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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Depicts life in a totalitarian regime of the future.
In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated...
2) Animal farm
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English
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George Orwell's timeless fable, a parable for would-be liberators everywhere, glimpsed through the lens of our own history. As ferociously fresh as it was more than a half century ago, this remarkable allegory of a downtrodden society of overworked, mistreated animals, and their quest to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality is one of the most scathing satires ever published. As we witness the rise and bloody fall of the revolutionary...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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In a society in which books are outlawed, Montag, a regimented fireman in charge of burning the forbidden volumes, meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Suddenly he finds himself a hunted fugitive, forced to choose not only between two women, but between personal safety and intellectual freedom.
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"What if marriage was the law? Dare you disobey? Black Mirror meets thriller with a dash of Naomi Alderman’s The Power in this dark, high-concept novel by the bestselling author of The One. Britain. The near-future. A right-wing government believes it has the answer to society’s ills—the Sanctity of Marriage Act, which actively encourages marriage as the norm, punishing those who choose to remain single. But four couples are about to discover...
7) Deus Irae
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Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
c1976
Language
English
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In the aftermath of World War III, a new faith around Carlton Lufteufel (the Deus Irae) has arisen. Tibor McMasters, a disabled painter is commissioned to paint a mural and must undertake the treacherous journey to find him.
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Series
Inspector O novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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A corpse in Pyongyang's main hotel - the Koryo - pulls Inspector O into a confrontation of bad choices between the devils he knows and those he doesn't want to meet.
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After the defeat of the Allies during World War II, the United States is divided up and ruled by the Axis powers.
In Philip K. Dick's alternate history classic, the United States lost World War II and was subsequently invaded. Now in 1962, the Germans control the eastern half of the continent, the Japanese control the west, and the two are subtly preparing for war against each other. What constitutes a moral life in this oddly fascist Middle America?...
10) Armistice
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Series
Amberlough dossier volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Armistice returns to Donnelly's ravishing 1930s Art Deco-tinged fantasy world of Amberlough with a decadent, tumultuous mixture of sex, politics, and spies. In a tropical country where shadowy political affairs lurk behind-the-scenes of its glamorous film industry, three people maneuver inside a high stakes game of statecraft and espionage: Lillian, a reluctant diplomat serving a fascist nation, Aristide, an expatriate film director running from...
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Español
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Guy Montag pertenece a una extraña brigada de bomberos. Su misión, paradójicamente, no es la de sofocar incendios sino la de provocarlos para quemar libros. Ha sido bombero durante más de 10 años, y siempre le gustó su trabajó. Nunca cuestionó nada ni la emoción de las salidas a medianoche ni el placer de ver las hojas arder hasta que conoció a una niña de diecisiete años que le mostró un pasado en el que la gente no tenía miedo y a...
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Serpent's Tail
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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The Passport is a novel whose subject is a German village in Romania caught between the stifling hopelessness of Ceausecu's dictatorship and the glittering temptations of the West. Stories from the past are woven together with the problems Windisch, the village miller, faces after he applies for permission to migrate to West Germany. Herta Muller describes with poetic attention to the dreams and superstitions, conflicts and oppression of a forgotten...
13) The year 200
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Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Centuries have passed since the Communist Federation defeated the capitalist Empire, but humanity is still divided. A vast artificial-intelligence network, a psychiatric bureaucracy, and a tiny egalitarian council oversee civil affairs and quash 'abnormal' attitudes such as romantic love. Disillusioned civilians renounce the new society and either forego technology to live as 'primitives' or enhance their brains with cybernetic implants to become...
14) Amberlough
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Series
Amberlough dossier volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Amberlough City, the illustrious but corrupt cosmopolitan beacon of Gedda. The radical One State Party--nicknamed the Ospies--is gaining popular support to unite Gedda's four municipal governments under an ironclad, socially conservative vision. Not everyone agrees with the Ospies' philosophy, including master spy Cyril DePaul and his lover Aristide Makricosta, smuggler and emcee at the popular Bumble Bee Cabaret. When Cyril's cover is...
15) Darkness at noon
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2006]
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English
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Originally published in 1941, Arthur Koestler's modern masterpiece, Darkness At Noon, is a powerful and haunting portrait of a Communist revolutionary caught in the vicious fray of the Moscow show trials of the late 1930s.During Stalin's purges, Nicholas Rubashov, an aging revolutionary, is imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the party he has devoted his life to. Under mounting pressure to confess to crimes he did not commit, Rubashov relives...
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Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Huxley's vision of the future comes to life in his astonishing 1931 novel Brave New World--a world of tomorrow in which capitalist civilization has been reconstituted through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering--and its sequel, written thirty years after his classic novel of the future, in which Huxley describes the shocking scientific devices and techniques available to any group in a position to manipulate society.
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Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
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Escrita entre 1920 y 1933 y publicada en 1946, "El senor presidente" es uno de los maximos exponentes de la llamada «novela del dictador» en la que se encuadran otras obras fundamentales como Tirano Banderas, de Valle-Inclan; Yo el Supremo, de Roa Bastos; El otono del patriarca, de Garcia Marquez, o, mas recientemente, La Fiesta del Chivo y Tiempos recios, de Mario Vargas Llosa. En ella, Asturias se inspira en el ultimo gobierno de Manuel Estrada...
18) Julia: a novel
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A PEOPLE Magazine Must-Read Book for Fall 2023 An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2023 A Guardian Biggest New Book of 2023 A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2023 An imaginative, feminist, and brilliantly relevant-to-today retelling of Orwell’s 1984, from the point of view of Winston Smith’s lover, Julia, by critically acclaimed novelist Sandra Newman. Julia Worthing is a mechanic, working in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. It’s...
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