ghost from Tokyo. Critically acclaimed creators RICK REMENDER & SEAN MURPHY wrap their tale of tech addiction, unintended consequences, and love in a world populated by the disenfranchised and...
12) The insurrection
Author
Series
Initiation volume 3
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Having survived the Initiation and expedition, one battle remains: the fight for the heart and soul of New America. Drayden and his friends, enlisting the help of Professor Worth, must find a way back to New America before the Guardians imperil their return. But for these teens, their problems are only beginning. The Bureau, which never expected them to survive the expedition, will do everything in their power to prevent New America's darkest secrets...
13) Alebrijes
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Leandro takes the fall for his sister and is exiled into an ancient drone, he embarks on a perilous journey beyond the city's walls where he encounters mutant monsters, wasteland pirates, and fellow outcasts as he tries to save his sister and fellow Cascabeles from the oppressive regime.
14) The giver
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 1
Language
English
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Dystopian (Adult/YA)
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TIME Magazine Best YA Reads
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Description
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Author
Series
We set the dark on fire volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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If You Like Hunger Games, Read These!
LGBTQIA Young Adult Reads
Romantic Fiction - YA
Womens History Month - YA
LGBTQIA Young Adult Reads
Romantic Fiction - YA
Womens History Month - YA
Description
"Dani must question everything she's worked for as she learns about the corruption of the Median government"--
16) Across the sand
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The first original novel from author Hugh Howey in six years, Across the Sand takes us back to the world of Sand, to a far future many generations after a disaster has destroyed civilization as we know it, where four siblings struggle to build their futures amid the harsh wastes of endless desert. The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes, a land of howling wind and infernal sand. In this barren home, siblings Conner,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Ten minutes in the future, the world runs on an economy of job shares and apps, while crowdfunding has evolved into Reapr: a platform for assassination that's trickled down from politicians, celebrities and CEOs to everyday life and all its petty resentments. A world where anyone with enough backers and the money they contribute can kill anyone else. Like Charlie Ellison, who up until now has lead a quiet, normal life, until she wakes up to find herself...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
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Description
"Welcome to the City Unspoken, where Gods and Mortals come to die. Contrary to popular wisdom, death is not the end, nor is it a passage to some transcendent afterlife. Those who die merely awake as themselves on one of a million worlds, where they are fated to live until they die again, and wake up somewhere new. All are born only once, but die many times. until they come at last to the City Unspoken, where the gateway to True Death can be found....
19) The fire sermon
Author
Series
Fire sermon volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nuclear fire thathas laid waste to civilization and nature. Though the radiation fallout has ended, for some unknowable reason every person is born with a twin. Of each pair, one is an Alpha--physically perfect in every way; and the other an Omega--burdened with deformity, small or large. With the Council ruling an apartheid-like society, Omegas are branded and ostracized...
20) The key to fury
Author
Series
Key volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: After discovering the shocking truth behind the Key Corporation, nurse Elodie and misfit Aiden have managed to escape in search of New Dawn -- the stronghold for the Eos resistance movement. There, they can fight for a better world, one where everyone can make their own futures. But things aren't always as they seem, and as they navigate the tricky paths between perception and reality, freedom and fighting for survival, the two...
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