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301) Voz
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Situada en unos Estados Unidos donde la mitad de la poblacion ha sido silenciada, Voz es una historia inolvidable y repleta de tension, en la que una mujer se enfrentara a los poderes establecidos para proteger a su hija y a si misma. Cine al dia. Ni una mas. Esa es la cifra de palabras que la neurolinguista Jean McClellan y el resto de mujeres tienen derecho a pronunciar cada dia. Una sola palabra por encima de esa cifra y cientos de voltios de electricidad...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"A visionary and powerful debut thriller set in a terrifyingly plausible dystopian near-future-with clear parallels to today's headlines-in which the future of humanity lies in the hands of one woman, a scientist who has stumbled upon a secret that the government will go to any lengths to keep hidden A world half in darkness. A secret she must bring to light. It is 2059, and the world has crashed. Forty years ago, a solar catastrophe began to slow...
Author
Pub. Date
March 14, 2023
Description
Two teenagers find a frozen corpse in the middle of the woods and decide to bring it back to town. They have no idea they just sparked the zombie apocalypse.
In the morgue below the hospital, the dead begin waking up and attacking the living. The infection spreads rapidly, turning the place into a slaughterhouse as those inside fight to survive against the undead.
As the situation escalates, authorities are forced to seal off the building in an...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"In a gripping and stunning coming-of-age novel, Julian R. Vaca reimagines a 1987 world where memories are as valuable as gold. In a reimagined 1987, mankind's ability to remember has deteriorated. To fight memory loss, men and women rely on artificial recall by storing memories on tapes and playing them back. Society's elite, dubbed recollectors, are able to retain "three-quarter memories" on their own-and they make the rules. Seventeen-year-old...
Author
Series
Utopia project volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021] ©2021
Description
After America's controversial presidential election in 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, several decades of escalating civil crises have ensued. The governments of many countries have conspired to develop the ultimate solution for controlling the lives of their citizens. The new society, forged in the secret Utopia Project, provides for all of your needs without cost, promotes recreational group sex, raises offspring without parents and offers a life...
306) The spell
Author
Series
Secret of Spellshadow Manor volume 6
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
The sixth and final book of the Secret of Spellshadow Manor series.
307) Carbon
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Description
"In The City, government is god -- in The Sector, anarchy rules. The Membrane stands between those worlds. Some cross it to The Sector, seeking the forbidden. Some cross it to The City, seeking a chance to see the sky. Some try to stay. Most die trying. In a world without paper, names are earned. Sector-born, Carbon has been forged by his life, and violence became his only credential. Knowing his life expectancy, Carbon risked everything for a chance...
Author
Series
Mechanists volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"A rare, searing portrayal of the future of climate change in South Asia. A streetrat turned revolutionary and the disillusioned hacker son of a politician try to take down a ruthlessly technocratic government that sacrifices its poorest citizens to build its utopia. The South Asian Province is split in two. Uplanders lead luxurious lives inside a climate-controlled biodome, dependent on technology and gene therapy to keep them healthy and youthful...
309) The end of men
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"The year is 2025, and a mysterious virus has broken out in Scotland--a lethal illness that seems to affect only men. When Dr. Amanda MacLean reports this phenomenon, she is dismissed as hysterical. By the time her warning is heeded, it is too late. The virus becomes a global pandemic--and a political one. The victims are all men. The world becomes alien--a women's world. What follows is the immersive account of the women who have been left to deal...
Author
Series
Detainee trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2014
Description
The Island is a place of hopelessness. The Island is death. And it is to this place that all the elderly and infirm are shipped, the scapegoats for the collapse of society. There's no escape, not from the punishment satellites that deliver instant judgment for any crime--including escape attempts--and not from the demons that come on foggy nights, when the satellites are all but blind. But when one of the Island's inhabitants, the aging "Big Guy"...
312) Damsel
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"A damsel in distress takes on the dragon herself in this epic twist on classic fantasy-a groundbreaking collaboration between New York Times bestselling author Evelyn Skye and the team behind the upcoming Netflix film Damsel, starring Millie Bobby Brown"--
313) Deep
Author
Pub. Date
[2020].
Description
"The Gift Society controls everything. Gifts are the elite. Originals are the majority. Curses are monsters. Broken are better off dead. Don't question the status quo. When Gabriel transitions into a Gift, he finds himself wishing he could go back to the way things were: no prestige, no pressure, and most importantly, no additional opportunities to fail. When a new girl and her brother move in next door, he can't help but notice how different she...
314) The veil: a novel
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Humanity has been wracked with a deadly virus. Communities around the world are searching for safety in the midst of chaos. LAW, the world’s government, is found with an assassination on their hands, as well as a new leader who isn’t what the people thought he would be. As theories fly and the VeilVirus runs rampant, the possibility of life returning to normal grows smaller and smaller.
Eighteen-year-old Fallon Blythe has her own problems to solve:...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Wealthy, popular Webber Academy senior, Caroline, permits her new friend and classmate Waverly, an autistic, gay, scholarship student, to attend the annual Masquerade Ball disguised as her; but the evening becomes a nightmare when there is a global blackout, and Waverly and her friends discover what the school's dean and top donors really have planned.
Series
Incursion volume 6
Description
eremiah 46:14b - …WAKE UP! BE PREPARED! WAR’S COMING! Tears run down my cheeks. “We Americans have no clue how to stand against persecution. We’ve watched it happen in other countries but never dreamed it could happen here.”“Rose, honey, we have the same Bible as those believers who continue to face all manner of torment and death,” Seth searches my eyes before placing a kiss on my shaking hand, “all at the hands of authorities who...
Author
Series
Girl who dared to think volume 6
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Penultimate adventure of Liana in The girl who dared to think series.
318) The gender plan
Author
Series
Gender game volume 6
Pub. Date
[2017]
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.
319) Glimpse into evil
Series
Incursion volume 3
Pub. Date
2018
Description
The people of Singing Springs have repelled two invasions intent on destroying voices of dissent. Subpoenaed to appear before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, they will be judged either as perpetrators of sedition and sentenced to life in prison or found a community who acted legally to defend their civil rights against the brutish violation they endured.
320) Race the night
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"Eider might be living at the end of the world, but that won't stop her from searching for the things that could make it all begin again--especially after Teacher announces a mysterious new type of lessons that turn her life upside down"--