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41) FKA USA: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
FKA USA is the epic novel we've all been waiting for about the American end of times, with its unavoidable sense of being on the wrong end of the roller coaster ride. It is a masterwork of ambition, humor, and satire with the power to make us cry, despair, and laugh out loud all at once. It is a tour de force unlike anything else you will read this year.
42) Street freaks
Author
Publisher
Grim Oak Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Receiving a dire warning immediately before his father disappears, Ash finds himself hunted in a futuristic mega-city where he searches for help from a human and part-human underworld.
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin. Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job loss has forced them to live in their car, leaving them vulnerable to roving gangs. They desperately need to turn their situation around--and fast. The Positron...
44) Chimpanzee
Author
Publisher
Underland Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A man is in danger of losing his education through "repossession therapy," because he can't pay back his college loans.
Author
Series
Outlaws novels (Elle Kennedy) volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a devastating war decimated most of the world, Hudson Lane has only known the oppressive life under her own father's tyranny. She finally escapes, brands herself an outlaw, and is hunted by the Enforcers. Her best chance at survival is Connor Mackenzie, an aggressively sensual fugitive who opens her eyes to the wicked possibilities of a world without rules. As the leader of a band of outlaw fighters, Connor can't resist the beautiful stranger...
46) The gender plan
Author
Series
Gender game volume 6
Publisher
Nightlight Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"'I just had to believe we'd dealt a death blow of our own. That today would be the beginning of the end ... '"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Under the never sky trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"In their effort to reach the fabled Still Blue, Aria and Perry will have to rescue Cinder, defeat Sable and Hess, and unite the Dwellers and the Outsiders once and for all"--
48) Horde
Author
Series
Razorland volume 3
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Salvation is surrounded, monsters at the gates, and this time, they're not going away. When Deuce, Fade, Stalker and Tegan set out, the odds are against them.
49) Pacifica
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After surviving overcrowding, disease, and unemployment, five hundred lottery winners are promised a new start on Pacifica, but Marin Carey, corsario royalty, knows no island paradise exists.
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A tale set at the end of the twenty-first century finds the planet's divided hominid population subjected to the forces of a splintery metaconsciousness that inundates networks with plans for cataclysmic technologies, prompting an unwitting jury member to participate in a grueling decision.
51) Fuse
Author
Series
Pure trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
In a post-apocalyptic world where those who dwell within the Dome are safe, and those who live outside struggle to survive, Pressia decodes secrets from the past in an effort to set the Wretches free of their fusings forever.
52) Jelly
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After the sea levels rise and the world ends, Martha and other survivors are stuck on a giant killer jellyfish, drifting off shore--if boredom does not kill them, maybe their escape attempts will.
53) Mahimata
Author
Series
Asiana volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A young female assassin must confront the man who slaughtered her family, risk her heart, and come to terms with her identity as a warrior and as a woman in this thrilling fantasy. Sequel to Markswoman.
Author
Series
The three novels volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When the three child survivors of unrelated plane crashes on different continents begin to exhibit increasingly disturbing behavior, a religious cult leader claims that they are harbingers of the apocalypse. What if he's right?
55) The returning
Author
Series
Seer novels (Rachelle Dekker) volume 3
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
As the Seers send warriors to rescue Elise and bring restoration to the Authority City, ultimate victory in this battle against the powerful forces of evil rests with the strangely powerful girl who has felt forgotten but was never abandoned.
56) Alight
Author
Series
Generations trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"In Alive, Scott Sigler introduced readers to an unforgettable young heroine and a mysterious new world reminiscent of those of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Red Rising. Now he expands his singular vision in the next thrilling novel of this powerful sci-fi adventure series"--
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships. She serves in the household of the Commander and his wife, and under the new social order she has only one purpose: once a month, she must lie on her back and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if they are fertile. But Offred remembers...
Author
Series
Chiveis trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Crossway
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Exiled from Chiveis, Teo and Ana journey into foreign lands in search of the second half of Deu's sacred writings. Though the New Testament might be found in distant Roma, will the price of its discovery be too high to pay?
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai--her first in sixteen years--a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by the male-dominated Salt Water City, goes to war against disease, technology, and powerful men that threaten them with extinction. Kirilow is a doctor apprentice whose lover Peristrophe is a "starfish," a woman who can regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to help her clone sisters whose organs are failing. When...
Author
Series
Dodge novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"In his youth, Richard "Dodge" Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. Now in his middle years, Dodge appreciates his comfortable, unencumbered life, managing his myriad business interests, and spending time with his beloved niece Zula and her young daughter, Sophia. One beautiful autumn day, while he undergoes a routine medical procedure, something goes irrevocably wrong. Dodge is pronounced brain dead...
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