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"Margaret Atwood's best-loved novel has taken the world by storm again. Riding high on bestseller lists for months and the basis for Hulu's Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning smash hit series, The Handmaid's Tale is everywhere--and it's primed for a stunning new graphic novel adaptation. The story is iconic: In the Republic of Gilead, a Handmaid named Offred lives in the home of the Commander, to the purpose that she become pregnant with his child....
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Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
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"Mercury Rhodes and her world were utterly changed when the bombs fell, releasing the green mist. While it proved deadly to all the men who breathed it in, it gave new life to women who did the same. The green mist provided each member of her newfound family an ability: Stella's heightened intuition, Imani's earthly connection, Karen's bond with Spirit, and Gemma's healing ability. Although Mercury now has incredible physical strength--she doesn't...
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Harper
Pub. Date
©2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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It's been months since Perry was named Blood Lord of the Tides, and Aria was charged with an impossible mission; now they are about to be reunited. But their reunion is far from perfect. The Tides don't take kindly to Aria, a former Dweller. And with the worsening Aether storms threatening the tribe's precarious existence, Aria begins to fear that leaving Perry behind might be the only way to save them both.
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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"Martin Just wakes up one morning after what feels like, and might actually be, a centuries-long sleep with two new innate pieces of knowledge: Humanity is a virus destined to destroy all existence. And he is the Cure. Martin begins slipping into an alternate consciousness, with new physical strengths, to violently defend his family--the only Black family in their neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles--against pure evil."--
5) Witchfinder
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BHC Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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"The realm of Deiparia-what was once the United States-teeters on the edge of a new millennium. Spiritual fervor is high. The Church of the Deiparous is worshiped and served as God. And the Church's rising star, "The Hammer of the Heiromonarch," Malachi Thorne of the Paracletian Order, is on track for great things. So when a convicted traitor and heretic escapes Thorne's grip, he won't tolerate anything marring his perfect record. Thorne journeys...
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"From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear. . . Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade,...
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Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
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"Josephine Thomas has heard every conceivable theory about her mother's disappearance. That she'd been kidnapped, murdered; taken on a new identity; started a new family. Most troubling of all was the charge that her mother had been a witch, for in a world where witches are real, peculiar behavior can raise suspicions and result in a woman - especially a Black woman - being put on trial for witchcraft. Fourteen years have passed since her mother's...
8) Allegiant
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Divergent volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
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The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered -- fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories. But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she...
9) Trashlands
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A few generations from now, the coastlines of the continent have been redrawn by floods and tides. Global powers have agreed to not produce any new plastics, and what is left has become valuable: garbage is currency. In the region-wide junkyard that Appalachia has become, Coral is a "plucker," pulling plastic from the rivers and woods. She's stuck in Trashlands, a dump named for the strip club at its edge, where the local women dance for an endless...
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Working as a hit man on the ravaged streets of New York City after a dirty bomb is unleashed on Times Square, Spademan takes an assignment to kill the daughter of a powerful evangelist only to discover that his mark holds a shocking secret and that his client hides a more sinister agenda.
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Harpervia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
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"Mikhail lives in Russia in 1881. When a skeleton of a rare wild horse is brought to him, the zoologist plans an expedition to Mongolia to find the fabled Przewalski horse...In 1992, Karin, alongside her troubled son Mathias and several Przewalski horses, travels to Mongolia to re-introduce the magnificent horses to their native land...Europe's future is uncertain in 2064, but Eva is willing to sacrifice nearly everything to hold onto her family's...
12) In the end
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HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
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It's been three months since Amy escaped New Hope. Three months since she's seen Baby, or Kay, or Rice. And she's been surviving on her own, like she did before she was "rescued" and taken to what she thought was a safe haven. Then, in the midst of foraging for supplies, her former fellow Guardian's voice rings out in her earpiece. And in a desperate tone, Kay utters the four words Any had hoped she would never hear: Dr. Reynolds has Baby. Now it's...
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage comes a riveting novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia--where the truth isn't what it seems. Founded by the mysterious genius known as the Designer, the archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In this island paradise, Prospera's lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling lives until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant...
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Black Sheep
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
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Seventeen-year-old Nat and her hacker brother Sam have come to Hawaii for their parents' Final Week. Global warming has devastated the planet, and the disintegrating society that remains is run by "corporates" who keep the population complacent through a constant diet of "pharma." The few Americans who still live well also live long--so long that older adults, like Nat's parents, bow out not by natural means but by buying death contracts. While Nat...
15) Golden son
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Red rising saga volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 21
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Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, is battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies. Now fully embedded among the Gold ruling class, Darrow continues his work to bring down Society from within.
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2023.
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"In a near-future northern settlement, the fate of a young woman intertwines with those of a college professor and a collective of women soldiers in this mesmerizing and transportive novel in the vein of Station Eleven and The Power. In the far north of Canada, a team led by a visionary American architect is building a project called Camp Zero. With its fresh, clean air and cold climate, it's intended to be the beginning of a new community and a new...
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2018
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When Miles Parker walks into one of his final classes of high school, the only thing on his mind is how poorly he is about to do on a Literature quiz he didn't study for. Then, his teacher dies-and vanishes-in front of him. He thinks his day can't get any stranger. He's wrong.
18) Elsewhere
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Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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"Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear. Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered and damp year-round. This town, fiercely protective, brutal and unforgiving...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the internationally acclaimed MaddAddam trilogy is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future—from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments
Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning...
Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning...
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Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 24
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Accused of committing a horrifying act, Zu goes on the run, forming an uncomfortable alliance with two mysterious Psi who she's not sure she can trust in order to clear her name and expose the evils underlying the country's recovery.
It's five years after the destruction of the "rehabilitation" camps that imprisoned her and countless other Psi kids. Suzume "Zu" Kimura is a spokesperson for the interim government, fighting for the rights of Psi kids...
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