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1) Snowglobe
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Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Given the opportunity to enter Snowglobe, the last place on Earth that's warm, where its residents, in exchange for fame, fortune and safety, broadcast their lives 24/7 to the less fortunate outside, Chobahm discovers reality is a lie--and the truth is out of reach"--
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English
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"Julia Worthing is a mechanic, working in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. It’s 1984, and Britain (now called Airstrip One) has long been absorbed into the larger trans-Atlantic nation of Oceania. Oceania has been at war for as long as anyone can remember, and is ruled by an ultra-totalitarian Party, whose leader is a quasi-mythical figure called Big Brother. In short, everything about this world is as it is in Orwell’s 1984. ...
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Series
City of Indra volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books/Karen Hunter Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Kendall and Kylie Jenner, stars on the hit reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians, present their debut novel, a dystopian story about two super-powered girls who embark on a journey together. In a world of the far future, the great city of Indra has two faces: a beautiful paradise floating high in the sky, and a nightmare world of poverty carved into tunnels beneath the surface of the earth. A gripping tale of air, fire, and a bond of blood....
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Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"There has always been a darkness to Ilmar, but never more so than now. The city chafes under the heavy hand of the Palleseen occupation, the choke-hold of its criminal underworld, the boot of its factory owners, the weight of its wretched poor and the burden of its ancient curse. What will be the spark that lights the conflagration? Despite the city's refugees, wanderers, murderers, madmen, fanatics and thieves, the catalyst, as always, will be the...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A collection of nineteen dark, wildly imaginative short stories from the author of the award-winning TikTok sensation Tender Is the Flesh. From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica's vision of the human experience emerges in complex, unexpected...
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Horizon (Manhwa) volume 1
Publisher
Ize Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"A world where everything has been lost. A boy and a girl alone together. All they can do is move forward. But against broken adults and devastating despair, how long will they be able to keep going ...?"--Page 4 of cover.
7) Eden II
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Publisher
Fantagraphics Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the grungy, punk-inflected world K. Wroten creates, a cast of disaffected young characters struggle to find their purpose in life. Faced with a dying Earth and numbingly useless jobs, protagonists Ellis and Dr. Otis Heck invent an immersive virtual reality game, Eden II. But when Heck betrays Ellis and sells the game to a mysterious corporation, the lines between fantasy and reality begin to blur. As each chapter highlights a new character in...
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Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Year 2150: Eight years after the murder of Akira Kimura, Water City's renowned scientist and anointed "God," the nameless antihero who once risked everything to find Akira's killer is no longer a detective, but a stay-at-home dad. While his wife climbs the corporate ladder of the Water City Police Department, he raises his now nine-year-old daughter and occasionally takes the odd job as a bounty hunter. Water City's domestic bliss is threatened when...
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Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Girls in New America must have a chaperone with them at all times . Because of this, Stella is never alone. She can't go out by herself or learn about the world. She can't even spend time with boys except at formal Visitations. Still, Stella feels lucky that her chaperone, Sister Helen, is like a friend to her. And then the unthinkable happens. Sister Helen dies suddenly, and Stella feels lost. Especially when she's assigned a new chaperone just...
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Zoey Ashe novels volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Zoey Ashe wakes up every day feeling like she's trying to steer a battleship while tied to the propeller. The twenty-three-year-old heiress to a criminal empire is navigating a futuristic world of high-tech liars and cutthroats, forced to learn the rules of a devious game she never asked to play. Now she's facing a crisis that is both bigger and stranger than all that came before: The gleaming new city of Tabula Ra$a is hosting its massive annual...
Series
Kowloon generic romance volume 1
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Kowloon Walled City: a dystopian townscape where the people are brimming with nostalgia, and where the past, present, and future converge. Amid the hidden emotions and extraordinary daily lives of the men and women working in its confines, a tale of romance begins to unfold for real estate agent Reiko Kujirai--one that feels as familiar as Kowloon itself..."--Provided by publisher.
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Kowloon generic romance volume 3
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the nostalgia-abundant dystopia of Kowloon Walled City, Reiko is now aware that many mysteries surround her very being. With life turned upside down, she confides in her friend Yaomay about her feelings for Kudou and more. But it's not only Reiko who has secrets: what of the opportunistic Dr. Hebinuma? A sorrowful, pitiful, ideal love story moves to its next stage...."
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Kowloon generic romance volume 2
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"I'm in love with him. With the sweltering afternoon sun beating down on her in an apartment room, Reiko Kujirai comes to a realization: In her heart is both a sense of nostalgia toward and romantic affection for her coworker Hajime Kudou. Reiko's feelings, previously hidden away, are turning into a secret desire that might just carry a stunning truth about her world. If ever there was a picture-perfect love story..."-- Back cover.
Series
Tsugumi Project volume 3
Publisher
Kodansha
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"After stumbling upon the journal of a former prisoner, Leon and Doudou glean some clues about the location of the mysterious Toratsugumi. Now, they set their sights on a place called Sado--a place that seem to call up distant memories and complicated emotions in Tsugumi. As Tsugumi wrestles with her past, she comes under attack by a swarm of flying monkeys. A hulking, female "clothed thing"--the same one that Leon previous fought and nearly blinded-drives...
Series
Tsugumi Project volume 1
Publisher
Kodansha
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Condemned prisoner Leon continues his journey through the ruins of Tokyo in search of TORATSUGUMI, a mysterious weapon from ages past. Though mutated monsters lurk around every corner, Leon never thinks twice about abandoning his mission; it is his only hope of seeing his wife and child again. Fortunately for Leon, not everyone in Old Japan is out to kill him. He now has two unlikely allies in the form of Tsugumi, a bird-legged girl with inhuman strength,...
Series
Tsugumi Project volume 1
Publisher
Kodansha USA
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Enter a land of monsters and buried secrets. A land once known as...Japan. More than two centuries have passed since Japan was devastated by nuclear war. Cut off from the world, the island is now a place of terror and mysteries: wonders of science some believe best forgotten, monuments to a bygone era of human decadence, and irradiated monsters ready to tear apart any humans foolish enough to set foot there. After being wrenched from his family and...
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Two teen girls, Mara and Rory, navigate a complex web of love, infection, and survival as they reunite in an experimental resettlement program, grappling with their pasts and the looming threat of the virus that once transformed Mara into a monster.
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Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Tomorrow, the funk descends on Manhattan, a noxious cloud which separates the island from the rest of the world and mutates the population. Some generations on, the surviving population exists amid the rubble of modernity, wearing our cast-off clothing, worshipping celebrities as dim gods and using emojis in place or written language. The Island exists in a state of uneasy peace, with each neighborhood an independent fiefdom, protecting itself with...
19) The dissent
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Series
Union volume 2
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A thousand years into the future, a Black elite class reigns while the underclass toils at their feet. With her society's future hanging in the balance, young Avi Jore enters into an arranged marriage. But the ceremony turns violent when the servants rebel and kill Avi's father. In the aftermath of General Jore's death, Avi and her sister Jade vie for power in a vicious contest. As the rightful heir, Avi has no choice but to defend what's hers--at...
20) Las indignas
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Nadie le dice que no a la Hermana Superior. Nadie que quiera seguir viva. El mundo como lo conocemos ha desaparecido después del gran apagón y de varias crisis climáticas. Apenas hay animales ni naturaleza y pocas personas han sobrevivido. Varias mujeres llegaron a una suerte de convento buscando refugio y han sido captadas por una secta religiosa. Una de ellas cuenta esta historia, escrita a escondidas noche tras noche para que alguien sepa todo...
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