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Handmaid's tale volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Set 15 years after events in the Handmaid's tale, the theocratic regime in Gilead is beginning to show signs of rotting from within. At this crucial moment in time, the lives of three women converge. One is from Gilead, the privileged daughter of an important Commander; one is from Canada, where she marches in protests; and one is an enforcer for the regime, a woman whose power comes from secrets. When secrets bring the women together, there are explosive...
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Series
MaddAddam trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. They return to the MaddAddamite cob house, which is being fortified against man and giant Pigoon alike. Accompanying them are the Crakers, the gentle, quasihuman species engineered by the brilliant but deceased Crake. While their reluctant prophet, Jimmy--Crake's one-time friend--recovers from a debilitating...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Addisons - Julia and Tonio, ten-year-old Dewey and derelict Uncle Robbie - are driving home, cross-country, after collecting Robbie from yet another stint in rehab. When a blizzard strikes outside the town of Good Night, Idaho, they seek refuge at the Travelers Rest, a formerly opulent but now crumbling and errie hotel where the physical laws of the universe are bent.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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In the near-future, a violent teen leads a gang through nightly terror sprees before he is caught and agrees to experimental behavior-modification therapy.
Told through a central character, Alex, the disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism. A modern classic of youthful violence and social redemption set in a dismal dystopia whereby a juvenile deliquent undergoes state-sponsored psychological...
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Series
Chronicles of the One volume 3
Language
English
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Year One and Of Blood and Bone concludes her stunning new trilogy praised as "A match for end-of-the-world classics like Stephen King's The Stand." After the sickness known as the Doom destroyed civilization, magick has become commonplace, and Fallon Swift has spent her young years learning its ways. Fallon cannot live in peace until she frees those who have been preyed upon by the government or the fanatical...
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English
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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...
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